Occult, Magic & Experimental Science Part I: 15th & 16th Century Books & Manuscripts

Catalogue 43

Krown & Spellman, Booksellers

3319 Cattaraugus Ave. Culver City, CA 90232 [P.O.B. 948, Culver City, Ca 90232-948] phone: (310) 842-9433 fax: (310) 842-9343 email:krownspl@pacbell.net website: www.krownspellman.com
Members: A.B.A.A. & I.L.A.B.

All books are in good antiquarian condition. We have tried to list all significant faults but we do not always list previous owners names or minor flaws. All books are returnable with seven days of receipt. Prices are in US$. California residents must add 8 1/4%sales tax to the sale price. Shipping costs are billed at our cost plus $5 for handling. Overseas payments are to be in US$ drawn on a US bank. We can accept bank wires but purchaser will be charged any bank fees. Payment is requested in advance, unless previous arrangements have been made. We accept all major credit cards. Our stock can be viewed at: www.krownspellman.com

This is the first of what is intended to be four catalogues drawn from our stock of books in the occult sciences.

Catalogue 43 Part I: 15th & 16th Century Books & Manscripts Occult, Magic, & Experimental Science

Front cover: item 87, Methodius

Krown & Spellman, Booksellers

3319 Cattaraugus Ave. Culver City, CA 90232 [P.O.B. 948, Culver City, Ca 90232-948] phone: (310) 842-9433fax: (310) 842-9343 email:krownspl@pacbell.net website: www.krownspellman.com

Rear cover: item 91, Iamblichus

Members: A.B.A.A. & I.L.A.B.

1. Voragine, Jacobus [Jacopo] de, Saint. [Medieval Manuscript on paper & vellum]. [Legenda Aurea] ...legendas sanctorum ...iacobus.. [with at end] De Sacramento corp(or)is et Sangui(n)us d. n. Jesu Xt sue aitaris. Lyon [France]: De Gaselle, scribe, 1468 September 1st.

Fifteenth Century

Small folio. 280 x 208mm. Handsome period style modern blind-tooled paneled calf, spine banded with blind-tooled design; contemporary brass clasps, occ. spotting and foxing, light dampstain to upper margin of opening leaves and fore- and bottom edge at end, first leaf slightly soiled, infrequent contemporary marginalia and corrections, pinwormhole in first four leaves (some text affected) and in fore-margin at end; a very pleasing copy. Dated colophon on verso of I2. Watermarked paper with "raisin or grape cluster device" close to Briquet 12996 (1446) Piedmontese watermark group. The leaf missing and present only in a stub was not part of the text of Voragine. It stood at the spot identifying the end of the Life Of St Dominic, especially important to our author who was a Dominican and at the point of the text that a Bull of Nicholas IV declared there to be a natural break. This tradition of a break here in the text, accompanied with a different order of the listing of the saints than those followed in the rest of Europe, was only followed in France and, because it is based on a French edition, Caxton's translation of Voragine.

Manuscripts following this French tradition are rare and because of its association with Caxtons text source of unique importance. First leaf has illuminated 9 line initial in blue on gold burnished ground, with center left blank for historiation, borders floriated on f1r, 2 and 3 line rubricated initials throughout, with chapter headings in red. In a strong slightly sloping cursive bookhand. Two columns of text with 37 lines. Contemp. collation marks in lower right corner; catchmarks on the verso of the last leaf of each gathering. 5 line colophon in French batard "Anno d(atu)m millo mjiii lxviii fuit septub pris lib(e)r De opus ut utilitat(e)r Auth gasellyany m(a)g)(ister)a in artibus de montrbrisor lugd dyocises] dGasellyany" De [or vom] Gaselle is a patronym of Flemish origin but we have not been able to locate any other manuscripts by this scribe. He describes himself as "master in arts" from the monastery of Montbrison which was located near Lyon. Blessed Jacopo de Voragine. Archbishop of Genoa and medieval hagiologist, born at Viraggio (now Varazze), near Genoa, about 1230; died 13 July, about 1298. In 1244 he entered the Order of St. Dominic, and soon became famous for his piety, learning, and zeal in the care of souls. His fame as a preacher spread throughout Italy, and he was called upon to preach from the most celebrated pulpits of Lombardy. Jacopo de Voragine is best known as the author of a collection of legendary lives of the saints, which was entitled "Legenda Sanctorum" by the author, but soon became universally known as "Legenda Aurea" (Golden Legend), because the people of those times considered it worth its weight in gold. In some of the earlier editions it is styled "Lombardica Historia", which title gave rise to the false opinion that this was a different work from the "Golden Legend". The title "Lombardica Historia" originated in the fact that in the life of Pope Pelagius, which forms the second last chapter of the "Golden Legend", is contained an abstract of the history of the Lombards down to 1250 (Mon. Germ. Hist.: Script., XXIV, 167 sq.). In the preface to the "Golden Legend" the author divides the ecclesiastical year into four periods, which he compared to four epochs in the history of the world, viz. a time of deviation, renovation, reconciliation, and pilgrimage. The body of the work, which contains 177 chapters (according to others, 182), is divided into five sections, viz. from Advent to Christmas, from Christmas to Septuagesima, from Septuagesima to Easter, from Easter to Octave of Pentecost, and from the Octave of Pentecost to Advent. If we are to judge the "Golden Legend" from an historical standpoint, we must condemn it as entirely uncritical and hence of no value, except in so far as it teaches us that the people of those times were an extremely naive and thoroughly religious people, permeated with an unshakable belief in God's omnipotence and His fatherly care for those who lead a saintly life. If, on the other hand, we view the "Golden Legend" as an artistically composed book of devotion, we must admit that it is a complete success. It is admirably adapted to enhance our love and respect towards God, to foster our devotion towards His saints, and to animate us with a holy zeal to follow their example. The chief object of Jacopo de Voragine and of other medieval hagiologists was not to compose reliable biographies or to write scientific treatises for the learned, but to

write books of devotion that were adapted to the simple manners of the common people. It is due to a wrong conception of the purpose of the "Golden Legend" that Luis Vives (De causis corruptarum artium, c. ii), Melchior Canus (De locis theologicis, xi, 6), and others have severely denounced it; and to a true conception that the Bollandists (Acts SS., January, I, 19) and many recent hagiologists have highly praised it. That the work made a deep impression on the people is evident from its immense popularity, and from the great influence it had on the prose and poetic literature of many nations. It became the basis of many passionals of the Middle Ages and religious poems of later times. Longfellow's "Golden Legend", which, with two other poems, forms the trilogy entitled "Christus", owes its name and many of its ideas to the "Golden Legend" of de Voragine. " [Catholic Encyclopedia] First printed in Basel in 1470, two years after our manuscript, the Golden Legend was a medieval 'best seller," so that by 1500 at least 74 Latin editions had been published as well as three translations into English, five in French, eight Italian, fourteen Low German, and three Bohemian. $40000

2. Hierocles of Alexandia. [Phillip Beroaldus' Copy] In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum.

Giovanni Aurispa, Latin trans.

4to. 204 x 139mm. Editio Princeps in Latin. Later Vellum, tall copy with nearly all of the hand-stamped signature marks present [almost always trimmed-off], much early marginalia in Latin and Greek which old manuscript notes states are by Phillip Beroaldus, ownership signature on first page dated 1700, two old stamps on t.p., tiny wormholes with some expertly filled-in tracks [text affected]; else very good. Roman letter. Hierocles (b.412) was a 5th century Neoplationist who flourished in Alexandria;he tells us he was a student of Plutarch. His commenrtary on the "Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans" was an attempt to show agreement between the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle and to refute the systems of Epicurus and the Stoics. It was very influential in the Renaissance. "Between 415 and 450 Hierocles occupied the Alexandrian chair. Few details have survived the oblivion which unsympathetic historians imposed upon the remnants of the old philosophical traditions, but they testify to his shrewdness and suffering. Olympiodorus wrote that many of the school's assets had been seized

Padua: Bartholomaeus Valdezoccho, 1474, 17 April.

de

on different occasions during this period. Despite his efforts to live at peace with the Christian community, he was once exiled to Constantinople where a magistrate had him scourged for some allegedly disparaging comparisons between Christianity and the 'old' doctrines. As a pupil of Plutarch, he sought to harmonize the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. While Syrianus held that Aristotelian thought is a stepping-stone to Pythagorean-Platonic philosophy, Hierocles taught that Ammonius Saccas had demonstrated the substantial unity of the two schools. Rather than write metaphysical treatises or attempt a systematic integration of neo-Platonic thought like that undertaken by Proclus, Hierocles concentrated on preserving the spirit of the school in Alexandria. He wrote consolatory essays to friends and followers and a work on providence and fate, all of which have been lost, and he produced a carefully composed commentary on the Carmina Aurea, the Golden Verses of Pythagoras. Couched in language appealing to ethical sensitivity and moral aspiration, he touched a responsive chord in human beings regardless of their religious allegiances. The Commentary remained popular throughout the Middle Ages and well into the Renaissance, preserving for posterity the summation of Pythagorean teaching on the art of living as well as the neo-Platonic synthesis of philosophy and mysticism." Theosophy Site On-line Beroaldus (1453-1505) one of the most eminent scholars of the fifteenth century, was born in Bologna. He was brilliant scholar, a popular lecturer, and was rewarded with civic and academic honors. "He was fond of the pleasures of the table, and passionately addicted to play, to which he sacrificed all he was worth. He was an ardent votary of the fair sex; and thought no pains nor experience too great for accomplishing his wishes." At length he married and changed his ways. Goff H151; Hain/Copinger (+Add) 8545*; Klebs 516.1; Pell Ms 5967 (5955); CIBN H88; Hillard 1004; Parguez 538; Delisle 936; Polain(B) 4432; IDL 2285; IBE 2894; IGI 4726; Sallander 2243; Coll(S) 522; Madsen 1960; Voull(B) 3196; Hubay(Wrzburg) 1091; Mittler-Kind 170; Walsh 2800, 2801; Oates 2539, 2540; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 908; Sheppard 5563, 5564; Pr 6763; BMC VII 906; BSB-Ink H-235; GW 12409. ISTC H00151000. $25000 epitomata: Sive quae ad consumatum spectant oratorem: ex antiquo rhetorum gymnatio dicendi: scibendique breves rationes: nec non et aptus optimo cuique viro titulus: in super et perquam facilis memorie artis modus Jacobi Publicii Florentinin lucubratione in lucem editus: foelici numine inchoat. Oratoriae institutiones: ex veterum institutio...

3. Publicius, Jacobus. [Ars oratoria. Ars epistolandi. Ars memorativa.] Oratoriae artis

4to. 218 x 151mm. First Edition. 19th c. vellum, c3 & 4 small piece out of upper margin from being roughly cut (piece cut off adhering to next leaf), minor marginal worming at head of a2-c6, & a pinworm hole in inner margin, occ. foxing; large copy with some of the bottom margins varying in size from being uncut. Good thick, crisp paper. 31 lines. Types 7:92G (heading on A2r), 3:91G (text), 6:56(75)G (inscrip-

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1482, 30 November .

tions on tree cut), 91G (alphabet on c7r). Heading on A2r printed in red. 8 (of 11, lacks d1) pages of woodcut illustrations: full-page diagram of the tree of oratory (A3v); 30 (of 42) roundels containing a pictorial alphabet (two images for most letters), plus two roundels of a ship and a town, and a nearly full-page woodcut of a chess board with pieces in opening position. This copy lacks the full-page mnemonic device of animals and the astronomical diagram [both on d2]. The lacking images of the roundels have been laid in in facsimile to complete the alphabet. Contemporary yellow wash to roundels, chess board, and part of the tree. This is the first edition of this epitome of the rhetorical arts. It is also the first treatise on memory to appear in print. "Far from introducing us to a modern world of revived classical rhetoric, Publicius' memory section seems rather to transport us back into a Dantesque world in which Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise are remembered on the spheres of the universe... In short, this first printed memory treatise... comes straight out of the medieval tradition." [Frances Yates, The Art of Memory.] Little is known of the author who says he is Florentine but may come from Spain. He lectured at Basel, Leipzig, and Urfurt in the 1460's. It has been suggested that Johannes Lucillius Santritter edited this edition for Ratdolt. The Ars memorativa survives in single copies of 1475-76 Toulouse & Paris editions, as does the Ars epistolandi (C4978). This is also said to be the first illustration of a chess board! HC 13545*. BMC V,287. BSB-Ink. P868. CIBN P693. Essling 292. Harvard/ Walsh 1814-15. IGI 8191. Sander 5982. Goff P1096. Klebs 816.1. Oates 1753; Proctor 4388. Stillwell P1000. Polain (B)3285. Redgrove 31. Brunet IV,956. Young 171. Galland 151. der Linde 2100. Pell-Pol 9677. BNCI P 693. IBP 4633. CIH 2871. $15000

4. Paltz [Palecz], Johannes de, attrib. & Johannes Dorsten. [Quaestio determina contra triplicem errorem. De Antichristi revelatione quaestio. Seque[n]s questio determinata e[n] in quodlibeto Studii [Erfurt:] [Printer of the Bollanus,] [1486, After August 24.]
Erffordiensis anno 1486...]

4to. 203 x 145mm. First Edition. Recently rebound in medieval musical manuscript; inner marginal supports to b1; f1; & f6, light marginal dampstain to a few upper outer corners,blank

verso of last leaf lightly stained, small wormhole in very outer edge of last leaves. A very fine, crisp copy with ample margins. Rubricated throughout. A rare important work on the predicted "Third Reich" of man. The ground-breaking essay on this book and its predecessors is Ruth Kestenbeg-Gladstein's "The 'Third Reich': A Fifteenth-Century Polemic against Joachimism, and Its Background," in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 18, No. 3/4 (Jul.-Dec., 1955), pp. 245-295.] "Following a university disputation of 1465, Johann Bauer de Dorsten, a member of the Augustinian house, wrote a quaestio against Joachimist heresy. There is no doubt about his own orthodoxy, but it is significant that the doctrine Dorsten attacked was the genuine Trinitarian view of history as developed by the Abbot himself, and that he was able to quote extensively from Joachim's writings. His account of the conception of the three status and the role of the new spiritual men is an unusually clear one. The occasion for his attack was probably te penetration into Erfurt of the Joachimist sect led by Wirsbergers, but the careful exposition of Jochim's writings and the familiarity with his central doctrine suggest strongly that these had been the subject of prolonged study and debate." [Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford U.P.] Johannes Palecz [von Paltz] (c1445-1511), He was a cleric with a practical mind and his interest in Final Era was essentially that of an apologist. This revision of his teacher's [Dorsten] quaestio was par of his active work in fighting heresy. Johannes Dorsten, Augustinian hermit, graduated at Erfurt in 1465 and from 1465 to 1480 was the intellectual leader of Erfurt University. "He was one of the most popular preachers in an epoc that was rich in outstanding preachers. Although he inclined apparently to the seculded life of the monks of the early Middle Ages, and was by nature and religious habit tranquil nd balanced, he did not lack understanding of his religiously and generally over-excited contemporaries." Hain 1154. Goff A771 (3 copies in US). BMC 2,590. Proctor 3112A. Voull B 1133. GW M14435. Ce3 A771. IBP 4640. BSB I-497. IA 12623. Gunther 1014. Madsen 3428. Index Aurel., Erfurt, 11058. $10000 Chancery Folio. 265 x 185 mm. a-c4,d-e6,j-g6,h-i6,k-l8,m-o6. Complete. 98 ff = 186p. Modern blind-tooled calf over original wood boards (some worming in boards), has decorated brass furniture but lacks clasp. A few marginal wormholes (a few letters touched) and minor dampstains in upper margin at end. Early index in manuscript on front paste-down, contemp. religious note at bottom of b8v, old owners inscription on recto of last leaf Bartholomaeus Weldpach... dated 1528.Provenance: from the collection of Bjarne Saxhof (1953-2003), Civil Engineer, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby. Saxhof assembled a fine collection of printed books and manuscripts, including some important private press books Gothic type 50/51 lines per page, Initials supplied in red throughout. The Gesta is ...a medieval collection of illustrative tales and anecdotes for the use of preachers. Its name indicates what is supposed to be its unifying el-

5. Gesta Romanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis ac mysticis. [Augsburg:] [Anton Sorg,] [c1487.]

ement: accounts of happenings in ancient Rome. Each story has a title suggesting a virtue or vice and an appendix pointing to a moral. The first collection, in Latin, was probably the work of an English Franciscan about 1330. Continuously expanded, it exerted a strong influence upon later writers such as Chaucer and Gower and enjoyed a considerable vogue well into the 16th century...Some stories, e.g. Atalantas Race, derive from Greek myth; others, e.g. Androcles and the Lion, from late classical times. Several come fromAleandrian romance, Appolonius of Tyre being a notable example. Jewish and Indian lore, Christian writers like Geoffrey of Monmouth and local legends also provided a rich quarry. [Cassells Ency. of World Lit.] Hain/Copinger 7739. GW 10895. Goff G290. Ce3 G290. CIH 1427. IBE 2659. IGI 4271. Deckert 326. Gnther 135b. ISTC ig00290000. BSB G208. IBP 2399. BL. IB 6077. IGI 4271. $20000

18th c. Italian vellum backed paper boards, with morocco lettering pieces [one with the initials 'S.A.'; scattered light dampstains, early marginalia in Latin and Greek, minor worming in blank margins; a1.8 and L1 rehinged at an early date,top edge of a1 rough, short clean tear in outer blank margin of last several leaves. Ficino (1433-1499) son of the physician to Cosimo de'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. "Of the three Books of Ficino's De Triplici Vita the first deals with preserving the health of scholars, the second with prolonging their life, and the third with astral influences on them. Through all three, Ficino's attention is devoted not so much to man's soul or body as to his spiritus...The De Triplici Vita is presented as a medical treatise, and the practices recommended in it might be taken as somewhat odd medical remedies and regimes--odd only because of the large place given to talismans and music; for there is, of course, nothing odd in a Renaissance medical treatise dealing with spirits and astrology...It is clear that Ficino is strongly attracted by this kind of magic or theurgy, that he considers valuable, and also it is clear that he is aware that it is dangerous. His conclusion seems to be that its dangers might be avoided if it remained within a learned, philosophical circle, and were kept secret from the ignorant vulgus, who would distort it into idolatry and superstition." [D.P. Walker, Spiritual And Demonic Magic From Ficino To Campanella.] GW 9882. Goff F158. Hain/Copinger (+Add) 7065*. Klebs 397.1. Pellechet 4799.

6. Ficino, Marsilio [Marsilius Ficinus]. De vita libri tres. Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini [for Philippus Valor], Folio. 280 x 198mm. First Edition. 1489, 3 December.

Lefvre 191. Torchet 356. Saj-Soltsz 1327. Fernillot 24. IBP 2184. Polain(B) 1480. IGI 3868. IDL(Suppl) 1810. Sallander 1720. Madsen 1594. Deckert 304. Hubay(Augsburg) 813. Hubay(Eichsttt) 380. Walsh 2874, 2875, 2876. Poynter 230. Oates 2341. Sheppard 5111.Bodleian F-050. Proctor 6151. BMC VI 639. BSB-Ink F-116. ISTC 00158000-E. Kristeller g1. $7500 Robertus Salviatus, prefatory letter to Laurentio de Medici.

7. Picus [Pico] Della Mirandola, Johannes [Giovanni]. Heptaplus... De Septiformi Sex Dierum Geneseos Enarratione. [Florence:] [Bartolomeo de'Libri,] [1490.]

Folio. 275 x 205 mm. First Edition. Late 19th c. vellum, title on red and green labels, spine gilt, wide margins; slightly soiled, minor dampstains at inner margin at top, probably washed, corner repair to first leaf and a few other minor repairs to first leaves in inner margin, early annotations. "Thus, in the Heptaplus, or Discourse on the Seven Days of the Creation, he endeavors to reconcile the accounts which pagan philosophy had given of the origin of the world with the account given in the books of Moses --- the Timus of Plato with the book of Genesis. The Heptaplus is dedicated to Lorenzo the Magnificent, whose interest, the preface tells us, in the secret wisdom of Moses is well known. If Moses seems in his writings simple and even popular, rather than either a philosopher or a theologian, that is because it was an institution with the ancient philosophers, either not to speak of divine things at all, or to speak of them dissemblingly: hence their doctrines were called mysteries. Taught by them, Pythagoras became so great a ``master of silence,'' and wrote almost nothing, thus hiding the words of God in his heart, and speaking wisdom only among the perfect. In explaining the harmony between Plato and Moses, Pico lays hold on every sort of figure and analogy, on the double meanings of words, the symbols of the Jewish ritual, the secondary meanings of obscure stories in the later Greek mythologists. Everywhere there is an unbroken system of correspondences. Every object in the terrestrial world is an analogue, a symbol or counter-part, of some higher reality in the starry heavens, and this again of some law of the angelic life in the world beyond the stars. There is the element of fire in the material world; the sun is the fire of heaven; and in the super-celestial world there is the fire of the seraphic intelligence. ``But behold how they differ! The elementary fire burns, the heavenly fire vivifies, the super-celestial fire loves.'' In this way, every natural object, every combination of natural forces, every accident in the lives of men, is filled with higher meanings. Omens, prophecies, supernatural coincidences, accompany Pico himself all through life. There are oracles in every tree and mountain-top, and a significance in every accidental combination of the events of life. " [Walter Pater, The Renaissance.] Quaquarelli/ Zanardi 13. Hain 13001. Klebs 763.1. Pellechet 9288. Polain 3148. IGI 7737. BMC VI,662. Goff P641. Walsh 2903. BN, Incunables, P348. BSB P478. Bietenholz III,83. Pell-Pol 9288. Poli 135. IBP 4435. CIH 2721. $15000

Folio. 2 (of 3) vols. 310 x 216mm. Second Verard Edition. 18th c, 1/2 calf over brown paste-paper boards, rubbed; Mildew & dampstains at ends; verso of Vol I t.p. reinforced; folios H3-I4 of Vol I defective and remargined at top with loss of some text on H6-I4; old repairs to corners or gutters of 1st & final quires of Vol II (no text loss); old owner's inscription on recto offirst leaf of volume 1 and t.p. of volume 2: Joachim, Graf Furstenberg dated 1599. The Donaueschingen Library copy. 45 lines & headling; double column; type 12:106B. With woodcut title page with xylographic initial [Macfarlane LXII] with calligraphic flourishes & grotesque faces & 19 woodcuts (6 repeats) [Macfarlane XXVIII & XXIX]; numerous white on black, black lombard and other woodcut initials with calligraphic flourishes and grotesques. The great Vulgate Prose Lancelot was written in the thirteenth century and expanded on Chretien de Troyes' version of the Arthurian tale. It tells of Lancelot's boyhood, his adventurous growth to manhood, his enrapture with Guenevere and his meeting with the Lady of the Lake. It continues with his search for the Grail and his eventual learning that only his son Galahad could complete his quest.The Morte D'Arthur appears did not appear until the third volume printed by Verard in 1502. "Anthoine Vrard dominated French book production in Paris from 1485 to 1512, a critical period in the shift from manuscript to print. Although he defined himself invariably as a "humble bookseller," this modest epithet belies the gargantuan scale of his enterprise, for during his career he issued more than 300 editions. Even more remarkable than their sheer number, however, is their visual splendor, for Vrard was the "father of the French illustrated book." [Mary Beth Winn]

8. [Arthurian Romance] Lancelot du Lac. Le premier (& second) volume De lancelot du lac nouvellement imprime a Paris. Paris: Anton Verard, 1494, 1 July.

Hain 9850. Goff L34. Fairfax Murray 301. Proctor 8459. Polain III,16. Brunet III, 806. Macfarlane 166 [1494-1502]. Moreau/Renouard 67. Sotheby's, July 1, 1994 Donaueschingen Library, lot 192. See: BMC VIII 83. CIBN L31. $45000

Folio.323 x 217 mm. First Edition. 19th century 1/2 green morocco over pebble-grained boards, gilt spine and title, marbled endpapers, old shelf entry t.p., t.p. expertly restored with replcement of text and illustration, single worm pinhole in text expertly filled-in; minor corner dampstains; fine clean, crisp paper with wide margins. T.p. in red and black inks with phoenix device, large decorated initial of 11 lines on a2, smaller historiated white-on-black initials. Giovanni Da Ferrara (1414-1462), probably of the Canali family of Ferrara. He studied at the University of there. He became a Franciscan priest and later was professor of theology at the University of Ferrara. He was apparently a cultured humanist and in his Excerpta (not present in this collection but which exists in a manuscript in the Bibl.Estense in Modena) he mentions, in favorable terms, his friendship with Guarino. He authored various works of theology and philosophy which were first collected and published in this volume. This is the issue without the accent on the 'u' of "editus" and "Paulus" in the side-note on folio VIIIr Hain/Copinger 6982. Pellechet 4766. Polain 2273. IGI (+ suppl.) 5260. Proctor 4999. BMC V,485 (under Joannes a Curribus). Goff J313. Walsh 2430. CIBN J208. BSB C208 (under Johannes Canalis). $5500 [Gart der Gesundheit.]

In primis. De natura anime rationalis. De immortalitate anime. De inferno et cruciatu anime. De paradyso et elicitate anime. Antonius de Cauhorio, ed.

9. Johannes Ferrarienis [Giovanni da Ferrara; aka Joannes Canales; Johannes de Curribus.] Liber nouiter editus De celesti vita. In quo infrascripta continentur. [Venice:] Matteo Capcasa for Hieronymus Blondus, 1494,December 19.

10. Johannes De Cube [Wonnecke] Herbarius zu teutsch unnd allerhandt kreuteren.

Small folio.245 x172mm. Contemp. blind-tooled pigskin backed wooden boards; contemp. brass clasps (from another source?); spine double banded, some wormholes in cover and crack over one band; endpapers renewed; skillful marginal repairs to some leaves i.e. b3-8; some foxing, finger-soiling, and marginalia but a fine crisp copy overall; Quire D is misbound after quire E. 391 woodcuts (1 full-page) and initials--all HAND-COLORED in a contemporary hand. "Of even greater importance than the Latin Herbarius is the German Herbarius or `Herbarius zu Teutsch,' some-times also called the German Ortus Sanitatis, or the Smaller Ortus. This folio, which was the foundation of the later works called Hortus (or Ortus) Sanitatis, appeared at Mainz, also from the

Augsburg: Johannes Schonsperger, 1496, 10th of May.

Bernard von Breydenbach, foreword.

printing press of Peter Schoffer in 1485, the year following the publication of the Latin Herbarius. It has been mistakenly regarded by some authors as a mere translation of the latter. However, the two books are neither the same in the text nor in the illustrations. The German Herbarius appears to be an independent work except as regards the third part of the book-the index of drugs according to their uses-which may owe something to the Latin Herbarius. It seems from the preface that the originator of the book was a rich man, who had traveled in the east, and that the medical portion was compiled under his direction by a physician. The latter was probably Dr Johann von Cube, who was town physician of Frankfort at the end of the fifteenth century. The Herbarius zu Teutsch represents a notable advance upon the Latin Herbarius in the matter of the figures. Its publication, according to Dr Payne, forms an important land-mark in the history of botanical illustration, and marks perhaps the greatest single step ever made in that art." This estimate seems to the present writer to be somewhat exaggerated, but it must at least be conceded that the figures in question are, on the whole, drawn with greater freedom and realism than those of the Latin Herbarius, and are often remarkably beautiful . The most attractive is perhaps that of the Dodder climbing on a plant with flowers and pods , which is drawn in a masterly fashion. These wood-cuts form the basis of nearly all botanical illustrations for the next half-century, being copied and recopied from book to book. No work which excelled, or even equaled them was produced until

a new period of botanical illustration began with the Herbal of Brunfels, published in 1530." [Agnes Arber, Herbals, 1912.] Schonsperger issued this new edition one year after he reprinted Schoffer's Gart der Gesundheit. It was intended to be a more popular edition, cheaper, easier to use, in two columns and with more illustrations. Its popularity is demonstrated by editions in 1486, 1487, 1488, and 1492. It might be remarked that similarly, Schonsperger issued a new edition of the Schedel Chronicon [Nuremberg Chronicle] in a reduced format. It seemed a successful business venture to issue smaller, more user-friendly, editions of important illustrated books. Hain 8995. Klebs 507:12. Sudhoff 75. Schreiber 4343. Goff G106 (2 in US). BSB W102 (under Wonnecke). Schreiber XIX. IBP 2301. Poynter 305. St G96. $65000

4to. 203 x 140mm. First Koberger edition (second overall). 18th c. full calf, spine gilt, expertly rebacked and recornered; gilt supra libros of Count Heinrich von Bruhl (18th c. Prime-Minister of Poland), a fine, clean, crisp copy with good margins. Marbled edges, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Sol Eisen, old catalogue slips on endpapers. 42 lines to a page and headline. "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.] In 1495 Ficino gathered together a large number (about 235) of the letters of which he had copies, added to them a number of unpublished essays, mainly on theological topics, such as On the Acsent to the Third Heaven and On the Nature of Light, and published them under the title Epistloae.... Ficinos Epistolae enjoyed a wide popularity,and they and the De vitae were the major vehicles by which the doctines of Ficinos cult were communicated to the world beyond the walls of Florence. [Sears Reynolds Jayne, Plato in Renaissance England.] Goff F155. Klebs 399.2. Hain 7062*. Pellechat 4792. Polain (B) 1478. Voullieme, B1770. Walsh 752-54. Proctor 2113. GW 9874. ISTC if00155000. Faitfax Murray, German, 172. IGI 3864. BMC II,443 (IA. 7529). IBP 2182. CIH 1326.BSB F120. $9500 Moralium Aristotelis tres conuersiones: Prima Argyropili Byzantij secunda Leonardi Aretini tertia vero Antiqua per Capita et numeros conciliate: communi/ familiariq[ue] commentario ad Argyropilum adiecto.] Johannes <Argyropulus>; Bruni, Leonardo; Lefvre D'Etaples, Jacques; & Valla, Giorgio.

11. Ficino, Marsiglio. Epistolae. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1497, 24 February .

12. Aristotle, Jacques Lefvre D'Etaples & Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]. Moralium & dialogus de moribus extracted from: [Decem librorum

19th c. 1/2 vellum over marbled boards, gilt rules & decorations with vellum label on front cover with gilt title,some rubbing and soiling; edges red, some light foxing & inner upper margin dampstain, wide margins, a nice copy. Woodcut diagrams in text. This is extracted from the first part of Aristotle's ethical works "Decem librorum Moralium" printed in Paris 1497. It contains a letter from Jacques Lefvre D'Etaples [.Jacobus Stapulenis] to Guillaume Bude; a table of concordances of the Moralia; Georgio Valla's translation of the Moralium; & Leonardo Bruni [Arentino]'s edition of "dialogus de moribus ad Galcotu(m) [sic] amicum; and is dated in a colophon at the end. Leonardo Bruni (c1370-1444) was an Italian humanist and historian, and chancellor of Florence. "Bruni's fame during the Renaissance derived primarily from his historical writings and his translations from the Greek... his most laborious [work] was his project to retranslate the moral philosophy of Aristotle into humanistic Latin. ..Bruni's new versions were a direct challenge to the scholastic traditions inherited from the Middle Ages. Bruni's new Ethics translation, which emphasized correct classical diction and eloquence, was repeatedly attacked..." [Ency. of the Renaissance] "Johannes Higman began printing around 1484, and in 1489 he joined forces with Wolfgang Hopyl. There are 46 known titles of incunabula of their joint work, which include missals such as the Missale Andegavense and Missale Salisburiense. They also printed many works for the foreign market, e.g. incunabula in English. Henri Estienne (d.1520), the founder of the Estienne Family line, married the widow of J. Higman, taking over Higman's printing house, and the Estienne Family became one of the most influential printers/publishers in Paris and Geneva in the 16th and 17th centuries." GW 2359. Hain/Copinger 1761.[= Hain 1750; 683]. Copinger 631. Pellechet 1239. Voullieme (Berlin) 4741.5. BMC VIII, 138. IG 207; ISTC ia00991000. Madsen, 307.Oates, 3034.Rhodes(Oxford Colleges), 151.Sheppard, 6350.Polain(B), 294.IDL, 401.IGI, 824.IBE, 539.Not in Goff. $1500

Paris: Johannes Higman & Wolfgang Hopyl, 1497, April 12. Folio.

13. Bernard, Saint of Clairvaux [Bernardino da Siena] Opus preclarum melliflui Doctoris, atq[ue] diuinorum solertissimi Brescia:Angelus Britannicus, 1500, 28 January.
archanonorum [sic] exploratoris Diui Bernardi Abbatis Clareualensis Cantica Canticorum, multifaria[m] interpretantis. Gregorius Britannicus Brixiensis, ed.

4to & 8vo.. 178 x 126mm. Modern boards covered with vellum musical manuscript, small skilful repair to title-page at lower edge (old owner's name removed?), a few headlines slightly shaved, last leaf expertly laid down (washed?), very good copy, clean with pages in excellent condition. Double column, 45 lines plus headline, gothic letter, 5-line woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on final recto. 87 Sermons, the last not in contents list. Reprinting the text printed in Pavia in 1482 Britannicus took over the

8vo. Outer page size157 x 120mm. [inner page size approx.123 x 78 mm] 19th c. gilt paneled vellum with morocco lettering piece, spine darkened, marbled endpapers, scattered early marginalia; all leaves trimmed and mounted, single pinworm hole (some letters just affected), tear with loss to top line of penultimate leaf, last leaf restored at top with loss of first five lines on recto and partial loss on verso, crack in leaf. Colophon intact. Petit device on t.p. [Renouard 888. Haebler XI.] Variously attributed to Michael Scott (Scotus); Theobaldus Anguilbertus of Ieland and Conrad of Halberstadt, the younger. "The Mensa philosophica is a dietary manual treating the effects of different foods and drinks on the body and the proper diets of people in each condition of life, from emperors to paupers, concluding with the eating habits of good women, bad women, married women, well-behaved widows and virgins. The man-

14. Scotus, Michael; or Theobaldo Anguilberto; or Conradus de Halberstadt, the younger; attributed authors. Mensa ph[ilosoph]ica Optime custos valitudi[ni]s studiosis juvenib[us] apparata no[n] min[us] s[e]n[tent]ia[rum] gravitate co[n]ducibilis [quam] facetia[rum] enarratio[n]e delectabilis. Theobaldo Anguilberto, prefatory letter. Paris: Jean Petit, 1500, April 12 [1512?].

colophon amending it to include his name in place of Ioannes de Ripa. Gregorius Britannicus was a brother of the printers Angelo & Giacomo Britannicus who printed this book. "...Bernard believed that everything in Scripture is meaningful if approached in love, he thinks and speaks like the Scriptures. His is the method of Augustine, Origen, and most of the Fathers, but the ease, fluency, and clarity with which he makes the hidden sense flow from the text earned him the title, Doctor mellifluous.Due to his extraordinary, mystical penetration of Scripture, the Fathers, the liturgy, and psalmody, and his awesome artistic power to describe and communicate this to others, he has been aptly described as "the last of the Fathers, and not inferior to the earliest." The structure of his sentences causes his works to sound like a soul sighing or singing hymns to God. His erudition was such that many in the Christian tradition contend that everything he wrote is a masterpiece. The sacramental humaneness of his mysticism and spirituality, with love as its central focus, shaped Catholic piety, spirituality, and mysticism from his day to this... Bernard's 86 Sermons allegorically interpret the Song of Songs; they summarize his mystical theology Like Origen and Augustine, Bernard views the relationship between the Divine Word and the individual soul as a spiritual marriage between the heavenly Bridegroom and the human bride. But unlike them, he fully developed the notion of spiritual marriage. [St. Bernard's Sermons on the Song of Songs" Prof. Katherine Gill of Yale--on-line] Provenance: Dick Helander, bishop of Strngns (1952-1954). Goff B431. Hain/Reichling 2860. Pell 2099. IDL 765. IBE 930. IGI 1554. IBP 920. Mendes 183, 184. Sallander 2079. Walsh 3423. Sheppard 579.; Proctor 7002. BMC VII 981. GW 3938. ISTC 00431000-E. Bodleian B183. $4500

ual, which summarizes medieval medical lore, offers a "wellness program" modeled after the preachers' moral sermons ad status. In the Scholastic manner, the third book treats disputed questions about health, for example, "Whether air is more necessary to life than food?", invoking such contrary authorities as Avicenna and Constantinus Africanus." The 4th part contains jests, anecdotes, repartees, etc., some of which reappear in later jest-books, designed to represent the type of conversation most appropriate for students in hours of relaxation at table), Though the date of this edition is 1500, the address of Petit's shop and the printer's device shows it to be of later vintage. Goff M496. Hain/Copinger 11081. Klebs 225 (note). Schullian 312. Moreau/Renouard II, 228. IGI 6367. IBP 3707. Ohly-Sack 1980a. Wilhelmi 423a. Proctor II,826. BM STC (French) 18. BSB M332. ISTC 00496000-E. Simon, Bacchica, 110. Simon, Gastronomia 12.Vicaire 778. Brunet III, 1636. Bitting 424 (1514 ed.) See also: Ferguson, Glasgow, p458 (other eds.). $2500

15. Deguileville [Guille Ville, de Guileville Guileville, Digulleville], Guillaume de. Pierre Virgin,monk of Clairvaux ed. [Le romant des trois Pelerinaiges. Le premier pelerinaige est de

8vo. [occ. described as 4to.] 195 x129mm. a10[ lacks a1,title-page], a-l8, m4, n-z8, A-B8, C10 [lacks C9& 10, last leaf of text and printer's mark]. [18 of 20],CCIV [Of CCVI]ff. First Complete Pierre Virgin Edition. 20th c. blind-tooled calf with corner stamps, spine banded with floret stamps, title gilt,light faded,minor rubbing; edges red; inner margin repair to first 2 leaves,small archival repairs on a10,[2]a2; corner restored on d2; wormhole restored on o1-8; a few pinworm holes(not affecting legibility] a few leaves darkened; some old stains and pen scrawls; fore-margin trimmed into some side-notes, occ. minor stains; blank verso of m4 covered in contemporary notes and scrawls in a French hand. Fine white-on-black initials. "A French poet of the fourteenth century. Nothing is known of his life, except that he was a monk in the celebrated Cistercian abbey of Chalis. Three allegorical poems are attributed to him with some certainty: "Plerinage de vie humaine", a description of a journey to Paradise, composed between 1330 and 1332, revised by the author in 1355; "Plerinage de l'ame", a vision of hell, purgatory, and

[Paris:] Berthold Rembolt and Jean Petit,[after 1500].

lhomme dura[n]t quest en vie. [In the author's first version.] Le second de lame separee du corps. Le tiers est de nostreseignr iesus, en forme de monotesseron: cestassauoir les quatre eua[n]giles mises en vne: et le tout magistralement, cointemet [&] si utileme[n]t pour le salut de lame quon ne pourroit mieulx dire ne esc[om]pre. fait et c[om]pose [per] frere guillaume d' deguileuille en son viuat moyne de chaaliz de lordre de cisteaux. Cy sensuit lindice & la table/ Du pelerin noble roment. Qui par voye cointe & delectable/ Enseigne a viure sainctement/ Lequel tresamiablement/ Ont ensemble a co[m]mun profit/ Fait imprimer elegamment./ Maistre Barthole [Rembolt] et Jehan petit .]

heaven; "Plerinage de Jsus-Christ", a verse transposition of the Gospel with the addition of a few allegories, probably composed in 1358. We possess numerous manuscripts of these poems adorned with splendid miniatures, said to be the finest ever made. Several editions of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries do not give the original text of the author, but a text amended by Peter Virgin, a monk of Clairvaux, [15th c.] or even a prose version made by John Gallopes, at the request of the Duchess of Anjou. These allegorical poems, containing not less than thirty thousand lines, met with a tremendous success in the Middle Ages, and were circulated throughout France and England. John Lydgate translated them into English, and Chaucer put a few passages into English verse, while John Bunyan imitated them in his famous poem, "Pilgrim's Progress".[CE] In 1511 Antoine Verard published the first volume of Virgin's edition but the complete text was not available until our edition. At one time this volume was considered an incunable, but later research has dated it to the first quarter of the 16th century. A very rare book no copies of which have come to auction in the last 25 years. With this volume we include, in a matching binding: Abbe Joseph Delacotte, "Guillaume de Digulleville (Poete Norman) Trois Romans-Poems du XIVe siecle. Les Pelerinages Et La Divine Comedie." Paris:1932.286,[2]p. Hain/Copinger 8326. Pellechet 4244. Goff G641(& suppl.).Moreau/Renouard II,1596 (1517?). Index Aurel. 153.587. BM STC (France) 130. Adams D 227. Tchemerzine VI,167.GW X,366 note. $3500

8vo. First Aldine Edition. [4],261ff=522pp [Text complete, lacks colophon leaf.] 18th c. mottled calf,sine in compartments with cypher monogram "MB?", bookplate of Friedrich Mautner, signature of "Ricard Taylor" on blank, hinges cracked; library stamps of the British Museum with duplicate stamp from sale of 1818 on verso of t.p. and last leaf,date on t.p changed to 1511 with same date on spine (incorrect.) Large Aldine anchor on t.p. Abrabanel (c1450-1523) Physician, poet, and "one of the foremost philosophers of the Renaissance....His spiritual affinity with the circle of scholars of the Platonic Academy in Florence, particularly with its leading exponents Pico and Marsiglio Ficino, may have originated in this visit (to Florence)...His reputation rests on his Dialoghi di Amore, first published in Rome in 1535...The principal and central theme of the work, from which the discussion branches out in a number of directions, is love, which he regards as the source, the dominating and motive force, and the loftiest goal of the universe...Out of this central theme there flows a remarkable stream of thoughts on many diverse subjects--reflections on religion, metaphysics, mysticism, ethics, aesthetics, logic, psychology,mythology, cosmol-

16. Abrabanel, Judah [aka:Leone Hebreo; Leo the Jew.] Dialogi Di Amore. Venice: Aldus, 1541.

Sixteenth Century

ogy, astrology, and astronomy--a vision embracing the spiritual and material universe and its metaphysical goal." [Ency. Judaica] Admanson-Murphy 273. Renouard 123:10. Adams A60. Mayer 12:2. CNCE 26696. $1750 neuf cens ans le presente a este prophetisee & qui ne doit plus durer que iusques en l'an mil cinq quatre vignt huict & quatre vingt neuf. N.P. [Paris?] N.P., 1588. 8vo. A-B4. First Edition. 19th c. sheep-backed marbled boards, spine rubbed, title gilt, bookplate, lightly browned, pencil note on botton of b3v; cut close at top margin. "La prophetie a rapport aux revoltes et combats des Huguenottes contre les Guises des ans 1588 et 89 sous Henri III et Henri IV." [Rosenthal] "En fait il s'agit d'une amplification d'un texte dont on connait une dition de 1566 in Livre Merveilleux - noter ce mlange de franais et de latin Approximativement La Grande Prophtie du fils du Roi de Perse de l'Abb de Cambrai. La rfrence est dsormais un roi commenant par un H[enri], vraisemblablement Henri IV dont il est dit qu'il sera repouss par la plus grande ville de son Royaume. Il est question des annes 1588-1589." " Il est question dans le Thrsor, du moins dans la version manuscrite, laquelle a pu faire l'objet d'additions de la part de l'auteur, d'un miracle survenu Laon. Or cet vnement, qui dfraya la chronique, peut tre dat tout fait nettement. Cela eut lieu en 1566, anne de la mort de [Nostradamus].Quand on lit trop rapidement le Livre Merveilleux, avec ses annexes, lesquelles sont en effet inspires du Thrsor de Postel, on ne trouve apparemment pas de rfrence Laon. En ralit, il est question dans la Grande Prophetiae (sic), annexe au L[ivre] M[erveilleux], d'un "Prtre, natif de l'an (sic)" qui serait lu Pape. Il faut lire "Laon". Pour Postel, ce prtre franais qui fut au coeur de l'affaire se voit ainsi dsign pour un tel destin. Ce point a chapp apparemment l'investigation de F. Secret tout comme l'influence postlienne sur l'Eptre Henri II - que nous n'avions pas cerne dans le T[hresor] - voire sur un certain nombre de quatrains qui pourraient avoir repris sous forme versifie certains passages du Thrsor.Cela dit, comme nous l'avons signal, les rdacteurs du corpus nostradamique ont selon nous eu directement accs au Thrsor et cela tient notamment l'importance accorde Venise, rfrence totalement absente du Livre Merveilleux. Ainsi donc, ce n'est pas avant 1566 que le Thrsor atteignit sa forme acheve, au lendemain du "miracle de Laon" et put-tre, ventuellement, imprim. Cela concide assez bien avec la priode laquelle apparat la mouture de l'Eptre Henri II, date de 1558, selon le tmoignage de Crespin (1572), que celle-ci ait t ou non initialement signe [Nostradamus]. Comment, dans ce cas, n'est-il point fait rfrence, apparemment, dans le corpus centurique Laon ? Mfions-nous des anagrammes : que dire ainsi de la forme lonole (X, 40), terme qui d'ailleurs figure en majuscules dans nombre d'ditions des Centuries." [Jacques Heilbronn on-line] Rosenthal,Magica, 1463. Lindsay & Neu. French Political Pamphlets,1524.OCLC: 11968971( 1 copy recorded).BN 2450. $750

17. Adson, Bishop of Cambrai, attrib. La Grande Prophetiae, Regis filius perfis Abbatis Cambrisensis, il y a

8vo. [20],231, [13 of 15]pp.Lacks last leaves of index. First Edition. Contemp. blind-stamped pigskin--remboitage; edges speckled, cut close at top edge (occ. touching text), minor foxing. light toning; owner's "v.f." stamp on verso of t.p. and last leaf. T.p. in red and black. Agricola [1545/1550-1621?] Roman Catholic controversialist theologian born in Aldenhoven. After he studied in Cologne and Loewen, he became a priest in Luttich. In 1569 he was a minister in Rodingen and in 1581 was a minister and Canon in Sittard. He died there in 1621. [Claudius Mayer says 1624.] His major work was this one on witchcraft in which he supports the search for witches. The first edition is quite rare. VD 16 A895.Index Aurel. 101535. Cornell, Witchcraft, 8. NDB I,98. Hartzheim, Bibl. Coloniensis,79. Wetzer/Welte I,355.NNBW III,14ff.Graesse, Magica, 58 (1613 ed.). Rosenthal, Magica,3930 (other eds.) Hayn/Gotendorf III,171. Mayer 164:1.Coumont A14.1. $2200 excellent remedies agaynste diuers dyseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make dystillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, and meltings. A worke wel approved, very profitable and necessay for every man.Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certayne places which wanted in the first edition. Translated out of French into Englishe, by William Warde. London:Henry Bynneman for John Wight, 1568. *8,A-Q8. [bound with:] The Second Part... London: Rouland Hall for Nicholas Englande, 1563. A2 [misbound after (2)A],(2)A-C4, D-M8,N2. [bound with:] The Thyrde and Last Part... London: Henry Denham for John Wyght,[1566]. A-B4, C-L8, M4. William Ward[e], trans. 4to. 3 vols in 1. Modern antique paneled calf, spine ends and bands lightly rubbed, marginalia and pen trials, soiling, scattered stains, first title torn in outer margin and mounted with a few letters affected, marginal restoration on following leaf and on last 2 index leaves of the third part. First published in Venice in 1556, this work ascribed to Alessio is one of the most famous recipe books. "The receipts are for the most part medical and pharmaceutical..."[Ferguson] According to the preface Alessio decided in his 83rd year to put down his knowledge after he experienced the death of a prospective patient because he was

auff Erden sey. Zum andern, ob ie Zauberer noch Buss thun und selig werden mogen. Zum dritten, ob die hohe Obrigkeit, so lieb ihr gott und ihre seligkeit ist, die Zuberer und Hexen am lieb und lieben zu straffen schuldig. Mit ablenung allerley Eynreden. In siben tractat...

18. Agricola [Bauer], Franz. Grundtlicher Bericht, ob Zauberey die argste und grewlichste sund

Cologne:Heinrich Falckenberg, 1597.

19. Alexis [Alessio] of Piedmont [attributed to Girolamo Ruscelli]. The secretes of the reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount: contayning

reluctant to share his secrets. "...the feeling of remorse was so strong...(he) resolved to make amends by revealing all he knew for the good of mankind."[Ferguson,Secrets,Pt III,34.] Ferguson disputes the assigning the book to Ruscelli (see his notes in Biblioteca Chemica,vol I,p22. " Alessio was in fact the creation of a Venetian writer called Girolamo Ruscelli, who later revealed that Alessio's secrets were discovered by a secret Neapolitan experimental academy of which he, Ruscelli, was a member while he lived in Naples a few years before Fioravanti arrived there in 1548. Later, in Venice, the two would meet up and become fast friends. The bond between these intellectual companions, founded on a mutual love of experiment for experiment's sake, was but one link in a Europe-wide network of researchers that made up the underworld of sixteenth-century science. This is the story of one of those "professors of secrets" as told, in a fashion, by himself. In attempting to reconstruct his memory in the imaginary letter that frames this book, I rely on his writings, but when necessary I supplement his words with those of contemporaries."[The Charlatan's Tale:A Renaissance Surgeon's World "By William Eamon ] Ward [Warde], William (1534-1609), physician and translator. "Ward was translator of The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis Piemont: Containing Excellent Remedies Against Divers Diseases and other Accidents. The first edition was published in 1558 containing only the first part, and consisting of six books. Another two editions were printed in 1559 and contain a dedicatory letter by Ward to the earl of Bedford, notable for its protest against the folly of 'some curious Christians among us nowadays ... which most impudently despise all manner of medicines', and for its defence of the 'heavenly science' of physic. Ward mentions Christopher Plantin's edition of a French translation (Antwerp, 1557) as his original. The work became very popular as a treasury of medical and other knowledge in all the countries of Europe. The identity of Alessio of Piedmont has not been satisfactorily settled. Of this first part numerous editions were published in England. It occurs usually bound up with The Seconde Parte of the Secrets of Maister Alexis of Piemont, again translated by Ward and published in 1560 and 1563. The Thyrde and Last Parte of the Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemont translated by Ward appeared first in 1562. It contains six books, like the first part. Here his work seems to have ended but in many copies of the book a fourth and fifth part are added, translated by R. Androse." [Oxford DNB] STC 297. ESTC s100482; STC 301. ESTC s121373; STC 306. ESTC s100485. $6500 ac Mathematicum insignem, Denuo restituta. Additis de eadem re ipsius Gemmae Phry. libellis, quos sequens pagina docet. Reiner Gemma Frisius,ed.

20. Apianus, Petrus [Peter Bienewitz of Bennewitz]. Cosmographia, Per Gemmam Phrysium, apud Lovanienses Medicum Antwerp: Aegidius Copens for Arnold Birckmann,1540.

4to. A-O4,P6. Contemp. limp vellum, reboitage, some stains, spine banded, title gilt on black leather titling piece; small hole in D1 (no text affected), old acquisition number on verso of t.p., minor finger soling, a very fine copy.

53 woodcut astronomical, geographical and navigational illustrations and diagrams depicting constellations, solar and lunar eclipses, climatic zones, instruments, etc. Four complete working volvelles on C2v, D1v, H1r, and M1v, The often mentioned, but rarely seen, volvelle on C3 was actually just a string but the hole is present under the printed cover (on the recto). All the volvelle parts are backed with printer's waste from a musical religious work [Missal--see FairfaxMurray]. Printer's mark of G. de Bonte [see Biblio. Belgica]. Apians (1495-1552) "a pioneer in astronomical and geographical instrumentation, and one of the most successful popularizers of the sixteenth century. "Apian's first major work, Cosmographia... (1524), was based on Ptolemy. Starting with the distinction between cosmography, geography, and chorography, and using an ingenious and simple diagram, the book defines terrestrial grids; describes the use of maps and simple surveying; defines weather and climate; and provides thumbnail sketches of the continents. In its later form, as modified by Gemma Frisius, the Cosmographia was one of the most popular texts of the time and was translated into all major European languages..." [DSB]. Gemma Frisius ((1508-1555), a native of Friesland. "Although he was a practicing physician, he is remembered for his contributions to geography and mathematics...At the age of twenty-one Gemma Frisus published...an edition of Peter Apian's Cosmography." His edition greatly expanded Apianus' work, especially the astronomical content, and he added the volvelles . He later added to his Apianus edition (1533) a chapter, "Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione," In which "he was first to propose - and illustrate - the principle of triangulation as a means of carefully locating places and accurately mapping areas" [DSB]. Frisius' essay "Usus annuli astronomici" on the use of astronomical rings first appears in this 1540 edition. There are several maps, including a volvelle diagram with the western hemisphere designated "America" [H1r]. Index Aurel.106.430. Alden, Euro. Americana, 540/2 "1st published in this version." Fairfax-Murray, German, 40. Shirley 51. Biblio.Belgica A-31. Nijoff/Kronenberg 126. Ortroy 31. BM STC Dutch 12. Harrisse 230. Sabin 1745. Church 78. JCB (3) I:125. Houzeau/Lancaster 2392.Caillet 341 (1550? ed.) $12500

21. Apuleius Opera Quae quidem extant omnia. In primus Vero De Asino Aureo Libri

XI... Filippo Beroaldo & Godescalcus Stewichius, comm.. Marcus Hopper, Coelius

Basle: Sebastian Henricpetri, [1560.] Thick 8vo. Vol 1 of 2.[32],776, 872pp. First Edition thus. Contemp. vellum, title in ms. on spine, old signature on t.p.stamp of "Bibliotheca Academiae Rostochiensis' with withdrawl on verso of t.p.; minor foxing and stains. Decorated initials. Apuleius (A.D. 123-?), poet, philosopher, and rhetorician, is notable for his "rehashing" of Greek works for Latin audiences. He is best remembered for his Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass ), which is the only Latin novel surviving in its entirety. He was interested in natural science and occult subjects and was accused of using magic to win his wife. He wrote treatises on Plato and the Platonic doctrine of God. His philosophical writings show a bent to religious mysticism. "This is a critical edition, containing the dedicatory epistle of Hopperus, and is by no means a common one. It is collated with ancient MSS. and, as well as possessing marginal notes, it presents us with the commentaries of Beroaldus and the emendations of Stewechius and Godeschalcus." [Dibdin] This volume contains the complete "Golden Ass" but the second volume of other works is not present. Schweiger I,9. Moss I,81. Dibdin I,168. VD 16. A3171. Index Aurel. 106.634 (1 copy only) Graesse I, 171. Volume II corresponds with Adams A1366. $650

Calcagini, Nicolaus Gallotus,eds.

brevis explanatio. Necnon Dexippi In Aristotelis Praedicamenta Quaestionum Libri Tres. Johannes Bernardo Feliciano, trans. Venice: [Aniello Sanvito] for Girolamo Scoto, 1566. Folio. A-E6,F4. Bound in modern (19th c.) paper wraps inner upper corner burn mark with some minor paper loss (no text affected), contemp. owner's signature on recto of last blank dated 1574 crossed through, , minor dampstains. Large printer's device on t.p., and verso of last leaf. (V461), historiated initials. Porphyry (A.D. 232/3-c305) scholar, philosopher, student of religion, and vegetarian. He wrote numerous works on philosophy, religion, philology, harmony. embryology, logic, etc. "Porphyry can be called a founder of Neoplatonism because, while the philosophy he upheld was in the main that of Plotinus, he made it possible for this philosophy to become, as it did, an institution throughout the Roman Empire. He arranged Plotinus' lectures for publication in their present form; he defended and developed their content in independent works of own; third, he enabled some of the much more systematic, not to say more teachable, philosophy of Aristotle to be included even by Platonic professors in a university curriculum... His commentaries on Plato have perished too; so have those on Aristotle, except for the introduction to the Categories known as the Isagoge and an elementary treatise on the same work."[Ency. of Philosophy] EDIT 16 (on-line) nc32279 (5 copies only). Hoffmann III,286. Schweiger, Greek, 275.BM STC (Ital.) 535. Not in Adams, Marshall, or OCLC. $650

22. [Aristotle] Porphyry [Porphyrius]. In Arist(otelis) Praedicamenta per interrogationem & responsionem

Greaecorum exemplarium fidem iam primum conversi...ab eo denuo plenis & Latinius redditis: quartus, Latina multorum interpretatione fere totus sersim emissus. nunc in unum digestus & concinnatus. Petrus Nannius; Wolfgang Musculus; Valentinus Ampelander ; & Desiderius Erasmus, trans. & eds. Basle: Nicolaus & Eusebius Episcopus, 1564. Folio.[8], 730; 142, [2], [24]p. 18th c. calf, spine banded, gilt, title on paper label, spine defective, binding still steong; old owner's name on t.p., label of "Bibli. Prov. Germ. Inf." with release, some light browning & foxing, dampsatins at ends, a few old ink corrections, a piece cut from margin of a1; top 1/3 of colophon leaf excised, a few old annotations. Printer's device on t.p. and verro of last leaf; fine large historiated initials. "St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria; Confessor and Doctor of the Church; born c. 296; died 2 May, 373. Athanasius was the greatest champion of Catholic belief on the subject of the Incarnation that the Church has ever known and in his lifetime earned the characteristic title of "Father of Orthodoxy", by which he has been distinguished every since." [CE] The Nanius edition [1556 1st ed.] was a great advance on the erlier editions. The first three volumes with a Latin version of Athanasius is by Nannius contains the "genuina" texts. The fourth contains the "spuria" and is translated by various authors. Index Aurel. 109.405. VD 16 A3981. Adams A 2084. $1200

23. Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria [Alexandrinus], Saint. Opera, In Quatuor Tomos Distributa: quorum tres sunt a Petro Nannio ad

Germany. Contemp. vellum over boards, lacks ties, soiled,old library label with withdrawl stamp; Some sections misbound pp37-99 of the volumes are switched in placement; gathering Dd is bound out-of-order, 3B4 has a repair in the blank margin, occ stains, despite the binder's error -- a nice copy overall. Augenio (1527-1603) physician and philosopher, studied in Bologna and taught medicine at Turin and Padua. This is a collection of the author's letters to contemporary physicians on miscellaneous medical topics including those to Alexander Massari. "His various medical works also include a treatise on bleeding. In the pest tract he says that, although astrologers claim to be able to predict the pest, he notes such diversity in their doctrine and such inaccuracy in their prognostications that he puts little faith in them."[Thorndike VI,211ff; see: vol1,91ff in our work for comments on astrology] Index Aurel 109.851 & 109.850. VD 16 A4073. Adams A2127. BM STC (Germ.) 50. Durling/NLM 349. Wellcome I,526. $600

Frankfurt: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, Claude Marne & Johann Aubry, 1597. Folio. 2 vols. in 1.[12],99,[3],[2 ]; 696, [36]pp. First Edition published in

24. Augenio, Orazio. Epistolarum & consultationum Medicinalium Libri XXIIII, in duos
Tomos distribributi.

8vo. [1]-288p. Modern paper covered boards,some minor dampstains & worming ,foxing & light browning, pen trials on vesro of last leaf. Printer's mark on t.p. decorated initials. Bargagli, Girlamo, 1537-1586, Sienese author who was a member of the 'Accademia degli Intronati' one of the first literary and cultural clubs that were formed in Italy. His play "La pellegrina" was produced in 1589 as part of the very prestigious Florentine wedding festivities. The Sienese evenings 'veglie senesi' were a renowned part of the Intronati ativities "in which cultured word-games were a focus for interchange between men and women. Girolamo Bargagli's dialogue about games, Dialogo de giuochi, and his brother Scipione Bargagli's Traittentimenti, were attempts to set some of these down for posterity." [OCIL] These games called for wit, verbal skill, and variety of response. "Girolamo Bargagli wrote in 1572 in Dialogo da Giuochi, a brief passage I saw the game of tarocchi [tarot] played, and each participant was given the name from a card, and the reasons were stated aloud why each participant had been attributed to such a tarocchi card." EDIT 16 CNCE 4198. Index Aurel. 113.022. Zollinger, Spielbucher, 390. Brunet II, 666 "Ouvrage singulier". Graesse, II, 376. Not in Adams, BM STC (ital.), or Marshall. $1000

Nelle Vegghie Sanesi Si Usano Di Fare. Del Materiale Intronato.

Venice: Alessandro Gardane, 1581.

25. Bargagli, Girolamo. Dialogo De' Giuochi Che

gegrundter Bericht Von ursachen und ersentnus aller Gebrechen Schaden und Mangel der Augen und des Gesichtes wie man folchen anfenglich... Dresden: Matthes Stckel, 1583. Folio. First edition. Modern vellum, banded spine. The following leaves are in a fine facsimile A1,3-6; B6; E1-4; I1; N1-6; O1-6; Y7-8; Z4; Aa6 (34 ll.s) Other leaves have some restoration: C2 upper corner, Y8 lower corner; others have marginal repairs. Of the overlays on the plates A5r 2 of the 5 overlays are in facs.; on B2v 3 0f 6 overlays are in facs. Soiling and stains. E x c e p t i o n a l fine large woodcuts (some repeats).

26. Bartisch, Georg. [Greek]Opthalmodouleia] Das ist, Augendienst. Newer und wol-

Bartisch (1537-1606) of Knigsbrck, optical surgeon, court occulist to Duke August I of Saxony and author of this important Renaissance work on Ophthalmology. It is the first modern work on eye surgery and one of the earliest surgical works in the vernacular. The work is divided into 16 sections that cover anatomy, defects and diseases of the eyes and sight, the eyelids and eyelashes, external injuries, pain in the eyes, and injuries caused by witches or the devil. He employed numerous pioneering techniques in the treatment of eyes--surgical and non-surgical.The illustrations were made from Bartisch's own drawings and often show the whole figure and in group scenes with the surgeon and his assistant. An important, famous, and exceptionally rare book in any condition. A previous owner has gone to great lengths to rescue this copy so that it represents the best pastiche possible. The facsimile pages match the color and feel of the original and even the title page has been reproduced in red and black. Most of the most important illustrations are present and the whole makes a pleasing presentation. Index Aurel. 113.678. BM STC (Germ.) 68. Choulant-Frank 234. Garrison- Morton 5817. Grolier, Medicine, 22. Hiers of Hippocrates 369. Durling NLM 479. Waller 756. Wellcome 697. Norman 125. $7500

27. Bembo, Pietro. Gli Asolani Di Monsignor P. Bembo. Edition Secunda. [bound with] Rime Di Monsignor P. Bembo. [Including: Stanze] Venice: Comin de Trino de Monteferrato, 1544-1540.

8vo. A-N8, O3 [Lacks O4, blank]. A-F8, G10. 2 vols in 1. 18th c. Italian vellum, gilt title on spine, edges marbled in red; bookplate of "B. Heijmans, "contemp signature of "Valentino Paminzi " on second t.p., small stamp on verso of t.p., some marginalia and underscores, poems numbered in old hand in second volume. Large printer's device on t.p.[Triton in a battle with a sea serpent] 3 historiated & decorated initials. Pietro Bembo (1470-47), a Venetian and restorer of polite literature in Italy, was well known for the purity and correctness of his Latin diction, marked by a Ciceronian style. In 1513 he was appointed by Pope Leo X to the office of domestic secretary of the apostolic secretariat, but his health caused him to retire to Padua in 1521. In 1530 he became librarian and historian of the Venetian republic with the task of writing a history of that state (first published - posthumously - by Aldine Press in 1551), but returned to Rome in 1538 as a cardinal in pectore. He died as the result of a riding accident. His most famous and influential work was this philosophical treatise on platonic love the Gli Asolani. This dialogue, set in Asoli was written in a style "so pure and polite, that they became the favourite reading among the superior ranks in Italy..." Hallam I,267-8. Asolani: EDIT 16 cnce 5017. Rime: EDIT 16 cnce 5016. $1000

& Arabum consensus, legitima veteris Medicinae Paracelistas Defensio, vera Animadversionem Argenterii in Hippocratem & Galenum confutatio...

28. Bertin, Georges. Medicina Libris Viginti Methodice absoluta. In qua mutuus Graecorum Basle: Conrad von Waldkirch, 1587.

Folio. ):(6,a-z6,A-M6,N8. First Edition. Modern binding using old vellum, new endpapers, trimmed close at foreedge into some side-notes, some light paper toning and foxing, light marginal dampstain, corner repair to last leaf (no text affected). Large printer's devices on t.p. and verso of last leaf [Heitz #200 & 201], head-and tail-pieces, decorated initials [one signed Iakob]. Bertin was a French physician of Champagne who lived in Metz in the late 16th century. The Arents Collection has a copy and refers to the entry on Nicotine in column 482. Bertin's work covers ancient Greek and Arabic sources and discusses the works of Paracelsus and Giovanni Argenterio. VD 16 B2194. Index Aureliensis 118.044. Adams B819. Durling/NLM 560. Bruni Celli 374. Jocher I,1036. OCLC: 19014581. $1600

Recognitus & auctior redditus...Adiungitur Commentarius eodem Auctore, in Tit. C. Lib. 9 de Maelefic. & Mathematicus, Theologi & iuris scienti, secundum materi subiect naturam, accomodatus, iam primum revisus & auctus. In sine adijciuntur Bull & extravagantes Pontificum successu temporis emanate contra Astrologos, Divinatores, Magos, Maleficos & alios superstitiosos. Trier: Heinrich Bock, 1596. 8vo. 3 pts in 1 vol. [16],795,[18]p. Contemporary vellum, lacks ties; spine with fine contemporary calligraphic title in red and black in Gothic letters; pieces chipped from spine; paper age toned, some old marginal red pencil lines; previous owner's names see below on t.p. and end papers; armorial bookplate and signature of "Josef Fridolinus Bcler de Bel Can: Episcopicell A. 1710," an ex dono inscription from "Franciscii Fridolini Ludovici Bucler de Buel 1740, " on the t.p. signature of "F.G. Blares?" and the entry "fratrum Capiusndrum Suibii? Lastly, the signature of Charles G. Leland on the second f.f.e.p. Binsfeld (c1540-1603) Suffragan Bishop who stimulated the Treves witch trials and whose work was widely quoted by witchcraft writers, both Protestant and Catholic, for the next century. His main focus was to defend the credibility of witches' confessions. His work was quite detailed as he himself had been a judge of witchcraft trials. "While Binsfeld tries to appear 'fair'...his learned bigotry oozes through," R.H. Robbins. In the second edition of 1591 he adds a refutation of fellow Catholic Cornelius Loos whom he forced to a shameful recantation of Loos' work "De vera et falsa Magia" which was against witch trials. In this third edition, the fullest, he has added a new preface and anecdotal evidence, some as late as 1595. Also added is a

29. Binsfeld, Petrus. Tractatus de Confessionibus maleficorum et Sagarum Secund

collection of Papal documents against the occult arts. It has been said that his work led to a near depopulation of Trier through witch burnings. All editions are rare. Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) American folklorist who researched traditional witchcraft lore, and gypsy traditions. His work Aradia; or The Gospel of the Witches was a source book for the modern revival of Wicca (Witchcraft). VD 16 B5530. Index Aurel. 119445. Adams B2062. Caillet 1171 "Rare". Thorndike VI 537ff. Robbins 87. Rosenthal 3950 "rare". Cornell, Witchcraft Cat. 72. Coumont B66.3. Wellcome 870. $3000

Numerorum applicationem perstringete, declarata. Gerard Roussel, comm. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1521. Folio. a-s6,t8,v-x6,y10. 264 x 189 mm. First Edition with the Commentary of Roussel. Fine modern antique-style full calf. spine banded, title gilt; t.p. & verso of last leaf slightlydarkened, minor repairs in last leaf (no text affected), a fine crisp copy. Title with woodcut architectural border [Schreiber p8] and printer's device, ["Cuniculi" Renouard 189] numerous crible initials, numerous [271] woodcut designs and tables in the text.. "The text of the Arithmetica (the standard textbook on the subject in the Middle Ages) was first printed by Erhard Ratdolt at Augsburg in 1488; this beautiful Colines edition conatins the extensive commentary of Grard Roussel (Ruffus: 1480-1555), an associate of Lefevre d'Etaples, and later confessor and almoner to Marguerite of Navarre. This commentary on Boethius's Arithmetica is Roussel's first major published work, which he dedicates to Lorenzo Bartolini, member of a distinguished Florentine family." Schreiber, Colines, 3. Boethius gave an elaborate theory of ratios and devoted much attention to figurative numbers, such as the triangle, square, pentagon and cubic" (Smith) Index Aurel. 121.078. Adams B2282. Brunet I,1039. Renouard 15. Riccardi I,140. Moreau III, 30. Mortimer, French, 107. Smith, Rara Arithmetica, 31. Schreiber, Colines, 3. Schweiger I,34. $4500

30. Boethius, Ancius Manlius Torquatus Severinus. Arithmetica, Duobus Discreta Libris. Adiecto Commentario Mysticam

bros Arithmeticos divi Severini Boetii: adjecta familiari commentario dilucida. Praxis numerandi, certis quibusdam regulis constricta. Editio Secunda. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1522. Folio. 288 x 202mm.a-f8. First Colines edition. 19th c. red morocco by Wallis, gilt, a.e.g., light edge rubbing; some dampstains in margin of rear leaves. Woodcut & crible initials. This volume contains three works for students of Boethius' mathematical works: Lefevre D'Etaples'"Epitome...libros arithmeticos;" Clictove's "Praxis numerandi" and "Opusculum de Praxi numerorum." These treatises were first pub-

31. [Boethius, Ancius Manlius] Jacques Lefevre D'Etaples & Josse Clichtove. In Hoc Libro Contenta Epitome, Compendiosaque Introductio In Li-

lished by Henri Estienne in 1503. "Lefevre's Epitome of the arithmetic of Boethius was extremely popular in the University of Paris at the opening of the 16th century...Clichtove's "Praxis numerandi", devoted mainly to the theory of numbers, gives an elaborate theory of ratios and figurate numbers." [Schreiber, Estienne] Index Aurel. 121.081. Renouard 38. Schweiger I,34. Moreau III,346. $2500 tum & multarum activarum artium principia Libri V.

32. Bruno, Giordano. De Triplici Minimo Et Mensura Ad Trium Speculativarum scientiar-

genant durch die eintzige(n) ding und das buch Thesaurus pauperu(m) fur die armen durch experiment von mir Jheronymo Brunschwick uff geklubt und geoffenbart zu trost v(o)n heil de(n) menschen v(o)n nutzlich ir leben und lieb daruss zu erlengeren und in gefuntheit zu behalten.

33. Brunschwig,Jerome [Hieronymus]. Das buch zu distilleren die zusamen gethononen ding Composita

a4, A-N8, O4, [P1-2, in facsimile]. First Edition. Modern antique calf paneled binding, spine banded with gilt decoration, title gilt on red morocco label, previous owner's stamps on t.p. & verso of t.p., old acquisition number at head of a2r.De-acquisition stamp of Univ. of Chicago, A fine copy with some minor toning. Printer's device on t.p., 33 woodcut illustrations in the text. "This difficult text has of recent years been much studied. It would now seem that this text is about 'mathesis' in the sense of metamathematics and that as such it participates in a wider renaissance discussion of the subject; although, as we shall see, it does lead to a somewhat sceptical evaluation of modern mathematical doctrine..." [Hilary Gatti, Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science, 1998.] Gatti sees the work as a link between mathematics and Bruno's atomism, and takes the three temples of Apollo, Minerva, and Venus as representations of mathematical concepts, and even links them with some of the ideas of modern quantum mechanics. Bruno's attitudes to mathematics, in the practice of which he may well have been adept (there is no evidence), lead him here to consider the possibility of measuring within an infinite universe. As such he seems extraordinarily modern." [Macclesfield Catalogue] Index Aurel.125.920. VD 16 B8662. Adams B2951. Sturlese 24. Salvestrini 197.Macclesfield (Sotheby's London 10 June 2004) 445. DSB II,542ff. $18000

Frankfurt am Main: For Johann Wechel and Peter Fischer, 1591. 8vo. 151 x 95mm.

193-211 are misbound. Second, enlarged, edition. Modern full morocco, spine banded, title in gilt on black leather labels, bookplates of Ladislao Reti (Vincian scholar and famous science collector), B.L. Corning (NY 1860)with old label and a sample of an old marbled endpaper bound in. A nicely restored copy with many leaves claened, repaired and restored. Old stains from mold and damp , but only very occ. minor losses from restoration, occ. wormholes; occ. marginal annotations in an old German hand. A reasonable copy of a very rare and desireable distillation book. Large woodcut on t.p. and 145 (1 double-page) text woodcuts. Brunschwig (or possibly Saler) (ca. 1450-1512) German surgeon of Strassburg author of works on medicine and chemistry. "He wrote two books on pharmacology, one on sim ple remedies, the 'small distilling book' and the present work, 'the great distilling book', on composite ones. 'The True Art of Distilling' describes the technique of distilling medicines, mostly from plants androots, but also from other substances. Other sections are devoted to medical remedies, the treatment of wounds, therapeutics and pathology, the description of installations in a distlling laboratory and an apothecary's shop. The last section lists many inexpensive and easily obtainable remedies. Brunschwig desribes many new plants and the method of distilling from them, which signalized a major extension of the use of chemical preparation in pharmacy. Distilling was a new trade and so was chemical pharmacy; and Brunschwig's book, with its wealth of woodcut illustrations of chemical apparatus and medicinal plants, brought this knowledge to a wider public, whereas hitherto the knowledge of pharmacology had been limited to a few experts, mainly in the monasteries." [Printing and the Mind of Man,44.] "The distilling book by Brunschwig describes a phase of application of chemical methods to medical practice. The special purpose of the book was to apply the methods of distillation with steam to separating the active principals of medicinal agents from the nonessential matter. These distilled waters were quite radical innovations upon conventional medieval pharmacology. [Klebs-Becker] This edition is largely a reprint of the 1512 but with some added illustrations and text.

Strassburg: Johann Gruninger, 1519. Folio. 330ff=660pp.Pages

VD 16 B8600. Index Aurel. 125.934. Bruning 121. BM STC (Germ.) 148. Benzing, Brunschwig, 32. Schmidt (Gruninger) 167. Ritter 310. Muller 37:148. Choulant, Graph.,85. This ed. not in Adams, Durling/NLM, Waller, or Wellcome. $8500

Woundes that doe dayly assaulte mankinde: Which Bulwarke is kept with Hilarius the Gardener, & Health the Phisicion, with the Chirurgian, to helpe the Wounded Souldiours. Gathered and practised from the most worthy learned, both olde and new: to the great comfort of Mankinde... London: Thomas Marshe, 1579. Folio. 4 [1 in facs.], A-P6, Q4 [Q4 blank, portion excised]; 2A-2G6, 2H4, 2I2; 3A-3H6, 3I4; 3a-3f6, [3f6 blank, present]. S e c o n d Edition. 17th c. sprinkled calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; some marginal soiling and dampstaining, occ. minor worming in blank margins. scattered early marginalia and pen trials,some soiling and stains; repair in blank margin of C5, repaired margin P3; bookplate of "John M[ontgomery]. Traherene, F. R. S," (1788-1860), antiquary; General title replaced in facsimile. Second title in woodcut border with figures; 24 woodcut illustrations of medicinal plants, 5 of distilling apparatus, and five full-length figures [incl. 1 skeleton]; numerous historiated & decorated initials. Bullein, William (c.1515-1576), physician. "While Bullein and his wife were imprisoned for debt Bullein wrote his next work, Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence Againste All Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes, which he finished in March 1562 and published that year with a dedication to Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon. This book replaced a manuscript lost when the boat transporting his possessions to London was shipwrecked. Openly inspired by Sir Thomas Elyot's Castle of Health (1539), the text was again framed as a dialogue, but was much more extensive in plan, covering surgery, compound medicines, and the responsibilities of physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, as well as a much more extensive treatment of the simples which had been the main subject of his earlier work. Although substantially Galenist in approach, the book contains some of the earliest printed references to Paracelsus and chemical medicines in English medical writing, together with a discussion of a number of mineral and chemical substances and methods of distillation. This text is also the main source for William Hilton's prosecution, suggesting that Bullein's reputation had been damaged by what he claimed were 'sondrie malicious and devilish invencions' (Bullein, Bulwarke, 'To the reader'). He also mentioned trouble he had faced from another former patient, a gentleman named Bellises of Jarrow in Durham, who, although Bullein had cured him of the 'palsie', had later sought 'divers ways to haue murthered me', employing ruffians to assist him in his 'bloody purpose' (ibid., fol. 39)...Bullein's work was distinguished by his clear and entertaining prose and fine use of dialogue. The medical content was not generally novel, although his works do number among the first vernacular herbals, and include some of the earliest published references to Paracelsus, and mineral and chemical medicines in English. The works rely on a combination of sources,

34. Bullein, William. Bulleins Bulwarke of Defense Against All Sickness, Soareness and

principally a range of classical and more recent medical authors, including Fuchs and Gesner. They are marked with a strong scriptural vein, and are unsurprisingly fervent in their anti-Catholicism." [Oxford DNB] Provenance: "Traherne was an active member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, contributing notes and papers to Archaeologia Cambrensis, and he was a corresponding member of the Welsh Manuscripts Society. Among his acquaintances and correspondents were a number of leading literary and scientific figures as well as most contemporary Welsh scholars, and his assistance was frequently acknowledged by other workers in the same field." [Oxford D.N.B.] STC 4034. ESTC s107134. Durling/NLM 779. Wellcome I,1150. Lowndes 308. Index Aurel. 127.182. $5000

Contemp limp vellum, blind rules, with original leather ties, some stains on covers, title on paper label in old hand, bookplate of Larish-Moennich, some remnants of old descriptions on paste-downs, early owners' inscriptions on t.p., contemp. marginalia and underlines, a few minor stains and marginal tears, darker inner margin stain on last leaves; but a fine crisp wide-margined copy overall Woodcut t.p. surround with emblematic virtues, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials. "Camerarius ,1537-1624, was the third son of the eminent Humanist and friend of Melancthon, Joachim Camerarius. From 1581 to his death at eighty-seven in Nuremberg he served as first prochancellor of the University of Altorf...The book contains a variety of tracts on every matter of interest to the public of the period. Not least among them is the devil, about whom Camerarius has much to tell; he is first of all the deceiver and skillful seducer of the Christian man. Camerarius tells about the devil's tricks with much gusto, so that often one is almost under the impression he admires him. The tale of Faust and his untimely end is also included. "[Faber du Faur p 314.] VD 16 C578. IA 130.590. Henning, Faust, 1311. Index Aurel. 130.590. $1500 octo, alter ver totidem disputationes continet. Addita prterea eiusdem autoris de Sarza Parilia, de Cina radice, eisque usu, Consilium pro dolore vago, Disputationes etiam qudam ali non inutiles. Accesserunt prterea Iacobi Peltarij contradictiones ex Lacuna desumpt, cum eiusdem Axiomatibus. Quorum omnium Indicem locupletissimum operi prfiximus... Paris: Jacques Mace, 1564-1565. 8vo. 3 pts. in 1 vol.[12],180; [4],314,[2]; 40 ff. Contemp. calf with gilt supra-libros on covers (cartouche enclosing interlacing 'M' and 'W' with motto 'Tandem Quiesco'. rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, vertical crack in spine with small piece of leather lacking, a.e.g.;

35. Camerarius, Philipp. Operae Horarum Succisiuarum Sive Meditationes Historicae... Nuremberg: Christopher Lochner, 1599. 4to. [36],524,[78]pp. Second Edition

36. Cardano [Cardan], Girolamo; & Jacques Peletier Contradicentium Medicorum libri duo:quorum primus centum &

endpapers renewed; lower marginal dampstains; ruled in red throughout. "One project that he [Cardano] began in the Sacco years (1526-1533) or even earlier and that occupied him, on and off, for much of the rest of his life was the Contradicentium Medicorum libri, a collection of citations and arguments about issues on which standard medical authorities differed... The first octavo volume of Contradictiones appeared in print in 1545; a second edition, doubled in length, appeared in 1548. The dates of publication of the first two editions, both within five years of Cardano's receiving his chair at the University of Pavia, probably reflect his determination to publish a work appropriate to a professor of medical theory as soon as possible after his appointment. The dedication of the work to the Senate of Milan, which controlled professorial appointments to the University of Pavia, is further evidence that the timing of the publication was not coincidental. The Contradictiones is also one of very few medical works of any kind that he actually published during the 1540s and 1550s when, simultaneously, his medical career at Milan and Pavia was at its height and he was at his most productive in disciplines other than medicine. But Cardano continued to enlarge the collection long thereafter. By the end of his life it had grown almost as long as both his encyclopedic works combined. In the amount of effort the author devoted to it, this must be rated one of his major work. And although plenty of controversies are incorporated into his medical writings in other genres (most of them treatises on practice or Hippocratic commentaries), the Contradictiones is the only work in which he focused exclusively on the analysis of controversies in medicine. The Contradictiones is at once a key text for Cardano's ideas about medical knowledge and a prime example of the multiple and often confusing strands in his thought... Not all the ambiguities can be resolved; the project was not necessarily in every respect a coherent one. Yet the work casts much light on Cardano's agenda as a medical reader, teacher, and writer." (Nancy G. Siraisi, The Clock and the Mirror. Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine, Princeton, 1997, pp. 43-44). Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517 Le Mans - 1582 Paris) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance....His last years were spent in travels (Savoy, Germany, Switzerland, maybe Italy, and various regions in France) and in publishing numerous works in Latin on algebra, geometry and mathematics, medicine (a refutation of Galen, a work on the Plague). In 1572 he was briefly director of the College of Aquitaine (Bordeaux), but, bored by the position, he resigned. During this period he was friends with Michel de Montaigne and Pierre de Brach. In 1579 he returned to Paris and was named director of the College of Le Mans. I.A. 132.096. Adams C656. Durling/NLM 837. Wellcome 1285. $1750

37. Cartari, Vincenzo. Le Imagini De I Dei De Gli Antichi Nelle Quali Si Contengono gl'I-

doli, Riti, ceremonie, & altre cose appartenenti all Religione de gli Antichi, Raccolte dal Sig. Vincenzo Cartari, con la loro espositione, & con bellissime & accommodate figure nuovamente stapate. Et con molta diligenza riviste e ricorrette. Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1580. 4to.a-c4, d6, A-4A4 [4A4, blank, present]. Contemp. vellum over boards, spine banded, title in old hand, spine re-

paired at bottom, notes on f.f.e.p., old owner's names on t.p.,a few leaves trimmed close at top edge, occ. stains, O2 remargined in inner margin, some foxin.g Printer's mark on t.p. (V526 - Z369), 88 full-page etchings by Bolognino Zaltieri. " First encyclopedia of Classical iconography." Arntzen & Rainwater.The cuts are based on those of Bolognino Zalteri printed in the Venice 1571 edition with some revision for modesty's sake. Cartari's (b. ca. 1500) work on the gods and their symbols is a key work in the history of symbolism in the Renaissance and the manual for artists as to the proper attributes of the deities. [See Seznec's The Survival of the Pagan Gods for a full discussion of the importance of this text.] Index Aurel. 132.723. EDIT 16 cnce 9759. Adams C 789. BM. STC.(Ital.) 152. Choix 4280. See Also: Mortimer, Italian, 108 note. Caillet 2047 (French trans.) Brunet I,1601. Graesse II,56.Univ. Cat of Art, 287. Arntzen & Rainwater H35.Dekesel 16th, C11. $2000 Ceremonie, & altre cose appartenenti all Religione de gli Antichi, Racolte dal Sig. Vincenzo Cartari, con la loro espositione, & con bellissime & accommodate figure non amente ristampate. Et con esserui citati i luoghi de gli auttori stessi, di donde mote cose sono state cavate, con molta diligentia riviste, & corrette. Lyon: Stefano Michele, 1581. 8vo.*-***8, ****4, [4*4 blank],a-z8, A-F8, G8 {G7 & 8 blanks] Modern calf-backed marbled boards, title on label, red edges, tall copy with some deckled edges at lower edge, light even paper toning. 82 full page engravings. Printer's device on t.p (Silvestre 977)., engraved initials, head and tail pieces. EDIT 16 III,1737. Index Aurel. 132.726. Mortimer, French, 128(note). Caillet 2047 (French trans.) Brunet I,1601. Graesse II,56.Univ. Cat of Art, 287. Arntzen & Rainwater H35. Baudrier IV,140 (Honorat issue).Dekesel 16th, C12 (Honorat issue). $1500 invention...Avec la Roue de Pythagoras. Le tout mis en luminere par Gabriel du Preau...] Gabriel du Preau (1511-1588), ed. Paris: Jean Corrozet, 1558. 4to. a, e4, A-2Y4. First Edition. 1/2 modern tan calf over marbled boards, spine banded, gilt with flowers, title gilt on red morocco label, marbled endpapers, old bookdealer's description pasted inside cover, some print house soiling on last leaves, small marginal chip, mnor foxing, stains and soiling, but generally a very nice copy. Woodcut on t.p., numerous text cuts and diagrams [including nativities.] "The word geomancy derives from the Greek roots geo, referring to the earth, and mantikos, meaning "of a soothsayer" or prophetic." Geomancy is any system of divination (an attempt to get in touch with the divine) related to manip-

38. Cartari, Vincenzo. Le Imagini dei de gli Antichi. Nelle Quali Si Contengono gl'Idoli, Riti,

39. Cattan, Christophe [Christoforo] de & Pythagoras. La Geomance... Livre non moins plaisant & recreatif, que d'ingenieuse

ulation of the earth. A system of geomancy linking astrological symbols with figures formed from holes poked in the earth became popular during the Renaissance. The exact origins of astrological geomancy are unknown. It is similar to the casting of lots referred to in the Latin and Greek classics and may have been practiced by ancient desert nomads who made marks in the sand which they then interpreted to answer questions of personal concern. In this latter sense geomancy is akin to horary astrology. In fact, the same philosophical principle -- cosmic sympathy -- underlies both geomantic divination and horary astrology. The idea is that at the time a question becomes imperative to the inquirer, the conditions of the cosmos, whether in macrocosm or microcosm, will reverberate with the inquirer's mind. Systems of divination are really sets of rules explaining how to decipher the message of the cosmos. Modern diviners often cite Carl Jung's concept of synchronicity, or meaningful coincidence, to explain the workings of their craft. Regardless of whether or how it works, geomancy is worthwhile to study simply for the beauty of its sixteen archetypal symbols, another Jungian idea. The sixteen geomantic archetypes bear a close relationship to the archetypal symbols of planets and signs used in astrology." [Anthony Lewis] Cattan (a citizen of Geneva) wrote this "book-length treatise on geomancy, with examples of geomantic tableaux cast by Cattan for his acquaintances at the French court. The text describes the method of casting the points and forming the figures; discusses the meanings of the figures and their correspondences with elements, animals, planets, etc.; summarizes the questions appropriate to each house (with examples); and thoroughly covers the various ways to interpret the tableau." [Elizabeth Z. Bennett] "Cattan's Geomancie attacks the practises of wizards "For all these be so vain and false that their great abuse is quite contrarie unto our Christian Religion" but does not specify what these are, and indeed has classed as "sciences" almost every divinatory or necromatic art; of Geomancie itself (divination by the examination of dots made at random on paper) it is claimed "this Science is no Arte of Inchaunting as some suppose it to be, or of divination, which is made by Diabolike Invocation, but it is a part of naturall magicke, called of many worthy men, the daughter of Astrologie; and the abbreviation thereof" (Epistle Dedicatory A2v and "Author's Preface" Cjr). [I.R.F. Calder] There appear to be two variants on the imprint with Jean Corrozet as printer or Gilles Gilles. Gilles reissued the work with his name and Corrozet and later just his name, so ours is in all likelihood the first state of the imprint. Index Aurel. 134.390 (Gilles imp.). Caillet 2093 (Gilles) "Ouvrage tres estimee." Gardner, Astrologica,216 (1552?). Adams C1128 (Gilles). Sabattini 60 (Corrozet) "rara". Esoterica 646 (Corrozet). Graesse, Magica, 104. Mellon Cat. 39 [1567]. $3500 Troubles, guerres civiles & autres choses memorables advenues en la France & ailleurs des l'an de salut MDXXXIIII jusques a l'an MDLXXXIX fin de la maison

40. Chavigny, Jean-Aime & Michel de Nostradamus. La Premiere Face Du Janus Francois, Contenant Sommarement Les

Valesienne. Extraite Et Colligee Des Centuries Et Autres Commentaires De M. De Nostradame... A La Fin Est Adiouste Un Discours de l'advencement a la Couronne de France...Le tout fait en Francois & Latin... Lyon: Heirs of Pierre Roussin, 1594. 4to. a,e,i,o4, A-2X4. First French Edition of Nostradamus. Contemp. brown morocco with gilt device of banded arrows in center of covers and monogram "M.S.D." additionally stamped on front cover, spine and edges show some wear & a few wormholes; bookplate of Denis-Francois Secousse (1691-1754) historian & bookplate of Daniel Ruzo (1900-1991) Peruvian archaeologist and Nostradamus authority, old catalogue description of .f.f.e.p., dampstained at ends, minor tear in title gutter, date on t.p & colophon have been falsely changed to 1624. Chavigny (c1524- 1604) was born of a noble family of Beaune. He had a doctorate in law and theology, and in 1548 was mayor of Beaune. Some say he was sent to Nostradmus by Jean Dorat to be his secretary and also became his most trusted student, as well as, his first biographer. Leoni doubts that this because Nostradamus dosn't mention him in his will nor in is he mentioned in the writings of Cesar Nostradmus, Michel's son. Leoni sugggests that Chavigny only knew Nostradamus in a more casual way and adopted the guise of his most trusted student. In either case, Chavigny is Nostradmus' first commentator, biographer, and collector of otherwise lost prophecies. This is his best known work. The book was to cover history,according to Nostradamus and Chavigny, up to 1589, with Henry of Navarre, to whose star Chavigny had wisely hitched his wagon, as the pivotal figure. The second face of this bilingual work (French and Latin), he assured the nominal but still uncrowned King, would cover all the victories and conquests that would fall to Henry... Of the six sections of the book, it is the second that contains the famous Biography which has been reprinted in so many editions of the Centuries... The fifth section is the main part of the book. It contains the 141 verse Presages... In addition, there are 126 quatrains from the Centuries..." Leoni, Nostradamus and His Prophecies, 60." There are two issues this and one citing "Ex Typographia Haeredum Petri Roussin", no priority has been established. Index Aurel. 136.046. Chomarat 154. Benazra 130.Buget 1860 1701/6. Ceard 431. Cioranescu 6524. Leoni 91. Arbour 1616. Caillet 2303. Esoterica 710 "rarissime". Houzeau/Lancaster 4971. $3000 qua ratione haereticorum paralogismi deprehende & solvi possint. Liber omnibus Evangelicae veritatis studiosis valde necessarius. Geneva: Eustace Vignon, 1580. 8vo.4, A-K8,L4. 19th c. vellum boards, titles on red and green morocco labels,some minor dampstains, single pinworm hole in lower blank margin Anchor of Faith printer's device, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials. Daneau, Lambert, 1530-1595, He studied law at Orleans, went to Paris in

41. Daneau, Lambert. Elenchi Haereticorum. Ubi Facili Et Singulari methodo explicantur,

1547, and returned to Orleans to study with Anne de Bourg. He obtained a doctorate of law in 1559. Born to a Catholic family, he was inclined to Protestantism and went to Geneva where he met Calvin. In 1561 he became pastor of Gien, where he remained until St. Bartholomew's day. From 1574 he was a professor at Geneva and was granted citizenship there in 1581. He taught in Leiden, Ghent, Lescar, and Castres. "Daneau was one of the most celebrated theologians of the sixteenth century; he belonged to the extreme Calvinist party, and wrote many works on philosophy, jurisprudence, and theology." [Schaff-Herzog] Daneau was a firm believer in witchcraft and stressed the 'devil's mark' in identifying witches and in the heresy involved in the pact the witch formed with the devil. This treatise on the nature of heresy was first printed in 1573 and is a scholarly exercise in logical form with numerous citations (some in Greek) of relevant source material. Index Aurel. 149.520. Adams D38. Moeckli 97. $1500 dam...Geirgii Federonis, ac universaw Sectae Paracelsicae imposturas, defensio...Accesit praeterea purgantium Medicamentorum usitatorum & pillularum... Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1573. 4to.-34,B-2O4,2P2 [2P2 blank]. First Edition. Early 20th c. paper covered boards, t.p. slightly detached at inner margin, minor finger-soiling, large margins. Printer's device on t.p., full-page portrait of the author,historiated initials. Dessen (1510-74) born in Amsterdam, was a brilliant student of classical literature and science before deciding to study medicine. He studied in Louvain under Charles Goosens and Jean Heems and then in Bologna, & Padua. He practiced for nine years in Groningen and then went to Cologne at the invitation of Johann Echt. He wrote books on pharmacy and herbology as well as medicine.In his work on the "Peste", "He speaks of a leatheran jacket, which had passed into the hands of twenty-five persons, who had received the infection from it, and been destroyed, before the cause was discovered."[Chalmers] In the "Medicinae Veteres" Dessus defends the ancient schools of medicine against the practice of doctors influenced by Paracelsus. Georg Fedro von Rodach's (Phaedro) works on Paracelsan medicine are found added to various editions of Parcelsus' works see Sudhof for a list. VD 16 C5946. Index Aurel. 152.373. Wellcome I,1749. $1200

42. Dessen von Kroenberg, Bernard Medicinae Veteris Et Rationalis Adversus Oberronis Cuius-

43. Dessen von Kroenberg, Bernard. Medicinae Veteris Et Rationalis... Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1573. [bound with] [De Peste Commentarius Vere Aureus.] Cologne: G. Fabricius,1564. 4to. 2 works in 1 vol. [16],246,[38],[6 of 8,lacking
half-title],49,[5];[2 of 4 lacking t.p.],[6],70pp. First Editions. Contemp. blind-tooled calf, including roll of Judith-Euterpe-Prudencia-Lucretia

{Haebler I,356] Initial "HDAW" on t.p. binding by the master "N.P.", spine cap worn rubbed at cords, some worming to binding, t.p margin strengthened with corner replacement (minor loss to one letter and edge of cut on verso); old owner's name in calligraphic capitals on t.p. with date July 1573; mediaeval manuscript on vellum used as binding tabs; a few minor edge tears in last work. Printer's device on t.p., full-page portrait of the author,historiated initials. VD 16 C5946-7. Index Aurel. 152.372-73. Wellcome I,1748-9. Hirsch II,168. Durling/NLM 1122 "Peste" only. $1750 plicium catalogum, copiosus omniu(m) ferme medelarum sive curationum Index. Jean de la Ruelle, trans. Lyon: Jean Frellon, 1547. Small 8vo. (often described as 12mo.) [4],543,[150]pp.Lacks all after X5 (three leaves, two of index, one blank?) 18th c. 1/2 calf over marbled boards, title-label, gilt rules on spine,pastepaper endpapers, old owner's inscription on t.p. crossed-out, donation note in contemp. hand, sentiment on rear of t.p; some old annotations, occ. small marginal dampstains; some marginal notes slightly shaved; Frellon device on t.p. colored in an old hand. Frellon crab device on t.p., decorated initials. "Ruelle was one of the earliest French botanists...He was of importance especially for this translation of Dioskorides."[Hunt] "If to have written the most serviceable book of botany that the world of learning knew of during siixteen centuries were the best title to botanical greatness, to Dioskorides would readily be concorded the absolute supremacy over al other botanists, not only of antiquity but for all time...One may fairly say that the greater part of all the new botanical matter published during the whole of the 16th century, and a part of the 17th, came out in the form of annotations upon the text of Dioskorides." [E. L. Greene as quoted in Hunt] Index Aurel. 154.335. Hoffmann I,603. Schweiger, Greek,102. Baudrier V,211(also inc. at end.) Wellcome I,1786. Pritzel 236. $800 rum'que precautione & curatione. De cane rabido...Eiusdem Marcelli Vergilii in hosce Dioscorides libris comme(n)tarii... [with] In Dioscoridem Corollarioru[m] libri quinque... Marcello Vergilio,Latin trans. & comm.Dedicatory epistle by Johannes Soter. Cologne: Johannes Soter, 1529- 1530. Folio. [28],756,[3]; [1],78ff=158pp. 2 parts in 1 vol. First Edition of Barbaro's commentary. 18th c. vellum, spine slightly wormed, ink shelf number on spine, front joint cracked; occ. browning, first work has blank lower corner of approximately the first 30 leaves restored (no text affected), old signatures"Ex libris Jo. Franc(iscus)

44. Dioscorides, Pedacius. De Medica Materia Libri Sex...His Accessit, Praeter Pharmacorum sim-

45. Dioscorides, Pedanius & Ermolao Barbaro. [Greek Title] De Medica Materia Libri V. De Letalibus Venenis Eo-

Viligian?" and private owner's stamp on t.p., scattered early marginalia (some trimmed), second work has light dampstaing in upper right margin with slight paper corrosion along top edge toward end, marginal restoration on last few leaves (no text affected, one headline obsured). Printer's marks on t.p.s, fine historiated & decorated initials. Dioscorides was a Greek physician who lived in the first century of the Christian era. He became a military surgeon under the Roman Emperor Nero and was a contemporary of Pliny. He wrote De Materia Medica (about 77 A.D.) which gave medicinal properties and some botanical information for about 600 plants. For about 1500 years, it was the supreme authority due to the practical nature of its contents, and it has been called the "most successful botanical textbook ever written." Dioscorides was believed to have had his medical training in Alexandria. He traveled widely and made observations on plants from the standpoint of their medical uses. He described roots, stems, leaves and sometimes flowers... For centuries no drug plant was considered genuine unless it could be identified by the descriptions given by Dioscorides. " Ermolao Barbaro (1454-1493), Italian humanist scholar, was born at Venice on the 21st of May 1454. At an early age he was sent to Rome, where he studied under Pomponius Laetus. He completed his education at the university of Padua, where he was appointed professor of philosophy in 1477. "Ermolao Barbaro was a humanist of the first generation: not only did he translate several Greek texts into Latin imitating Cicero's prose, but also, before translating a text, he gathered as many manuscripts as possible to check the text, avoiding the mistakes provoked by manual copying. At the same time, Barbaro commented on the classical texts of the Naturalis Historia by Pliny and the De Materia Medica by Dioscorides. Like his contemporaries, he compared the two works and noticed that they present similar data." Marcello Vergilio "There was extraordinary charm in this man's winning expression and cultivated speech and, when he was lecturing to his young pupils from the platform or speaking to a group of listeners, he displayed a wide learning remarkable from its very variety. Moreover, he served the state as Chancellor, an office which Aretino and Poggio had held before him, and, when he had the leisure, he was accustomed to devote it to a third occupation. For at the urgent request of the Medici he had undertaken to translate all Dioscorides and he hoped to win from this task no mean glory, since from early youth he had toiled with most painstaking industry at the very difficult subject of botany. " VD 16 D 1998 & B 349. Adams D655. Hoffmann I,600. Durling/NLM 1134 & 470. Wellcome I 1778. OCLC: 6440912+.See: Simon Gastronomia 52. $2750

Fine green/blue morocco by Meuthet, gilt rules, spine extra-gilt, a.e.g.; marbled endpapers, bookplates of Henri Lambert & "In memori Weiler Bibliotheca Trautner Falkiana," marginal repairs at head,lower margin restored on a5 some

46. du Moulin, Antoine. Physionomie Naturelle, Extrait de plusieurs Philosophes anciens. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1550. 8vo. a-i8,k7 [Lacks k8 blank].First French Edition.

text affected (restored in pen facsimile). de Tournes device on t.p. (viper), and on verso of last leaf (prisma). Historiated & decorated initials. "The text is a compilation from the works of Aristotle, Polemon, and others made by Antoine du Moulin and printed by de Tournes in Latin as 'De diversa hominum natura' in 1549 and in Du Moulin's own translation as 'Physionomie naturelle'... In his dedication to Maurice Scve in the French edition, Du Moulin relates that he was encouraged by Scve to investigate the literature of physiognomy." [Mortimer] "Du Moulin se mit a etudier les autheurs qui avaient traite cette matiere et in particulier Petrus Aponensis, Albert le Grand, maistre Michel Lescot, Bartholomaeus Cocles et Jean de Indagine. apres avoir traduit ce denier, il a ecrit le present ouvrage qui, ainsi que Du Moulin nous l'apprend au debut du texte, et compose d'extraits traduits de Loxus medicine, Aristotle philosophe et Polemon declamateur." [Cartier] du Moulin (c1510- ?) of Macon,French humanist, valet de chambre of the King of Navarre, friend of Rabelais, editor and translator (e.g. Indagine) for his friend de Tournes' press. Provenance: Henri Lambert collection sold 3 April, 1884. Hans-Joachim Trautner (1906-2001) collector of de Tournes editions and past-president of the Bibliophilen Gesellschaft Deutschlands. Cartier 165. Index Aurel. 157.339. Durling/NLM 1318. Caillet 3372. Thorndike V,67ff. Mortimer, French, 190 note. Gerlach Moulin 1550. Laehr i,545. Courline 34:5. Campe 606. $1500 mentis aeternae, filii eius, &t spiritus sancti, utiusq(uae) amoris substatialis & aeterni: ac Astronmiiae commendationem...Leonhard Engelhart, prefatory poems. Tubingen: [Widow of Ulrich Morhand,]1563. 8vo. [32],142 (of 143, lacks page 143 with printers mark and errata). First Edition. Old vellum,lacks ties, old library stamps on t.p.of a Franciscan Library in Halle, minor marginal wormhole, occ. foxing, small marginal dampstain on verso of last leaf. 2 heraldric arms, 2 astrological diagrams. Samuel Eisenmenger alias Sderocrates, who was expelled from the orthodox-Lutheran university of Tbingen on account of his religious views. " [Carlos Gilly. `Theophrastia Sancta' ] Eisenmenger (1534-1585) began to study at Wittenberg under Melancthon; he was professor of mathematics at Tubingen and there issued a series of astrological preditcions. He also wrote on iatromathematics and astrological medicine. He completed a M.D. and was personal physician to the bishop of Speyer. He later became physician to the margrave of Baden, the archbishop of Cologne, and the bishop of Strasburg. He edited the works of Paracelsus and published two works on astrology and the medicinal uses of it. VD 16 E869. Index Aurel. 159.742. Adams S1073. Houzeau/Lancaster 4888. Zinner 2303. Caillet 10183 (later ed.) Thorndike VI,123. $1200

47. Eisenmenger, Samuel [Siderocrates]. De Usu Partium Coeli Oratio. In Laudem Summi Boni, patris aeterni,

trice, adversus Christophorum Stathmionem, Medicum Coburgensem: in qua simul declaratur, quae sit ista Divinatio: quae eius partes: ad quam praenotionis speciem pertineat: quomodo a licitis Divinationibus differat. Accessit huic alia eiusdem argumenti disputatio, qua 178. Theses pro divinatione Astrologica scriptae solidisime confutantur. [Paris or Geneva:] Jean Le Preux & Jehan Petit, 1569. 4to. [8],162,[6]p. First Edition. 19th c. marbled paper covered boards, rebacked in calf, banded spine, title on leather label applied to front cover,old owner's name on t.p., small stamp on verso of t.p., large margins. Erastus, Thomas, 1524-83, Swiss Protestant theologian, a physician, whose original name was Lber, Lieber, or Liebler. As a follower of Huldreich Zwingli, he supported the Swiss leader's view of the Lord's Supper at the conferences of Heidelberg (1560) and Maulbronn (1564) and in a book (1565). In spite of his vigorous opposition to the Calvinist doctrine, Presbyterian church discipline and government were introduced in Heidelberg in 1570. In 1574, Erastus was excommunicated by the Heidelberg consistory, but a year later the edict was removed. Much controversy has arisen over his treatise, Explicatio, written in 1568 and posthumously published in 1589. It declares that excommunication is not a divine ordinance and that punishment of sins should be left to civil authorities. Erastus was motivated by his fear of the usurpation of temporal powers by the church. The term Erastianism. has come to represent approval of the dominance of civil authority in all punitive measures and, by extension, complete dominance of the state over the church, though Erastus himself never held such an extreme view. Erastianism achieved its definitive expression in the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes. "Against astrology Erastus composed A Defense of the Book...The Defense is followed by a Confutation of 177 astrological theses...On his return from Italy to Germany Erastus was shocked at the extent to which men were addicted to vain predictions of astrologers and at the astrological restrictions under which medical practice labored...as an antidote to the superstition poisoning Germany he had made a translation from the Italian into German of the book of Savonarola against astrologers. This aroused some opposition among German astrologers, and the aforesaid physician of Coburg, Chrsitopher Stathmion, had contended that Savonarola's work did not apply to divination or astrology which was based on natural causes. In the present work Erastus discusses divination and its divisions before turning to astrology in particular...He adopts the usual theological position that divination is the work of demons. He joins Pico and Savonarola in their wholesale onslaught upon astrology, to which he would appear to leave almost no field of activity." [Thorndike, V5,652ff.] Index Aurel. 163.927. Gardner, Astrologica, 308. Adams E908. Jocher II,372. Houzeau & Lancaster 4902. $2750

48. Erastus, Thomas. Defensio Libelli Hieronymi Savonarolae De Astrologia Divina-

ematocorum delirameta sectatur, in terra Chaldaeorum est. Si quis nativitatis diem supputat, & variis horarum momentorunq(ue)...[bound with] Disputationum De Medicina Nova Philippi Paracelsi Pars Prima: In Qua, Quae De Remediis Superstitiosis & Magicis curationibus ille prodidit, Praecipue examinantur... Johann Jacob Grynaeus,ed.of the Epistolae. Basle: Peter Perna, 1580;1572. 4to. 2 vols bound together.208 x 153mm. [8],236,[12]; [16],267,[20]p. Including blanks. First Editions. Contemp. limp vellum, yapp fore-edge, one tie of 4, minor stains, title in old hand on bottom edge; old owner's note on f.f.e.p. on "Diogenes," minor marginal dampstain on 2 leaves; a fresh, clean, crisp copy. 2 Printer's devices on t.p.s, full-page portrait of Paracelsus on N3r of second work, decorated initials. In the first volume of his Disputations Concerning the New Medicine of Paracelsus..Erastus has more to say against astrology. It holds first place in magic of which he utterly disapproves, and is the offscouring of all impious arts...Erastus denied the possibility of natural magic. Nor would he admit that the Magi of ancient Persia had been priests or sages. Their magic too, he regarded as diabolical. He showed himself even more incensed at Pomponnazzi for his favorable attitude toward magic in De incantationibus than at Paracelsus...He censured Paracelsus for speaking approvingly of augury, prodigies, geomancy, pyromancy, and necromancy and for condoning thae receiving from demons remedies to be employed for good ends." [Thorndike, V5,652ff.] There are three other later volumes of his attack on Paracelsus not with the present set. Astrologiae: VD 16 E3669. Adams E905. Houzeau/Lancaster 4932. Rosenthal, Magica, 3397. DSB IV,388. Medicina: VD 16 E3679. Adams E910. Durling/NLM 1383. Wellcome I,2057. Waller 2778. Sudhoff 247. $3500 Cum Resolutione Catholica.

49. Erastus, Thomas. [Paracelsus.] De Astrologia Divinatrice Epistolae..Origines, Si quis vestrum Math-

50. Espence, Claude de. De Coelorum Animatione Ex Theologis Et Philosophis Collectanea,

19th c. patterned paper boards, old shelf label on front cover,stamp of "Mariannhiller Pins-Seminar, Wurzburg" on t.p.,some foxing and light browning, 2 small holes in one prefatory leaf margin. "A French theologian, born in 1511 at Chlons-sur-Marne; died 5 Oct., 1571, at Paris. He entered the Collge de Navarre in 1536, and four years later was made rector of the University of Paris, even before receiving the doctorate, which was conferred on him in 1542... He was one of the theologians called to the consultation held at Mlun in 1544 in relation to the Council of Trent. In 1547, having been sent to the council itself, then transferred to Bologna, he returned to France almost immediately, as the council was again adjourned. He went to another consultation held at Orlans in 1560. At the Conference of Poissy (1561) he argued against Beza in favour of tradition, the infallibility of the Church, the Sacrament of

Paris: Michele Sonnius,1571. 8vo. a8,A-I8,K4[K4 blank present.] First Edition.

Order, etc. " [Catholic Ency.] Our learned author brings a host of citations from ancient philosophers to more contemporary writers as Erasmus and Vives and through jewish sources (including kabbalistic) to 'resolve' questions about the nature of the heavens in accordance to Catholic views. It must have aroused some suspicions as it was his only work to be placed on the Index of Forbidden Books. Adams E950. $750

Contemp. limp vellum, yapp fore-edge, some soiling and wrinkling, upper edge of front cover slightly gnawed; old owner's names on f.f.e.p., old signature on t.p., light marginal dampstains. Woodcut surround on t.p.,decorated initials, printer's mark on verso of last leaf. "Of the three Books of Ficino's De Triplici Vita the first deals with preserving the health of scholars, the second with prolonging their life, and the third with astral influences on them. Through all three, Ficino's attention is devoted not so much to man's soul or body as to his spiritus...The De Triplici Vita is presented as a medical treatise, and the practices recommended in it might be taken as somewhat odd medical remedies and regimes--odd only because of the large place given to talismans and music; for there is, of course, nothing odd in a Renaissance medical treatise dealing with spirits and astrology...It is clear that Ficino is strongly attracted by this kind of magic or theurgy, that he considers valuable, and also it is clear that he is aware that it is dangerous. His conclusion seems to be that its dangers might be avoided if it remained within a learned, philosophical circle, and were kept secret from the ignorant vulgus, who would distort it into idolatry and superstition." [D.P. Walker, Spiritual And Demonic Magic From Ficino To Campanella.] A new edition, by Johann Huber, of the collection published under this title in Basel in 1541, to which the work by Guinterius has been added. Leenius' edition of Ficino's "De Vita" first appears in 1529 in Basel and subsequent Basel editions (such as ours) are based on his revised edition. This volume also includes Ficino's "Apologia" & "Epidemiarum Antidotus,"a translation by Hieronymus Ricius of Ficino's "Consiglio contro la pestilenza." The volume also includes: Pauli Aeginetae's "De victus ratione quolibet anni tempore utili" a translation by Gulielmus Copus of ch. 53 of book 1 of the De re medica; Johann Guenther von Andernach's (1487-1574) "De victus et medicinae ratione;" & Wilhelm Insulanus Menapius' (d.1556) "De ratione victus salubris." Durling/NLM 1548. Kristeller, Ficinianum, g19. $1000

51. Ficino, Marsiglio & Wilhelm Insulanus Menapius; Johann Guenther von Andernach; Pauli Aeginetae . . ...de vita libri tres... Johann Huber (1507-1571) ed. Basle: Heirs of Andreas Cratander, 1549. 8vo. [14],7-671,[56]pp.

52. Ficino, Marsiglio. Sopra lo Amore o ver'Convivio di Platone. Cosimo Bartoli, trans. Florence: Neri Dortelata, 1544. 8vo.[38], [2 blank],252,[44]pp.

First Italian Edition. Later vellum, yapp fore-edge, old owner's notes on f.f.e.p., marginal dampstains, foxing. corner of N1 elaced with some text loss, a few old notes, large copy with ample margins. Large printer's device of Noah's ark with Janus head on t.p. (T23 - V67 - Z155) and last leaf. "He [Ficino] 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.] CNCE 18943. BM STC (Ital.) 249. Gamba 1097. Hoffmann III,323. Schweiger I,253. Haym 509:1 "rarissimo, ed assai ricercato da'curiosi". Caillet 3896 (French ed.) $2250 53. Firmicus Maternus, Julius; Claudius Ptolemaeus, Hermes Trismegistus; Muhammad ibn Jabir Battani; Muhammad ibn 'Umr ibn al Farkhan, Abu Bakr, al Tabari; Sahl ibn Bishr, Abu 'Uthman ; Maslamah al-Majriti; Yahya ibn Abi Mansur, al Ma'muni; Marcus Manilius; & Otto Brunfels. Iulii Firmici Materni... Astronomicon Libri VIII, per Nicolaum Prucknerum Astrologum nuper ab innumeris mendis vindicati. His Accesserunt. Claudius Ptoemaei... Quadripartitum vocant, Lib. IIII. De inerrantium stellarum significationibus, Lib I. Centiloquium eiusdem. Ex Arabibus Et Chaldaeis. Hermetis vetustissimi Astrologi centum Aphoris. Lib. I. Betham Centiloquium. Eisdem de Horis Planetarum Liber alius. Almanzoris Astrologi Propositiones ad Saracenorum regem. Zahelis Arabis de Electionibus Lib. i. Messahalah deratione Circuli & Stellarum, & qualiter in hoc seculo operentur, Lib. 1. Omar de Nativitatibus Lib.III. Marci Manilii Poetae dsertissimi Astronomicon Lib V. Postremo Othonis Brunfelsii de Diffinitionibus & terminis Astrologiae libellus isagogicus. Nicolaus Pruckner, ed. Basle: Johannes Hervagius [Herwagen], 1551. Folio. 311 x 205mm. [12],244,227,[1]pp. Contemp. blind-tooled in panel design, lacks rebacked, rear brass furniture present, endpapers renewed, orginal medieval manuscript vellum pastedowns bound-in (two handsome15th century antiphonal leaves in red and black inks with red, black and blue initials on a four line staff 5 historiated initial letters, text damaged on the sides that had originally been pasted to the covers); occ. contemp. marginalia, minor marginal stains, large copy in excellent state of preservation, paper clean and crisp.Text genitures and charts, historiated initials. "Julius Firmicus Maternus flourished during the reigns of Constantine the Great and his sons. Sicily was his native land; he was of senatorial rank and very well educated for his time, showing interest in natural philosophy, literature, and rhetoric....Mathesis, is a work of astrology written at the request of a similsrly cultured friend, Lollianus or Mavortius, who is spoken of in a preface as ordinario consuli designato, an office which we know he held in 355 A.D...Firmicus provides

not only for divine govenment of the universe and creation of the world and man, since by the divinity of the soul we are able to resist in some measure the decrees of the stars...These and other objects to the art of nativities are the theme to which the first of eight books of the Mathesis are devoted...The remaining seven books of the Mathesis are given over to the art of horoscope casting....Firmicus regards his work as a new contribution so far as the Latin-speaking world is concerned. [Thorndike vol. 1] "In the four books, however, Ptolemy gives a general theory of the influence of the celestial bodies upon eartly happenings and on man...detailed expositions follow, first on the characters and working powers of each of the planets, then on the fixed stars and zodiacal signs...In subsequent books the method and basic predictions are explained, first for weather and then, by means of the horoscopes, for men, not only as to quality and events of body and soul but also as to their material fortunes and happiness...Thus the work of Ptolemy stands before us, a great monument to the science of antiquity." [Pannekoek, A History of Astronomy.] Manilius' work, the oldest treatise on astrology known to scholars, is a learned and highly literary astrological poem that presents the most advanced views of the ancient world. Brunfels (1488-1534) contended that astrology is a part of medicine and censures those physicians who oppose it in their books and published letters. This is his discussion of astrological definitions and terms which according to Thorndike first appeared in these editions of Firmicus. This edition also adds several Arabic and hermetic works including those of:Hermes Trismegistus; Battani, Muhammad ibn Jabir (d. 929) ; Yahya ibn Abi Mansur, al-M'amuni (ca. 831. ); Sahl ibn Bishr (fl. 822-850) ; Masha'allah (730?-815?) a Jewish native of Basra who went to work in Bagdad; & Muhammad ibn 'Umar ibn al-Farkhan, Abu Bakr, al Tabari. "Pruckner's [or Prugner] edition of Firmicius was reprinted in 1551 [1533 was the first Pruckner edition] with another preface defending astrology addressed to Edward VI of England. Pruckner holds that the complaints made against astrologers are not the fault of the art but result from the fact that many would-be astrologers do not understand astronomy." [Thorndike] VD 16 F 1120 . Adams F 507. Houzeau-Lancaster 761. Zinner 2013. Gardner, Astrologica, 406. Schweiger I,355. Wellcome 2308. Gottlieb 115. Brunet II, 1270. Graesse II, 586. Mellon 22. Caillet 3959. Ackermann IV, 294. $5000

Modern paper binding in imitation of vellum, with ties, edges colored in red and blue; old owner's inscription on t.p. [Ex Donatione M. Petri For-stenorii pro Judicio Astrologico ... possit M.Marinius Volschorin?] , a few old annotations on blanks, L5-P1 with lower marginal gnawing (no text affected), some light marginal dampstains, small wormhole in last leaves (no text affected), otherwise a fine crisp copy.

54. Firmicus Maternus, Julius, et al. Iulii Firmici Materni... Astronomicon Libri VIII... Basle: Johannes Hervagius [Herwagen], 1551. Folio. 311 x 205mm.

VD 16 F 1120 . Adams F 507. Houzeau-Lancaster 761. Zinner 2013. Gardner, Astrologica, 406. Schweiger I,355. Wellcome 2308. Gottlieb 115. Brunet II, 1270. Graesse II, 586. Mellon 22. Caillet 3959. Ackermann IV, 294. $4500 quam metheorologica, pristino nitori restitutum, per Philippum Iollainum Blereium, cum scholiis eiusdem. Phillipe Jollain, notes. Paris: Jacques Kerver, 1539. Folio. A4 B-N6 O8. [O8 blank, lacking] First Edition with Jollain notes, second overall. In a recent vellum binding using an old antiphonal leaf with vellum ties, replaced endpapers, washed, the leaves show some soiling along edges but are generally clean & bright. Expert repair to soiled blank corners of leaves 71 to end, small lower marginal wormhole at end . Astrological tables in the text. Kerver"s printer"s device with two cocks (Silvestre 52); some cribl initials. Firmin (fl. 1338-45), French astrologer in the diocese of Amiens. "The De mutatione aris is divided into seven parts: (I) introduction, dealing with the nature of different parts of the sky and of the stars, the seasons and climates; (II) global changes due to great conjunctions and eclipses, and the entries of the sun into the solstices or equinoxes or other signs of the zodiac; (III) global changes due to conjunctions and opposition of sun and moon; (IV) particular judgments determined by such conjunctions and oppositions and others; (V) particular judgments determined by the relative position of the moon and stars, with reference to zodiacal signs; (VI) predictions concerning rain...; (VII) other meteorological predictions derived from science or folklore. This work might be called a treatise on astrological meteorology. It is a compilation derived from many sources, chiefly Ptolemy, P1iny, al-Kindi and Abu Ma'shar, 'Ali ibn abi-I-Rijal and 'Ali ibn Ridwan, John of Seville and Abraham ben Ezra, Albert the Great and Leopold of Austria; not to speak of popular knowledge partly transmitted by oral tradition. The book seems to have obtained some popularity; it was printed in 1485." [Sarton, III, pp. 657-58.] Moreau/Renouard 1323. Adams F508. BM STC (French) 166. VD 16 Drucke, Wolfenb. II, 547. Hellmann, Meteorology,16. .Kiessling, Library of Robert Burton , 576. Not in Gardner, Caillet, or Esoterica. $3250 Buren...

55. Firmin De Beauval. [Firminus de Bellavalle] Firminus repertorium de mutatione Aeris Tam Via Astrologica,

Wormbs: Sebastian Wagner, 1538, August 28. Folio. 4,A-K4 [Lacks K4, last leaf of Brant's index.] First Edition Thus. 19th c, calf, gilt rules on covers, gilt title on spine, hinges started, spine ends chipped, marbled endpapers; edges marbled to match, minor marginal pinworm hole, some minor soiling, generally a very nice copy with strong impressions of the cuts.

56. Freidank [Freidanck or Freydank] & Sebastian Brant. Freidanck. Der Freidanck new mit figuren fugt Pfaffen, Adel, Leyen,

Woodcut t.p. with two male figures and elaborate historiated woodcut surround, 3 register leaves with historiated borders with two more male figures at end, 50 woodcuts of various sizes from the blocks used in Gruniger's edition and the 1496 Terence. [See: Kristeller, Strassburger Bucher Illustration 117 & Ritter, Historie de l'imprimerie alsacienne, p24 & 291.] Many of the illustrations are composite (made up from small blocks.) Borders, large historiated initial, etc. Freydank, the author of a collection of Middle High German Spruche entitled Bescheidenheit. Nothing is known with certainty of his life, but it may be inferred that he went on a crusade with the Emperor Friedrich II in 12289. It is believed that Freidank was his true name, though some have held it to be a symbolical pseudonym...The title Bescheidenheit signifies wisdom, i.e. knowledge of the world derived from experience. The work is composed of a considerable number of sayings framed for the most part in couplets. They are arranged to read consecutively, though it is possible that this order is simply a grouping of detached sayings. Their main field is the conduct of man in the world, but the religious basis of Freidank's judgment is clearly emphasized. His wisdom is traditional, and originally is not attempted, though his aphorisms are crystallized in homely, pithy language. Certain Spruche are severely critical to the point of satire, notably those relating to the crusade in the section vo Akers (Acre). He is also sharp in his judgment of the lust for power and money, which he attributes to the papal court." [OCGL] Sebastian Brant (1457-1521) composed numerous Latin poems, of which the most famous is the long moral and satirical poem Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools). He published in 1508 an expanded adaptation of Freidank's Bescheidenheit which forms the text in this edition. VD 16 F2545 (3 copies). Brunet II,1393. Graesse II,633. Stammler I,664. RLIN lists one copy at NYPL. Ebert 7915. $5000 Ein Sendbrieff des hellischen Sathans an die Zutrincker vor 45 Jahren zuuor aus gegangen. Item Ein Sendbrieff Matthaei Friderichs ab die Follen Bruder in Deutschen Lande.

57. Friderich, Matthaeus & Johann von Schwartzenberg. Widder de Suaffteuffel gebessert und an vielen ortern gemehret. Item

Later full vellum, yapp fore-edge, edges red, fine copy. T.p. in red and balck, large woodcut of Satan and his cohorts at their evil work in a tavern on t.p. Matthaeus Friderich, Lutheran preacher and author (1510-1559). Born in Gorlitz he attended school in Leipzig and then was a preacher in Pfarramt and Schonberg. His work on "Drunken Devils" was a didactic satirical work and the first example of the protestant devil book. This is one of the collected editions (first published in this form in 1557 by Eichorn). It contains a revised version of his famous Sauffteufel and his Sendbrieff an die follen Bruder (1555) with Schwartzenberg's Sathans (1512). Johann der Starke, Freiherr von Schwarzenberg und Hohenlandsberg (1463/65-1528), Bamburg, Counsellor and famous jurist. He had passed most of his eraly life in military pursuits before becoming the lawyer for the Bishop of Bamberg. He also authored legal works and was famous as a reformer of the legal system. Schartzenberg's work is a humorous parody of 'Der Zutrinker und Prasser Gesatze' which is not credited here but is reprinted in full. This begins with the Edict of Kaser Maximillian which banned social toasting which had become scandalous by its licenciousness. It then parodies that edict. Friderich's 'Sendbrieff' complains that the custom has not only not waned but has become worse. "Saufforden" have been formed which he says should be called "Sauorden" with their drunken excesses. Friderich warns against drinking with references to support his position including an interpretation of Luther's reading of the 101st Psalm in which he calls drinking to excess a national German vice. "Satan was feared in Lutheran Germany not just as an ominous abstraction but because of the enormous intimacy he could enjoy with the interior person. During the 1550s, a new genre of "devil books" (Teufelbcher ) had begun to appear in Lutheran Germany. Intended for the layperson, these books placed the blame for human vices on demons, transmogrifying human frailties and shortcomings into specific kinds of possession. By 1570, these pamphlets had captured a 10 percent share of the Protestant book market. Presses in Lutheran Germany churned out books on the "marriage devil," the "drunkenness devil," and the "magician's devil," with instructions on how to exorcise the demon that inspired the particular vice or problem.Although intended for personal edification and sanctification, works in this genre blamed Satan for all human frailty. Readers of devil books were consequently taught to fear the devil's activity even in their most intimate thoughts." [Soergel, Philip M. Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda In Bavaria.1993.] VD 16 F2760. Grimm, Teulfelbucher, 1 (p543 #f). George, Speise und Tranke,28. Roos, Teufelsbucher, 2 (other eds.). Not in Coumont, or Cornell. $3750

Frankfurt on Oder: Johann Eichorn, 1561. 4to. [A]4, B-S4.

Angelus de maleficiis. Repertoriu(m) primi voluminis Maleficioru(m) in quo continentur Tractat(us) ...Angeli de Aretio: ...Albert de Bandino: ac ...Boni-

Albertus de Bandino.

58. Gambellionibus, Angelus De [Aretinus] [a.k.a. Angelo Gambiglioni]; &

fach de Vitellinis de Mantua...additio(n)es...Hieronymi Chuchalon Hispani... [Lyon & Florence:] Benoit Bonyn for Jacobus Giunta, 1532. Thick 8vo. Volume 1only (of 2). [72],319ff=638p. Contemp. limp vellum, ms title on spine, wide margins with some pages varying in size from being uncut, minor stains, some contemp. annotations; a very nice copy. Woodcut (repeated) of judges and criminals suffering punishment on general and section title; titles in architectural borders with angels and mermaids, general t.p. in red and black; woodcut) of judge before an audience on first leaf of text; decorated initials. Gambiglioni [d.1461?] of Arezzo, juriscounsel. He earned his laureate in 1442 and practiced in Bologna, Perugia, and in Rome. Eventually he became a senator in Rome. He published a work on Justinian's Institutes as well as this famous tractate on the laws concerning witchcraft. [See Tiraboschi VI,698ff.] Printed in gothic letters by Benoit Bonnyn for the Giunta family of Florence. This copy has the complete text of the Maleficiorum Opus Novi without the added commentaries.Caillet 4325. Baudrier VI,146. Coumont G4.20. Not in Camerini or Pettas.[See: Domenico Maffei, Angelo Gambiglioni, giureconsulto aretino del Quattrocento: la vita, i libri, le opere, Roma, Fondazione Sergio Mochi Onory 1994.] $1500 dorum numero manus veterum exemplarium numerus repuravis. Henrici Stephani Noctes aliquot Parisinae, Atticis A. Gelli seu Vigillis invigilatae. Paris: [Henri Estienne,] 1585. 8vo. A8,B7[Lacks blank],a-z8,A-R8,S3 [lacks blank];A10,A-N8. First Estienne Edition. 18th c. mottled calf gilt spine, spine end chipped, rear joint cracked, some browning, t.p. stained and laid-down (lacking blank inner corner), stamp of Oxford Bibliotheca Puseiana. Aulus Gellius (ca. 130-ca.180 A.D.) as a youth studied at Rome and Athens, eventually becoming a iudex. Little is known about his private life, although the present work, all that survives of his writings, was specifically intended to entertain and educate his children. It is a collection of short chapters on a variety of subjects, including philosophy, history, law, grammar, literary criticism, and the like, in twenty books; both the beginning and the end and all but the chapter headings of book eight are missing today. Most of the information in the work is second-hand, but nevertheless valuable because it preserves numerous fragments of earlier writers who would otherwise not be known today. Aulus Gellius was often quoted by later Latin writers, and his work remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. "The second part of the volume consists of Estienne's valuable commentrary...Estienne has provided his text and the various parts of his commentary with several dedicatory prefaces...the longest and most interesting...addressed to his son Paul...is the most important autobiographical document Henri Estienne has left to us, and gives us our only glimpse into his father's household." [Schreiber] This copy lacks, as almost all copies, the additions of Flemish scholar Louis Carrion,

59. Gellius, Aulus & Henri Estienne. Noctes Atticae, seu Vigiliae Atticae. Quas Nunc Primum A Magno men-

announced on the title-page as being in press and attached to the copies remaining when they finally appeared. Adams G366.Renouard 150:2. Schweiger I,378. Ebert 8284 "scarce and sought after." Schreiber 212. Moss I,203. Dibdin I,208. $775 und grossen wirden gehalten ist worden durch welche auch vil zknsstigerding es fey z glck odder z unsal erffnet werden Unnd das alles leychtlich durch rechnunge der Planeten stunden unnd des menschen namen der do etwas knsstigs z wissen begeret aussgerschnet mag werde(n)... Mainz: Peter Jordan, 1532. 4to. A-E4. First Edition. Modern limp vellum with ties, repaired tear on t.p., old owner's stamps removed, foxing, occ. old stains. Full-page fine engraving of planetary and emblematic figures signed "MF" Nagler IV,1776 a Strassburg master of unknown name. Extremely rare first edition of this work on planetary divination. OCLC only finds copies of the second edition at the Warburg Institute and the Wellcome Library and none in the US. Jordan printed this second edition in 1534 with a new title "Geomantia: Kstlicher und rechtshaffner gebrauch der alten kleynen Geomancey mit welcher durch hilff der Rechnung und der merschen Tauffnamens sampt der Planeten..." Which may textually agree with this but, again, may be a separate work. [See the copy of the illustration in the 1534 book shown in Olschki's Choix 3424 which is completely different from this.] This researcher would like to offer that the author might be Jacob Koebel (1470-1533) who authored numerous books on astrology, mathematics, etc. and, according to Thorndike issued an annual prediction for 1523 (Thorndike V,330-1) Moreover, in 1535 Jordan issued his work on astrolabes and in 1522 his "Von urspu(n)g der Teylu(n)g (which he also published anonymously). The anonymity of these work could be because of the disrepute divinatory sciences were held (eventually ending on the Index). Thorndike notes that these sort of books often are in vernacular languages for that reason. VD 16 G1314. Wellcome I,2746 (1534 ed.) Graesse III,52 (1534 ed.) Kloss Sale 4094. This work is lacking from all our occult bibliographies; astronomical works-- Zinner & Houzeau/ Lancaster; and from standard collections--Adams and the BM STC; etc. $3500

60. [Geomancy] Koebel, Jacob? Geomantia: Eyn kunst des warsagens die bey den allte(n) in geheyn

Modern antique style calf, blind-tooled with banded spine and gilt title,a.e.g. ; contemporary ink annotations about Gerardus on verso of last leaf, with bleed-through, minor lower margin stain. Large de Gourmont woodcut on t.p. [Renouard 380]

61. Gerardus [Gerhard] Zerbold [Zerbolt] de Zutphania. Tractatus de spiritualibus ascentionibus [Paris:] Gilles de Gourmont, [1507.] Small 8vo. 123 x 80mm. [aaa]-hhh8.

Gerard (1367-98), a member of the devotio moderna and librarian of the Brethren of Common Life at Deventer,teacher of Thomas a'Kempis. In this work Gerardus outlines the states of the soul towards redemption in this important work of mystical theology. Its method of meditative exercises culminated in Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises. The Devotio Moderna was a religious movement of the Late Middle Ages. It came into advocation at the same time that the concept of Humanism meshed with Christianity to form Christian Humanism. Christian Humanism advocated studying the fundamental texts of Christianity to come to one's own relationship with God. The 15th century laity were able to study the scriptures by the advent of the printing press. With the ideals of Christian Humanism, "Devotio Moderna" recommended a more individual attitude towards belief and religion and was especially prominent in Dutch cities during the 14th and 15th centuries. It is regarded sometimes as a contribution to Lutheranism and Calvinism. It was also a major influence upon Erasmus, who was brought up in this tradition. The treatise De spiritualibus ascensionibus was a very popular devotional work, the most important Gerard's works, and printed many times until well into the 16th century. It describes in 70 chapters the various steps one has to go to rise from this vale of tears to a mental state of paradisical innocence. Renouard/Moreau I,p232:76 [three locations only none in US. BM STC (French) 201. $1500

62. Goropius [Geertszone or Gerartsen Van Gorp] Becanus, Joannes. Hieroglyphica [bound with] Vertumnus. [Volumes 3 and 4 of the Opera Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1580. Folio 2 vols. in 1. [16],270, [2]; [12][,114,
Omnia.]

[2]p.First Edition. Contemp. gilt paneled calf with gilt central floral oval stamp, spine banded, gilt, rubbed with hinges started;marbled endpapers, bookplates of Bibliotheque F. Renard & Bibliotheque d'Athis, minor foxing and stains. Plantin devices on t.p.s, Studler arms on verso, egyptian emblematic woodcuts Goropius (1519-1573) Brabant physician and linguist. "He first studied philosophy and linguistics at the University of Louvain, before starting studies in medicine at the same university in 1545. He led for some years a wanderling life... before settling down in Antwerp c. 1554. A partner of Plantin from 1563 till 1567, he left Antwerp for Liege in 1568 or 1569... his two monumental works, published by Plantin, treat philology: in these two works Goropius tries to prove at great lengths that the Dutch language, and especially the Antwerp dialect, was closest to the original language spoken by Adam and Eve in Paradise. This caused a great outcry in the academic world, and Goropius found but few admirers and followers, but if he could not prove his point he was one of the first to challenge the supremacy of the Hebrew language as being the oldest language in the world, initiating therewith the new science of comparative philology...These Opera were not a best-seller: besides the 50 copies ceded to the heirs of Becanus, only three copies were sold in 1580. In 1642 there were still 11 copies in stock in the Plantin

Press." [Voet] "Goropius' work was met with a mixture of ridicule and admiration. Goropius is considered to have given Dutch linguistics, and Gothic philology in general, a bad name. Though Goropius had admirers (among them Abraham Ortelius and Richard Hakluyt), his etymologies have been considered "linguistic chauvinism," and Leibniz coined the term "goropism" to mean "absurd etymology." Justus Lipsius and Hugo Grotius discounted Goropius' linguistic theories. "Never have I read greater nonsense," the scholar Joseph Scaliger wrote of Goropius' etymologies. However, Goropius' work precedes that of William Jones, the "discoverer" of the Indo-European language family, and though replete with eccentric and ridiculous etymologies, nevertheless can be considered a foundation for the field of historical linguistics." Voet 1255 (part). Adams G875. Volkmann 110-1.Ruelens/de Backer 217. Arents E10. Machiels G-409. BM STC (Dutch) 87. Sorgeloos 237. Hilmy I,270. Landwehr, Low Countries, 170. $1250 gomena syntaxeon mirab(ilis) artis.

Lyon: Antoine Gryphius. 1578. Small 8vo. 115 x 77mm. 2 vols in 1 . [16], 190, [2]; 304, [16]p. Contemp.white calf with gilt center-piece and gilt panel, spine banded, edges red,old name on t.p., minor foxing, a nice copy. Device: Gryphius #2. Gregoire (d.1597) was a native of Toulouse where he taught law. "He as a very learned man, and wrote some books full of erudition; but he does not appear very judicious in the choice of the things contained in them...He was invited into Lorrain in a very glorious manner, to be professor of the civil and canon law at Pontamousson, where duke Charles had lately founded a university," Pierre Bayle. This work was reprinted a number of times in France, Italy, and Germany; but all editions are scarce. Adams G1089. Baudrier VIII, 376 & 373. Ferguson I,344 (later ed.) $1200
schiedlichen Predighten auff das kurtzest unnd orden-lichest angezeight wurdt was in disen allgemeinen Landklagen uber die Hexen und Unholden... [Tubingen] Germany: [Alexander Hock,] [1589.] c1890. 8vo. Late 19th c. 1/2 vellum over German marbled paper, title in ms. on spine, underlines in red pencil; stamp of "Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut fur deutsche Volkskunde." From the Adolf Spamer Collection. Maunuscript copy of a printed work in black ink in a clear German hand on fine paper. Printer's device in fine pen copy on t.p. Gretter [Grter] ,1518-1571, Luteran theolgian and teacher. He taught at

63. Grgoire (Gregorius Tolosanus), Pierre. Syntaxes artis mirabilis, in Libros XL. [with] Commentaria in prolo-

64. Gretter [Grter], Jakob. Hexen oder Unholden Predigten. Darinnen zu zweyen under-

Schwbisch Hall and at Crailsheim. He says that many things that are thought to be witchcraft are explicable by natural phenomena. He mentions, for instance, a trick he found in Cardano's De Subtilate that little parts of sausage skins can be made to look like worms. Adolf Spamer, 1883-1953, important German folklorist. His works on mysicism and foklore are essential readings for modern scholarship. He international repuation was of the first rank of scholars and his extensive library was given to the [former] Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, at the Institut fur deutsche Volkskunde. This manuscript was part of that gift and has been deaquisitioned by the Institute. In a clear late 19th c. German hand from an unidentified scholar (sadly someone has removed the owner/scribe's name from the front end-paper. Ref: VD 16 G3237. Coumont G59.1. NDB Bd. 6, S. 717.Cornell, Witchcraft, 245. $300

et Excellentia Juris Utriusque Johannis Francisei Ponzinibii...Olim quidem in lucem editii, nunc vero recogniti, & innumeris passim mendis vindicati... Frankfurt am Main: Heirs of Christian Egenoph, 1592. 8vo.[32],299,[1]p. Contemp. vellum, soiled, title in old hand, early bookseller's slip on pastedown "N.J. Bocquet, Libraire & Relieur..old shelf mark on t.p., early annoattions on t.p. and verso of last leaf, margin of first two leaves a bit worn,old underlines, paper age darkened,minor marginal dampstains. Printer's devices. "The Tractaus de Hereticis et Sortilegiis {Treatise on Heretics and Witches] is, after the Malleus Maleficarum, probably the most influential work on witchcraft published before the middle of the sixteenth century, and because it was frequently quoted, continued a dominating influence on all later demonologists. Paulus Grillandus was a papal judge in the witch trials in the Rome district, and in this tractate he includes many of his own experiences. Grillandus covers a very wide area: demonology, pacts with the Devil, possession, the sabbat--naerly all theologians, he says, believe in bodily transvection--metamorphosis, amatory and mortuary masses (a very early reference), and maleficiia, including ligature, poppets, and potions." "Gianfranceso Ponzinibio...a prominent lawyer in northern Italy, is known only by his Tractatus de Lamiis [Treatise on Witches] . Although accepting sorcery, he opposed the witch trials because non-legal procedure was used to secure convictions ...Not only condemning the methods of the trials, Ponzinibio also condemned their basis: witchcraft was simply a delusion and witches did not fly to the sabbat or murder children...he was answered by Bartolommeo Spina...his attack on the Inquisition ... was in fact aiding the witches. and he ought himself to be prosecuted..." [R.H. Robbins.] VD 16 G3344. Caillet 4776. Graesse, Magica, 52. Cornell, Witchcraft, 248. Robbins 443. Coumont G77.4. $2000

65. Grillando, Paolo & Giovanni Francesco Ponzinibus. Tractatus Duo; Unus De Sortilegiis Pauli Grillandi...Alter De Lamiis

Ain nutzliche betrachtung der Naturlichen hymlischen und prophetischen ansehungen aller trubsalen angst un(d) not die uber alle stande geschlechte und geminden der Christenhait in kurtzen tagen geen werden. Ich haimsuch uber dises volck in waffen in hunger und in pestilentz. Spricht der herz got Abrahel, Jeremie xxvii. [Speculum naturalis coelestis & propheticae visionis.] Augsburg: Hans Schonsperger, 1522. 4to. A-E4. First German Edition. Early 19th. c. marbled boards, slightly rubbed, owner's stamps partly removed from verso of t.p. and recto of last leaf,good margins, clean copy. Woodcut t.p. in decorated borders Joseph Grnpeck, fl 1473-1532, physician and medical author; astrologer to Frederick III; secretary, chaplain, and historiographer of Maximillian I; and astrologer to Charles V. [See: Albin Czerny, Der Humanist und Historiograph Kaiser Maximilians I, Joseph Grunpeck, Archiv fur osterreichische Gesch. LXXIII (1888).] It has long been asserted that Joseph Grunpeck is Johann Lichtenberger. In the Prognocstico of 1473 [Fairfax-Murray, German, 478] it mentions, "John Grunbach, alias Lichtenberger, judge of the stars for the holy empire..." [See: D. Kurze, "Johannes Lichtenberger, eine Studie zur Geschichte der Prophetie und Astrologie", Historische Studien, 379, Lbeck, 1960.] "In the predictions and prognostications of the age the authors continually made reference to the poor state of affairs and the need for public reform and renewal. One of the most influential publications in this vein was Joseph Grnpeck s Speculum (1508), a work which borrowed from traditions of medieval prophecy while directing its comments at contemporary affairs. For Grnpeck, it was clear that there was 'a pitiful disintegration of Christendom, destruction of good customs and laws, misery of all estates, raging of plagues, inconstancy in all things, dreadful events befalling everyone'" [C. Scott Dixon, Germany On The Eve Of Reformation.] Grunpeck's predictions were very influential and had unusually long lives and were reprinted in the Mirabilis Liber in 1520. They were eventually put on the Index of Prohibited Works. VD 16 G 3644.Zinner 1176. Markowski, Astronomia Et Astrologica Cracoviensa, 68: 10. Panzer 1593. Kuczynski 245. Kat. Halle 70 (1929) 135. Rosenthal, Magica, 1318. Not In Adams, BM STC (Germ.), Proctor, Caillet. $4500
mains, Grecs, & autres nations, tant anciennes que modernes... Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1581. 4to. [8],546,[20]pp. First Edition. 19th c. 1/2 black morocco over paste-paper boards, spine banded, title gilt,t.e.g.,some cracking in hinges; marbled endpapers,t.p. soiled, some light dampstains, marginal wormtrack PP-ss2 (some text affected). T.p. in woodcut architectural surround, head-pieces, decorated initials, text cuts (coins etc.) The prefatory letter is set in civilite type. Claude Guichard, doctor of laws, historian and poet, was born at Saint

66. Gruenpeck {Grnpeck, Grnbeck, Grumpeck], Joseph.

[ a.k.a. Johannes Lichtenberger].

67. Guichard, Claude. Funerailles, & diverses maniers d'enseuelir des Rom-

Rambert in Bugey circa 1545. He traveled to the University of Turin where he was on the faculty of law and also taught history and philosophy. He was secretary of state and historiographer of Savoy. He also was seigneur d'Arandas, d'Argis and of Tenay. He died in Turin on May 15th 1607. "Guichard intreprete les lois romaines, les medailles et inscriptions antiques d'une maniere habile, qui prouve ses profondes connaissances de l'histoire et du droit...Ce livre merite d'etre recherche." [Hoefer] "While Renaissance antiquarians had studied burial customs among the ancients, Guichard expanded the range to include New World funereal practices. In doing so, Guichard opened the door to an extremely fertile strategy for making sense of the Indians and their customs: a search in ancient sources for comparisons that might make Indian practices less exotic and more intelligible in terms of traditional antiquarian inquiries." [Univ. of Penn. Library-on-line] See pp 437-66. "Guichard...describes and illustrates Roman coins of the Consecratio type in discussing the rogus or pyre employed in the funerals of the Roman emperors...It is significant that Guichard makes use not only of coins that he has seen, but relies on the recent numistmatic literature as well..." [Cunnally, Images of the Illustrious,1999.] Borroni 13440. Cicognara 1672. Alden A581/1. Adams G1545. BM STC (French) 212. Ebert 9087. Cartier, de Tornes, 616. Lipsius 164. Dekesel 16th, G104. $900

First Foix Edition. Early 19th c. red-brown morocco, large blind center-piece in blind with a border of four gilt fillets, spine banded, extra-gilt with red morocco title-piece, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, armorial booklabel with "A. W."; owner's name on f.f.e.p., p745 owner's name dated 1825; lightly paper toned, some occ. stains anfd foxing, minor marginal dampstain. Large arms of de Foix on t.p.; Head-pieces, decorated initials. "...Hermes Trismegistus is the most important figure in the Renaissance revival of magic." Hermes Trismegistus (The Thrice Great "Hermes) was associated by the Greeks with the Egyptian God Thoth, the scribe of the gods and the divinity of wisdom. A large Greek literature developed under his name concerned with the occult sciences. There also developed a philosophical literature associated with his name. The Pimander...gives an account of the creation of the world which is in part reminiscent of Genesis..." [Francis Yates, Giordano Bruno,1964,p3.] "Revised French translation of Foix de Candale, with extensive explanations for each paragraph provided by the translator. In his Preface Foix writes that he had already completed his commentary in 1572, but encountered various problems during the period of crisis following Bartholomew's night (24 August 1572). This delay allowed him to revise the translation in the light of the Hermetic fragments from Stobaeus' Eclogae, the first Greek edition of which had appeared with a Latin translation in 1575. Here he found fragments which enabled him to sup-

68. Hermes Trismegistus. Le Pimandre. Francois Monsieur de Foix, trans. & comm. Bordeaux: Simon Millangres, 1579. Folio. a8, A-3E8.[Lacks A8, blank]

plement and emend his Greek text and French translation respectively... Amongst others we have replaced the beginning of the second chapter in the Greek, Latin and French, which lacked the section which is now counted first, and by means of which the sense is restored which was absent from the texts which had been published earlier... Foix's elaborate commentary stands in direct relation to the religious crisis of his age. It is an apology for humanism and 'natural theology', the foundations of which were laid by Hermes Trismegistus. Foix can find all Christian Catholic teachings in the Corpus Hermeticum."[BPH] BM STC (French) 223. Adams H 349. Caillet 5097. Rosenthal, Magica, 446. Cioranescu 10083.1. Lamoen 57. Hoffmann II,351. Schweiger I,134. Ebert 9488. Gilly/Heertum 24. BBA XXV, 35 & 43. Esoterica 3047 "Ouvrage rarissime portant sur le titre les armes de Francois de Foix...Beaucoup d'hermetisme dans ce livre, pele-mele avec de la theologie scholastique. Les notes a la plume et au crayon ont preque toutes une haute portee theosophique." . $5750

Zoroaster & eius 320. Oracula Chaldaca. Asclepii Dialogus, & Philosophia magna. Hermetis Trismegists. Poemander. Sermo Sacer. Clavis. Sermo ad filium. Sermo ad Asclepium. Minerva mundi & alia Miscellanea. Jam nunc primum ex Biblioteca Ranzoviana e tenebris eruta & latine reddita. Hamburg: [Johann Wolff's Heirs,] 1593. Small 8vo. A-2I8. Lacks 2K1-2 (Index.) First Edition thus. Contemp. limp vellum, rear cover has piece torn from lower fore-edge, lacks ties, bookblock loose at rear, medieval ms. fragment used as binder's waste, finger smudge on verso of last leaf, very good copy. T.p. in red and black, roundel port. of Ranzov, decorated initials, head- and tail-ornaments. "Patrizi [1529-1597] had interests in many different intellectual fields; he published works on poetry, history, rhetoric, literary criticism, metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, and mathematics, besides translating a number of Greek works into Latin. His thought is a characteristic blend of Platonism (in the widest sense in which the word is used when referring to the Renaissance) and natural philosophy, with a very strong anti-Aristotelian bent...Patrizi's importance in the history of science rest primarily on his highly original views concerning the nature of space, which have striking similarities to those later developed by Henry More and Isaac Newton..." [DSB] "Patrizi seems to have been impelled by a genuine enthusiasm to take upon himself the task of bringing about a restoration of true religion; and regarded the Hermetica as one of the most effective instruments that could be used in this design." [Scott, Hermetica.] "In Patrizi, we have an expunder of a 'new philosophy' strongly influenced by Hermeticism and going back, behind the more recent attempts to purify Hermeticism and magic, to the Ficinian atmosphere with its belief in prisca magia. This philosophy is anti-Aristotelain, in the sense that it claims to be more religious than Aristotle. Its author hopes that the Pope will use it in the Counter Reformation

69. [Hermes Trismegistus] Patrizi, Francesco, ed. Magia Philosophica hoc est Francisci Patricii Summi Philosophi

effort, as a means of reviving religion and converting the Protestants." [Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition."] VD 16 P917. Adams P436. BM STC (Germ.) 677. Lamoen 50. Jouin 145 "Livre prequ'introuvable." Rosenthal, Magica, 8753. Guaita 805. Caillet 8371 "Recueil rare". Kayser 447. $2000 non tam lectione ivuatur, q(ue) exercitio obtinentur puritatis & amoris... Theodore Loher, ed. Cologne: Melchior von Neuss, 1545. Folio.*4, 2AA*6, A-3A6, [lacks 3A6, blank.] Second Edition. Contemp. blind-stamped calf, spine banded, gilt florals, title in gilt on leather label, spine rebacked using old spine, worn and repaired at ends and corners, lacks ties; old owner's names of religious convent on t.p., dampstained in lower outer corner throughout, a few old notes with some censored material [see note below] in book two. lPrinter's device and decorated initial on t.p., 2 large historiated initials and several smaller ones. "[Herp] A fifteenth century Franciscan of the Strict Observance and a distinguished writer on mysticism, praised by Mabillon, Bona, etc..Herp appears as rector of the Brethren of the Common Life, first in 1445 at Delft in Holland, then at Gouda, "to the great good of his subjects". In 1450, on a pilgrimage to Rome, he took the habit of St. Francis at the Convent of Ara Cli. Twenty years later we find him provincial of the Province of Cologne (1470-73), then guardian of the convent of Mechlin in Belgium, where he died in 1478. The Franciscan Martyrology of Arturus of Rouen gives him the title of Blessed. Of his works, only one was printed during his life-time, "Speculum aureum decem prceptorum Dei" (Mainz, 1474)... The other works of Herp, of which some - still unpublished - are to be found in the libraries of Cologne, Brussels, etc., are devoted to mystical subjects. The principal of these is the "Theologica Mystica", written on Mount Alverno and published in full at Cologne in 1538 by the Carthusian Th. Loher, with a dedication to George Skotborg, Bishop of Lund... The whole work comprises three parts: "Soliloquium divini Amoris", "Directorium Aureum contemplativorum", "Paradisus contemplativorum". The second part, the most famous, was written originally in Flemish (Spiegel der Volcomenheyt), printed in 1501, etc.; then, with several short treatises on kindred matters... The edition of the mystical theology, dedicated to St. Ignatius in 1556 by Loher, was censured by the Index (1559, 1580, 1583, etc.). Corrected editions followed with an "Introductio ad doctrinam" (Rome, 1585), an "Index Expurgatorius" (Paris, 1598), where can he found, as well as in the "Index of Sotomayor" (1640), the opinions to be corrected. As a whole and in the chief divisions of his doctrine, Herp shows several points of contact with his compatriot John of Ruysbroeck; he has some beautiful passages on the love of God and of Christ. The Franciscan Chapter of Toledo in 1663 recommended his works as standard writings in mystic theology. "[ Catholic Ency.] VD 16 H2154. Adams H433 (also lacking 3A6). $1500

70. Herp, Henricus de [Harp, Herpius] Theologia Mystica Cum Speculativa, Tum Praecipue Affectiva, quae

71. Holcot, Robert . Opus reversa insignissimum in librum Sapie(n)tie Salomonis editum
novissime...

[24],CCCXIIII fl=628pp. Modern 1/2 leatherette over marbled boards, title on red lethr label in gilt,old Spanish owner's names on verso of t.p.; some marginal stains, small wormholes and tracks (mostll maginal) with some text affected in the rear, a few contemp. marginal notations. Large printer's device on t.p.,woodcut initials, gothic letter. Robert of Holcot , c1290-1349, English divine who "made himself a great name among the divines of his century by his expositions of the Bible. In 1349, according to Trithemius, while he was engaged in lecturing on Ecclesiasticus (his commentary on which extends only to the seventh chapter), he was stricken by the plague and died...As a divine Holcot held generally to the tradition of his order as laid down by its greatest representative, St. Thomas Aquinas, though in some points (for instance in his doctrine of predestination) he has been observed to deviate from it. He maintained the Dominican view with respect to the immaculate conception so decidedly that his text (in the edition of the commentary on Wisdom, Basle, 1586) was amended by his discreet editor. A special matter on which he differed from his famous contemporary, Bradwardine, was his insistence upon the necessity of free will as an antecedent to merit. In his logical position Holcot followed Ockham, except that he devised a 'logica fidei' (or 'logica singularis'), side by side with the 'logica naturalis,' in order to meet the dialectical difficulties presented by the doctrine of the Trinity, which Ockham placed wholly outside the sphere of logic. Holcot is also interesting as one of the first logicians with whom the doctrine of the 'obligatoria' has grown into a formulated school system ('ars')" [DNB] Renouard I,471 (Aubry). Moreau/Renouard 1853. Shaaber H234. BM STC (French) 228. $1200

Paris: Jean Frellon [& Bernard Aubry], 1518. Square 8vo. 211 x 155mm.

72. Hondorff, Andreas. Theatrum Historicum, sive Promituarium Illustrium Exemplorum, ad

Folio. [in 6s].[10], [2] blank, 714, [20]p. Second edition. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin rebacked (18th cent.?)calf, gilt with repeated deigns in compartments. Renewed clasps. Front cover cameo of the crucifixion, back cover of the harrowing of Hell. Old illustrated bookplate of the Hammer Library, Stockholm; occ. light browning, minor marginal worming at end (no text affected), light minor dampstains at end. Large title-page illustration of executions of various sorts (Jost Amman) and large printer's colophon on last leaf.

Frankfurt am Main: Sigismund Feyerabend for Johannes Spies, 1586.

Honeste, Pie, Beateque Vivendum Cuiusuis Generis, et Conditionis Homines Informantium, Ex Antiquis Simul ac recentioribus sacrarum & prophanarum histoiarum monumentis cooectum, & in decem classes secundum Mosaicae legis praecepta distinctum... Lonicer, Phillip,ed.

Hondorff (c1530-1572) Lutheran pastor at Custritz from 1573 and at Droissig near Weissenfels from 1572. "This great collection is in the form upon the Decalogue... a collection of exempla of a historical nature... with many anecdotes, and is of considerable value for the history of the culture of the time." [Thomas Frederick Crane, The Exempla, 1890.] "...Andreas Hondorff's Promptuarium exemplorum Historienn und exempel buch, ... first appeared from a Leipzig press in 1568. Translated into Latin as Theatrum historicum by Phillip Lonicer in 1575 and running through some thirty editions before 1687, Hondorff's huge tome clearly left a lasting imprint on the European literary scene.... Arranged according to the Mosaic tables of the Ten Commandments... [it] quarried a wide range of writings for dramatic cases of wicked men and women upon whom the avenging arm of God had swooped.[It] ransacked pagan, classical, and patristic writers, Italian humanist scholars and medieval Catholic monks no less, indeed, if anything more comprehensively than those of Protestant reformers and ecclesiastical historians-- and with suprisingly little doctrinal discrimination. " [Alexandra Wilson, Providence in Early Modern England. Oxford, OUP, 1999.] VD16 H4748. Adams H824. Graesse III,342.Hayn-Gotendorf III,340.. Goedeke II,127:15. Engel 20 (other eds.) Henning, Faust, 732. Tille, Faustsplitter, 23. $2000 Sacerdotum & Monachorum papisticorum, in Ecclesia Christi abominatione, eorumq(uae) impietate detestanda Vita item & regno Antichristi...[Opera Omnia, tomus secundus] . Otto Brunfels, ed. Martin Luther, comm. [Strassburg?:] [Johann Schott?,] [1524.] 4to. Volume 2 [of 3].4,a-r4,s6. 19th c.calf, spine gilt in compartments, title on leather label, slightly rubbed, edges red, fine copy with ample margins, quite clean, small hole in 3 (some text affected), small corner repair to inner upper corner of 2 (no text affected) . Woodcut of Patience waiting to be with Christ on 4v, large historiated initial (10 line). All editions of Hus's writings are rare beacuse of its condemnation by the Roman Church. This volume of Hus's writings on the Anti-Christ and its relation to the Papacy influenced Luther in his writings. It is often found, when it is at all, by itself. Hus was born at Husinetz in Southern Bohemia, 1369; died at Constance 6 July, 1415." At an early age he went to Prague where he supported himself by singing and serving in the churches. His conduct was exemplary and his devotion to study remarkable. In 1393 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Prague and in 1396 the master's degree. He was ordained a priest in 1400 and became rector of the university 1402-03. About the same time he was appointed preacher in the newly erected Bethlehem chapel. Hus was a strong partisan on the side of the Czechs, and hence of the Realists, and he was greatly influenced by the writings of Wyclif. Though forty five propositions of the latter were proscribed in 1403 by ecclesiastical authority, Hus translated Wyclif's "Trialogus" into Czech and helped to circulate it. From the pulpit he inveighed against the

73. Hus, Jan. Locorum Osee, & Ezechiele prophetis, cap. v. & viii. De abhorrenda

morals of clergy, episcopate, and papacy, thus taking an active part in the movement for reform....Hus...openly defended Wyclif, and this position he maintained especially against John Stokes, a licentiate of Cambridge, who had come to Prague and declared that in England Wyclif was regarded as a heretic. With no less vehemence Hus attacked the Bulls (9 September and 2 December 1411) in which John XXIII proclaimed indulgences to all who would supply funds for the crusade against Ladislaus of Naples. Both Hus and Jerome of Prague aroused the university and the populace against the papal commission which had been sent to announce the indulgences, and its members in consequence were treated with every sort of indignity. The report of these doings led the Roman authorities to take more vigorous action. Not only was the former excommunication against Hus reiterated, but his residence was placed under interdict. Finally the pope ordered Hus to be imprisoned and the Bethlehem chapel destroyed. The order was not obeyed, but Hus towards the end of 1412 left Prague and took refuge at Austi in the south. Here he wrote his principal work, "De ecclesi". As the king took no steps to carry out the papal edict, Hus was back again at Prague by the end of April, 1414, and posted on the walls of the Bethlehem Chapel his treatise "De sex erroribus". Out of this and the "De ecclesi" Gerson extracted a number of propositions which he submitted to Archbishop Konrad von Vechta (formerly Bishop of Olmtz) with a warning against their heretical character. In November following the Council of Constance assembled, and Hus, urged by King Sigismund, decided to appear before that body and give an account of his doctrine. At Constance he was tried, condemned, and burnt at the stake, 6 July, 1415. " [Catholic Encyclopedia] Hoffmann I,600. Durling/NLM 1134 & 470. Wellcome I 1778. OCLC: 6440912+.See: Simon Gastronomia 52. $2750 Quibus accesserunt similiis argumenti, Palaephati de fabulosis narrationibus... Fulgentii...Mythologiarum...de vocum antiquarum interpretatione... Phurnuti De natura deorum, sive poeticarum fabularum allegoriis... Albrici philosophi de Deorum imaginibus... Arati fragmentum... Phaenomena... Procli de sphaera libellus... Jacob Micyllus, 1503-1558, ed. Basle: Johann Hervagius [Herwagen], 1549. Folio.[8],261,[23]p. Handsome modern blind-tooled 1/2 morocco over incunable covered boards, paper label; t.p. repaired in blank margin, occ. foxing, nice crisp copy; old owner's name "Mariani Ruele, Carmelite, Rome 1737" on t.p, old owner's stamp; small circular dampstain on t.p, minor repaired wormhole in inner margin of last few leaves Printer's device on t.p., 48 astronomical woodcuts. Hyginus, commonly confused with the freedman of the emperor Augustus, compiled this handbook of mythology, probably in the second century A.D. He was ignorant of Greek, which accounts for some of the absurdities present in his work, and the usual title Fabulae is due to the editio princeps of Micyllus who remains the only authority for the work since his manuscript is lost; this is the second edition of Micyllus, first published in Basel in 1535.

74. Hyginus, Gaius Julius, attrib.; Palaephatus; Fulgentius; Aratos; & Proclus. Fabularum Liber...Eiusdem Poeticon Astronomicon Libri quatuor.

uss anblick des menschens. Naturlichen Astrologey noch dem lauff der Son(n)en.Complexion eins yegklichen menschens. Naturlichen ynfluffs der Planeten. Der zwolff zeichen Angesychten. Ettliche Canones zu erkantnuss der menschen kranckheiten... Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1523. Folio. 295 x 191 mm. a4,b-g6,h-i4,k6,l4,mn4,o6. First German Edition. Modern morocco, title in ms. on paper label; bookplate of Dr Fritz Eberhard, old description and catalogue description on front blank; t.p. cut down with margins on three sides restored; dampsatina to first seven leaves and in upper corner of last leaves, a few marginal notes, minor foxing, a few marginal repairs. Full page armorial cut, portrait of Indagine, and 80 text cuts by Hans Baldung Grien & Hans Wechtlin. Indagine [ a.k.a. Rosenbach, or Johannes Von Hagen] (ca.1467-1537) from Hain near Darmstadt, "was an extremely learned man in many fields, and at one time acted as an ambassador to the Pope, though it appears that he had many sympathies with the revolutionary theories of the day..." Gettings p177. His work, first published in 1522, had a great effect on the study of chiromancy and is quoted to our own day. It was frequently reprinted Northof the alps but was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books. "Presumably the combination of astrology, physiognomy and chiromancy

75. Indagine {aka Rosenbach or Von Hagen], Johann Die Kunst der Chiromantzey uss besehung der hend. Physiognomey

Palaephatus (fl. late 4th cent. B.C.)rationalized myths in this, his only extant work. It held considerable influence during the Byzantine period. Fabius Planciades Fulgnetius (ca. A.D.467-532), probably the bishop of Ruspe exiled by the Vandals to Sardinia for his orthodox views, wrote the present offering in dialogue form, through which the muse Calliope reveals the meaning of the myths and Virgil the allegory upon which the Aeneid was composed. Lucius Annaeus Cornutus Phurnutus (fl. A.D.50), the freedman of Seneca, was a teacher of philosophy and rhetoric at Rome, counting Lucan and Persius among his disciples. Only one of his works, the present offering, is extant: in it he expounds the traditions regarding Greek mythology, using principles of Stoic criticism of such and incorporating allegory. Aratus (ca. 315-240/39 B.C.) was a stoic who under the patronage of the Macedonian king Antigonus Gonatas composed the present work. It is his best known work and concerns the northern and southern fixed stars, circles of the celestial sphere, the rising and setting of stars, and weather signs. As an astronomical poem, its style is based upon that of Hesiod and it incorporates Homeric terms. Proclus (A.D. 410/12-485)was a neoplatonic philosopher, a prolific author, and the last great synthesizer of the Greek philosophical inheritance. He bore a great deal of influence upon Medieval and Renaissance thought. The Aratos and Proculs are printed in Greek and Latin. VD 16 H6480. Adams H1252. Houzeau/Lancaster 762. Zinner 1958. Wellcome I,3378. Schweiger I,464. $2750

with humanistic bias and some approach to Protestant partisanship accounted for its long and widespread currency north of the Alps." [Thorndike] VD 16 R3114. BM STC (Germ.) 429. Ritter 1265. Schmidt (Schott) 84. Kristeller 465. Muller 84,117. Zinner 1210. Durling/NLM 2537. Wellcome I,3404. Oldenbourg (Grien) L204. Sabattini 306 "assai rara." Gardner, Astrologica, 599. Schuling 154. $4500 76. Johannes de Sancto Geminiano [Giovanni da San Gimignano], attrib. Summa De Exemplis, Et Rerum Similitudinis Locupletissima Verbi Dei Concionatoribus cunctisque literarum studiosis maximo usui futura. Fr. Ioanne a s. Geminiano ... auctore. Nunc demum post omnes alias aeditiones summa industria & diligentia ab innumeris pene erroribus castigata, & aucta. Adiectus est primum Index certissimus optimam quamque ac desideratam materiam ordine alphabetico ostentans. Venice: Domenico Farri,1584. 4to. [24], 283ff= 566, [2]p. Contemp. limp vellum, soiled, lacks ties, title in old hand on spine, bookplate of "Bibli. Prov. Germ. Inf." with release stamp on front paste-down, stamp on verso of a1; marginal dampstains, occ. foxing, old notes and signatures on endsheets. Printer's device Tronco da cui germogliano ramoscelli. In cornice figurata ; Motto of device: Simili frondescet virga metallo. (V440 - Z17 - Q54) Giovanni da San Geminiano, preacher and writer (c1260-1333) entered the Dominican order in Sienna and was a teacher in Arezzo, Rome, and Sienna. He spent his last years as a prior in the Convent of San Geminiano. The Summa de exemplis et rerum similitudinibus, in ten books, dating from the first years of the fourteenth century, was published more than twenty times between 1477 and 1670; manuscripts attribute it to Helwic the Teutonic or to San Gimignano. Dondaine has declared himself firmly in favor of the second (La vie et les oeuvres de Jean..., AFP, vol. 9, 1939, pp. 157-164. The chapter headings show the variety of subjects covered in this famous preacher's manual: De coelo & elementis, De metallis, & lapidibus, De vegetalibus, & plantis, De natalitibus, & volatilibus, De animalibus terrestribus, De homine & membris eius, De animalibus terrestribus, De homine & membris eius, De visionibus & somniis, De canonibus, & legibus, De artificibus, & rebus artificialibus, De actibus, & moribus humanis. EDIT 16 cnce 21097. Kaeppeli, II, 539-543. EC VI, 605 f. Quetif & Echard I, 528f.; II, 819. $750

77. Krantz [Crantz], Albert. Saxonia. Cologne: [Johann Soter], 1520. Folio.[258]ff.

First Edition. Modern 1/2 calf, spine banded title on label, some pinhole worming (more in rear), minor dampstains in rear inner margin, some old marginalia, paper in clean crisp condition. Fine woodcut t.p. Krantz (1448-1517) historian, doctor of divinity, canon of law, professor of philosophy and divinity at the University of Rostoch and later Dean of the chapter

in the Cathedral of Hamburg. He was famous for his prudence and his intellectual abilities. He worked on reforms but did not have sympathies with Hus or Wycliffe. He wrote several famous historical works on northern history on the Saxons, Danes, Swedes, Vandals etc. "..for the period in which they were written are characterized by exceptional impartiality and research." [EB 11th ed.] VD 16 K2257. BM STC (Germ.) 477. Adams C2884.Proctor 10600. $1500

78. La Noue, Francois de Discours Politiques Et Militaires... Recueillis et mis en lumiere... De Lyon: Daniel Bellon, 1595. Thick 8vo. 114 x 80mm. [28], 1019, [36]p.
Fresnes... Derniere Edition...

Contemp. limp vellum, lacks ties, yapp fore-edge, gilt owner's name "Ober. Rath.", a few old notes and underlines, minor stains. La Noue, Franois de, (1531 - 1591) "Huguenot captain in the French Wars of Religion (1562-98), known for his exploits as a soldier and for his military and historical writings. La Noue became a Protestant in 1558 and soon began fighting for the Huguenot cause. Wounded at Fontenay (1570), he had one arm replaced by an iron device and was thereafter nicknamed Bras-de-Fer ("Arm of Iron"). After the Peace of Saint-Germain (1570), which provided a temporary break in the hostilities, he fought against the Spanish in the Netherlands. Commissioned by Charles IX to reconcile the inhabitants of La Rochelle to the king after the massacre of Protestants on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572, he soon resigned his commission and from 1574 to 1578 acted as Huguenot general of La Rochelle. In 1580 he again fought in the Netherlands. Captured and imprisoned for five years by the Spanish, he wrote his Discours politiques et militaires (published 1587), a series of moral and military reflections together with a commentary on the state of France and an account of the early years of the Wars of Religion. After his release he eventually returned to France and served King Henry IV, dying of a wound received at the siege of Lamballe." [EB on-line .] "The abiding value of La Noue"s discourses lies in the fact that he wrote of war as a human drama, before it had been elaborated and codified" (E. B. 11th ed.). The 23rd discourse is an attack on alchemy Brunet III,824. Adams L159 (1596 ed.) Jahns 563.Not in Bruning. $550 les choses passes, presentes et futures...] [Paris:] [Lucas Breyer,] [1574.] 4to.Geomancy part only.*4 [lacks *1 t.p.] AN4.[Lacks C4, leaf 12]. First Edition. Disbound, first leaf with priviledge and oval heraldric lion, remrgined, marginal dampstains, foliation corrected in a later hand, margin cut close on fullpage astrological charts. La Taille, lord of Bondaroy, was born in Bondaroy (Loiret) between 1533

79. La Taille de Bondaroy, Jean. [La Geomance Abregee de Iean de La Taille de Bondaroy ... Pour sauoir

and 1540, and belonged to a minor noble family. He began his studies in Paris, at the college of Boncourt, and then taught at Orleans. He returned to Paris in company of his brother Jacques who died there in 1562. Jean then took service in the army on the catholic side. Later, at the time of the third religious war, we find him in the Protestant army, under the orders of Prince de Cond. He was wounded by a blow of a lance, June 25, 1570. He retired to his estates at Bonaroy where he wrote various works. His work on the magical value of gemstones was the first of its kind to be published in France in the vernacular (see Sinkankas for more information about that treatise which was published as a supplement to this one on geomancy but is lacking from our copy. Apparently copies appear separated when they occur at all.) Renouard, Imprimeurs,Breyer, 22. Caillet 6174 "Fort rare". Sinkankas 6476. Brunet III,869. Cioanescu 12702. BN V,8841. Wellcome 3678. $400

18th c. spotted calf, front hinge cracked, spine gilt, worn but solid; bookplates of Illinois Inst. of Technology, f.f.e.p. covered in old notes about the book and it author dated 1790., old owner's names on t.p., piece of paper pasted to foot of t.p. , some pencil notes. T.p. printer's device, head-piece. Lavater (1527-1586) Protestant minister of Zrich first published this treatise on Lemures, ghost shades of the dead which presage great disasters and the change of empires, in 1570. He maintains that the many of these apparitions are not the souls of the dead but the work of demons. Caillet feels that this was an important source for Shakespeare's Hamlet. There are several variant imprints of the first edition. This one is apparently the earliest. Adams L298. Caillet 6237. Durling/NLM 2745. Wellcome 3683. Casanatense 714. Graesse, Magica, 81. Cornell, Witchcraft, 377 (later eds.) Thorndike VI,530ff. OCLC: 10120862. Robbins 600. Engel 14. Coumont L26.1. $2000

80. Lavater, Ludwig. De Spectris: lemuribus et Magnis Atque Insolitis Fragoribus... [Geneva:] Johannes Crispinus, [1570.] 8vo.[16],272p. First Edition.

First Edition. Contemporary elaborately blind-stamped pigskin over pasteboards (made up of old printer's waste), panels of Charles V on upper cover and of the arms of Spain on the lower, the latter signed "H.B.", edges red; bookplate on front paste-down; early manuscript notes in margins, some light spotting, a few small wormholes in text at the end, spine rubbed, corners worn, lower edge of lower board slightly damaged . Title within an architectural woodcut border and with woodcut device, full-page woodcut armorial insignia of Lobel on A3 verso, woodcuts in text, with pasteovers on R3 recto, R4 verso and m4 verso. L'Obel, Mathias de (1538-1616), botanist, was born at Lille (then in Bur-

81. Lobel [L'Obel], Matthias De. Plantarum Seu Stirpium Historia. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1576. Folio. 310 x 215mm. 671,[1]pp.

gundian Flanders)...he became friendly with a Provenal student, Pierre Pena. L'Obel's knowledge and zeal so impressed the botany professor, Guillaume Rondelet, that he took the two on herbarizing excursions and on his death the next year bequeathed to L'Obel some of his manuscripts.Deprived of their teacher, and with Flanders newly embroiled in the Dutch revolt, the two friends moved to England, probably late in 1567. There L'Obel established himself as a physician in Bristol, made botanizing trips which extended to Scotland and even Ireland, and with Pena compiled a herbal, Stirpium adversaria nova...Pena went to Paris and L'Obel to Antwerp (where he probably had family connections) to practise medicine. There the publisher Christophe Plantin, having bought the unsold stock of the Adversaria, cunningly married its text, hastily revised by L'Obel, to a large collection of excellent woodcuts made earlier for some herbals by Dodoens but never used. Issued in 1576 as an ostensibly new work under the title Plantarum seu stirpium historia, but better known by its first part, Stirpium observationes, this proved a commercial success... [Oxford DNB] "Despite his conceit and unpolished language, which earned him many enemies... L'Obel was one of the great pre-Linnaean botanists." [DNB] This work is complete in itself. The companion work, a reissue of the Adversaria is not present here. Voet 1578:I. Belgica Typographica, 8668. Hunt 126. Nissen BBI 1218. Pritzel 5548. Adams L1382. Durling 2829. Johnston 114. Nissen BBI 1218. Stafleu and Cowan 4907. Wellcome 3828. Lack 10. $3500 dem epistola ad Regem Robertum de Accuratatione lapidis Philosophorum: cui adiunctus est tractatus de aquis ex scriptis Raymundi super Accurtationis epistolam ab Artis studioso collectus. Cologne: Johann Birckmann, 1567. 8vo. [8],376p. First edition with "Epistola ad Regem Robertum," and "Tractaus de Aquis." Early 19th c. paper wrappers, , t.p. & last leaf with stamp of Freimaurerloge in Rostock, foxing and light bowning. Illustration of an athanor on verso of t.p., printer's mark, decorated initials. Lullian version of John of Rupescissa's "De Consideratione Quintae Essentiae." (First printed in Venice 1514.) Lull (ca. 1232-1315) Spanish philosopher, alchemist, Catholic martyr. His works on occult philosophy, memory, and alchemy were basic to Renaissance magic. "As the inventor of a method which was to have an immense influence throughout Europe for centuries, Lull is an extremely important figure. Lullism is a precursor of scientific method. Lullian astral medicine developed into PseudoLullian alchemy. The great figures of Renaissance Neoplatonism include Lulliiam in their interests, and naturally so since Lullism was the precursor of their ways of thinking. And from the point of history of religion and of religious toleration, surely we admire Lull's vision in taking advantage of the unique concentration of Christian, Moslem, and Jewish traditions..."{Francis Yates,Occult Philosophy in the Eliz-

82. Lull, Ramon & John of Rupescissa.[Jean de Roquetaillade] De Secrets Naturae, Seu de Quinta Essentia Liber... Adiecta est eius-

abethan Age,1979.] John of Rupescissa is the actual author of the alchemical 'Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia' traditionally ascribed to Lull. It was written in the mid-fourteenth century. Michela Pereira "Alchemical Corpus Attributed To Raymond Lull,1989" notes"...all point in the same direction: the false attribution of every alchemical treatise concerning the fifth essence of wine and its attribution to Raymond Lull. Clearly, in alchemical and Hermetic tradition Lull's name carried more weight than Rupescissa's." VD 16 R 149 & 160. Rogent/Duran 110. Ferguson II,54 note. Bruning 375. BoS 544. $2000 83. Lull, Ramon & John of Rupescissa.[Jean de Roquetaillade] Sacri Doctoris Raymundi Luli de secretis naturae sive de quinta essentia Libellus. Augsburg: [Sigmund Grimm & Marx Wirsung], 1518. 4to. a6, b-f4. First Separate Edition. Modern 1/2 vellum, some ink stains on t.p., last 5 leaves with some worming (minor text loss), closely trimmed with side-notes and border of t.p. slightly cut into. Fine woodcut t.p. border Lullian version of John of Rupescissa's "De Consideratione Quintae Essentiae." (First printed in Venice 1514.) VD 16 R157. Rogent/Duran 71. Mellon 8. Bruning 115. BM STC (Germ.) 533. Rosenthal, Magica. 541. Palau 143.829. $6500 Lullii des Hochgelehrten und weitberuhmten Philosophi Buch so man das Codicill (Testaments Anhang) oder Vade Mecum (handbuchlein) nenner, worinnen die Urquellen der Alchmie Kunst... Cologne: Arnold Birkmanns Erben, 1563. [1767] 8vo. A-Z8,Aa-Dd8,Ee4. Lacks part title and prelims. Reprint of 1563 ed. Modern remboitage, 19th c. green morocco heavily gilt (cut in half and used as covers), backed in green calf, title in gilt,notes on verso of title have bled through; paper lightly browned; last leaf has blank lower edge cut off. H e a d piece, decorated initial. This German edition of the important Lullian work on alchemy is a reprint of the 1563 edition, perhaps made for the two hundredth anniversary? Duveen 428.Caillet III, 7952. Neu 2934. Ouvaroff 773 (orig. ed., also mentioning 18th c. reprint in a series.) $1000 Raymundi

84. Lull, Ramon.

85. Maimonides, Moses. Symbolum Fidei Iudaeorum E' R. Mose Aegyptio. Praecationes Eo-

Genebrard, trans.

rumdem pro defunctis, e lib. Mahzor. Alia, in quibus commemorationem suorum Divorum faciunt, Aliae pro his, qui despondentur & coniuga(n)tur, e Breviario Hebraeorum. Sexcenta Tredecim Legis praecepta, e More Nebuchim. Gilbert

Modern vellum-backed marbled boards,stamp of "Bibl. Acad. Lund" with release stamp. on verso of t.p.,t.p. lightly soiled. Printer's device on t.p.,head-pieces, decorated initials. " Maimonides was born in 1135 in Crdoba, Spain, then under Muslim rule during what some scholars consider to be the end of the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain. Maimonides studied Torah under his father Maimon who had in turn studied under Rabbi Joseph ibn Migash. The Almohades conquered Crdoba in 1148, and offered the Jewish community the choice of conversion to Islam, death, or exile. Maimonides's family, along with most other Jews, chose exile. For the next ten years they moved about in southern Spain, avoiding the conquering Almohades, but eventually settled in Fes in Morocco, where Maimonides acquired most of his secular knowledge, studying at the University of Fes. During this time, he composed his acclaimed commentary on the Mishnah... In his commentary on the Mishna (tractate Sanhedrin, chapter 10), Maimonides formulates his 13 principles of faith...These principles were controversial when first proposed, evoking criticism by Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo, and were effectively ignored by much of the Jewish community for the next few centuries. ("Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought", Menachem Kellner). However, these principles became widely-held; today, Orthodox Judaism holds these beliefs to be obligatory." [Wikpedia] This translation by the Benedictine scholar Gilbert Genebrard was issued to accompany his edition of the Hebrew text but was available as a separate work with its own title-page (see Schwartzfuchs.) Adams M 172. Steinschneider 1889:83. Schwartzfuchs 328. Cowley 209.Yudlov 1869. $650 Florence, trans.

Paris: Martin Le Jeune, 1569. 8vo.66 folios= 132p. First French Edition.

86. Maximus Tyrius. Sermones sive Disputationes XLI. Cosimo Pazzi, Archbishop of

Contemp. sheep with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, top of spine damaged, bottom spine compartment cracked. Estienne device on t.p. Maximus Tyrius was an itinerant Platonic lecturer of Tyre "reputed to have been the tutor of Marcus Aurelius." These 41 dissertations on theological, ethical, and philosophic subjects "were eloquent exhortions to virtue, filled with quotations chiefly from Plato and Homer, their philosophical content deriving from Platonism and Cytnicism...Henri Estienne published a Latin version by Archbishop Cosimo Pazzi [Paccius] of Florence, which had first been printed in 1517. In the preface Henri criticizes Pazzi's version for the numerous errors it contains, and states that he has thoroughly corrected and revised it." Schreiber Hoffmann II,587. Schreiber 141b. Renouard 116 no. 2. Moeckli 33. Adams M940. $850 87. Methodius Olympius, pseudo- Wolfgang Aytinger[Aitinger], attrib. Methodius primum olimpiade et postea Tyri civitatu(m) ep(iscop)us. sub diocleciano Imperatore In calcide civitate (q(ui) nigro-

[Geneva:] Henri Estienne, 1557. 8vo.[8],363 [i.e. 263] p.First Estienne Edition.

pontu(m)appellat ut divus scibit hieronimus martyrio) coronatur: qui cu(m) eruditissimus esset vir multa edidit documenta et prefer tim de mundi creatione eidem in carcere revelatione. passus suit quartadecima kalends octobris. De revelatione facta Ab angelo beato Methodio in carcere dete(n)to. Sebastian Brant, ed. Basle: Michael Furter, 1504. 4to. (205 x 135mm)a8, b-g4.6, h4, i8,k4,l6, m8. 20th c. vellum, fore-edge unevenly trimmed, contemporary owner's entry on t.p. with cypher "HSB" at top and note below; some stains and finger soiling, a few pinworm holes in text and at top margin, contemporary marginalia and occ. underlines, repaired tear on b1, small hole in g4 (no loss). 61 woodcuts (incl. repeats). decorated initials. "...Wolfgang Aytinger of Basle, who in 1496 published an edition of Methodius with commentaries. Methodius--also referred to as PseudoMethodius-had been for centuries one of the most important eschatological authorities; in the second half of the fifteenth century, many of the anxious expectations then current referred to his predictions... To Aytinger's terrified eyes, the fulfillment of Methodius' prophecy seemed to be in progress; and in this view he was confirmed by Lichtenberger's book. From it, he takes over the prophecies of the 'Sibilla Chumea,' Cyril, Bridget, Telesphorus, and Brother Reinhard... he is no longer satisfied with prophecy alone: it is not sufficiently firm base upon which to build. Certitude is procured by science alone: that is, by mathematics, which stands remotest from human subjectivity, And thus, Aytinger will rely as on an authority expressly named, not on the compiler of prophecies but on the mathematically trained astrologer: 'Johannes Lichtenberger, quendam Mathematicum virum eruditum.'" [D. Kurze: Prophecy And History -- in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, v21,No. 1/2,pp. 667.] "This book of prophecies attributed to the fourth-century martyr, Methodius, was probably composed by a fifteenth century monk, Wolfgang Aytinger, to arouse animosity between Christians and Muslims. Although not specifically medical, the De revelatione contains a number of unusual woodcuts, among them the birth of the Antichrist-which is also one of the earliest printed depictions of a Caesarian section birth. There is a long iconographic tradition of linking the Antichrist with a Caesarian birth, hinting at the suspicion and distrust surrounding this "unnatural" procedure." [Harvard Library on-line]

The first editions of this work were un-illustrated. Furter's edition of 1498 was the first to contain these cuts. VD 16 M 4934. Adams M1367. Proctor/Isaac 14110. Fairfax-Murray, German, 289. See: Hodgkin, Rariora,I,219. Basler Illus. #25 (note) $8500 Arabum doctrinam compendio prodidit, expostitionem, arque cum Ptolemaei principiis collationem... Cologne: Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1560. 4to.[32],471,[1]pp. First Edition. Contemp. limp vellum, some stains, some paper browning and stains (esp. at front), old religious owner's stamps on t.p., lower outer corner off t.p. (no text affected) 2 tables margins trimmed slightly into text. Printer's device on t.p., historiated initials, numerous astrological diagrams and tables in text. "In 1560 Valentin Nabod or Naiboda, ordinary professor of mathematics at Cologne, published an elementary work on astrology based on Alcabitius but collating it with Ptolemy and rejecting sortilege and absurd vulgar notions...In the text much use is made of the Tables of Directions of Regiomontanus...Campanella...tells that...he shut himself up with a supply of food. But robbers, seeing the house closed, concluded that there was no one at home and broke in. They killed Nabod lest he give the alarm. (Thorndike gives other versions of this story as well.)" [Thorndike VI,119ff.] Zinner states that Nabod teaches the calculation of the movement of the planets according to the Prutenic tables of Erasmus Reinhold. John Dee had a annotated copy. VD 16 N14. Adams N3. Houzeau & Lancaster 4882. Casantense 877. Zinner 2239. Gardner, Astrologica,848. Rosenthal 3473. BM STC (Germ.) 642. $2000 Arabum doctrinam compendio prodidit, expostitionem, arque cum Ptolemaei principiis collationem... Cologne: Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1560. 4to. First Edition. Contemp. vellum over boards, title gilt on black leather label, soiled, occ. minor dampstains, some light bowning and foxing, some pencil underling in dedication. Printer's device on t.p., historiated initials, numerous astrological diagrams and tables in text. VD 16 N14. Adams N3. Houzeau & Lancaster 4882. Casantense 877. Zinner 2239. Gardner, Astrologica,848. Rosenthal 3473. BM STC (Germ.) 642. $2000 lehren verglichne beschreibung, mit fridgiriger bitt, und vermanung, man wolle forthin, die fromen Ludgerischen, und dergleichen Christimenschen, unuerdambt

88. Nabod [Naiboda, Naboth], Valentin. Enarratio Elementorum Astrologiae, in qua praeter Alcabicii, qui

89. Nabod [Naiboda, Naboth], Valentin. Enarratio Elementorum Astrologiae, in qua praeter Alcabicii, qui

90. Nas [Nasi], Johannes. Concordia Alter unnd newer guter auch boser Glaubens strittiger

lassen, besunder Ir schonen, auch jrer Evangelischen Lehr, leben, lobich nachfolgend, dem glauben zufaln, und mit in Concordiern... Munich: Adam Berg, 1583. 4to.[20],257ff=514,[2]p. First Edition. Contemp. limp vellum, lack ties.title in ms on spine,edges red, old ownership on t.p. "Collegii Societatis Jesu Ingolstadii A(nn)o 1585." marginal wormingA3-H4 (no text affected), small piece torn from upper blank margin of last leaf, paper clean and crisp and in good condition. One full page (with demons and various hellish creatures), and 4 (repeated) large woodcuts of a battle between the troops of the Tower of Babel with an apocayptic dragon and the heavenly city of Jerusalem. T.p. in red and black. Nas (1534-1590) Franciscan, Bishop of Brixen. In his youth Nas was an enthusiastic Luthern but in 1552 he converted to Catholicism and in 1553 he entered the Franciscan cloister in Munich. He entered the priesthood in 1557 and moved to the monastery at Ingolstadt. There he entered the university and became a preacher. He was first appointed to a post at Dillingen, then Ulm, and Bruck. In 1571 he had a stay in Rome where the Pope gave him the title "Sedis apostolicae concinator." Frederick II appointed him to Innsbruck where he followed Petrus Canisius an head preacher. His eloquence was much admired. In 1580 he was made Bishop of Brixen. His works are often attacks on Lutheranism and he pictures the forces of the Reformation as devils attacking the Holy Church. VD16 N118. Schopf 29. BM STC (Germ.) 643. $1000 nous, Pythagoras, Hermes Trismegistus, Marsiglio Ficino, et al. Index Eorum, Quae Hoc In Libro Habentur. Iamblichus de mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum. Proclus in Platonicum Alcibiadem de anima, atquae demone. Proclus de sacrificio, & magia. Porphyrius de divinis, atque daemonibus. Synesius Platonicus de somniis. Psellus de daemonibus. Expositio Prisciani, & Marsilii in Theophrastum de sensu, phantasia, & intellectu, Alcinoiu Platonici philosophi. liber de doctrina Platonis. Seusippi Platonis discipuli, liber de Platonis definitionibus. Pythagorae philosophi aurea verba. Symbola Pitagorae philosophi. Xenocrates philosophi platonici, liber de morte. Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander. Eiusdem Asclepius. Marsilii Ficini de triplici vita. Lib. II. Eiusdem liber de voluptate. Euisdem de Sole & lumine libri II. Apologia eiusdem in librum suum de lumine. Eiusdem libellus de magis. Quod necessaria sit securitas, & tranquillitas animi. Praeclarissimarum sententiarum huis operis brevis annotatio. Marsiglio Ficino, ed. Venice: Aldus [Andrea Torresano], 1516. Folio. 300 x 204mm.A-Y8. Second Aldine Edition. 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

91. [Neo-Platonism] Iamblichus, Proclus, Porphyrius, Synesius, Psellus, Alci-

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. 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. $12500 anum de Schismate Donatistarum. Victoris Uticensis libri III. de Persecutione Vandalia in Africa,Cum annotationibus ex Fr. Balduini I. C. Commentariis rerum Ecclesiasticarum. Caspar Barchino (Frater Balduini, Juris Council) ed. & comm. Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1569. 8vo. [24],170,[4],55p. Modern morocco-backed boards, edges red, old signatures on t.p. "Severinus Mouvalle." and another (crossed out). Some old marginalia and underlines. Printer's device on t.p. Saint Optatus, Bishop of Milevis in North Africa (fl 340) is known only by this treatise against Parmenian the Donatist, Bishop of Carthage. The Donatists were a schismatic body in the African church who refused to accept Caecilian Bishop of Carthage. They were rigorists and felt that the sacraments conferred by a 'traditores' were invalid. It drew on African regional feeling and economic unrest. It was suppressed by Rome but this was relaxed by Julian the Apostate. Optatus was the first to write against them and his work formed a starting point for Augustine's refutation. It contains many important historical documents. Victor (late 5th c.) Bishop of Vita in North Africa. His work is a history of

92. Optatus Milevitanus & Victoris Uticens. Delibatio Africanae historiae ecclesiaticae, sive libri VII ad Parmeni-

the persecution under the Catholic Church in Africa by the Aryan Vandals under Gaiseric and Huneric (429-84). "...giving not only a trustworthy account of historical events, but also a vivid picture of the political and religious civilization of the country." [ODCC.] BM STC (French) 329 (var. imp. C. Fremy). Adams O213 (Fremy). Wetzer/ W.9,932f. Ungar. NB O87.Graesse V.30. $550

93. Optatus Milevitanus & Victor Uticensus Delibatio Africanae Historiae Ecclesiasticae... Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1569. 8vo. [24],170ff=340,[4],55ff=110,[48]pp.

Contemp. vellum binding has the initials "P. L. A. G. P." and the date "1596" with a central decorative stamp impressed on the front cover, yapp foreedge, lacks ties, soiled, minor worm damage on rear cover,light marginal dampstain in rear, occ minor stains, good margins. 178 fine woodcuts by Virgil Solis based on the cuts that Bernard Salomon made for De Tournes' edition in 1563. Solis' cuts are made in mirror image to Solomon's but they are larger and more detailed Rare edition of this charmingly illustrated edition of the Metamorphoses. Jacob Moeltzer, 1503-1558, professor of Greek at Heidelberg edited our text. "Collections of engravings based on tales from the Metamorphoses were also popular, and printers were quick to exploit the fact that the same set of woodcuts could be used to illustrate editions in Latin and multiple vernacular languages. This principle is well illustrated by the work of Bernard Salomon, master of the Lyons school of woodcutting. (Lyons was a much more important center for printing at the time than Paris.) Salomon created an influential set of 178 illustrations for a 1557 edition of the Metamorphoses in which the text is subordinate to the pictures: while the drawings are inspired by Ovid, we read not Ovid's verse but verse summaries of the "fables." By 1563 the very enterprising Frankfurt printer Siegmund Feyerabent had commissioned a Nrnberg artist, Virgil Solis, to produce a series of illustrations closely based on Salomon's originals. Feyerabent used these 178 woodcuts in no fewer than three books in that one year, all aimed at slightly different markets.

Frankfurt am Main: Sigismund Feyerabend, Heinrick Thack & Peter Fischer for Johann Feyerabend, 1587. 8vo.[16],573,[18],[1]p.

Jacob Micyllius [Jakob Moeltzer], ed. Aldus Pius Manitius,life of Ovid.

94. Ovid. Metamorphoseon Libri XV. In singulas quasque Fabulas Argumenta.

Old wraps (19th c.) torn, some soiling to t.p., minor worming to last leaves (no losses). BM STC (French) 329 (var. imp. C. Fremy). Adams O213 (Fremy). Wetzer/ W.9,932f. Ungar. NB O87. $450

Accompanied only by four-line verse captions in Latin and German composed by Johan Posthius, they appeared in what was primarily a picture book. They also appeared in Micyll's edition of Ovid's Latin text, with a variorum commentary in Latin for the learned." [Ralph Hexter, Ovids' Metamorphoses Metamorphosed, Bancroftiana. v 113.] VD 16 O1660. OCLC: 32357180 [2 locations]. See: Schweiger II,649 (1567etc. but not this ed.)Not in BM STC (German),or Adams. $2750 stituendu Libri XII.

95. Palingenius, Marcellus [Pietro Angelo Manzolli, attrib]. ...Zodiacus vita hoc est, De Hominu vita, studio, ac moribus optime inLyon: Jean de Tournes & Guillaume Gazeau, 1556. 16mo.a-2c8 [Lacks 2c8

last leaf of index]. 18th c. marbled boards, rebacked, endpapers renewed. T.p. with decorative woodcut border. This is an astrological poem by Palengenius (ca.1503-1543)-a favorite of Gabriel Naud's. The first Latin edition appeared in ca. 1531, and it was suppressed by the Inquisition because of its critique of the church and the Pope. The inquisitors followed up on this action by disinterring Palengenius' body and consigning it to the flames. The seventh book focuses upon the plurality of worlds and discusses the cause of motion and the purpose of pain. The eleventh book deals with astronomy, while the twelfth offers an original theory of light, which was partly followed and partly rejected by Giordano Bruno. Chomarat in his recent edition argues that this is really a moral text in the tradition of Erasmus. Cartier 342. Gardner, Astrologica, 893. Caillet 7096. $375

Cyclopaedia Paracelsica Christiana:Drey Bucher von dem ware(n) ursprung und herkommen der freyen Kunsten aucher der Physiognomia, obern Wunderwecken un(d) Witterungen... N.P. [Strassburg?]: N.P. [Bernard Jobin?], 1585. 4to. 3 pts. in 1 vol. [18],174,[8],122,[8],69,[1]pp. First Edition. Contemporary limp vellum, lacks ties, title on paper label (chipped), edges blue, old owner's name "Franciseanorum Kentingensium 1656" on t.p., a few contemporary sidenotes; minor age-toning,paper flaw tear on c4; fine copy with large margins. T.p. in red and black, all three titles in decorative borders. "What Paracelsus was aiming at with his theological writings was not to establish a new sect, but on the contrary to try and deny all religious parties combating each other the very reason to exist, since he strove for a church of the spirit, subject only to God and nature. Paracelsus himself knew best that such an attempt was hopeless, as he prophetically wrote in his book De imaginibus on the subject of religious schisms: "Then soon after Luther appeared with his doctrine and one

96. Paracelsus: Hohenheim, Philip Aureol Theophrast Bombast von & Samuel
Siderocrates, [Eisenmenger].

sect after the other under the guise of Lutheran doctrine, and still there is no end to this. Because there will be more sects, and each one wants to have the last word and be better and holier than the other with respect to its doctrine. And there will be no cohesion and peace in religion and in the churches, until the golden and last age". His solution, therefore, was not to get involved with the religious factions, but to maintain silence with regard to the outside world until the completion of his medical, philosophical and theological work, and to show only few people, what "has been in my pen". ..As a result of this enforced clandestinity, theological Paracelsism of necessity established contacts with other marginal religious movements such as the Osiandrists, Schwenckfeldians, Castellionists and other adherents of Tauler or the Theologia Deutsch. That this confrontation was an enrichment for Paracelsism needs hardly be questioned.But it also caused a further radicalisation, as the common factors in these movements, the spiritual attitude regarding the established churches, the practice-oriented ethics and the prophetic-eschatological world view were now mutually reinforced. An example of this is the famous Cyclopaedia Paracelsica Christiana of 1585, which as far as radical language is concerned outbids just about everything which Paracelsism had until then produced. Mention may here be made first of all of the fact that the manuscript of the Cyclopaedia came from the library of a Schwenckfeldian, Marquard von Hattstein, who incidentally as Catholic Bishop of Speier was the formal representative of the Roman Catholic Church in his diocese. Secondly, the editor, too, was a well-known Schwenckfeldian, namely Samuel Eisenmenger alias Syderocrates, who was expelled from the orthodox-Lutheran university of Tbingen on account of his religious views. "[ Carlos Gilly. `Theophrastia Sancta' ] Eisenmenger (1534-1585) began to study at Wittenberg under Melancthon; he was professor of mathematics at Tubingen and there issued a series of astrological preditcions. He also wrote on iatromathematics and astrological medicine. He completed a M.D. and was personal physician to the bishop of Speyer. He later became physician to the margrave of Baden, the archbishop of Cologne, and the bishop of Strasburg. VD 16 E863. Sudhoff 205. BM STC (Germ) 814. Graesse, Magica, 49. Durling/NLM 1354. Rosenthal 950. OCLC: 14314725 $4500 und kleinen Welt...Darinn er lehrt des gantzen natrlichen Leichts vermgen, und unuermgen, auch alle Philosophische, und Astronomische geheimnussen der grossen und kleinen Welt, und deren rechten brauch, und miszbrauch, Zu dem andern, die Mysteria des himlischen Leichts, Zu dem dritten, das vermgen des Glaubens, Und zum vierdten, was die Geister durch den Menschen wirken... Michael Toxites, preface.

97. Paracelsus: Hohenheim, Philip Aureol Theophrast Bombast von. Astronomia Magna: Oder Die gantze Philosophia sagax der grossen

[Frankfurt am Main:] Martin Lechler for Hieronymus Feyerabend, 1571.

Folio. 321x208mm.[32],99,[2 blank],100-165ff=330,[2]p. First Edition. Handsome modern full calf with blind rolls, title gilt,old Benedictine (Of-

seck 1697) ownership inscription on t.p.., light dampstain to a few margins, occ.. foxing, pin wormholes in last two leaves(no text affected); tall copy, with ample margins, and with paper in fine condition. T.p.. in red and black with large printer's device by Jobst Amman, (repeated on recto of last leaf), decorative initials, tail-piece. "Paracelsus believed that the microcosmic state of man permitted the study of the universe, so that science and knowledge are possible. He called the study of nature and medicine 'astronomy,' and urged that every physician be an astronomer--that is, that he study the astra. Paracelsus' term astra denoted not so much the stars themselves and their influences on sublunary objects (so important in traditional astrology) as the essential virtues and functions of individual objects and their correspondences within all realms of nature, including the stars. "[DNB] "There is no one to comparable to Paracelsus, physician, astrologer, anthroposophist, theologian, mystic and magus. At a time when knowledge was assuming many ramifications, when faith was divided into opposing dogmas, when the earth was about to lose its proud position as the center of the universe, in short, when the old unified world structure collapsed, Paracelsus achieved what had seemed impossible: he wove his knowledge, practice and faith into one."[Seligmann] "Das Hauptwerk seines ganzen Lebens. Astronomia magna ist soviel wie geiste Naturgeschichte, eine adaptische Philosophie, die Kunst die 'durchzusehen' vermag, die unter der Oberflche die bewegenden geheimen Krfte findet. Mit dieser Schrift entspringt der grosse Traum des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, die weisse Magie."[ Peuckert, Paracelsus,365.] "First edition of Paracelsus' philosophical magnum opus, integrating cosmology, natural and occult philosophy, theology, and medicine on the basis of a theory of analogies and correspondences between macrocosm and microcosm." [Swann.] VD 16 P401. Sudhoff 131. Zinner 2551. Glasgow, Paracelsus,103. Esoterica 521. Wellcome I,4782. STC (Germ.) 138. Not in Caillet, Guita, Ouvaroff, Casanatense, Jouin, Hermetica, Gardner,Adams, Houzeau & Lancaster. $15000

dimostrazioni a maraviglia piu facili, e piu forti del le usate si vede che le Mathematiche per via Regia, e piu piana che da gli antichi fatto no(n) si e, si possono trattare. Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini, 1587. 4to. 210 x 149mm.4,A-2E4,F2. lacks errata leaf. First Edition. Early vellum,title in ms. on spine, small tears, edges speckled red, blank corner repairs to first leaves, old notes on rear endpaper; a fine clean crisp copy with very wide margins. Printer's mark on t.p. [Icarus] and on verso (obelisk) of last leaf, text cuts, historiated initals. "Patrizi [1529-1597] had interests in many different intellectual fields; he published works on poetry, history, rhetoric, literary criticism, metaphysics, ethics,

98. Patrizi, Francesco. Della Nuova Geometria...Libri XV. ne' quali con mirabile ordine, e con

natural philosophy, and mathematics, besides translating a number of Greek works into Latin. His thought is a characteristic blend of Platonism (in the widest sense in which the word is used when referring to the Renaissance) and natural philosophy, with a very strong anti-Aristotelian bent...Patrizi's importance in the history of science rest primarily on his highly original views concerning the nature of space, which have striking similarities to those later developed by Henry More and Isaac Newton...Rejecting the Aristotelian doctrines of horror vaculi and determinate 'place.' Patrizi argued that the physical existence of a void is possible and that space is a necessary precondition to all that exists in it. Space, for Patrizi, was 'merely the simple capacity (aptitudo) for receiving bodies, and nothing else.' It was no longer a category, as it was for Aristotle, but an indeterminate receptacle of infinite extent. His distinction between 'mathematical' and 'physical' space points the way toward later philosophical and scientific theories. The primacy of space (spazio) in Patrizi's system is seen in his Della nuova geometria...In it Patrizi attempted to found a system of geometry in which space was a fundamental, undefined concept the entered into the basic definitions (point, line, angle) of the system. The full impact of Patrizi's works on later thought has yet to be evaluated." [DSB] EDIT 16 (on-line) cnc30139 (not calling for errata leaf). Riccardi I,253 "Bella et rara edizione". Sommerville 3. PoggendorfII,374. BM STC (Ital.) 493. Marshall II,531. BPH Hermes Trismegistus 48. $4500

Frankfurt: Peter Fischer for Johann Feyeraband, 1594. 8vo. 256p. First Edition. Modern paste-paper boards, contemp. ownership inscription on t.p. "Ex Libris Thomae Ozdi Clandweiss? phil. et theol... Doct...," some browning, worming (some text losses), old marginalia. 4 (repeated) symbolic printer's marks, headand tail-pieces. "Penotus was born between 1520 and 1530 at Port-Sainte-Marie in Guienne. He studied at the University of Basle, and there seems to have been fascinated by the doctrines of Paracelsus, whom he subsequently styled an arch-plagarist, and to have devoted himself to the pursuit of the philosopher's stone. He lost all his money and was reduced to such a state of poverty that he had to go to the poor house of Yverdun in Switzerland, where, blind and in the direst want, he died at the age of ninety-eight years (Haag) about 1620, it is said. Before his death he told Fabricius Hildanus that if he had an enemy that he did not dare to attack by force, and yet wished to do him the greatest possible injury, he would urge him by all means he possessed to pursue alchemy." [Ferguson] VD 16 P1318. Bruning 661. Duveen 464. Neu 3120. Ferguson II,180 (Not in Young Collection). Ferguson, Glasgow, 553. Rosenthal, Magica, 681. $1750 100. Philo Judaeus, Aeneas von Gaza, & Athenagoras. Scriptores Eloquentissimi, Ac Philosophi Summi, Lucabrationes

99. Penot, Bernard Georges. Tractatus Varii, De Vera Praeparatione Et Usu Medicamentorum Chymicorum Nunc Primum Editi.

Omnes quotquot haberi potuerunt....Athenagoras De mortuorum resurrectione, Petro nannio interprete: & Aeneas Gazus De immortalitate animarum, Ioanne Vuolphio interprete... Sigismund Gelenius ed. & trans. with Johannes Wolf, Pieter Nanninck, Raffaello Maffei. Basle: Nikolaus Episcopius Junior, 1561. Folio.[8],720,[28]p. Contemp. vellum, spine defective with tears in vellum, title in ms., old library stamp on t.p.., marginal dampstain toward end. Printer's devices on t.p.., on verso of last leaf, large historiated initials. Philo of Alexandria (ca. 25 B.C.-ca. 50 A.D.), a hellenized Jew, was known for his two embassies to the imperial court at Rome as well as his love for Platonic philosophy. His own thoughts are the fusion between a high ethical monotheism and the transcendentalist theology of Platonism, and they laid the groundwork for the Christian philosophy which was to follow. His mystical platonism was to influence Christian neo-platonism. Gelenius (ca.1498-1554), a native of Prague, was a specialist in Greek, working for the Froben Press (Basel) as scholar, editor, corrector, and translator from the Greek. He is closely associated with both Erasmus and Melancthon, even dedicating his edition of Aristophanes to the latter, and is noted for his editions of Josephus, Appian, Velleius Paterculus, etc. as well as his edition of Philo which is offered here.There is also evidence that he also collaborated on several editions of Erasmus. This volume also contains Aeneas von Gaza's 'De Immortaltate animarum' in a Latin translation by Johannes Wolf and Athenagoras' 'De Mortuorum resurrectionme' translated by Pieter Nannick. VD 16 P2462 & VD16 A352 & VD 16 A4009. Adams P1030. Hoffmann III,70. $850 101. Philoponus, Joannes Grammaticus. [John of Alexandria] In Procli Diadochi Duodeviginti Argumenta. De Mundi Aeternitate... Joannes Mahotius trans. Lyon: Nicolas Edoard (Compagne des Libraries), 1557. Folio.[16],295p. Old vellum, stain on cover, rebacked in vellum lacks ties; medieval ms. used as sewing bands, old Jesuit ownership "Coll. Soc.tis Jesu Gandavi" dated 1628 on t.p., erasure on t.p. causing small hole (no loss), minor stains, archival repair on verso of last leaf (cancel?), (old stain from earlier cellotape repair), large margins, generally in clean crisp shape. "Philoponus was born between 475 and 480, probably at Alexandria where he was a member of the philosophical school established by Hermeias, a pupil of Syrianus, and was himself a pupil (in company perhaps with Boethius) of Ammonius...Philoponus abandoned his master's Aristotelianism for Stoic theory, of which he was the most brilliant exponent in the sixth century. At the same time he eliminated from his teaching everything that was incompatible with Christianism...He died soon after 565. The De aeternitate mundi contra Proclum was so called to distinguish it from another work of the same name which he wrote against Aristotle. its purpose is seen to have been to refute the doctrine of the Quintessence and thence to argue the contingency of the world...The refutation of the Quintessence

102. Pistorius, Johnnes,ed. [Includes: Johannes Reuchlin, Paolo Riccio, Leo Hebraeus,Archangelus de Burgo Novo; Gikatila; & the Sepher Yetzirah.] Artis Cabalisticae: Hoc Est, Recondite Theologiae Et Philosophiae, Scriptorum: Tomus I. In quo Pauli Ricii Theologicos & Philosopicos libros sunt Latini pene omnes & Hebraei nonnulli praestantissimi Scriptores...Opus Omnibus Theologis Et Occultae Abstrusaeq'ue Philosophiae Studiosis pernecessarium... Basle: Sebastian Henicpetri, 1587. Folio. 195 x 298mm.[50],979,[1]p. First Edition. Early vellum over boards, with front ties but lacking rear ties, gilt satmp of a crowned "F' on front cover in an circle, rear cover with gilt heraldric arms, headbands coming loose, marginal tear repared on t.p. and follwing leaf and left unrpired on the third (no text affected), minor margin worming in latter part of volume, a few leaves browned, but overall a very good clean crisp copy. "This very popular, varied, and lengthy tome of Latin translations, Writers of the Cabalistic Arts, was surely, if there was one, the Norton reader of cabala of the Renaissance. It was an anthology of what must have seemed to Pistorius as the most important or most accessible (and appealing) cabalistic texts. More volumes were planned, but this is the only one definitely known to have appeared. Nonetheless, there is probably no more important or influential publication on Cabala in the Renaissance, especially from a Christian (however, Lutheran-Protestant) point of view, than this book, which Blau even claims flatly was one of the most popular and widely read religious documents of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as well as a major conduit for the diffusion of Christian Cabala in English litertuare." [Philip Beitchman, Alchemy of the Word: Cabala of the Renaissance,1998.] This volume contains: Johannes Reuchlin's De Verbo Mirifico and De Arte Cabalistica; Paulus Riccio's De Coelesti Agricultura and various tracts; Leo the Hebrew's De Amore; Archangelus de Burgo Novo's Apologia; Gikatila's Sha'are orah; & the Sepher Yetzirah. VD 16 P3034. Adams P1315. BM STC (Germ.) 698. Caillet 8702 "Collection complete". Kabbalistica 914. Esoterica 3672. Hermetica 254. Scholem Coll. E3667. Wellcome 5059. Benzing, Reuchlin,105. Prijs, Basle, 144*. $17500

is part of the attack on the eternity of the world...It is eternal in the sense that it has no intrinsic cause of destruction. It is at rest in time, not an eternal rest...The De aeternitate...may have been intended as a demonstration that the Alexandrian school dissociated itself from the teaching of Proclus...or...as an attack on it for persisting in it...Philoponus accuses Proclus of misinterpreting Plato...The eternity of the world, therefore, does not follow from the eternity of the Form which, for the period of the existence of the Cosmos, is its exemplar." [Cambridge Hist. of Later Greek & Early Med. Philosophy, pp477-83.] His arguments were used by Maimonides and arabic philosophers. Adams P1062. Baudrier IV, 107. Brunet III,544. Graesse IV,466. Hoffmann II,441. BM STC (French) 245. Sarton I,422. $2250

103. Pistorius, Johnnes,ed. Artis Cabalisticae... Basle: Sebastian Henicpetri, 1587. Folio. 315 x 199 mm.

First Edition. Thus. Later 1/2 morocco, old stamp on t.p. faded and on a4v Capuchin library of Naples, fine crisp copy, minor pin wormholes. T.p. in architectural border. A translation of the spurious 'Peri ton areskonton philosophois phusikon dogmaton' by Guillaume Bud. "The Placitis philosophorum' ascribed to Plutarch is one of our main sources (though itself second hand) for the study of ancient philosophy." [Sarton] Regarded since the seventeenth century as pseudepigraphic because of its verbal similarities to other doxographical treatises, De placitis philosophorum sets forth, in Books I-III, the opinions of Greek natural philosophers on the questions of the makeup of the cosmos and on the operation of various celestial phenomena, while Books IV-V treat of questions relating to the function of the human soul and to the nature of human reproduction and physiology. While obviously selective in its content and generally superficial in its treatment, the treatise nevertheless preserves much interesting material on topics widely debated in ancient philosophical circles. EDIT 16 (on-line) cnc 30300 (1 copy only). Hoffmann III,201. Durling/NLM3698.1. RLIN adds 3 copies in US [Folger, Harvard, Bancroft]. $1500

Bude, ed. & trans.

104. Plutarch, pseudo. De Placitis Philosophorum Naturalibus Libri Quinq. Guillaume Rome: Jacob Mazochius [Giacomo Mazzocchi], 1510. 4to. [8],xlff=80p.

First Edition. 18th c. calf with center devices in gilt with climbing vines and cornflowers, rebacked, banded spint, tilte on red morocco label gilt, endpapers renewed, edges red, small corner repair to t.p., old crease in t.p.,some leaves lightly browned, occ. foxing, tear in last leaf repared; tall copy with wide margins. $18500

In Latinum Tralatae, Atque Expositae. Eiusdem Pontani Libri XIIII. De Reb. Coeslestibus. Liber Etiam De Luna Imperfectus. Venice: Aldus & Andreas Torresano, 1519. 4to in 8s. 205 x 132mm. 310ff=602,[38]p. First Aldine Edition. Contemp. calf in panel design with central Venetian device, spine banded, title on old paper label, covers rubbed, headcaps worn off, lacks ties, corners opened, old owner's note on f.f.e.p. "Leonhardi Nyschelin Tiguriai,1774."light dampstain at head in second half, large margins, paper in fine condition. Aldine device on verso of last leaf.

105. Pontanus, Joannes Jovius (Giangioviano or Giovanni Giovaino Pontano) & Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolomaeus). Centum Ptolemaei Sententiae Ad Syrum Fratem A Pontano E Graeco

Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) humanist, diplomat, scholar, and poet. He was the driving forces behind the Neaploitan Academy and its official leader after 1471. He was secretary of state in Naples in 1486. He was also considered to be able to write pastoral poetry as good as, or superior to, his classical models. "Like Ficino, Pontano undoubtedly acquired his taste for astrology early in life. His first teacher was Gregorius Tifernas, a master of the Greek tongue but, nonetheless, an adept in astrology. When Pontano came first to Naples, he met Lorenzo Bonincontri, who was, next to Pontano, the greatest astrological poet of the Italian Quattrocento....The earliest astrological compositions of Pontano are the translation of and commentary on the preudo-Ptolemaic Centiloquio and the early books of the De rebus coelestibus...As one turns over the pages of the De rebus coelestibus one is struck by the fact that one is reading a handbook of social psychology as well as a textbook of astrology...he took the view that the perfect, incorruptible skies had a shaping power over the corruptible sublunary matter...Pontano passes over the spiritual element, the divine soul...It is this startling silence that turns Pontano's astrological system into a milestone in the history of social psychology. Pontano''s theory that the matter of man is inclined by stellar influences establishes the necessity of a horoscope. If one knows in advance what one's inclinations are, one can shape one's character according to these dispositions if they are good, and check those weaknesses that are unsocial...In this book Pontano defends astrology vigorously by showing that the sciences of which Pico approved are filled with errors, and by asserting that astrology is the most certain science. " [Don Cameron Allen, The Star-Crossed Renaissance,1941.] Nostradamus quotes his first proposition of the commentary on pseudoPtolemy: 'Soli numine divino afflati praesagiunt & spiritu prophetico particularia' ['Only those inspired by the divine godhead can prophesy, and only those inspired by the spirit of prophecy can prophesy detailed events' . This volume contains Pontanus' Latin translation of the Greek text of Ptolomy's "Centrum sententiae' with Pontanus' extensive commentary, as well as, Pontanus' astronomical works, 'De rebus coelestis," and De luna imperfectus, and other short philosophical texts. An edition appeared in 1512 of Pontano's astrological works contained in this volume, but this is the first reissue of these works designed to compliment Aldus' 1518 edition of his literary writings in two volumes. CNCE 47484. BM STC (Italian) 542,533. Adams P2215. Ahmanson-Murphy 161. Ransom 164. Houzeau-Lancaster I,3644. Renouard 87,7.Caillet 8828 "Plein de verve et d'esprit, mais d'une excessive obscenite(?)." Riccardi 303. Brunet IV,808. Hoffmann III,328 (Later ed.) $4500

106. Pontanus, Joannes Jovius (Giangioviano or Giovanni Pontano) & Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolomaeus). Opera Omnia Soluta Oratione Composita. [with] De Asiratione, Charon,

Antonius, Actius, Aegidius, Asinus, De Sermone, Belli...[with] Centum Ptolemaei Sententiae Ad Syrum Fratem A Pontano E Graeco In Latinum Tralatae, Atque Expositae. Eiusdem Pontani Libri XIIII. De Reb. Coeslestibus. Liber Etiam De Luna

8vo. 3 vols. 213 x 127 mm.[8], 327ff=654; 318ff=636; 301ff=602,[34]p. First Collected Edition. 19th c. Italian vellum , blindstamp of George Fortescue on front covers, titles on leather labels (one volume doesn't quite match in color(, edges colored Vol 1: t.p. repaired at foreedge, top of r7 extended; Vol. 2: t.p. washed with faded annotations, numerous contemporary annotations, d6-e6 upper maargin extended, minor stains; Vol 3: corner of front board restored with leather, wormhole through volume (sometimes affecting text), some of them repaired in inner balnk margin, annoations in an old hand . Aldine device on title leaf of first volume & verso of last leaf of volume three. EDIT 16 cnc47484. BM STC (Italian) 542,533. Adams P2215. Ahmanson-Murphy 168, 178, 183. Ransom 152, 163 & 164. Renouard 82,3; 87,6; 87,7.Caillet 8828 "Plein de verve et d'esprit, mais d'une excessive obscenite(?)." Riccardi 303. Brunet IV,808. Hoffmann III,328 (Later ed.) Houzeau-Lancaster I,3644. $5500

Imperfectus.

Venice: Aldus Manutius & Andrea Soceri {Torresanus], 1518-1519.

107. [Prophecy] Mirabilis liber qui prophetias Revelationesq(ue) necnon res mirandas
p(r)eteritas presentes [et] futuras: aperte demonstrat...Sensuyt la seco(n)de partie de ce livre...

leaves. 220,56pp. 18th c. sheep in panel design, spine banded, gilt flowers in compartments, title-label on red morocco, small worm holes in spine & front hinge, edges speckled blue; owners name on contemp. hand on t.p., 7 pages of notes in French in a clear 18th c. hand at end; very good copy on good paper. T.p. in red and black, some other pages use red ink in head-lines; decorated crible initials. First half of the book is in Latin in Gothic type, second part in French set in batard. "the Mirabilis Liber was the first prophetic compilation to be printed in France and, indeed, one of the first substantial prphetic texts of any kind to interest a French printer....The work offers a remarkable collection of major prophetic texts, together with a number of new prophecies and related material...The compiler's interest in the French claim to the World Emperor prophecy is thus indisputable. But he appears equally interested in the Angelic Pope propecy...The Mirbabilis Liber popularized in sixteenth-century France a tradition of prophecy which Postel was to exploit to the limit of its potential, but whose narrative form and religious preoccupations the new prophecy of Nostradamus was largely to abandon...In later centuries the Mirablilis Liber enjoyed intermittent bursts of renewed popularity. During the French Revolution the prophecy including reference to the captivity of the King was circulated in various forms, and there was a rush of visitors to the Bibliotheque Nationale wanting to see the Mirabilis Liber; an unfortunate librarian got into trouble with the revolutionary authorities. In the nineteenth century a translation of the whole book was made; it was published in 1831

Paris: [Ambroise Girault?] On les vend a Paris au lyon dargent en la Rue sainct Jaques, [1524.] 8vo. 2 parts in1 vol. A-N8 O4; a-c8 d4. cx,xxviii

by Edouard Bricon, who in his preface advances the case for the belief in special revelations and expresses the hope that the book will be removed from the Index. Ninetenth-century catalogues frequently mention the belief that the book had prophesied events of the Revolution; learly this had vecome a good selling point." [Britnell & Stubbs] "It is a collection of predictions concerning the saints and the sibyls. It is surprising to find in the edition of 1522 a prophecy of the French Revolution. The expulsion and abolition of the nobility, the violent death of the king and the queen, the persecution of the clergy, the supression of convents, are all mentioned therein, followed by a further porophecy that the eagle coming from distant lands would re-establish order in France. [ Lewis Spence, Ency. of Occultism.] Part I, in Latin, contains: 1. Pseudo-Methodius, pseudo-Augustinus, pseudo-Servus; 2. Pronosticatio de Johannes Lichtenberger; 3. Vaticinia de summis pontificiis of pseudo-Gioacchino da Fiore, De angelico pastore of Telesforo da Cosenza, extracts from the third part of the Pars historialis of Antoninus Florentinus; 4. Revelatio de Tribulationibus of Girolamo Savonarola, extracts of Jean de Roquetaillade, a letter of Louis II, King of Hungary, and Pope Leo X. The second part, in French, is from material by Michel Lesclencher. The address at the end implies it was printed between 1524-28 by Antoine Girault (See Renouard:Repertoire des Imprimeurs, 172. and Britnell & Stubbs.) Jennifer Britnell & Derek Stubbs "The Mirabilis Liber..." in the Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Inst. v49 (1986) 147:C3. Moreau IV, 238. Adams M1468 [Incorrectly described as Jehan Petit, 1521]. Caillet 7591. "ouvrage fort rare." Guiata 726. Esoterica 3103. Rosenthal, Magica, 1411. Olschki, Choix, 13457 "Edition tres rare de ce livre fort interessant et curieux." Brunet III,1741. Copinger 3573. $3500 nia. Contra Symmachum, praefectu(m)urbis, libri duo. Enchiridion Novi & Veteris testamenti. In calce adiecta sunt aliquot scholia, per Ioannem Sichardum. Johann Sichard ed. Basle: Andreas Cratander, 1527. 8vo. A-2F8,2G4. [16],454,[2]pp. First Edition with Sichards commentary. Contemp. limp vellum, lacks ties, soiled and wrinkled, spine has some breaks and slight loss; large margins, occ. stains in margins, printers name at end censored; large margins. Printers device [Fortuna] on verso of last leaf, historiated initials. "A Christian poet, born in the Tarraconensis, Northern Spain, 348; died probably in Spain, after 405...He practised law with some success, and in later life deplored the zeal he had devoted to his profession. He was twice provincial governor, perhaps in his native country, before the emperor summoned him to court. Towards the end of his life Prudentius renounced the vanities of the world to practise a rigorous asceticism, fasting until evening and abstaining entirely from animal food...The two principal didactic poems are the "Apotheosis", on the dogma of the Trinity, and the "Hamartigenia", on the origin of sin. One is somewhat astonished

108. Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius. Psychomachia, Cathemerion, Peristephanon, Apotheosis. Hamartige-

to find Prudentius attacking ancient heresies, such as those of Sabellius and Marcian, and having nothing to say on Arianism. It is due to the fact that he closely follows and imitates Tertullian, whose rugged genius resembles his own. These poems are interesting examples of passionate, glowing abstractions, precise exposition being combined with poetic fantasy. ..Orthodoxy is his great preoccupation in these poems, and he invokes all kinds of punishments on heresy... The "Psychomachia "is the model of a style destined to be lovingly cultivated in the Middle Ages, i. e., allegorical poetry, of which before Prudentius only the merest traces are found (in such authors as Apuleius, Tertullian, and Claudian)...A genius more powerful than pliant, Prudentius displays a more versatile and richer talent than that of his pagan contemporary, Claudian. The rhetoric he disparages, he himself misuses; he often exaggerates, but is never commonplace. The superior of many pagan poets, among the Christian he is the greatest and the most truly poetic." [Catholic Ency.] VD 16 P5129. Adams P2180. Palau 239825. Panzer VI,261,673. $750 mentarius. Theodore Pulmann [Poelman] & Victor Giselinus [Ghyselinck], eds. & Erasmus Desiderius comm. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1564. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. A-Y8;A-K8,L4.350, [2]; [168] pp. First Edition thus. Early 17th. c. red paneled morocco (English?), gilt, spine gilt in compartments, chipped at ends, hinge cracked, a.e.g., contemp. signature "Bertherand" on t.p., some pencil notes, cut close at top and fore-edge with a few side notes touched. Plantin device on t.p.s. "A Christian poet, born in the Tarraconensis, Northern Spain, 348; died probably in Spain, after 405...He practiced law with some success, and in later life deplored the zeal he had devoted to his profession. He was twice provincial governor, perhaps in his native country, before the emperor summoned him to court. Towards the end of his life Prudentius renounced the vanities of the world to practice a rigorous asceticism, fasting until evening and abstaining entirely from animal food...The two principal didactic poems are the "Apotheosis", on the dogma of the Trinity, and the "Hamartigenia", on the origin of sin. One is somewhat astonished to find Prudentius attacking ancient heresies, such as those of Sabellius and Marcian, and having nothing to say on Arianism. It is due to the fact that he closely follows and imitates Tertullian, whose rugged genius resembles his own. These poems are interesting examples of passionate, glowing abstractions, precise exposition being combined with poetic fantasy. ..Orthodoxy is his great preoccupation in these poems, and he invokes all kinds of punishments on heresy... The "Psychomachia "is the model of a style destined to be lovingly cultivated in the Middle Ages, i. e., allegorical poetry, of which before Prudentius only the merest traces are found (in such authors as Apuleius, Tertullian, and Claudian)...A genius more powerful than pliant, Prudentius displays a more versatile and richer talent than that of his pagan contemporary, Claudian. The rhetoric he disparages, he himself misuses; he often exaggerates, but is never commonplace. The superior of many pagan poets, among

109. Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens. Opera [bound with] Victoris Giselini, In Aurelii Prudentii...Opera, Com-

the Christian he is the greatest and the most truly poetic." [Catholic Ency.] Giselinus was a Flemish physician and humanist (1534-1591)," After Latin school at Bruges, he went c.1588 to study classic authors and philosophy at the University of Louvain. In 1561 he left for Paris. On his return to the Netherlands he worked as occasional proof-reader for Plantin..."[Voet] This part includes Easmus' commentary on Prudentius' two hymns. Pulmannus [1512-1581] "Brabant Humanist. "He was...by inclination, an humanist and edited an impressive number of classical authors, for the larger part published by his friend Plantin." [Voet] Adams P2186. Voet 2113 & 1250. Dibdin (4) II, 359 "A very elegant and excellent edition." Palau 239831. $750

110. Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens. Opera. Victor Giselinus [Ghyselinck], ed Paris: Hieronymus de Marnes, 1566. Small 8vo. a-z8, A-L8. 540, [2]pp.

lucida demonstatio ...e idiomate Italico in Latinum trasusa: Christianae pietas modu(m) methodum que co(m)plectens: hacenus quide(m) a piis probe que fidelibus cunvtis summe desiderata, ac iam tandem postmultos labores exhibita. [Including: Liber Divinae Doctrinae, Datae per personem... virginis Cheterinae de Senis.] Dietrich Loher, ed. & trans. Cologne: Jaspar van Gennep, 1553. Folio. a4, A-O6, P-Z4, a-p4 [gather o is bound after p], q5 [lacks q6, blank]. [8], 185, [2]p.Errors in foliation. Attractive contemp. blind-tooled calf, a few wormholes, corners a bit bumped, head & tail of spine defective, lacks ties, later leather label on spine; brownish stain to first and last leaves, minor foxing, from "Bibl. Prov. Germ. Inferioris" with release, library stamps on t.p. & B5, 4 leaves misbound (175-8 afer 180.], pencil note on t.p.Historiated Initials. Catherine of Sienna, Saint, born 25 March, 1347; died at Rome, 29 April, 1380."From her earliest childhood Catherine began to see visions and to practise extreme austerities. At the age of seven she consecrated her virginity to Christ; in her sixteenth year she took the habit of the Dominican Tertiaries, and renewed the life of the anchorites of the desert in a little room in her father's house. After three

111. Raimundo of Capua [de Vineis] & Catherine of Sienna. Theologia Mysticae, Mirabulum scilcet, & inscrutabilium operum Dei

Full old calf, original boards, rebacked, blind tooled ruling and panelling, gold stamped fleure at all four corners and center of each board, corners worn. Banded spine with title in gilt lettering. Light browing and foxing with occasional dampstain; wormhole in upper right corners of H5-L8, never effecting text. Bottom edge of a1(t.p.) trimmed short, but with no effect on text; names in old hand and side edge worn on same. Printer's device on t.p., engraved initials, head and tail pieces. This edition is based on the 1564 Plantin edition. Not in BM STC (France.), or Adams. See Palau 239830 "Edicion correcta y muy apreciada por los comentarios de Giselini." $500

years of celestial visitations and familiar conversation with Christ, she underwent the mystical experience known as the "spiritual espousals", probably during the carnival of 1366. She now rejoined her family, began to tend the sick, especially those afflicted with the most repulsive diseases, to serve the poor, and to labour for the conversion of sinners... he began to gather disciples round her, both men and women, who formed a wonderful spiritual fellowship, united to her by the bonds of mystical love. During the summer of 1370 she received a series of special manifestations of Divine mysteries, which culminated in a prolonged trance, a kind of mystical death, in which she had a vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, and heard a Divine command to leave her cell and enter the public life of the world. She began to dispatch letters to men and women in every condition of life, entered into correspondence with the princes and republics of Italy, was consulted by the papal legates about the affairs of the Church, and set herself to heal the wounds of her native land by staying the fury of civil war and the ravages of faction...Among Catherine's principal followers were Fra Raimondo delle Vigne, of Capua (d. 1399), her confessor and biographer, afterwards General of the Dominicans, and Stefano di Corrado Maconi (d. 1424), who had been one of her secretaries, and became Prior General of the Carthusians. Raimondo's book, the "Legend", was finished in 1395... The works of St. Catherine of Siena rank among the classics of the Italian language..." [Catholic Ency.] Rare Cologne edition of this famous biography of Catherine of Sienna, printed with a Latin translation of her Dialogo della divina dottrina, her book on her meditations and revelations. VD 16 R133. Adams V 840. $2250 Aristoteles.

112. [Ramus, Petrus] La Ramee, Pierre de. Scholarum Physicarum Libri Octo, in totidem Acroamaticos libros Frankfurt: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1583. 8vo. a8,2a-o8,p2. [16],213,[15]pp.
Joannes Piscator, ed.

Later cloth backed paper boards,stain on d5, g6 underline, else very good copy. Wechel device on t.p. "The same separation of theory and practice led Ramus to discard completely Aristotle's Physics as a suitable text for natural philosophy. In terms that Bacon would later echo, Ramus argued that the Physics dealt not with natural phenomena but with logical analysis addressed to concepts rooted in the mind alone...in particular, despite Aristotle's strictures, astronomy, optics, and mechanics formed an integral part of physics, even if it was more convient to teach them separately or as subtopics of geometry. Ramus' broad view of this subject remained largely programmatic. His Scholae physicae appeared in 1565; but he never did write a textbook..." [DSB] VD 16 L537. Adams P130. $1500

113. Rantzau [Rantzovius], Henrik [Heinrich] von. Tractatus Astrologicus, De Genethliacorum Thematum Judiciis Prosin-

gulis nati accidentibus. Ex Vetustis Et Optimis quibusque auctoribus. Secunda Editio multo auctior & emendatior.

4to. a-d4,A-4E4,4F3,4G2. [32],601,[2],[1]pp. 19th c. marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in calf,spine banded, blind-tooled, title in gilt on green leather label, bookplate of Walter Arthur Copinger,1847-1910, professor of law, antiquary and bibliographer, with his signature on f.f.e.p., browned throughout, minor marginal stains, worming at end mostly marginal heavier on last two leaves (minor losses), last leaf laid-down. L a r g e printer's device on recto of last leaf, text diagrams and geniture, head- and tailpieces. "Heinrich Rantzau (1526-98) was an important figure in Northern Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century. He was a wealthy nobleman and an influential statesman within the lands of the Danish king. But what has secured his fame until today is first and foremost his literary and scholarly activities. He was a patron of literature and science on a grand scale, supporting an impressive number of academics all over the German speaking area and the Netherlands." Rantzau was influential in the publication of Georg Braunius' great topographical work Civitates Orbis Terrarum. He wrote didactic poem on dreams, a treatise on health, De conservanda valetudine, a treatise on warfare, some collections of poetry , and several textbooks on astrology and chronology. As early as 1570 he published a historical work on the conquest of Dithmarschen in 1559, which was published pseudonymously. At the time of his death, he had a topographical description of Schleswig-Holstein ready for print. It has been suggested that Georg Ludwig Froben (1566-1645) may have edited his astrological works. "Especially in the case of the Tractatus Astrologicus, which is a compilation of texts on astrological themes, he may well have done more than the final editing. But we cannot say how much. He was employed as a teacher, but in reality he must have spent a large part of his working time editing Rantzau's books as a sort of humanist in residence." [Peter Zeeberg. Heinrich Rantzau (1526-98) and his humanist collaborators: The examples of Reiner Reineccius and Georg Ludwig Froben. On-line] The second edition nearly doubles the number of pages of the first edition and is the basis for all subsequent reprints of the work. VD 16 R257.Gardner, Astrologica, 1068. Zinner 3587. Houzeau & Lancaster 4965. Rosenthal, Magica, 3509. Caillet 9143 (other eds. 'plus completes." Not in Adams, BM STC (Germ.) $3000 Angliae quondam Doctoribus Scholae Salernitanae versibus conscripta...Cum luculenta & succincta Arnoldi Villanouani... Frankfurt: Christian Egenolph, 1573. [bound with] tomo illustratus.

[Wittenberg:] [Christoph Axin for] Wolfgang Meisner, 1594.

114. [Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum] & Helius Eobanus Hessus. Conservandae Bona Valetudinis Praecepta Longe Saluberrima, Regi

Helius Eobanus Hessus. De tuenda bona valetudine libellus, commentariis a Joanne PlacoFrankfurt: Christian Egenolph,1571.
8vo.

[16],280,[8];[[8],185,[6]pp. Contemp. German pigskin with elaborate blind tooling, center cameo of Justice (Davenport XCIV) and Lucretia (Davenport XCIX, this vesion is not inverted) ; original clasps intact, large armorial bookplate, old owner's name on t.p. crossed-out, paper lightly toned--a very nice copy. T.p.s in red and black, Curio: 60 text woodcuts by Weiditz, Beham, et al. Eobanus: 22 text cuts. The Regimen was probably written near 1100 and claims to be from the School of Salerno. "The work itself is actually a catch-all of advice and instruction on how to preserve health, rules of hygiene and diet, simple therapeutics, and other instruction intended more for the laity than for the medical profession...this collective effort remains one of the most revealing medical works of the Middle Ages...Commentaries on the Regimen were common and one of the most famous of these is that of Arnaldus de Villanova, included in the present work, edited by Joannes Curio (d.1561), a German physician." [Hiers to Hippocrates.] Eobanus (1488-1540) was called the German Homer. He taught at Herfort, Nuremburg and Marpurg. He prided himself on his excessive drinking. This work is one of his most famous, with chapters on daily life, wine, food, water; divination; medicine etc. It similarity of subject caused it to be not infrequently found bound with Curio's work. Curio: VD 16 R582. Choulant, Handbuch, 27. Durling/NLM 3814. Vicaire 314. Richter 352. Pauli, Beham503. Eobanus: VD 16 E1476. Durling/NLM 2293. Caillet 3633. Simon, Bacchica,II,221. Richter 319. $3750

supplementary leaf to folio 589. Printed in Hebrew reversed order. First Edition. 18th c. vellum, spine label slightly chipped, cover partly split at foreedges; stamps inked-over (some offsetting) on t.p. and last leaf; p507-8 corner off (no loss); light browning, a few stains and some finger soiling, occ. marginal tears; overall a very clean, crisp copy.. Large woodcut Palatine arms & printer's mark at rear, some Hebrew text. Reuchlin (1455-1522) was one of the foremost humanists of the Renaissance. He believed that he could most successfully learn ancient wisdom through a thorough grounding in Hebrew and it is his work that founded Christian Hebrew studies. He also studied Kabbalistic disciplines and founded a school of Christian Kabbalah. He was frequently at odds with the church authorities over his "hebraizing." He refused to join in Pfefferkorn's crusade to destroy all of Hebrew learning. He was drawn into the "Battle of the Books" against his will but he fought to save Hebrew learning. He was even accused of heresy, but acquitted by Pope Leo X. His most famous work is his De rudimentis Hebraicis" which he began shortly after he visited Trithemius at Sponheim. It comprises a lexicon and student's guide to Hebrew grammar (based on the work by David Kimhi). "...the Rudimenta was in fact the real pioneering work of its kind by a Christian scholar." [Ency.

115. Reuchlin, Johann. Principium libri (De rudimentis Hebraicis). Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1506. Folio. 620,[4]pp. This copy has the rare

Judaica] BM STC (Germ.) 732. Adams R383. VD16 R1252. Benzing, Reuchlin,90. Alberts, Anshelm,29. Furst II,151. Geiger 110. $7500 Lull; Michael Savanarola; & Guilhelmo Gratarolo;.

...de consideratione Quintae Essentiae rerum omnium, opus sane egregium. Accessere Arnaldi de Villanova Epistola de Sanguine humano distillato. Raymund Lulliii Ars operativa, & alia quaedam. Michaelis Savanarolae libellus optimus de Aquae Vitae, nunc valde correctior quam ante annos LXX editus... Guglielmo Gratarola, ed. Basle: Conrad Waldkirch, 1597. 8vo. A-S8, T4.292,[4]p. Contemp. limp vellum, title in calligraphic hand on spine, tears in spine, lacks ties, browning, a few notes and underlines. "John de Roquetaillade, better known as Rupescissa, was a Franciscan monk who lived at Aurillac inA quitaine in the fourteenth century... He criticised the clergy and the pope, and uttered prophecies about kings and states. So he was put in prision by Innocent VI. about 1356 or 1357, and remained there till his reputed liberation in 1378 by Urban VI., though some say that he died in prision, others that he was burned in 1362, while still others affirm him to have been buried at Villefranche near Lyons... During his confinement he wrote his different works, including those about alchemy, basing his knowledge on former practical experience. On this latter ground he had a great reputation as one of the masters of the art, and he boasted of a quintessence of which one part could transmutate 100 parts of mercury into gold or silver." [Ferguson] "Arnaldus being one of the great authorities naming alchemists, his name is mentioned in all the histories... He lived in the thirteeth century, devoted himself to Chemistry and Medicine, and afterwards to Physics; then took up the study of Arabic philosophy, went to Italy and returned to Spain, and was in favour with James II., King of Aragon.Ultimately he went to Paris and acquired a great reputation by his attainments." [Ferguson] Lull (ca. 1232-1315) Spanish philosopher, alchemist, Catholic martyr. His works on occult philosophy, memory, and alchemy were basic to Renaissance magic. "As the inventor of a method which was to have an immense influence throughout Europe for centuries, Lull is an extremely important figure. Lullism is a precursor of scientific method. Lullian astral medicine developed into PseudoLullian alchemy. The great figures of Renaissance Neoplatonism include Lulliiam in their interests, and naturally so since Lullism was the precursor of their ways of thinking. And from the point of history of religion and of religious toleration, surely we admire Lull's vision in taking advantage of the unique concentration of Christian, Moslem, and Jewish traditions..."{Francis Yates,Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age,1979.] Giovanni Michele Savonarola, (1384-1464) physician and professor of medicine of Padua and Ferrara.His treatise on wine and alcohol "...declares that the art of alchemy is most true, but that the ignorance and avarice of its practition-

116. Rupescissa, John of [Jean de Roquetaillade]; Arnauld de Villanova; Ramon

ers make it seem false, since they conceal their processes from other men under unknown nomenclature and terminology." [Thorndike] Grataroli (1516-1568), "No one man in the sixteenth century did more to circulate and to perpetuate a varied selection of curious works, past and present, in the fields of medicine, natural science and occult science...[Thorndike] VD 16 ZV 8722. Adams R945. Bruning 703. Duveen Supp. 334. Ferchl 461. Ferguson II, 306 (not in Young Collection). Gmelin I, 58. Schmidler 187:1. Simon, Bacchica 580ff (other eds.) [See: Thondike V, 602.] $2500 Referti Iterum Impressi. Eiusdem De rerum Inventoribus Libri II. ijs maxim, quorum nulla mentio est apud Polidorum. Nunc primum in lucem editi, In Quibus Omnium Scientiarum omniumq[ue] fer rerum principium quoddam qum breuissim continetur. Mainz: Gottfried van Kempen for Franz Behem, 1577. 8vo.*8 A-N8 a-d8 e4. [16], 207, [1]; 64, [6] p. First Edition of the second part. 18th c. calf, rubbed, spine gilt, lacks title-label; edges speckled; manuscript exlibris entry of Thomas Dannet (fl. 1566-1601, translator of Guicciardini and Comines) from the Pembroke library. Decorated initials. Alessandro Sardi (1520-1588) Italian historian from Ferrara. Like his father Gaspar Sardi, he devoted his life to study. Sardi navait quune passion, letude; mais siil ajoutait sans cesse a la somme de ses connaissances, il se preoccupait bein plus aussi den faire etalage que dy puiser avec discernement. [Hoefer] His work on the rituals of the ancients was first published in 1557. This is the first edition of his supplement to the work by Polydore Vergil on inventions which was often reprinted with editions of that important source book. VD 16 S1805. Adams S423. Graesse; VI, 1, 271. OCLC: 43121051. $1000 beschehener Erledigung einer Junckfrauen die mit zwolffausent sechs hundert zwey und funffzig Teufel besessen gewesen. Ingolstadt: David Sartor, 1584.A-I4. [8],63,[1]. [bound after] Wynich: Eine Christliche Leichpredigt Auff dem Catholischen Regangnuss dess Edlen...Johann von Bothmer...Hildesheimischen gewesen Statthalters... Cologne: Nicolas Graphaeus, 1586. ):(4,A-H4. {35],[1]pp.4to. 2 works in 1 vol. First Editions. Later vellum, with ties, yapp fore-edge, title in ms. on spine, text sewing loosened, light dampstain on inner top corner, paper in very good condition, last leaf of Scherer has blank bottom excised (no loss of text). Scherer t.p. in woodcut decorative border and printed in red and black, Wynich t.p. also in red and black. Georg Scherer (1540-1605) Pulpit orator and controversialist...entered the

117. Sardi, Alessandro. De Moribus Ac Ritibus Gentium Lib. III. Omni Rerum Varietate

118. Scherer, Georg & Heinrich Wynich. Scherer: Christliche Erinnerung, Bey der Historien von jungst

119. Scotus, Michael; or Theobaldo Anguilberto; or Conradus de Halberstadt, the younger; attributed authors. Mensa ph[ilosoph]ica Optime custos valitudi[ni]s studiosis juvenib[us] apparata no[n] min[us] s[e]n[tent]ia[rum] gravitate co[n]ducibilis [quam] facetia[rum] enarratio[n]e delectabilis. Theobaldo Anguilberto, prefatory letter. Paris: Jean Petit, 1500, April 12 [1512?]. 8vo. Outer page size157 x 120mm. [inner page size approx.123 x 78 mm] A-H8, I7. [Collates the same as Yale copy-without l8 presimably a blank] 71 leaves. 19th c. gilt paneled vellum with morocco lettering piece, spine darkened, marbled endpapers, scattered early marginalia; all leaves trimmed and mounted, single pinworm hole (some letters just affected), tear with loss to top line of penultimate leaf, last leaf restored at top with loss of first five lines on recto and partial loss on verso, crack in leaf. Colophon intact. Petit device on t.p. [Renouard 888. Haebler XI.] Variously attributed to Michael Scott (Scotus); Theobaldus Anguilbertus of Ieland and Conrad of Halberstadt, the younger. "The Mensa philosophica is a dietary manual treating the effects of different foods and drinks on the body and the proper diets of people in each condition of life, from emperors to paupers, concluding with the eating habits of good women, bad women, married women, well-behaved widows and virgins. The man-

Society of Jesus in 1559. Even before his ordination he was famed for his preaching powers. For over forty years he labored in the Archduchy of Austria. To Scherer, in part, it owes the retention of the Faith. In 1577 he was Court preacher to the Archduke Matthias; he retained the post until 1600. In 1590 he was appointed Rector of the Jesuit College at Vienna; the sternness of his character scarcely fitted him for the office, and he was transferred (1694) to Linz. He died of apoplexy. The story of his being struck blind in the pulpit, after having exclaimed: "If the Catholic Church is not the True Church, may I become blind," is a pure invention (cf. Guilhermy). Scherer was a man of boundless energy and rugged strength of character, a strenuous controversialist, a genuinely popular orator and writer. He vigorously opposed the Tubingen professors who meditated a union with the Greek Schismatics, refuted Lutheran divines like Osiander and Heerbrand, and roused his countrymen against the Turks. Believing like his contemporaries that the State had the right to put witches to death, he maintained, however, that since they were possessed, the principal weapons used against them should be spiritual ones, e.g. exorcisms, prayer. Scherer's severe attitude towards witchcraft did not meet the approval of his general, Acquaviva. His eloquence and zeal made many converts, amongst them the future Cardinal Khlesl." [Catholic Encyclopedia] Wynich was a preacher and theologian in Hildesheim. He was the author of a few sermons and funeral orations. Our biographical sources do not locate any further information on him. Scherer: VD 16 S2685. Cornell, Witchcraft, 488. De Backer/ Sommervogel VII,750,5. Hohenemser 450. RLIN finds also a copy at Harvard. Wynich: VD 16 W4696. No copy in RLIN or OCLC. $800

ual, which summarizes medieval medical lore, offers a "wellness program" modeled after the preachers' moral sermons ad status. In the Scholastic manner, the third book treats disputed questions about health, for example, "Whether air is more necessary to life than food?", invoking such contrary authorities as Avicenna and Constantinus Africanus." The 4th part contains jests, anecdotes, repartees, etc., some of which reappear in later jest-books, designed to represent the type of conversation most appropriate for students in hours of relaxation at table), Though the date of this edition is 1500, the address of Petits shop and the printers device shows it to be of later vintage. Goff M496. Hain/Copinger 11081. Klebs 225 (note). Schullian 312. Moreau/Renouard II, 228. IGI 6367. IBP 3707. Ohly-Sack 1980a. Wilhelmi 423a. Proctor II,826. BM STC (French) 18. BSB M332. ISTC 00496000-E.Simon, Bacchica, 110. Simon, Gastronomia 12.Vicaire 778. Brunet III, 1636. Bitting 424 (1514 ed.) See also: Ferguson, Glasgow, p458 (other eds.). $2500 catecheticae duodecim.

8vo. *8,A-N8. {N8 blank except for page bor[12],209,[3]pp. Old vellum, spine darkened, covers rubbed, contents toned, early underscoring and marginalia, top of t.p. excised (no text loss). T.p. in red and black. Stapleton, Thomas, D.D. 1535-1598, catholic controversialist. "Stapleton's fame as a controversialist had spread all over Europe, and Pope Clement VIII esteemed his writings so highly that he ordered portions of them to be read publicly at his table. Wood calls Stapleton the most learned Roman catholic of all his time, and it is generally admitted that he was a most skilful controversialist. Even his chief adversary, William Whitaker, paid a willing tribute to his powers and erudition. " [DNB] This rare manual on sin was first published in Amsterdam the year before this Lyons edition. The contemporary annotations on the sin of Luxuria is in the samehand as the owner's signature on the verso of the t.p. "Johannes Baptista Cauensis of the Augustinian order. Shaaber S309 (2 locations only). Not in Adams, Baudrier, BM STC (French). $475 ders). plectitur; nunc Graece editi; Interprete Gulielmo Cantero. Una & G. Gemisti Pletonis De Rebus Peloponnes. Orationes Duae; Acessit & alter eiusdem Plethonis libellus Graecus De virtutibus. Willem Canter (1542-75), ed. & trans. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1575. Folio. *6,A-Q6, R8, S-T6, V4.[Lacks V4 blank] [12],236,[1],[1]pp. Editio Princeps. Modern paneled antique calf, spine banded, title on red leather label; long

120. Stapleton, Thomas. Manuale peccatorum; sive, De Septem peccatis capitalibus orationes Lyon: Horatius Cardon, 1599.

121. Stobaeus, Joannis & Georges Gemistus Pletho. Eclogarum Libri Duo: Quorum prior Physicas, posterior Ethicas com-

tear on *4 archivallly repaired, long burn hole on H1 with loss of most of Greek text but just a few Latin letters touched, occ. light dampstains t.p. soiled.Good margins. Large Plantin device on t.p. Stobaeus, Joannis, so called from his native place Stobi in Macedonia, the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors. Of his life nothing is known, but he probably belongs to the latter half of the 5th century AD. From his silence in regard to Christian authors, it is inferred that he was not a Christian. The extracts were intended by Stobaeus for his son Septimius, and were preceded by a letter briefly explaining the purpose of the work and giving a summary of the contents. From this summary (preserved in Photius's Bibliotheca) we learn that Stohacus divided his work into four books and two volumes. In most of our MSS. the work is divided into three books, of which the first and second are...(Physical and Moral Extracts), and the third (Florilegiuni or Sermones)... The modern arrangement is somewhat arbitrary and there are several marked discrepancies between it and the account given by Photius. The introduction to the whole work, treating of the value of philosophy and of philosophical sects, is lost, with the exception of the concluding portion; the second book is little more than a fragment, and the third and fourth have been amalgamated by altering the original sections. From these and other indications it seems probable that what we have is only an epitome of the original work, made by an anonymous Byzantine writer of much later date. The didactic aim of Stobaeuss work is apparent throughout. The first book teaches physics in the wide sense which the Greeks assigned to this term by means of extracts. It is often untrustworthy: Stobaeus betrays a tendency to confound the dogmas of the early Ionic philosophers, and he occasionally mixes up Platonism with Pythagoreanism. For part of this book and much of book ii. he depended on the works of Atius, a peripatetic philosopher, and Didymus. The third and fourth books, like the larger part of the second, treat of ethics; the third, of virtues and vices, in pairs; the fourth, of more general ethical and political subjects, frequently citing extracts to illustrate the pros and cons of a question in two successive chapters. In all, Stobaeus quotes more than five hundred writers, generally beginning with the poets, and then proceeding to the historians, orators, philosophers and physicians. It is to him that we owe many of our most important fragments of the dramatists, particularly of Euripides." [EB 1th ed.] The Hermetic Kor Kosmou ('The virgin of the world'), a long Hermetic fragment is preserved in this collection of extracts. Gemistus Pletho [or Plethon], Georgius(c. 1351450), Greek Platonic philosopher and scholar, one of the chief pioneers of the revival of learning in Western Europe, wasa Byzantine by birth who settled at Mistra in the Peloponnese,the site of ancient Sparta. He changed his name from Gemistus to the equivalent Pletho ( the full ), perhaps owing to the similarity of sound between that name andthat of his master Plato. He invented a religious system founded on the speculative mysticism of the Neoplatonists, and founded a sect, the members of which believed that the newcreed would supersede all existing forms of belief. But he is chiefly memorable for having introduced Plato to the Western world. This took place upon his visit to Flo-

rence in 1439, as one of the deputies from Constantinople on occasion of the general council. Cardinal Bessarion became his disciple; he produced a great impression upon Cosimo de Medici; and though not himself making any very important contribution to the study of Plato, he effectually shook the exclusive domination which Aristotle had exercised over European thought for eight centuries.He promoted the union of the Greek and Latin Churches as far as possible, but his efforts in this direction bore no permanent fruit. He probably died before the capture of Constantinople.The most important of his published works are treatises on the distinction between Plato and Aristotle as philosophers (published at Venice in 1540); on the religion of Zoroaster (Paris, 1538); on the condition of the Peloponnese; and the Nuot . In addition to these he compiled several volumes of excerpts from ancient authors, and wrote a number of works on geography, music and other subjects, many of which still exist in MS." [E.B. 1th ed.] Voet 2263. Adams S1879. Hoffmann III, 448-50. Sandys II,105. Legrand IV,707. Rulens de Backer 1575:27. Dibdin (4th ed.) 429. van Lamoen, Hermes,17. $1350 modum Figuris Idealibus Manum Et Physiognomiae, Aliisque Adornatum, Quorum Sex Priores libri Absolutissimae Chieromantiae Theoricam, Praxim, doctrinam, artem, & experientiam verissimam continent. Septimus Physiognomiae dispositionem, hominumq; omnium qualitates & complexiones. Octauus Periaxiomata de faciebus Signorum, & quid Sol in unaquaque domo existens, natis policeatur. Remedia quoq; omnium aegritudinum complctitur. Et naturalem Astrologiam atq; effectus Lunae quoad diversas aegritudines. Item Isagogen Astrologiae Iudiciariae, & totius divinatricis artis Encomia. Cologne: Theodore Baum, 1583.Folio. 310 x 195mm. 6,A-4K4 [lacks 4K4 blank]. [12], 624,[5]pp. Second edition. Early full vellum, title in ms. on spine, edges blue, armorial bookplate, browned (as usual),lower margin worming from 4C3-4G4 (touching a few letters),ink stain at top edge (no text affected), leaves from 4H to end are supplied from other, smaller copies. Numerous plates of chiromantic hands, physiognomic portraits, astrological charts, and zodiacal emblematic woodcuts. Taisner (1509-?) was tutor to the pages of Charles V whom he accompanied to Tunis in 1535 and later to Italy. He taught at several Italian schools and he retired to Cologne after Charles' death in 1558. '..his combination of interest in occult arts or pseudo-sciences with technology, measurement, something of mathematical method, and a yearning for new discovery through physical experiment represents his own choice and selection and makes him of some significance in the history of magic and experimental science." [Thorndike V,581.] VD 16 T73. Zinner 3115. Adams T70 (also lacking balnk 4K4). Wellcome 6214 (inc.) Caillet 10524. Sabattini 513 "Edizione divenuta rara" Gardner, Astrologia, 1213. Graesse, Magica,100. Houzeau-Lancaster 4885. Poggendorf II,1066. $3000

122. Taisnier, Jean. Opus Mathematicum Octo Libros Complectens Innumeris prope-

Quam Exoticarum.Earunden cum Virtues Influentiales, Elementares, & Naturales, tam Subtilitates, necnon Icones etiam veras, ad vinum artificose expressas proponens: atque una cum his, partium omnium corporis humani ut externarum ita internarum picturas, & instrumentorum Extractioni Chymica servientum delineatainem usumque, ac Methodos denique Pharmaceuticas quasuis, ad curam Valetudinis dextre tractandam necessarias complectens Vititatis vere publica gratia. Berlin: Michael Hentzke, 1578. Folio. )(6 [Lacks )(3, port.], A-O6,P4 [Lacks P4,colophon}. [10 of 12],156,[18 of 20]pp. First Latin Edition. Contemp. limp vellum, stained, lacks ties, bookplate of Berthold Ag, old samp of "Bibl. Publ. Basileensis" on verso of t.p., dampstained throughout with some mold residue, softening caused by damp to the t.p., the following three leaves and the index; this has caused some paper and text losses; minor marginal worming, a good copy only but the text is quite readable. T.p. in woodcut surround, 1 large allegorical woodcut, 36 plant cuts, a large schematic diagram. Lacks portrait. "As a piece of printing this is a remarkable book. The woodcuts of the plants are enclosed in a border--the Hebrew (sometimes Syriac) name above anf the Greek below, and the four corners are the constellation of the plant, its composition in terms of sulpher, salt, and mercury, its educts, and its virtues... Thurneisser (1530-1596) '...began life by learning the trade of his father, who was a goldsmith, but he also picked up some knowledge of botany, medicine, and, possibly, anatomy under Vesalius. In 1548 he left Basel, and went to England, France, and Germany, where he became a soldier. Afterwards he worked as a metallurgist, and again as a goldsmith... From 1560 to 1570 he was in the service of the Archduke Ferdinand, and travelled far and near, from the Orkney islands down to Africa, and to the East, everywhere learning medicine and metallurgy... From 1570 to 1584 he was physician to John Georg, Churfrst of Brandenburg, and had a laboratory and printing press in the so-called "Grey monastery" at Berlin. By various means he amassed a large fortune, and at one time employed between two and three hundred people. He collected a library, a museum, and a herbarium, kept a menagerie, and encouraged the fine and practical arts, such as the manufacture of saltpetre, alum, glass, paper, and also coloured glass... in 1579, he was accused by Joel of magic and of having a devil in a bottle which taught him to write languages he did not know...In 1584 he finally left Berlin, went to Italy, where he tried to practice medicine and alchemy; he was at Rome in 1591, and died in a monastery at Cologne 9 July, 1596, and was buried beside Albertus Magnus, according to his own request' [Ferguson]. VD 16 T1174. Bruning 516. Nissen, BBI, 1963. Pritzel 9338. Durling/NLM 4354. Plesch 435. Ferchl 536. Hunt I,135. Ferguson II,451. $1250

123. Thurneisser [Thurneysser] zum Thurn, Leonhard. Historia sive Descriptio Plantarum Omnium, Tam Domesticarum

124. Thurneisser [Thurneysser] zum Thurn, Leonhart. Pison. Das Erst Theil. Von Kalten, Warmen, Minerischen Und Metallis-

chen Wassern, sampt der Plantarum und Erdgewechsen 10. Bucher.[all published.]

6-23 [lacks 24, port.], A-2Q6, 2R3 [lacks 2R4 blank] [18 of 20], 420,[54]pp. First Edition. Contemp. blind-tooled pigskin, rather scuffed, lacks clasps, repaired with vellum at spine ends and at lower corner of rear cover; PRESENTATION COPY from the author Pison. dem durchlauchtigen hochgeborenen Fursten und Herren, Herrn Beislaf? Hertzogen zu Stetin (Szczecin) Pomeren. Fursten zu Rgen und Grafen zu Gutz pomer von Leonharten Thurneysser zum Thurn underthngist ubershikt Anno 1572. {Jan Fryderyk, Duke of Szczecin [Stettin] 1569-1600); stamp of Drs: Th. Renz on verso of t.p., old printed biography pasted to rear inner cover with resultatant bleed to blank verso of last leaf; some light paper toning, a few old stains, wide margins, a very nice copy. Lacks port.;T.p. in red and black, architectural border with allegorical figures (Neptunus, Alchemy and Temperance) [by Franz Friedrich? based on a design by Christoph Rmer from Altstettin ]. Text cuts. This book describes a method of water analysis by specific gravity and by distillation and weighing the residue, and vaguely proposes artificial mineral waters (Partington). Other problems discussed by Thurneysser were i. a. the occurrence of waters, the course and peculiarities of different rivers and their medicinal qualities. Probably his assertion that the Spree waters contained gold was instrumental to secure the attention given him by the Duke of Brandeburg. Thurneysser suggested also a canal between the Spree and the Oder for commercial purposes and gave suggestions for the improvement of the activity of mines in Brandeburg and the identification of deposits of precious minerals. VD 16 T 1183 & 1206. Bruning 455. During/NLM 4356. Ferguson II,452. Wellcome 6293. Ferchl 536; Kopp I, 110. Teitge 570 & 554. BM STC German 862. Krieg, MNE II, 293. Partington II, pp. 152-153. Honeyman 2980.DSB XIII, pages 396-398. $5000 und unterweisung von den offenbaren und verborgenlichen Naturen, Arten und Eigenschafften, allerhandt wunderlicher Erdtgewechssen, als Ertzen, Metallen, Mineren, Erdsfften, Schwefeln, Mercurien, Saltzen und Gesteinen. Und was der dingen zum theil hoch in den Lfften, zum theil in der Tieffe der Erden, und zum theil in den Wassern, welche aus dem Chaos oder der Confusion und vermischung Elementischer Substantzen, als Geistlicher, und doch subtiler, noch unbestendiger weis verursacht, empfangen und radiciret... [bound after:] [Hebrew text:] Melitsah: [Greektext: ] Kai Hermaeneia Das ist ein Onomasticum und Interpretatio oder aufhrliche Erklerung ... Uber Etliche frembde un[d] (bey vielen hochgelarten die der Lateinischen und Griechischen Sprach erfahren) unbekante Nomina, Verba, Proverbia Dicta, Sylben... Deren nicht allein in des theuren Philosophi und Medici, Aurelii, Theophrasti Paracelsi von Hohenheim Sondern auch anderer Authorum Schriften ... gedacht. Das Ander theil. Berlin: Nikolaus Voltz,1583. Folio. 2 works in vol. 368 x 238mm. Megale:

Frankfurt am Oder: Johann Eichorn, 1572. Folio. 303 x 187mm.

125. Thurneisser [Thurneysser] zum Thurn, Leonhart. [Greek text:] Megale chymia, Vel Magna Alchymia. Das ist ein Lehr

*2, )(2, ()2, A-2N2. [Lacks the six index leaves at the end, as usual.] Melitsah: 2, )(2, *2, A-2Z2, a2. [12],188. [12],144p. First Editions. Contemp. vellum, soiled, tears in spine at cords, and head of spine, lacks ties, edges red; previous owner's stamp "Ex Bibl. Germ. Sem." on first t.p., small repaired pieces at bottom of t.p.s (removing previous owner's stamp?), red eagle stamp at ends and on folding plates (some obscured), light marginal dampstaining on a few leaves, plates reinforced at folds, minor worming in blank inner margin at end, good margins, some marginalia in an old hand.Both titles in red and black in fine woodcut borders, 2 woodcut portraits of Thurneysser, and numerous woodcuts, figures and tables in the texts. The Melitsah has the 2 folding woodcut plates "Tabula Quarundam Syllabarum" & Tafel etlicher Sylben" which are symbolic illustrations of the 4 continents but lacks, as usual, the 6 plates of scripture tables {see: Sudhoff for a discussion of these leaves, which he conjectures were available separately and thus often lacking]. "The works that Thurneysser published at this time were impressive examples of the printer's art, illustrated with woodcuts and etchings, and incorporating Greek, Arabic, Syrian, Hebrew, and Chaldean typefaces... His chief alchemical works, Megaln chymia and Melisath, were both published in Berlin in 1583." [DSB] The Magna Alchymia is of a more practical character than [Thurneisser's] other works and contains descriptions of preparations of sulphur, salts including sal urinae, mercury and its compounds, and metals, [as well as] a long section on astrology and horoscopes' (Partington II p. 155). The Magna alchymia is in fact a comprehensive history of alchemy. It is divided into 9 chapters which are dealing with its substances: sulphur, salts, ammonium chloride, aluminium, salpetre, and mercury. The seventh book refers to the

planets and the sun, chapters eight and nine describe the origin of minerals and metals. The Melitsah is "...a kind of dictionary directed to clarifying the works and ideas of Paracelsus, whose follower Thurneisser purported to be. But although he frequently quoted from Paracelsus, Thurneysser often invented the passages cited himself; and the Melisath contains citations of some eighty tracts by Paracelsus that never existed outside Thurneysser's own mind."[DSB.] For linguistic problems Thurneisser turned to the orientalist Elias Hutter (1553-c.1609), and the two hebraists Valentin Schindler (d.1604) and Jakob Ebert (1549-1614). Megale: VD 16 T1178. Bruning 555. Duveen 579 "very rare."Ferguson II, 452 [no index]. Ferchl 536. Sudhoff 21(1587?). Wellcome I, 6302. Schmieder 286,2. BM STC, German, 862.Bolton p. 873. Melitsah:VD 16 T1170. Bruning 554. Duveen 579 (lacking all 8 tables). Ferguson II, 454 (Not in Young Coll.) Sudhoff 194. Wellcome I, 6301. BM STC, German 862. Ackermann IV, 184 (no tables). Durling/NLM 4355(lacking tables). Kopp I, 107. Graesse (Bibl. mag.) 113. $8500 & nostrorum temporum haereses... Mainz: Caspar Behem, 1585. 4to. 52pp. First Edition. Modern wrappers. Thyraeus (1546-1601) . This debate with with Peter Deling over Luther's "Disputationis de Indulgentiis, Conclusione VII" is a defense of confession. Thyraeus also authored several dissertations on witchcraft and magic. VD 16 T1242. $300 functorum jominum spiritus, locis, liber unus. [bound with:] Daemoniaci hoc est: De obsessis a spiritibus daemoniorum hominibus. Edition secunda. Cologne: Goswin Cholinus 1598. 4to. 2 works in 1 vol. (:) --2(:)4,A-2X4. (:)-2(:)4,A-2B4,2C2. [16],352.[12], 207, [1]pp. First Edition of the Loca Infesta, second of the Daemonici. Late 19th c. calf with oval armorial stamps on covers, spine banded title on leather label;bokplate of Manuel Baguilera y Ligue, Marques B. Cerralbo.; worming in lower margin (some repaired, some text affected), Q3 of first work misfolded in printing with some text obscured; occ.minor stains. Large Jesuit printer's devices on t.p.s. Thyraeus (1546-1601) concluded that the visible, audible, and tangible phenomena associated with hauntings are hallucinations caused by demons or spirits. This work inquires into the nature of demonic possession, its signs, how it oc-

126. Thyraeus, Petrus. Disputatio Theologica De Sacramentali Confessione, adversus veteres,

127. Thyraeus, Petrus. Loca Infesta, hoc est: de infestis, ob molestantes daemoniorum et de-

curs, whether witches, magicians, diviners, or heretics are possessed (usually not) whether the Church should be sought to exorcise them (he believed not); finally, he asks whether demons should be allowed to come out of a person if they so desire, and concludes that they should but only if such action is done to the glory of God. Loca: VD16 T1247. BM STC (Germ.) 863. Adams T700. DeBacker/ Sommervogel VIII,16:20. Graesse, Magica, 83. Caillet 10688. Rosenthal, Magica, 1937.Cornell, Witchcraft, 548. Robbins 1023. Daemoniaci: VD 16 T1238. Adams T697. Cornell Witchcraft Cat 547. Caillet 10687. Thorndike VII 368-9. DeBacker/Sommervogel VIII 15:15. $3250 [Champ fleury] L'art & science de la Vraye Proportion Des Lettres Attiques, ou Antiques, autreme(n)t dictes, Romaines, selon le corps & visage humain, avec l'instructio(n) & maniere de faire chiffres & lettres pour bagues d'or, pour tapisserie, vitres & painctures. Item de treize diverses sortes & facons de lettres, d'auantage la maniere d'ordonner la langue Francoise par certaine regle de parler elegamment en bon & plus fain langage Fra(n)cois que par cy devant, avec figures a ce connenantes, & autre chose dignes de memoire, comme on pourra veoir par la table...

128. Tory, Geoffroy.

8vo. a8.*8,B-Y8. [Lacks B7,C1,I3-6,S2,Y1 &Y8 (blank except for colophon).] [16],144, [22 of 24]ff.Numbering of leaves of signatures S and T inverted, leaves 129136 erroneously numbered 137-144 and 137-144 numbered 129-136. Last 13 lines of letterpress and signature (Qiiii) on recto of leaf 126 repeated from recto of leaf 116. Second edition, first octavo. 18th c. Fench mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, banded, title on red morocco label, some splitting at hinges, edges red, marbled endpapers, minor stains; old owner's inscriptions on t.p.,blank edge slightly defective on F8, side-note trimmed on T6v, archival repair to y5; bookplate of Edwin Holden. Numerous text cuts and 34 (of 36) plates on 17 (of 18) leaves of alphabets. "With a few exceptions the woodcuts are the same as those used in the first edition in 1529. ...Replacing the 'lettres latines' are smaller capitals which appear also in the text. The 'lettres fleuries' have been changed to a set of cribl initials adapted from the large set belonging to Robert Estienne." "...the most famous single work in the history of French typography. The

Paris: Vivant Gaultherot, 1549.

three books of the text are concerned with the French language, the origin of roman letters, and the construction of the letters. This volume is, in addition, the major work upon which Tory's reputation as renaissance scholar, printer, and artist is based." [Mortimer] "The result of this work was an immediate and complete revolution in French typography and orthography--the abandonment of the Gothic and the adoption of a new cut of antique face." [Bigmore and Wyman] "...Geofroy Tory of Bourges 'who was at the forefront of all progress made in books, in the second quarter of the sixteenth century.' He was at once poet, translator and critic, artist and workman, dreamer and reformer. He had been a traveller in Italy and was deeply moved by the Renaissance spirit. He wrote, printed, and published books; he designed type in which to print them, and ornaments with which to adorn them. He reformed French orthography. He was a prime mover in introducing roman types and made innovation in the arrangement of title-pages. In short, he was a kind of divine jack-of-all-trades." [Updike] Mortimer, French, 526. Brunet V,898. BM STC (French) 423. Bigmore & Wyman III,20. Caillet 19765. Graesse VI, pt 2, 179.Brun 315. OCLC: 3558500. $3500

209ff=418, [18]pp. 18th c. calf-backed paper boards, spine defective by 1" at top, hinges rubbed, old title-label, edges red; t.p. with scattered soiling, dampstains and old mold stains in inner margin at front, contemp. owner's inscription on blank verso of last leaf colored over; fully annotated by a contemp. hand using a French batard script (our 18th century binder has cut into many of the marginal notes). Valerius Maximus, a Roman historian and contemporary of the emperor Tiberius (42 B.C.-A.D.37), "was the compiler of an extant collection of anecdotes, "facta et Dicta Memorabilia', in nine books, for the use of orators. The anecdotes are arranged, according to the subjects that illustrate, roughly as follows: Book I, religion, omens, prodigies; Book II, social customs; Books III - VI, virtuous conduct (fortitude, moderation, humanity, etc.); Books VII and VIII, a miscellaneous group including good fortune, military stratagems, famous law-suits, eloquence, and many other items; Book IX, evil conduct. The examples on each topic are grouped separately according as they are drawn from the lives of Roman or foreign worthies... the work proved useful, and its popularity, which it retained in the Middle Ages, is shown by the fact that two epitomes of it were made." [OCCL.] The text is surrounded with commentary by Arziganenis which first appeared in 1487. This edition is rare. EDIT 16 CNC 31006 (2 copies only).See the references in:Graesse VI, pt2, 243 note, and Schweiger II, 1105 . $2000 commentariolum...

129. Valerius Maximus. Opera cum Com(m)ento...Oliverii Ar\ziganensis, comm. Milan: Alexander Minutianus, 1505. Folio. a-z,&8, (rev.c)8, (RX)10.A8.

130. Vergil, Polydore. De Rerum inventoribus libri octo. Eiusdem in dominicam precem

Basle: Apud Isingrin, 1546.

De Cognoscendis, Et Medendis Morbis Ex Corporum Coelestium Positione Libri IIII. Cum argumentis, & expositionibus Ioannis Paulli Gallucii Saloensis... Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, ed. Venice: Officina Damiani Zenari [Damiano Zenaro], 1584. 4to. *-3*4,A-3L4. [24],228ff=456p. First Edition. Contemp. limp vellum, soiled, lacks ties, contemp. manuscript notes on f.f.e.p., duplicate stamp of "K.U. Bibl. Erl" on t.p.,minor marginal stains,occ. foxing or paper toning, but a large copy in quite nice condirion. Large printer's device on t.p.,historiated initials, printer's ornaments, and many text charts; VOLVELLE on G4v WITH ITS MOVING PARTS [not descibed as such in any of our bibliographical sources but this is undoubtedly the 'plate' (i.e. the unmounted parts) mentioned in a few references.] "Ioannis Paulus Gallucius of Salo in 1584 at the request of the bishop of Mantua published at Venice a volume comprising various works on astrological medicine: that of 1532 of Johann Virdung von Hassfurt, the Iatromathematica of Hermes Trismegistus in the translation of Stadius, te pseudo-Galenic Prognostica...in the translation of Florence, Ficino on the pest and the triple life. Finally brief chapters of his own on erecting the celestial figure, finding the part of fortune and

Giovanni Paolo Gallucci.

131. Virdung von Hassfurt, Johann; Hermes Trismegistus; Marsiglio Ficino; &

8vo. a-c8,a-z8,A-K8,L4. [48],534p. Contemp. sheep, rebacked, spine banded, gilt rules, title on red leather label, marbled endpapers, edges red; wormtrack in margin of first four leaves (no text affected), minor dampstains, a few old notes, mildew stains at end; generally the paper is quite nice and crisp. Printer's device on t.p.,historiated initials. Vergil (1470?-1555) born in Italy he spent much of his life in England. His collection of proverbs caused some jealousy between him and Erasmus though they remained friends. He was one of the first scholars to seriously examine and discard the tales of King Arthur as historical. "It (The De Rerum) was written at the request of the Duke of Urbino, and, according to Vergil's own account, was composed in nine months. It was published at Venice from the press of De Pensis in 1499, and in all somewhere about a hundred and ten editions have appeared. About thirty of these consist of translations or abridgments into Italian, Spanish, French, German, and English. At first the work consisted of three books. Five more were added, probably first in the Basel edition of 1521 (Ferguson, who doubts the existence of the supposed 1517 edition). The Latin text took final shape not later than 1544, possibly earlier; the first English abridgment appeared in 1546 (see Ferguson for much curious information as to the English editions). Polydore Vergil in many parts of his writings shows a tendency to rationalism, and various statements in the 'De Inventoribus Rerum' offended the clergy. It was, therefore, put on the 'Index,' and later, in 1576, an expurgated edition was printed at Rome and others forbidden." [DNB] Adams V432. Ferguson, Secrets, II,28. Ferguson, Glasgow, 731. Caillet 11088. Bigmore & Wyman III,46. Simon, Gastronomica 144. Simon, Bacchica II,187. $500

De Cognoscendis, Et Medendis Morbis Ex Corporum Coelestium Positione Libri IIII. Cum argumentis, & expositionibus Ioannis Paulli Gallucii Saloensis... Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, ed. Venice: Officina Damiani Zenari [Damiano Zenaro], 1584. 4to. *-3*4,A-3K4 [Lacks 3L4 supplied in xeroxes loosely inserted.] [24],224ff=448pp. First Edition. Contemp. limp vellum, soiled, lacks ties, tear across spine from cords, old owner's name on f.f.e.p. crossed out,astrological notes on verso of r.f.e.p., minor foxing and sain, wide margins. EDIT on-line cnc 39524. Durling/NLM 4631. Gardner, Astrologica, 1261 "A fine work on Astrology." Wellcome 3077. Riccardi II,567. Marshall III,389. BM STC (Ital.) 729. $1500

Giovanni Paolo Gallucci.

132. Virdung von Hassfurt, Johann; Hermes Trismegistus; Marsiglio Ficino; &

of the liver, dividing the zodiac, essential and accidental dignities of the planets, and the times appropriate for taking medicine." [Thorndike] This volume contains: Virdung, De cognoscendis; HermesTrismegisti, Iatromathematica; Galen, Pergamenti Prognostica ex egroti decubitis; Marsiglio Ficino, De vita studiosorum tuends, De vits longa, De vita coelitus comparanda, & De peste; Giovanni Paolo Galluci, De figura coelesti erigenda, De parte fortunae, & hepatis extrahenda, De Zodiaci divisione, De planetarum dignitatibus tum effentialibus, tum accidentalibus, De temporibus ad medicandum accomodatis. EDIT on-line cnc 39524. Durling/NLM 4631. Gardner, Astrologica, 1261 "A fine work on Astrology." Wellcome 3077. Riccardi II,567. Marshall III,389. $3000

Item 60, Koebel

Item 102, Pistorius

Krown & Spellman, Booksellers

3319 Cattaraugus Ave. Culver City, CA 90232 [P.O.B. 948, Culver City, Ca 90232-948] phone: (310) 842-9433fax: (310) 842-9343 email:krownspl@pacbell.net website: www.krownspellman.com

Members: A.B.A.A. & I.L.A.B.