Sales catalogue 181: Gilhofer & Ranschburg

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/34/2
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 181: Gilhofer & Ranschburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    132 135 134 XVITH CENTURY BOOKS. Dee eee Brunet Il. 480. An important juridical work on the protection of orphan-childs with very remarkable cuts representing pleadings. Of special interest fsathe view of Bruges which is found only in this edition; this woodcut bears dus, 1563). — Very rare. DICTIONARIUM: quod Gemma gemmarum vocant: nuper castigatum. In guo nihil eorum gue in prioribus excusa sunt desiderantur. Hagenau, Henr. Gran, imp. Joa. Rynman, 1514. 4to, goth. 2 col. 152 ffnch. (last blank). Title within a curious ornament. border on black ground. Wooden boards, back cov. w. leather, 1 catch. Frs. 50.—= Panzer 1X, 469, 100b. The book has the special peculiarity that the printer’s mark is enclosed in the title-border. Inside front- cover and on title mames and several entries of early owners; some underlinings and maginal notes. Slightly browned. DIUISIONES decem nationum fotius christianitatis. S. ]. a. (? Rome, Besicken). 16mo, goth. 4 ffnch., 23 Il. rubricated. vell. Frs. 60.— An interesting small booklet on the various parts of the christianity. Fol. la; Notandum quod gentes christianorum diuiduntur in decem nationes, videlicet Latinos, Grecos, Indos, Jacobitas, Nestorianos, Maronitas, Armenos, Gregorianos, Curianos et Mozorabes. Very rary. DIODORUS SICULUS. Libri duo, primus de Philippi regis Mace- doniae, aliorum ve guorundam illustrium ducum, alter de Alexandri filii rebus gestis. Utrumgue latinitate donavit Angelus Cospus Bo- noniensis. Viennae Pannon., Hieron. Vietor, 1516. fol. Rom. 4 unn. + 94 numb. ll. Five initials supplied in several colours, also a pen-drawn ornamentation on top of title-leaf coloured in red and green and two other pen-drawn vignettes at the end of the dedication and the Tabula. Stamped pigskin binding, with the initials I. F.B. and the date 1601 (rubbed and scratched). Frs. 300.— Brunet II, 717: Edition rare, dont la Biblioth. impér. posséde un exemplair, impr. sur vélin.” Ebert I, 481. Denis, Wiens Buchdruckerkunst. p. 148. Denis, Merk- wiirdigkeiten I, pp. 263—65. The first edition of this translation by the Italian humanist Angelo Cospi of Bologne, which he dedicated to the Emperor Maximilian. Denis gives a long account of it in his bibliography of the rarities in the Imperial Library. The present copy is in a good and perfect condition and has passed the hands of some Hungarian collectors, one of which provided it with numerous annotations in margins and between the lines, especially in the first half of the book; there are some waterstains in the first and last leaves and a few inkstains in one leaf (35); but on the whole the copy is in very fair condition throughout. The title-leaf is slightly wormed and bears some old inscrip- appears to have added the pen-drawn ornaments to the book; all these are designed in the taste of the Rococo period.
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