Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc.

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/121
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them gain a special interest as being the first pictures of AMERICAN PLANTS, such as Indian Corn and the Great Pumpkin. A fine copy with all the woodcuts uncolored, from the library of C. P. Serrure. WITH INSCRIPTIONS BY HENRICUS RANTZAU, THE DANISH ASTRONOMER 32. GEILER von Kaisersberg, Joh. Navicula sive Speculum Fatuorum. 280 leaves. With 113 large woodcuts by Diirer, originally used for Brandt's “Navis Stultifera.” Quarto, original binding of richly blind-stamped calf over wooden boards. Strassburg: [J. Priiss sen.], 1511. $185.00 FIRST EDITION. A very fine copy in the original binding of a most beautiful German woodcut-book. The 113 fine cuts appeared originally in the Latin edition (1497) of Brandt’s “Ship of Fools” and are generally attributed to Albrecht Durer. The full- page cut at the end of the Index, however, is taken from the excessively rare first German edition (1494) and does not appear in the Latin ones. All cuts, except two, have an ornamental border-piece added on each side. The bookbinder used early fifteenth-century manuscript vellum fly-leaves, and there we find the following interesting inscription: Hic liber Henrici est equitis cog- nomine Rantzou, Emptus Slesuici ab laudibus (?) D. Matthai Otthen, anno 1571.” Henry Rantzau (Ranzovius) was a Danish astronomer and astrologer, author of several books and a friend of Tycho Brahe. (See Zinner and Thorndike.) 33. GHISTELE, Joos van. Tvoyage Mher Joos van Ghistele oft anders . .. Six leaves, 348 pp. Woodcut on title, full-page woodcut arms on verso of title and at end. Small folio, full calf, g.b. Very fine copy. Ghent [Gand]: Henric van den Keere, 1557. $325.00 FIRST EDITION. An extremely rare account of a voyage to the Holy Land, Near East, etc., 1481-1484. It is actually written by Ambrosius Zeebout, chaplain and companion to van Ghistele. TIELE, Nederl. Bibliographie 382; BRUNET II, 1580 and Suppl. 546; “Volume fort rare.” TOBLER, Bibl. Geogr. Palest. 57-58. (An earlier edition does not exist) . See also ROHRICHT, Pp. 160. 34. [GRYNAEUS, Simon]. Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum [in Dutch, translated by Cornelis Ablijn]: Die nieuwe weerelt der Landt- schappen ende Eylanden. Pp. (8), 818. Folio, contemporary vellum, lettered in gold “P. M. 1585”. Antwerp: Jan van der Loe, 1563. A very fine, complete copy. $275.00 FIRST EDITION IN DUTCH of Simon Grynaeus’ famous collection of voyages, pub- lished by Cornelis Ablijn, notary of Antwerp. This edition is much rarer than any of the Latin or German ones, from which latter (1534) it was translated into Dutch. It is one of the most complete of all. TIELE, Bib. Nederlandsche, 23; TIELE, Journaux des Navigateurs Neerlandats, p. 311; J.c.B. (1875), I, No. 240; J.c.B. I-1, p. 219.
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