Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc.
- Date:
- 20th century
- Reference:
- WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/121
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![LATHROP C. HARPER, INC. EIGHT WEST FORTIETH STREET, NEW YORK 18, N. Y. Phone: CHICKERING 4-3722 Cables: LACTAGE Catalogue Number 4 A SELECTION OF Fine Books ¢ Manuscripts 1. [AMMAN, Jost]. Neww Jag vnnd Weydwerck Buch. Two parts in one volume. (iv), 104 (last a blank); 74 (last a blank) leaves. With numerous very fine woodcuts in the text of both parts, engraved by Stefan Hermann, after designs by Jost Amman. Folio, boards. Frankfurt: Fey- erabendt, 1582. $185.00 FIRST EDITION of one of the most attractive books on Hunting, Falconry, Fishing, etc. The woodcuts were cut for this book and rank among the best of Amman’s work. Four pages contain musical notation. Fine copies such as ours have become quite rare. ‘Although the author has made considerable use of Du Fouilloux, Clamorgan, and other early writers, there is a quantity of original matter to be found in his work.”’— Schwerdt I, p. 30 (with reproduction). 2. ARISTOTELES. Ethica (translated into Italian by Taddeo Alder- otti). Manuscript of 18 leaves on vellum (palimpsests from leaf 13 on); finely and legibly written in two columns of ca. 35 lines each, in an early Italian chancery script. Folio, boards. Italy, 14th century. $750.00 A superb example of an Italian chancery script of the first half of the fourteenth century. It was mainly used for legal and pontifical documents, but occasionally for Italian literature, as for example Dante. See Giulio Battelli, Lezioni di Paleografia, 1949, p. 232 (with illustration). ’ This is not only a rare example of the ‘“‘Gotica Cancelleresca Italiana” of the fourteenth century, but also a most important text. The supposed translator, Thad- daeus Florentinus (died 1303) was one of the founders of the medical school of Bologna. ‘‘He translated from Latin into Italian the Ethics of Aristotle. This was the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33157716_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
