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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    Our volume is in fine condition, with large margins. For type identification, see Holtrop, Mon. Typ. des Pays-Bas, p. 61 and plate 61 (129) b 1-2, a—2, and c 1-2. (See illustration, page 3 of cover) 73. PHILO JUDAEUS. Libri Antiquitatum; Quaestionum et Solu- tionum in Genesin; De Essaeis; de Nominibus Hebraicis; de Mundo. Ed. by Joa. Sichardus. 8, 142, 2 pp., printer’s mark at end. Folio, boards. Basel: Adam Petri, 1527. $65.00 FIRST EDITION of most of these treatises, including the curious book on the sect of the Essenes, who are now prominently in the news with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Also the De Mundo in the translation of Guil. Budé appears here for the firsttimein print. | Goodhart, etc., Bibliogr. of Philo, 445. THE “BOUQUINISTES” IN PARIS 74. La POURMENADE du Pré-aux-Clercs. 32pp. Octavo, modern red morococo. [Paris], 1622. $ 150.00 This is probably the first book mentioning the ““Bouquinistes des Quais.”’ It starts: . ...me pourmenant sur le Pont-Neuf . . . je m’arrestay a la boutique mobile d’un marchand libraire en livres du temps passé, comme il y en a plusieurs sur ce pont.” It is a most interesting treatise, actually a violent attack on the intellectuals of Paris, on the higher clergy, the scholars, the doctors and surgeons. It is based on a small pamphlet the author found at one of those well-known “‘bouquinistes”’ who still do business on the Seine quais. The white margins of the last two leaves repaired, otherwise in fine condition. (74 75. RAYMUNDUS pve SABUNDE. Theologia Naturalis; sive, Liber Creaturarum, specialiter de Homine et de natura eius. 256 leaves (the first a blank and genuine), Gothic type, double columns; rubricated throughout. Small folio, full olive-green crushed levant morocco, richly gilt tooling, gilt edges; tear in last leaf expertly repaired. Deventer: Richard Pafraet, ca. 1480. $450.00 THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION. [his celebrated work, a treatise on the nature and duties of man, contains much of medical interest. It has often been called the source of the philosophy of Montaigne, whose French translation of it (1569) was his first published work. Montaigne’s Essays contain a substantial “‘Apologie de Raimond de Sebonde”’ (Book II, Chapter XII). tains the words ““Theologia Naturalis,” so that the title could be seen when the book was lying closed. An early example of this type of title-page. A VERY FINE copy with a fifteenth-century ownership inscription on the first blank, stating that the book was given to the Austin Canons Regular of Aix-la~Cha- pelle by William Lentz, vicar of the Church of St. Peter in the same city. a ee
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