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With thirty-two illustrations in the form of chiaroscuro wash drawings, on grey-blue paper

13. (Pseud-) Gioacchino da Fiore.

Vaticinia Pontificum. Illustrated manuscript on grey-blue paper, in Italian. Italy, end of the sixteenth century.

266x211 mm. [20] leaves. Complete. Five quires. Collation: 14+1, 24, 34+1, 44, 52. Blanks fols. 1/5r and 5/2. Modern pencilled foliation (here used). Written in brown ink, in a unique hand. On the first leaf beneath the title (‘Prophetia dello Abbate Ioachino circa li Pontifici & RE'), Christ's monogram ‘HIS' within an elaborate cartouche. Thirty-two wash drawings in brown ink...
€ 40.000
The Persian Astronomy in the Western World

19. Albumasar (787-886).

De magnis coniunctionibus. Ed. Johannes Angelus Trad. Johannes Hispalensis. Erhard Ratdolt, 31 March 1489.

4° (209x145 mm). Collation: A–N8, O6, P8. [118] leaves. Text in one column, 39-41 lines. Type: 4:76G, 9:130G, 8:90R, 10:65G. Numerous woodcut decorated initials, on black ground. 268 woodcuts in text (numerous repeats) depicting planets and signs of the zodiac. Two astrological diagrams. Late nineteenth-century Scottish calf over pasteboards, signed by Kerr & Richardson, binders in...
€ 18.000
The Persian Astronomy in the Western World

7. Albumasar (787-886).

De magnis coniunctionibus. Ed. Johannes Angelus Trad. Johannes Hispalensis. Erhard Ratdolt, 31 March 1489.

4° (209x145 mm). Collation: A–N8, O6, P8. [118] leaves. Text in one column, 39-41 lines. Type: 4:76G, 9:130G, 8:90R, 10:65G. Numerous woodcut decorated initials, on black ground. 268 woodcuts in text (numerous repeats) depicting planets and signs of the zodiac. Two astrological diagrams. Late nineteenth-century Scottish calf over pasteboards, signed by Kerr & Richardson, binders in...
€ 18.000
Renaissance earthquakes

17. Sardi, Alessandro (1520-1588).

Discorsi... della Bellezza, della Nobiltà, della poesia di Dante, de i precetti Historici, delle qualità del Generale, del Terremoto, di novo posti in luce. Giovanni and Giovanni Paolo Giolito de Ferrari, 1586.

8° (152x96 mm). Collation: *8, **8, ***8, ****4, A-N8. [56], 207, [1] pp. Italic, roman, and Greek type. Woodcut cartouche and printer's device on title-page. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Eighteenth-century vellum over pasteboards. Smooth spine, gilt title on morocco lettering-piece. Edges mottled red and blue. A fine copy, old repair to the gutter of the title-page slightly...
€ 1.900

Alessandro Caràvia.

Naspo Bizaro nuovamente restampao, con la zonta del lamento chel fa per haverse pentio de haver sposao Cate Bionda Biriotta.. Venezia, Pietro di Domenico, [ca. 1570]..

In-4° (mm 201x140). 43 carte numerate, una bianca. Frontespizio illustrato da un legno – ripreso dalla princeps del 1565- raffigurante il Naspo Bizaro intento a fare una serenata, lo stesso legno è ripetuto alla carta F2v. Alle carte D2v e H4r un’altra illustrazione silografica raffigurante un gruppo di uomini intenti a fare una serenata sotto ad un balcone, entrambi i...
Gondola Serenades

6. Caravia, Alessandro (1503-1568).

Naspo Bizaro. Piero di Domenico, [ca. 1570/75].

Two parts in one volume, 4° (203x147 mm). Collation: A-L4. 43, [1] leaves, complete with the last blank. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on fol. L3v. Six to nine-line woodcut decorated initials. Large woodcut on both title-pages, repeated as full-page illustrations on fols. D2v and F2v. Fine nineteenth-century English gilt-tooled green morocco, over pasteboards. Covers within...
€ 18.000
The first printed book on the astrolabe

18. Andalus de Nigro (1270-1342).

Opus astrolabii. Ed. Petrus Bonus Advogarius. Johann Picardus, de Hamell, 8 July 1475.

Small folio (281x218 mm). Collation: [1-210]. 19 of [20] leaves, lacking the last blank leaf. Text inone column, 40 lines. Type: 1:101G. The first page decorated with a five line vinestem initial 'S',illuminated in red and blue on a silver background with extension in half of the margin; sixty-ninethree-line initials alternately in red or blue, rubricated throughout....
€ 48.000
Neapolitan fireworks for the Infante of Spain

14. Cirino, Andrea (1618-1664).

Feste celebrate in Napoli per la nascita del Serenis.mo Prencipe di Spagna Nostro Signore dall’Ecc.mo Sig.r Conte di Castriglio Vicerè, Luogotenente, e Capitan Generale nel Regno di Napoli. [Naples, Carlo Faggioli, 1659].

Folio (329x216 mm). Collation: π]2, §², A-Z2, Aa-Zz2, Aaa-Yyy2. [6] of [8], 271, [1] pages. Lacking the first blank leaf π1. Roman and italic type. Title-page engraved by Nicolò Perrey with the coat-of-arms of Felipe IV of Spain and allegorical figures of the four continents. Full-page engraved horseback portrait of García de Haro y Avellaneda, count of Castrillo on...
€ 22.000
The earliest record of the Guerrin Meschino

3. Barberino, Andrea da (1370-1432).

El Meschino di Durazo. Manuscript on paper, in Italian. Florence, the first decades of the fifteenth century (ca. 1430-35).

290x218 mm. 142 + i leaves. Fifteen quires. Collation: 1-510, 68, 712, 810, 96+2, 1010, 1110 (most of 11/1 cut away, except for a fragment of the first seven lines of the inner column), 12-1410, 154. Between fol. 3/10 (fol. 30) and fol. 4/1 (fol. 31) a ten-leaf quire had wrongly been inserted during the manuscript's production or binding in the Florentine workshop, and we have not included this...
€ 200.000

Antonio Vallisneri.

Opere diverse del sig. Antonio Vallisneri cioe: 1. Istoria del camaleonte affricano, e di varj animali d’Italia. 2. Lezione accademica intorno all’origine delle. Venezia, Giovanni Gabriello Ertz, 1715.

Tre parti in un volume in-4° (mm 236x167). I. 6 carte non numerate, di cui la prima bianca (comprendenti il titolo generale e il ritratto dell’autore inciso da Antonio Luciani), 200 pagine numerate. Illustrato da 14 tavole calcografiche fuori testo. II. 4 carte non numerate, 87 pagine numerate. Illlustrato da una tavola calcografica ripiegata fuori testo. III. due carte non numerate,...
John Dee’s copy of Apollonius of Perga

9. Apollonius Pergaeus (fl. 2nd – half 3rd century BC).

Apollonii Pergei Philosophi, Mathematicique excellentissimi Opera. Per Doctissimum Philosophum Ioannem Baptistam Memum Patritium Venetum, Mathematicarum Artium in Urbe Veneta Lectorem Publicum. De Graeco in Latinum Traducta, & Noviter Impressa. Bernardino Bindoni for Giambattista Memmo, 1537.

Folio (303x203 mm). Collation: a-p6. 89 of 90 leaves, lacking the final blank. Italic and roman type. Title-page printed in red and black, within a four-sided border of six different woodblocks, depicting a series of philosophers, poets, and scientists from Antiquity; in the lower panel an enclosed garden with fountains. On the title-page woodcut depiction of the author with his mathematical...
€ 540.000

Aquinas santo Thomas.

Quaestiones disputatae de veritate. Roma, Arnold Pannartz, 20 gennaio 1476..

In-folio (mm 334x230). Segnatura: [٭4, a-f10.8, g8, h10, i-q10.8, r-s8, t-v10, x-z8.10, A-N8.10, O-P8]. [344] cc. Testo su due colonne di 42 linee. Carattere 106(108)R. Legatura ottocentesca in marocchino biondo con ricca decorazione dorata ai piatti e al dorso, tagli originali con titolo manoscritto. Esemplare ad ampi margini in ottimo stato di conservazione. Numerose postille di mano coeva nel...
From the Library of the Massimo Princes, the patrons of Sweynheim and Pannartz

21. Thoma Aquinas (1225-1274).

De veritate. Ed. Ioannes Franciscus Venetus. Arnoldus Pannartz, 20 January 1476.

Folio (334x230 mm). Collation: [14, 210, 38, 410, 58, 610, 7-88, 9-1010, 118, 1210, 138, 1410, 158, 1610, 17-198, 20-2110, 2210, 2310, 248, 2510, 268, 2710, 288, 2910, 308, 3110, 328, 3310, 348, 3510, 368, 3710, 38-398]. [344] leaves.Text in two columns, 42 lines. Type: 106 (108)R. Nineteenth-century hazel morocco, overpasteboards. Covers richly gilt tooled, with concentric border of...
€ 32.000

Aretino Leonardo Bruno.

De bello Italico adversus Gothos. Foligno, Johann Neumeister ed Emiliano degli Orfini, 1470.

In-4°(mm 250x188). Segnatura: [a12, b-f10, g12]. 72 di 74 carte non numerate, mancando la prima e l’ultima bianca. Testo su 29 linee. Al recto della prima carta iniziale ‘E’ su 6 linee miniata in oro e ornata da bianchi girari circondata da bordura a tre montanti ornata da bianchi girari su fondo blu, rosso e verde, delimitata da due filetti in oro. Al centro del lato...
Illuminated copy of a Greek Aldine

29. Aristophanes (450-385 BC).

Ἀριστοφάνους Κωμῳδίαι ἐννέα... Aristophanis comoediae novem. Πλοῦτος Plutus. Νεφέλαι Nebulae. Βάτραχοι Ranae. Ἱππεῖς Equites. Ἀχαρνεῖς Acharnes. Σφῆκες Vespae. Ὄρνιθες Aves. Eἰρήνη Pax. Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι Contionantes. Aldus Manutius, 15 July 1498.

Super chancery (305×201 mm). Collation: [*]8, α-γ8, δ10, ε–ξ8, o10, π–υ8, φ6, χ–ω8, A-E8, Z6, H-Λ8, M4, N-O8, Π10, P-Σ8, T6. The first quire in the variant with the third leaf unsigned. [348] leaves. Complete with the blanks k8 and T6. Text in one column, with a variable number of lines, and surrounded...
€ 90.000

Athanasius Kircher.

Ars Magna Sciendi In XII Libros Digesta.... Amsterdam, Johann Janssonium, 1669.

Due parti in un volume in-folio (mm 447x282). Frontespizio inciso per ognuna delle due parti, ritratto inciso, tavola incisa in incipit della seconda parte. Numerosi diagrammi nel testo di cui, quelli alle pagine 13 e 173, con volvelle; illustrazioni silografiche nel testo, 4 tavole a doppia pagina e una ripiegata. Legatura coeva in marocchino rosso, piatti riccamente decorati in oro, gli otto...
A stunning presentation copy of Kircher’s Ars Magna Sciendi

29. Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680).

Ars Magna Sciendi, In XII Libros Digesta, qua Nova & Universali Methodo Per Artificiosum Combinationum contextum de omni re proposita plurimis & prope infinitis rationibus disputari, omniumque summaria quaedam cognitio comparari potest... . Johann Jansson van Waesberghe and the Widow of Elizeus Weyerstraet, 1669.

Two parts in one volume, large folio (447x282 mm). The two parts with running collation and foliation. Collation: *4, **4, A-Z4, Aa-Hh4, Kk4-Zz4, Aaa-Ooo4, Ppp6. [16], 482, [10] pages. Roman and italic type. Text in two columns. Separate engraved title-pages to both parts, the second one bearing a woodcut printer's device. Between fols. *2 and *3, an engraved portrait of Emperor Leopold, one...
€ 46.000
A Typographical Monument

9. Aurelius Augustinus (354-430).

De Civitate Dei. Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, in the house of Petrus de Maximo, 1468.

Folio (400x280 mm). Collation: *8, **8, a-m10, n12, 710, cum8, rum8. 273 of [274] leaves, lacking the lastblank. Complete with the other blank leaves, fols. *1, **8, and rum7. Text in one column, 46 lines.Type: 115R. Fine illuminated white vinestem border on fol. a1r, including two large initials 'I' and 'G' illuminated in gold, and in lower panel the arms of Cardinal Niccolò...
€ 240.000
The Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages

15. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (before 1200-1272).

De proprietatibus rerum. Johann Koelhoff the Elder, 19 January 1483.

Folio (283x197 mm). Collation: [*]10, a10, b–d8, e10, f–x8, y10, z8, A–R8, S10, T–Y8, Aa–Dd8, Ee-Ff6, Gg–Ll8, Mm10. 471 of [472] leaves. Complete, lacking only the blank fol. a1, present the blank fol. Mm10. Text in two columns, 38-40 lines. Type: 7:95G, 9:150G. On fol. a2r six-line initial, painted in blue, red, and green. Numerous painted initials,...
€ 9.500
The Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages

5. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (before 1200-1272).

De proprietatibus rerum. Johann Koelhoff the Elder, 19 January 1483.

Folio (283x197 mm). Collation: [*]10, a10, b–d8, e10, f–x8, y10, z8, A–R8, S10, T–Y8, Aa–Dd8, Ee-Ff6, Gg–Ll8, Mm10. 471 of [472] leaves. Complete, lacking only the blank fol. a1, present the blank fol. Mm10. Text in two columns, 38-40 lines. Type: 7:95G, 9:150G. On fol. a2r six-line initial, painted in blue, red, and green. Numerous painted initials,...
€ 9.500

Bartholomaeus Platina.

De honesta voluptate et valetudine. Venezia, [Bernardino Benali], 25 agosto 1494..

In-4° (mm 207x152). Segnatura: [*]6, a-n8, o4. 114 carte non numerate di cui la prima bianca. Testo su una colonna di 29 linee. Carattere 110R. Spazi bianchi per iniziali con letterine guida. La prima carta di testo è ornata da un’iniziale miniata in oro e decorata da bianchi girari con inserti in oro su fondo blu e verde. Alla stessa carta, lingo il margine inferiore, si trova...
As book jackets do today — Paul Needham —

24. (Benali’s wrappers).

Monte de la oratione. [Venice, Bernardinus Benalius (?), before June 1493].

4° (204x145 mm). Collation: [18, 2-84]. [36] leaves. Text in one column, 32-33 lines. Type: 130G, 85G. Full-page woodcut on fol. a2v. Woodcut decorated initial on fol. a3r, Lombards throughout. A good copy, slightly waterstained and spotted. Now cased in transparent plastic material, brown morocco spine, with title and ‘Benali's wrappers' in gilt lettering. In a black morocco box.
€ 8.500
As book jackets do today — Paul Needham —

25. (Benali’s wrappers). Nicolaus de Ausmo (de Auxino).

Zardino de Oration: Fructuoso. [Venice, Bernardinus Benalius (?)], 1494.

4° (204x150 mm). [a]4, b-z4, &4, cum4, rum4, A4, B6. Text in one column, 35 lines. Type: 150G, 85G. Full-page woodcut on fol. [a]4v. Woodcut animated initial on fol. b1r. Good copy, a few waterstains and spots. Now cased in transparent plastic material, brown morocco spine, with title and ‘Benali's wrappers' in gilt lettering. In a black morocco box.
€ 8.500
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