Besides Homer, there is Hesiod — Alfred Eckhard Zimmern Hesiodus (fl. 8th-7th century BC). Ἠσιόδου τοῦ Ἀσκραίου Έργα καὶ Ἠμέραι. Θεογονία. Ἀσρις Ἠρακλέους. Ἄπαντα δὲ μετὰ πολλῶν καὶ καλίστων ἐξηγήσεων. Hesiodi Ascraei Opera et dies. Theogonia. Scutum Herculis.... Bartolomeo Zanetti for Giovanni Francesco Trincavelli, June 1537. 4° (207x147 mm). Collation: †4, α-φ8, ω4. [4], LXXXVIII [i.e. CLXXXVIII] leaves. Greek, roman and italic type. Text in Greek and Latin. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Full-page... € 2.600 share +
A spectacular illuminated copy Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (347-420). Epistolae [Italian]. Add: Lupus de Oliveto (Olmeto): Regula monachorum ex Epistolis S. Hieronymi excerpta [Italian] De la observatione del culto de la vera religione (Tr: Mattheo da Ferrara). Laurentius de Rubeis, de Valentia, 12 October 1497. Folio (300x206 mm). Collation: a10, b-m8, n-o6, p-r8, s6, t8, u6, x8, y-z6, &6, cum6, rum6, A-N6. [1], CCLXIX, [1] leaves. Text in two columns, 46-50 lines. Type: 6:105R. Xylographic title-page. Full-page woodcuts... € 550.000 share +
A re-use of the magnificent Herodotus’ border (Benedetto Bordone). Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (347-420). Commentaria in Bibliam. Ed: Bernardinus Gadolus. Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1497 - 25 August 1498. Three volumes, folio (341x223mm). Collation: I. A8, <2-3>6, <4-6>6, a-c8, d10, e8, f6, g-h10, i8, k6, l-u8, x-y6. Fol. o3 signed m3. II. A-R8, S10, T-Z8, AA-BB8, CC6, DD-HH8, DDD-EEE8, FFF-HHH6, DDDD-GGGG6, HHHH4,... € 12.000 share +
'manu Joachim Camerarii Fil. sunt scripta’ — Gottlieb Christoph Harless Hippocrates (ca. 460-370 BC). Hippocratis Coi Asclepiadeae gentis sacrae Coryphaei viginti duo commentarii tabulis illustrati: Graecus contextus... emendates. Latina versio Iani Cornarij... correcta... Theod. Zvingeri Bas. studio & conatu.... Eusebius Episcopius and Heirs of Nikolaus Episcopius, 1579. Folio (320x208 mm). Collation: α6, β8, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, AA-DD6, EE8, FF-LL6, MM10. [28], 594, [114] pages. Roman, italic and Greek type. Woodcut printer's devices on the title-page and verso of the last leaf.... € 8.500 share +
Hippokrates. Ἅπαντα τὰ τοῦ Ἱπποκράτους. Omnia opera Hippocratis.. Venezia, eredi di Aldo Manuzio e Andrea Torresano, maggio 1526.. In-folio (mm 297×203). Segnatura: *6, A-Z8, AA-EE8, FF10 (le carte *1, *3 e *4 impresse al solo recto, la carta FF10 al solo verso). Sei carte non numerate, 233 numerate, una carta non numerata. Carattere greco e romano.... share +
Homeros. I. Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάς. Homeri Ilias. II. Ὁμήρου Ὀδύσσεια. Βατραχομυομαχία. Ὕμνοι λβ´. Homeri Odyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni ΧΧΧΙΙ. Eorundem lectio. (segue:) Ὀμήρου. Venezia, Giovanni Farri & fratelli, 1542.. Due volumi in-8° (mm 154×102). I. Segnatura: A-Z8, AA-MM8, NN4 (impressa al solo recto la carta A1, al solo verso le carte A2 e NN4) 284 carte non numerate. Carattere greco, romano e corsivo. Testo in greco; in latino... share +
Homeros. I. Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάς. Homeri Ilias. II. Ὁμήρου Ὀδύσσεια. Βατραχομυομαχία. Ὕμνοι λβ´. Homeri Odyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni ΧΧΧΙΙ (Legato con:) Kointos Smyrnaios. [Venezia, Aldo Mnauzio, 1504]. Tre opere in due volumi in-8° (mm 163×100). I. Segnatura: 1-78, A-Z8, AA-LL8, MM6 (bianca la carta MM6; impressa al solo verso la carta 1/1). 334 carte non numerate, bianca l’ultima carta. Carattere greco, romano... share +
The first Homer printed outside of Italy Homerus (8th century BC). Ομήρον Ιλιάς... Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1525. (together with:) Idem. Οδύσσεια, Βατραχομνομαχία, Υμνοι. λβ. Wolfgang Köpfel, 1525. Two works, in two volumes, 8°. I. (161x91 mm). Collation: A-Z8, AA-MM8. 277, [3] leaves. Greek type. Title-page within a woodcut border depicting subjects from the Iliad, possibly by Hans Weiditz d.J.; woodcut... € 4.800 share +
Picasso’s true meditation on Art Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) - Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850). Le Chef-D'oeuvre Inconnu. Ambroise Vollard, 1931. 4° (335x260 mm). XIV, [3], [16 pages lettered A to P], [3], 92, [14] pages. With thirteen original etchings by Picasso, pulled by Louis Fort; sixty-seven wood engravings cut by George Aubert after Picasso's... € 52.000 share +
Festival culture in Baroque Palermo Vio, Ignazio de (1659-1749). L’Emporio delle glorie palermitane, o vero il compendio di molti pregi della Città di Palermo, consecrato a S. Rosalia Vergine Palermitana, nella solennità di quest’anno 1704.... Domenico Cortese, 1704. 4° (183x129 mm). [4], 138, [2] pages. Four engraved folding plates, signed 'D. Paulus Amato Ingignerius inventor'. Decorated woodcut initials and tailpieces. Modern gilt-tooled morocco. A good copy, some foxing and... € 16.000 share +
The damask chairs of the Imperial Diet Imperial Diet Ceremonies. Disegni dei sedili e banchi nelli varj Apartamenti dell’Imperiale Palazzo di Vienna disposti per li Ministri ed Ufficiali aulici secondo il rispettivo loro grado cominciando dal Sedile di S.M.C. sopra 4. gradini sotto il Baldacchino.... Manuscript on paper, in French. Austria (?), mid-eighteenth century. 335x205 mm. [6] leaves. Six watercolours depicting the tables and armchairs (mostly coloured in green, brown, and red) in the Hofburg Imperial Apartments once used for meetings of the Imperial Diet. Contemporary marbled... € 14.500 share +
Vignola’s ‘module’ Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi, called (1507-1573). Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura di M. Iacomo Barozzio da Vignola. [Rome, Stamperia della Camera Apostolica for the author, ca. 1562]. Folio (407x272 mm). [I]-XXXII leaves, all engraved on recto only, including the etched title-page after Federico Zuccaro with Vignola's portrait set within an architectural frame and the dedicatee's coat-of-arms, the privilege... share +
Illustrated with engravings by Vignola and woodcuts by Danti Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi, called (1507-1573). Le due regole della prospettiva pratica di M. Iacomo Barozzi da Vignola. Con i comentarij del R.P.M. Egnatio Danti dell'ordine de Predicatori. Matematico dello Studio di Bologna . Rome, Francesco Zannetti, 1583. Folio (358x242 mm). Collation: +6, A-T4. [12], 145, [7] pages. Complete with the final blank leaf T4. Vignola's text in large roman type, Egnazio Danti's commentary in italic and smaller roman type. Engraved architectural... share +
Mauritius and the Cape Milbert, Jacques-Gérard (1766-1840). Voyage pittoresque à l’Île-de-France, au Cap de Bonne-Espérance et à l’Île de Ténériffe. Avec un Atlas composé de trois cartes géographiques, et de quarante-cinq vues pittoresques dessinées sur les lieux, et gravées en partie par l’Auteur. Jean Baptiste Étienne Élie Lenormand for A. Nepveau, 1812. Set comprising two volumes of text, 8° (202x130 mm), and one-volume atlas, small folio (295x200 mm). Text: I. XIV, 392, [4, Table and Errata] pages. II. [4], 390, [2, Table] pages. Three folding tables.... € 4.600 share +
Jean (de) La Fontaine. Fables choisies mises en vers.. Parigi, Denys Thierry, 1668. In-4° (mm 230x170). [56], 284, [2] pp. Al frontespizio vignetta incisa raffigurante le armi del Delfino Luigi XIV. Illustrato da 118 eleganti vignette incise eseguite da François Chaveau. Capilettera ornati, testatine... share +
A German emblem book Flittner, Johann (fl. 1st half of the 17th century) - Murner, Thomas (1475-1537). Nebulo Nebulonum; hoc est, Iocoseria Modernae Nequitiae Censura; qua Hominum Sceleratorum fraudes, Doli ac versutiae aeri aërique exponuntur publice: Carmine Iambico Dimetro adornata a Joanne Flitnero, Franco, Poëta Laureato. Jakob de Zetter, 1620. 8° (156x98 mm). Collation: [π]4, A-K8, L4. [8], 164, [4] pages. Complete with fol. L4 blank. Roman and italic type. Engraved title-page. Thirty-three engravings in the text (91x72 mm). Woodcut decorated initials,... € 2.900 share +
The Magnificence of Venice Graevius, Johann Georg (1632-1703). Splendor Magnificentissimae Urbis Venetiarum Clarissimus; E Figuris elegantissimis, & accurata Descriptione emicans; In Duas Partes distributus.... Peter Van der Aa, 1722. Two parts in one volume, folio (393x243 mm). [18], 242; [4], 247-324, 324a-324k, 362, 362a, 363, 363a, 364, 364a, 365, 365a, 366, 366a, 367, 367a, 368, 368a, 369-419, [1] pages. Title-pages printed in red and black,... € 42.000 share +
Johann Potken. Psalterium David et Cantica aliqua.. Roma, Marcello Silber, 10 settembre 1513.. In-4° (mm 225x160). 100 carte non numerate. Testo in latino e in etiopico impressi in rosso e in nero. Al recto della prima carta silografia a piena pagina impressa in rosso raffigurante Davide mentre recita i Salmi, la scena... share +
The Honeyman Copy Schöner, Johann (1477-1547). Opera Mathematica... in unum volumen congesta, et publicae utilitati studiosorum omnium, ac celebri famae Norici nominis dicata. Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber, 1551. Three parts in one volume, folio (306x201 mm). Collation: α6, β4, A-Z6, Aa-Cc6, Dd-Ee8, Ff-Mm6, Nn8; 1-136, 148, 15-196, 20-214, 22-286, 294, a-h6, i8. [10], 218 [i.e. 222]; 172 [i.e. 169]; [3], 54, [2] leaves,... € 110.000 share +
The first Elzevier book Drusius, Johannes (1550-1616). Ebraicarum Quaestionum, sive, Quaestionum ac Responsionum libri duo, videlicet secundus ac tertius. Leiden, Lodewijk Elzevier [and Jan Paets Jacobszoon], 1583. (bound with:) Idem. Quaestionum ac responsionum liber. In quo varia scripturae loca explicantur aut emendantur. Indices tres. [Jan Paets Jacobszoon], 1583. Two works in one volume, 8° (158x102 mm). I. Collation: A-H8. 126, [2] pages. Roman, Greek, and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page and coat of arms of the city of Leiden on fol. A8v. II.... € 3.500 share +
Ur-Cinderella [Cinderella]. Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johannes (1445-1510). Das irrig Schaf. Sagt von kleinmuetikeit und verzweiflung... mit sampt den nachvolgenden tractaten.... Matthias Schürer, [ca. 1510]. Seven parts in one volume in small 4o (196x139 mm). Collation: A8, B-C4, D8, E-F4, G6, H4; a8, b-c4, d8, e4, f6; aa6, bb8, cc-dd4, ee8; Aa6, Bb8, Cc6, Dd4 (Dd2 signed Dd3), Ee4, Ff8; (a-(b8, (c-(d6; (A6,... € 32.000 share +
Astronomy in Turin. The earliest known Italian manuscript of Regiomontanus’ Calendarium Regiomontanus, Johannes (1436-1476). Calendarium and other related texts. Decorated manuscript on paper and vellum, in Latin. Northern Italy (probably Turin), last quarter of the fifteenth century (perhaps ca. 1474). 206x147 mm. iii + 56 + ii leaves. Complete. Seven quires. Collation: 1-36, 410 (first leaf a parchment insert, pasted to a singleton which forms the last leaf of the bifolium), 54 (last leaf a parchment singleton), 610, 714.... € 145.000 share +
The first book with a title-page Regiomontanus, Johannes (1436-1476). Kalendarium. Bernhard Maler, Peter Loeslein and Erhard Ratdolt, 1476. 4° (270x203 mm). Collation: [18, 210, 314]. [32] leaves. Text in one column, 37 lines. Type: 109R, 50G (for a few words and the letters in the plates). Title-page printed in red and black, within three-sided woodcut... € 95.000 share +
A fortune-telling book, for learned readers Sturm, Johannes (1559-1650). De accurata circuli dimensione et quadratura, cum sylvula epigrammatum aenigmatum... Leuven, François Simon, 1633. (bound with:) Idem. Ludus fortunae, ad recreandam societatem Latinis versibus omnibus in contrario sensu Retrogradis exhibitus, & in tres Libros distributus.... François Simon, 1635 [but 1633]. Two works in one volume, 4° (197x154 mm). I. Collation: ):(4, ):( ):(4, ):( ):( ):(4, A-I4. [24], 72 pages. Roman and Italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page, with the motto 'REBUS IN HUMANIS FORTUNA... € 2.200 share +
Origins of the Pilgrim Press, three years before the Mayflower Voyage [Pilgrim Press]. Dod, John (ca. 1549-1645) [and Cleaver, Robert (fl. 16th-17th century)]. A plaine and familiar exposition of the tenne commandements. With a methodicall short catechime, containing briefly all the principall grounds of Christian religion. According to the last corrected and inlarged copie by the authour, Mr. Iohn Dod. To which is now prefixed three profitable tables. [Leyden, William Brewster], 1617. 4° (200x150 mm). Collation: A4, a4, B-Z4, Aa-Kk4, Ll2, 2Ll2, Mm2 (Gg1 signed H; Mm2v blank). Complete (with a total of 144 leaves). [xvi], 260 (numerous misnumberings, the pagination as follows: pp. 1-56,... € 75.000 share +
Lactantius. L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani Divinarum institutionum libri septem.(Legato con:) Tertullianus. Q. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani Apologetocus adversus gentes. Venezia, Aldo Manuzio e Andrea Torresano, aprile 1515 . Due opere in un volume in-8° (166x99 mm). [32], 348 pp.; [8], 48 pp. Impresa aldina incisa su legno a entrambi i frontespizi. Legatura coeva bolognese in pelle marrone su piatti in cartone, piatti riccamente ornati da ferri a... share +
Alberti, Leandro (1479-1552). Descrittione di tutta Italia... nella quale si contiene il sito di essa, l’origine, & le signorie delle città , & delle castella, co i nomi antichi e moderni... Et piu gli huomini famosi che l’hanno illustrata, i monti, i laghi, i fiumi.... Anselmo Giaccarelli, January 1550. Two parts in one volume, folio (287x193 mm). Collation: [π]4, A8, B-Ζ6, Aa-Zz6, AAA-ZZZ6, AAAA-IIII6; a-d6, e4. [4], VII (lacking blank A8), 9-469 (lacking fol. IIII6 blank), [28] leaves. Roman and italic... € 3.800 share +
A fine association copy of the earliest work to contain a bibliographical entry devoted to Galileo Allacci, Leone (ca. 1586-1669). Apes Urbanae sive de viris illustribus, qui ab anno MDCXXX per totum MDCXXXII Romae abfuerunt, ac typis aliquid euulgarunt. Grignani Lodovico [Lodovico Grignani], 1633. 8° (176x115 mm). Collation: A-R8, [χ]2. 276 pages. Roman and italic type. Large engraved vignette with the Barberini coat of arms on the title-page. Woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary... € 5.800 share +
Leone Ambrogio. De Nola. Opusculum. Distinctum Plenum Clarum Doctum Pulcrum Verum Grave Varium et Utile. Venezia, Giovanni Rosso, 4 settembre 1514. In-folio (mm 315x217). Segnatura: a-i6, k4, A-B4. 58 carte con numerazione romana, 8 carte non numerate. La carta b5 stampata solo al verso. Carattere rotondo. Illustrato da quattro tavo- le fuori testo incise su rame da Girolamo... share +
Lewis Carroll. The Hunting of the Snark. London, Macmillan and Co., 1876. In-8° (mm 184x123). 11 pagine con numerazione romana, due pagine non numerate contenente l’indice, 83 pagine, tre pagine non numerate contenenti note tipografiche e pubblicità editoriale. Anteporta e nove... share +
