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Alastor Rare Books 47. Oberlin, Jeremie-Jacques. Antiqui Monumentis Suis Illustrati Primae Lineae. Argentorati [i.e Strasburg]: Apud Joh. Frid. Stein., 1776. 8vo, 19cm, [8], 198, [60] p., untrimmed, roman & italic type, woodcut medallion to title, woodcut head & tailpieces, recent marbled boards, paper spine label. First edition of this compendium of geographical knowledge & bibliography by this Strasburgh born classical scholar, editor and antiquary. After showing much early promise in antiquarian pursuits and study under Schoeflin and beginning his career as a teacher, he was appointed librarian to the university. In 1770 he became an assistant lecturer for the chair of Latin eloquence and in this capacity gave courses on antiquities, diplomatics and ancient geography. To aid his students he published valuable aids to study including the work here which were later adopted by other universities. The work giving the names of topographical features by country including Europe, Africa and Asia AND INCLUDING AN EXTENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITERS ON CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY. A very good copy (clean tear to one leaf). £180.00 48. [Orsetti, Stefano]. Formule Mnemoniche Per La Cronologia Dei Sommi Pontefici. Lucca?, 184-?. 8vo, 195 x145mm, 120 p. (42 completed; 72 blank), original half black cloth & marbled sides, ownership inscription of Stefano Orsetti, probably Conte Stefano Orsetti. This manuscript notebook of some 3000 words in total contains an interesting collection of mnemonic tables to memorize the Italian popes. There are five tables with the major second table giving of 256 popes to 1846 with brief name, date of death. £450.00 49. Orteschi, Anna Maria Giacomina. Alcune chiacchiere in risposta a quanto ha detto ... Antonio Lizzari sul proposito della costituzione epidemica veneta degli anni 1761 e 1762. Venezia [Venice]: Presso Pietro Savioni, 1764. 4to, 24.5cm, [2], 93, [1 blank] p., title page & penultimate page printed entirely in red, large woodcut initial letter of Italian villa in rural scene, large endpiece of classical bust medallion flanked by urns within strapwork border & smaller endpiece flowers & foliage. Contemporary cartonatura, spine defective. Only edition of this beautiful piece of writing and romantic devotion where Anna Ortechi gives detailed textual analysis and defence of her husband, Pietro Ortechi’s, commentary on Antonio Lizzari’s study on the outbreaks of the Black Death in Venice in 1761 & 1762 with which Lizzari had taken issue. This copy has an approvazione leaf not present in the ICCU collated copy. A good copy (scattered foxing). OCLC 1433611 (sole copy NLM); ICCU (3 copies Florence, Padova & Viterbo); Not in COPAC. Cicogna. Saggio di bibliografia veneziana 5541. £450.00 50. Paitoni, Jacopo Maria. Venezia, La Prima Citta’ Fuori Della Germania, Dove Esercito’ L’Arte Della Stampa Dissertazione.... Venezia: Apresso Pietro Bassaglia , 1756. 8vo, 19.5cm, 48 p., (lower half of blank title page foreedge restored) engraved title device with decorative cartouche flanked with foliage sprays and squirrels and topped with a shallow basket of fruit & flowers, headpiece of doves in foliage, recent decorative paper covered boards. First edition of this early bibliographical monograph on the origins of Italian printing proposing Venice as the birthplace of Italian printing over Milan as which had been argued to that date. The work was one of the first of which was to become a stream of works from the late 18th century onwards establishing the origins of Italian printing. A very good copy (small ink smudge to last text page just touching text). Bigmore & Wyman II 108; Castellani (1973) La Stampa in Venezia. £220.00 51. Palcani Caccianemici, Luigi. De Vita Eustachii Zanotti Commentarius. Bononiae [Bologna]: Ex typographia Instituti scientiarum, 1784. Catalogue Twenty One 4to, 20cm, 38, [2] p., vignettes of Grecian urns to title page and as endpiece, red edges, contemporary cartonatura. First edition of this life of the distinguished Italian astronomer Eustachio Zanotti was published by his collaborator Palcani-Caccianemici. It was republished several times in Latin in the late 18th century and issued in Italian in 1825. Zanotti was born in 1709 into an accomplished family. By age 30 he was director of the observatory of Bologna. He studied comets (discovering two), eclipses, aurora borealis, and stars; he published an important star catalogue and was a pioneer in the study of variable stars. Zanotti was elected Fellow of the Royal Society London in 1740 and also elected a member of other European scientific societies. A very good copy (two small stains to front cover). Worldcat, COPAC & KVK locate three holdings (BNF, Oxford & Munchen); ICCU (4 holdings). £180.00 20 21
Alastor Rare Books 52. Parentalia Quibus Memoriam Viri Magnifici Illustris Et Consultissimi Io Georgii Pertschii.... Helmstad: Pauli Diterici Schnorr, Acad. Typogr. , [1744]. Folio, [2], 98 p., (lacks frontis), engraved title device of the Academia Julia Carolina (Helmstedt University), various large engraved headpieces including a central skull & crossbones atop a plinth within an oval medallion flanked with a skeleton with scythe to right and bearded man to left with the motto “Morte carent anime” (souls forgo death) from Ovid, end pieces of decorative scrollwork & flowers, page numbers within brackets and decorative printers ornaments. Modern quarter cloth & paper covered boards. This substantial and highly decorative funeral memorial, bibliography and memoir goes some way to showing the esteem to which this Helmstedt University prorector, canon law scholar and theology professor was held. Pertsch penned a number of works and his Versuch einer Kirchen-Historie: So fern solche Als eine Einleitung zur geistliche Rechts- Gelahrtheit kann angesehen werden, Meisners, Wolfenbüttel 1739 on church history seems to have achieved most acclaim. Parentalia includes a 53 work bibliography, grouped into places of publication; a biographical memoir, funeral orations from Georg Keufel, Christian Wernsdorf & Julius Carls and a neo-latin lament from Christian Wernsdorf. A very good copy (paper flaw to one leaf & lacks blank outer corner of last leaf). £200.00 53. La Parisiade, Poeme Heroi-Tragi-Comique. Dedie Au Comite D’Inquisition Par un Hottentot. [Paris]: Au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, 1789. 8vo, 31, 1 blank p., woodcut title device of rural scene of windmill, church & tree, engraved headpiece of printers rules & ornaments, woodcut headpiece of flowers & foliage, occasional margin marks & underlining, recent wrappers. A gem for the collector of the Imprimeur imaginaire, this verse in twelve chants whips up the revolutionary enmity that fed the violent opening chapters of the French Revolution with the murder and decapitation of Bernard de Launay in the storming of the Bastille after the dismissal of Jacques Necker, Director General of Finance who had the temerity to suggest that Louis XVI might consider a budget to conserve funds. Conlon- Le siècle des lumières p.176; Weller- Die falschen und fingirten Druckorte p.242; Querard 314. Circular embossed stamp of John Fowles, Lyme Regis. £220.00 54. [Parisian Booksellers Catalogue/Advertisement] Roberti Stephani Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. Basilae, 1740, 4 Volumes in-fol. [Paris]: [For Leclerc & Durand Libraires], [1757]. Bifolium, 2, [2 blank] p., top-edge shaved for inclusion in different format work leaving small strip of headpiece. This curious Parisian booksellers prospectus advertises for sale copies of Robert Etienne’s . £180.00 55. [Penton, Stephen]. The Guardian’s Instruction, Or, The Gentleman’s Romance. Written for the diversion and service of the gentry; particularly those educated in Oxford, or Cambridge. London: Printed for the Authour[sic], and sold by Simon Miller, at the Star near the West-end of St. Paul’s., 1688. 12mo, 14cm, [14], 90, [2] p., title in double rule frame, contemporary mauve wrappers. Scarce edition. COPAC gives only the Lambeth Palace copy with matching collation. Stephen Penton penned this work in development of his educational ideas following his principalship of St. Edmunds College, Oxford (1676-1684), with the intention of attracting more students from the gentry at a time of falling student numbers at the college. A good copy (some headlines shaved, a couple of leaves tightly bound). Letellier p.342; NCBEL II p.1938; Esdaile p.283 £450.00 Catalogue Twenty One 56. [Prospectus] A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority. Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account Of Captain Cook’s First, Second, Third and Last Voyage Undertaken by Order of his Present Majesty, For Making New Discoveries in Geography, Navigation, Astronomy, & c. in the Southern and Northern Hemisphere. London: Printed for Alex Hogg, at the King’s Arms, No.16, Pater- Noster-Row; and sold by all Booksellers and News-Carriers., [1784]. Single sheet, 385 x 235mm, printers initials in decorative flourish. This unrecorded prospectus for Alexander Hogg’s 1784 edition of Cook’s Voyages “ Being the most elegant, splendid and perfect edition, of the Whole of Capt. Cook’s Voyages and Discoveries, &c. ever published, and written in a more pleasing and elegant Stile [sic] than any other Work of the Kind” is similar to the title page of the published edition which contains substantial additional text and typographic layout alterations and different printers colophon. Not in ESTC. £550.00 22 23
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