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APULEIUS Lamour de Cupido et de Psiché mere de
volupté... nouvellement historiée, & exposée en vers
François. [Paris], avec privilege du roy, [1586].
Engraved architectural title-page signed by Leonard Gaultier, and 32
numbered engraved plates, each containing a half-page illustration
and text below.
Sm 4to. Early 19th century green vellum gilt over pasteboards. $17500
A wide-mArgined copy of the first edition of this illustrated tale of the lovers
Cupid and Psyche. It is engraved throughout by Léonard Gaultier, the
illustrations are primarily reversed, enlarged copies of the fine woodcut
series used by Jeanne de Marnef Janot in 1546.
This edition is extremely rare edition. OCLC lists only a handful
of copies: Bibliothèque Nationale, British Library, Pierpont Morgan
Library, Harvard, Columbia and NYPL. COPAC also adds Oxford
and Durham in the UK.
BMSTC (French), p. 21. Mortimer no. 34. Rothschild III, 2567. Brun, p. 144.
ALBERTUS MAGNUS, ST.
De laudibus beatae virginis Mariae.
[Cologne, Ulrich Zell, not after 1473].
Folio. Early 19th century ochre paper boards,
red spine label lettered in gilt, red edges (spine
darkened, a little soiled and marked). $24000
First edition. A superb wide-margined copy
with deep impressions of the types on
remarkably fresh paper, printed by the
prototypographer of Cologne, Ulrich Zell.
H460. GW 678. BMC I, 192. BSB-Ink A185.
Goff A271. Bod-inc A119.

AULUS GELLIUS Noctes Atticae.
Lyon, apud Seb. Gryphium, 1539.
8vo. Contemporary Italian brown morocco,
covers framed by blind and gilt fillet borders,
small floral tools at corners, central gilt-tooled
arabesque design with title lettered on upper
cover “AVLVS / GELL.”, spine with six bands,
three raised with gilt tooling, spine panels
with ornamental blind-tooled roll, gilt edges
(panels at head and foot of spine defective,
upper cover with area of abrasion, corners
rubbed, ties missing). $4800
Baudrier VIII, p. 123. This edition not in BMSTC
(French) or Adams.
ARISTOPHANES [Greek title]
Comoediae novem cum commentariis
antiquis... (ed. S. Gelenius). Basle, in officina
Frobeniana, 1547.
Folio. Contemporary vellum, 18th century green
morocco labels on spine, g.e. $7500
First edition to be edited by the Bohemian humanist
Sigismund Gelenius and dedicated by him to Philip
Melanchthon.
BMSTC (German), p. 40. VD16 A3268. Adams
A1715. Hoffmann I, p. 253. Dibdin I, pp. 297/8.

BIBLE. PSALMS, FRENCH. MAROT
(CLEMENT) Les Pseaumes de David et les
cantiques de la Bible, auec les argumens & la
paraphrase de Theodore de Besze. [Geneva], de
l’imprimerie de Jean Berjon, 1581.
8vo. Contemporary calf, covers with panel infilled with gilt strapwork
design with hatching and central cartouche enclosing name “BENIGNE”
on upper cover and “DE RABUTIN” on lower, flat spine richly gilt,
gauffered edges (upper joint, headcaps and corners restored). $9500
A rare edition of Marot and Beza’s Psalms in French finely bound
for a prominent female Protestant, Bénigne de Rabutin, who
married her first cousin François d’Anlezy, seigneur d’Espeuille
(Burgundy). She was great aunt of the author Roger de Bussy-
Rabutin who described her as a ‘très habile femme de la religion
prétendue réformée’ and owned a portrait of her which still hangs
at the Château de Bussy-Rabutin. Both were relatives of Marie de
Rabutin-Chantal, Madame de Sévigné.
Moeckli 100. OCLC: 7 copies in Europe, none in US libraries. COPAC
adds Oxford only.
BREDERO (GERBRAND
ADRIAENSZ) Boertigh,
Amoreus, en Aendachtigh Groot
Lied-boeck. Amsterdam, Cornelis
Lodowijcksz: vander Plasse, 1622.
Engraved title, added, fine engraved portrait of
Bredero by Hessel Gerritsz (the only known
portrait), 20 engravings, 3 full page and 17 halfpage
by Jan van de Velde II and Michel le Blon;
full- page calligraphic woodcut of Cupid in pt. 2
repeated in pt. 3; occasional use of civilité type.
3 3 parts in one vol. Oblong 4to. 19th century
vellum over pasteboards. $12000
First collected edition of Bredero’s famous
Groot Lied-boecke, the songbook of the Golden Age, containing some 200 popular poems, mostly love
and wedding songs.
Scheurleer, Nederlandsche Liedboeken, p. 142. Carter & Vervliet, Civilité Types, 1966, no.360. OCLC
(US: NGA Washington, Newberry, Columbia, Huntington only).

CASA (GIOVANNI DELLA) Le Galatee,
premierement composé en Italien... & depuis
mis en François, Latin, Allemand, & Espagnol...
Geneva [i.e. Lyon], par Jean de Tournes, 1609.
16mo. 17th century vellum. $2000
De Tournes had published a polyglot edition of this classic
courtesy book in 1598 but without the German version
found here. In this edition we have a French version printed
in civilité type, a German version in gothic type,
a Spanish version in roman type and an Italian version in
italic type, printed in four columns across a double page
with a Latin version in roman type printed at the bottom.
Cartier II, 753
CICERO Opera. De officiis. De amicitia.
De senectute. Eiusdem paradoxa: Cum suis
commentariis: una cum familiari explanatione
ipsi Jodoci Asce[n]sii. Adjuncta eiusdem Ascenii in
paradoxa nova expositione nuperrime absoluta:
nec alias aut antehac usquam impressa. Lyon,
Jean Bonet [i.e. Paris, Badius Ascensius], (1509).
Title-page with large woodcut of Cicero at his desk
flanked by Petrus Marsus and Badius Ascensius, at foot
four small woodcuts of religious scenes, fine white-onblack
woodcut initials throughout.
Sm folio. Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. $6500
Extremely rare Badius edition of Cicero’s philosophical
works, unknown to Renouard, printed by Badius in Paris
to be sold by the Lyon bookseller Jean Bonet whose name
and address appear on the title-page.
Copies of this edition are scarce with only three
institutional copies recorded by OCLC/COPAC, none of
which are in the US.
Not in Renouard, Adams, BMSTC (French), Baudrier.
COPAC (UCL only).

CIPRIANI (GIOVANNI BATTISTA) Degli
edifici antichi e moderni di Roma vedute in
contorno (I-II). Roma, 1817. [With:] Galleria
delle piu insigni Statue, Busti, Bassi-Rilievi, ed
altro. Rome, 1821-1822.
I & II. Two engraved titles and five part-titles, 117 plates in vol. I
including fine folding panorama, 123 plates in vol II, all by
Cipriani. III. Two engraved titles, [15]ff letterpress, and 120 plates
by Cipriani after Filippo Ferrari.
3 vols. Oblong 8vo. Finely bound in vellum over paste-board, covers
with double gilt fillet and upper cover with central gilt-lettered
morocco label in blue (I-II) “Vedute di Roma da Cipriani” and green
(III) “Galleria di Statue ec. da Cipriani”. $4500
A particularly attractive set of two of Cipriani’s Roman works,
the second dedicated to sculpture, holding in all 360 line
engraved plates including a fine folding panorama, “Roma
veduta per profilo dal Monte Mario” dated 1797.
Not in Cicognara or Berlin Katalog.
COPPOLA (GIOVANNI CARLO) Le Nozze degli Dei.
Florence, Amadore Massi e Lorenzo Landi, 1637.
Etched title-page and seven double-page etched plates by Stefano della Bella
after Alfonso Parigi.
4to. Recently bound in vellum over boards. $15000
First edition of the libretto for this fantastic, allegorical
masque of the wedding of Vulcan and Venus, written
by Coppola to commemorate the marriage of Grand
Duke Ferdinando II de Medici to Vittorio della
Rovere of Urbino, and beautifully illustrated by
Stefano della Bella after Parigi.
Provenance: Bookplate of Professor John
Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll (1894-1976), theatre
historian and founding director of the Shakespeare
Institute, Birmingham.
Berlin Katalog 4116. Clubb 311. Cicognara 1445.
Nagler Theater Festivals of the Medici (1964), pp.
162-74. Watanabe 1285.

ERASMUS Epistolae ad diversos, & aliquot
aliorum ad illu(m) per amicos eruditos, ex
ingentibus fasciculis schedarum collectae. Basle,
Johann Froben, August 21 1521 [- January 1522].
Title with fine ‘Humanitas’ woodcut border by Urs Graf, two
preliminary pages with fine woodcut borders by Ambrosius
Holbein, large printer’s device; some greek letter.
Folio. Contemporary vellum over boards, monastic paper
library labels on spine. $9500
First edition of this fascinating collection of Erasmus’ letters, one
of the most sought-after of the early editions and one in which he
was intimately involved. It is far larger than its predecessors and
contains 617 letters of which 171 are newly printed. The
correspondents for the newly printed letters include Johann
Reuchlin, Justus Jonas, Guillaume Bude, Petrus Mosellanus,
Polydore Vergil, Pope Leo X, Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg,
More, William Warham, Wolsey and Fisher.
Provenance: Johann Jakob Gessner (1707-1787), professor of
Hebrew at Zurich and author of a number of numismatic works.
VD16 E-2925. Adams E-852. Allen I, appendix VII, p. 600, no.
F. Van der Haegen p. 99. Bezzel Erasmusdrucke no. 1003.
DONI (ANTON FRANCESCO) La libraria,
divisa in tre trattati. Venice, Gabriel Giolito de
Ferrari, 1558.
Giolito device on title-page, six fine almost full-page portraits of
Dante, Petrarcha, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Domenici and Bembo.
Sm 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum. $4000
A rare edition of the first bibliography of Italian literature which
follows the text of the first combined edition of 1557, which was
the first to be illustrated and the last to be corrected by Doni.
Provenance: From a Fugger family library with a late 18th
century ink shelf-mark, from the monastic library of the Provost
of Fulda, von Clodh, with his inscription on title-page.
Censimento Edit 16 CNCE 17702. Adams D819. Breslauer/
Folger Bibliography no. 18. OCLC (US: Chicago, Columbia,
Brown only). Copac (Oxford only).

EURIPIDES Tragoediae septendecim. Venice,
Aldus, 1503 [Bound with:] Electra, nunc primum in
lucem edita. Rome, Blado, 1545.
I. Aldine anchor device in both volumes. II. Arms and
device on title. Greek letter.
8vo. Together three vols. uniformly bound in English dark
blue morocco c. 1840, triple gilt fillet on covers and central
lozenge tooled in gilt with flowers and leafy stems, spine
richly gilt in compartments. $49500
Editio princeps. A fine set from the library of Sir Robert Peel
of the complete Euripides with Aldus’ edition bound with
the first printing of Electra.
Provenance: Sir Robert Peel, second baronet (1788-
1850), Prime Minister of Great Britain for two terms of
office, 1834-1835 and 1841-1846, with his Drayton Manor
armorial bookplate in each volume.
Renouard pp. 43-4. Dibdin I, pp. 524-6 & pp. 526-7.
Adams E1030 & E1052. BMSTC (Italian), p. 239.

FLUDD (ROBERT) [Opera]. A collection
of works bound in 4 vols. Oppenheim,
Frankfurt & Gouda, 1617 [1624] - 1638.
Folio. Late 17th-century English mottled calf, spines
gilt in compartments, speckled and red edges (different
colours for each work). $50000
A major group of the extraordinary works of Robert
Fludd (1574-1637), long forgotten but now considered as
one of the major thinkers of the XVIIth century
contrasting with the flourishing rationalism of this period.
From the library of the Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn
Castle, with their South Library bookplate and armorial
blindstamp on titles.

JACOB (P.L.) Les
Francs-Taupins.
Histoire du Temps de
Charles VII, 1440.
Brussels, J.P. Meline,
1834.
3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary
red morocco by J.J. Selencka
of Brunswick, covers tooled in
gilt with central crowned
arms of Duke William of
Brunswick and Lüneberg (1806-84) with the Order of
the Guelphs and the collar of the Order of the Garter and
elements of the Crown onlaid in blue goatskin, flat spines
lettered and tooled in gilt with various pallets and
ornaments, light green endleaves, g.e. $6000
Each volume has Duke William’s fine large bookplate
printed in gold and colours.
LITURGIES. LUTHERAN
CHURCHES. Svenska Psalmenboek.
Liber cantus in quo glorificationes, hoc
est: Kyrie et venite, nec non: sequentiae ac
antiphonae… (Uppsala: tryckt aff Eskil
Mattsson medh Hans Thiles bokbindares
ther sammastådes bekostningh, 1620).
Obl. 8vo. Title printed in red and black within woodcut border,
printed single stave music (plain chant). Contemporary vellum
o v e r paper boards. $7500
This fascinating and very rare volume is of great importance and interest for the history of the Lutheran
liturgy in Sweden, affording us a mixture of Swedish and Latin chants to be used at mass throughout the
year, together with various funeral chants and hymns. It is a vivid testimony to the accommodative strain
of the Swedish Church. The only institutional copy found outside Sweden is in the British Library.
Provenance: Ex libris Johannis Arendtz on title-leaf; with the printed label of Johann Henrik
Schröder (1791-1857) University Librarian at Uppsala, and a considerable book collector himself.
Collijn 516; G.E. Klemming Sveriges äldre liturgiska literatur Stockholm, 1879 p. 50; N. Fransén,
Koralbok till Then swenska Ubsala psalmboken 1645, p. 34 f.

LIVIUS (TITUS) Decades cum figuris
noviter impresse. Venice, Philippo Pincio,
September 1511.
Three large woodcut illustrations, each one printed
within a broad historiated border, at the foot are putti in
procession playing musical instruments on horseback and
a shield, the whole filled with renaissance ornament, 171
woodcuts (c. 55 x 70mm.) in text (many signed “F”),
numerous white-on-black woodcut initials, fine woodcut
on verso of penultimate leaf, title in red.
Folio. 18th century half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt
in compartments. $12000
A lavishly illustrated edition with woodcuts in the
“popular style”, first published in 1493. Hind regards
the Livy as one of the more important books with
illustrations by the “popular” designer.
ICCU/EDIT16, n. 34922. Essling 39. Sander 4002.
MACCIO (PAOLO) Emblemata. (Bologna,
Clemens Ferronius, 1628).
Engraved title-page signed Corio f., engraved plate of the
Virgin and Child and 81 emblematic engravings, two of
them signed Augustinus Parisinus after Florius Macchius,
each illustration is within a typographical border.
4to. Contemporary limp vellum. $5500
The only edition of this beautifully illustrated emblem
book, each copperplate delicately engraved and set in
the centre of the page, belonging to the best Bolognese
book illustration of the Baroque period.
Provenance: Ownership inscription of Agostino
Comerio dated 1807, possibly the Italian artist born
1784, in Locate, near Como who died in Recoare 1829.
Praz p. 409. Cicognara 1913.

MAINARDI (ARLOTTO PIOVANO)
Facetie: fabule: motti: Opera dilettevole vulgare
in lingua Toscha historiata con pui facetie agionte
nuovamente stampate. Venice, per Bernadino di
Bindoni Milanese del Lago Mazore, 1538.
Title-page with large woodcut of a priest and three
gentlemen, 17 small text woodcuts in the text and device
on final leaf; printed in double columns.
8vo. English 19th century polished calf, covers with gilt
armorial of George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of
Sutherland (1758-1833), with his crest as 2nd Marquess of
Stafford, g.e. (rebacked with original spine laid down). $4000
All early editions of Mainardi’s Facetie are extremely
rare and this edition is no exception. Censimento records
only three copies in Italy and only a handful of examples
are located in institutions worldwide.
Censimento Edit 16 3020 (three copies only). BMSTC
(Italian), p. 404. Gamba Novelle, 49. OCLC (UK: BL, John
Rylands (imperfect); US: Getty, UCLA, Yale).
MACHIAVELLI (NICCOLÒ) Tutte
le opere ... divise in V parti. “1550”
[Geneva, c. 1610-1619].
Woodcut head and shoulders portrait of
Machiavelli on each title.
Five parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum
over paste-boards. $4000
A fine copy from the first “Testina” edition,
which, although dated “1550” on the title-page,
was in fact published in Geneva in the early 17th
century. The five parts include all Machiavelli’s
works from Il Principe and the Dicorsi to his
Istorie Fiorentine and Dell’ arte della guerra.
Bertelli & Innocenti no. 203. Gamba 623.

MOREAU (PIERRE) Les sainctes prieres de
l’ame chrestienne. Paris, chez I. Henault, 1656.
Entirely engraved throughout with title-page, illustrations
symbolising the seven deadly sins, floral illustrations,
decorative borders and engraved calligraphic text.
Sm. 8vo. Contemporary black morocco, blindstamped
armorial device of three claws of a bird, surmounted by a
crown, of the Buade family. $4000
Excellent copy of this beautifully engraved devotional
book, the product of Pierre Moreau, a professional
calligrapher in Paris.
The arms are of Louis Buade, seigneur de Frontenac
(1625-98), who after a distinguished military career in
Europe became French governor of Canada in 1672. It is
known from an oration preached at his funeral that he had
a great number of books, especially Jansenist, which he
greatly praised and lent freely to others.
Bonacini 1228 (1644 edition).
MISSAL Missale Romanum, ex decreto
sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum…
Lyon, sumpt. viduae Claudii Rigaud, &
Philippi Borde, 1635.
Engraved vignette of the Last Supper on title-page, fine fullpage
engraving of the Crucifixion by L. Culot after I. Faber,
musical notation on a 4-line stave, printed in red and black
throughout, double column.
Folio. Fine contemporary French brown morocco, covers
profusely gilt to an elaborate fan design, panelled with
fillets and narrow multiple roll-tool borders, central panel
with corners infilled with various small tools and fan
ornaments, in the centre a circular fan rosette of 16
sections radiating ornaments, spine richly gilt, four silk
markers and remains of many others, g.e. $4500

PAUSANIAS Opera (edited by Marcus
Musurus). Venice, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae
soceri, July 1516.
Aldine anchor and dolphin device on title and at end.
Folio. (315 x 217mm). Bound by Derome le jeune, with his
engraved ticket, in green morocco, covers with a broad border
formed by concentric parallel roll-tools with an inner border of
interlaced stems and dotted lines, with a six-pointed rosette at
each crossing of the stems, spine with six raised bands,
compartments intricately panelled with ornate fillet borders, in
the centre a diamond-shaped ornament and small tools, pink
silk end-leaves, inner edge gilt, g.e. $49500
Editio princeps of Pausanias’ Description of Greece, a
second century guide-book to the Peloponnese and northern
Greece based on the author’s own travels. A superb copy
bound by Derome le jeune c. 1780 in green morocco with
fine neo-classical gilt tooling.
Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), bought
from the bookseller Payne whose name appears in pencil on
fly-leaf with the price ‘8.8.0’, and sold in the Bibliotheca
Phillippica sale, Sotheby’s 26 November 1946, lot 249, for
£165. John Hely-Hutchinson (1881-1956), with his
Chippenham Lodge, Ely, book label dated 1946, and sold at
his sale Sotheby’s 12 March 1956, lot 18, for £150 to Lind.
Renouard p. 76, no. 3. BMSTC (Italian), p. 496. Adams P521.
UCLA Ahmanson-Murphy no. 146.

PSALTER/PRAYERBOOK
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, a
Psalter and prayerbook in Latin and
French. Paris, c. 1624-1643.
Illuminated miniatures of God the Father
holding an orb and cross (f. 4v) and King
David in Penitence (f. 17v), the second a
representation of a kneeling Louis XIII as
David, in robes with his crown beside him.
12mo. 112 x 70mm. i-iii (paper) + 120 folios
(vellum) + iv-vi (paper). Lacking ff 98 & 99.
Written in brown ink with titles in red and
gold. Early 19th century English blue morocco gilt with large lozenge
panel enclosing ‘IHS’ emblem on covers (extremities rubbed). $20000
This delightful manuscript holds a miniature of a kneeling Louis XIII
of France representing King David in Penitence, one of a number of
clues that indicate that this manuscript could possibly have been made
for his wife, Anne of Austria (1601-1666).
Provenance: Anne of Austria? Inscribed on vellum fly-leaf “W
Brownlow, May 26th 1819.” and “There is a prayer in the book for
Louis XIII who began to reign A.D. 1610. W.B. 1842.”
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS De la vie
et des actions d’Alexandre le Grand. Rouen
& Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1664.
4to. Contemporary light brown sheep, covers richly gilt
with broad outer ornamental roll, inner fillet frame and
ornamental roll infilled with a semé of fleur-de-lis and
central arms of Louis XIV (1638-1715), spine gilt in
compartments with repeated fleur-de-lis tool, g.e. $4000
A fine prize binding with royal arms from the Collège
de la Flèche, near Le Mans, Sarthe, one of the most
famous provincial schools of the Ancien Régime.
Former pupils included Mersenne, Descartes, Eugène
de Savoie and Tallyrand.
Provenance: A prize copy presented to René
Duchemin of Laval for Greek oratory on 21 August
1679 by C. Caignart S.J.

RABELAIS (FRANÇOIS) Les Oeuvres…
Contenant cinq livres de la vie, faits, &
dits Heroïques de Gargantua, & de son fils
Pantagruel… Derniere edition de nouveau reveuë
& corrigee. Antwerp, par Jean Fuet, 1605.
Full-page woodcut of the “Sacred Bottle” on p. 157 of the
final part.
2 vols. 12mo. English early 18th century sprinkled calf, double
gilt fillet on covers, gilt label on spine. $3750
This edition with the imprint of Jean Fuet of Antwerp is the
second of three editions listed by Rawles and Screech (nos. 83).
The Fuet editions follow textually the newly corrected edition
of “Jean Martin, Lyon, 1600” (NRB 81, Plan 118).
Rawles & Screech A New Rabelais Bibliography, (1987), no.
83, pp. 429-444. Plan no. 121.
TERENTIUS [Comoediae sex]. Paris, ex officina
Rob. Stephani, 1540 (colophon: January 1541).
Estienne’s olive tree device on title-page (Shreiber no. 4).
12mo. Early 17th century vellum, covers and spine panelled
with two sets of double gilt fillets, central panel with fleuron
tools at each corner. $2500
A finely bound copy of this tiny pocket edition of Terence.
Shreiber notes that it was “printed in Robert’s smallest
roman type (42r)” and that a copy of this edition was in
Montaigne’s library.
Schreiber no. 64. Renouard I, p.52, no. 13.