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List of a few books from our large stock
exhibited at the
I.L.A.B. INTeRNATIONAL BOOk FAIR
in ZuRIch, at the congress house
27Th - 30Th SepTemBeR 2012
STANd N° 11
A complete description in English and French
of each item can be supplied on request

LIBRERIA ANTIQUARIA PREGLIASCO

1. ALdROVANdI, Ulisse. de piscibus libri V, et
de cetis lib. unus. Io.c.uterverius collegit. m.A.
Bernia in lucem restituit. Bononiae 1638 (but at
end: Typis Io. B. Ferroni, MDCLXI, € 8.000
folio, pp. (6), 732, (28),
bound in contemporary full
stiff vellum. Engraved titlepage
inside a very fine
illustrated border. Estimated
third edition (after 1612 and
1638) illustrated by 400
splendid woodcuts of fishes
and cetaceas. Great important
monography on fishes, including
a long chapter on whale.
“Ce qui est precieux sont les
figures. Elles se composent de
toutes celles de Gessner, de Rondelet et de Belon, et d’un
grand number de dessins nouveau”. One of the best early
monographs on fish. Nissen n.70. Ceresoli p.41. [10432]
2. ARABIc-LATIN BIBLe. evangelium Sanctum
domini nostri Jesu christi conscriptum aq quatuor
evangelistis … Rome, 1591, € 14.000
folio, pp. 462, full vellum binding. This is the first Gospel in
Arabic language, with interlinear translation in Latin.
Illustrated with 149 fine woodcuts, large one third of page
each, signed LP (Luca Pennis or Leonardo Parasole). The
Arabic text is printed
with Granjon’s famous
large font, the
catchwords are in the
small Arabic (Avicenna
Arabic). The
Latin tex was prepared
by Antonius Sionita.
The beautiful woodcuts,
of 81 different
kinds, were executed
after designs by A.
Tempesta. Graesse, II,
531. Brunet, II, 1122-
23. [3320]
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3. ARchImedeS. Opera non nulla. A Federico
commandino urbinate nuper in latinum conversa
et commentariis illustrata. Venice, apud
Paulum Manutium Aldi filium, 1558, € 5.000
folio, 2 parts in one vol., roman type for the first part, italics
for the second. Bound in contemporary vellum, preserved
into an elegant box. Aldus’ devices on two titles and at the
end. Illustrated by a great number of woodcuts of technical
diagrams. First edition of the translation from Rereek
by Commandino of the five books of Archimedes, and first
issue of the Commentaria. Very rare genuine copy.
Renouard 173.3. Ucla IIIb, 448. Riccardi I,42. [4936]
4. ARTIS AuRIFeRAe, quam chemiam vocant,
volumina duo… Accessit noviter volumen tertium.
Basileae, typis Conradi Walkirchi, MDCX
(Basle 1610), € 6.000
8vo, three parts in one vol., pp.(16), 405, (23, 4 blanks); 346,
(16, 2 blanks); (2), 185, (5). Contemporary vellum. With
21 hermetic woodcuts, one in the first part (the well known
“Turba philoshorum”) and 20 illustrating the “Rosarium
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Philosophorum”.
First edition complete
of the third part,
which contains some
unpublished works
by Lullus. Fine copy
(some illustrations
with the genitalia
erased). Ferguson I,
51-52: “his is one of
the chief collections of
standard alchemical
authors”. Caillet n.
477: «Recueil rare et
important». [4385]
5. BAReTTI, Giuseppe. An Introduction to the
Italian Language, containg Specimens of both
prose and Verse…with a literal translation and
grammatical notes…London, Millar, 1755, € 1.100
8vo, pp.XI, (1), 467. (1), contemporary full calf binding.
First edition of Baretti’s (1719-1789) English translation
of 37 fragments of texts by celebrated Italian writers
(Boccaccio, Petrarca, Machiavelli, etc.) with the Italian
original version. Probably was Dr. Johnson to suggest
Baretti to offer the present double language study, uncommon.
Courtney and Nicholl Smith, 73. [5155]
6. BÉGIN, Émile. Voyage pittoresque en Suisse,
en Savoye et sur les Alpes. Illustratons de mm.
Rouargue Frères. Paris, Belin-Leprieur et
Morizot, 1852, € 1.200
large 8vo, pp.VIII, 460, fine half green morocco binding,
decorated ribbed back. Important large description of any
aspect of the history, arts, naturalistic, popular, religious,
linguistic of each Canton of Switzerland and of bordering
regions. Illustrated by 24 engraved plates, 16 of views and
8 of popular costumes well painted in colours by hand.
First edition, fine fresh copy. Perrin, livres de montagne,
n.350. Not in Lonchamp. [17600]
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7. BemBO, Pietro. historiae Venetae libri XII.
Venetiis MDLI (at end:) Venetiis, apud Aldi Filios,
1551, (Legato con:) GIuSTINIANI, Agostino,
castigatissimi annali. Genoa, Antonio Bellone,
1537, € 8.500
4to, 2 works in one volume, ll. (4), 204, (1 of errata); (14),
282, bound in a fine contemporary pigskin over boards,
richly blind-tooled. Aldus’ device at the end of the first
work, title in red with Genua coat-of-arms at the second.
First editions of the principal Renaissance chronicles of
these two powerful towns. The history of Venice by
P.Bembo starts on 1487 and goes on till 1547 when he
died; Giustiniani had published in 1516 the celebrated
Polyglot Psalter. A special copy on large and thick paper,
in mint condition (on both titles stamps of the
Franziskaner Kloster of Hall in Tirol, near Innsbruck). I)
Renouard 152.17: “il y a des exemplaires inprimés sur un
papier de plus grande dimension”. UCLA 370. II) Sander II,
3191. Harrisse n. 220. Leclerc, Bibl. Americana 642. [5018]
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8. BIccI, Antonio. I contadini della Toscana
espressi al naturale secondo le diverse loro vestiture
in sessanta stampe a colori. Firenze, presso
Nicc. Pagni e Gius. Bardi, 1796, € 67.000
Folio (430 x 295 mm), modern half green morocco, spine
in 6 compartments gilt (one lettered), top edge gilt.
Engraved title-page and 60 plates etched with some stipple,
printed in colours and finished by hand by Lasinio,
Camacci, Cavini and Cecchi after Antonio (57) and
Gaetano Bicci, A.Fedi and F.Piattoli. Carlo Lasinio had
learnt the three-colour process from Edouard Gautier
d’Agoty: the surface of the plate was treated with different
colours applied by dabbers. In this method, known as printing
à la poupé, the quality of each single impression depends
upon the deftness and the blending of the colouring and
the care of the printing; at the end the artist gave the necessary
touches of colour to such parts as were too small for
the dabber. The quality of this set is particularly high, with
the colours vividly rendered; the copy is tall and fresh.
These superb plates, among the very first printed in colours
in Italy, reproduce couples in elegant regional costumes,
with Tuscan countryside in the background. Lipperheide I,
1320. Colas I, 325. Forlani-Tempesti, reprint 1970. [18911
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9. BIRINGuccIO, Vannuccio. Li diece libri de
la pirotechnia… diversità delle miniere,
Fusione dei metalli… Venice, G. Padovano for C.
de Navò, 1550, € 7.500
4to, pp.(8), 167, (1), contemporary
full vellum binding.
Title-page with an illustrated
border, 84 wood engravings
in text, much interesting for
metal working progress.
Second edition, equal to the
first of 1540. One of the classics
in the history of science
and technology, famous book
on metallurgy and mining. Fine copy. Hoover Collecton
129-130. Duveen, 79. [9826]
10. BIRmAN, Samuel. [Vues de la Suisse]. 15
handcolored aquatints chiefly by Birman,
heightened with gum arabic. 1830 ca. € 4.500
4to, 15 plates, grained red boards lettered gilt, straight-grain
red morocco spine. Views of S.Gotthard, Glacier du Rhône,
Grimsel, Oberhasli, Rosenlaui, Wetterhorn, Grindewald,
Jungfrau, Lauterbrunen… Eight of them are after Samuel
Birman, and published in “Basle, chez Birman et fils”. The
artist is well-known for his album Souvenirs de la Vallée de
Chamonix, published in 1826. Five plates bears the inscription
“Zürich, chez F.Sal. Füssli”. At the end a rare view of
Fribourg, drawn by Winterlin and engraved by Vogel. [18915]
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11. BOdONI, G.B. Oratio dominica in cLV linguas
versa et exotici characteribus expressa.
Parma, Typis Bodonianis, 1806, € 12.000
folio, a total of 312 pages printed in Roman, Greek and
exotic types, for a total of 97 different types. The Pater
Noster is present in 155 different languages (Asian,
Americans, Africans and Europeans). Magnificent edition,
dedicated to Prince Eugene Napoleon. It can be considered
as a second Manuale Tipografico by Bodoni. Printed in
180 copies only, very rare. Contemporary binding in
orange boards, very fine copy with full margins. De Lama
171-174. Brooks 1003. Updike 168-169. [10514]
12. BOeThIuS, Severinus. Libri de
consolatione philosophiae. cum figuris ornatissimis
noviter axpolitus. Argentine
(Strassburg), Ioh. Gruninger, 1501, € 10.500
folio, pp.(10), 128, text and glosses in roman type, notes
in gothic. Fine contemporary pigskin over wooden boards.
First illustrated edition of Boethius with 77 beautiful
woodcuts in the text, plus many illustrated initials. This
volume, dedicated to Sebastian Brandt, is considered to be
one of the most fine and rare books produced in
Strassburg in early 16th century. Ritter, 225. Schmidt, 67.
Kristeller, 96. [16409]
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13. BONANNI, Filippo. descrizione degli
Strumenti Armonici. Seconda edizione riveduta e
accesciuta da G. Ceruti, ornata con 140 rami incisi
da Arnold Wanwesterout. Roma 1776, € 4.500
4to, pp.XVI, XXIV, 214, (2),
Italian and French text, illustrated
title engraved on double leaf, two
allegorical frontispieces, 151
engravings of musical instruments.
Second enlarged edition
of the first monography on musical
instruments from the origins
to the XVII century. De Baker
Sommervogel, II, 382. Hirsch, IV,
1476. Lipperheide, IV, 200. [3075]
14. BOuRRIT, Marc Th. Nouvelle description
des Glacières, Vallées de glace et Glaciers qui
forment la grande chaine des Alpes de Savoye,
de Suisse et d’Italie. Nouvelle edition revue et
augmentée… Gèneve et Paris, par Barde, Manget
et Brisson, 1787, € 2.800
3 vol. in-8, pp.XVI, 308, (4), 244, 84), 290, fine contemporary
full calf binding. Illustrated by 11 plates and one
large topographical map. Beautiful alpine views drawn by
Bourrit himself and by A.Moitte, and engraved by Geissler
and Duval (L’Arveron, Valsoret, Lac Kandel Steig, Vallée
de glace de Chermontane, Lac de Chéde et Mont Blanc).
Very important description of the Alps around M.Blanc.
Very fine copy of the best edition. Perret, II, 80. Longchamp
413. Mathews, 298. Neate, 31. [17604]
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15. BRAhe, Tycho. Opera Omnia sive
Astronomiae instauratae, in duas partes distribute,
quorum prima de restitutione motum Solis
et Lunae, Stellarumque inerantium tractat.
Seconda autem de Mundi Aetherei Phaenomenis
agit. Frankfurt, Schonwettery, 1648, € 5.200
2 vols., small quarto, contemporary boards. Illustrated with
many diagrams and wood illustrations in text, 9 full page
are astronomical instruments. “Tycho’s observations of the
supernova and comet led him say: nothing new could be born
in the heavens”. Despite its title, this work contains only the
Protogymnasmata (1602) about the 1572 supernova in
Cassiopeia and De mundi aetherei (1588), observations of
the great comet of 1577. Tycho’s observations of the supernova
and comet led him to abandon the Ptolemaic
concept of heavenly spheres. Second edition of a basilar
study on the sun and moon, together with a catalogue of
777 stars, complete with the 2 leaves of dedication and
with the 4 page index missing in some copies; uncut copy,
browned as usual. Cinti, 24 e 25. Norman 721. Houzeau
Lancaster n.2704. [9820]
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16. BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane eyre. An
Autobiography. edited by currer Bell (pseud.).
London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1847, € 29.000
8vo, 3 vols, pp. (2), 304, (2, 32 for publisher’s advertising);
(2), 304; (2), 311, 19 th cenyury style modern calf, labels
on spine. First edition of Charlotte Brontë’s (1816 - 1855)
pseudonymously published first novel and the first published
work of any of the Brontë sisters: “Wuthering
Heights” (Emily) and “Agnes Grey” (Anne) will follow in
the same year. The most important English novel of the
Victorian period was printed in 500 copies only, and it was
thought by many reviewers to be written by a man.
Internally a very fresh, uncut copy of one of the rarest masterpieces
of 19 th literature. Sadleir 346; Smith 2; Ashley
I:32; Wolff 826; Tinker 379; Grolier English 83. [18017]
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17. cAppIeLLO, Leonetto. Nos Actrices: lithographies
de L. cappiello. préface de marcel
prévost. Paris, Ed. Revue Blanche, 1899, € 4.500
album in-folio (mm 455x350), 4 preliminary text page, 18
large original colour lithographs on strong Japan paper,
showing full images of 18 famous actresses of end XIX century,
all dressed with great elegance. This is copy n. 33 on
the only 44 printed. Famous set of decorative and fascinating
prints “belle époque” by Leonetto Cappiello
(Livorno 1675-Cannes 1942). Uncommon, complete and
perfect copy Bénézit., III, 210 “Il présente les portraits de toutes
les gloires du théatre du moment”. [10509]
18. dANTe ALIGhIeRI. La divina
commedia, con la Vita e il commento. Venice,
B. Benali and M. Capcasa, 1491, p. on r.
folio, 302 ll., bound in ancient vellum. Illustrated by 97
woodcut vignettes and with 4 full-page woodcuts within
decorated borders. A great number of woodcut decorated
initials on black ground. This is the first edition with
illustrations to paradise and the first revised by Pietro da
Fighine and with the Commentary by Landino, The
Commedia is followed by Credo, Dieci Comandamenti, Sette
Salmi, Pater Noster and Ave Maria. A higly important copy
with manuscript annotations added in the 17 th century
inspired by the relationship between Rosicrucianism and
Dante, related to the Amphiteatrum Sapientiae Aeternae of
1609 by the German alchemist and mistic, follower of
Paracelsus, Heinric Khunrath. (A few little defects). BMC,
V, 373. Kristeller, 187. Mambelli 13. Sander 2313. [14026]
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19. eRASmuS, Desiderius. In Novuum
Testamentum ab eodem denuo recognitum,
Annotationes, ingenti nuper accessione per autorem
locupletatae. Basle, Johann Froben, March
1519. p. on r.
folio (mm 328x218), pp. (8), 579, (1), contemporary calf
over wooden-boards, richly tooled in blind and silver;
spine with 5 double raised-bands, richly decorated, gilt
edges. A very fine copy, some losses to the spine and to the
raised-bands, boards worn. pRINTed ON VeLLum. Roman,
Greek and Hebrew types. Title-page within an elaborated
border by Holbein, Erasmus’ epistle within a border of
putti and acanthus leaves by Urs Graf. Another border
opens the New Testament. Ex-libris of Theodor Christoph
Lilienthal (1717-1781), the well-known German
Lutheran theologian. First separate edition of the
Annotationes by Erasmus enlarged for this second edition
of the New Testament; a magnificent and extremely scarce
copy printed on vellum. Erasmus wrote to Thomas More
that Johann Froben was challenged with the printing of
three copies in membranis. Darlow & Moule, n. 4597;
Bezzel, 1212; Staehelin, 9; Lambeth Library (1843) n. 356.
PMM 46. [17497]
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20. FABRIS, Salvator. die kunstreihen und weitberumeten
Fechmeister S.Fabris Italianische
Fechtkunst. Leyden, I. Elzevir, 1619, € 7.500
folio, pp. (8), 196, late 18th century half calf, title on red
label. First German translation, “Das ist: Grundeliche und
ausfurliche unterrichtung von dem fechten: wie man diselbe
kunst auss iren rechten Fundamenten schopffen, und zu einer
gewissen volkommenheit erlernen solle...”, of a remarkable
treatise about fencing first published in 1606 in
Copenhagen: “De lo Schermo, overo scienza d’arme”. Title
printed in red and 190 woodcuts in the text. A good copy
of a very rare book, which “enjoyed such popularity that there
were 5 subsequent editions, 4 of which were in German. Fabris
says further that there are 4 legitimate and 3 bastard guards,
because each bastard position retains something of the two
from which it was formed… In summary, the author’s text is
written in simple language, and is well organized. While he
still includes cutting actions, primary emphasis is on the point.”
(Gaugler, pp. 30-36). Two old Russian stamps. Gelli p.77.
Thimm p.97. Lipperheiden2952. Vigeant p.56: “Cette traduction
fait par les Elzeviers, avec nouvelles gravures sur bois,
prouve la merite reconnu de l’oeuvre de Fabris”. [13526]
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21. FALdA, Giov. Batt. Il Nuovo Teatro delle
Fabbriche et edificii in prospettiva di Roma
moderna. Date in luce da Gio. Jacomo Rossi,
Roma 1665, € 9.500
oblong folio, 3 parts in one vol., 19 th century calf , gilt spine.
With 3 engraved titles, 3 engraved dedication leaves and
83 engraved plates of squares and churches of Rome,
beautiful views of architecture of the city. First edition of
an important work of Italian architecture: ‘in Italy, up to
this time, there had been no extensive and systematic attempt
to record contemporary Renaissance architecture... Falda’s
work, aside from its historic value, is of special interest in showing
the development in Italy of the realistic approach to
architectural representation’ (Fowler 116). The composition
of copies varies with the position of plates moving
within the parts, as they were numbered and reissued: the
plates are divided as in the Fowler copy (excluding titles
and dedications): part I, 33 numbered plates; part II, 14
unnumbered plates; part III, 36 numbered plates.
Sometimes copies are found with the two continuation
parts IV and V published after Falda’s death. A fine and tall
copy of the first issue. Berlin Kat. 2666. [18925]
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22. FLAuBeRT, Gustave. madame Bovary.
moeurs de province. Paris, Michel Lévy Frères
(Impr. V.ve Dondey-Dupré), 1857, € 11.000
12mo, 2 volumes, pp. (8), 232, (4), 489, original wrappers
and spine preserved, in a binding signed by Creuzevault
in blue morocco; full margins, neatly washed. First edition,
first issue of Flaubert’s first published novel: attacked
for obscenity by public prosecutors, this masterpiece is
now considered a seminal work of Realism and one of the
most influential novels ever written. La dernière ligne de
la dédicace nantient “ni de votre dévouement”.
With a long autograph letter by Flaubert: “vous êtes bien
aimable. Vous me congratulez. Je vous congratule - ou pour
parler plus simplement je vous embrasse… Re-post-scriptum:
Doit elle être heureuse!”.
Carteret I, 263–6. Vicaire III, 721–723. Talvart VI, pp. 1–2.
[11319]
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23. FORTuNe TeLLING manuscript - Libro de
la Ventura. On paper, Italy, early 18th century,
€ 60.000
Folio, mm 385x270; pp. 76 (1-4 8 , 5 6 , numbered 74, the first
and the last unnumbered); contemporary binding in marbled
calf, gilt fillets on the spine. The manuscript, written in
fine steady script, is one of the rare attestations of the Libro
di Ventura, divinatory “game”, in which the player is sent to
a responsive terzina, pronounced by “prophets”. The most
well-known Libro de la Ventura was composed by Lorenzo
Gualtieri (usually known as Lorenzo Spirito) no later than
1482. According to the chosen question the player starts
from one of the kings who refers to a “sign” and to a dice’s
plate. According to the numeric result, each sphere’s dial corresponds
to a prophet who gives the response. This
manuscript is richly illustrated with popular style drawings
in ink: a Wheel of Fortune, 20 Kings, 44 Prophet’s, 20
spheres of zodiac and planets, 40 pages with combinations
of dice as well as a great number of sketches. [10563]
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24. FÜSSLI, R. H. Les costumes Suisses les plus
origineaux et les plus intéressants déssinés
d’apres nature. Publiés par Keller et Füssli,
marchands d’estampes vis à vis de l’épée à Zürich
(ca 1830), € 3.200
8vo, engraved hand-coloured title-page and 29 plates of
local costumes: 2 of Zürich, 5 of Berne, 2 of Luzern,
Schwyz, Unterwalden, Glarus, Zoug, Fribourg,
Schaffouse, 2 of Appenzell, Tessin, Neuchatel, Genève and
others. In a nice contemporary binding in red calf, richly
gilt on spine and sides. The hand-colouring is original and
very attractive (some foxing, a collection of 29 plates only
on 30, without any text). Colas 1142. Lonchamp 235. [18922]
25. GALILeI, Galileo. Opere. Nuova edizione
coll’Aggiunta di vari Trattati dell’istesso Autore
non più dati alle stampe. Firenze, Gaetano Tartini
e Santi Franchi, 1718, € 5.300
4to, 3 vols., pp.CXII, 628, (2), 8(), 722, (2), (6), 484, (52
of Index, last two blanc). Fine contemporary full vellum,
title on spine. Half titles, engraved portrait, title in vol. I in
red and black with vignette, engraved folding plate and
woodcut diagrams. Contemporary solid vellum binding,
tile on leather spine label. Second editon of Galileo’s collected
works edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri. The third
volume contains the previously unpublished material,
including a number of Galileo’s letters , and notes on his
work by Castelli and Viviani. Cinti, n.170. Carli Favaro
n.431. Riccardi, 520-522. Gamba n. 483. [18692]
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26. GRANd heRBIeR (Le) en françois.
contenant les qualitez, vertus et proprietez des
herbes, arbres, gommes, semences, huyles, et
pierres precieuses. Extraict de plusieurs traictez
de medicine, comme de Avicenne, Constantin,
Isaac… Imprimé nouvellement à Paris par Alain
Lotrian, s.d. (1535), € 15.000
4to, ll.(22), CLXVI, modern binding in full morocco,
blind-tooled (signed René Assourd). Illustrated by more
than 300 woodcuts of branches, many with flowers and
fruits. Scarce edition of the first French Herbal, first published
in Besançon in 1478 “Le Grant Herbier was
repeatedly printed in France, where it received heary use by
owners who seem to have subjected it to more than average
wear... Complete and undamaged copies are almost unheard
of. The work is also excessively rare in either 15th or 16th editions”
(Anderson). (Copy neatly washed, one corner
restored at the first and last ll.). Klebs 58. Hunt 35. Nissen
2336. [11364]
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27. hORTuS SANITATIS. de herbis et plantis.
de Animalibus & reptilibus. de Avibus et volatilibus.
de piscibus & natatilibus. de Lapidibus
& in terre venis nascentibus. de urinis et eaque
speciebus… Venice, Bernardino Benalio and
Giov. Da Tridino, 1511, € 35.000
folio, ff.367 (missing the last blanc), text on double column.
Contemporary full vellum over board, ms. title on
spine. First edition printed in Italy of this monumental
study on the natural world and its medicinal resources,
containing a detailed survey of known plants and animals.
Illustrated border to title, 3 full page woodcuts and 1062
smaller ones. The great medieval compilation of natural
history and the most important medical woodcut book.
Nissen 2368. Sander 3470. Mortimer, I, 238. [9128]
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28. hYGINuS, Caius Julius. poetica
Astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and
J.L. Santritter). Summa sphericum secundum
hyginij descriptionem. Venice, Thomas de
Blavis, 1488, € 12.000
4to, 56 leaves, woodcut of the astronomical sphere and
47 beautiful illustrations of stars, planets and zodiac
signs. Modern half-morocco binding. The woodcuts
derive from medieval sources, and depict figures in medieval
European costume. These figures were reprinted, and
copied in many incunable editions, and were the sources
for the engraved images of J.de Ghein and Johannes Bayer.
Hyginus was an estimate astronomer active in the 1 st century
b.C. BMC, V, 318. Essling 287. Sander 3474. [9021]
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29. khuNRATh, Heinrich. Amphitheatrum
Sapientiae Aeternae, Solius Verae, christianokabalisticum,
divino-magicum, Hanoviae,
Gulielmus Gulielmus Antonius, 1609, € 18.000
folio, emblematic frontispice, portrait by Jan Diricks, a
double table, pp. 60, 222, (2), original boards (spine
restored). First complete edition. Khunrath (1560-1605)
was an alchemist, and Kabbalist, follower of Paracelsus.
“Khunrath’s Amphitheatre forms a link between a philosophy
influenced by Dee (whom he met!) and the
philosophy of the Rosicrucian manifestos. In Khunrath’s
work we meet the characteristic phraseology of the manifestos,
the everlasting emphasis on microcosm and
microcosm, the stress on Magia, Cabala, and Alchymia as
in some way combining to form a religious philosophy
which promises a new dawn for mankind” (DSB).
Illustrated by 9 double-page plates and one of the “wise
old owl”, often missing; 2 double-page tables. A very genuine
and fine copy with large margins and dark rich
impressions of these famous plates; with usual uniform
brownings. Guaita, 1494: “L’un des plus curieux ouvrages de
théosophie- kabbalistique… le plus grand nombre des exemplaires
n’ont que 4 ou 5 de ces gravures”. Umberto Eco, Lo
strano caso della Hanau 1609. Caillet 5747. Duveen 319.
Ferguson I, 463-464. Klossowski, Le Jeu d’Or, p. 29-44. [7425]
23

30. LABAT, Jean-Fr. L’art en fait d’armes, ou de
l’épée seule, avec les attitudes… (Bound With:)
Questiones en fait d’armes, ou de l’épée.
Toulouse, 1696 and 1701, € 2.800
in-8. 2 works in one vol., contemporary full calf binding.
Two important works on fencing, the first illustrated by
24 scenes of duel on 12 engraved plates. Interesting combination
of 2 French works hardly ever appearing on the
market, which rank among the soundest treatises on practical
fencing. Labat two
works Labat was one of the
celebrated family of fencing
masters of the
Académie de Toulouse.
The second work is written
in the form of an
interview between a fencing
student and his
master. Vigeant p.761.
Pardoel 1417/18. Castle
p.XLI, 152. [13084]
31. LORY, Gabriel. Voyage pittoresque de Genève
à milan par le Simplon. Paris, Didot, 1811, €30.000
folio, printed text and 35 engraved plates, beautifully
coloured by a contemporary painter. First edition and first
issue, large paper copy, of this famous series of views of the
Alps: Geneva, Sion, Brieg, Simplon, Mount Rosa, Gondo,
Domodossola, Isola Bella, and others. Very fine copy, with
full margins, of one of the best sets of painted views of the
Alps and the Lake Maggiore Perret, 2694. Mandach, Les
Lory, 172-206. Lonchamp, 473. [14804]
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32. LORY, Gabriel L. e Mathias G. Voyage pittoresque
aux Glaciers de chamouni. Paris, Didot
l’Aîné, 1815, € 18.000
folio (435x280 mm), pp. 14, (16), in a very attractive contemporary
violet morocco binding, gilt on spine and sides,
dentelle end edges in gilt. The first and only edition, with
7 aquatint plates printed in colour and finished by hand by
F. Hegui after G. Lory. Another issue appeared with the
plates printed in sanguigna, uncoloured. Two of the plates
are after G. Lory, père, while the rest are by his son. A fine
large-paper copy, light foxing to some 5 leaves of text, all
the plates in perfect condition with very fresh colours.
Perret 2695: «Très rare et très recherché… pour la qualité des
illustrations». Mandach, Les Lory, 238-44. Nava S/1.
Garimoldi N. 74. Lonchamp 1859. ACL 194. [18661]
33. mAceR FLORIduS (attributed to OdO de
meuNG, 11th century). herbarum variaqui vis
cognoscere vires. huc macer adest. Cum interpretationibis
Guill. Geroladi. (Paris, Pierre
Baquelier, 1522), € 12.000
small in-8 (138x90), 160 ll. (last blanc), fine modern full
red morocco, gilt edges (by Chambolle-Duru). Full page
title woodcut of St. Jerome and 65 botanical woodcuts on
half page. Uncommon edition of the first printed herbal to
relate solely to the medicinal properties of plants. The
authorship is attributed to an unknown Macer, identified
as Odo de Meung, a medieval French physician. Very rare
edition (the first was Naples 1477). Fairfax Murray, French,
346. Durling 2889. Pritzel 5711. [7159]
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34. (Manuscript) – mAeTeNS, Ioos. “Vive la
plume. A’ dieu seul honneur et gloire. Par Ioos
Maetens. Enghien. An 1636”. € 5.500
manuscrit original sur papier, 48 feuillets écrits au recto,
in-4 oblong. Reliure de l’époque pl.vélin. Chaque page contient
une sentence moralisatrice en quatre langues (latin,
italien, français et allemande) en diffèrents et très elegants
caractères, accompagnés par des initiales figurées, très
soignées, inspirées par des répertoires iconographiques du
moyen-age. Maetens était abbé d’Enghien dans la première
moitiée du XVIII siècle,. (Matthieu, Biographie nationale,
XIII, 147). “Vive la Plume” était le motto de la cèlèbre
miniaturiste Esther Inglis (1571-1624), qui pourrait avoir
inspiré Maetens pour son ouvrage. [15670]
35. mARcOLINI, Francesco. Le Sorti. Intitolate
Giardino dei pensieri. Venezia, Marcolino, 1540,
€ 45.000
folio, ff. 104, fine 17th c. red morocco, sides with triple fillet
in gilt, 6 raised bands spine with title in the
compartments. Title engraved by Marco Dente, representing
a group of men and women consulting Marcolini’s
book in the “Garden of thoughts”; on verso of the title a fullpage
portrait of the artist within an architectural border.
The first section of the book includes 50 woodcuts on the
upper half of each leaf ’s recto representing symbolic
images, vices and virtues, with 90 playing cards surrounding
the woodcut and 45 more cards arranged in the shape
of a cross. According to the cards’ response, the player has
to consult one of the 50 philosophers. First edition of one
of the most famous 16 th c. fortune-telling books, inspired
by Lorenzo Spirito and Sigismondo Fanti’s games.
Compared with the previous tradition, Marcolini plans the
double printed page on a parallel register, iconographical
and verbal; for the first time thinking a whole volume to
be read in double page, supported by a complicated reference
system that the reader learns in the preliminary pages.
The book itself and a pack of cards become the game’s
instruments, conducted by the player who found the
higher card. Mortimer 279. Sander 4231. Essling II, 670.
Cinti 54. [12043]
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36. meLI dA cRemA, Antonio. Libro de Vita
contemplativa: lectione, meditatione, oratione,
contemplatione. Scala del paradiso. Brescia
(Brixia), Ant. Moranti, 1527, € 8.500
4to, ll. (22), 434, (12), very fine contemporary binding in
calf tooled in blind. Illustrated with 2 borders and more
than 110 woodcuts of different size in-text. First edition
of the great text on meditative life by the Confessor of
Lucrezia Borgia, dedicatee of the book. Very rare impression
of Brescia, in a perfect condition. Sander, 4489. Brunet
III, 1587. Olschki, Choix, 4843. [4362]
37. meRcATOR, Gerard. claudij ptolemaei
Alexandrini Geographiae libri octo Greco-
Latini Latine primum recogniti & emendati,
cum tabulis geographicis ad mentem auctoris restitutis
per Gerardum Mercatorem… Amsterdam,
1605, € 14.000
large folio, 6 ll. (included engraved title page and portrait),
27 maps on double page (one single page), 215 pp., one
planispher within a large decorated allegorical border , 20
maps of Europe, 5 of Africa, 12 of Asia. First edition with
text in latin and greek of Ptolemy; the 28 beautiful maps
are by Gerard Mercator (1512-1594). (some dust and light
waterstains, margin of title-page restored), Koeman Me3:
“The Ptolemy edition of 1605 is the first work printed in Greek
at Amsterdam and a typographic masterpiece”. Phillips 421.
28
[5247]

38. meYeR, Johann H. mahlerische Reise in die
Italianische Schweiz. mit geäzten Blättern.
Zurich, bey Orell, Gessner, Fussli und Compagnie,
1793, € 4.700
obl. 4to (225x170 mm), original boards. With an engraved
titlepage, pp.(4), 75 of text, 12 fine engraved views, drawn
by Meyer and L.Hess: Am Zuger See, Tells-Kapelle, Altorf,
Airolo, Calonico, Quartino, Molinetto, Tresa… An uncommon
album about the Ticino, the only canton in which
Italian is the official language, by J. Meyer (1759-1732).
Very fine copy. Lonchamp, 538 & 2058. Barth 18181. [7123]
39. meYeR, Johann H. Voyage pittoresque dans
le canton des Grisons en Suisse vers le lac
majeur et le lac de come sur les grandes routes
nouvellement construites à travers les Cols de
Splugen et de Bernhardin en 32 planches. Zurich,
chez J.J. Meyer peintre, 1827, € 11.000
oblong 4to, pp. (2), 169, original orange boards. Engraved
title page with vignette in colours, 5 plates of explication,
one folding map and 32 fine views, mezzotinto engravings
by R. Bodmer Meyer, Fr. Hegi, C. Rordorf and Ch.
Meichelt, skilfully coloured by a contemporary hand.
Views of Coira, Via Mala, Splugen, San Bernardino,
Bellinzona, Locarno, Chiavenna, Riva. First French edition
(it appeared in German the year before) of a rare album
“sur les Grisons, avec une introduction et une explication du
docteur J.-G. Ebel. Cet ouvrage existe en plusieurs versions
anciennes… Elles sont très rares et recherchés lorsqu’elles sont
complètes des trente-deux vues à gravures” (Perret 2996) .
Lonchamp, n.2069 (with only 25 pages of text). ACL p. 212.
(illustrated on next page) [8201]
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39. meYeR
40. muNSTeR, Sebastian. cosmographey, das
ist, Beschrembung aller Länder. Herrschaften
und Fürnemesten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens.
Basel, Seb. Henricpetri, 1598, € 34.000
folio, p. (28), 1462. German blind-stamped pigskin over
boards. Portrait of Muster on the title page, decorated headings,
many gothic capital letters, 26 maps on double
page with two maps of the world, 67 views and maps of
cities on double page, 2 large maps, about 1250 wood
engravings in-text. Very enlarged edition. A fine copy.
Sabin 51395. Alden 598/73. Burrmeister 83. [4795]
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41. muRATORI, Ludovico Antonio. Rerum
Italicarum Scriptores ab anno aerae christianae
500 ad 1500 … cum indice locupletissimo.
Mediolani, ex typographia Societatis Palatinae in
Regia Curia, (1723-1751), € 18.000
Folio, 25 volumes bound in 28 (cm 41x26), fine contemporary
full vellum, two labels with titles in gilt. Illustrated
with 26 engraved frontispieces, 25 portraits, 2 folded
maps and 51 engraved plates. Muratori (1672-1750) is
considered the father of the Italian historiography; the
man who achieved this amazing performance was librarian
of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan and to the Estense
in Modena. The fruit of his immense historical and literary
investigations on the Italian historical sources and of the
active collaboration of local correspondents, were published
in his “Writers on Italian Affairs”: chronicles, diaries,
and legal documents illustrating the history of medieval
Italian society. It was published with the assistance of the
Società Palatina of Milan, formed by Italian patriots and
scholars. A fine and complete copy, with very few leaves
browned. PMM 181: “the first of its kind to comprise the
entire corpus of medieval sources relating to a whole country,
including annals and chronicles, laws and ordinances, letters,
poems and inscriptions: an achievement which put Italy a century
ahead of similar
undertakings such as
the Monumenta Germaniae
Historica, or
the Rolls series …
By applying the critical
methods of Mabillon
to the sources of
Italian history, Muratori
became the
founder of modern
Italian historiography.
Gibbon acknowledged
him as his ‘guide and
master’. A large number
of Muratori’s texts
are still available only
in his original edition”.
[18726]
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42. pApeR cRAFTS. Album of paper ephemera:
pregibna sola - prosto vpletanje - Fzrezovanje.
Slovenia, first half of 19th century, € 2.500
folio (360x280 mm), contemporary binding in half cloth.
The album includes 25 leaves of thick paper: on each are
lied 9, 12 or 16 compositions of paper ephemera. 13
leaves are titled “Pregibna sola” (“solely folded paper”, similar
to origami); 3 leaves are titled “Prosto vpletanje” (“freely
woven paper”); 6 leaves are titled “Frezovanje” (“cut
paper”); the last 3 leaves contains variated silhouettes on
a brown background. Each page includes several samples
of skillful compositions, in which bi-colour paper is creatively
used to form a surprising variety of shapes and
figures. Paper folding may have originated in China and
Japan (traditional and modular origami, Kirigami) but it
may have developed independently in several countries.
In Eastern Europe it had a primarily pedagogical purpose,
giving children a hands-on method for learning mathematics.
An uncommoun item. [18730]
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43. pARAdIN, Guillaume. chronique de
Savoye. Troisième edition enrichie et augmentée,
Continuée jusques à la paix de 1601. Lyon, De
Tournes, 1602. (Bound with:) pINGONIuS,
Philibertus. Inclytorum Saxonia Sabaudique
Arbor Gentilitiae. Turin, Haeredes N:
Beuilacque, 1581, € 9.000
2 works in one vol., pp. (8), 468, (12); pp.(8), 129, (8);
fine contemporary binding, full calf decorated in gold.
Two greatly rare and important historical works on the
region and the family of Savoy till 1602. Both are decorated
and illustrated by beautiful wood engravings, portraits,
heraldry, coats of arms. The second work includes a genealogical
tree, 3 meters long engraved on 8 double-leaves
Manno-Promis, n-6 e 166. Perret, 3590: “très rare et recherché”.
Bersano, 500.ne, n-419. [10036]
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44. pLATINA, Bartholomaeus Sacchi. de
honesta voluptate et valetudine. Venice,
[Bernardinus Benalius], 25 August 1494, € 28.000
4to (mm 207x152). The first leaf of text decorated by an
illuminated initial in gold with white vines on blue and
green round. On the same leaf the illuminated coat-ofarms
of the Manolesso family from Venice. Bound in late
18th-century cartonnage with manuscript title on spine.
Second excedeengly rare edition of this popular book containing
a multitude of recipes and guidelines for healthy
living. It includes general rules for eating, to enjoy one’s
meals, exercising and sleeping, sections on fruit, wine,
vinegar, and condiments, and many recipes for cooking
meat. However, the last part of the book is exclusively
devoted to the cooking of fish and shellfish. Platina (1421-
1481) future librarian of the Vatican, composed his work
in the early 1460s while on summer retreat on the Tuscan
estates of Francesco Gonzaga. A fine and tall copy, from
Pinelli and Martini collections. IGI 7856. Goff P-767. Klebs
784.2. Vicarie 689. [17552]
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45. pLATO. Opera Omnia, translatione marsilii
Ficini, emendatione et ad graecum Codicem collaiione
Simonis Grynaei. Basle, Froben, 1539,
€ 4.000
folio, pp.(12), 959,
(14), very fine
contemporary calf
binding over wooden
board, fully
decorated. Many
initial letters decorated,
some astronomical
diagrams
to illustrate the
Timaeus. Very
important and
rare edition of
Plato translated by
Ficino. Fine copy
in a precious contemporary binding. Not in BMC and
Adams, not in Frognal Dibdin. [3021]
46. pOLITIANuS, Angelus. Omnia Opera et
alia quaedam lectu digna… Venice, Aldus, 1498,
€ 32.000
2 vols., folio (320x200 mm.), 451 leaves (one blanc missing),
roman type with greek and hebrew words (used here
for the first time by Aldus). Modern calf binding. First edition
of the latin works of Politianus, the great Italian
humanist and
poet of the XV
century. One of
the most important
books edited
by Aldo, it contains
the first
specimen of his
Hebrew type.
BMC, V, 559.
Renouard p.17.
Vatican Library
429. [5509]
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47. pTOLemAeuS, Claudius. Geographia cl.
ptolemaei Alexandrini. Olim a Bilibaldo
Pirckheimherio traslata, et non multis codicibus
graecis collata… redacta a Iosepho Moletio matematico.
Addita commentaria. Venice, V.Valgrisi,
1562, € 18.000
3 parts in one vol. in-4, pp.(4), 112, 286, illustrated with
head-letters, some technical figures and diagrams, 64
double-page engraved maps. Fine contemporary full calf
binding, decorated. Very important edition of the Ptolemy
text, foundamental for the historical knowledge of geography
and topography till the XVI century. A fine copy.
Phillips, Atlases, 372. Sabin 66489. Adams P2231. [14390]
36

48. RedOuTÉ, Pierre - ThORY Cl.Ant. Les
Roses. Paris, De l’Imprimerie de Firmin Didot,
1817-1824, p. on r.
Folio, 3 volumes (mm 370x275) half green morocco by
Bauzonnet. Engraved portrait of Redouté by C.S. Pradier,
frontispiece wreath of roses and 169 stipple-engraved
plates, printed in colours by Remond and finished by
hand. Redouté reached the height of his fame under the
patronage of the Empress Josephine who assembled at the
Malmaison a collection of several hundred varieties of
roses, a collection unique for the time. Many of the drawings
were made there although the book itself did not
appear until after Josephine’s death. The exquisite quality
and the popularity of the subject have made it the most
famous of Redoute’s works: “The technical execution of its
production was ... near perfect. The artistic quality of the plates
is high, and there is no reason to mark it any lower than one
would Les Liliacees and the Jardin de la Malmaison”
(Stafleu). Some text leaves somewhat spotted but plates
largely unaffected apart from occasional slight foxing.
Dunthorne 232; Great Flower Books, p. 71; Hunt Redouteana
19; Nissen BBI 1599; Pritzel 7455; Ray French 89; Stafleu
& Cowan TL2 9748. [18718]
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49. ROSSI, G.G. and Domenico. mercurio
Geografico overo Guida Geografica in tutte le
parti del mondo, conforme le tavole geografiche
del Sansone, Baudrand e cantelli da Vigniola
geografo del Duca di Modena. Modena, 1692-94,
€ 35.000
2 vols. In-plano (585x467 mm.), half title, 2 engraved
titles, 150 engraved large maps of which 31 double-page.
Contemporary half sheep binding. A complete copy. The
maps are mainly by the cartographer Cantelli, well known
for pioneering the Italian style of fine bold engraving that
would eventually be embraced and expanded by Vincenzo
Coronelli. The other cartographers include Baudrand,
Sanson, Lubin, Titi, Ameti, Magini and Mattei. The maps
in the present copy accord with the list in the index but
instead of the map of Gran Tartaria and China there are
two maps of Illycorum Occidentis and Orientis. Shirley
n.464. Bagrow-Skelton, History of Cartography, p.268. [18695]
50. RuchAT & STANYAN. etat et delices de la
Suisse ou description des XII cantons et leurs
alliés. Basle, Em. Tourneisen, 1776, € 4.000
4 vols. in-12, full decorated contemporary calf. Illustrated
with a very large map and 36 splendid views folded out
text, copper plates by Buchel and Wachsmuth, of towns,
antiquities, mountains, etc. of Switzerland in the XVIII
century. Very importanty guide, a fine copy. Perret 3814.
Lonchamp 2560. [8139]
(illustrated on the right)
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50. RuchAT & STANYAN
51. ShAkeSpeARe, William. Il Giulio cesare.
Tragedia istorica tradotta dall’inglese in lingua
toscana dal dottor domenico Valentini. Siena,
Agostino Bindi, 1756, € 17.500
in-8, ff. (28), pp. 154 (misnumb. 254), attractive contemporary
binding in vellum, callygraphic title on spine. The
first appearance in Italian of any of Shakespeare’s text.
It is extremely rare, only three copies in Italian libraries,
one at the BL and at Oxford, one copy in American
libraries. In his long (56 pages) preliminary note about the
art of translation Valentini avoids that he doesn’t know any
English, but enlisted the service of a few English gentlemen
of his acquaintance who
knew Italian; “he omitted
most of Shakespeare’s
images, which seemed
unsuitable to his plain
Tuscan discourse”. (Praz,
Shakespeare and Italy).
A very fine copy bound
with 2 other works by
Girolamo Gigli (Siena,
1759 and 1768).
Collison-Morley.
Shakespeare in Italy,
1916. [18254]
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52. ShAkeSpeARe, William. – chAGALL,
Marc. The Tempest. Paris, Editions A. Sauret &
F.Mourlot, 1975, € 9.000
folio, pp.235, full margins, original cardboard, preserved
into the original vellum box. Edition printed on vélin
d’arches in 270 copies (n. 122, with autograph signature
in pencil by chagall) illustrated with 51 original lithographs
by the great artist, 31 full page and 20 of different
sizes. A perfect copy [7191]
53. SOLdO, Mauro. descrizione
degl’Instrumenti, delle macchine e delle
Suppellettili. Raccolte ad uso Chirurgico e
Medico dal P. Don Ippolito Rondinelli. Faenza,
1766, €7.000
4to, pp.X, 119, with vignette, large folding plate, 72 folding
plates, large head and tail piece vignettes, all engraved on
copper. Contemporary stiff vellum. First and only edition
of this remarkably rare volume, an illustrated catalogue of
Rondinelli’s Museum in Ravenna, the first devoted to all
sort of medical and surgical instruments, for dentistry,
obstetrics, ophthalmology and orthopedics. Waller 8159.
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54. TAGLIAcOZZI
[11354]

54. TAGLIAcOZZI, Gaspare. de curtorum
chirurgia, libri duo. Venetiis, G.Bindoni, 1597,
€ 23.000
folio, pp.(28), 94, 2 blanc, 95, 47, (32), modern red
morocco. Woodcut text illustrations, including 22 full
page depicting the author’s instruments and the individual
steps of the various reconstructive operations through the
post-operative stage. First edition of the book which founded
plastic surgery, and among the most important
medical books of the 16th century. Tagliacozzi describes
the method of rhinoplasty that uses a graft from the
patient’s arm; yet his contemporaries refused to adopt his
methods, because the Catholic Church regarded it as meddling
with the work of God. Garrison-Morton 5734.
Durling 4310. Rutkow p.157. Wellcome I, 6210. [18890]
41

55. TORY. Geoffroy. champ Fleury au quel est
contenu l’art et science de la deue proportion
des Lettres Antiques… et vulgairement Lettres
Romaines proportionnées… Paris, G.Tory et
Gilles de Gourmont, 1529, € 70.000
quarto, ll. (8), 80, roman type with several words in greek.
Binding in later full vellum. The volume is Illustrated with
116 extraordinary woodcuts of alphabetical letters and
14 full page alphabets. First edition, greatly scarce, of this
early text on French grammar, calligraphy and typography
at the beginnings of the XVI century. At the same time this
book is one of the most famous, original and rare illustrated
of the French Renaissance. A good copy. Mortimer, French
books, n.524. Brunet, V, 897-898. [5478]
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56. VeceLLIO, Cesare. Abiti Antichi ouero
Raccolta di Figure delineate dal gran Titiano…
intagliate. Venice, Hertz, 1664, € 4.500
in-8, pp.(14), 415, (1), contemporary full calf binding.
Third edition (first 1590) of this extraordinary work of
great interest for art, history and dressing at the renaissance
time. It is illustrated by 415 full page xylographic illustrations
of fineries of men and women in all countries,
including America and the New World. Colas, n.2978.
Michel-Michel, p.98. Brunet, V, 1104. [7647]
57. VOSS, Isaac. de Lucis Natura et proprietate.
Amsterdam, apud Elzevirium, 1662, € 7.500
Small 4to, pp.(8), 85, (3), printer’s device on title, geometric
illustrations, head-letters and headings in text, original
boards. First and only edition of this rare and peculiar treatise
on the properties of light discovered by Snell in 1601
but published only in 1662. This matter has also been studied
by Galileo and Cartesio. Beautiful copy with
provenance of Alfonso Borelli. Willems, Elzevir, I, 296.[9864]
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58. Waldenses - LeGeR, Jean. Algemeine
Geschichteder Waldenser oder evangelischen
kirchen in den Thalern von piemont… mit vielent
kupfern… Breslau, J.J.Korn, 1750, € 3.500
2 vols. in 3 parts, quarto, contemporary calf binding. First
and only German translation of the well known historical
texte “Histoire des Vaudois” by Leger published in Leiden
in 1669, illustrated with one folded map and 34 full page
engravings showing episodes of life of this people. Hugon-
Gonnet n.68. Muston p. 401. Graesse vol. IV. p.148. [9680]
59. Waldenses - peRRIN, J.P. histoire des
Vaudois… leurs origine, croyance, persecutions
par plus de 400 ans. Genève, Berjon. 1619,
€ 3.200
3 parts in one vol. in-8, contemporary vellum binding.
First and only edition of this very rare first history of
Waldenses people in all the countries they moved for centuries,
chiefly in Piedmont, France and Switzerland. Fine
copy. Caillet, 8539: “rare ouvrage, remarquable et precieuse”.
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[8123]

60. WeIBeL, Jakob Samuel - STApFeR, Philippe
Albert. Voyage Pittoresque de l’Oberland, ou
Description de Vues prises dans l’Oberland,
District du Canton Berne. Paris: [Crapelet for]
Treuttel & Würtz, 1812, € 36.000
Large 4to (355 x 260 mm), contemporary tan boards, giltstamped
green morocco title label on spine, in a tan cloth
slipcase; rebacked with most of original spine laid down
Half-title, hand-colored engraved title as frontispiece,
engraved map, 28 engraved plates: 14 with contemporary
hand-coloring and 14 repeated in uncolored versions. A
rare album of views of mountains and glaciers around
Jungfrau and Grindelwald; no other copies with the plates
in double state are described by bibliographies. The work
first appeared in 1796 with 12 plates only and the text in
German and French. This edition contains a new text in
French by the Berne statesman Stapfer (1766-1849). A
mostly uncut copy with the plates protected by guard
paper; occasional light marginal foxing; from V.A.G. Child
Villiers, Earl of Jersey (his Middleton Park engraved bookplate
and 2 library stamps on half-title). Lonchamp 745.
Perret 4534: “Très rare et très recherché”. [18912
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INdeX OF SuBJecTS
Alchemy 4, 29
Alps 6, 14, 31, 32
Architecture 21
Astronomy 15, 18, 25, 28
Bodoni G.B. 11
Botany and flowers 26, 33, 48
Colour plates books 6, 8, 10, 17, 31, 32
Fashion 8, 17, 56
Fencing 20, 30
Fine Arts 34, 42, 55
Fish 1
Gastronomy 44
Geography and Atlases 37, 40, 47, 49
Incunabula 14 28, 44
Italian History 7, 41,
Literature 5, 16, 18, 22, 46, 51, 52
Magic and Alchemy 29, 35
Manuscrits 23, 34
Medicine and Surgery 53, 54
Music 13
Natural History 1, 26, 27, 33, 46, 48
Religions 29, 29, 36, 58, 59
Savoy and Piedmont 14, 43
Science 9, 25, 57
Switzerland 6, 10, 14, 24, 31, 32, 38-9, 50. 60
Travels 6, 16, 24, 31, 38, 39, 60
Woodcuts 1, 2, 3, 9, 12, 18, 20, 26, 27, 28, 33,
35, 36, 38, 43, 54, 55, 56
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19. eRASmuS, printed on vellum