Leo Cadogan Rare Books, Catalogue nine by Leo Cadogan Rare Books

Leo Cadogan Rare Books Catalogue nine

From botany to business history, 38 items from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.

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FLEMISH BEER-MAKING 1. [Beer:] [Hennet, conseiller-rapporteur:] Précis pour les brasseurs de la Ville de Lille, appellans, contre les officiers municipaux de ladite ville, intimés. Pardevant nosseigneurs de la cour de la parlement de Flandres. [Lille: de l’Imprimerie de N.J.B. Peterinck-Cramé, imprimeur ordinaire du Roi] [1782]. [2303] 4to., pp. 8. Woodcut headpiece to p. 1. A few words blocked out with ink on p. 2 (almost certainly original). Stitched in contemporary cream wrappers, title and date in MS on front cover (covers with light or medium soiling or staining; mousegnawing to top outer corners). £180 Unlocated document on the Flemish beer-making industry in the 18th century, this is an appeal on behalf of the brewers of Lille against the extension by the local authorities of an old formula (from 1732) used for deciding beer prices.

Not in OCLC. Not in CCFr.

MEMOIR OF MIRABEAU — THE PREPUBLICATION TEXT(S)? 2. [Bérenger, Laurent Pierre:] [Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau:] Comment le hazard voulut, qu’en descendans à Marseille, je fisse connoissance d’une manière remarquable avec M. le Comte de Mirabeau [...] [Lyon?] c.1818 [2211] MS, folio, 3 items, overall 44 pages, of which writing to 41 pages. Two hands. The first item, 16 pages, of which first two blank, in a stitched booklet. The second, 24 numbered pages, written on a succession of separate bifolia. The third, a single bifolium, with text on three pages, written in same hand as preceding. £650 Two corrected copies, in different hands (one heavily corrected) of a memoir of meeting the writer and French Revolutionary Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-91). The author was Laurent Pierre Bérenger (17491822), a professor and author of the bestselling ‘La morale en action’ (1783). The memoir of Mirabeau was (likely subsequently) published 4

for the first time in the third edition of Bérenger’s ‘Les Soirées Provençales’ (1819). The two manuscript copies, and the printed edition, crucially all have significant textual differences. Here is an example at the end: the printed text has “On part. - On est parti”. One of our manuscripts ends “Santé, salut la liberté”. The other ends “Salut, santé, liberté”, and then has a sizeable postscript which begins “On salue, on part, on est parti”. Perhaps here is the idea for the version in the printed text. In the headings to the manuscripts, we learn that Bérenger first gave the work as a paper to the Academy of Lyon, on 15 September 1817. From the evidence, I would tentatively suggest that one of the manuscripts comprises or is based on notes taken by an attendant at the meeting of the academy, and the other, which is far more heavily corrected and is the one thus postscripted, comprises a further version in the hand of the author, preparatory to (although not identical to) the printed version.

Also with the papers is a copy of a letter, from Mirabeau to Bérenger, that in the 1819 edition of the ‘Soirées Provençales’ is printed straight after the memoir, and was apparently sent by Mirabeau soon after his meeting with Bérenger. Entitled “Lettre de M. De Mirabeau à M. Bérenger, écrite en 1783”, it begins “Je vous dois de tendres remerciemens”. It is written in the same hand as the more heavily corrected manuscript. It could here be written out, perhaps by Bérenger, to help with its inclusion in the ‘Soirées Provençales’.

INTERLEAVED AND WITH NOTES AT END 3. Bilberg, Johannes: Elementa geometriae in usum Collegii privati in compendium redacta. [Bound with:] Computatio cyclica, ad formam Anni & Kalendarii Juliani. Upsaliae: typis Henrici Keysers [Upsalae, excudit Henricus Keyser] 1687 [1688]. [2277] 2 works in 1 vol., 12mo., pp. 32; [4] 28; + 2 engraved fold-outs at end of first work. Woodcut device with astrolabe to title-pages, further woodcut decoration. Text to second work includes sums, five tables, and four pages of calendars. Volume interleaved with blanks, and bound with 20 further blanks at end. In total, 23 blank pages have neat early MS notes (21 with full-page notes, two partpage). Notes include geometrical diagrams. A few further MS notes, underlinings, and a small MS geometrical diagram, in text. Light browning, very good copies in contemporary vellum boards, long sides overhanging, edges mottled red. Title and date inked to spine, further neat ink note to front cover. Ink inscription to front pastedown of J. Afzelius; pencil note that copy is from Ericsberg. ÂŁ980 6

Annotated volume containing first editions of these two Uppsala University mathematical publications, respectively on the elements of geometry and the Swedish calendar. They were both written by Johannes Bilberg (1646-1717), professor of mathematics at Uppsala. It is likely that the manuscript additions are notes to Bilberg’s lectures. Bilberg was later bishop of Strångnås, and was a prominent supporter of Descartes. The volume’s manuscript commentary is to the first work, on geometry. The notes to twelve pages of the interleaved blanks (and a couple of marginalia) treat the text up to p. 13 (introduction and definitions), and eleven pages of notes in the blanks at end (and a few further marginalia) comprise commentary on the section following (on lines and angles, pp. 13-16). From the library possibly of Johann Afzelius (1753-1837), prominent Uppsala chemist, the book subsequently went into the Ericsberg Castle collection, which was largely built by an Uppsala alumnus, the diplomat Carl Jedvard Bonde (1813-1895).

Both works: Collijn I 79. 2nd work: Houzeau & Lancaster 13398. OCLC shows physical copies of first at Bryn Athyn and National Library of Sweden; second at National Library of Sweden. 7

BOOK CURSE 4. [Book of Hours. Use of Rome:] Horae D. Virginis Mariae, ad usum Romanorum. [Flanders] [c.1500] [2203] Manuscript on vellum, 149 x 116 mm, 166 leaves, complete (contents list available on request). Collation: i-ii6 iii8 iv4 v6 vi-xxii8. Text, 14 lines, in a block of 60 x 88 mm: lettre bâtarde, small red and blue initials, beginnings of chapters in red. Calendar (fols. 1-12) in red and black, with small initials in red or blue, and with contemporary or early additions in different black inks (these now faded to browns). FOUR PAGES (fols. 21 recto, 32 recto, 75 recto, 88 recto) WITH FINE AND WELL-PRESERVED ORNAMENTAL BORDERS FEATURING FOLIAGE AND FLOWERS, FRUIT, BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES, CATERPILLARS, AND SNAIL (as described below); these pages have first initial in blue and gold. Some light soiling, a fine manuscript, bound in later 16th-cent. sheep, ruled and panelled in blind, panelled spine, small crosses stamped in gilt (faded), all edges red (binding 8

rubbed and with some wear, clasps removed, spine relaid). OWNERSHIP NOTE, 1591, (to f.f.e.p. verso) OF FRANCISCAN NUN OF KORTRIJK IN FLANDERS, COMPLETE WITH BOOK CURSE (as discussed below); further to this, from 1598, (to f.f.e.p. recto), there is a manuscript title-page within frame surmounted by armorial, and motto “rotat omnia fatum”. £17,500

A charming Flemish book of hours, made c.1500 and later used (in the late sixteenth century) by a Franciscan nun of the city of Kortrijk near Lille. The manuscript features four pages with border illustrations characteristic of the Ghent-Bruges style, depicting flowers, and birds and insects. “The Flemish Books of Hours were especially famous for their realistic borders looking as though flowers had actually fallen onto the pages” (De Hamel). The illustrations introduce both the centrepiece of the Book of Hours, the Office of the Virgin, a set of prayers to be said in eight different moments of the day (fol. 32 recto); and standard appurtenances - Gospel readings (21 recto); Penitential Psalms and Litanies (75 recto); and the Office of the Dead (88 recto). The first illustrated page features flowers to top and bottom margins, uniquely on a gold background. The page for the Office of the Virgin features strawberries, cornflowers, a bird pecking at a worm, and a butterfly. On the page introducing the Penitential Psalms, there is a female peacock feeding her young, flowers including again the corn10

flower, and the daisy, and a snail. A lily, and another bird, appear in the margins of the first page of the Office of the Dead. The background colours to the borders are, besides gilt, also yellow and pink. In the beautiful images one should see Christian symbolism - for example, the peacock as the Virgin of Mercy sheltering the people, the bird pecking at the worm as good triumphing over evil, the lily as a symbol of the Virgin, and the use of garden plants in the tradition of the “hortus conclusus”, the enclosed garden dedicated to the Virgin Mary. At the same time, the object of a book of hours was to be a beautiful object. “Not for monks or university libraries but for ordinary people [...] they were intended to be held in the hand and admired for the delicate illumination rather than put on the shelf and used for the text” (De Hamel). Our volume carries no indication of ownership prior to a later sixteenth-century binding. In 1591 it was the property of a Franciscan nun. This is unusual for two reasons: the Franciscan disavowal of private property and the use of a lay devotional book by a

nun, who would normally use the equivalent book for a person in orders, a breviary. Here, however, there is a note from the Grey Sisters (a female Franciscan order) of Kortrijk, complete even with book curse. “Approval to use this book has been granted to Sister [?] of the religious Grey Sisters by St. Martin’s Church in Kortrijk 1591. Whoever has this book before he loses it, will die they before he falls ill” (the name of the nun has been scrubbed out). This is a humbler book of hours - without miniatures for example - so, while remaining a beautiful object, it was perhaps one appropriate for a Franciscan nun. We should note also the plain piety of the binding, with its stamps of crosses. In 1598 a title-page was added to the book, in manuscript, featuring an ornamental border and armorial at head. It is possible that this was done by the family of the nun; did they take possession of the book after her death? Provenance: item recorded at Romantic Agony Auction House, Brussels, March 16-17 2012 (lot 958).

On books of hours, see particularly Christopher De Hamel, ‘Books for everybody’ in id., ‘A History of illuminated manuscripts’ (London 1994) 161-184. See also Janet Backhouse, ‘Books of hours’ (London c.1985) especially plate 32 (identifying a Bruges book of hours, BL Egerton MS 1149). On the Grey Sisters, see J. de Kuyper, “Het ‘Susterhuys’ van Kortrijk; het klooster van de Grauwe Zusters in de 15de en 16de eeuw”, in Verslagen en mededelingen van de Leiegouw, 24 (1982), 3-15. With many thanks to Steven vanden Broecke and Chris Coppens, for translation and for advice.

SCHO OL OF BOTANY 5. [Bulteau, J.:] Vers prononcés par les élèves de l’École de Botanique, sous les auspices de MM. du Magistrat de la Ville de Lille, le 12 Octobre 1773, jour de la clôture annuelle du Jardin. A Lille, chez J.B. Henry, Imprimeur de Messieurs du Magistrat 1773. [2301] 4to., pp. 8. Woodcut title-page vignette and headpiece. An excellent copy, uncut, unbound. £450 Very good copy of these end-of-year verses for a school of botany that was run by the town council of Lille. The professor was the pharmacist Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois (1715-1804), who is referenced, and given a footnote, on page five. On pages four and five, the author discusses the crowding out in their botanical garden of exotic specimens by European plants, and expresses desire that space be found for “the humble American” flower. At the end are names of school prize-winners: Sabin-Joseph Brulois of Lille, and 12

Pierre-François-Joseph Franquenelle of Douai, candidates in Galeno-chemical pharmacy; and Antoine-Germain-Joseph Bulteau (the author?), a research naturalist.

One copy on OCLC (Bibliothèque Inter universitaire de Pharmacie).

TRADE MARKS 6. [Business history:] Marques qui font vendre. Trade marks which promote sales. Antwerp, J. Gevers & Cie. 1935-7. [2119] Folio, 2 vols. 56 issues + general preface. Blackand-white magazine covers and illustrations. Very good, bound in black rough-grained cloth, spines with title, volume number and publisher in gilt, full-page label showing cover of magazine affixed to front, orange pastedowns and endpapers (2nd vol.: spine surface loosening at top joint). Front pastedowns with ownership stamps of Josse Ringoir, Alost, and small shelving labels. £380 The full set of 56 issues and general preface, of this analysis of the world of trade marks. The magazines are fully illustrated. Issues have different themes (‘Lightness’, ‘Suppleness, Elasticity’, ‘Guarantee, Certification’), and inside there are subcategories (in the ‘Purity’ issue: ‘Purity suggested by pictures of flowers’, ‘Purity suggested by fruit’, ‘Purity suggested by high mountains’). The text is in English and French. One listing (a set) on OCLC (Harvard Law).

THE ENGLISH PAT ENT 7. [Business history:] Patent of invention for fourteen years for a “foreigner residing abroad” for an invention for “improvements in preparing or treating hemp, flax, and other textile plants”. The patent valid in England, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Man, and the British colonies. London,1844 (28 December) [2302] £950

MS on parchment, 54.5 x 76.3 cms. with printed borders. These comprise: at head, royal armorial flanked by figures including Britannia and Justice; text, “Q. Victoria by the grace of God”, with a portrait of the queen in the initial Q; decorative borders to sides with vegetation and putti, with inter alia harp, and crown surmounted by lion. The printed form by Sackett & Ruscoe, law stationers, 8 Quality Court, Chancery Lane. Central text area, 34.5 x 60 cms., with 50 lines of text in MS. Small original blue paper stamp, and ink stamp dated 28.12.44, both near top left. Affixed at bottom, by yellow and blue twisted cords (mostly intact), a mustard-coloured seal, diameter 15.5 cms., with on recto, Queen Victoria in majesty flanked by Justice and Faith, and on verso, the queen on horseback with page. The seal in an original black tin with lid, packed with tissue paper. The parchment folded and docketed. Some darkening and mildew to outer surface of folded document, some mold particularly to verso of seal, overall very good indeed.

Excellent example of a patent of invention, such that helped drive the Industrial Revolution. The very old-fashioned style of the document mirrored the tortuous process to get it. “The procedure for granting the patents was laid down by the 1536 Clerks Act, and before an inventor was granted a patent his application had to go through as many as ten offices. Petitions, warrants and Bills were prepared several times over, signed and countersigned, and gratuities paid at each office before the final patent was given the Great Seal [...]” (Dutton). The procedure was lampooned by Charles Dickens in his essay ‘A Poor Man’s Tale of a Patent’ (1850). “It is not without some irony that the Great Seal Patent Office should have been located in what were the Bankruptcy and Lunacy Offices” (Dutton).

Patents were usually obtained through agents. These could be employees of the patent office itself. Moses Poole is named here. He had taken over his father’s position as Clerk for Invention in 1817. In 1821 he formed a partnership with the engineer William Carpmael. They controlled most of the business in the 1820s and 1830s, and continued to dominate despite increased competition thereafter. As the present document shows, such presumably was the market they offered that foreign inventors sought English patents too. The old patent system was abolished in 1852.

H.I. Dutton, ‘The patent system and inventive activity during the industrial revolution, 1750-1852’ (Manchester, 1984). We find no record of printed forms by Sackett and Ruscoe in online catalogues. 15

RO SARY P UBLICATION 8. [Confraternity of the Rosary:] Della virtù e del pregio della Divozione del SS.mo Rosario, con il Catalogo delle Indulgenze concedute dai Sommi Pontefici ai Confratelli, e Consorelle che sono ascritte alla Confraternita canonicamente eretta, Milano, dalla Stamperia del Giornale Italico, Contrada S. Rafaele, N. 998 n.d. [c.1800]. [2291] 8vo., pp. [2] 54 [2]. Frontispiece with title ‘Ai divoti del Ss.mo Rosario’ and engraved depiction of Virgin Mary as Madonna of Mercy, with devotees holding rosaries, the image surrounded by roses, and text below ‘La Glor.a V.e del Smo Rosario delle Grazie’, with another word (name of engraver?) illegible. Very light waterstaining, bound in contemporary beige spotted wrappers (attached through being drawn-on), binding slightly worn and soiled. £180

Very rare illustrated publication in original wrappers for the Confraternity of the Rosary, much of the booklet studies the indulgences available to the men and women of the association. Pages 43-54 comprise a method of reciting the Rosary. The last date cited in the text is 1726, but all dated publications from the Stamperia del Giornale Italico are from the first decade of the nineteenth century (cf. SBN).

SBN: IT\ICCU\TO0E\081559 (one copy). Not in OCLC.

LEGAL ADVICE ON FREEDOM FOR NUNS 9. [Cortesi, Pio:] La monaca ammaestrata nel diritto che ha il principe sopra la clausura e nella libertà che lee rimane di ritornarsene al secolo, sopresso il monistero e l’istituto. n.pl. [Milan?], n.pr. [c.1782]. [2290] 8vo., pp. 63 [1]. Some light foxing, a bifolium torn at gutter (no loss or loosening), bound in contemporary stiff paper wrappers, long-stitch to spine, contemporary note to front cover, “Proibito” (soiling to lower cover but binding good). £350 First edition of this pamphlet of Enlightenment-era legal advice for nuns, it discusses women’s freedom and shows the politics of monastic suppression (a government policy that was to come to full fruition later). It is written in six letters, all dated Milan 1782. These explain how in the author’s view, the secular authorities (without the Church) have power to “return to nuns their natural liberty”. The nun has also the freedom to follow her old customs, and make her own choice of vestment, after her monastery has been suppressed.

Our copy is marked on the front cover as a prohibited book. We have found the title on the Index as late as 1948.

Cf. SBN IT\ICCU\SBLE\014921 (identical collation; pagination 61 [3] including blank at end, cf. our 63 [1]). OCLC locates one copy of this work outside Italy (Dayton), in a later 17 edition (Assisi, 1784).

ILLUSTRATED EPHEMERAL DEVOTION 10. [Dedimus corpori annum:] Dedimus corpori annum, demus animae dies: vivamus Deo paululum, qui saeculo viximus totum [...] [Bound with:] Esercizio dell’ eternità. [Bound with:] Esercizio dell’ oratione all’ orto. [Bound with:] Esercizio sopra le accuse date a Giesu. [Bound with:] Esercizio della flagellatione e coronazione di spine. [Bound with:] Esercizio sopra la condanna di Giesù alla croce. in Milano, per gli Heredi Ghisolfi [1st and 2nd works have in colophon, nella Stampa di [2nd work: Carlo Federico] Gagliardi] [1st and 2nd works: 1703] [n.d.] [2281]

8vo., 6 publications in 1 vol., pp. 8 [4]; 12 [8]; 8; 8; 8; 9 [3]. Last work with final blank. Typographic borders to title-pages, and to p. 3 ff. of all numbered pages. Second to sixth title-pages have woodcut vignette, and engraving on verso. Further woodcut typographical decoration, one woodcut 18

urn tail-piece. Light thumbing, some old bibliographical pencil notes to first title-page, bound in 19th-cent. half-vellum and marbled boards, title on spine, binding rubbed and slightly worn. Label of Libreria Antiquaria Angelo Gandolfi, Piazza Aldovrandi 3, Bologna. £500

Six, unlocated decorative ephemeral devotional publications, containing prayers and spiritual exercises on eternity and the Prodigal Son, and on episodes of the Passion. The pamphlets are printed on good thick paper, presumably to hold up to useÂ - and indeed show some thumbing, presumably dating to before their preservation in a binding by a 19th-century collector. The printers have used old plates for the illustrations. Their age may be borne out by the signatures there are on the engravings. One, of Christ praying in the garden, is by Alex. Voet, possibly the engraver active in Rome, born Antwerp c. 1637. Two, one of an Ecce Homo, the other of the Cross with attributes, are signed Agnellus or Agnelli, who may be the 16th-century engraver Gianantonio Agnelli. The Ecce Homo is noted as after the German-Dutch pupil of Vasari, Friedrich Sustris (c.1540-1599).

None in OCLC. None in SBN.

DIST ILLERIES 11. [Distilled spirits:] Editto sopra l’estensione del jus privativo dell’ acquavite per la terra di Codigoro [per la terra, e luogghi tutti della giurisdizione di Ariana] In Ferrara, nella Stamperia Camerale 1765[-91] [2298] 3 folio broadsides, text in double-column, red and black cardinal’s armorial at head. First broadside with browning and a few small holes (one knocking out a couple of letters), some light staining to the blank margins of the second but the two others very good. Two of the broadsides docketed in ink on verso. £450

Three broadsides from the Duchy of Ferrara awarding privileges to make and sell distilled spirits. These are given in the communes of Codigoro in the modern Province of Ferrara and Ariano nel Polesine in the Province of Rovigo, respectively to Antonio Maria Conforti (1765) and Gio. Monesi (1791), and Antonio Lupi (1780). As Ferrara was a Papal duchy, overseen by cardinal legates, these distillers’ licenses carry cardinals’ armorials. The earliest of the cardinals is Marcello Crescenzi (1694-1768), and the next, Francesco Carafa (17221818). Carafa was an important reforming administrator of the Duchy. He left Ferrara to return to Rome in 1786, and the last privilege has the arms of his successor, Ferdinando Spinelli (1728-1795). Spinelli spent his last years ill in Rome, and so the name here at bottom is of his deputy, G. Vincentini. None located in OCLC or SBN.

DEATH OF AN IRISH GENERAL 12. [Dupont-Chaumont, Pierre Antoine:] Relation du mouvement exécuté les 28 et 29 avril par un détachement de la garnison de Lille, commandé par M. Théobald Dillon, Maréchal-de-camp. [A Paris, de l’Imprimerie de Migneret] [c.1792]. [2286] 8vo., pp. 10 [2]. A very good copy, uncut, unbound, unopened. £350 Lovely copy of this account of events leading up to the death of the Dublin-born general Théobald Dillon (1745-1792), killed by his own troops outside Lille, following a defeat at the hands of the Austrians. Dillon fought in the American Revolutionary Wars and was admitted to the Order of Cincinnatus in 1785 (cf. ODNB).

Martin & Walter II 12106. OCLC shows copies at Newberry, Cornell and Case Western Reserve in US; NLS, BL, National Library of Australia, BN/BU Strasbourg and BNF elsewhere. An electronic version is indicated as taken from a copy in Munich.

MS BIBLICAL MNEMONIC SCHEME 13. Edenius, Jordanus: Memoriale biblicum, summas librorum sacri codicis et singulorum capitum praecipuas res atque sententias exhibens. Auctore Jordano Edenio, S.S. Theologiae Doctore, nec non in Regia Universitate Upsaliensi Profess. Ordinario. Upsaliae. Cum Regio privilegio, excusit Henricus Curio, S.R.M. 7 Academiae psaliensis Bibliop. 1664. [2285] 8vo., pp. [6] 98. Woodcut vignette to title-page. Interleaved, with MS overall to 66 pages (55 pages interleaved pages, + 11 pages endleaves), as discussed below. Occasional annotations to printed text in same hand. Light browning, a front end paper possibly removed (one still present), tiny touch of Tippex to title-page, presumably by a child. A loosening leaf and a short tear in blanks at end. Bound in contemporary vellum boards, inscriptions of J. Trodian including one dated 5 March 1664, later inscriptions and shelfmarks of M. Halberg and A.G. Sefström (see below). £575 22

Copy of this rare itemised summary of the Bible, interleaved with fascinating notes —very possibly made from the author’s lectures at Uppsala. The annotator has added a mnemonic scheme, reducing each chapter of the Bible to one word, with in some cases words also added at a diagonal to the main text. At the end are manuscript mnemonics on how many chapters there are in the books of the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, and for memorable verses of the Gospels, and Apocrypha. The last five pages of manuscript comprise seven rules for the reading of the Bible. These include instructions on editions and commentaries. Comparison with his signatures in the book indicate that the annotator was probably J. Trodian. We tentatively identify him with Johannes Olai Trodian (d.1710), who enrolled at Uppsala university in 1660 and was ordained in 1676. Later owners likely include Anders Gustaf Sefström (1790-1861), a pastor and hymn-writer. The work was also published in this, its first year, in a rare compendium called ‘Opuscula theologica’. Uncommon, with OCLC only showing one copy outside mainland Europe (Duke University).

ANNOTATED LAW 14. Ferrari, Giovanni Pietro: [Corte, Francesco:] [Clinzalius, Johannes:] Practica singularis ac perutilis conspicui domini Johannis Petri de Ferrariis utriusque iuris doctoris: una cum additionibus domini Francisci de Curte. Venundantur Lugduni: ab Stephano Gueynard [Lugduni, per [...] Johannem Cleyn] [1509, nono Idus Maii]. [2295] 4to., fols. [14] CCLI [1]. With blank leaf at end of prelims. and at end of book. Title in red and black with initial and fine large woodcut vignette. Bound in a later 16th-cent. limp reversed parchment laced-case binding, made from an old manuscript of liturgical music. Spine with the number 3 written in MS in an old hand, and almost undiscernible signs of dried adhesive at foot. All edges red. Considerable 16th-cent. annotations, in three hands, as discussed below. ÂŁ2,400

Annotated copy, in a probably German limp 16thcentury binding from an old musical manuscript, of this standard late medieval handbook to legal procedure. Giovanni Pietro Ferrari began writing the book in Pavia in 1400, and worked on it for more than ten years. He is believed to have based it on an earlier handbook, by Pietro de Monte Miniato (1340). He was a pupil of the great late 14th-century jurist Baldo degli Ubaldini. First recorded printed in Strasbourg, c.1472, the ‘Practica’ is first noted printed with additions of the Pavia law professor Francesco Corte the Elder in Milan, 1496 (cf. ISTC). The text may have finally taken its present form by 1499, when a Lyon edition is noted as having work of our editor, Johannes Clinzalius (called Vinzalius in ISTC).

Annotated in much of the copy, probably by three different lawyers, the first, who writes in a small hand in ink often faded to pink, adds the date 1513 to a note at colophon. His notes and reader’s marks include neat colouring in of initials. The second, also 16th-cent. annotator’s notes use much more of the blank space of the margins and give the book a strong visual appearance. These notes are trimmed, probably when the book was bound for the third, late sixteenth-century annotator. Probably German (his occasional neat comments are usually in Latin but a few do appear to be in German), he owned the book after the binding was put on as text he writes on the title-page (comprising a biographical note on the author) leaves an impression on the endpaper facing. We should possibly attribute to him (fol. CXX verso) the neat inking out of possibly a couple of words. The limp binding, due to its soft spine, seems better suited to being stored with its cover facing down (either flat or on an angled surface) than upright with spine out as books are stored today. This might explain why the survival of such coverings is uncommon. Gültlingen (Lyon) I 134 #28, citing Baudrier XI 221. OCLC shows copies outside (mainland) Europe in National Library of Israel and Harvard Law. Tommaso Diplovatazio, ‘Liber de claris iuris consultis’ (Bologna 1968). With many thanks to Prof. Nicholas Pickwoad for advice on describing and placing binding. 25

PROVINCIAL ROYAL FESTIVAL 15. [Finale, Liguria:] Le lettere confederate colle armi. A celebrare il felicissimo arrivo dell’ invittissimo monarca Filippo Quinto Re di Spagna, da Napoli al Finale Marina, l’anno 1702. Circa il fine di Maggio. In Finale, per Francesco Antonio Rossi. Con licenza de’ Superiori. [1702]. [2276] Small folio, pp. [20], printing to rectos only. Woodcut decorative borders to nine of the 10 printed pages. Woodcut royal arms to title-page, two further woodcut armorials, two woodcut emblems, woodcut depictions variously of Europa, an armored classical bust, and a sun. Woodcut decoration. Woodcut decorative initials. Light staining, very good, in contemporary or early cream wrappers. £500

Unlocated festival publication marking the entrance of Philip V of Spain into the Ligurian town of Finale. A notable feature is its use of emblems. Included is an ode to Philip V’s succession to the Spanish throne (this was the time of the Wars of the Spanish Succession). An interesting memento of regional and ephemeral ceremonial iconography.

Not in OCLC. Not in SBN. Not in Landwehr.

KOLKATA PUBLICATION 16. Fuzli Rubbee [Fazle Rabbi], Khondkar: The origin of the Musalmans of Bengal: being a translation of “Haqiqate Musalman-i-Bengalah”. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. 1895. [2294] 8vo., pp. [8] 132. Green cloth, titled in gilt on cover and spine, gilt star and crescent to cover. Stamps of Middle Temple Library, pencil note “Withdrawn July 2013”. Ink inscription to verso of half-title: “Presented to the Library by the son of the author”; the date 3.3.25 (presumably accession) written in small letters on title-page in red fountain pen. Light ageyellowing, very slight soiling, a few imperfections to blank margins towards end, very good. £150 First English-language edition of the ‘Hakikate Musalmane Bangalah’ (1891), the author sets out to prove that the majority of Bengali Muslims were from migrant noble families. This is a response to William Hunter’s ‘The Indian Mussalmans’ (1879) in which it was asserted that the Muslims were low-caste Hindu converts. Fazle

Rabbi (1848-1917) was diwan to the Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad and later became an executive member of the Mohamedan Literary Society of Kolkata. He was educated in Persian and came from a family tracing its lineage to Khorasan in Iran. OCLC shows copies in Cork, BL, SOAS; 6 copies (Harvard, UMinn, NYPL, Cleveland PL, Penn, Austin TX) in US. 27

SEVENTH-CENTURY MEDICAL TEACHING 17. [Galen of Pergamon:] Stephanus of Athens: (Gadaldini, Agostino:) Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes in Galeni priorem librum therapeuticum ad Glauconem, Augustino Gadaldino Mutinensi interprete. Cum indice locupletiss. eorum qui in hoc opere continentur: & Scholiis, quibus castigationes in his explanationibus factae, explicantur. Venetiis, apud Iuntas 1554. [2280] 8vo., 216 pages (i.e. fols. [24] 83 [1]). With final leaf (errata to recto). Greek, Roman and italic letter. Woodcut Giunta device, woodcut initials. Light browning, slight foxing and staining, very good, bound in contemporary stiffened vellum wrappers, title on spine (faded), early paper spine label with MS. A couple of small contemporary or early notations to title-page, neat contemporary or early correction to fol. 1 recto. ÂŁ1,250

First Latin translation (and first edition in any language) of this 7th-cent. commentary on book one of Galen’s work the ‘Therapeutics to Glaucon’. Likely written by a pupil of Asclepius of Tralles (d.560/70), and with traces in its text of original use as an instrument of teaching, Stephanus’s commentary “amounts to a concise and thus very portable introduction to the basics of diagnosis and treatment of fevers, which of course additionally makes it an ideal textbook” (Jackson). The editor, Agostino Gadaldini (1515-1575) was involved at this time in the Giunta press’s ongoing publication of a Latin edition of Galen. He includes (on 15 pages) his own notes to Stephanus. His edition is marked by “the overall soundness of his editorial judgment. Although he worked from a single, relatively poor manuscript, quite a few of his proposed emendations and resolutions are

obviously correct [...] the manuscript on which his own translation was based can now with reasonable certainty be identified as the manuscript (Hauniensis Bibl. Univ. e Donat. Var. Fol. 29) currently housed in the Royal Library of Copenhagen. It additionally bears a number of marginal notes that in all likelihood are in Gadaldini’s own hand” (id.) Gadaldini’s formed the basis of the next edition, by Friedrich Dietz (1834).

CNCE 27222. Camerini I 605. Durling 4262. Keith Jackson, ‘Stephanus the philosopher and physician: commentary on Galen’s ‘Therapeutics to Glaucon’’ (Leiden, 1998). OCLC (and COPAC) show UK copies only at Oxford and Cambridge; US copies at Harvard, Yale, NLM, NYPL, NY Acad of Med, UMinn, Chicago.

ALPHABET 18. [Giovanardi, Lampridio:] [Anthropomorphic alphabet]. [Emilia Romagna?] [c.1860]. [2297] Engraved print, 233 x 318 mms. (engraved area 210 x 285 mms.) Very small waterstain to one corner (far outside engraved area), very good. £300

Fine anthropomorphic alphabet, ascribed to the engraver and inventor Lampridio Giovanardi (18111878). Giovanardi, a native of Fabbrico, near Reggio Emilia, showed at London’s 1851 Great Exhibition a marquetry panorama depicting the important events of Napoleon’s life. Despite this, he has (undeservedly) found little fame outside Emilia Romagna and Italy. Not in OCLC.

THE NEWTONIAN UNIVERSE FOR STUDENTS 19. Gravesande, Gulielmus Jacob s’: [Celsius, Andreas:] Institutiones astronomiae, in usum juventutis patriae. Upsaliae, apud B. Joh. Höjer [1738]. [2278] 8vo., pp. [8] 150 [2]. Woodcut astrolabe vignette to title-page, 30 woodcut diagrams in text from 25 woodblocks. Light browning, a very good copy, bound in contemporary speckled half-sheep and speckled paper boards (binding rubbed, wear to sides, hole in leather near top of spine, else good). Inscription of Andr. Henr. Hamberg. £650

Rare edition, probably intended for students at the University of Uppsala, of book four of the ‘Philosophiae Newtonianae institutiones’ (1723) the important introduction to the Newtonian universe by Wilhelm Jacob s’ Gravesande. The new editor’s preface includes fulsome praise of Newton, and a Latin panegyric on the same by Halley. Woodcut scientific text illustrations are placed at appropriate points in the text (in the 1723 edition, the illustrations were grouped together on fold-out engraved plates). Celsius (1701-1744), professor of astronomy at Uppsala, was a member of the Lapland expedition led by Pierre Jean Maupertuis (1736), to measure the arc of the Meridian. The centigrade measurement of temperature is named after Celsius.

Houzeau & Lancaster 8856. Not in Collijn. OCLC shows copies at Linkoping and National Library of Sweden. 31

“PURGATORY RANSOMES PLAYD FOR ATT TABLES” 20. Guicciardini, Francesco: [L’Estrange, Hamon, annot.:] The Historie of Guicciardin: containing the Warres of Italie and other Parts, continued for manie Yeares under sundrie Kings and Princes, together with the Variations and Accidents of the Same: and also the Arguments, with a Table at large expressing the principall Matters through the whole Historie. Reduced into English by Geffray Fenton […] Imprinted at London by Richard Field, dwelling in the Blackfriers by Ludgate. 1599. [2292] Folio, pp. [10], 459, 500-786, 789-943, [11], with the initial but not the terminal blank, complete despite pagination; woodcut publisher’s device to title-page; a fine, crisp copy in contemporary dark calf, covers triple ruled in blind, gilt lozenge stamp to centre of covers, traces of gilt stamp to spine; somewhat scraped, spine a little dry and neatly restored at head and foot, but a good binding; lettered on the fore-edge ‘B 14 Guicciard’, ownership signatures and initials to title-page and frontendpapers of members of the L’Estrange family of 32

Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk (Alice L’Estrange and Hamon L’Estrange on f.f.e.p., crossed out; Hamon L’Estrange (early 17th-cent. hand?) fully visible on title-page; Hamon L’Estrange (later 17th-cent. hand?) crossed out on f.f.e.p.; MS initials to head of f.f.e.p. HLS; Hunstanton Hall stamps. 17th-cent. MS gloss and commentary to six pages, occasional underlining on these pages as well, an underlining of a sentence or phrase (with in one case “NB” in margin) on a further three pages. £3,250

Annotated copy of the second edition (first: 1579) of the first English version of the ‘Storia d’Italia’ of Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), “the first history of Europe” (PMM). The book was the “most ambitious project” of the Irish administrator and translator Sir Geoffrey Fenton (c.1539-1608). “Fenton’s translation had a significant influence on English historiography, especially the ‘Tacitean’ history produced in the late 1590s, which tried to provide a detached view of political offices and processes” (ODNB). From the library of the L’Estrange family of Hunstanton Hall in Norfolk, with inscriptions or initials in different hands of Hamon L’Estrange, and Alice L’Estrange. This last was the wife of the Norfolk politician and book-collector Sir Hamon L’Estrange (1583-1654) and mother of the theologian and historian of the same name (1605-1660). The historian was to have a son in turn called Hamon, who may have autographed the book as well. If the book was obtained by the oldest (Sir) Hamon, the critical examination of the text shown in the marginalia was likely carried out by the historian, whose autograph it is likely to be on the title-page. Focuses of the notes include a very Protestant Anglicanism, and 33

also navigation and travel, these last interests seen in Hamon’s work ‘Americans No Iewes’ (1651), a debunking of the idea that the indigenous Americans were descendants of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. On p. 252, Hamon notes (from the text) the latitudes of the Cape Verde Islands and the Cape of Good Hope. He corrects Guicciardini on the use of the magnet below the Equator. The printed text states “the line Equinoctiall being passed, they are no more guided by the North star, & stand altogether deprived of the Service & use of the Adamant stone”, with L’Estrange writing “The N. starr is depressed but the Loadstone serves every where”. Hamon is alive to points of Reformation history, which is fitting as his writings included a controversial defence of Anglican liturgy. On p. 629, glossing a report on Roman Catholic priests gambling with indulgences in Germany, he writes, colourfully, “purgatory ransomes [his phrase] playd for att tables”. On p. 630 he finds a Catholic supporting Luther: in the text the Pope is reported as “reasonably” reproved by the reformer and L’Estrange writes “Luther reproveth the Pope & the authour excuseth it”. On p. 865, in one of three glosses on Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of 34

Aragon, L’Estrange writes, on the view that the lack of surviving male heirs was due to Henry’s having unlawfully wedded his brother’s wife: “they could not thrive for the execrable thinge”. Certainly an interesting copy, in contemporary binding, of this important book.

STC 12459. Pforzheimer 442. ESTC S120758.

DRI NK AND BE BLESSED 21. [Hydrotherapy] Leclercq, Jean Baptiste: Abrégé de l’histoire de Spa, ou mémoire historique et critique sur les eaux minérales et thermales de la province de Liége[sic.], et spécialement sur celles de Tongres, Spa, et Chaudfontaine, considérées sous le rapport de leur ancienneté et de leur célébrité. Liége[sic.], P.-J. Collardin, Impr.-Libr. de l’Université 1818. [2236] 12mo., pp. 229 [1]. Light foxing at beginning and end, very good, bound in 19th-cent. halfleather and marbled boards, gilt decoration to spine, brown morocco gilt spine label, marbled pastedowns, endpapers and edges (slight rubbing, splitting to joints, but binding very good). £275

First edition of this guide to the waters of the area of Liège, Spa and Tongres in Belgium, and their ancient and modern use. The author offers bibliographical and historical references, medical citations, and (208228) an alphabetical list of the springs of the area. Included are reports of the visit of Peter the Great to the city of Spa, and the fountain where in order to conceive, women would put their foot on a rock (in a saint’s footstep), and drink a glass of the water. De Theux 867. 6 copies on OCLC, none in fact outside con35 tinental Europe.

RENAI SSANCE STATIONERY 22. [Invitation:] Ugolino del Vernaccia, e Laura Capponi sua Consorte pregano le Signorie Loro Illustrissime ad onorare, con l’Intervento delle loro Persone il Vestimento della Margherita Francesca loro Figliola in S. Domenico di Cafaggio il dì 15. stante a hore e le fanno ossequiosa reverenza. [Florence] [c.1690]. [2275] Sheet of paper, 18.8 x 26 cms., with printed area, 17.1 x 23.7 cms., comprising elaborate decorative woodcut border with putti, birds, female supporters; central panel, 6.9 x 16 cms., with text as above. Very good copy. £250 An attractive invitation, to the investment, in the convent of San Domenico di Cafaggio, of Margherita Francesca, daughter of Ugolino del Vernaccia and Laura Capponi. San Domenico’s was a Dominican convent in Florence, popular with daughters of prominent local families. The woman’s father was likely a distinguished Florentine lawyer, merchant and politician (1612-1702), who married Laura di Piero Capponi in 1663. The pictorial frame to the invitation may well date significantly earlier to the invitation. It was most likely used by the printer on other occasions. 36

MAP OF EARTHLY PARADISE 23. Kerkherdere, Jan Gerard: De situ Paradisi Terrestris, ad illustrissimum ac reverendissimum Dominum Episcopum Iprensem. Praecedit ad eundem conatus novus de Cepha reprehenso ex Galatarum secundo capite. Lovanii, typis Martini van Overbeke 1729. [2300] 12mo., pp. [2], xcvi, 96 + fold-out engraved map. Light browning, small tear at gutter (outside printed area) where map folds out, a very good copy bound in contemporary tan calf, ruled in blind, gilt to sides and spine, all edges red. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. ÂŁ475 First edition of these two treatises, the second of which concerns the subject of the siting of the Earthly Paradise or Garden of Eden, and includes a fold-out map of Mesopotamia, by P.E. Boultats of Antwerp. The first treatise concerns an important question relating to St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter to the Galatians (whether the text shows Saint Paul rebuking Saint Peter). Jan Gerard Kerkherdere (1677-1738) is stated on title-

page to have an office as historian to the Emperor. The texts were also published, possibly later in the same year, with a different title-page, and a further part, relating only to the question from Galatians. Rare in mainland Europe, OCLC shows our 1729 edition outside the continent only in Cambridge, Villanova, and Harvard Divinity School; other edition outside mainland Europe only at Depaul. 37

PHI LO SOP HY BROADSIDES 24. [Leuven, University of. Faculty of arts:] [Title to all:] Conclusiones philosophicae. Lovanii [Leuven], typis Aegidii Petri Denique 1766-71. [2243] 3 broadsides, discussed below. Slightly dusty, short tears along fold lines, still very good. One short MS inscription to a blank verso. ÂŁ350 Three broadsides, together giving insight into the rubric of philosophy exams at the University of Leuven in the later eighteenth century. In the first, presided over by a professor Jean Pierre Sauvage from Luxembourg, a Jan Peter Minckelers of Maastricht was required, on 5 and 8 July 1766, to argue over a set of propositions in logic and natural philosophy. A sizeable group of people were required to defend the same propositions before the same professor on 15 July of the same year. Then, on 10 June 1771, before a professor

Peter Joseph Heylen of Noorderwyck, a Florent Joseph Bruneau was to discuss propositions labelled as coming from introductory teaching in philosophy, and from teaching on (Aristotleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Logic, Ethics, Physics and Metaphysics. None in OCLC.

UNLO CATED ALUMNI FEST IVAL 25. [Lucca. Seminary of San Marco:] Sertulum dedititium Partheniae Matri in eosdem de Nivibus festo die Aoniis Flosculis contextum, quo solemnes de more inter plausus Tutelarum Amantissimam Seminarium Lucanum redimibat Anno Sal. 1655. Lucae, ex typographia Francisci Mariscandali 1655. [2288] 8vo., pp. 56. Woodcut armorial to title-page, woodcut typographical borders and decoration. One gathering browned, some browning to last leaf, very good, bound in 19th-cent. quarter vellum and marbled boards (rubbed). £500 Unlocated programme for a festival at the Seminary of San Martino in Lucca, the prefatory letter is signed by the alumni, with all the writers and performers in turn signing themselves “alum.” Possibly a high-level occasion, these names include Marco Antonio Franciotti, who may be the politician, cardinal and ex-bishop of Lucca (15921666). Besides a Latin oration, there are poems in Latin and Italian, including a four-part piece in Italian that was set to music. The festivities are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Not in SBN. Not in OCLC. Not in BAV online catalogue.

ENGRAVING OF MIRACULOUS WOODCUT 26. [Madonna del Fuoco, Forlì]: Al Illmo e Rmo Sig:e Monsig: Nicola Bizarri Vescovo di Forli, ed Assistente al Soglio Pontificio; il Marchese Giacomo Maria Theodoli Patrizio Romano, e Forlivese nella occasione di fare Egli a sue spese il Trasporto della Sagra Imagine di Maria del Fuoco dall’ Altare provvisionale ove ritrovasi, al di Lei Altare reso piu maginifico nella cattedrale di Forli in ques. anno 1770 D:D:D: [Forlì] [c.1770] [2296] Folio print, 304 x 400 mms., with engraved area 213 x 320 mms. Light foxing, small tears to borders (entirely outside engraved area), horizontal foldmark in centre. £250 Print commemorating the transfer of the Madonna del Fuoco from a temporary place in Forlì cathedral back to its usual altar, which had just been restored. The Madonna del Fuoco (c.1420) is one of the earliest woodcuts extant. In 1428 it survived intact a blaze in a schoolhouse where it was 40

hanging, and was afterwards moved to Forlì cathedral, and venerated and considered a protector of the city. The image in the present print comprises the main elements of the woodcut (Madonna and Child with sun and moon), surrounded by flames (a reference to the miracle). Also present are armorials of the Bishop of Forlì and the donor of funds for the work expenses, the Marchese Giacomo Maria Theodoli. The engraving is signed by Nicola Lindemain of Forlì. Not in OCLC.

PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL OF HYDRAULICS IN MANTUA 27. Mari, Giuseppe: L’Idraulica pratica ragionata proposta a’ suoi discepoli. Dall’ Abate Gioseffo Mari, regio matematico camerale di Mantova, pubblico professore d’idraulica pratica, e censore della facoltà matematica nella Reale Accademia della stessa città. Tomo primo [-quarto]. Guastalla, nella Regio-Ducale Stamperia di Salvatore Costa e Compagno. 1784[-1802]. [2249] 4 vols., 4to., pp. [14] 171 [1]; [16] 166 [2]; VIII 252; VIII 250 [2]; + 7 plates (5 at end of vol. I, 1 at end of vol. II, and 1 at end of vol. III - collated with BL copy (537.k.34)). All plates fold out so as to be mostly visible outside the text block. Half-titles to all vols., imprimatur leaves at end of vols. II and IV. Light browning, uncut, bound in contemporary carta rustica, titles inked on spine (some discolouration to bindings, occasional worming, some loosening from text blocks, but good). Bookplates of Joannes Baptista Magnaguti. £1,850

First edition of this rare and voluminous illustrated work of practical hydraulics, furnished with many case-studies, and with material of interest not just for engineering, but also public health and law. The human, practical dimensions of the work are noteworthy. Mari (17301807) was from 1780 founding professor of an institute of hydraulics connected to the department of public works in Mantua. An ex-Jesuit and a mathematician, besides teaching and researching he was a practising engineer, and the experience of his projects provides material to furnish the present work. The work is arranged thus: vol. I has chapters on rivers and canals, their upkeep and corrosion; vol. II includes studies of river flow, keeping waters separate, and draining swamps; vol. III is on irrigation, and includes chapters on defending projects 42

against enquiries of public officials, assessing whether objections to irrigation plans have merit, and on law relating to irrigation; vol. IV is on site visits and includes examinations of water mills, and the interesting practicalities of cities sharing waterways while maintaining their full water rights. There are illustrations of river bends, building projects, and irrigation plans with water rights marked in. We have not found a record of a complete copy in North America. See Giuliana Tomasini, ‘Notizie sulla vita e sulle opere di ‘Gioseffo Mari’ matematico e idraulico nella Mantova del Settecento’, Ratio mathematica 18 (2008), 107-132. OCLC shows copies at BL, Cambridge Univ., Iowa (2 vols. only), Leiden (2 vols. only), Goettingen (2 vols. only). NUC adds another 2-vol. set at Engineering Societies Library, New York.

MATHEMATICS OF SUNDIALS 28. Marzaglia, Gaetano: Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate alle persone popolari per uso del comercio umano, e civile, in questa seconda edizione corretto ed accresciuto di altre molte importanti notizie. Dedicato al nobile Sig. Marchese Antonio Repeta, patrizio Vicentino. In Verona, per Dionisio Ramanzini, librajo a San Tomio 1780. [2284] 8vo., pp. xvi, 186 [i.e. 188], I-IV, 187-190, 193-380, + 4 engraved plates (as described in description of Stanford copy, cf. OCLC). Each plate one page in size but printed on the right of a double page and folding out. Many tables in text. Some light foxing and browning, very good copy, in contemporary carta rustica, 19th-century armorial bookplate, purchase note of July 1792, with initials ‘AL’; spine with title in same owner’s hand, later shelfmark removed at tail. £650 Extended second edition (the first edition of 1754 comprised XII, 255 pages and two engraved plates). A very interesting and substantial part of the work (pp. 191-

211, 258-351) comprises discussion and calculations for the construction of different types of sundials. In pp. vii-xvi the author discusses the changes he has made for the present edition of what is overall a guide to practical arithmetic, geometry and logarithms. He reveals here that he has added to the text (and illustrations) on the sundials. Pp. 212-243 treat measurement of money via water displacement, and 352-367 concerns currency and measures in different parts of Italy. Riccardi II 130-131 #62 (s.v. ‘Marzagaglia’). Four locations on SBN. OCLC shows a couple of further locations in Italy; elsewhere copies in Oxford, Cambridge and Stanford. 43

W I LLEMS - BERĂ&#x2C6;S 29. Merode, Richard de: Giustificatione de Signor Richardo de Merode Signor di Frentzen, intorno alla querella sua, coâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l Signor Don Roderigo de Benavides. Dove insieme li cartelli fra loro, processi passati nel Campo, Manifesti, & Pareri di diversi Illustrissimi Principi, Signori, Capitani, & Eccellenti Senatori, & Dottori si contengono. Come per la tavola posta in fine si vedra. In Mantoa [Venturino Ruffinelli] 1557 [colophon: 1558, 22 Jan.] [2220] 4to., fols. [3] 4-82 [4] + fold-out (folio-size) woodcut of a shield at end, pasted to outer margin of a blank. Verso of title-page, and page facing this, feature fullpage woodcut of man in armour (front and back). Woodcut initials. Light or medium browning, small areas of worming to margins (entirely blank), waterstain to bottom outer corners (blank) towards end, fold-out sheet backed, and with loss and browning along folds. Bound in contemporary limp vellum (rumpled, lower cover with cuts and loss to vellum); stitching at spine, faint traces of musical notation to binding. ÂŁ3,750 44

First edition of this rare and extraordinary Renaissance book, adorned with illustrations of a suit of armor and (folding out) a shield. One Rodrigo de Benavides had insulted the author about a woman, such that he challenged him to a duel. Benavides would only accept if he was allowed to wear some armour that he had himself designed. Merode objected to this, and responded with the present book, including, besides the illustrations of the offending armour, an account of the

situation, letters relating to the dispute, statements taken by notaries, opinions of members of the nobility, and even (fols. 58 recto - 65 verso) a legal opinion, by one Traiano Delfino, with legal citations in the margins. This was a truly international situation, with a native of the southern Netherlands disputing with a Spaniard in northern Italy. A response by Benavides was published in 1558, and the book was used again in 1559, in a different work on the laws of honour. A French edition appeared in 1560. The copy came indirectly from the legendary Paris bookseller Pierre Berès (there are Berès pencil notes on f.f.e.p., rubbed out). An old Berès catalogue note, loosely inserted, informs that the copy belonged to the great Belgian 19th-cent. bibliographer Alphonse Willems. CNCE 30253. Cockle 884. BL STC 16th-cent. It. p. 81. OCLC adds copies to BL’s only at Yale, Goettingen and Harvard.

READING THE NEWS IN THE 17TH CENTURY 30. [News] [Axiomata historico-politica:] Axiomata historico-politica das ist historische und politische staats regeln worin der heutigen Europäischen Potentaten fürnehmste Thaten und Staats-Gründe auß allerley Scribenten zusammen getragen und zur nutzbahren Ergetzlichkeit jetzo zum ersten mahl in Druck gegeben [...] [n.pl., n.d.] 1685. [2205] 4to., pp. 80. Title in red and black. Woodcut first initial and woodcut typographical decoration to p. 3. Light to medium browning, a good copy, bound in contemporary sheep, edges mottled red and green (some wear and worming to binding, loss at head of spine, still good). £580 Unusual report on recent historical events throughout the world. The most pages (7-18, 29-30) are concerned with Turkey. Also written on is (27-29) Poland, (44-46) Russia, (46-49) the Monmouth rebellion in England, and (65-67) Venice. Pages 61-62 treat the Portuguese Empire. Louis XIV has a good section (33-43) devoted to him; William of 46

Orange (59-61) is also a subject. Titles to each of the small chapters are followed usually by a quotation in Latin and always one in German. The author displays a broad knowledge both of learned literature and the news. VD17 3:304361U. OCLC shows copies outside Germany in BL, National Library of Sweden, State Research Library in Olomouc.

ARMENIAN GUIDE TO MINIATURE-PAINTING 31. P’ap’azean, Ignatios: [Armenian letters:] Manrankark’, or ê miniat’uray arhest manrarkit nerkerand nkaragrut’ean [...] San Lazzaro Monastery 1813. [2283] 8vo., pp. [8] 120 [4] + 5 engraved plates by G.A. Zuliani (collated with British Library’s copy, 17056.h.2). Light foxing, a very good copy, in contemporary marbled sheep, gilt decoration to borders of covers and to spine, pink silk ribbon, all edges gilt. Attractive yellow and orange pastedowns. Binding lightly rubbed but good. £1,250

Rare guide to making miniature paintings, from the Armenian monastery of San Lazzaro, the great Mekhitarist foundation on an island outside Venice whose visitors near this time included Lord Byron. Armenian art was often expressed in miniatures, and has been a subject of study, being considered to show a freedom not found in Byzantine art. “Not constricted by an all-encompassing tradition, Armenian artists often achieved results that would have been impossible among their more conservative neigbors” (Mathews & Wieck). Two of the plates show methods and contraptions for miniaturising, and three plates show flowers (13 different numbered types of flower, and three small bouquets). P’ap’azean also wrote books on good behaviour, perspective, double-entry bookkeeping, and handwriting. Nersessian 302 (copy in BL, 17056.h.2 — listed as having 10 pp. prelims. but the f.f.e.p. was mistakenly counted as examination of that copy has shown it to be identical to ours, with 8 pp. prelims.) This title by P’ap’azean not in LC. T.S. Mathews, R.S. Wieck, ‘Treasures in heaven’ (NY, 1994). 48

BOTANY FOR CHILDREN 32. [Pinnock, William:] Catechismo di Botanica, tradotto sull’ VIII. Edizione Inglese dall’ Ar. P. P. Siena, dai torchi di Pandolfo Rossi, all’ Insegna della Lupa 1836. [2289] 16mo., pp. 68. A very good copy, UNCUT AND UNOPENED. Endpapers of printer’s waste with publisher’s blue printed wrappers drawnon (wrappers feature title within typographical border on recto, and other list of publications, again within typographical border, on verso, and horizontal lines printed across spine). £250 Copy as issued of the only recorded edition thus of an Italian translation of William Pinnock’s ‘Catechism of Botany’, it is stated to follow the eighth edition [London 1828]. This is an introduction to botany for children, one of a series of ‘catechisms’ in different subjects that this English schoolmaster turned educational publisher (1782-1843) produced. Torchi, the Sienese publisher, has his own similar series of catechisms, and these are advertised on the lower cover. SBN: IT\ICCU\LO1\1000700 (3 copies: Florence, Milan, Pisa). Not on OCLC.

ORNAMENTAL LATHING 33. Plumier, Charles: L’art de tourner, ou de faire en perfection toutes sortes d’ouvrages au tour, dans lequel, outre les principes & élemens du tour quón y enseigne méthodiquement pour tourner tant le bois, l’ivorie &c. que le fer & tous les autres métaux, on voit encore plusiers belles machines à faire des ovales, tant simples que figurées de toutes grandeurs; la maniere de tourner le globe parfait, le rampant, l’excentrique, les pointes de diamant, les facettes, le panier ou échiquier, la couronne on doyante, la rose à raiseau, les manches de couteaux façon d’Angeleterre, les ovaires, la torse à jour ondée & goderonnée, les globes concentriques, la massuë à pointes, les tabatieres barlongues de toutes figures, le bâton rompu, les cannelures, les écailles &c. & généralement toutes les methodes les plus secrettes de cet art, avec la disposition des tours, &c. Ouvrage tres curieux, et tres necessaire à ceux qui s’exercent au Tour [...] A Lyon, chez Jean Certe, Marchand Libraire ruë Merciere, à l’Enseigne de la Trinité. 1701. [2200] 50

First edition. Folio, pp. [30] 187 [1] + 72 engraved plates (one fold-out), by Bouchet and Demasso after Plumier and Rousseau. Fine engraved half-title. Engraved head-piece, to p. [3] and p. 1. Title-page in red and black with engraved vignette. Woodcut headpieces and initials. A neat repair to first plate and at pp. 93-94, in both cases with no loss, a very good copy indeed, bound in contemporary English Cambridge panelled calf, invisible repairs (cf. Nixon ‘Five Centuries’ 143-144 #62). £2,800 Very good copy of “the first detailed history of turnery”, or ornamental lathing, in a fine English binding. The book was written by the botanist and Minimite monk Charles Plumier (1646-1704). “Like the bagpipe, the lathe showed immense social mobility, rising from the ranks of craftsmen into the uppermost reaches of society, where its use became the pastime of noblemen and sovereigns, scientists and men of letters. Many 52

princely houses insisted that their young males learn a manual trade, and the choice usually fell on turning [...] Plumier tried to copy every type of lathe he saw, and he was in touch with turners all over Europe. His preface is a ‘Who’s Who’ of the world of ornamental turnery, particularly in its French manifestations” (Connors). Plumier’s access extended to the famous Lyon wunderkammer of Nicolas Grollier de Servière (1596-1689) - that was visited also by Louis XIV - and three of the plates are signed as copied from this source. The importance of Plumier’s present book stretched to his being “the man who, in a chance remark [a suggestion that Borromini held to the ideals of lathing] lights up baroque architectural theory with a floodlight that shines directly on Borromini” (id.). Berlin, Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung 1246. Joseph Connors, “’Ars tornandi’: baroque architecture and the lathe”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 53 (1990), 217-236.

WITH EMBLEMS AND CHRONOGRAMS 34. Redel, August Casimir: Annus coronatus hymnis sanctorum omnium, ex cruce cum agno Dei triumphantium, in arce polorum, quotidie pro felice morte impetrando. Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg], ap. Jo. Philipp. Steudner 1696. [2299] 12mo., fols. [214]. Signed: )(12,A-P12,Q4; + engraved frontispiece including signs of the zodiac; engraved portrait of dedicatee; engraved fold-out “chrono-acrostic” dedication; and 15 engraved emblematic plates, each with chronogram (12 of these introduce months and include zodiac signs). Further chronograms in text. Light age-yellowing, a very good copy, with just a couple of leaves with blank margins discoloured and one of these ()(5)with paper repair to blank that is possibly even contemporary. Bound in tan marbled sheep, spine gilt with red morocco gilt label, edges mottled red. Binding rubbed, very slight loss at tail, cracking to joints, but good. Bookplate of J.B.G. Jacobs Lumnius, Ord. Cap. Brux. S.P.C. Purchase note to final pastedown: “Acheté en 1845, à Paris, de Méguignon Junior”, with price. £650

First edition of this rare and attractive emblematic illustrated calendar of saintsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; days, by noted emblematist August Casimir Redel (1656-1705). Decorations, to frontispiece and some of the fifteen emblem-pages, include signs of the zodiac. Each saint is given a hymn and short prayer, and the preliminary material includes hymns, prayers and chronograms. Besides these, and other chronograms (the unfolding chronogram plate, and the chronograms on the emblem-pages), the book ends with a chronogram over three pages. Redel advertises himself on the title-page as a poet laureate to the emperor. He dedicates his work to the Archbishop of Trier, Johann VIII Hugo von Orsbeck (1634-1711). The title was reprinted in 1709 and 1761. Not in Hilton. This title by Redel not in Landwehr. OCLC shows copies of the edition in Lyon, Lucerne, and Eichstatt.

SWEDISH ARCHAEOLOGY 35. [Sweden] Scheffer, Joannes: De orbibus tribus aureis. Nuper in Scania erutis è terra disquisitio antiquaria. Holmiae [Stockholm], typis & impensis Nicolai Wankif 1675. [2214] 12mo., pp. [8], 132 [4]. Fold-out after p. 26. Last page blank. Light browning, a very good copy in contemporary sheep, spine gilt with label of red morocco label, mottled edges. 19th-cent. bookplate of Nordkirchen library; spine label and shelfmark, probably earlier. £580 The first ever publication on Swedish archaeology, this is a dissertation on three decorated gold discs, recently discovered in Skåne, which are shown in the book’s fold-out illustration. Scheffer (16211679) was born in Strasboug and studied in Leiden, but was made a professor and librarian in Uppsala and became an important Swedish antiquary. From the famous library of Schloss Nordkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia, with the bookplate of Count von Esterházy and his wife Maria von Plattenberg. Collijn 1600-talet II 826. In US, OCLC shows copies at Cornell and Yale.

HYGIENIC BURIAL 36. [Venice, Republic of:] Noi Niccolo Foscarini K. Per la Serenissima Repubblica di Venezie ecc. Provveditor General in Terra Firma. In Verona, dalla Stamperia Ducale di Domenico Carattoni [1796]. [2254] Folio, broadside, woodcut lion symbol of Venetian Republic at head, title and 12 lines of text, date, name of official and imprint information. Lightly soiled but still very good. ÂŁ250 Order, dated Verona 18 June 1796, from a senior official of the Venetian Republic to the mainland territories, on the subject if safe burial. If any bodies, or parts or entrails, of animals or humans are discovered, they are to be buried with utmost haste at the depth of six feet, and a report filed. A fine of 30 Ducats against the disobedient should be levied and redistributed amongst the poor of the district, and there should be investigations to find culprits. Not in OCLC. 56

W ELLI NGTON VICTOR IN SPAIN 37. [Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington:] The speech of His Grace, Field Marshal, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, Marquis Douro, K.G. K.B. &c. &c. Delivered in the House of Commons, on Friday, July 1, 1814; and the Reply of the Right Hon. Charles Abbot, Speaker. London: published by R. Cribb and Son, 288, Holborn July 4, 1814. [2226] Broadside, 58 x 39 cms. Engraved oval portrait at top, by Thomas Williamson after Robert Home. Slightly soiling, short tear to right-hand margin blank, but a nice bright copy. ÂŁ250 Illustrated record of the triumphal reception in the chamber of the House of Commons of the newly-created Duke of Wellington, victor against Napoleon in Spain.

1 copy on OCLC (McGill).

I NTRO DUCTION TO GEOMETRY 38. Ximenes, Leonardo, S.J.: I sei primi elementi della geometria piana, a cui si aggiugne[sic.] alcun saggio de’ molti usi, che le proposizioni sommistrano, alla fisica, alla meccanica, all’ astronomia, e ad altre parti della matematica. In Venezia, presso Giambattista Albrizzi q. Girol. 1752. [2293] 8vo., pp. XXXII, 354, + 10 fold-out engraved plates. Foxing and browning, but good, edges uncut. Bound in contemporary carta rustica, soiling, neat repairs to joints and brush of pen on lower cover but binding good. £580

Rare introduction to geometry and its uses in a range of other disciplines, from a noteworthy author. Leonardo Ximenes, S.J. (1716-1786) was born in Trapani (Sicily), of Spanish parents. He taught in Sicily, Florence and Siena, and (1761) took the title geographer to the emperor. An expert in hydraulics and civil engineering, he worked on the flooding of the rivers Po and Reno. An astronomical observatory in Florence still bears his name.

Riccardi II 633. Backer-Sommervogel VIII 1342 #10. OCLC shows copies outside Italy at Baylor and Brigham Young. 59

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