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February 2024

THE IMAGES of GODS

In today's wonderful book there are over Two Hundred 3/4 page woodcuts of gods, from the beginning of Idolatry and from newly (16th century) discovered parts of the heavens and earth. The East and the west, Japan, Mexico. This is... Continue Reading →

Aristotle and Burley.

284J Aristotle , --Gualtherus Burlaeus. (Walter Burley (c. 1275–1344/5 )) Expositio Gualteri Burlei super decem Libros Ethicorum Aristotelis (Contains the text of Robert Grosseteste’s translation of the Nicomachean Ethics) Venice: Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, 4 September 1500                    $11,500 Folio, 12... Continue Reading →

9 (pseudo) Authors in one book

601J. Pseudo-Augustine; Saint Augustine 354-430; Bernard of Claravallensis 1090-1153; Peter Damian 1007-1072; Saint Anselm of Canterbury, 1033-1109; Vincent Ferrer 1350-1419; Maffeo Vegio 1407-1458; Pope Pius II,(Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini) 1405-1464, Medtationes divi Augustini episcopi Hyppoensis Soliloquia eivsden Manuale eidsdem Castigaissime. [a1]        Brescia: Angelus Britannicus de Pallazolo Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliograìfico.  8 Oct. 1498                                                                   $6,500 Octavo, 14... Continue Reading →

THE IMAGES of GODS

In today's wonderful book there are over Two Hundred 3/4 page woodcuts of gods, from the beginning of Idolatry and from newly (16th century) discovered parts of the heavens and earth. The East and the west, Japan, Mexico. This is... Continue Reading →

Rare Incunabula 1492 bound in a vellum leaf printed by Jenson in 1479

 235J  Tygrinus or Nicolaus Tegrinus or Tegrini Lucensium Oratio Luculentissima Pont. Maximo Alexandro Sexto per Nicolaum  Tygrinu[m] Lucensem Vtriusq]ue] Iuris.   Price  $2,900 [Rome], [Andreas Freitag], 15 October 1492, (1448-1527).  Quarto, 20 x 13 cm. A 4.   First Edition (see below). This copy is... Continue Reading →

Savonarola’s last work !

Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498Jncipit Exposicio v[e]l Meditacio f[rat]ris Hieronimi sauonarole de Ferraria ordi[ni]s p[rae]dicatorum in psalmu[m] Jn te d[omi]ne speraui. qua[m] i[n] vltimis dieb[us] du[m] vite sue fine[m] prestolaretur edidit. (Exposicio in psalmum  XXXI In te domine speravi). N.pl., n.d. (prob. the ed. Magdenburg, Moritz Brandis), after 1500,     Price:... Continue Reading →

Annotated Sammelband incunabula

1495 Quentell & 1499 Wolff 552Ji   Mateusz,; z Krakowa, Cardinal,; approximately 1330-1410.* (Ars moriendi.) - Speculū artis bene moriēdi de temptatōnibus. penis infernalibus interrogatōibus agonisantium et varijs oratōnibus pro illorum salute faciendis  (Köln, Heinrich Quentell, aout  1495).   Price $9,000 Quarto  20 x 5 cm. Signatures:... Continue Reading →

9 (pseudo) Authors in one book

601J Pseudo-Augustine; Saint Augustine 354-430; Bernard of Claravallensis 1090-1153; Peter Damian 1007-1072; Saint Anselm of Canterbury, 1033-1109; Vincent Ferrer 1350-1419; Maffeo Vegio 1407-1458; Pope Pius II,(Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini) 1405-1464, Medtationes divi Augustini episcopi Hyppoensis Soliloquia eivsden Manuale eidsdem Castigaissime. [a1]        Brescia: Angelus Britannicus de Pallazolo Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliograìfico.  8 Oct. 1498                                                                   $6,500 Octavo, 14... Continue Reading →

Music for the fifteenth century: Messe, e Vespri

773J Messe, e Vespri MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [FIFTEENTH CENTURY] Missal and Vespers .  This is the second volume of a probably three or four volume Graduale Romanum Part II is in this case is the Antiphonale Missarum (begining folio CLXXXI) consisting of... Continue Reading →

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