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			<description><![CDATA[MORLIERE, (Adrien de la) 12 title-pages, nine of them with engraved vignettes.     4to. (8)ff. 564pp. (9)ff. Contemporary panelled Flemish calf, elaborate border of interlinked drawer handle tools, spine in compartments with small gilt fleuron (neat early repair near foot, clasps removed with slight loss at edges of lower cover).A fascinating history of Amiens, from the times of Julius Caesar. The author Morliere (1560-1639) was canon of the church at Amiens, and devoted himself to the study of historical monuments of the diocese. This edition is made up of 12 different sections, each with a separate title-page, and each dealing with a different topic. Thus there is a long account of the history of Amiens, and sections on governors and leaders of Amiens, bishops, etc., while the final sections contain many sonnets written by La Morliere to mark important events and occasions.    Small hole in fourth preliminary leaf (minor loss) otherwise in excellent condition.    See Brunet III, 799 ("ouvrage recherchee"). COPAC (BL only).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Le premier (seconde et troisieme) livre des antiquitez, histoires et choses remarquables de la ville d'Amiens, poetiquement traicte. Troisieme edition. Paris, Denys Moreau, 1627-]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[DU CHOUL, (Guillaume) Large woodcut on title-page and 45 full page cuts.     Sm. 8vo. 90pp. (4)ff. Contemporary vellum.First edition printed in Italy of Du Choul's dissertation on ancient military organisation, as well as descriptions of roman baths and Greek and Roman gymnastics and exercise. The translation is by Gabriel Simeoni. The work was first published in Lyons by Rouille in 1555, with versions appearing simultaneously in French, Italian and Spanish. The illustrations which appear in our edition are reduced copies of those which appeared in the Lyons editions. They depict costumes, arms and armour, military machines and musical instruments; one of the most interesting cuts shows two men transporting barrels of wine in a boat. The last section on baths and public hygiene also has a fine cut of two wrestlers.    Censimento CNC 42693. Dekesel p. 306, D8. This edition not in Adams or BMSTC (Italian). ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO15892.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Discorso sopra i castramentatione et disciplina militare de Romani . . . con i bagni and essercitii antichi de Greci, et Romani. Venice, appresso Innocenzio Olmo,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CAESAR, (Julius) Four half-page woodcuts of war machines.     Sm. 8vo. (8), 295ff. (lacks final blank). 19th century calf, decorative border tooled in blind (short tear at foot of spine).Excellent copy of this Italian translation of Caesar's commentaries by Agostino Ortica, one of the most popular of the several translations of this popular school text. Ortica's translation had first appeared in 1512 and this is one of three editions to appear in 1517. The woodcut illustrations show three forms of battering ram and a form of portable bridge.    Censimento CNC 8150. Rare: not in Adams or British Library.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO15731.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Commentarii de C. Iul. Cesare tradotti in volgare per Agostino Ortica della Porta Genovese. Venice, Jacopo Penzio de Lecho, 26 Oct.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(PREVOST, (Antoine-Francois, l'abbe))12mo. (8)ff. 469pp. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, morocco label (head and foot of spine restored, upper cover a little stained).Antoine-Prevost's most famous novel Manon Lescaut was originally published as the final part of a seven volume novel Memoires et avantures d'un homme de qualite, 1728-31. According to Tchemerzine the present edition was long thought to be the first but is in fact modelled on volume seven of the series. Although it was obviously published separately Tchemerzine accords the title "premiere edition separee" to another edition of 1733 presumably because it was retitled Les Avantures du chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut (vol. IX, p. 222, a).    "When it was republished separately in 1733 it created a great sensation, and though ordered to be seized, was immensely successful. This success it owed to the simple and realistic description of a man's overmastering passion for an unworthy woman, effacing all sense of honour, dignity, and duty, combined with adventurous incident, and a moral and edifying development. Changes to a revised edition of 1753 tended to emphasize the moral aspect" (OCFL).    Provenance: 18th century printed ownership label of "Monsieur le Marquis de Chatellaillon au Roulet pres la Rochelle".    Tchemerzine IX, p. 221(b). Rothschild 1555.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO15737.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[(Manon Lescaut). Suite des memoires et avantures d'un homme de qualite, qui s'est retire du monde. Amsterdam (i.e. Paris), aux depens de la compagnie,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GUEVARA, (Antonio de) Printer's device on title-page.     Sm. 8vo. 183, (1)(blank) ff. Contemporary limp vellum.Second edition of this Italian translation by Fausto da Longiano of Guevara's fictitious life and letters of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, written as a portrayal of the perfect prince. The first Italian translation had appeared in 1542. The title-page claims that this edition contains many things not included in the Spanish original and in the first Spanish translation. The work had first appeared in Seville in 1528 and soon became an important renaissance text with translations made in several languages.    In very fresh condition with several contemporary marginal annotations.    Palau 110142 (note). Not in Adams.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO15828.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vita, gesti, costumi, discorsi, lettere di M. Aurelio Imperatore . . . con la gionta di moltissime cose, che ne lo Spagnuolo non erano, and le de le cose Spagnuole, che mancavano in la tradottione Italiana. Venice, Comin de Trino,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EGNATIUS, (Johannes Baptista) Fine printer's device on title-page of Pallas and Mercury.     4to. (4)ff. 309pp. (1)f. (blank). 19th century vellum backed marbled boards.First edition published posthumously to honour the death of Egnatius who had died in the previous year. The work is divided into nine books and is a collection of largely Venetian biographies edited by Marco Molino, son of Luigi, the Procurator of San Marco. Giovanni Battista Cipelli (1478-1553), best known under his academic name, Egnatius, was one of the most important Venetian humanist scholars of the early 16th century and a close friend of the Aldo Manuzio whose press published a number of his editions.    Bookplate of Franz Pollack. 19th century bibliographical note in Italian tipped in quoting Foscarini.    Adams E81. BMSTC (Italian), p. 231. Brunet II, 953.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO15848.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[De exemplis Illustrium Virorum Venetae ciuitatis atque aliarum Gentium. Venice, apud Nicolaum Tridentium,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CORNEILLE, (Pierre) Frontispiece to volume I after Pierre, engraved by Watelet, depicting a sylph placing a wreath over the bust of Corneille; 34 fine engraved plates after Gravelot, engraved by Baquoy, Flipart, Lemire, Lempereur, de Longueil, Prevost and Radiques. Text enclosed in a decorative woodcut border.     8 vols. 4to. Contemporary half calf, ornamental gilt spines.A sumptuous re-impression, with some changes, of Voltaire's famous 1764 edition (12 volumes in 8vo) published to provide for Corneille's destitute niece. Gordon Ray describes Gravelot's compositions as "harmonious and decorative, nicely interpreting the crucial moments of the plays, (they) are a delight to the eyes . . . the engravings for La galerie du palais and La place royale are among Gravelot's best known illustrations". For the quarto format the engravings have been enclosed in elaborate frames designed by Gravelot. Voltaire provides a commentary for each play. Emile Picot says that for this edition Voltaire "pique des critiques dont ses Commentaires avaient ete l'objet, accentua dans un certain nombre de passages le blame qu'il avait porte contre Corneille".    Sonewhat browned throughout.    Picot 643. Cohen-de Ricci 255. Ray I, pp.42-3 (1764 edition).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO15750.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Theatre . . . avec des commentaires, et autres morceaux interessans. Nouvelle Edition, augmentee. Geneva (Berlin, Rottmann),]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(ALBER, (Erasmus)) 22 engraved plates by Bernard Picart (including two frontispieces and one folding plate), title-pages in red and black.     2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt arms on sides of Marie-Auguste de Sultzbach (1724-1765), gilt and panelled spines, initials "B.P." (i.e. Bibliotheca Palatina) stamped at foot of spines (some minor repairs).First edition to hold the illustrations of Bernard Picart. The first part of the work was written by the reformer Erasmus Alberus who refuted the various "blasphemies" which he found in the De conformitate vitae beati Francisci ad vitam domini Jesu by Bartolomeo degli Albizzi. The work first appeared in Wittemberg, 1542, under the title Der barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alcoran, with the first French version appearing in Geneva, 1556. In this well illustrated edition the large folding plate in volume one depicts the mystical tree with the 40 "conformites" of St. Francis with Jesus Christ.    Provenance: Fine armorial stamp on the covers of Marie-Auguste de Sultzbach (1724-65) who married her German cousin Charles Philippe Theodore de Sultzbach (1724-99), Electer Palatin, Duke of Bavaria, prince of Mors, graf von Veldentz, also a knight of the order of St. Hubert. Voltaire addressed letters to him in his Lettres de M. Voltaire a l'electeur Palatin et au roi de Prusse (1761), after being received at his court in 1753 and 1758 (see Bengesco III, p. 32).    Brunet I, 152. Rothschild II, 2024. See Guigard I, p. 122 for a very similar armorial stamp. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO15756.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[L'alcoran des cordeliers. Tant en Latin qu'en Francois . . . nouvelle edition. Amsterdam, aux depens de la compagnie,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[FENELON, (Francois de Salignac de la Mothe)4 vols. in two. 18mo. Contemporary grained red morocco, single gilt dotted fillet, flat spine divided into compartments by dotted lines and lettered in gilt, g.e.A beautiful edition of this popular text which formed part of the series Collection des auteurs classiques francois et latins , which aimed at educating the Dauphin in classical works. It is one of 450 copies printed on papier velin and bound in a fine contemporary binding.    Signature on fly-leaf of George Daniel (1789-1864), owner of a fine collection of Elizabethan books which were sold at auction over 10 days in 1864 for nearly &#163;16,000. Large armorial book-plate of Syston Park, with monogrammed label of Sir John Thorold.    In superb condition.    Brunet II, 1215.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO13160.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Les avantures de Telemaque . . . imprime par l'ordre du roi pour l'education de Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris, de l'imprimerie de Didot l'aine,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[HALEVY, (Ludovic) 17 eaux-fortes and culs-de-lampe by Leandre with a proof set of the illustrations "hors texte" bound in, 10 full-page plates and 29 woodcut text illustrations by Leandre, title-vignette and four illustrations in the prospectus.     Large 8vo. (2)ff. 197pp. (1)f. 8pp. (list of illustrations) (1)f. 8pp. (prospectus). Contemporary half brown morocco, marbled covers, by Pagnant (signed at top of front endpaper).Edition de luxe finely bound of which 1000 copies were printed on papier velin, with an extra set of proofs bound in "avant lettre avec remarque d'artiste en noir" of the 17 eaux-fortes and culs-de-lampe. Also bound in at the end is an 8pp. prospectus with illustrations of the edition, issued in the previous year.    Ludovic Halevy (1834-1908) worked as a librettist on several of Offenbach's operettas but this, which first appeared in 1883, is his best known work and describes the life of a low class Parisian family during the Third Republic. In excellent condition.    Carteret IV, p. 197. Talvart and Place IV, p. 9.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO13164.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[La famille Cardinal . . . illustrations de Charles Leandre. Paris, Emile Testard,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[MERE, (Antoine Gombauld), Chevalier de Two engraved frontispieces (unsigned) .    2 vols. in one. 8vo. (4)ff. 285pp. (8)ff. 383pp. Contemporary mottled calf, ornamental gilt back.Excellent copy of these two volumes which both Tchemerzine and Brunet consider rare. Volume one contains five discourses which are followed by the six conversations with the marechal de Clerambault, while volume two is devoted to letters written to leading members of 17th century French literary society. These are chiefly remembered for those addressed to his friend Pascal whom he counselled to adopt an esprit de finesse rather than the bludgeoning tactics of logic.    Apart from being one of the foremost men of letters of the century, Mere was also one of the notable moralistes and included among his friends De Balzac, Menage and Mitton. He also knew Pascal from the latter's mondain period and it is claimed that he influenced his rules of life. In excellent condition.    Tchemerzine VIII, p. 226b. Brunet III, 1648.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO13181.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Les oeuvres. Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BERQUIN, (Arnaud) Engraved frontispiece, 13 engraved plates and 44pp. of engraved music.     2 parts. in one. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary green morocco, decorative gilt border, flat spine decorated in gilt, g.e.Pretty edition of these popular poems. In this copy the titles are dated 1797 and 1796 respectively.    Cohen-de Ricci 142.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO13197.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Romances. Paris, chez Moutardier, 1797-]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, (Nicolas) Title-page in red and black, engraved frontispiece by Landry, four engraved plates (three by Paillet, one by Landry).     2 parts in one. (8)ff. 283pp. (15)ff; (9)ff. 18-190pp. (6)ff. Full red Jansenist-style morocco, i.e.g., g.e., by Belz-Niedree.Third collected edition to which much new material has been added; it contains all the Oeuvres Diverses which had appeared in the 1674 edition, but also for the first time Epistres VI-IX, a letter to the Duc de Vivonne, chants V and VI of Le Lutrin, remarks by Dacier on Longinus and a new preface by the author.    In this copy there are three engraved plates in the first part, as well as an engraved frontispiece; although Brunet also calls for three plates not all copies seem to have this number, both Tchemerzine and Magne called for only two.    An excellent copy finely bound.    Tchemerzine II, p. 273. Brunet I, 1057. Magne, no. 261.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO13198.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Oeuvres diverses du sieur D*** avec le traite du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours, traduit du Grec de Longin, nouvelle edition reveue et augmentee. Paris, chez la veuve Billaine,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[PASCOLI, (Luigi) Title pages in red and black.     2 vols. 4to. Contemporary vellum with tan morocco labels lettered in gilt.An excellent copy of the first edition of this important collection of biographies describing the careers of 54 artists, 15 sculptors and 12 architects of the 17th century including Andrea Sacchi, Claude Gelle, Salvatore Rosa, Carlo Maratti and Francesco Borromini. It is generally considered as one of the most useful guides to 17th century art, as Cicognara notes, "Questa e l'opera che meglio illustra la lacuna dei tempi che restava a riempirsi in quell' epoca". An index at the end of each volume gives dates of birth and death and state or country of each entry, but in addition volume one holds a three-page contemporary manuscript index of around 90 further names who are featured in the text.    Provenance. Engraved cardinal's arms pasted on each title-page. Booklabel of Giannalisa Feltrinelli.    Cicognara 2342.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO13348.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni scritte, e dedicate alla maesta di Vittorio Amadeo re di Sardegna. Rome, Antonio de' Rossi, 1730-]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(GREMP VON FREUDESTEIN, (Ludwig)) Printer's device on title-page, attractive full-page woodcut of the tree of consanguinity.     Sm. 8vo. (3)ff. 3-393 (7)ff. Contemporary limp vellum.Second edition of a rare work which analyses the Institutiones of Justinian in the form of a series of questions; the work is anonymous but is edited by Ludwig von Freudenstein (1509-83), state advocate from Strassburg, who states in his preface to the reader that he does not know who the author is, but that he deserves great praise. The printer writes in his preface that the text was collated from other examples and edited by Caspar Reichius and Reinhard Kilvald, and calls the work "haec incunabula . . . summae facultatis Iurisconsultorum", thus anticipating the use of the term for early printed books. Not in NUC who list a much later edition of 1593 under the editor Pieter Cornelis van Brederode (fl. 1585-1593), nor in Adams or BMC. OCLC records only a copy of the later 1593 edition at the Library of Congress (imperfect).    VD 16, A2448. Muller 542, 21.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO14603.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Analysis seu resolutio dialectica quattuor librorum institutionum imperialium. (Strassburg), Theodosius Rihel, (]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[THREE MARIES AT THE SEPULCHRE Historiated initial showing the three Maries holding jars of ointment and approaching the half-opened tomb on which sits the angel in a white tunic and with hands, face and feet painted in red; at the foot three soldiers are sleeping and at the top Christ sits between two disciples, with a tower to the left. The initial painted in light brown against a blue background with white filigree decoration.     Size of initial: 165 x 125mm.This initial "A" probably comes from an antiphonary, and would have opened the Responsory to the "Primo Nocturno" of the Easter Sunday "Angelus Domini" (An angel of the Lord descended from heaven). It follows the account of the three Maries in St. Matthew's gospel, ch. 28, v. 3, in which there is a description of the angel who rolled away the stone and sat on the empty tomb: "And his countenance was as lightning, and his raiment as snow". It was customary for medieval artists to portray such a scene by painting the face of the angel bright orange or red, and in this miniature the artist has also painted the hands and feet the same colour, while painting the garments white with pale blue highlights to give the effect "as snow".    The initial can be attributed to a Bolognese artist active in the last quarter of the 13th century, possibly a follower of the Maestro d'Imola, who derives his conventional name from a group of choir books decorated for San Domenico in Imola (cfr. Cor unum et anima una. Corali miniati della Chiesa di Imola, a cura di Franco Faranda, Faenza, 1994). The author of our cutting derives from this artist the peculiar decorataion "a biacca" and the organisation of the scene (comparable with a cutting now in an English private collection (cfr. Duecento. Forme e colori del Medioevo a Bologna, a cura di M.Medica, Venice, 2000, p. 117), as well as the colours with predominance of bright orange and the complex patterns of the folds obtained "a biacca", as on the vest of the angel. However, the figures in our cutting are remarkably flatter and more symbolic compared to the vigorous protagonists of the scenes painted by the "Maestro di Imola".    Other works by collaborators of the "Maestro d'Imola" which share some of the characteristics of our cutting are also known; the Maestro d'Imola workshop is responsible for the decorataion of an antiphonary made for Dominican nuns of Sant' Agnese in Bologna (Museo Civici Medievale, ms. 5]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO15003.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Illuminated miniature of the three Maries at the Sepulchre, on historiated initial (cut to shape) from a choirbook. Italy, c.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[MEGISER, (Hieronymus) Title-page in red and black, full-page woodcut arms on verso of title-page, large armorial woodcut device at end, numerous small circular woodcut portraits of Roman and German Emperors (white on black).     Sm. 8vo. (8)ff. 327pp. 17th century vellum (soiled).A collection of 160 portraits of emperors, beginning with Julius Caesar, and ending with Matthias I who was elected in 1612. The portraits are nearly all white on black, except for the final one of Matthias I.The author was a distinguished German linguist and historian who produced several works of Slovenian interest. He was born in Stuttgart and studied in Tubingen from 1571 to 1577; he travelled widely, studying law in Padua in 1582, and later going to northern Germany, Holland and England; between 1593 and 1601 he lived in Celovec (Klagenfurt) where he collaborated with Slovenian Protestant writers but was forced to leave there because of the counter-reformation. He eventually settled in Linz in 1613. He was a very cultured man, a friend of Kepler, who wrote several important works, including the first Turkish grammar, the first Herman translation of Marco Polo's travels, a dictionary in Latin, German, Italian and Slovenian and a Thesaurus Polyglottus.     Provenance: Ownership note on fly-leaf, dated Ratisbon, 1623.    Foxed due to paper quality.    Lipsius 254 (Latin edition of the same year). BVB catalogue wrongly dates this edition, c. 1650.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17367.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Iconographia Caesarum: oder summarische Keyser Chronicken Auszug . . . aller Romischen Keyser von V. Julio Casare an biss auff den jetz regierenden Herrn Matthiam. Linz, Johann Blanck, (]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[PLINIUS SECUNDUS Title printed within wide ornamental border, with large device of Jean Roigny in centre; many hundred ornamental and historiated initials throughout, some on crible ground; text ruled in red throughout.     Folio. (8)ff. CCXXXI (1)(blank)ff. 18th marbled boards with pink spine.Beautifully printed edition of the letters of Pliny the Elder, edited by Badius, and followed at the end by the Panegyricus Traiano. It is the only Badius edition and it follows earlier editions with the commentaries of Giovanni Maria Cataneo. This edition is adorned with numerous ornamental woodcut initials including many large ones on crible ground.    Provenance: From the Sunderland Library with the shelf mark C7.18 at top of inside front cover.    This is a large copy in very good condition (apart from a tear which is repaired at the top of title-page), with many deckle edges preserved.    Renouard III, 170-171. Schweiger II, p. 804. BMSTC (French), p. 356.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Epistolarum lib. X. Eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano dictus. Cum commentariis Ioannis Mariae Catanei. Paris, Josse Bade and Iean Roigny, Jan.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[DAVID IN PRAYER Large illuminated historiated initial "D" (86 x 77mm.) with a three-quarter David praying to God whose head appears at the top, full illuminated border of luxurious acanthus in blue, green, and red, and golden trefoils and circles; large initial "I" on verso with intricate decoration of curling stems, in green, red, and yellow, elsewhere many large initials in red and blue alternately with contrasting penwork decoration, on recto, two lines of square musical notation on red 4-line staves.     Size of leaf: 580 x 410mm. On verso, 16 lines of text in a large gothic script.An oustanding leaf with a historiated initial of excellent quality and with an illuminated border of flamboyant designs, which can be linked with a manuscript for a Franciscan convent with illumination attributed to Giovanni d'Antonio da Bologna, who was active in Emilia Romagna between 1432 and around 1445. Leaves from that manuscript (now dismembered) are in various public and private collections (including the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, the Cleveland Museum of Art and Museo Civico Amedeo Lia). Two similar liturgical manuscripts which are intact and attributable to Giovanni d'Antonio, are in the Museo di Schiafanoia in Florence, but vary in the format; our leaf may belong to the same manuscript as the two leaves described by G. Mariani-Canova in Miniature dell'Italia settentrionale nella Fondazione Giorgini Cini, 1978 (nos. 62 and 63), being of similar size and foliation.    Some abrasion to the gold surfaces, and a little loss of pigment.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Historiated initial of David in prayer on a full vellum leaf from an antiphonal. Bologna or Ferrara, c. 1440-]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[FERRON, (Arnoul de)ff. 190(=.290)ff., Paris: M. Vascosan, 1550    DU TILLET, Jean, . Chronicon de regibus Francorum, de Faramundo usque ad Franciscum primum. (96)ff. Paris...1551    2 works in 1 vol., 8vo (160 x 102mm. ) italic letter, 18th century French mottled calf, gilt and panelled back, red edgesFerron (1515-1563) jurist and translator was a relation of Etienne de la Boetie, who first published this supplement to the history of Paolo Emili (Paulus Aemilius) in folio in 1549 at the same press. This is the first 8vo edition and is here bound with a similar work by Jean Du Tillet (d. 1570), bishop and important scholar, in which is set out in annalistic form tabulated year by year and now carried right up to December 1550. This was first published in 1539 (again in folio) and subsequently enlarged. It was also published in French, and the three works were sometimes published together (e.g. the Basel 1569 edition edited by Thomas Freigius)    Provenance: Ownership note on first title-page of Jean Ballesdens (d. 1675), jurist, author and distinguished bibliophile. Two contemporary French ownership notes on Du Tillet title-page, one of them of Charles le Fanterive(?), one Joannes (partially deleted), and a deleted presentation inscription 'A monsieur Dufraisne Ambianne'    The second work is rarer than the first.]]></description>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17799.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[De rebus gestis Gallorum libri IX. Paris, Michael Vascosan, 1549.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SIGONIO, (Carlo) Woodcut printer's device at beginning and end of each part, fine ornamental woodcut headpieces and initials.     2 parts in one. Folio. (4)ff. 359pp. (12)ff. (3)ff. 7-125pp. (11)ff. Contemporary vellum, with pigskin spine (probably added in the 17th century).An important edition of this history of Italy, perhaps containing the first edition of books 16-20. The first part contains the history from the invasion of the Lombards in 568 to the end of the 12th century, while the second part contains one of two editions to be printed in 1591 of books 16-20 which deal with the years 1200-1286. In order to obtain material for these works, Sigonius (c. 1524-1584) consulted all the archives and family chronicles of Italy, and the public and private libraries. The autograph Ms. of the work, containing all the preliminary studies and many unpublished documents is in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.    Provenance: Ownership inscription on title of a member of the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter's in Salzburg, with their printed book-label, dated 1767, pasted inside front cover.    Adams S1124. VD16 S6441.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18350.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Historiarum de regno Italiae libri viginti . . . qui libri historiam ab anno DLXX usque ad MCCLXXXVI, quo regnum interiit, and libertas Italiae redempta est, continent. (With): Quinque reliqui libri . . . qui libri nunc... (more)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UBALDINUS, (Joannes Paulus) Fine large woodcut printer's device on title-page repeated on verso of final leaf.     Sm. 8vo. 107, (1)ff. Original binding of cartonnage boards.First edition of this important anthology of Neo-Latin poetry described by John Sparrow as "one of the most remarkable of such collections". It holds 224 poems by forty writers, and Sparrow continues "... some of the contributors are contemporary nonentities, distinguished poets, both contemporary and of earlier generations are represented (e.g. Tebaldeo, Navagero, Aonio Paleario, Bonfadio, the brothers Amalteo, Giano Vitale and Niccolo d'Arco). Although some of the contents may well have been taken from printed editions, Ubaldini declares that his texts were "magna cura ac studio conquisitos", and he must have gone to manuscript sources for much of his materials, e.g. the 3 odes of Giovanni Casa, the 3 poems of Niccolo d'Arco and the ten important poems of Molza, which alone give distinction to this anthology."    Censimento CNCE 29215.]]></description>
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			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18551.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Carmina poetarum Nobilium. Io Pauli Ubaldini conquista. Milan, apud Antonium Antonianum,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(SALINAS, (Miguel)) Title printed in red and black within ornamental woodcut border, on verso of title the imperial Spanish arms within border of architectural columns, two large historiated initials and many smaller ornamental and historiated initials, text in gothic letter.     Sm. 4to. (4) cxvii ff. Late 18th century Spanish tree calf, morocco label, marbled end-leaves.Rare first edition of the first book on rhetoric to be printed in Spanish, one of the main subjects taught at renaissance schools and universities.    Little is known about the author, except that he was a Hieronymite monk who was born (date unknown) in Saragossa and spent his life there in the monastery of Santa Engracia, where he was Master of Novices for 35 years, and that he died in 1577. Nothing more is known except that he was praised by Jose de Siguenza, the historian of the Hieronymite Order. This was the most powerful order in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries and their riches were legendary. Among the Order were Greek and Hebrew scholars and Salinas' reference to classical writers such as Homer, Terence and Vergil came from genuine learning, and was not mere decoration, as was common at the time.    The preliminary matter includes a letter to the author from Joannes Petreius of Toledo; suprisingly, for a work which stresses the importance of the Spanish language, this is written in Latin.    The author writes at the beginning of the work that although there were many books on rhetoric in Greek and Latin he found it necessary to write this book in his native language, since he had asked in many bookshops if such a work existed in Castilian but had never found one. His aim was to help people to write and speak well which would be to the advantage of the catholic commonwealth.    However, Salinas tells us in the prologue that he was so lacking in confidence that after finishing it he laid it aside for a year but was persuaded to publish it by his friends. He goes on to say that his book is of use for speakers and advocates appearing before judges since it is important for them to know what gestures and movements to make, and also when they should lower or raise their voice. Ignorance of rhetoric sometimes results from ignorance of Latin, but by studying this book in Spanish, Salinas states, one can make more progress in one year than s]]></description>
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			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19295.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rhetorica en lengua castellana en la qua se pone muy en breve lo necessario para saber bien hablar y escrevir: y conoscer quien habla y escrive bien. Alcala, Joan de Brocar, 8 Feb.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BOCCACCIO, (Giovanni) Giunta device on title-page, historiated woodcut initial at beginning of each book.     4to. (4)ff. 776pp. (3)ff. Contemporary vellum (small piece out of outer edge of upper cover).Excellent copy of this important edition of Boccaccio's Il Filocolo,  an early work which can claim to be the first artistic Italian novel. it is an adaptation of the French story of Florio and Biancifiore's long frustrated and finally happy love, and is full of adventurous, chivalrous tales fraught with learned literary and biographical allusions. The work was written around 1336 and is preceded only by Caccia di Diana (1334?) and was first published in 1472; it is a juvenile work which was composed at the instigation of his beloved Fiammetta (i.e. Maria, the natural daughter of Robert d'Anjou, King of Naples) and it is remarked in the article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica that although the style is unworthy of the future master of Italian prose, "it would be unjust to deny that Filocopo is a highly interesting work, full of promise and all but articulate power".    Provenance. The copy of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (?1653-1716), with his signature at top of title-page; his library of 6000 books, which remained intact until the early 1960's was the largest private library in Scotland.    On the blank recto of the fourth preliminary leaf is a manuscript letter, addressed to Vitellozo Vitelli, signed by Francesco Sansovino, and presumably copied from a later edition of the work. In excellent condition.    Censimento CNCE 6401. Gamba 198. BMSTC (Italian), p. 111.]]></description>
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			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19308.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Il Filocolo. Di nuovo riveduto, ricorretto, e della sua vera lezion ridotto. Florence, Giunta Press,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CAMERARIUS, (Joachim)4to, (10)ff. "423" (i.e. 424)pp. (10)ff.(last leaf blank). Contemporary vellum (contents a little out of shape).First edition of this very important and influential biography of Philipp Melanchthon, written by one of his closest colleagues and friends who had known Melanchthon since he moved to the University of Wittenberg in 1521. Both men were part of the network of younger humanists whose support of Luther in the early 1520's was vital to the success of Protestantism. Camerarius (1500-74) had a highy succesful career in Nuremberg, Tubingen and finally in Leipzig where he was rector and dean from 1541 until his death in 1574. He was a prolific author over 150 works, mostly editions and translations of classical works, but this work and his biography of Eobanus Hessus were his most influential.    His humanist inclinations and close association with Melanchthon made him an important representative of those German intellectuals who sought religious compromise between 1530 and 1555. He was Melanchthon's advisor at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530, helped write the Augsburg Confession, took part in the peace negotiations at Augsburg in 1555, and participated in discussions between Catholic and Protestant theologians at Vienna in 1568. In all cases he supported Melanchthon's view that flexibility and doctrine and willingness to compromise on adiaphora (matters indifferent) might bring religious peace.    Although he outlived Melanchthon by 14 years, he was at odds with the theologians whom he saw as responsible for the political disintegration and moral decline of Germany. Hartfelder speaks of two different issues, but no mention of this appears in VD16.    Small hole at foot of folio A7 (introduction) affecting three letters on either side of the page.    Adams C420. VD16 C502. Hartfelder 624.43.]]></description>
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			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19309.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[De Philippi Melanchthoni ortu, totius vitae curriculo et morte, implicata rerum memorabilium temporis illius. Leipzig, E. Voegelin,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[TOSCANO, (Giovanni Matteo) Fine four-piece arabesque woodcut border on title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials.     2 vols in one. Sm. 8vo. (8), 141, (9)ff.; (60)ff. Late 17th/early 18th century calf, single gilt fillet on covers, spine gilt with arms of the Dauphin in four compartments (upper joint and headcaps restored).First edition of both volumes of Toscano's (1500?-1576) verse translations from the Hebrew of the Psalms and eight Canticles, followed by his own hymns, epigrams and poems. In both parts Jean Dorat (1508-1588) provides the introductory distich to each psalm and canticle and in the appendix to the first part Morel the younger describes the variety of meters used by Toscano. Two leaves which contain an elegy to Chauvet and the privilege are found at the end of the first part and are not present in all copies.    Giovanni Matteo Toscano (1500?-1576) was born in Milan at the beginning of the 16th century and little is known of his early life. He came to know Dorat at the court of Catherine de Medicis and they became good friends. Dorat helped in the publication of the present work and Toscano, in turn, was proud to be his student. He also compiled a collection of Latin works by Italian poets Carmina illustrium poetarum italorum (1576-77). The great Hellenist Jean Dorat (c. 1502-88) counted Ronsard among his pupils at the College de Coqueret as well as Baif and du Bellay. He had the honour of being named leader of La Pleiade which had been formed by these young poets as a society for the reformation of the French language. Dorat's importance, however, lay in the study of Greek and Latin and in 1555 he was appointed professor of Greek at the College Royale and was named by Charles IX as poeta regius .    Provenance. Inscription on title-page of "Antheaume Parisin 1683" with a one-line note before each psalm in the same hand. Ownership inscription inside front-cover of "Very Scarce. James Ford, 1848" and bookplate of the Phillpotts Library, Truro, "presented by Rev. James Ford, 1872", modern shelf-mark label pasted on. 18th/19th century engraving of Kind David with his Harp pasted on to front free endpaper.    I. Adams B1464. OCLC/RLIN (US: Harvard, NYPL, Folger and Kansas only). II. Adams T843. OCLC (US: Harvard, Folger and Columbia only). Ref: G.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19341.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Psalmi Davidis ex hebraica veritate latinis versibus exoressi... quibus praefixa sunt argumenta singulis distichis comprehensa, opera Io. Aurati poetae regii. (Bound with:) Octo cantica sacra e Sacris Biblis latino... (more)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SIEBMACHER, (Johann) Engraved frontispiece title, and over 2000 engraved coats-of-arms on 164 engraved plates.     Oblong 4to. (12)ff. + 164 plates. 18th century vellum, g.e., morocco label.The second volume of Sibermacher's updated guide to coats-of-arms, published four years after the first volume. The author died in 1611, but three further volumes appeared in 1656, 1657 and 1666, but complete sets are very rarely found. The coats-of-arms are mostly of families in the German speaking world, but the volume begins with arms of various European states and kingdoms (including Naples, Portugal and Scotland), which are found eight to a page; on the majority of plates there are 15 coats-of-arms to a page. This is one the earliest of Siebmacher's works of German armorial devices; new editions were published in the following two centuries filling many volumes. Due to their constant use, many copies of the early editions would have failed to survive.    The final two leaves of the index are from another edition and bear the colophon of 1630; small hole in title-page. Long tear neatly repaired on folio A4 (leaf of index).    Lipperheide Rc 10.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19479.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Newen Wapenbuchs. II Theil. Darinnen dess H. Rom. Reichs Teutscher Nation Hoher Potentaten Fursten Graven Freyen Herrn Ritter unnd vom Adel auchetlicher alten Erbarn Patricien and Bayern an der zahl bey 2400.... (more)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GRIGIS, (Giovanni Pietro) I. Large woodcut of the Priuli arms on title-page. II. Large woodcut of the Bembo arms on title-page.     2 works in one vol. 4to. (198 x 148mm.). (8)ff. (4)ff. Later wallet style old vellum over thin paste-board, covers with blind fillet decoration, single green woven tie with metal tips at each end.A surprisingly rare pair of orations delivered to Giovanni Bembo and Antonio Priuli, scions of noble Venetian families, and both elected Doges of Venice in the early 17th century.    The title page of the first work (though bound second) states that the author Zambattista Vianello served as ambassador to Venice from Chioggia, found at the southernmost entrance to the Venetian lagoon, and that he delivered his oration on 21 April 1616. He celebrates the election of Giovanni Bembo (1543-1618) as the 92nd doge in 1615.    The second oration (chronologically) is by Giovanni Pietro Grigis, known as Morlacco, a citizen of Venice. It honours the elevation of Antonio Priuli (1548-1623) as 94th doge in 1618.    Provenance. The Priuli family? The Priuli arms are found on an oval piece of vellum, illuminated in red, blue, yellow and green, pasted onto the front endpaper.    I. Cicogna 2380 (n). II. Cicogna 2374 (n). Not found in ICCU, COPAC, OCLC.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19738.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Oratione al serenissimo Antonio Priuli... Venice, il Deuchino, 1618. (Bound with:) VIANELLO ZAMBATTISTA . Oratione nell'assontione del serenissimo Giovanni Bembo. Venice Evangelista Deuchino,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BROICKWY von Konigstein, (Antonius) Printer's device on title-page.     8vo. 40ff. Later wrappers, a few leaves loose.Broickwy von Konigstein was a Franciscan friar and commmentator on the Bible, whose Concordantiae on the Bible, together with his  Postillae on the gospels and epistles, were largely printed in Cologne (although occasional editions were published in Paris, Louvain and Venice) and popular in the 1530s. The  Passio seems first to have been printed in 1532 by Quentel in Cologne as a second part to an edition of the  Postillae . Born in Nijmegen in 1470, the author died in 1541.    This text prints the gospel narrative in Latin in a version based on all four gospels, as the title states. It is not the Vulgate. The text is followed by the author's analysis and discussion, which, from time to time, as befits a Franciscan author, cites St. Bonaventure. The whole is preceded by a preface, which, like the commentary, is printed in a smaller roman type.    We have not traced any copy of this particular edition. BNF has fourteen editions of works by him, of which the majority printed in Paris, but not this.    cf. Troeyer, B. de. Bio-bibliographia franciscana neerlandica saeculi xvi  (Nieuwkoop: de Graaf, 1969-70).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19861.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Enarratio dominicae passionis iuxta quatuor evangelistarum litera(m)... recens edita... Paris, Jean Fouchier,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(VERMIGLI, (Pietro Martire)?)4to. (12)ff. Bound in later vellum wrappers.Rare eye-witness account of the events of July 1553 when, following the death of Edward VI, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, attempted to place his daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey on the English throne. The account accuses Dudley of causing or accelerating Edward's death by poison or the dagger, and describes him as "gaping like a crow for carrion" after the king's demise. It also makes clear the lack of public support in London and the country for Lady Jane Grey as monarch, as well as describing the wavering loyalties of the privy counsellors bullied by Dudley, and the scenes of jubilation when Mary was proclaimed rightful Queen on 19 July. The author ends his tract with details of Mary's magnificent entry into London on 3 August, which was full of regal pomp and ceremony, and notes that, "It is highly worthy of the consideration of all good men that this wonderful vicissitude of the greatest revolutions was experienced in the kingdom of Britain within the space of a month without slaughter or bloodshed, excepting the murder of King Edward, owing to the singular beneficence of God".    Authorship is usually ascribed to the Italian theologian Vermigli a close friend of Thomas Cramner who had invited him to England in 1547 and whom he had advised on modifications to the revised Book of Common Prayer of 1552. This is now disputed and the Swiss protestant theologian Peter Viret, who was in England at the time, has been suggested. The account was first published in Wittenberg in a Latin and a German edition in 1553 with this sole Leipzig edition appearing in the following year. According to VD16 no further editions were published and all are very rare. OCLC records only one copy of our edition in U.S. libraries and no copies of the Wittenberg printing.    VD16 V1093. OCLC (Yale copy only in U.S.). COPAC (BL only).]]></description>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19925.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Von kleglichem vnzeitigem Tod Eduardi des Sechsten, Konigs zu Engelland etc. Warhafftiger grundlicher Bericht vnd erzelung der dinge vnd veranderung(n), so sich in dem loblichen Konigreich Engelland,... (more)]]></title>
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