http://www.maggs.com/catalog.asp? Sat, 10 May 2008 21:59:03 GMT en-gb RSS Search Feed for RSS Feed for Maggs Bros Rare Books Title-page within woodcut border, title in red and black, device on verso of final leaf.

Sm. 8vo. CXVII, (3) ff. Modern limp vellum, blindstamped fleur-de-lys on each cover.Rare edition of the sermons of the little known Franciscan Nicolas de Hacqueville from the press of the Lyons printer Antoine du Ry.

Provenance: Armorial bookplate and inscription, dated 1882, of Sir Thomas N. Dick Lauder.

Not found in Baudrier, BMSTC (French), Adams or OCLC/RLIN.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17358.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17358.asp Engraved frontisoiece, 5 folding engraved plates, one single plate, 13 full-page engravings and 2 half-page engravings, of scenes of Roman life. .

12mo. (6)ff. 445pp. (11)ff. Polished calf, triple gilt fillet, panelled spine (rebacked, spine laid down).Famous work on Roman banquets with interesting passages relating to wine, first published in 1588, to which is added Fulvio Orsini's (1529-1600) long appendix which continues the process of drawing from classical sources tales of feasts and banquets among the Romans.

Pedro Chacon (1525-81), a native of Toledo, was made canon of Seville by Pope Gregory XIII and instructed by him to provide commentaries on the Bible, Gratian's Decretals and other great texts of the early church. His great erudition on works both sacred and profane was admired by scholars such as De Thou and Casaubon but none of his works were published until after his death. Printed book label of Charles Butler of Warren Wood. Excellent internal condition.

Simon 344. Vicaire 174.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18836.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18836.asp Ornamental woodcut device on title-page.

8vo. (2)ff. (first blank) 228pp. (6)ff. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments.Very early edition of the poems of Madame de la Deshoulières, several of which were not in the edition originale of 1688 and appear here for the first time. This edition appeared a year before the appearance of the second part of the 1688 edition. The husband of the poet was an adherent of Condé and was involved in the political troubles of the time, and she joined him in the Spanish Netherlands. She was ultimately ruined and for the last twelve years of her life suffered from cancer. Her best poetry was inspired by these misfortunes and the approach of death. She played an important role in Parisian literary society and received in her salon Corneille, Ménage, Conrart, Benserade, Fléchier, Mascaron, Quinault, etc. She was also the centre of the clique that attacked Racine's Phèdre.Voltaire admired her works and Sainte-Beuve believed her reputation to be less than her merit.

Bound with the cancelland and cancellans of B1, the former omitting one line of text.

In excellent condition.

Tchemerzine IV, p.317, c. Lachèvre Les derniers libertins(1924), p.115. Rochebilière p.258.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17104.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17104.asp Froben device on title-page and verso of final leaf.

8vo. (180)ff. Modern brown morocco.Extremely rare first edition of Erasmus' hugely influential work on speech and language, popular in schools and much reprinted throughout the century. Vander Haeghen lists eight editions published before the end of 1526 alone.

Provenance. 6-line inscription on title of one "Godefridus" dated 1576. Early annotations and underlinings throughout.

Title and last leaf soiled, quire N damaged at blank upper margin with some loss, some marginal waterstaining.

Vander Haeghen p. 117. VD16 E3156. Not in Adams, BMSTC (German), OCLC/RLIN.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17311.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17311.asp Title-page printed in red and black, some woodcut text illustrations of coins, large printer's device at end..

4to. (8)ff. 265pp. 18th century calf.First edition of this rare historical survey of numismatics by Tilemann Friese (fl. 1567-1592), a burgermeister from Göttingen, who formed a large personal collection of coins. An edition of 1588 mentioned by Lipsius almost certainly never existed.

The work is dedicated to Heinrich Julius, Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneberg, is divided into four parts, and in the foreword to him Friese writes that he has made use of the works of other writers including Guillaume Budé, Charles Du Moulin, Johann Mathesius, Alberto Bruno and Paracelsus. The work begins with a general descriptions on numismatics and the various factors involved (e.g. the right materials, marks, standards, weight and alloy, etc.) The second chapter discusses the coinage of ancient races (i..e. the Chaldaeans, Persians, Hebrews, Greeks and Roman), and third part covers the state of the Holy Roman Empire from the birth of Christ up to 1588, with one chapter for each century. Finally, the fourth part (ff. 130-207) is an account of current coinage, which includes brief sections devoted to England, Spain, Portugal, France and Moscow.

At the end is a related treatise by Cyriacus Spangenberg: Vom rechten Brauch und Missbrauch der Müntzen. (ff. 209-63). Spangenberg is perhaps better known as one of the leading pupils of Martin Luther who gained a reputation for his outspoken views.

Provenance. From the Macclesfield Library with large armorial book-plate, and blind-stamp on first two leaves. Excellent condition.

VD16 F2890. De Kesel F14. Goldsmith-Kress Libray of Economic Literature 259.2.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19017.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19017.asp Engraved frontispiece, five folding tables (four of them very large).

12mo. 20, 278pp. (54)ff. Contemporary vellum.First edition of this geographical survey of the known world by the Danish writer Gollnitz.

Tear affecting one of the folding tables.

Willems 1000.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18695.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18695.asp A Paved Text. Slightly marked on the rear panel, otherwise a fine copy.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45201.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45201.asp 54 engraved plates of coins (five of them folding), 4 folding letterpress tables (printed on both sides).>n>

4to. 54pp. (1)f. + plates + tables. 18th century motted calf.Profusely illustrated coin catalogue, a survey of the gold and silver currency in use throughout the Holy Roman Empire, with illustrations of coins issued by the German States as well as coins in use in other countries including the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England and Poland. The first edition of the work was a very comprehensive production running to 364 pages of text, and clearly rather too bulky to carry around; since the work was intended as a manual for use by tradesmen and businessmen who wanted something portable, this edition was issued a year later in a much handier size with an abbreviated text which could be slipped into the pocket. The work would also have helped with the detection of counterfeit coins. Since it would have been in almost daily use, our edition is much rare than the 1683 full version.

The text consists of a survey of coinage from ancient times (e.g. the coins of the Babylonians, Hebrews, Greeks and Romans), right up to the author's own time, with comments on their values, dependent on their relative, weight. The illustrations show the obverse and reverse of 348 coins in use at the time (i.e. making a total of 696 engravings). The eight tables on the four leaves at the end list the coins with tables showing their relative worth.

Provenance. From the Macclesfield Library with large armorial book-plate, and blind-stamp on first two leaves.

A few captions slightly trimmed, A little browning.

VD17 3:646175Y. Not in Lipsius.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19018.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19018.asp Title within fine historiated border, 184 medallion portraits (some blank in the centre), many by Hans Weiditz, one large initial, large device on verso of final leaf.

Sm. 8vo. (8), 91 (recte 88), (4) ff. Expertly rebound in antique calf.Rare first edition of Huttich's important medal book. It contains portraits, mostly taken form antique coins, and brief biographies of the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to Ferdinand and is adapted and improved from Fulvio's Illustrium imagines of 1517. The additional portraits of Frederick III, Maximilian I, Philip of Austria, Charles V and Ferdinand II are larger in size than the others. They are almost certainly taken from authentic portraits and show Weiditz as a woodcut artist at his best. Huttich, a native of Mainz and an archaeologist and numismatist was the first person north of the Alps to write on numismatics. Röttinger writes that the fine title-border is also the work of Weiditz. The large device at the end is a variant of a design of Hans Baldung Grien (see: Kat. Karlsruhe XV, S. 388, XLIV).

VD16, H6472. Muller 276, 57. Ritter 1235. Röttinger, Weiditz 167. Not in Adams or BMSTC.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18285.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18285.asp Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO48085.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO48085.asp Engraved frontispiece.

12mo. (2)ff.120pp. Contemporary calf, morocco label.Excellent copy of this Irish edition of the satires of the Latin poets Juvenal and Persius.

Pencilled note on fly-leaf of R. A. Synge, dated 31 / 03 (19)05, signature of another member of the Synge family on title-page.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18692.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18692.asp Title-page in red and black, three unsigned engraved plates.

12mo. (4)ff. 378pp. (2)ff. 18th century caalf, narrow gilt border, green morocco spine.Edition originale of this lesser known novel of Le Sage. Although one reads at the end of p. 378 "Fin du troisième et dernier livre", Le Sage wrote another part which was published at the Hague in 1738.

A little waterstained at end, otherwise good condition.

Tchemerzine VII, p. 206. Brunet III, 1008.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18904.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18904.asp LEECH, (John).(and) Topsy Turvey, - or our Antipodes.

Two hand-coloured engravings. 211 by 305mm. London, c.,The early days of the Victorian gold rush were famously male dominated, though the popularity of Ellen Clacy's work A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings in 1852-1853 may have been the inspiration for the first of these two images, which originally appeared as the frontispieces to the 1853 and 1854 editions of Punch's Pocket Book respectively.

A life long friend of Thackeray, John Leech is perhaps best known for his contributions to Punch, which he joined at its inception in 1841, as well as for his illustrations for Charles Dickens' Christmas Books. Credited with using the term 'cartoon' for a large satirical print (DNB), his pictorial work played an important role in the transformation of humorous art from the often brutal and grotesque work of men such as Cruikshank (and before him Gillray and Rowlandson) to the gentler and more subdued satire of the mid to late Victorian period. Ruskin said of him: "His work contains the finest definition and natural history of the classes of our society; the kindest and subtlest analysis of its foibles, the tenderest flattery of its pretty and well-bred ways, with which the modesty of subservient genius ever immortalised or amused careless masters."]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Travel Books http://www.maggs.com/title/TR29393.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/TR29393.asp South Australian Parliamentary Papers No. 45; Wantrup, 208.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Travel Books http://www.maggs.com/title/TR10292.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/TR10292.asp La Vie de Marianne, concern struggles to survive in society and reflect the author's rejection of authority and religious orthodoxy in favour of simple morality. "With Marivaux the novel ceases to be primarily a study of manners or a romance of adventures; it becomes an analysis of passions to which manners and adventures are subordinate . . . Marivaux's realism took the form . . . of psychological analysis" (Edward Dowden, A History of French Literature). Marivaux influenced novelists both in Britain and France especially in novels such as Fielding's Joseph Andrews.

Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Henderson Bt. of Fordell.

See Tchemerzine VII, p. 427.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17341.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17341.asp Engraved frontispiece.

2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary blue morocco, gilt border on red norocco inlay.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18820.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18820.asp Octavius, a dialogue in defence of Christianity which earned considerable merit. The author was a 3rd century rhetorician, said to be a native of Africa. In excellent condition.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18648.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18648.asp Title with large printer's woodcut device, verso title a full-page woodcut of the arms of Johann Jacob Fugger (dedicatee). 390 splendid portrait medallion woodcuts representing coins and medals and 97 additional medallion woodcuts without the portraits filled in. Three large woodcut initials on criblé ground.

4to. (44)ff. 339pp. (1)f. Contemporary green stained vellum over paste boards, remains of silk ties, r.e. (joints and headcaps restored).First edition of this erudite work which is one of the most important of all medal-books. The list of hitherto unpublished coins occupies eight pages. The first French edition was published only a month later by the same printer. The work contains an interesting introduction on Strada's travels and studies with extensive reference to Jean Grolier's library and coin collection, the latter still extant.

In the 16th century two trends in the reproduction of Roman coins were gradually established, firstly archaeological medal books started by Fulvio and Mazochius in 1517 and secondly the pattern book for other artists, such as the Huttich-Weiditz series of 1525 and 1534. It is Strada's achievement that he alone has led both fields. Bernard Salomon has long been regarded as the artist of the woodcuts (white design on black ground), recent scholarship however has questioned this attribution but has failed to come forward with any other suggestions as to the authorship of the cuts. However, it is undisputed that the artist of these splendid cuts commanded such delicate embellishing which make the Weiditz cuts in the same manner (Huttich, 1525) seem rather crude by comparision.

Lightly browned in places.

Provenance. Armorial booklate of Bibliotheca Trautner-Falkiana, i.e. the library of the Augsburg bibliophile Hans-Joachim Trautner (1916-2001).

Mortimer Harvard, French II, no.503. Cicognara 3018. Adams S1916.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19111.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19111.asp Engraved portrait of the author on title-page.

Sm. 8vo. (6)ff. 322pp. (1)f. 17th century gilt panelled English cslf, gilt back (rebacked with spine preserved, slight damage to upper joint of front cover).First completed edition of Tasso's poem on the creation of the world, which is considered one of the poet's finest achievements after the epic Gierusalemme Liberata. It is a long poem, written in blank verse, inspired by Saint Ambrose's Hexameron and perhaps by Du Bartas' La sepmaine sacré ou Création du Monde. The first two parts of this posthumously printed work, and the works was completed thanks to the work of Angelo Ingegneri against the wishes of Cardinal Aldobrandini who believed that the work was "ben sanata d'ogni mancamento che vi fosse".

Gamba 965.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18599.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18599.asp I: Fine engraved title-page and 63 full-page engraved plates, woodcut coins in text. II: Fine engraved title-page, full-page plate incorporating bust of Julius Caesar and 8 full-page plates of coins.

3 works in one vol. 4to. (8)ff. 192pp. (2)ff. ; 130pp. (6)ff.; 112pp. (8)ff. 18th century half-calf, marbled boards, flat spine with labels lettered in gilt.A fine collection of works by Enea Vico published in France for the first time and prepared by Jean-Baptiste Duval from the original plates. As Mortimer notes, "Jean Baptiste Du Val secured a privilege in 1618 to print the works of Vico with the original copperplates. His edition of this title Augustarum imagines appeared in 1619, Paris, Fleury Bourriquant, for Macé Ruette. Du Val reworked the plates and made substitutions and additions. Vico's plate XXIII was used at some time as an engraved title-page. it appears in 1619 with traces of a title and Venice imprint on the plate." The Augustarum imagines holds splendid engraved portraits of Roman Empresses and their female relations, from the grandmother of Julius Caesar up to the wife of Domitian, a masterpiece of mannerist book illustration. All the portraits are taken from antique coins and most are inserted in fabulous frames, all different, ornamented with putti, satyrs, allegories and monsters. The second work illustrates coins from the reign of Julius Ceasar with an explanatory text while the final work is an important discussion of the coins of antiquity which includes a list of collections of medals known to Vico at the time. All three works were first published at Venice, 1555-1560.

See Mortimer,Italian, no. 533.]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO15370.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO15370.asp Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO30765.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO30765.asp
At the foot of the document is a notarial sign manual showing crosed papal keys and the motto "sola fides sufficit" (i.e. "Faith alone is sufficient"), with the attestation of Constantinus Arcatorius, papal notary.]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO13091.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO13091.asp Poems is now in the British Library, as are the rest of Upward's papers. The dedicatee of the 1930 Poems is, of course, Christopher Isherwood, so this is perhaps the place to mention Stephen Spender's impression of the literary hierarchy that then obtained: Spender deferred to Auden, Auden deferred to Isherwood, Isherwood deferred to Upward, and Upward deferred to nobody. One of 1000 copies printed (Bloomfield and Mendelson A2a). Dust jacket torn, chipped and split along the backstrip with loss of several fragments, but internally clean. Housed in a modern folding case.]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO43613.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO43613.asp Title-page in red and black.

8vo. (12)ff. 654pp. (31)ff. 52pp. (6)ff. Contemporary black morocco, single gilt fillet, gilt spine.

Well bound copy of this legal commentary on the Institutiones and Decretales, first printed in 1600 and re-published several times in the 17th century. The author was professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt. In good condition.]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Continental Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18462.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/CO18462.asp Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45238.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45238.asp Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45237.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45237.asp Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45135.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45135.asp Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45656.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45656.asp Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45125.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45125.asp Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Modern Books and Manuscripts http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45651.asp http://www.maggs.com/title/MO45651.asp