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Éditions du XVI
e
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Work given by the Italian doctor and philosopher Marco Antonio Zimara (1460-1523)
containing treatises on : memory, breathing, youth and old age, nature, plants and vegetals,
astronomy, "licit and illicit" books... Text on two columns in gothic typsetting decorated with
initials letters (some dotted and/or larges) and the printer's mark in the colophon. In 1517-
1519, was published in Venice, also by the heirs of Ottaviano Scotto, another work of
Albertus Magnus given by Zimara, the "Naturalia and supranaturalia".
# USTC 808374; # Adams A-529 ("Naturalia ac supranaturalia"); # STC Italian 12 (id.) # not
in Machiels, Soltész, Bibl. Wall., Garrisson & Morton, Wellcome, A catalogue of Sixteenth
Century printed books in the National Library of Medicine.
¶ Édition originale de ce très rare post-incunable de l'ouvrage de l'évêque de Ratisbonne, Albert le Grand,
donné par Zimara. Traite de la mémoire, de la respiration, de la jeunesse et vieillesse, d'astronomie, des
livres "licites et illicites"... Texte en caractères gothiques sur 2 col. Plein parchemin de l'époque (qqs pp.
brunies, restaurations marg., galeries de vers à la fin -parfois avec très pet. manques de texte-).
260 — (Science)
—
LOBEL, Matthias de.- Plantarum seu Stirpium historia [...]
[- Nova stirpium adversaria [...],- Formulae aliquot remediorum [...],- In stirpium
observationes et adversaria [...]].
Antverpia, ex officina Christophorus Plantinus (excudebat Christophorus
Plantinus), 1576.
4 parts in 1 vol. in-f° : 671 [i.e. 675, engraved title incl.], [4 engraved title incl.]-471-[1 bl.], 15-[1 bl.], 24-
[15] pp. (washed (?), cancels on the engravings of pp. 133-136-280 in part I and on p. 252 in part II, some
browned pp., foxing, dampstains in some margins, tears -one without loss in p. 497 and some repaired-, rare
contemporary handwritten notes).
Contemporary binding : pigskin on wooden boards with clasps, boards fully blind stamped with fillets and roll-
stamps (floral ornaments, portraits and scenes of Jesus' life) encircling central panels figuring the Justice on
upper board and Lucrece on the lower board, ribbed spine with leather label, blue edges, guards (partly rubbed,
joints partly split, labels stuck on the upper pastedown, modern handwritten notes on the upper flyleaf, ex-libris
partly stuck on the upper flyleaf).
Est.
:
1.500/ 1.800 €
First Plantinian edition
of this botany work by the Flemish
physician and botanist Lobel (1538-1616), illustrated with
c. 1.700 woodcuts engraved by Corn. Muller, Gérard Janssen
van Campen, Arnold Nicolai and Antoine vander Leest,
after Pieter vander Borcht. Contains : a) "Plantarum seu
Stirpium historia" : in variant B (which is "the "normal" one",
cfr Voet), written between 1571-1576, concerning especially
the plants in the Netherlands and in Belgium followed by
the "De succedaneis, imitatione Rondeletii" giving substition
medicines and the organisation of drawyers for the plants
conservation. The "Stirpium" was in fact the complement of
the "Nova stirpium adversaria" but Plantin placed it first in his
edition, b) "Nova stirpium adversaria" : published in London
in 1570-1571 under Lobel's name and the one of his friend
Pierre Pena (1520/1535-1600-1605), which is an introduction
to classical medicine describing c. 1.400 species followed
by the "Appendix nonnullarum stirpium" dealing with 34 rare
plants which were, at that time, newly introduced in Belgium,
c) "Formula aliquot remediorum" : formula remedies after
the notes of the French doctor Guillaume Rondelet (1507-
1566), professor of Lobel, d) "In stirpium observationes et
adversaria" : indexes in Latin, French, German, Dutch, English, Portuguese and Italian.
Many copies of the "Stirpium adversaria nova" remained unsold, Plantin bought 800 of
them. He "re-arranged somewhat the English publication, added an appendix, and added
also, but with separate pagination, an Index and the "Formulae Guillielmi Rondelletii" (cfr
Voet). The "Stirpium" and the "Adversaria" are preceded by a typographical title within a
portico (Plantin's mark on the first). Large medallion figuring the emblem of Lobel with his
motto "Candore et spe" by A. vander Leest at at the back of the dedicatory of the "Stirpium".
# Voet III-1406/1411; # BB III-1128/1133; # Adams L-1382 ("Stirpium"); # Machiels
L-415 and 416; # BT I-1975, II-8668 and 8669; # USTC 412517 and 401688; # Nissen,
BBI, 1218; # Pritzel 5548; # not in Soltész.
▲ Provenance : Christopher Wolff of Emersdorf 1575 (emblazoned ex-libris); Cistercian
monastery/abbey of Heiligenkreuz in Austria.
¶ Première édition plantinienne de cet ouvrage de botanique illustré de 1.796 bois in texto. Le "Nova
stiripium adversaria" ou "Stirpium adversaria nova" fut publié pour la première fois en 1570-1571 à
Londres, Plantin reprit l'ouvrage, le réarrangea et l'augmenta. Pleine peau de truie estampée à froid de
l'ép. (lavé (?), qqs pp. brunies, rouss. et piqûres, qqs déch.- une dans le texte sans manque p. 497 et
certaines restaurées-, mors part. fendus).
261 — (Science)
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius.- Inerrantium stellarum
significationes per Nicolaum Leonicum è graeco translate [...].
(Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, mense Januario 1516).
2 parts in 1 vol. in-8° : 21-[1 bl.], 1/85-[1 bl.]-89/150-153/227-[1] lvs (some marginal stains, some lvs slightly
yellowed, small wormholes in the beginning, rare marginal tears, some foxing otherwise fresh copy).
Contemporary Flemish binding : calf, boards with 2 blind panel-stamps figuring the Annunciation and Saint
James with text in gothic typesetting and separeted by decorated frames, all encircled by blind filets, ribbed
spine with blind fillets (upper joint partly split, ties and turn ins lacking, calf partly unstuck on the spine, slightly
rubbed, some small stains, three corners dulled, the upper one strongly with lack of leather, re-used vellum with
handwritten text on the pastedowns).
Est.
:
1.200/ 1.500 €
Second edition (1
st
ed. : 1502 or 1515 ?), published in the Aldine press, of this work
containing the astronomical tables of Ptolemy (c. 90- c. 168) and 5 work extracts of
Ovid : "Fastorum", "Tristium", "De Ponto", "In Ibin" and "Ad Liviam". All given by the Italian
philologue Nicolò Leonico Tomeo (1456-1531). With the Aldine marks on title-page and on
the back of last leaf.
Nice panel-stamped binding
with two religious scenes (71 x 52 mm) not listed in
Fogelmark, "Expositition de reliures. Du XII
e
siècle à la fin du XVI
e
" of the Belgian Royal
Library and in "Boekbanden uit vijf eeuwen". The first of the Annunciation figures Mary
on a prie-Dieu with a star above and on her left Gabriel. The Saint is handing a banner
(without inscription) and has the Holy Spirit above him. The scene takes place inside, under
diagonal ribs. This panel is surrounded by the text : "Ave gracia plena d[omin]us tecu[m]
ecce a[n]cilla d[o]m[in]i fiat michi secundum verbum tuum" with artichokes flowers in the
angles. The second panel figures Saint James with 4 prayers (2 on each side) under a vault
with the key "Sancte Jacobeo" (?) below. These two panels are separeted by two decorated
frames with oak leaves, dragons opposing chimaera, a character or an ape (?) and a man
riding a dragon (?).
# Adams P-2238; # Renouard 78; # SCT Italian 542 (ed. 1515) and 479 (Works of Ovid) #
Soltész O-270 (1567); # not in USTC nor in Machiels.
¶ Seconde édition des tables astronomiques de Ptolémée et de 5 extraits d'oeuvres d'Ovide ("Les
Fastes", "Les Tristes", "Les Pontiques", "L'ibis", "Consolation à Livie Augusta"), donnés par le philologue
N. Leonico Tomeo. Plein veau de l'ép. avec des plaques figurant l'Annonciation et Saint Jacques (qqs
rouss., qqs taches et mouill. marg., lacets et coiffes manquants, cuir au dos part. décollé).