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846
APPIANUS, Alexandrinus -
Des guerres des Romains [trsl. Claude de Seyssel]. Paris, (P. le
Voirier for) Cl. Gautier, 1573, 8vo, 19th-c. goldtooled calf "à l'antique" by
L. Claessens
(sl.
rubbed), covers with blindruled border, gilt oval central ornament and gilt corner pieces, gilt
spine, red polished edges, marbled endpapers, [20]-496 ff. (cut sl. short, paper age-toned and sl.
spotted, blank bottom corner of title repaired). Good copy.
€ 300/400
Rare ed. printed by P. le Voirier for N. Bonfons, G. Buon, Cl. Gautier (this one), and J. Ruelle. This famous
trsl. by the French Renaissance bishop and author Seyssel (1450-1520) 1st appeared in 1544. Woodcut mark
on title. Some old notes (cropped). Jesuit ownership entry on title. Collector's ticket Charles Groffier. Mod.
bookpl. Vandeputte. Bookseller's stamps.
Ref.
Pettegree FB 1538 [5]. Index Aur. 106.578. Not in Adams, BL
London, BN Paris.
847
ARISTOTELES -
Ad Nicomachum filium, de moribus, quae Ethica nominatur, libri decem
[Latin trsl. from the Greek Nicolaus Gruchius. Paris, J. Du Puys, 1572, 4to, old blindruled
English calf (almost loose, endpapers gone), spine on 4 raised bands, [10]-146 ff. (quire î
erroneously bound between Oo1-2; woodcut mark on title and headpc. on â2 cut out with loss of
some text, worming in blank top margin, some stains). Good wide-margined copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 300/400
2nd ed. (1st 1566) of the Latin trsl. by the French humanist N. Grouchy (1510-1572) of Aristotle's Ethics. In
italics.
Annotated throughout in Latin by a cont. hand
.
Ref.
Pettegree FB 54613. Cranz/Schmitt (Aristotle)
108.575. Hoffmann I:363. STCFrench (BL London) 27. Not in Adams, BN Paris.
848
[Astrology] - SAVONAROLA, Girolamo, O.P. -
Opera singolare (...) co(n)tra l'astrologia
diuinatrice in corroboratione delle refutatione astrologice del S. conte Ioan. Pico de la Mirandola.
Venice, B. Stagnino [for G. Padovano & V. Ruffinelli], 1536, 8vo, mod. blindruled calf "à
l'antique", covers with central blind rectangular decoration with gilt outer corner pcs, 38-[2] ff.
(somewhat short, dampstain in bottom margin). Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 600/800
Venetian ed. (1st 1497) of an attack on astrology by the famous unruly Florentine friar Savonarola (1452-
1498). Large woodcut mark on title. Smaller mark at the end. Printed in 2 cols in gothic type. Capital spaces
with guide-letters.
Ref.
Edit16 33382. Giovannozzi 233. Olschki (Savonarola) 8. Gardner (Bibl. astrol.)
1136. Adams S-475. Not in Caillet, Wellcome.
849
[Astronomy] - HYGINUS, Caius Julius -
Fabularum liber (...) eiusdem poeticon astronomicon
libri quatuor (...). Basel, Herwagen Press, 1570, folio, later boards (rubbed, corners bumped), [8]-
251 pp. (lacking 13 index ff.). Inside good copy.
€ 200/300
3rd ed. (1st 1535). Famous collection of late antique poems on astronomy with a philological commentary by
humanist J. Micyllus (1503-1558), edited from a 9th or 10th c. Freising manuscript. With
48 woodcuts
representing constellations, sun, moon and planets.
Ref.
VD-16 H-6481. Zinner 2523. Adams H-1253. Ebert
10433.
850
[Astronomy] - PROCLUS, Diadochus -
De sphaera liber. Cleomedis De mundo, sive circularis
inspectionis meteororum libri duo (…). Omnia Graece & Latine (…) [ed. Marcus Hopper].
Antwerp, J. Loeus, 1553, 8vo, 18th c. blue wr., [9]-268 (= 270)-[1] pp. (title soiled). Good copy.
€ 200/300
Vol. 1 (vol. 2 published in 1554 with own title), complete in itself, of this Antwerp ed. of the Basel 1547 ed. It
contains the Greek text, printed on verso, with facing Latin trsl., on recto, of "De sphaera" by the
Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus (412-485) and "De mundo" by the Greek astronomer Cleomedes (before
400 A.D.). The 2nd vol., with Latin writings by Aratus and Dionysius Afer, followed in 1554 (not present
here). Cont. marginal note on p. 6.
Ref.
Pettegree NB 26003. BT 4058. Adams P-2133. Hoffmann III:469 &
I:507.
851
[Augsburg Confession - Hanau imprint] - [URSINUS, Zacharias] -
De libro Concordiae
quem vocant, a quibusdam theologis, nomine quorundam Ordinum, Augustanae Confessionis,
edito, Admonitio Christiana: scripta quondam a theologis & ministris ecclesiarum in ditione (…)
Iohannis Casimiri Palatini ad Rheum, Bauariae Ducis &c. (…) [2nd ed.]. Hanau, W. Antonius for
the Widow of W. Harnisch, 1598, 8vo, mod. wr., [16]-606 (= 616) pp. (paper age-toned, edges of
1st ff. sl. frayed, sm. holes in blank part of title). Good copy.
€ 180/220
2nd ed. (1st Neustadt-Pfalz 1581) of an extensive discussion of the Augsburg Confession by the Heidelberg
theologian Z. Ursinus (1534-1583), one of the authors of the influential Heidelberg Catechism. Woodcut
mark on title.
Ref.
VD-16 U-335. Adams A-2147. Not in BL London, BN Paris.
852
[Augsburg Confession - Melanchton] - PEZELIUS, Christophorus -
De sacrosancto Coena
Domini tractatus (…) propositus in Schola Bremensi, in explicatione Examinis Theologici