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Éditions du XVI
e
s.
of this early post-incunabulum schoolbook, also known as "Heptalogos", in which the
children are taught with comprehensive stories at the hand of the proverbs and sayings
of The Seven Sages of Greece (Cleobulus, Solon, Chilon, Bias, Thales, Pittacus, Myrsilus
and Periander). Beroaldo (1453-1505), celebrated Italian literary author, opened a school at
Bologna when only 19 years old. He taught at Parma, Milan, Paris University before being
recalled at Bologna and offered the chair in literature. Printed in neat typography; printer's
mark at the colophon.
# USTC 814178; # EDIT16 5568; # STC Italy 89; # not in Machiels, Soltész, Adams (other
ed.).
¶
Seconde édition bolonaise de ce manuel didactique post-incunable basé sur les proverbes ou citations
des Sept Sages de Grèce. Bradel demi-parchemin moderne.
462 – (Didactica) -
SADOLETO, Jacopo.- De liberis recte instituendis, liber.
(Venetiis, per Jo. Antonium et fratres de Sabio, sumptu et requisitione D. Melchioris
Sessae), 1533 (mense Julio).
Small in-8° : 52 lvs (small tears in the two first lvs, foxing).
Modern binding in 17
th
century style : parchment with visible sewing and small flaps, flat spine.
Est.
:
600/ 700 €
Dialogue dealing with education describing the functions of each learned discipline before
noting that the sum of all thoses studies is their fusion in philosophy : the knowlege of
essences and immutable things, which generates virtue and harmonizes desire with reason.
Sadoleto (1477-1547), cardinal and bishop of Carpentras, helped in the preparations
of the Council of Trent. He was a dedicated servant to papacy and was involved in the
negociations between Francis I and Charles V leading to the Truce of Nice in 1538. He also
tried to win back the Protestants by persuasion and presenting the catholic religion under
a conciliatory form. An edition was published the same year by Sébastien Gryphe at Lyon.
With Sessa's device figuring a cat with a mouse in his mouth on the title-page.
# USTC 854175; # STC Italy 595; # EDIT16 32330; # Adams S-54 (Lyon ed.); # not in
Soltész nor, in Machiels.
¶
Dialogue sur l'enseignement par Sadoleto, cardinal de Carpentras. Plein parchemin moderne.
463 – (Histoire, France & Belgique) -
HEUTERUS, Pontus.- RerumBurgundicarum
libri sex, in quibus describuntur res gestae Regum, Ducum, Comitumque,
utriusque Burgundiae [...]. Quorum postremus liber, qui est sextus, continet
genealogias familiarum eorum maximè Principum [...].
Antverpiae, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1584 [- 1583].
2 parts in 1 vol. in-f° : [8]-192-[11]-[1 bl.], [12]-99 pp. (numerous dampstains throughout incl. some large,
margins of first lvs frayed, marginal wormholes passim, some pp. slightly browned, rare holes in the margins or
in the text, quire G. of 1
st
part misbound, some pp. of 2
d
work loosening or detached from the guards).
Contemporary binding : vellum, flat spine, red sprinkled edges, ties (soiled).
Est.
:
300/ 400 €
First edition
of the history of the Burgundian Netherlands from Philip the Bold to Charles
the Bold with an introductory chapter on Burgundy. Copy in variant Bb with the following
caracteristics : on p. [2] the title of the poem "Carmen in historiam" is some 3 mm lower
than the words "libri sex" on the title-page and the word "scriptum" on the same page and
the quire signature of leaf "+3" are now printed correctly. The second part containing the 6
th
book deals with the genealogy of prominent French, Belgian and Dutch families and rulers.
Even though the two parts are dated differently, they were both finished in 1583. The first
came on the market in July 1583 but was plausibly finished too late for the September
Frankfurt Fair so they put the date of 1584 on title-page to not outdate the work for the fair of