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ALCIAT, André; MELANCHTHON,
Philippus; BUDÉ, Guillaume.- Libellus de ponderibus et mensuris. Item Budaei
quaedam de eadem re, adhuc non visa. Item Philippi Melanchtonis, de iisdem,
ad Germanorum usum, sententia. Alciati quoq[ue]; et Philippi Melanchtonis, in
laudem iuris civilis, orationes duae elegantissimae.
Haganoae [Hagenau], apud Joan. Sec., 1530. Mense martio.
In-8° : [50] lvs (slightly browned, right corner with mark of
p
rovenance (?) cut off on title-page).
19
th
century binding : half calf, marbled paper boards, flat spine (rubbed, turn ins lacking, joints partly split,
edges dulled, flyleaves renewed).
Est.
:
300/ 350 €
First edition
of this collection of works and lectures for German students by Alciat and
Melanchthon on law and ancient, especially Greek and Roman, measures and weights
(vocabulary by Melanchthon who was Greek professeur at Wittenberg). Followed by
a treatise of Guillaume Budé giving the equivalence between Greek coins, weights and
measures and Gallic ones. With ornemental initials.
# Adams A-587 (mentions a folding table); # Soltész A-213; # USTC 611388; # VD 16 A
1669; # not in Machiels.
¶
Édition originale de cette réunion de traités sur les poids et mesures et cours de droit par Alciat,
Melanchthon et Budé. Demi-veau du 19
e
s. (lég. bruni., rel. frottée).
480 –
Reunion of 7 very rare post-incunabula printed in Antwerp (2 not listed in
public collections), in a nice panel-stamped binding.
In-8° (small marginal dampstains, wormholes not affecting the text in the 1
st
work, good condition).
Contemporary Flemish (Antwerp) binding : calf, boards with a panel-stamp figuring the portrait of Charles
V with the caption "Plus oultre // Karolus.V.Imp." and decorated with columns and foliotation on both sides,
panels encircled with blind fillets, ribbed spine with blind fillets (bound upside down, small wears, rebacked but
hardly visible, re-used vellum on the pastedowns, Latin ms. note in the upper flyleaf).
Est.
:
18.000/ 22.000 €
(1).
GNAPHEUS, Wilhelm
.- Acolastus. De filio prodigo comoedia Acolasti titulo inscripta.
Apud Martinum Caesarem, impensis Guilhelmi Vorstermanni, 1535 Mense martii, [36] lvs.
Celebrated school drama (1
st
ed. : 1529) on the prodigal son in the general framework and
conventions of Roman comedy (Terence and Plautus). Gnapheus (1493-1568), originally
rector of the Latin school in The Hague is considered as one of the most pure representative
of the early Dutch more or less protestant humanists and Neo-Latin writers. Title in
architectonical border with Vostermann's mark in the lower part and text illustrated with
small ornemental initials (1 dotted). # Nijhoff & Kronenberg 3105 (2 copies : ours and one
in the UL Ghent); # Machiels G-358; # Andrew Pettegree & Malcolm Walsby, Netherlandish
books. Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2011, n° 13410; # not in Adams, USTC, Soltész.
(2).
PLACENTIUS, Joannes Leo
.- Susanna. Eusebii candidi elegia, in vana[m]
brevemq[ue], humanitate vitae gloriolam. Ite[m] Ode sapphica eiusde[m] Eusebii, in
mortis recordationem. Item Plausus luctificae mortis ad modu[m] dialogi, exte[m]poraliter
ab eodem Eusebio lusus. (Per me Guilielmum Vorstermannum), 1536, [20] lvs. Third
edition (1
st
ed. : 1532) of this early biblical play by the Dominican from Sint-Truiden (1500-
1548 ?). Followed by poems of "Eusebius Candidus", probably Placentius himself. Title
in ornemental border; dotted initials. # Nijhoff & Kronenberg 3736 (lists our copy and one
incomplete in London B.M.); # USTC 403951; # Pettegree & Walsby 25660 # not in Soltész,
Adams, Machiels.
(3).
CROCUS, Cornelius
.- Comoedia sacra, cui titulus Joseph, ad christianae iuventutis
institutionem iuxta locos inventionis [...]. In aedibus Joan. Steelsii (typis Joan. Graphei),
1537, [32] lvs. Second edition (1
st
ed. : 1536) of this play for use in Latin schools, the most
important and best known of its author, relating the victory gained by Charles V in Tunisia
over the Turks and the attempts of the Egyptian princess to seduce