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16DE-EEUWSE DRUKKEN ~ EDITIONS XVI
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S.
~ How to make gold! ~
1025 [Alchemy]
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FLAMEL, Nicolas
- De la transformation metallique, trois anciens tractez en
rithme Françoise. A savoir La Fontaine des amoureux de science. Autheur I. De la Fontaine. Les
remonstrances de nature à lalchymiste errant: avec la response dudict alchy. par I. de Meuns (...).
Le sommaire philosophique de N. Flamel. Avec defence diceluy (...) contre les effortz que I. Girard
mect a les oultrager. Paris, G. Guilllard & A. Warancore, 1561, [4]-73 (of 76) ff. (lacking last 3
lvs incl. 1 bl.) [bound after] [
AUGURELLI, Giovanni Aurelli
- Les trois livres de la chrysopée,
c’est à dire, L’art de faire d’or. Trad. par François Havert]. Paris, B. Prévost (for V. Gaultherot),
1549, 69-[1] ff. (lacking t.-p.), 2 works in 1 vol. (underlinings and ms. notes in the margins, cut a
bit short, shaving some ms. and printed marginalia), 18th-c. marbl. calf (sl. rubbed, front hinge sl.
dam.), richly gilt spine on raised bands, red title label, red edges. Good but used copy, unfortunately
incomplete.
€ 800/1000
Two very rare and curious hermetic works in French verse
.
1.
Collected ed. of 3 hermetic 15th-c.
poems, to which the editor added a defence of the art of the Alchemist. The 1st is “La Fontaine des
amoureux de science” by Jean De la Fontaine. The 2nd is the as yet unpublished “Remonstrances
de la nature”, according to the editor also known as “La Complaincte de la Nature”, in his foreword
ascribed to J. Clopinel, dict de Meung, herewith strenghtening the hermetic interest present in the
“Roman de la Rose”. Later both poems were added to the Paris eds of the Roman de la Rose
by Lenglet du Fresnoy. “Le Sommaire Philosophique” by N. Flamel was later proven not to be
by Flamel at all. The present publication established Flamel’s reputation as a famous alchemist,
until Villain’s researches in the 18th c. proved this totally unfounded. The editorship of the present
collection is ascribed to J. Gohorry, le Solitaire (c. 1500-1576).
2.
First ed. of the French trsl. by F.
Habert (c. 1520-c.1562), of “Chrysopoeiae Liber III” by the Italian poet, philosopher and alchemist,
G.A. Augurelli (1454-1537), who studied at Padua, became a professor in Venice but because of
his passion for alchemy, spent all his money trying to make gold. He dedicated his Chrysopoeiae
to Pope Leo X, who rewarded him with a huge empty purse, indicating that he himself could fill it
with gold. The translator, Habert, dedicated the book to the Canon and Treasurer at Nantes, Pierre
d’Acigné, and added the trsl. of Augurelli’s letter to Leo X.
Ref. 1.
Pettegree FB 31792. STC French
(BL) 425. Caillet 10811. Van Lennep p. 97. Not in Adams, Ferguson.
2.
Pettegree FB 2203. STC
French 34. Van Lennep p. 34. Brunet I:556. Graesse I:252. Not in Adams, Caillet, nor Ferguson.
~ Editio princeps of most of the Attic orators.
One of the most beautiful books printed by Aldus. ~
1026 [Aldine imprint]
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Rhetorum Graecorum Orationes (Oratores Graeci)
. Venice, Aldus Manutius
&Andreas Asulanus, [April - 7 May 1513], 3 parts in 2 vols, folio, early 19th c. English red grained
morocco with blind tooled border and gilt cornerpcs with pointillé design (sl. rubbed), inner
dentelles, gilt edges, marbl. endpapers, 197-[3 bl.]-162 [= 163], 197-[3 bl.] p. 98-167-[2 bl.-1] pp.
(with the often lacking last blank; very occ. sl. browning; lvs of quire ff. extended at lower margin).
Splendid copy of this beautiful book, rarely found in this condition.
Cfr. ill.
€ 15000/20000
Very important editio princeps
of most of the Attic orators, the works of Demosthenes being
published before. It is really one of the most important and beautiful books printed on the famous
Aldine Presses.
Contents
:
Pt. 1
: Aeschines (p. 3); Lysias (p. 86); Alcidamas, Anthisthenes and Damades.
Pt 2:
Andocides (p. 3), Isaeus (p. 32); Dinarchus (p. 81); Antiphon (p. 99); Lycurgus (p. 132); Gorgias
(p. 151); Lesbonax (p. 155); Herodes (p. 160).
Pt. 3
: Isocrates (p. 3), Alcidamas, Contra dicendi
magistros (p. 98, it.); Gorgias, De laudibus Helenae (p. 102, it.); Aristides, De laudibus Athenarum
(p. 104, it.); Aristides, De laudibus urbis Romae (p. 154, it.).