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1080 [France - Burgundy]
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[BEGAT, Jean]
- Remonstrances faictes au Roy de France, par les Deputez
des trois Estats du Duché de Bourgoigne, sur l’Edict de la pacification des troubles du Royaume
de France. Antwerp, W. Silvius, 1564, 8vo, cont. limp vellum, flat spine, 63-[1] pp. (faint marg.
dampstaining). Excellent copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 250/400
Rare Antwerp ed. of a manifesto by J. Bégat, President of the Parlement de Bourgogne, on the
legislation introduced by Charles IX of France (1560-1574). Woodcut mark on title and at the end.
Jesuit ownership entry on title.
Ref.
BT 4134. Pettegree FB 3138 = NB 3331. STC Dutch (BL) 55 =
STC French 459. Not in Adams.
1081 [Ghent imprint]
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GARETIUS, Joannes, O.S.A.
- De sanctorum inuocatione liber: in quo
orthodoxorum Patrum testimonijs asseritur, Apostolica(m) esse traditionem, Sanctorum animas post
mortem in caelesti gloria Angelis esse similes (…). Ghent, G. Manilius, 1570, 8vo, mod. vellum,
[16]-103-[9] ff. Exc. copy.
€ 200/300
Rare theological treatise on the Catholic tradition regarding the cult of the saints in heaven, by the
Augustinian Garetius (1491-1571). Title printed within border of type ornaments. Woodcut arms of
dedicatee (abbot of St Peter’s at Ghent) on verso of title. Large mark at the end.
Ref.
Pettegree NB
12890. B.T. 1231. Bibl. gantoise 238. BCNI 3224. Adams G-238.
1082 [Habsburg]
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Ordonnancien, Statuten, Edicten ende Placcaten
, ghepubliceert in de landen van
herwaerts-over van weghen der keyserlicker en conijnglicker Majesteyten, ende haerlieder zeer
edele voorsaeten. Ghent, J. van den Steene (col.: typis H. van den Keere), 1559, folio, 17th-c.
blindstamped vellum (sl. soiled), ink titled spine on 6 raised bands (lower joint broken), [4]-801-[3]
pp. (blank upper margin of title rest., some marg. browning). Good copy.
€ 400/600
Rare 1st ed.
of the 1st vol. of this extensive collection of edicts and ordinances for Flanders from
1506 to 1556.
Book I
: 16 chapters containing edicts on justice and jurisdiction (blasphemy,
heresy and executions), jurisdiction applicable to clergymen, an edict for prison guards, etc. It
includes
2 indices of forbidden books
on resp. pp. 145-153 (dated 1546, also concerning printers
and booksellers) and pp. 174-186 (dated 1550).
Book II
: political edicts on i.a. seafaring and
fishery, hunting, infrastructure, coins, toll, the drapery industry, paper, windmills, grain, wine, beer,
forest and peat.
Book III
: princely decrees on various matters. Woodcut printer’s device within
woodcut border with coat-of-arms of Ghent and Philipp II on t.-p. Ownership entries on flylvs. “M.
Tydeman” (= Prof. Meindert Tydeman - 1741-1825) and J.D. Moerman.
Ref.
B.T. 2269. Pettegree
NB 7892. Bibl. gant. 187. Graesse V, 43. Machiels II, N58. Not in Adams, STC Dutch.
1083 [Horsemanship]
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GRISONE, Federico & FAYSSER, Johann
- Hippokomike. Kunstlicher
Bericht vnd allerzierlichste beschreybung des Edlen/ Vhesten/ vnnd hochberümbten Ehrn Friderici
Grisonis (...) wie die Streitbarn Pferdt (...) zum Ernst vnd Ritterlicher Kurtzweil/ geschickt vnd
volkommen zu machen. In sechs Bücher. Augsburg, 1573, [20]-235-[45] pp. [bound with]
FAYSSER, Johann
- Hippiatria. Gründlicher Bericht vnd aller ordennlichste Beschreibung der
bewerten Rossärtzney. Das erste Buch darinnen von den inwendigen (...) Kranckhaiten des Leibs
(...) gehandlet. Ibid., 1576, [13]-154 (= 155)-[2] ff. (some quires age-toned, 1st ff. somewhat stained
or spotted, some marg. dampstaining, 1st title underlaid and with margins strengthened, bottom
edge of I3, L1, Q2 and V5 and fore-edge margin of K2 repaired with sellotape, right corner of 2nd
title torn off and underlaid with loss of part of woodcut border, last f. underlaid), 2 works in 1 vol.,
folio, cont. blindst. pigskin over wood (expertly repaired, sm. def. at lower cover), covers with many
blindst. rolls and head-in-medallion portraits, spine on 4 raised bands, metal clasps and catches (1
clasp gone). Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 2000/3000
1.
Rare 2nd ed. (1st 1570) of the 2nd translation/adaptation into German of Grisoni’s “Ordini di
cavalcare” (Naples 1550).
Double-page circular woodcut indicating 75 diseases
inserted between
Z6-7,
88 full-page woodcuts
(some repeats), including 6 of a standing horse and 1 of a horse’s
skull,
16 illustrating horse training and dressage
, 22 plans relating to horse training etc. Title
in red & black within
elaborate woodcut border with portraits of famous riders. Printed music




