The Books’ Session of the Auction starts with a section of 136 Manuscripts (lots 1067-1202), among which we would like to highlight a beautiful Book of Hours, use of Paris, of the first half of the XV century: Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis ad usum Parisiensem ( lot 1070) a splendid Lombard illuminated initial Iniziale 'S', Annuncio della Resurrezione, from the last quarter or the XV century ( lot 1074) La vita del Serafico San Francesco.
Not in BM-STC German.We are glad to present our upcoming auction of Books, Manuscripts, Autographs, Posters, Prints & Drawings.
This edition not in Adams or BM-STC German. A well-preserved collection in its first binding. The fine maps, showing the widely used heart-shaped world map (cut by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder, a specially commissioned reduced version of Waldseemüller's), Spain, France, Germany, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Greece, Italy, Palestine, Turkey, Asia, Africa, and Sicily (all but the latter printed as double-page spreads), are in good contemporary hand colour, as are the spherical globe, the diagram of the planetary orbits (with the earth at centre), and the globe surrounded by the four winds. III: Fourth Zurich edition of Honter's atlas with the maps reproduced from the first Froschauer edition published in 1546 (the work had originally appeared in Cracow in 1530 without illustrations). Missing 4 leaves of text, but includes the two frequently lacking folding tables. Lower corner of leaf L1 torn off (no loss to text). Heavily annotated throughout in brown and bright red ink by a 16th-century hand. "Some new features from the standpoint of presentations and pedagogy, but its astronomy remains Ptolemaic and Sacroboscan" (Thorndike).
HONTER CIRCULI SPHAERAE CUM V ZONIS MANUAL
II: Early Wittenberg reissue of this popular instructional manual on astronomy, first published in Frankfurt the previous year. The four missing leaves have been supplied in facsimile. Occasional annotations in brown ink rubricated throughout, with penwork decorations to initials in blue and red ink nearly all woodcuts are hand-coloured in surprisingly vivid hues. Among the woodcuts are not only two volvelles (the movable part of a third woodcut appears lost) but also a globe map of Europe, Africa, and part of Asia on leaf F5v (apparently an improved version of the "Globus Mundi" map mentioned by Shirley on p. Includes Melanchthon's 1531 preface as well as his 1538 dedication, in the name of Rheticus, to Achilles Gasser. I: Rare edition of the most important astronomical work of the Middle Ages: a reissue of the 1545 edition with only the colophon changed (the earlier year of publication is preserved on the separate title of part two, "De anni ratione" ). Fine sammelband of astronomical and geographical works, annotated and brilliantly coloured throughout by a contemporary owner. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin (wanting clasps). Final 14 leaves comprise the atlas "Circuli sphaerae cum V zonis" with half-title woodcut, 2 smaller woodcuts in the text, and 13 woodcut maps (12 double-page, 1 full-page), all in stark contemporary colour.
De variarum rerum nomenclaturis per classes, liber I. Rudimentorum cosmographicorum libri III cum tabellis geographicis elegantissimis. With two folding tables, woodcut device on titile-page, an initial and a diagram in the text, all woodcuts in contemp. Quaestiones novae in libellum de sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco, in gratiam studiosae iuventutis collectae ab Ariele Bicardo. Illustrated throughout with woodcut diagrams and spheres, 2 with movable parts, nearly all in stark contemporary colour. With woodcut device in contemporary colour on title-page. (lacking 4 leaves: J8, K1, 4-5), 2 blank ff.
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