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PAPIUS, Andreas (of Ghent). De consonantiis, seu pro diatessaron libri duo. Antwerp: officina Christophor Plantin, 1581. 8° (178 x 112mm). Collation: A-O8 P4. 7-line errata at back. Woodcut Plantin device on title. Diagrams and staves of music, 22pp. of sheet-music at back. (Small rust-hole in F1 with resultant loss of three characters.) 18th-century speckled calf gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the uppermost with onlaid red morocco panel tooled with elephant crest. Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine (binding).
Juan de BORJA. Emblemata Moralia. Translated into Latin from Spanish by L.Camerarius. Berlin: U.Liepert for J.M.Rudiger, 1697. 4° (190 x 150mm). Engraved title vignette, 100 circular engraved emblematic illustrations by (?)J.C.Schott. (Some light browning.) 18th-century mottled calf, covers panelled in blind, red morocco lettering-piece on spine (joints a trifle weak). Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine (stamp on front free endpaper). First edition in Latin. The work was originally published in Spanish in 1581. Praz p.27. (2)
Juan de BORJA. Emblemata Moralia. Translated into Latin from Spanish by L.Camerarius. Berlin: U.Liepert for J.M.Rudiger, 1697. 4° (190 x 150mm). Engraved title vignette, 100 circular engraved emblematic illustrations by (?)J.C.Schott. (Some light browning.) 18th-century mottled calf, covers panelled in blind, red morocco lettering-piece on spine (joints a trifle weak). Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine (stamp on front free endpaper). First edition in Latin. The work was originally published in Spanish in 1581. Praz p.27. (2)