Gerbert (Martin): Iter Alemannicum, accedit Italicum & Gallicum, St. Blasien, 1773, 8vo, second edition (light spotting), contemporary calf, flat gilt spine [Graesse III, 57; Raumer, Geschichte der Deutschen Philologie 253] -- Matthaeus (Antonius, editor): Andreae Alciati Tractatus Contra Vitam Monasticam, cui accessit Sylloge Epistolarum ... , The Hague, apud Gerardum Block, 1740, 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt (upper joint cracked). (2)

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Gerbert (Martin): Iter Alemannicum, accedit Italicum & Gallicum, St. Blasien, 1773, 8vo, second edition (light spotting), contemporary calf, flat gilt spine [Graesse III, 57; Raumer, Geschichte der Deutschen Philologie 253] -- Matthaeus (Antonius, editor): Andreae Alciati Tractatus Contra Vitam Monasticam, cui accessit Sylloge Epistolarum ... , The Hague, apud Gerardum Block, 1740, 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt (upper joint cracked). (2)

Lot Essay

Martin Gerbert (Freiherr von Hornau), Prince Abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Blasien in the Black Forest (1720-93) and famous musicologist, records his visits to monastery libraries in search of source material, manuscripts and antiquities. Antonius Matthaeus's collection of pieces of classical scholarship and antiquarian interest begins with Alciati's treatise of the monastic life and his objections against it. Other authors include Grotius, Tycho Brahe and Huygens.

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