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ALCIATUS, Andreas (1492-1550). Emblematum liber. Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner [for Conrad Peutinger to whom the work is dedicated], 6th April 1531.
8o (148 x 98mm). Collation: A-E8 F4. 44 leaves (final blank). Italic and roman types, woodcut title-border of birds and insects, one white-on-black woodcut initial, 98 woodcut emblems (including 28 with ornamental and figurative side-borders), printer's woodcut device. (Damp-stain causing some marginal fraying to title and the next two leaves.) Strictly contemporary South-German calf over wooden boards, decorated in blind, covers panelled with multiple fillets and roll-tooled borders, a foliate tool repeated in central compartments, original owner's initials IAB [J.A. Brassicanus] lettered in gilt on front cover, one brass clasp (the other missing, binding defective, chain clasp removed). Provenance: JOHANNES ALEXANDER BRASSICANUS (binding, inscription on title of the third work in this tract volume, see below), Tübingen 1500/01-1539 Vienna, humanist, graecist and neo-Latin poet, author of Omnis (1519) and Proverbiorum symmicta (1529), discoverer of ancient manuscripts and friend of Erasmus's before they accused each other of plagiarism -- Acquired from Antiquariaat J.L. Beijers 1971.
EXTREMELY RARE SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK, published five weeks after the first with the same cuts attributed to JÖRG BREU. Alciati and Peutinger created this Renaissance class of learned literature by integrating for each emblem a motto, a picture and epigrammatic verse; they not only illustrated virtues and vices, but drew on history, mythology and nature to create elegant examples of insignia of practical use to painters, sculptors and goldsmiths. Erasmus's influence on their content was such that these emblems have been called an ingenious complement to his Adagia. Dozens of editions, as well as French, German, Spanish and Italian translations were published during the next several decades, notably in Lyons, Paris and Antwerp. Peutinger's role in publishing the original edition explains the choice of Augsburg as its place of printing. The invention of the emblem book brought Alciati more lasting fame than his important and prolific work on jurisprudence. FINE ASSOCIATION COPY from Brassicanus's library, linking two great interpreters of civil law and Greek poetry. Green 3; Adams A-601; Fact and Fantasy 25.
[Bound With:]
HOMER. Iliados libri aliquot. Tr. from Greek into Latin verse by Nicolaus Valla and Vincentius Obsopoeus. - PINDAR of Thebes. Homeriacae Iliados summa. Hagenau: Johann Setzer, 1531. 8o. Italic type. Woodcut title-border of knotwork ornament, historiated woodcut initial and printer's woodcut device. First complete edition of the Valla and Obsopoeus translations. The second text is an epitome of the Iliad in Latin hexameters, traditionally attributed to the otherwise unknown Pindarus Thebanus. VD16 H-4691.
[Bound With:]
Helius EOBANUS Hessus (1488-1540). Bonae valetudinis conservande rationes aliquot. -Simplicium ciborum facultates quaedam. - Medicinae encomion. -Chorus illustrium medicorum. -Novem Musae. [Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus, 1531]. 8o. Final leaf D8 blank. Italic type. RARE second edition of these texts on diet and medicine, with a new dedication to Georg Sturtz. PRESENTATION COPY from the author, inscribed to his "carissimo" friend, J.A. Brassicanus. Not in VD16.
[Bound With:]
EOBANUS. Illustrium ac clarorum aliquot Virorum Memoriae scripta Epicedia. -- Joachimus CAMERARIUS, the elder (1500-74). Epitaphia epigrammata. Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus, 1531. 8o. Italic and Greek types. FIRST EDITION of both works, including epitaphs of Maximilian I, Celtes, Reuchlin, Hutten, Dürer, Aldus and Pirckheimer. VD16 E-1509.
[Bound With:]
Georgius SABINUS (1508-60). Elegia de adventu Caroli V Caesaris. Additae praeterea Elegiae duae. Augsburg: Alexander Weissenhorn the elder, 1530. 8o. 12 leaves. Italic type. Woodcut historiated border (shaved at outer edge). FIRST EDITION of this poem on Charles V's entry into Augsburg, written in elegiacs.
[Bound With:]
Petrus MONTANUS Herimontanus (1467/8-1507). Satyrae. Ed. Gerard Geldenhouwer. Strasburg: Christian Egenolff, 1529. 8o. 16 leaves. Italic type. Printer's woodcut device. Second edition of four of Montanus's twelve known satires, viz. numbers 7, 8, 10 and 12: on poets, physicians, princes and the holy life.
[Bound With:]
Euricius CORDUS (1486-1535). Epigrammatum libri IX. Marburg: Franz Rhode, 1529. 8o. Italic type. Woodcut architectural title-border, two woodcut initials. Partly FIRST EDITION. Not in VD16.
Seven works of exceptional rarity, bound in one volume for Johannes Alexander Brassicanus, who as a distinguished neo-Latin poet himself knew or corresponded with most of these humanist authors, editors and translators, Alciati being the most celebrated. An association Sammelband of remarkable coherence, preserved in a cloth chemise and brown half-morocco slipcase. Fact and Fantasy 25.
8o (148 x 98mm). Collation: A-E8 F4. 44 leaves (final blank). Italic and roman types, woodcut title-border of birds and insects, one white-on-black woodcut initial, 98 woodcut emblems (including 28 with ornamental and figurative side-borders), printer's woodcut device. (Damp-stain causing some marginal fraying to title and the next two leaves.) Strictly contemporary South-German calf over wooden boards, decorated in blind, covers panelled with multiple fillets and roll-tooled borders, a foliate tool repeated in central compartments, original owner's initials IAB [J.A. Brassicanus] lettered in gilt on front cover, one brass clasp (the other missing, binding defective, chain clasp removed). Provenance: JOHANNES ALEXANDER BRASSICANUS (binding, inscription on title of the third work in this tract volume, see below), Tübingen 1500/01-1539 Vienna, humanist, graecist and neo-Latin poet, author of Omnis (1519) and Proverbiorum symmicta (1529), discoverer of ancient manuscripts and friend of Erasmus's before they accused each other of plagiarism -- Acquired from Antiquariaat J.L. Beijers 1971.
EXTREMELY RARE SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK, published five weeks after the first with the same cuts attributed to JÖRG BREU. Alciati and Peutinger created this Renaissance class of learned literature by integrating for each emblem a motto, a picture and epigrammatic verse; they not only illustrated virtues and vices, but drew on history, mythology and nature to create elegant examples of insignia of practical use to painters, sculptors and goldsmiths. Erasmus's influence on their content was such that these emblems have been called an ingenious complement to his Adagia. Dozens of editions, as well as French, German, Spanish and Italian translations were published during the next several decades, notably in Lyons, Paris and Antwerp. Peutinger's role in publishing the original edition explains the choice of Augsburg as its place of printing. The invention of the emblem book brought Alciati more lasting fame than his important and prolific work on jurisprudence. FINE ASSOCIATION COPY from Brassicanus's library, linking two great interpreters of civil law and Greek poetry. Green 3; Adams A-601; Fact and Fantasy 25.
[Bound With:]
HOMER. Iliados libri aliquot. Tr. from Greek into Latin verse by Nicolaus Valla and Vincentius Obsopoeus. - PINDAR of Thebes. Homeriacae Iliados summa. Hagenau: Johann Setzer, 1531. 8o. Italic type. Woodcut title-border of knotwork ornament, historiated woodcut initial and printer's woodcut device. First complete edition of the Valla and Obsopoeus translations. The second text is an epitome of the Iliad in Latin hexameters, traditionally attributed to the otherwise unknown Pindarus Thebanus. VD16 H-4691.
[Bound With:]
Helius EOBANUS Hessus (1488-1540). Bonae valetudinis conservande rationes aliquot. -Simplicium ciborum facultates quaedam. - Medicinae encomion. -Chorus illustrium medicorum. -Novem Musae. [Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus, 1531]. 8o. Final leaf D8 blank. Italic type. RARE second edition of these texts on diet and medicine, with a new dedication to Georg Sturtz. PRESENTATION COPY from the author, inscribed to his "carissimo" friend, J.A. Brassicanus. Not in VD16.
[Bound With:]
EOBANUS. Illustrium ac clarorum aliquot Virorum Memoriae scripta Epicedia. -- Joachimus CAMERARIUS, the elder (1500-74). Epitaphia epigrammata. Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus, 1531. 8o. Italic and Greek types. FIRST EDITION of both works, including epitaphs of Maximilian I, Celtes, Reuchlin, Hutten, Dürer, Aldus and Pirckheimer. VD16 E-1509.
[Bound With:]
Georgius SABINUS (1508-60). Elegia de adventu Caroli V Caesaris. Additae praeterea Elegiae duae. Augsburg: Alexander Weissenhorn the elder, 1530. 8o. 12 leaves. Italic type. Woodcut historiated border (shaved at outer edge). FIRST EDITION of this poem on Charles V's entry into Augsburg, written in elegiacs.
[Bound With:]
Petrus MONTANUS Herimontanus (1467/8-1507). Satyrae. Ed. Gerard Geldenhouwer. Strasburg: Christian Egenolff, 1529. 8o. 16 leaves. Italic type. Printer's woodcut device. Second edition of four of Montanus's twelve known satires, viz. numbers 7, 8, 10 and 12: on poets, physicians, princes and the holy life.
[Bound With:]
Euricius CORDUS (1486-1535). Epigrammatum libri IX. Marburg: Franz Rhode, 1529. 8o. Italic type. Woodcut architectural title-border, two woodcut initials. Partly FIRST EDITION. Not in VD16.
Seven works of exceptional rarity, bound in one volume for Johannes Alexander Brassicanus, who as a distinguished neo-Latin poet himself knew or corresponded with most of these humanist authors, editors and translators, Alciati being the most celebrated. An association Sammelband of remarkable coherence, preserved in a cloth chemise and brown half-morocco slipcase. Fact and Fantasy 25.