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1 AGRICOLA, Georg (1494-1555). Libri quinque De mensuris & ponderibus: In quibus plaeraque à Budaeo & Portio parum animadversa diligenter excutiuntur. 4° (190x132 mm). 292 [4] pp. Woodcut printers devices on title and final leaf verso, 5 large historiated woodcut initials. 17th century vellum with penned title on spine. Binding loosening and slight worming on front cover. Somewhat foxed throughout, and browned in places. Unobtrusive worming in the margins of the first 20 leaves. Basel, Officina Frobeniana, 1533. chf 3 500

First edition of a work of equal importance for the history of economics, monetary science and arithmetics.

“The work can hardly be called an arithmetic, but is a valuable book of reference on the history of ancient measures. The book is also valuable to the student of Roman and Greek numerals, and of the various symbols of measures. Such works explain the origin of certain systems of measures employed before the metric system developed, and of such symbols as are still used by apothecaries “ (Smith, Rara, 171).

References: USTC 600318; Adams A342; VD16 A908; Kress 38; Wellcome I, 58;

2 [ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph Dézallier d’, 1680-1765]. Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres avec leurs portraits gravés en taille-douce, les indications de leurs principaux ouvrages, quelques réfléxions sur leurs caractères et la manière de connaître les desseins des grands maîtres. Two volumes 4° (260x195 mm). [3], XLVIII, 443; [2], VIII, 483, [4] pp. Titles printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, two engraved head-pieces and 182 engraved medallions with

169 portraits and 13 empty medallions. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine on 5 raised bands, two panels with lettering and numbering pieces, the rest lavishly gilt, marbled endpapers, edges red. Two small wormtracks, chip to the foot of vol. 2, somewhat toned and foxed in places. Paris, De Bure l’Aîné, 1745. chf 1 200

Jean du Tilliot’s copy of the first edition of this very popular biographical dictionary of famous painters. It is lavishly ilustrated with an allegorical frontispiece after Latouche, 2 head-pieces after Pierre de Sève, all engraved by Etienne Fessard and 169 portraits. – A supplement appeared seven years later.

The book’s first owner was Jean-Baptiste Lucotte Du Tillot (1668-1750) was a French antiquarian and scholar from Dijon (Burgundy) and a famous bibliophile who formed a cabinet of paintings, prints, medals, books, etc. He is the author of the Mémoire pour servir à l’histoire de la fête des fous (1741).

Despite the minor imperfections a very nice copy.

Provenance: Jean-Baptiste Lucotte Du Tillot (1668-1750), with his name inscribed on the title, dated 1745 and a lengthy note about Dézallier d’Argenville on the first fly-leaf.

References: Lewine 33; Cohen col. 91; Reynaud 12; Brunet II-522.

3 [ARNAULD, Antoine (1612-1694) & Sébastien-Joseph DU CAMBOUT DE PONTCHÂTEAU (1634-1690)]. La morale pratique des Jesuites, où elle est représentée en plusieurs histoires, arrivées dans toutes les parties du monde ... 8 volumes 12° (160x100 mm). With an engraved full-page portrait of the Jesuit Adam Schall. Contemporary vellum, lettred in ink on spine. [Cologne, Gervinus Quentel, recte Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevier?], 1683-1695. chf 3 200

First edition of this polemical work in the context of the Chinese Rites controversy.

Antoine Arnauld was a theologian, philosopher and mathematician and one of the leading figures of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal. He was an important participant in the philosophical debates of his century, and carried out famous intellectual exchanges with Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz. In addition, the Port-Royal Logic which he co-authored with Pierre Nicole, was a standard text in the field for two centuries. In La morale pratique des Jesuites Arnauld rejects the Jesuit view that the Chinese who are to be converted to Christianity should retain their

own external rites and forms. It was above all about Confucianism and ancestral worship, which in the 16th century Matteo Ricci had already interpreted as a mere sign of respect, but not as idolatry.

References: Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica II, 871; vgl. Cioranescu 7902; Pinot, La Chine et la formation de l’esprit philosophique en France (1932), S. 81f.; Alden/Landis 689/4; Streit II, 2258 und 2665; Hsia/Wimmer, Mission und Theater (2005), 247f.; Willems 1421.

4 AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus (310-394). Opera. 8° (153x94 mm). 107, [1] with the Aldine device on first and last leaf. 18th century vellum with gilt label. tear at foot crudely repaired, small worm track on front cover, slightly stained, tiny wormhole in the first twenty leafs, smole hole in the last leaf without touching the device. (Venezia, eredi di Aldo Manuzio e Andrea Torresano, Novembre 1517). chf 1 800

Only Aldine edition prepared by Girolamo Avanzi. He was member of the Aldine Academy and previously had taken care of other works for Aldus, such as Lucretius (1500), Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius (1502) and Seneca (October 1517). In his dedication to Cardinal Marco Cornelio, he praises the publishing activity of Aldo Manuzio’s father-in-law Andrea Torresani.

Ausonius, a Roman poet and rhetorician from Burdigala (today’s Bordeaux), was the teacher of emperor Valentian’s son Gratian, whom he accompanied

on the German campaigns of 368-369. He achieved lasting fame with Ephemerides, a description of a normal day in his life, Mosella, an idyllic panegyric on the Moselle valley during a journey from Bingen to Trier, and his enchanting Bissula, a poem on Ausonius’ Alemannic slave girl with whom he fell deeply in love; the last two are among the few pieces of Roman literature ever written on German soil.

Provenance: owner’s inscription of W. Kunick and a citation from Renourd’s bibliography on front fly-leaf.

References: USTC 811535; Etienne/Prete/Desgraves, Ausone, Humaniste Aquitain (1985), n° 31; Ahmanson-Murphy II, 137; Renouard 80:7; Adams A-2278.

5 BAÏF, Lazare de (1496-1547) & Antonio TELESIO (1482-1534). Annotationes in legem ii de captiuis & postliminio reversis, in quibus tractatur de re navali, per autorem recognitae. Annotationes in tractatum de auro & argento legato, quibus vestimentorum et vasculorum genera explicantur. His omnibus imagines ab antiquissimis monumentis desumptas subiunximus. De coloribus libellus, à coloribus vestium non alienus. 4° (209x155 mm). 299, 305-323 pp., (4) ff., some passages in Greek. With 36 large text woodcuts after Geoffroy Tory, 13 initials from Froben’s stock and printer’s devices on title and last leaf. Contemporary limp vellum with title in brown ink on spine, front cover and lower edge. Front hinge split, slightly toned and foxed. Ties gone. Basel, H. Froben & N. Episcopus, 1537. chf 1 500

Beautiful first Basel edition, combining Baïf’s commentary on navigation, clothing, and vases of the ancients with Telesio’s famous treatise on colours, which contains also passages on textile dyeing. De coloribus was of such importance to Goethe, that he had it entirely reprinted in his Theory of Colours of 1810.

This collected edition of Baïf’s three treatises was first published a year earlier by Robert Estienne in Paris with the woodcuts attributed to Geoffroy Tory. For the present Basel edition these were recut by skillful local artists.

The sparse annotations (probably by Zaccaria Caimo) are to be found exclusively in Telesio’s treatise and consist of colour names in Italian.

Provenance: Zaccaria Caimo (1516-1596), town physician of Milan and famous practitioner, with his name inscribed on the title and last leaf.

References: Adams B-35; Index Aurel. 111.639; Berlin Kat. 884;

Bernard, Tory, 208; Lipperheide Ba 1; USTC 671791; Hieronymus, Oberrhein. Buchill. II, 465; For Telesio see The Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color ND1486 T49;1529.

6 BELON, Pierre (1518-1564). Portraits d’oyseaux, animaux, serpens, herbes, arbres, hommes et femmes d’Arabie & Egypte, observez par P. Belon du Mans. Le tout enrichy de Quatrains, pour plus facile cognoissance des Oyseaux, & autres Portraits. Plus y est adiousté la Carte du mont Attos, & du mont Sinay, pour l’intelligence de leur religion. 4° (230x160 mm). [10], 122, [2] ff. Title within ornamental border, 219 text illustrations and two folding maps, all in woodcut. Eighteenth century quarter calf, spine on three bands gilt in the panels and with label. Binding worn and with defects. Slightly stained, one corner in leaves 86 and 121 torn with old mending. Large folding map backed. Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557. chf 4 800

One of the rare copies with the two folding plans.

“Like Gesner’s Icones, this book is a reissue of the illustrations of an ornithological handbook: namely Pierre Belon’s Histoire de la nature des oyseaux (1555), plus the illustrations of Belon’s other successful work Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables (1553). But contrary to Gesner’s Icones, this collection is not a scientific publication; it is meant as a kind of emblem book, with illustrations and epigrams – only the motto missing. The accompanying epigrams, often badly written, are not by Belon but his editor Cavellat – these poems are partly based on Guéroult’s poems” (P. J. Smith, Joachim Camerarius Emblem Book on Birds. in: Emblems and the Natural World, Leiden, Brill, 2017, p. 151).

Les Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses mémorables was Belon’s scientific account of places, objects, animals, peoples, and plants, while on a dipomatic mission to Turkey and the Middle East between 1546 and 1548. L’Histoire de la Nature des Oyseaux was Belon’s most significant work and one of the first ornithological texts based on direct observation and illustrated from original drawings. Like the preceeding work, Portraits d’oyseaux was dedicated to King Henry II of France who commissioned the author also with the establishment of a botanical garden.

The beautiful bird illustrations are attributed to Pierre Gourdelle. Other woodcuts show animals such as a giraffe, a chameleon, cloven hoofed mammals, trees such as the cedar (ill. on 114v), which Belon introduced to France, costumes of the inhabitants of Cairo and an Arab archer. There are also the famous images showing the similarities between the skeletal systems of humans and birds (ff. 3v and 4r), as a consequence of which Belon is considered the founder of comparative anatomy. The volume concludes with a view of Alexandria in Egypt, a map of the Dardanelles, and the rare and very often missing folding plates with a plan of Mount Sinai and a map of the Northern Aegean with Lemnos and Mount Athos.

References: Nissen IVB 87; Nissen ZBI 50; see Mortimer French 50.

7 BOCCALINI, Traiano (1556-1613). De’ ragguagli di Parnasso. Centuria prima [-seconda]. 2 volumes 4° (220x167 mm). [8], 478 pp., [1] blank, [40] pp. of index; [14], 453 pp., [1] blank, [20] pp. of index. Modern half vellum with gilt labels. Venezia, P. Farri resp. B. Barezzi, 1612-1613. chf 2 400

Rare first edition of a European bestseller of the Baroque.

Ragguagli di Parnaso is a light and fantastic satire on the actions and writings of his contemporaries, written in the form of 200 ironical newsletters in which wise men of all centuries, presided over by Apollo, discuss art, literature, and politics. It had a great influence on Miguel de Cervantes, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift and especially on the founding manifesto of the Rosicrucians, the Fama Fraternitatis by J. V. Andreae.

Provenance: Vittorio Turco Ven[etiano], contemp. ms. entry on title. – Franz von Pollack-Parnau (1903-2002), with his bookplate in both volumes.

References: Negley 119-120; BM STC, Italian, 119; Gamba 1802; Gibson/Patrick 631.

8 BULLOCK, Helen Claire Duprey (1905-1995). The Williamsburg Art of Cookery or, Accomplish’d Gentlewoman’s Companion: being a Collection of upwards of Five Hundred of the Most Ancient & Approv’d Recipes in Virginia Cookery ... Second edition. 8° (175x100 mm). [12], 276 pp. Publisher’s full calf, red label with gilt lettering on spine. Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg Inc., 1939. chf 150

Bullock’s first book which helped launch the study of American culinary history. The typography and layout imitate 18th century printing.

Mint copy.

References: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America I (2013), p. 227.

9 BYE, Marcus de (1621-1679). [The Bears] – Marc. Gerard inv. MDLIX. Marc de Bye fecit MDCLXIV. 16 ff. incl. title. Plate size: c. 115x147 mm, sheet size: c. 146-164x240 mm. loose. Slightly foxed. (Amsterdam), Nicolaes Visscher, c. 1664. chf 1 800

A complete set of this charming series of etchings by Marcus de Bye, a pupil of the Amsterdam landscape painter Jacob van der Does (1623-1673). He produced some landscapes in the style of his teacher, but he is best known for his etchings of animals, after the designs of De Gheeraerts and Paulus Potter. Third state of four, with N. 10 below the date in the title.

References: Hollstein IV, p. 79, 61-76; Bartsch I. 73 E.

10 CAMPANELLA, Tommaso (1568-1639). Astrologicorum VI in quibus astrologia, omni superstitione arabum, & iudaeorum eliminata, physiologice tractatur, secundum S. scripturas, & doctrinam S. Thomae, & Alberti, & summorum theologorum, ita ut absque suspicione mala in ecclesia dei multa cum utilitate legi possint. [Im Anhang:] (Astrologicorum liber septimvs). Two parts in one volume 4° (236x155 mm). [4] ff., 232 pp., [4] ff. (last blank), 24 pp. Title printed in blackand red, printer’s device, some astrological woodcuts in the text. Contemporary vellum, ties gone. Slightly warped. Somewhat dampstained throughout, a few leaves browned, worm tracks in the last third of the volume, heavier towards the end. Lyon, Jacques, André et Matthieu Prost, 1629. chf 1 800

Rare first issue of the first edition of one of Campanella’s most important works on astrology. A copy with the compromising book VII, not mentioned in the title.

Introduced to astrology by Giambattista della Porta (1585-1615), Campanella based it on scientific observation. In that regard he advocated the astronomical principles of Copernicus and Galilei, rejecting Aristotelism. Astrology was central to Campanella’s thought

and life and dealt with the influences of planets on individuals and society, enabling him to determine the changes to come.

Campanella was involved in the writing of this work from 1613 to 1614, the year in which he announced to Galileo the completion of his six books. The manuscript was then passed to the Lyon bookseller Antoine Soubron in the early 1620s. Campanella received news from Lyon on the progress of the enterprise and was able to announce to Marco Aurelio Severino the imminence of publication in a letter of September 1624. Nevertheless, at Soubron’s death the six astrological books had not yet seen the light and the manuscript containing them had to pass into the hands of the publishers Prost after the acquisition of

the printing house. The latter were able to complete the enterprise only in 1629, exactly fifteen years after Campanella had written the work.

In the meantime Campanella composed a small astrological treatise exclusively for the private use of pope Urban VIII, who was a firm believer of astrology inspite of the curial condemnation of judicial astrology. De fato siderali vitando pointed out the most effective expedients in order to combat the rumors of the pope’s imminent death that some judicial astrologers had predicted.

When the booksellers Prost of Lyon, having completed the printing of the six books Astrologicorum in September, they received a pen copy of the De fato siderali vitando, subtly sent from Italy by friars hostile to Campanella, who expected the ruin of its author from the circulation of a clearly superstitious pamphlet which he had never intended for publication. The printers appended the compromising treatise as book VII of the Astrologicarum. Urban was extremely angry at the publication and in order to regain the pope’s favour, Campanella was forced to hurriedly write a defence of his writing which he entitled Apologeticus ad libellum ‘De siderali fato vitando’.

With ms. notes on front fly leaf and some marginalia in brown ink. Ms. approval note on title page, dated 1651.

Provenance: Manuscript owner’s entries of Josue Zum Brunnen (from the canton of Uri, land clerk, alderman and bailiff to Sargans, died 1684), dated 1653, and Ch. Chappaz (?), 1921 on title and J. Bulliot on front paste-down.

References: Firpo 9; G. Ernst, The Sky in a Room: Campanella’s Apologeticus in defense of the pamphlet De siderali fato vitando, in: Culture and Cosmos VI (2002), p. 45 f.; Headley, Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World (1997), p. 109.

11 COCHLAEUS (Dobneck), Johannes (1479-1552). Ex compendio actorum Martini Lutheri caput ultimum, et ex epistola quadam Mansfeldensi historica narratio una cum annotationibus alterius epistolae, ed eiusdem Lutheri ultimis actis & vitae exitu. [De morte Lutheri – Epistolae I et II]. 8° (155x95mm), [40] leafs, last blank. 18th century calf, spine on raised bands, panels gilt and with red morocco label. [Mainz, Franz Behem, 31 July], 1548. chf 1 200

First edition of a catholic view of Luther’s last year of life and his death.

The first ten pages offer a long dedicatory text by Cochlaeus, dated 23 August 1548, to Dietrich Hess (Theodoricus Hezius or Dirk van Heese, 1485-1555), a still influential former Inquisitor in the Netherlands and the last private secretary to the German pope Adrian VI (1459-1523). A second part with Cochlaeus’ extract from his Commentaria de actis et scriptis M. Lutheri covering the year 1546, which was fully published by Behem in 1549. Then follow the two letters on the death of Luther (De morte Lutheri) to Georg Witzel by the Mansfeld apothecary, Johann

Landau, who was a Catholic, and had occasion to handle Luther’s corpse. They are by no means eyewitness accounts of Luther’s death, but rather belong to the Catholic polemics of the time, in order to put Luther’s death in an unworthy light (cf. J. Birkenmeier, Ein letztes Klistier? Der angebliche Augenzeugenbericht des Apothekers Johann Landau über den Tod Martin Luthers, in Luther, 1/2012). The volume ends with the editor’s Annotationes.

Cochlaeus’ text on Luther coined for centuries the Catholic image of the Reformer’s life and it was only in the beginning of the 20th century that the theologian Adolf Herte pointed out its peculiarity.

Provenance: printed bookplates of Henric Vanden Block, C[harles-Louis] van Baviere (1765-1815), and Mérode de Westerloo.

References: USTC 654954; Spahn, Johann Cochlaeus, 179; VD 16, C-4311; Pegg, Swiss, 1106; S. Widmann, Eine Mainzer Presse der Reformationszeit (1889), p. 81, n° 8; Brecht, Martin Luther: The Preservation of the Church, 1532-1546 (1993), p. 376. Not in Knaake, Kuczynski etc.

12 COGNATUS, Gilbertus (i.e. or Gilbert COUSIN, 1506-1572). Oiketes sive de officio famulorum per Gilbertum Cognatum Nozerenum. 8° (152x95 mm). [16] ff. With 2 initials resp. printer’s device in woodcut. Modern wrappers of mabled paper. Somewhat dampstained. [Basel], In officina Frobeniana [per Hieronymum Frobenium ac Nicolaum Epscopium, mense Augusto], 1535. chf 3 500

Erasmus’ secretary on the duties of the master and his domestics.

First edition of the first work written by the humanist Gilbert Cousin (lat. G. Cognatus) who was Erasmus’ amenuensis from 1530 to 1535.

A native of Nozeroy in the Habsburg Franche-Comté he studied law, theology, and medicine at the University of Dole and went to Freiburg where he was employed as a secretary by Erasmus. “It seems that he was available when Erasmus badly needed an amenuensis in the summer of 1530 (Epp 2348, 2349, 2381). Thus Cousin found a position for which he was exceptionally well suited through his neat handwriting, his fine memory, and his reliability in everyday matters. Erasmus later said that he was not so much a famulus as a companion and associate in scholarly study (Ep 2889). In return Cousin showed how seriously he took his position when theorizing about the office of famulus as well as the duties of the master in his Oiketes” (Bietenholz, Contemporaries of Erasmus, I, 350).

Oiketes is one of the early examples of a literary genre, which in German is commonly called Gesindeliteratur (servant’s literature) and apparently the first of its kind in the German speaking countries. It is dedicated to his uncle Louis de Vers, abbot of the Cistercians of Mont-Sainte-Marie in the diocese of Besançon. At the end there is a distich to the reader by Zachaeus Caderus who is most probably identical with

Jacques Cadier, a printer later active in Basel and Lyons under the Latinized name of Jacopus Parucus (=Jakob Kündig).

Even though precedence is usually given to the Paris edition of the same year, the printing place of the first edition is Basel. This is notably evidenced by the fact that Cousin moved together with his beloved master from Freiburg to Basel in the summer of 1535; also Moreau, Inventaire, considers the first edition to be printed in Basel.

A first vernacular edition in German, translated by the Latinist Martin Roth (Der Haußhalter oder vom Ampt der Diener) was printed in 1538 followed by a second edition translated by the Gotha deacon and principal, Johannes Dinckel (Erfurt, 1583). The first English translation by Thomas Chaloner was printed at London in 1543 (Of the Office of Servauntes).

Very rare. We could only trace a handful of copies in European libraries and none in the United States.

References: VD16, C-5621 and ZV-27054 ; Index Aurel. 146.116; Panzer VI, 305, 1002; B. Moreau, Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, IV, n° 1276; Pidoux de Maduère, Un humaniste comtois: Gilbert Cousin, chanoine de Nozeroy, secrétaire d’Erasme (1910), p. 72 f.; W. Behrend, Lehr-, Wehr- und Nährstand. Haustafelliteratur und Dreiständelehre im 16. Jhdt., thesis,. (2009), p. 112 f.

13 [CURIONE, Celio Agostino, 1538-1567]. De quatuor Caelii Secundi Curionis filiarum vita atque obitu pio et memorabili epistolae aliquot vnà cum diversorum Epitaphijs. 4° (195 x 136 mm) 83 pp., [2] ff. (last blank), with 13 woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum. Toned. Basel, [Petrus Perna], 1565. chf 4 500

The poignant grief of a humanist.

The first and only edition of the pamphlet commemorating the fate which struck the family of Celio Secondo Curione during the plague epidemic of 1564 in which he lost three of his daughters within only three weeks. Angela died on 2nd of August, aged 21, the 18 year old Felice on the 17th and Celia, aged 19, on the 21st of the same month. This traumatic experience is expressed in two letters – each followed by an Italian translation – which Curione wrote to his son Celio Agostino, the editor of this pamphlet.

Of particular poignancy is the first letter: Curione describes very expli-citly and emotionally what his favourite daughter, Angela, underwent, from her first symptoms, through her suffering, and up to her last breath. This is followed by epitaphs and a moving sonnet in honor of his daughters (p.71 O morte, hor pur ne vai ricca e superba ...). Also

included are some letters concerning the death of another daughter, Violanthis, who died after her third miscarriage in 1556, and the volume concludes with Curione’s correspondence with the humanist Martin Borrhaus, who gives his own account of the plague that ravaged Basle, while Curione took refuge in Bullinger’s house in Zurich.

The editor, Celio Agostino, was the son of Celio Secondo Curione (1503-1569), the Italian humanist, grammarian, editor and historian, who exercised a considerable influence upon the Italian Reformation; he followed in his father’s footsteps as a publicist.

The work is very rare, particularly in its perfectly preserved first binding of limp vellum. We can trace only 13 copies in the UK and on the Continent but according to Worldcat there are no copies in the United States.

Provenance: Universitäts-Bibliothek Basel (stamp, deaccessioned according to the library).

References: VD16 C 6409; USTC 628783; cf. Kutter, C. S. Curione 258ff.

14 DAPPER, Olfert (1636-1689). Gedenkwaerdig bedryf der Nederlandsche Oost-Indische maetschappye, op de kuste en in het keizerrijk van Taising of Sina: behelzende het tweede gezandschap aen den onder-koning Singlamong en veldheer Taising Lipoui; door Jan van Kampen en Konstantyn Nobel. Vervolgt met een verhael van het voorgevallen des jaers zestien hondert drie ein vier en zestig, op de kust van Sina, en ontrent deilanden Tayowan, Formosa, Ay en Quemuy, onder ‚t gezag van Balthasar Bort: en het derde gezandschap aen Konchy, Tartarsche keizer van Sina en Oost-Tartarye: onder beleit van Zijne Ed. Pieter van Hoorn. Beneffens een beschryving van geheel Sina. Verciert doorgaens met verscheide

kopere platen. Three parts in one volume folio (320x250 mm). Erratic pagination: [8] (incl. engraved title, dated 1671), 1-208 (recte 1- 256); 209-504 (incl. title; recte 257-574), [6]; title, 163 [1] (recte 285, [1]) pp. 1 folding engraved map, 38 plates and views (many folding or double-page), and 57 engraved illustrations in the text. 19th century red quarter calf, spine on raised bands, paneled with gilt fillets. Foot of spine, edges and corners scuffed (one corner broken). A few leaves somewhat browned, tiny defect to upper margin of leaves Tt2-Yy2, else fine. Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1670. chf 4 800

First edition, second issue with the first four plates of part two included in the instruction to the bookbinder.

“This influential work” (China on Paper) relates the first trade mission to China sponsored by the East India Company (VOC). Gedenkwaerdig bedryf describes the expeditions of the Dutch admiral Balthasar Bort along the coast of Fujian in 1663 and 1664 and the embassy of Pieter van Hoorn to Beijing in 1666 to 1668. To these reports, Dapper also included a detailed description of Chinese culture and society, often based on Jesuit material. The work is lavishly illustrated with prints by Jacon van Meurs and his workshop. They are based on a manuscript by the Spanish Jesuit Adriano de Las Cortes and depict a wide variety of subjects, including cityscapes, monuments, plants, traditional headgear and Chinese weapons. These illustrations had a profound impact on the decorative arts, inspiring the Chinoiserie style that became a dominant fashion throughout Europe, well into the first half of the eighteenth century. The tremendous success of the book is proven by the many editions and translations into the main European languages.

References: Landwehr, VOC, 544; Cordier, BS, III, 2348; Löwendahl, I, 145; China on Paper, Getty 2007, p. 146, cat. n° 4.

15 DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1775-1836). Flore [pittoresque et] médicale des Antilles ou histoire naturelle des plantes usuelles des colonies Françaises, Anglaises, Espagnoles et Portugaises. 8 volumes 8° (210x125 mm). 600 fine engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, after J. T. Descourtilz, by Louis or George Gabriel, Jacques Pirie, R. Bessin and Prieur. Verso of vol. I with printed authentification with manuscript signature of the author and number of the copy (180). Vol. III with the delivery cover instead of the title. Near contemporary red quarter morocco, smooth spine nicely gilt, with manuscript paper labels pasted on. Some foxing to the text, plates somewhat toned. The plates neatly captioned in pencil and sometimes in ink with the family names of the plants. Paris, chez l’Auteur, Pichard and others, Casimir and others, 1821-1829. chf 19 500

First edition of this outstanding botanical repository of the Caribbean.

“Michel Étienne Descourtilz trained as a surgeon. Following his marriage to the daughter of Rossignol-Desdunes, who had plantations in Artibonite, he went to Saint-Dominque (Haiti) in 1798... Descourtilz became involved in the Negro revolution and, in spite of the protection of Toussaint L’Ouverture, was nearly executed by Dessalines. He was forced to join the medical service of the Negro army, but in 1803 he escaped and sailed to Cádiz” (DSB IV, p. 67).

The work was published on subscription in a series of 152 deliveries of which 150 with four plates each and two supplementary with the tables. The first three volumes were entitled Flore médicale des Antilles, the remaining volumes Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles.

The stunning illustrations are by one of the eight sons of Descourtilz,

Jean Théodore Descourtilz (1796-1855), who later made his mark as a naturalist with his two extremely rare publications on the birds of Brazil: Oiseaux Brillants du Brésil (Paris, 1834) and Ornithologie Brésilienne (Rio de Janeiro, 1852-1856).

Descourtilz originally focused on the medicinal properties of the plants and, in fact, arranged them according to the medicinal properties as he

ascertained them. However, Descourtilz eventually decided to include plants displaying commercial potential. The resulting work, with the variety of tropical flora and its 600 plates has become, overwhelmingly, a celebration of the beauty of the flora of the area (cf. Biodiversity Heritage Library).

Volume I contains the untraceable eight-page prospectus and is

supplemented with a folded map of the Antilles from the Dictionnaire du commerce et des marchandises of 1839-1841, indicating the approximate date at which the present copy was bound.

Particularly rare: the Plesch, de Belder and British Library copies are all mixed first and second editions.

Provenance: Libreria Bailly Baillièrs, Madrid (die stamp on titles).

References: Cleveland Collections 926; Dunthorne 90; Great Flower Books p.55; Nissen BBI 471; Palau 70725; Sabin 19693; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1391; Brunet II, 424.

16 DÉZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph (1680-1765). Conchyliologie oder Abhandlung von den Schnecken, Muscheln und andern Schaalthieren welche in der See, in süssen Wassern und auf dem Lande gefunden werden, Nebst

der Zoomorphose oder Abbildung und Beschreibung der Thiere welche die Gehäuse bewohnen. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen vermehret. Two parts in one volume Folio (352x230 mm). Title printed in red and black, XII, 302, 82,

LVIII, [14] pp. With a frontispiece and 40 plates, all engraved. Contemporary roan, spine on raised bands, with label. Somewhat scuffed, slightly browned in places. Vienna, Krauss, 1772. chf 3 500

First German translation of L’histoire naturelle éclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, la lithologie et la conchyliologie, based on the enlarged edition of 1757. Dezallier d’Argenville, one of the main contributors to the Encyclopédie with more than 500 articles, formed “one of the finest private collections of such objects as stones, shells, paintings, sketches, and art prints. No mere hoarder of curios, but a collector-scholar, he allowed visitors into his private museum and helped stimulate the passion for natural history so prevalent in eighteenth-century France” (Kafker, The Encyclopedists as Individuals: A Biographical Dictionary of the Authors of the Encyclopédie, pp. 12-16).

“His Chonchyliologie, a term coined by Dézallier, was addressed to the collector with the intention of facilitating the identification of shells for the cabinet. It gives also valuable information on the famous eighteenth-century natural history collections of Europe…it was very popular with collectors and even Linnaeus utilized it to arrange his shells” (Dance, p. 37).

The beautiful plates, executed by d’Argenville himself in the French edition, were here re-engraved by eminent German artists of the time, such as Johann Sebastian Leitner and Merlchior Rein.

References: Nissen ZBI 147; Dance, A History of Shell Collecting, p. 37 and pp. 197-198; Spary, Scientific Symmetries, in: History of Science 42 (2004), S. 1ff.; Laissus, Les cabinets d’histoire naturelle, in: Enseignement et diffusion des sciences en France au 18me siècle (1964), p. 679f.

17 DIETTERLIN, Wendel (c. 1550-1599). Architectura. Von Austheilung symmetria und Proportion der fünff Seulen und aller darauß volgender Kunst Arbeit von Fenstern, Caminen, Thürgerichten, Portalen, Bronnen und Epitaphien : wie dieselbige auß jedweder Art der fünff Seulen grunde auffzureißen, zuzurichten, und ins Werck zubringen seyen ... Five parts in one volume folio (356x256 mm). [9] ff., etched portrait, 4 etched title pages, 196 etched plates (plate 6 repeated on verso). General title printed in red and black. Leaves of letterpress and plates numbered consecutively, sometimes by hand 1-209, excluding the portrait. Contemporary brown calf, sides ruled in blind with gilt arabesque pieces to center and corners, back on five raised bands with gilt fleurons. Some discreet old restoration to the binding. Nürnberg, in Verlegung Hubrecht und Balthasar Caymox, 1598. chf 28 000

The most fantastical German book of architecture; it ranks “among the outstanding artistic achievements of the late 16th century” (Kruft).

One of the three variants of the first collected German edition (cf. Oechslin/Pozsgai). A first part with the single primary columns, capitals, beams, pilasters, and the five classical architectural orders of columns had appeared in Stuttgart in 1593. The following year a supplement with portals was published at Strasbourg, and in 1598 finally appears the present collected edition. It is a treasure trove, covering all aspects of architectural and ornamental design applicable to contemporary buildings. The book is dedicated to the Daniel Soriau, together with Sandrart the most distinguished German painter at the time, and who since 1597 worked as a master builder at Hanau near Frankfurt.

Dietterlin’s Architectura was instrumental in disseminating Renaissance decorative forms in Germany. Depicted are columns, pediments, chimneys,

fountains, altarpieces, picture and window frames, doorways, gate-ways, etc., many with human figures, all in an inexhaustibly imaginative Mannerist style, and mostly incorporating fantastical elements. Some of the plates, with their plunging views and simultaneous perspectives, prefigure the “impossible realities” of the twentieth-century Dutch artist M. C. Escher. “Each book begins with plates relating the order’s basic geometry or proportions, before passing to its decorative appurtenances with a lively if not sometimes nightmarish sensitivity. Terror and dementia are sometimes the impressions evoked by these images, as Dietterlin combines architectonic, human and animal forms with a pre-Piranesian sense of fantasy and humor that is unparalleled within the architectural literature of this time...” (Millard Collection, III, introduction by H. F. Malgrave, pp. 25-28).

A previous owner of the copy was William Horatio Crawford (1812-1888), the benefactor of the construction of the building which stands today as the Crawford Art Gallery. His house at Lakelands, Co. Cork was richly furnished with rare books, paintings and engravings.

An exceptional copy in its first binding.

Provenance: William Horatio Crawford (1812-1888), with his bookplate. – Helmuth Domizlaff (1902-1983), German antiquarian book dealer, with his circular blind stamp in lower margin of general title.

References: Oechslin/Pozsgai, Arichitekturtheorie 193; BAL 881; Berlin Catalog 1942. Fairfax Murray, German I, 134. Fowler 105. Millard Collection, III, 29; Pirr, Die Architectura des W. Dietterlin (1938); G. U. Großmann, Die verschiedenen Ausgaben der Architectura des Wendel Dietterlin, in: Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums (1997), 157 et seq.; Irmscher, Kölner Architektur- und Säulenbücher um 1600 (Bonn, 1999), 51f; Kruft, A History of Architectural Theory, 169-171.

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18 ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM (1469-1536). Institutio principis christiani. 4° (197x155 mm). 333 (recte 343) pp. Title within woodcut border, 5 other woodcut borders, numerous smaller and two large initials in metalcut, printer’s device in woodcut on last leaf verso. Nineteenth century marbled calf, smooth spine gilt with fillets, lettering piece. Binding slightly scuffed, corners of two leaves torn off (without any loss of text), scattered staining, second border barely shaved at bottom. Basel, (Johann Froben, July 1518). chf 4 800

The rare second authorized edition of this famous mirror-of-princes, a subtle synthesis of Christian and Classical ideas, which was praised by contemporaries as the high point of the genre. The treatise was written in 1515, after the Dutch humanist had been appointed a Councilor to the future Emperor Charles V and first published by Froben in May 1516. Some bibliographies, however, mention two “ghost editions” supposedly printed at Louvain and by Aldus in Venice in 1515. The text was reprinted in August 1516 by Martens at Louvain and in 1517 by Badius in Paris, containing only the Institutio and its accompanying Isocrates. Thus only the three Froben editions (1516, 1518 and 1519) “can be regarded as authorized until the collected Opera of 1540” (Allen, Ep. 393). The 1518 edition is regarded as the authoritative text on which all further editions are based. The title border with the beheading of John the Baptist and the two large initials with playing children are by Hans Holbein (Müller, Holbein 14 resp. 133); the rest comes from Froben’s stock of woodcuts.

References: USTC 666726; Bezzel, 1248; VD 16, E3134; Adams E382; Vander Haeghen I, 110; Sebastiani, Froben 91; Hieronymus II, n° 237.

19 EUCLID (fl. 300 BC). De gli elementi d’Euclide libri quindici. Con gli scholii antichi. Volgarizzati già d’ordine del famosissimo matematico Federigo Commandino da Urbino; e con commentarij illustrati. Et hora con diligenza revisti, e ristampati. Dedicati al serenissimo don Federigo Feltrio della Rovere prencipe d’Urbino. 4° (275x200 mm). [8] 278 ff. entirely within typographical ruled borders. Coat of arms of the dedicatee on title, printer’s device on last leaf, some ornate initials and numerous geometric diagrams in the text, all in woodcut. Carta rustica binding, spine with penned label and library ticket,

edges mottled in red and green. Binding slightly rubbed, somewhat browned throughout, last fifty leaves partially frayed at gutter edge, last leaf with old repair. Pesaro, appresso Flaminio Concordia, ad instanza di Giovanni Antonio Ingegnieri, 1619. chf 950

Second edition of Commandino’s translation. Commented by the Italian humanist and mathematician, it is one of the most valuable editions, with numerous reprints published also in England.

Provenance: Some early owner’s inscriptions and two stamps (Biblioteca Communale Macerata and Collegio Calasanzio) on title.

References: Riccardi I,364; Gamba 1916; Graesse II,513; Brunet II, 1090.

20 FABER, Gregor (c. 1520-after 1554). Musices practicae erotematum libri II. 8° (155x104 mm). [8] ff. (incl. 3 blank), 230 pp., 1 leaf (colophon and printer’s device), 1 folding table. With a woodcut on the title page (Guidonian Hand), a few diagrams and numerous music examples in the text. Modern vellum. Title backed, marginal repairs at the first four leaves, very light damp stains in places. Basel, H. Petri, March 1553. chf 12 000

Very rare first edition. Although some copies are found in libraries, we don’t know of any offered in the trade for the last seventy years, except a defective copy sold in 2018 (Kuyper, auction 69, n° 3388).

“Faber’s treatise exhibits both conservative and progressive traits. It follows the format of the elements of Sebald Heyden’s De arte canendi, for it also consists of two books, the first on the elements of music and the second on the intricacies of mensural notation. Faber’s book I, however, discusses at length the philosophy of music., an appropriate

subject for a university textbook. He borrowed numerous music examples from Heyden, including Ockeghem’s well known Fuga and Isaac’s Kyrie II from Missa ‘Quant j’ay au cueur’. He was one of the few theorists who followed Heyden’s theory of a single tactus that could be applied to all mensurations. Although Faber praised Glarean’s theory of 12 modes, he still adhered to the eight-mode system, because he believed that Renaissance composers followed this. His progressive thought is shown in comments on musica ficta and particularly on an outstanding example of it, Matthaeus Greiter’s Passibus ambiguis for four voices in which the tenor is based on Fortuna desperata “ (The New Grove, VI, 342-343). “Faber’s theory of musica ficta, although based on the traditional distinction between causa necessitatis and causa pulchretudinis, goes considerably beyond it. He postulates the use of musica ficta as an esthetic element of harmonic variety without which a composition runs the risk of becoming dull and monotonous ... But Faber does not stop here. Musica ficta, in his view, is more than an element of esthetic variety, it is an indispensable element of expression” (E. F. Lowinsky, Matthaeus Greiter’s ‘Fortuna’: an Experiment in Chromaticism and in Musical Iconography, in: Musical Quarterly XLII, 1956, pp. 503-504 and XLIII, 1957, pp. 69-70).

References: VD16 F55; RISM, Ecrits imprimés, I, p. 301; Wolffheim I, 620; USTC 676599; A. Davidson, Bibliographie der musiktheoretischen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts, Baden-Baden, 1962, n° 171.

21 FARCY, Charles-François (1792-1867). Essai sur le dessin et la peinture, relativement à l’enseignement. Nouveau précis de perspective. 84 pp. and 8 lithographed folding plates. Paris, A. Bobée, 1819. – Bound togeteher with:

SAINT MORIEN, de. La perspective aérienne, soumise à des principes puisées dans la nature; ou nouveau traité de clair-obscur

et de chromatique, à l’usage des artistes. Avec figures. 174 pp. and 2 engraved plates (one coloured). Paris, Didot l’ainé, 1788. Two works in one volume 8° (208x132 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, gilt vine roll border on covers, spine divided by fillets into five panels, the second with green lettering piece, the rest alternately gilt with an urn and a trellis pattern, marbled end leaves and edges. Binding slightly rubbed, inobtrusive foxing. chf 750

Two rare manuals on perspective, painting and drawing in first respectively second edition in a fine binding of the early 19th century. Farcy was a drawing teacher and printer, and de Saint-Morien a skilled engraver active in Paris c. 1775-1790; his treatise on perspective was first published in 1779.

References: DBF XIII, 583.

22 FRENCH GEODESIC MISSION – BOUGUER, Pierre (1698-1758). La Figure de la Terre, déterminée par les observations de Messieurs Bouguer, & de La Condamine, de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, envoyés par ordre du Roi au Pérou, pour observer aux environs de l’Equateur. Avec une Relation abrégée de ce voyage, qui contient la description du pays dans lequel les opérations ont été faites.4° (258x195 mm). [24], CX, [2], 394, [2] pp. With engraved head-pieces by Eisen resp. Soubeyran, and 9 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt and with label. Corners slightly bumped. Title slightly foxed, toning in places. Erased stamp on title. Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1749. chf 2 000

First edition of Bouguer’s report on the geodetic expedition to Peru in order to measure an arc of the meridian near the equator. Bouguer’s

fellow scientists on the expedition were La Condamine, Godin and Jussieu. “The scientific result of the expedition was clear: the earth is indeed a spheroid flattened at the poles, as Newton had maintained. Bouger and La Condamine were unable, however, to agree on the joint publication of their works. Their long quarrel continued through a series of memoirs that were essentially mutual refutations of no scientific value; it ceased only with the death of Bouger in 1758”.

“Bouguer’s work on the expedition . . . was of high quality. Apart from the main geodetic program, he did an astonishing amount of other scientific work, measuring the dilatation of various solids by making use of the large range of temperatures found in the Cordillera, investigating the phenomena of atmospheric refraction and the measurement of heights with the barometer, devising a new type

of ship’s log, and undertaking a number of other researches, despite the very difficult physical conditions under which the geodetic measurements had to be carried out” (DSB).

References: Norman 285; Sabin 6876; DSB II, p.343.

23 FRENCH GEODESIC MISSION – LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de (1701-1774). Journal du voyage fait par ordre du Roi à l’équateur, servant d’introduction historique à la mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1751.

II) Mesure des tois pemiers degrés du méidien dans l hémisphere austral. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1751. – Bound at the end: Nouveau projet d’une mesure invariable, propre à devenir universelle. Extrait d’un Mémoire lû à l’assemblée publique de l’Académie des Sciences le 24 Avril 1748, par M. de La Condamine. No place, no date.

III) Supplément au Journal historique du voyage à l’équateur, et au livre de la mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien: servant de réponse à quelques Objections. Paris, Durand & Pissot, 1752.

IV) Supplément au Journal Historique du Voyage à l’équateur, et au livre de la mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien: servant de réponse à quelques Objections de M. B. Seconde partie. Paris, Durand & Pissot, 1754. 3 volumes 4° (254x193 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, spine on raised bands gilt and with labels. Somewhat scuffed. Slightly browned and foxed in places. Stamp removed on titles. chf 5 500

A complete set in first editions of this seminal account of the first scientifique expedition ever.

In the 1730s, a scientific controversy arose in France about the shape of the Earth: Newton, whose theory of attraction predicts an Earth flattened at the poles and the famous astronomer Jacques Cassini, who calculates it to be elongated. To solve the problem the Academy of Sciences of

Paris sends, by order of the king, two geodesic expeditions, one to Peru in 1735-1744 with La Condamine, Bouguer, Godin and Jussieu, and the other to Lapland in 1736-1737 with Maupertuis, Celsius, and Clairaut. La Condamine was also accompanied by the Spanish naval officers and scientists Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa, who in turn published their account of the expedition (see n° 24).

The Journal relates the voyage to Quito and up the Amazon, being the first scientific report of this part of South America. La Condamine drew up a map of Quito, collected more than 200 specimens of natural history-including rubber on which he published a memoir that revealed its properties for the first time and gave a description of the correct

use of quinine to fight malaria. Mesure des trois premiers degrés du Méridien, establishes the accuracy of Newton’s theory and the Supplément au Journal, is, in fact, his response to the objections that Bouguer addressed to him. And finally in his Nouveau projet d’une mesure invariable, propre à devenir universelle, bound at the end of volume II, La Condamine proposes a universal measure of length, which became one of the references for the establishment of the metric system.

References: Brunet III, 729; Norman 1249 (Mesure) & 1250 (Journal); Sabin 38479 (Journal), 38483 (Mesure), & 38490 (Supplement).

24 FRENCH GEODESIC MISSION – ULLOA Y DE LA TORRE-GIRALT, Antonio de (1716-1795) & Jorge JUAN Y SANTACILIA (1713-1773). Voyage historique de l’Amérique méridionale fait par ordre du Roi d’Espagne...Et qui contient une histoire des Yncas du Perou, et les observations astronomiques & physiques, faites pour déterminer la figure & la grandeur de la Terre. Thre parts in two volumes 4° (258x215 mm). [24] incl. front. and titel, 554; [4] incl. front. and titel, 316, [6]; [8], 309, [3] pp. Titles printed in black and red with engraved vignettes, 2 engraved frontispieces, engraved headpieces and 54 engraved plates of which 46 folding. Contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt and with two labels each. Somewhat scuffed, else fine. Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstée & Merkus, 1752. chf 4 000

First French edition of Ulloa’s and Juan’s account of the French Geodesic Mission organised by the French Academy of Sciences from

Paris, under command of the astronomer Louis Godin, and fellow geographers Charles Marie de La Condamine and Pierre Bouguer. Apart from the geodetic program, the authors report on their visit to the Inca complex in San Agustin de Callo and give here the first scientific description of platinum.

The fine plates show the geography of the measurements taken at the meridian, the scientific equipment used, views of the scientists at work, an image of the “aurora australis” (the first such record), the first city views of Cartagena, Quito, Lima, and others, and 8 plates recording Inca civilisation.

References: Hill, 1740; JCB I, 974; Sabin 36812; Palau 125473.

25 GIOVIO, Paolo (1483-1552). Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium: septem libris iam olim ab authore comprehensa, et nunc ex eiusdem musaeo ad vivum expressis imaginibus exornata. [8], 391pp., [8] ff. (last blank). Title within woodcut border, dedication leaf with woodcut portrait of the author on verso, woodcut with Giovio’s epitaph, and 128 woodcut portraits (127 by Tobias Stimmer) within six different woodcut frames and 10 empty frames. Basel, Peterus Perna for Heinrich Petri, Calendis Februarijs (1 February) 1575. – Bound together with:

Elogia virorum literis illustrium, quotquot vel nostra vel avorum memoria vixere, ex eiusdem Musaeo (cuius descriptionem unà exhibemus) ad vivum expressis imaginibus exornata. [12], 232 (recte 228) [3] pp. Title within woodcut border, dedication leaf with woodcut portrait of the author on verso, 63 woodcut portraits (60 by Stimmer, 3 by Christoph von Sichem) in seven different woodcut frames. Basel, Peterus Perna and Heinrich Petri, 1577. – And:

Vitae illustrium virorum tomis duobus comprehensae, & propriis imaginibus illustratae. [6] ff., 427, [1] pp.; [4] ff., 176 pp., [13] ff., pp.177-225. Title within woodcut border 29 portraits within woodcut frames. Basel, Peterus Perna for Heinrich Petri, 1576-1578. 3 works in 4 tomes in 1 volume folio (360x230 mm). Contemporary calf, sides with gilt ruled borders and fleurons in the corners, gilt arabesque medallion in centre, spine on five raised bands, panels gilt with gilt fillets and fleurons. Edges somewhat scuffed, old repairs to head, foot and corners, some toning, browning in places, particularly in the first work, light dampstains in the third work. chf 3 800

A rare complete set of first illustrated editions of Giovio’s three major collections of lives of famous men.

Bishop of Nocera and humanist historian, Paolo Giovio assembled a private collection of portraits that formed the basis of his biographies. Giovio, however, was inspired by the desire to possess authentic portraits of the great men (and some women). It was not enough for him to simply collect portraits; he rather built for them a house of muses, a “museum”, as he expressly calls it himself in the preface to the first work, a villa on the shores of Lake Como.

Tobias Stimmer’s work as an artist for printers in Zurich, Basel and Strasbourg began in 1568 at the latest, and around 1569/70 he went to Como on behalf of the Basel publisher, Pietro Perna, to copy Giovio’s famous collection for a planned publication. The origin of the woodcuts, or at least their beginning, falls probably into the year 1572; the frames, however, may not have been intended at first (cf. Hieronymus). Whereas the Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium and Vitae illustrium virorum were already published in different editions, Elogia virorum literis illustrium is here in its first edition.

Among the woodcuts we find portraits of popes, monarchs, statesmen and military leaders, poets and scholars, such as the emperor Frederic I, Tamerlane, Cosimo di Medici, Gattamelata, Christopher Columbus, Agricola, Boccaccio, Dante, Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, Cardinal Bessarion, Erasmus, and many others. The Vitae illustrium virorum with the annex on the Turkish Empire show eleven portraits of sultans, including one of Mehmet II thought to be based on the well-known portrait by Gentile Bellini.

References: I) USTC 683306; VD16 G2066; Hieronymus, Petri 403a; Stimmer exhib. cat., Basel 1984, n° 108. – II) USTC 683308; VD16 G2063; Hieronymus, Petri 403b; Stimmer exhib. cat., Basel 1984, n° 109. – III) USTC 683310; VD16 G2078; Hieronymus, Petri 404.

26 GOLDEN BULL OF 1356 – OLENSCHLAGER, Johann Daniel von (1711-1778). Neue Erläuterung der Guldenen Bulle Kaysers Carls des IV.: aus den älteren teutschen Geschichten und Gesezen zur Aufklärung des Staatsrechts mittlerer Zeiten als dem Grunde der heutigen Reichsverfassung. Two parts in one volume 4° (230x180 mm). [70], 416; 260, [30] pp. with engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved head-pieces. Contemporary vellum. Somewhat toned and damp stained. Two erased stamps on title. Frankfurt am Main, [Johann Georg] Fleischer, 1766. chf 600

First edition of this important commentary on the Golden Bull, an imperial decree, which for over four hundred years fixed the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire. The name refers to the golden seal attached to the document. Olenschlager, a patrician and councilor of the city of Frankfurt, was well acquainted with Goethe’s family. Goethe memorialized him in Dichtung und Wahrheit.

Provenance: G. St. Poemer von Erlenstegen, Nuremberg patrician, with his engraved bookplate on paste-down and inscribed name dated 1770 on front fly leaf.

References: Stintzing/Landsberg III/1, 250; Pütter II, 140.

27 GRATIANUS. Decretum (with the commentary of Bartholo-maeus Brixiensis and Johannes Teutonicus. – Add: Johannes de Deo Hispanus: Summarium seu Flos Decreti). Folio (340x230 mm). 416 ff. with the two blanks a1 and S10. Double column with commentary enclosing the text, headlines and column headings printed in red. Koberger’s Gothic types 6:65G, 7:83G, and 9:165G. First initial in blue with scrollwork on gold background with alternating green and red border, entirely rubricated with text initials in red and blue, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. Contemporary reddish-brown blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, spine on four raised

bands with rosettes and fleur-de lys, sides panelled in blind with thyrsuses and large rosettes, griffins, and the lettering decretum at the top, the centre divided by tendril rhombs into compartments each with a burgeoning forb; the rear with a simpler decor with griffin and rosette tools. With 10 embossed and chased brass fittings, one of two clasps, brass catches. Barely rubbed, skillfully restored at head and foot, hinges weakening, one corner fitting with some loss, toned and stained in places. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 28 February 1483. chf 12 000

A fine copy in a contemporary binding by Franz Staindorffer.

The Decretum Gratiani, or Concordia Discordantium Canonum, is a collection of nearly 3,800 texts touching on all areas of church discipline and regulation compiled in 1140 by Gratian, a jurist who taught in Bologna and is considered the father of canon law. The work is also a treatise attempting to resolve the apparent contradictions and discordances in the rules accumulated from different sources. When necessary, Gratian had recourse to the Roman law and made extensive use of the works of the Church Fathers and of ecclesiastical writers. For centuries the Decretum was the text on which the teaching of canon law in the schools was based. It was glossed and commented on by the most illustrious canonists; it became the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici, the great body of canon law (cf. Enc. Britt.).

The volume is entirely rubricated and clad in a superb binding by Franz Staindorffer who was active in Nuremberg and Middle Franconia between 1474-1486. All the tools used on this binding are listed either by Kyriß 65 and plates 133, 134 or EBDB under the workshop number w000312.

References: ISTC ig00374000; Goff G374; HC 7899*; Pell 5320; Ohly-Sack 1255; BMC II 424; BSB-Ink G-266; GW 11366

28 GRILLPARZER, Franz (1791-1872). Das goldene Vließ. Dramatisches Gedicht in drei Abtheilungen. 8° (231x148 mm). Title and 302 pp. Red half morocco by Champs, spine gilt, original wrappers bound in. Entirely untrimmed. Wien, J. B. Wallishausser, 1822. chf 800

First edition. The dramaturgical trilogy (Der Gastfreund – Die Argonauten – Medea) is the most extensive work of Grillparzer. It is based on the ancient Argonaut epic by Apollonios of Rhodes and Euripides’ Medea. Written in classical blank verse between September 1818 and the end of January 1820, the work was finally subjected to a final editing process at the end of 1820 where Grillparzer provided clarifications. The first performance took place on 26 and 27 March 1821 in the Vienna Hofburg Theatre.

An exceptionally fine copy in a binding by Victor Champs (1844-1912).

Provenance: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Stilling (1853-1911), his sale, Zürich, 1946, n° 107.

References: Goedeke VIII, 419, 171d; ; Wilpert/Gühring 3; Borst 1392; Weilheim 231; Brieger 822.

29 GUILELMUS PARISIENSIS (1437-1485). Postilla Guillerini super epistolas et evangelia de tempore, et de sanctis. et pro defunctis. De passione domini. [Bernard of Clairvaux:] Et de planctu beate Marie virginis. 3 parts in one volume 4° (203x146 mm). CIII, (1 blank), LXI, [14] ff. Title printed in red with large woodcut, another large woodcut on leaf Q1, and 65 smaller text woodcuts. Commentary enclosing the text. Early twentieth century vellum, spine gilt with label. Leipzig, Michael Lotter, 1519. chf 3 800

A rare Lepizig edition lavishly illustrated.

Regarding the difficult attribution to Guilelmus Parisiensis, the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW) states: “In scientific literature as well as in library catalogues the Postilla is rarely attributed to Guillelmus Parisiensis. Occasionally it is referred to as Pseudo-Guillelmus. Mostly, however, it is listed under Johannes Herolt (died 1468 in Nuremberg). This attribution goes back to Nicolaus Paulus, according to whom the ‘Postilla super evangelia’ was written in 1437 and the ‘Postilla super epistolas’ in 1439, but remained unprinted. The difficulties of attributing the authorship cannot yet be satisfactorily clarified without an examination of the manuscript records of Herolt’s work – no manuscripts are known of Guillelmus”.

A fine copy with some contemporary annotations and underlining in brown ink.

Provenance: Bruno Schenck, bookplate.

References: Claus, Leipzig, p. 97, n° 65; VD16 E4396, B1976, and P883.

30 HIRZEL, Hans Caspar (1725-1803). Die Wirthschaft eines philosophischen Bauers. In: Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich. Erster Band. 8° (pp. 371-496. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt and with label. Slightly rubbed, gilding oxydised. Zürich, Heidegger und Compagnie, 1761. chf 2 500

The first printing of “the most successful German socio-economic work of the 18th century” (Carpenter, Dialogue in pol. economy, n° 15, p. 56).

Written by the Zurich town physician Hans Caspar Hirzel it relates the

story of Jakob Gujer, called Chlijogg (Little Jakob, 1716-1785), who on his model farm at Katzenrütihof near Rümlang conducted experiments to increase yields. Chlijogg shot to European fame as a farmer who put the teachings of the Physiocrats into practice. This first printing precedes the first separate edition of the same year and is much rarer.

References: Haller II, 1735; Kosch VII, 1255f.; B. Weber, Zeugnisse des Zürcher Buchdrucks (1977), n° 52; cf. T. Bürger, Aufklärung in Zürich (1997), p. 70 and n° 249.

31 HUGO, Victor (1802-1885). Notre-Dame de Paris. 8° (217x137 mm). [2] ll, 631 pp. With a frontispiece and 11 plates, all in steel engraving on chine appliqué. Contemporary chamois morocco by Boutigny, smooth spine decorated with gilt lambrequin motifs surrounding the title and at the head and foot, ornamental blind blocking on the covers within a large gilt fillet border and gilt title in the center of the front cover, turn-ins and all edges gilt. Some foxing as usual, heavier in places. Paris, [Plassan for] Eugène Renduel, (December 1835) 1836. chf 1 800

The first illustrated edition of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo’s most memorable novel.

This ‘Keepsake edition’, so-called from the English literary annual, distinctive for its binding and the quality of its illustrations, was the French prototype of the genre. Its great success was due to the lush bindings and the illustrations by renowned artists, such as Tony and Alfred Johannot , Rouargue, Boulanger, Raffet, and Rogier. Rare with the often lacking plate Utilité des fenêtres qui donnent sur la rivière, here printed on China and not directly on the support paper as usual.

Fine copy bound by Georges Boutigny, active in Paris between 1828

and 1865. He was a forunner of the rocaille style and devoted himself particularly to bookbinding for publishers which he extensively decorated with the blocking press.

Provenance: Alphonse Giroux, a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, Parisian dealer in art and early photography, and stationer, with his label on fly leaf and stamp on title. – Damase Jouaust (1834-1893), French printer and publisher, with his bookplate engraved by Chauvet.

References: Vicaire IV, 258-259; Carteret III, 300; Lonchamp 231.

32 KNIP, Pauline (1781-1851). Les Pigeons. Folio (523x350 mm). [2] ff., pp. 13, (1), (23)-41, 128, 30. With 87 plates by Caesar Macret after Madame Knip, printed in colours by Millevoy and finished by hand under the supervision of the artist. Contemporary

half long grained morocco, smootth spine divided by ornamental fillets into six panels, the second with lettering, the rest alternately gilt tooled with an urn resp. a semis of small stars, gilt oak leaf roll border on covers, centre of front cover with gilt inscription within a large escutcheon. Binding slightly rubbed at caps, rear joint restored, front hinge loosening, fabric tape on edges. Intermittent and occasional foxing throughout. Paris, Mame for the author and Garnery, [1808-] 1811. chf 18 500

First edition of the artistically most ambitious bird book before Audubon, Selby, and Lear a generation later.

Pauline Knip, née Rifer de Courcelles, a pupil of the celebrated Jacques Barraband and a protégée of the Empress Marie-Louise, was a renowned bird artists in Paris. Her fame is mainly due to the present illustrations of pigeons that are “among the finest of all bird plates” (Fine Bird Books, p. 86). Knip painted 48 birds after specimens in the Natural History Museum in Paris and copied the rest from drawings by Jean Gabriel Prêtre, sent to her by Temminck from the Netherlands.

This work is a curiosity in publication history. It was originally planned to be published under the title Histoire générale des pigeons by the famous Dutch ornithologist Temminck, who commissioned the paintings from Madame Knip. At the ninth livraison Madame Knip accomplished a piece of finesse, by which she usurped the publication from Temminck and appropriated it to herself. To do this she changed the cover title of the ninth and following livraisons, furnished a new title page crediting the work to herself with text by Temminck, substituted a new Discours sur les pigeons, and directed the binder to suppress Temminck’s introduction, his index and his Discours. To account for the gap in the pagination of the text between the pages 13 and 23 she even went so far as to declare it was a typographical error. The fraud impelled Temminck to republish the text in three volumes between 1813 and 1815.

A fine copy in a presentation binding with the following gilt tooled inscription on front cover: Don de la munificence et des bontés de son Excellence Monseigneur le comte de Montalivet, ministre de l’intérieur – 1813. Jean-Pierre Bachasson, Comte de Montalivet (1766-1823), was director of the Legion of Honor, and, from 1806, head of the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées as which he oversaw large-scale urban works in Paris, such as the Arc de Triomphe and the Palais Brongniar, as well as the expansion of sewage works. In 1809 he became Minister of the Interior.

References: Anker 261; Nissen, ZBI, 511 and IVB 511; Fine Bird Books (1990), 113; Zimmer pp.356-57; R. Ronsil, Madame Knip ... et son oeuvre ornithologique, in: Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History III (1957), 207ff.; D’Anreville u.a., L’Impératrice Joséphine et les sciences naturelles (1997), n° 114; Dickinson, et al., Histoire naturelle des pigeons or Les pigeons: C. J. Temminck versus Pauline Knip, in: Archives of Natural History, vol. XXXVII (2010), p. 203ff.

33 LAMY, Bernard (1640-1715). Elemens des mathématiques ou traité de la grandeur en général, qui comprend l’arithmétique, l’algèbre, l’analyse, et les principes de toutes les sciences qui ont la grandeur pour objet. Quatrième édition, revue & augmentée. 12° (168x98 mm). XXIV, [12], 490 pp. and [2] of privilege. Contemporary calf, spine gilt and with label. Head of spine defective, edges and corners scuffed. Small inkstain on foredge. Paris, Pierre de Bats, 1715. chf 350

Last edition published in the author’s lifetime of this textbook of mathematics, first printed by A. Pralard in 1680. Lamy, French Oratorian, mathematician and theologian, was a convinced Cartesian.

Provenance: John Bellew, 4th Baronet of Barmeath in the County of Louth (+ 1734), with his ms. entry on title.

References: Cf. Girbal, Bernard Lamy. Étude biographique et biliographique (1964), 55f. and 123.

34 LAMY, Bernard (1640-1715). Traité de perspective, ou sont contenus les fondements de la peinture &c. 8° (190x122 mm). XXI, [3] 227, [9] pp. With 8 engraved plates (1 folding), and numerous text woodcuts. Contemporary vellum, title penned on spine. Corners, slightly scuffed. Paris, Jean Anisson, 1701. chf 1 800

First edition of this handsomely illustrated textbook. “Perhaps inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, Lamy distinguishes between ‘perspective aerienne’ (aerial) and ‘perspecitve lineale’ (linear), which was not very common in his day. He mainly concerned himself with linear

perspective. In his practice of perspective Lamy concentrated upon the construction of the image of a grid of squares by means of a distance point method. He then used the perspective grid for various procedures, such as determinging the perspective image of a plane configuration, constructing images on a vault, and creating an anamorphosis ... “ (K. Andersen).

References: Vagnetti EIVb1; Girbal, Bernard Lamy. Étude biographi-que et biliographique (1964), 99f. and 133; Kemp, Science of Art, 158, 236; Andersen, The Geometry of an Art (2007), 471f.

35 LEPAUTE, Jean André (1709-1789). Traité d’horlogerie contenant tout ce qui est nécessaire pour bien connoître et pour régler les pendules et les montres, La Description des Pièces d’Horlogerie les plus utiles, des répétitions, des équations, des pendules à une roue, &c. celle du nouvelle échapement, un traité des engrenages, avec plusieurs tables, & XVII planches en taille-douce. Two parts in one volume. 4° (293x200 mm). [2] ff., XXVIII, 93 pp., [1] l., pp. 95-308, XXXV, [1]. With 17 engraved folding plates. Contemporary blond calf gilt, covers with triple fillet borders and heraldic lions in the corners, centre with coat of arms, spine on raised bands, lettering piece in the second panel, the rest each tooled with fleurons and lions within a semis of stars and dots, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Binding with skillful restorations, toned throughout. Paris, Chardon père & fils, 1755. chf 6 500

Large paper copy bound for a noble astronomer.

First edition of this important horological treatise, describing the mechanism of recently manufactured clocks and watches. Although not mentioned by name the work contains contributions by three famous

astronomers and mathematicians of the day: Lepaute’s wife, Nicole-Reine Hortense Etable de Brière, who made her debut in calculating the tables on the oscillations of the pendulum, Jérôme de Lalande, who wrote the two chapters on Traité des engrenages and Remarques sur la

maniere de trouver facilement des nombres pour les roues, and Alexis-Claude Clairaut with his memoir on the center of oscillation of two spherical segments (pp. 291-295).

Lepaute together with his younger brother Jean-Baptiste Lepaute was the founder of one of the outstanding dynasties of French clockmakers of the period, holding the brevet, horloger du Roi.

A splendid copy, which belonged to Michel Ferdinand d’Albert d’Ailly, 5th Duke of Chaulnes, a peer of France, but more remarkable as an astronomer and mathematician. He soon discovered a singular taste and genius for the sciences; and in the tumults of armies and camps, he cultivated mathematics, astronomy, mechanics, &c. He was named honorary member of the Academy on the 27th of February 1743 ... where he often brought different constructions and corrections of instruments of astronomy, of dioptrics, and achromatic telescopes. These researches were followed with a new parallactic machine, more solid and convenient than those that were in use; as also with many reflections on the manner of applying the micrometer to those telescopes, and of measuring exactly the value of the parts of that instrument ... Several of his papers are published in the volumes of Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences (cf. Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary, 1812). Of particular interest is a memoir describing his discovery of the peculiarities of the diffraction of light rays reflected by a concave mirror which was included in the 1755 edition of Newton’s Optics (Book II, part 4).

Provenance: Michel Ferdinand d’Albert d’Ailly, 5th duke of Chaulnes (1714-1769), with his coat of arms on binding (Guigard II, 6). His library was auctioned in 1770.

References: Baillie, Clocks and Watches. An Historical Biliography, p. 244ff.; Tardy 159; Bromley 538; Leroy 346.

36 LUTHER, Martin (1483-1546). De servo arbitrio ad D. Erasmum Roterdamum. 8° (143x95 mm). [192] ff. Title within woodcut border by Georg Lemberger (Reindl H-1525.3), partly coloured in yellow by a contemporary hand, and one initial (5-lines). Contemporary blind tooled calf over wooden boards. Sides surrounded by a roll showing Salvator, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel and Ezekiel; front cover with the initials D I B. Back on three raised bands, clasps gone. Somewhat worn at head and foot. Some dampstaining at the beginning and end of the volume, marginal worming in places, else a fine copy in its first binding. Wittenberg, (Hans Lufft, December) 1525. chf 8 000

Rare first edition of one of the most important theological texts of Martin Luther.

De servo arbitrio was the overdue response to Erasmus’ De libero arbitrio published the previous year on 1 September. Erasmus had kept himself out of any direct involvement in Luther’s controversy with the Catholic Church. However under pressure of the papacy and King Henry VIII of England, and probably provoked by the personal attacks upon him of Luther and Ulrich von Hutten, Erasmus had decided in 1524 to attack the Wittenberg Reformer theologically.

The central question was whether men were able to contribute to their salvation or entirely foreordained by divine predestination. The Humanist wanted to leave salvation almost entirely up to divine grace, but at the same time he wanted to emphasise a person’s moral motivation; beyond that he did not want to speculate about such elusive questions as predestination.

Luther took his time to write what he considered himself among his most important writings. Driven by the deepest insights of his faith, he insisted on clarity about the human will and on the certainty of salvation according to God’s merciful grace. In his text “he addressed such daunting problems as God’s inscrutability and the origin of evil. Although the dispute was not conducted dogmatically but exegetically in terms of understandings of specific biblical passages, De servo arbitrio is probably Luther’s most significant theological tract” (M. Brecht in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Reformation, vol. II, p. 465). Luther’s widely reissued reply to Erasmus found a rejoinder in 1526 (Hyperaspistes) and the Zurich Reformer Huldrich Zwingli joined in on the side of predestination in his De vera et falsa religione commentarius printed in the very same year, followed by Jean Calvin’s definitive statement in the Institutio christianae religionis of 1536. – Bound together with:

SPANGENBERG, Johannes (1484-1550). Margarita theologica, continens praecipuos locos doctrinae Christianae, per quaestiones breviter et ordine explicatos... (Leipzig, M. Blum), 1547. [9], 154, [2] pp., [8] ff. (last blank).

A dialogical workup of Melanchthon’s Loci communes for the clergy of the Duchy of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. – VD16 S7850.

An attractive copy in a contemporary binding.

Provenance: Heinrich Kleinschmitz of Paderborn with his owner’s entries on first pastedown and endleaf and an ex dono to Stephanus Cratius. With some contemporary marginalia (probably by Kleinschmitz) in brown ink.

References: Benzing 2201; VD 16, L6660; Kuczynski 3222-23; WA vol. 18, pp. 551 and 597A; Kessler Reformation Collection 624; Lohse, Luthers Theologie in ihrer historischen Entwicklung und in ihrem systematischen Zusammenhang (1995), pp. 181 et seq.; Reinhuber, Kämpfender Glaube. Studien zu Luthers Bekenntnis am Ende von De servo arbitrio (2000), pp. 11 et seq.

37 MARTINEZ DE BIZCARGUI, Gonzalo (c. 1463- after 1538). Arte de cãto llano y cõ//trapunto y canto de orga//no con proportiones y mo=//dos breuemête cõpuesta://& nueuamente anadida/ y//glosado por Gõçalo mar//tinez de bizcargui: endere//çada al illustre y muy. R.//señor don Juã rodriquez//de fonseca: Arçobispo de Rosano y obispo de Bur//gos mi señor. 8° (142x98 mm). [82] ff. (a-f8, g10, A-C8). Title within an ornamental woodcut border, several woodcut diagrams and musical examples in the text, large printer’s device repeated twice, the second part with the music printed in red and black. Final leaf with the printer’s device erroneously bound at the beginning of the second part. Modern vellum. Title page slightly soiled, small part of lower corner mended, with faint inscriptions in ink. Else fine. (Zaragoza, [Jorge Coci], 1538). chf 12 000

A remarkably rare musical treatise.

Martinez de Bizcargui was a Spanish theorist and composer, native of Azcoitia in the Basque Country. He is very often referred to as a maestro de capilla at the Burgos cathedral, although there is no clear evidence for it (cf. Paulino Capdeponi Verdú in DB-e of the Royal Academy of History). Anyway, he was certainly the most successful 16th century Spanish plainsong tutor. His Arte de canto llano was first printed at Saragosa in 1508. It was just a small booklet of fourteen leaves. The text was revised and supplied with musical examples probably in 1531. In a period of about fifty years no less than fourteen editions were printed. Martinez was indebted to Guillermo de Podio (Ars musicorum, Valencia, 1495), but disagreed with earlier theorists on several points. Like Ramos de Pareia, he considered the diatonic semitone larger than the chromatic in opposition to the Pythagorean tradition as transmitted by Boethius. This position brought him into conflict with Juan de Espinosa who accused him of ‘teaching and writing formal heresies in music’. Martinez treatise is useful for its full and clear explanations

with numerous examples (cf. F. J. Léon Tello, Estudios de historia de la teoria musical, Madrid, 1962).

All the editions of this treatise are of utmost rarity and held in a single or a few copies in libraries. Neither Heredia nor Salva had any copy of this book in any edition. We only know of three copies of this book in the trade: two offered by Maggs in their catalogues n° 416, 1921 (1508 edition) resp. n° 512, 1928 (1531 edition) and one auctioned by Sotheby’s in 1954 (1531 edition). To our knowledge there was no copy of any edition on the market for the last six decades.

We could only trace four copies of the 1538 edition in the following institutions: Biblioteca Pública Episcopal del Seminario, Barcelona; Southern Regional Library Facility, Los Angeles; Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid; Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona. Our copy, however, has completely different signatures than indicated by USTC (a-k8 l4) and the copy of the Spanish National Library has only 76 leaves.

References: USTC 339821: Palau 154826; J. M. Sánchez, Bibliografía aragonesa del siglo XVI, I, 211; A. S. Wilkinson, Iberian Books, 12508; A. Davidson, Bibliographie der musiktheoretischen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts, Baden-Baden, 1962, n° 425.

38 MEISTER, Leonhard (1741-1811). Helvetische Galerie großer Männer und Thaten für die vaterländische Jugend mit 25 Schellenbergischen Vignetten. 8° (179x118 mm). XIV, [2], 184 pp. With 25 engraved vignettes (one for the title). Later half buckram. Slightly stained and foxed in places. Zürich, David Bürkli, 1786 chf 200

Charming children’s book containing a collection of anecdotes and episodes of Swiss history from the 14th to 16th century illustrated with

vignettes engraved by the Winterthur Kleinmeister J. R. Schellenberg.

References: Lonchamp 1984; Schollenberger 32, 35; Rümann 715; Lanckoronska/Oehler II, 222; Weilenmann 2149; Seebass I, 1257.

39 MEYER, Conrad (1618-1689) – CATS, Jacob (1577-1660). Kinder-Lustspiele, durch Sinn- und Lehrbilder geleitet; zur underweisung in guten sitten. Auß dem Nider- in das Hochteutsche gebracht durch H. Johann Heinrichen Amman: Und mit Kupferstükken geziert, vermehret und verlegt durch Conrad Meyern, Mahlern in Zürich. (Engraved title: Sechs und Zwanzig nichtige Kinderspiel...) 4° (185x147 mm). 12 leaves of letterpress, an engraved frontispiece and 13 engraved plates with 26 images. Modern half-vellum. Somewhat stained and thumbed, letter-press title slightly shaved in the outer margin, frontispiece cut to the left edge of the image (without any loss) and rehinged. [Zürich, s.n.], Getrukt im Jahr Christi 1657. chf 6 000

First edition of the early Swiss children’s book, originally published as a loose series of illustrations for J. Cat’s children’s games. The charming and elegant illustrations, devised and etched by the Zurich painter and engraver Conrad Meyer (a pupil of Mathäus Merian), show children jumping ropes, shooting arrows, flying kites, standing on their heads, playing blind man’s bluff, spinning tops, stilt walking, catching birds, playing with pig’s bladders, etc. The graceful and imaginative scenes are accompanied by rhymed distichs, which give the illustrations an emblematic character.

Very rare, and copies with the letter-press text by Cats are even scarcer.

References: Leemann-van Elck p. 118; VD17 1:075430T; Landwehr 178; not in Lonchamp, Seebass etc.

40 MEYER, Johann Heinrich (1755-1828). Mahlerische Reise in die italienische Schweiz, mit geäzten Blättern von J. H. Meyer. Landscape 8° (178x220 mm). Engraved title with vignette, [4], 75 pp. With 12 views and a tail-piece by J. H. Meyer and Ludwig Hess. Contemporary boards. Binding worn, some tiny unabbtrusive wormtracks in the lower margins. Zürich, Orell, Gessner, Füssli und Compagnie, 1793. chf 1 200

First edition of the first illustrated travelogue on Ticino.

The charming book relates Meyer’s journey to southern Switzerland and the Lake Como region in the company of his friends and fellow painters, Ludwig Hess (1760-1800) and Johann Konrad Steiner (1757-

1818). “A precious little book...The landscapes, rendered with rare precision and great artistic sense, together with the lively description of the journey, make Meyer’s small volume still today an enjoyable and useful work for those who want to explore Ticino, as it was at the end of the eighteenth century” (Ghiringhelli). The plates show views of Lake Zug, Tell’s Chapel at lake Lucerne, the valley of the Reuss, surroundings of Airolo and Calonico, the source at Quartino, Molinetto at lake Locarno, the river Tresa, Ponte Tresa, Villa Plinius at lake Como, the Via Mala, and the ruins of Bommerstein at Lake Walenstadt, the two vignettes the Grotto di Rescia and the Orrido waterfalls at Bellano. Meyer and Hess are considered “among the pioneers of romantic landscape art” (Weber). Dated 1793, the volume was actually published in September 1792 at a respectable price of 4 guilders by Salomon Gessner, patron of the three travel companions.

References: Bürger, Aufklärung in Zürich (1997), 573; Lonchamp 2058; Leemann-van Elck, Die zürcherische Buchillustration (1952), p. 174; Ghiringhelli, Il Ticino nelle vecchie stampe (2003), p. 44; Bruno Weber, comment to the reprint of 1982.

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41 MILANO – (CAVAZZO, Giovanni Luca, Conte della Somaglia, 1762-1838). Compendio della storia di Milano. 4° (292x214 mm). [12], 108 pp. With 18 engraved portraits and 3 genealogical tables.Contemporary green morocco, covers with a border formed by double fillets and an acanthus scroll, central panel blidstamped with corner pieces and large acanthus medallion, spine on raised double bands gilt, cover edges gilt, doublure margins gilt with decorative rolls, doublures and fly leaves lined with marbled paper, all edges gilt. Barely foxed. Milano, Dalla tipografia Pogliani, 1834. chf 1 800

Splendid copy of a private edition limited to 100 copies. The chronological history of the city of Milan and its ruling families was printed as an exclusive publication on large vellum paper. It is dedicated to Henrietta Faye Smith, director of the Girls’ College of San Filippo, whose board of directors was presided by the wealthy count Giovanni Luca Cavazzo della Somaglia. The publication was solely given away as a gift.

References: Biblioteca italiana o sia Giornale de letteratura LXXVI (1834) pp. 367-369; Cat. Meneghina 962.

42 MISSON, François Maximilien (c.1650-1722). Voyage d’Italie. Edition augmentée de Remarques nouvelles & interessantes. 4 volumes 12° (160x97 mm). With an engraved frontispiece and 77 engraved plates mostly folding. Contemporary full olive morocco, smooth spine gilt with custom-made tools and coat of arms at foot, red morocco labels, border of triple fillets on covers, turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt. Spines somewhat sunned and slightly rubbed. One corner of volume 2 scuffed. A Amsterdam & se vend à Paris, chez Clousier, David l’Aîné, Durand, Damonneville, 1743. chf 9 500

Jean du Barry’s copy of one of the most important travel guides to Italy of the 18th century.

In 1687/88 Misson had accompanied the grandchildren of the English Duke of Ormond as a tutor on their Grand Tour. The first edition was published in The Hague in 1691 in two volumes and has experienced numerous new editions and translations in English, Dutch and German. By means of complementary supplements and the addition of further volumes, the book was gradually made into a travel guide that provided two generations with basic knowledge about Italy. “Its success can be explained by its novel way of presentation. In letter form he reports back home on his experiences, a form of description which had hardly been used until then (except for Burnet, for example) and through which he achieved that his book would be read much more fluently and stimulatingly and was thus infinitely superior to all earlier publications

of this genre. His interests went very far: “Profiter de tout”, was his principle, as he says in the preface. He was an excellent observer, described the individual cities well and with accurate characterization, expressed an expert opinion about the soil conditions of the country and showed interest in the processes of daily life, of which he knew how to give vivid descriptions. Problems such as the transfer of the Santa Casa to Loreto and the story of Pope Joan led him to long digressions and polemical debates. In his interest in works of fine art he went much further than his predecessors. A list of names of the artists he referred to would be much richer than that of Schott, and, most importantly, he did not just mention their names; he took the trouble to give more accurate descriptions of famous paintings, such as Titian’s Martyrdom of Peter in SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice and Raphael’s Stanzas in the Vatican, and to criticize them in the context of the prevailing view of art, so that for the first time we come across statements that can be considered as analyses of works of art” (Schudt).

A fine copy with a remarkable and rare provenance. This set was bound for Jean-Baptiste Dubarry, count of Barry-Cérès, vidame of Châlons-en-Champagne, born in 1723 in Lévignac and guillotined in Toulouse on 17 January 1794. He was the lover and then the brother-in-law of the Countess du Barry. His dissolute life and his unscrupulous attitude earned him the nickname “Le Roué”. Du Barry became the lover of Jeanne Bécu (known as Jeanne de Vaubernier) around 1764 and had her marry his younger brother Guillaume du Barry in 1768, so that she could be presented to the court and become the favourite of King Louis XV. As a reward for his indulgence, and following complicated negotiations made up of fictitious exchanges, he received the county of L’Isle-Jourdain and considerable domains in eastern Gascony. Only a handful of books from Jean du Barry’s library have survived and all are decorated on the spine with the same tools, attributable to Gravelot.

Provenance: Jean du Barry, his arms on binding. – Louis Cahen d’Anvers

(1837-1922) and Edgard Stern (1854-1937), his sale at Drouot, 27 June 1988, n° 116, with their resp. bookplates; both were bankers and eminent patrons of the Arts.

References: Schudt, Italienreisen 25 and 412; Griep/Luber, Reiseli-teratur 924 (1727 ed.).

43 MURAT, Joachim – GALLOIS, Léonard (1789-1851). Histoire de Joachim Murat. 8° (200x130 mm). Title, 416, [4] pp., frontispiece with an engraved portrait of Murat. Contemporary lilac morocco in the neo-gothic style, lavishly gilt and with multicolour inlays. Spine somewhat sunned. Paris, Schubart & Heideloff; Leipzig, Ponthieu, Michelsen et Cie., 1828. chf 3 200

First edition of this rare biography in a splendid armorial binding by Selenka for the bibliophile duke Wilhelm of Brunswick.

Johannes Jakob Selenka (1801-1871) ranked among the most talented and best German bookbinders of his time. Due to his exceptional craftsmanship and artistic skills, the duke of Brunswick awarded him the title of a court bookbinder.

Léonard Gallois, born in Monaco, was a French political journalist and historian who wrote numerous historical works, which are still useful documents.

A small scene in the frontispiece shows the execution of Murat with his famous quote: Sauvez la tête, visez au coeur (Save the head, aim at the heart).

Provenance: Duke Wilhelm of Brunswick (1806 -1884), with his arms on the covers, bookplate, and small stamp on title.

44 MURER, Christoph (1558-1614) – RORDORF, Hans Heinrich (1591-1680). XL. Emblemata miscella nova. Das ist XL. Underschiedliche Außerlesene Newradierte Kunststuck: Durch Weiland den Kunstreichen und Weitberümpten Herrn Christoff Muren ... An jetzo erstlich Zuo nutzlichem Gebrauch und Nachrichtung allen Liebhabern der Malerey in Truck gefertiget und mit ... Reymen erkläret: Durch Johann Heinrich Rordorffen, ... 4° (230x195 mm). [6] pp. and 40 ll printed on one side only, each with an emblematic etching. Contemporary boards of marbled paper. Zürich, Johann Rudolf Wolf, 1622 (but Orell & Füssli, c. 1820). chf 1 200

Reprint in the style of a facsimile of this rare series of emblematic etchings, printed from the original plates of the first edition. The

Winterthur etcher, dramatist and most important Swiss glass painter of the time, Christoph Murer, originally intended to use the illustrations for a comedy he had composed. However, Murer’s engravings were eventually printed together with the verses by his son-in-law, Johann Heinrich Rordorff, eight years after the artist’s death.

Pasted into the third leaf verso is an emblematic etching (caption: Was schlecht und grecht kan ich krum mace dorum so stond gar wol mein Sachen) by an unknown German artist of the 17th century (cf. Herzog August Bibliothek, Graph. C: 265.4).

References: Lonchamp 2531; Brunet IV, 1389.

45 NEEDHAM John Turberville (1713-1781) Nouvelles Découvertes faites avec le Microscope... Avec un Mémoire sur les Polypes à Bouquet, et sur ceux en Entonnour. Par A. Trembley.

Tiré des Transactions Philosophiques. 8° (165x100 mm). [16], 179 pp. With 7 folding plates engraved by Joannes van der Spyk. Contemporary vellum over boards, spine lettered in brown ink, front cover with more recently penned title. Leiden, Elie Luzac, 1747. chf 1 200

First French edition.

“Needham’s most important contributions to science were early observations of plant pollen and the milt vessels of the squid” (DSB X, 9). The work is accompanied by the Letter of the Geneva naturalist Abraham Trembley (1710-1784) to Mr. Folkes on a Memoir on ‘Polypes à Bouquet’. These texts first appeared in English in the Philosophical Transactions of 1745. Plate 7 contains the illustration of a microscope

recently devised by Trembley; in addition, the translator points out in his ‘avertissement’ that Trembley’s microscope can be purchased “here in Leiden from Mr. Jean van Musschenboek”. – Fine copy.

References: Hirsch/H. IV, 334; Nissen ZBI 2959; Poggendorff II, 263.

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46 NEWTON, Isaac (1643-1727). Arithmetica universalis; sive de compositione et resolutione arithmetica liber. 4° (250x190 mm). [8], 344 pp. Title in red and black with Verbeek’s engraved device, 13 engraved plates with diagrams. Contemporary speckled calf, spine on raised bands gilt in the panels, red lettering label. Binding somewhat rubbed and scuffed. Leiden, Joh. & Herm. Verbeek, 1732. chf 2 500

Third Latin edition of Newton’s lectures on algebraic notation, arithmetic, the relationship between geometry and algebra, and the solutions of polynomial equations. The first (unothorised) edition was edited by Newton’s successor as Lucasian professor, William Whiston, from Newton’s manuscript notes. The editor of this enlarged edition was Willem Jacob ‘s Gravesande (see next lot) who helped to propagate Newton’s ideas in Continental Europe. It also contains texts by Halley (3), Colson, De Moivre, Maclaurin (2) and Campbell.

References: Babson 204; Wallis 279; Honeyman 2330.

47 NEWTON – GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob ‘s (1688-1742). Physices elementa mathematica, experimentis confirmata. Sive introductio ad philosohpiam Newtonianam. Editio tertia duplo auctior. Two volumes 4° (255x200 mm). [4], LXXXVI, [2], 572 pp.; title, pp. 573-1073, [43]. Titles printed in red and black, with 127 engraved folding plates Contemporary vellum. Small wormtrack in the hinge of second volume, browned in places due to minor paper quality. Leiden, J. A. Langerak and J. & H. Verbeek, 1742. chf 2 500

Third greatly enlarged edition.

“Dutch physicist who made the greatest contribution to disseminating Isaac Newton’s (1642-1727) natural philosophy outside England. During a stay in London, he met John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744) and John Keill (1671-1721), from whom he borrowed the method of teaching the principles of physics through experiment. On his return to Holland, was appointed professor of mathematics and astronomy (and, later, philosophy) at the University of Leiden. In his introductory treatise on Newtonian natural philosophy, he described a physics course to be taught with the help of a series of instruments, many of them his own inventions. These came into standard use in contemporary physics collections. The work of ‘s Gravesande had a powerful influence on

experimental physics for most of the eighteenth century” (Museo Galileo). The plates show diagrams and many laboratory apparatuses, such as the heliostat, the “Gravesande ring” for measuring the volumetric expansion of solids, the “paradoxical wheel” which rolls on a counter-slope, etc.

Provenance: Parocchia S. Pietro di Trento, 19th century libray stamp on titles. – Erased 18th c. owner’s inscription on front paste-downs.

References: Bierens de Haan 1806; Sotheran 1627.

48 NOTITIA DIGNITATUM – Notitia utraque cum orientis tum occidentis ultra Arcadii honoriique Caesarum tempora illustre vetustatis monumentum .... Praecedit autem D. Andreae Alciati libellus, De magistratibus civilibusque ac militaribus officijs, partim ex hac ipsa Notitia, partim aliunde desumptus. Cui succedit descriptio urbis Romae, quae sub titulo Pub. Victoris circumfertur: & altera urbis Constantinopolitanae incerto authore ... Subiungitur Notitijs vetustus liber de rebus

bellicis ad Theodosium Aug. & filios eius Arcadium atque honorium, ut videtur, scriptus, incerto autore. Item ... Disputatio Adriani Aug. & Epicteti philosophi. Folio (314x205 mm). [108] ff. 106 woodcut illustrations, including 85 full-page, wood- and metalcut initials, printer’s device on title and final verso. Red morocco gilt by Jean-Pierre Bruyère, active in Lyons in the second half of the nineteenth century. Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1552. chf 2 800

First complete and illustrated edition.

Notitia Dignitatum is a list of high officials of the Roman Empire compiled in about 400 A.D. It details the administrative organisation of the Eastern and Western Empires, listing several thousand offices from the imperial court down to the provincial level, diplomatic missions and army units. Also printed are a tract by Andrea Alciati on Roman military and civil organisation, a topographical description of Rome by Publius Victor, and a collection of enigmas in the form of a dialogue, the Altercatio Adriani Augusti et Epicteti philosophi.

The eminent Greek scholar and humanist Sigismund Gelenius (S. Hrubý; 1497-1554) from Prague edited the book and dedicated it to the famous anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius. In 1524 Gelenius came to Basel, where he served as Erasmus’s amanuensis and as an editor in Hieronymus Froben’s print shop. Gelenius’ father, Rehor Hrubý (1460-1514), was the Czech translator of Erasmus’ Moriae encomium.

The woodcuts are by Conrad Schnitt (1495-1541) from Constance who was active in Basel since 1519. They were modelled after the Codex Spirensis, a 10th century illuminated manuscript discovered by Beatus Rhenanus in 1525. Notitia Dignitatum was, apparently, to be printed much earlier, since the bulk of the woodcuts were ready as soon as in

1536, except the three on ff. *3v (Imperium Orientale), *4r (Imperium Occidentale) and a4r (Constantinople) which are most probably due to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525-1571).

A fine copy.

Provenance: bookplates of Pierre Desq, Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates (1842-1903), and Marigues de Champ-Repus.

References: VD 16 N-1884; Schweiger II, 618; Adams N-354; Hieronymus, Oberrhein. Buchillustration II (1984), n° 466; Lonchamp 1164; Böcking, Über die notitia dignitatum utriusque imperii (1834), p. 53, n° 5.

49 POTT, Johann Heinrich (1692-1777). Chymische Untersuchungen welche fürnehmlich von der Lithogeognosia oder Erkäntniß und Bearbeitung der gemeinen einfacheren Steine und Erden ingleichen von Feuer und Licht handeln. Zweyte Auflage so von dem Autore an einigen Orten verbessert und mit einem neuen Anhange vermehret ... wie auch einem Register über alle drey Theile. [6], 88, 44, [13] pp. Berlin, Christian Friedrich Voß, 1757. – Bound together with:

P. S. Kurtze Stricturen über das zweyte Pasquill des Hrn. Bergrath Lehmans, welches unter dem Titul: Kurtze Fortsetzung des Erweises &c. in Druck geben sich erkühnet hat. 8 pp. No place, no date (probably Berlin, Voß, 1756). – And:

Fortsetzung derer Chymischen Untersuchungen, welche von der Lithogeognosie, oder Erkäntniß und Bearbeitung derer Steine und Erde specieller handeln. [8], 120 pp. Berlin und Potsdam, Voß, 1751.

Zweyte Fortsetzung derer Chymischen Untersuchungen welche von der Lithogeognosie oder Erkäntniß und Bearbeitung derer Steine und Erden in Anwendung derselben zur Bereitung Feuerfester Gefäße und Tiegel specieller handeln nebst Tabellen über alle drey Theile. [14], 148 pp., a frontispiece engraved by F. H. Frisch, and a double-page table. Berlin , Voß, 1754. – And:

Aniamdversiones physico chymicae circa varias hypothese et experimenta D. Dr. et Consiliar. Elleri. – Physicalisch chymische Anmerckungen über verschiedene Sätze und Erfahrungen des Herr Hofr. D. Ellers. 107 [1] pp. Berlin, [probably Voß] Auf Kosten des Autoris, 1756. Five works in one volume 4° (215x180 mm). Contemporary quarter calf, spine on raised bands gilt in compartments, label. Slightly rubbed, edges and corners somewhat scuffed. Toned throughout. chf 1 500

Johann Heinrich Pott, a disciple of G. E. Stahl, “was one of the most distinguished chemists of his time, especially for his researches on the effects of high temperatures upon mineral substances” (Ferguson). This Sammelband contains the second considerably enlarged edition of Chymische Untersuchungen and the first editions of the two continuations as well as the first editions of two polemic papers.

“In the present work [Pott] did much to promote the knowledge of chemical analysis. He was the first to treat of Bismuth and its compounds and discovered silicic acid. An account is given, in this book, of the investigations carried out by Pott at the request of the

king of Prussia, to ascertain the composition of porcelain” (Duveen). In the elaborate search to crack the secret of porcelain manufacture Pott conducted more than 30,000 experiments on all kinds of mineral substances. His tables of chemical reactions were a significant contribution to the new systematic chemistry that followed him.

Provenance: Enclosed a typewritten quote by L’Art Ancien, Zürich to Dr. S. Ducret, dated 21 Oct. 1965.

References: Ferguson, II, pp. 221-222; Ferchl-Mittenwald p. 421; Duveen p. 483 (only French edition); Sinkankas 5227; Ward & Carozzi 1813.

50 REBMANN, Hans Rudolph (1566-1605). Ein Neuw, Lustig, Ernsthafft, Poetisch Gastmal, und Gespräch zweyer Bergen, In der Löblichen Eydgnoßschafft, und im Berner Gebiet gelegen: Nemlich deß Niesens und Stockhorns, als zweyer Nachbaren: Welches Innhalt Ein Physicam Chorographicam unnd Ethica Descriptionem ... Sonneten weiß gestellt ... 8° (175x100 mm). [16] ff. (incl. title in red and black), 488 pp., [8] ff. Contemporary blind stamped alum tawed calf over wooden boards, with two clasps, green edges. Some browning in places due to minor paper quality, corners of the binding slightly rubbed. Bern, Johann le Preux, 1606. chf 9 000

A beautiful copy of one of the rarest works in alpine literature.

Rebmann (1566-1605) was the son of Valentin Ampelander, professor of ancient languages and grandson of the humanist Wolfgang Musculus. He studied theology at Heidelberg, Basel and Bern, and held the office of pastor at Kirchlindach in 1589, Thun in 1592, and finally at Muri near Bern in 1604.

His main work, Ein Neuw, Lustig, Ernsthafft, Poetisch Gastmal, is a didactic poem in the form of a dialogue between two mountains, refering to the literary genre of the Greek Symposion or humanist Convivium, and, since the interlocutors are inanimate, to the rhetoric device of the Prosopopeia. It consists of approximately 14’250 doggerel verses, 150 lines of Latin and Greek quotations, and marginal glosses guiding the reader and quoting sources of 45 authors consulted.

In fact the work is an encyclopaedia in narrative form, consisting of the following chapters: Physica Descriptio, which is a description of the natural history; Chorographica Descriptio, a term coined by Pomponius Mela, meaning a geographical description; Ethica Descriptio, which is a description of the inhabitants and their customs.

Consequently the first chapter deals with the four elements: fire (comets and other such phenomena), air (thunder and earthquakes originating from winds within the earth), water (fog, dew, frost and hail; why the sea is salty; water cycle of the earth; strange springs and lakes), and earth (trees, herbs, and animals).

The more substantial second chapter – “a very valuable orography and topography of Switzerland, especially of the canton of Bern” (Wäber) – is one of the earliest treatises on the Swiss Alps, with information on their altitude, flora and fauna, volcanos, metals, minerals etc. Then follows a digression on the Americas and their explorers Columbus and Cortez as well as on mountains on islands all over the world (Japan, Cuba, Greenland, Iceland, etc.) The last chapter is dedicated to the customs and traditions of the people with special attention to colliers and gold mining.

Rebmann’s work is considered as one of the precursors of alpine literature, influencing early 18th century authors such as Scheuchzer and Haller, and even Schiller who is said to have used it for his William Tell.

Provenance: Reiss, auction 66 (1998), lot n° 609 sold to Joe Freilich, his sale at Sotheby’s (2001), lot n° 453.

References: VD17, 23:244264X; Goedeke II, 286; Perret, Guide II, 3605; Wäber I, 21; Haller I, 1444. Jenny, Die Alpendichtung der deutschen Schweiz (1905), 34 f.; Forster, H. R. Rebmann und sein Poetisch Gastmahl zweier Berge (1942); E. Moser-Bader, H. R. Rebmann und sein Gespräch zwischen Stockhorn und Niesen, in: Schweizer Alpen-Zeitung, IV (1886), n°s 21-23; G. Eis, Die Sage vom Venusberg bei Rudolf Rebmann, in: Studia Neophilologica XXXIII (1961), 159 f.; R. Zeller, Die Wunderwelt der Berge, Literarische Form und Wissensvermitlung in H. R. Rebmanns Gastmal und Gespräch zweier Berge, in: Scientiae et artes (2004), p. 981 f.

51 SAUSSURE, Horace-Bénedict de (1740-1799). Voyages dans les Alpes précédés d’un essai sur l’histoire naturelle des environs de Genève. 4 vols. 8° (192x122 mm). With 2 folding maps, 21 illustrations on 20 plates by Bourrit and Théodore de Saussure, engraved by Adam Töpffer, Geissler, Wexelberg and Schellenberg, and 4 letterpress tables. 19th century marbled boards, spine with gilt fillets and label. Bindings somewhat scuffed. Minimally foxed and toned in places. Neuchâtel, chez Samuel Fauche, 1796 (vols. 5-8)-1803 (vols. 1-4). chf 2 500

A cornerstone in the history of alpinism and geology.

Second octavo edition (third in all) of volumes 1-4 and first (second in all) of volumes 5-8. This second octavo edition is always supplied with the four last volumes of the 1796 edition, since only the first four volumes were reprinted in 1803.

Saussure received furtherance from his father, Nicolas de Saussure, his uncle Charles Bonnet, the naturalist and poet Albrecht von Haller and the doctor Théodore Tronchin. He studied at the Geneva Academy, where he graduated in 1759 and was awarded a doctorate. In 1762, at

the age of 22, he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Geneva Academy.

From 1760 he undertook annual trips to the Alps which culminated in the first scientific ascension of the summit of Mont-Blanc in August 1787. With his researches he greatly contributed to the increase of scientific knowledge in the fields of meteorology, geology, mineralogy, glaciology, magnetism and electricity. He invented or improved various measuring instruments, e.g. the Heliothermometer or the Hair Hygrometer. As the first climber of the Klein Matterhorn, Saussure was also the forerunner of mountaineering.

The first volumes of Voyages dans les Alpes mark the birth of alpine geology and the development of the theory of alpine orogenesis (mountain formation). The rest, published with the help of his son Nicolas Théodore, contains a large part of his meteorological observations and physical experiments.

References: Perret 3911; Longchamps 2615; Ward & Carozzi, 1954; Mather & Mason pp. 114-122.

52 SCHILLER, Friedrich von (1759-1805). Die Braut von Messina oder die feindlichen Brüder. Ein Trauerspiel mit Chören. 8° (198x114 mm). XIV, 162 pp., 1 leaf of errata. Contemporary marbled calf, covers with gilt fillet border, smooth spine gilt with classical ornaments, red lettering piece, marbled endpapers. Corners slightly scuffed. Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1803. chf 950

A dramatic experiment.

First issue of the first edition on superior printing paper. Schiller’s Bride of Messina is in the tradition of the great Greek tragedy of Euripides or Sophocles. As in its models it ends with the demise of the whole

race. It is set in Sicily, at a time when Paganism and Christianity meet. The tragedy premiered on 19 March 1803 in Weimar and was received controversially, due to the use of antiquated elements such as choruses considered obsolete at the time. Nevertheless it remains one of the most unorthodox pieces of the German classical repertoire.

A very nice copy.

Provenance: J. A. Günther, manuscript entry in ink on title page, dated 1803.

References: Fischer, Cotta, I, 412; Marcuse 240; Goedeke V, 227, 255, 9; Schiller Exhibition Catalogue, Marbach (1980), p. 195 et seq.

53 SCHMIDT, Johann Carl Eduard (1803-1832). Lehrbuch der analytischen Optik. Nach des Verfassers Tod herausgegeben von Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt. 8° (212x132 mm). X pp., 1 leaf of errata, 628 pp. Contemporary boards, green label on spine. Somewhat rubbed and scuffed. Slightly toned. Göttingen, Diederichs, 1834. chf 250

First edition. A rare German textbook on catoptrics and dioptrics published posthumously by C. W. B. Goldschmidt (1807-1851) from the estate of the author, with illustrations of telescopes and microscopes. Schmidt had studied mathematics with Carl Friedrich Gauss in Leipzig and Göttingen since 1819.

Provenance: Karl von der Mühll-His (1841-1912), Basel mathematician and physicist, with his ms. entry on the fly leaf dated 1868.

References: Poggendorff II, 818; Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie Bd. IX (2008), p. 49.

54 SENGUERDIUS, Wolferdus (1646-1724). Philosophia naturalis, quatuor partibus Primarias corporum species, affectiones, differentias, productiones, mutationes, & interitus, exhibens. Editio secunda, priore auctior. [XXVI], 432, [32] pp. With additional engraved title, 5 folding plates, 67 text engravings including a few repeats, and three woodcut diagrams. Leiden, Daniel Gaesbeck, 1685. – Bound together with his:

Inquisitiones experimentales, Quibus, Præter particularia nonnulla Phænomena, Atmosphærici aeris Natura explicatius traditur [...] adjectæ sunt Ephemerides, Nostri Aeris Conditionem, ejusque Vicissitudines, quæ singulis obtinuère diebus A Calendis Februariis,

Anni 1697 ad finem sub-sequentis A. 1698 Exhibentes. [8], 3-158, [48] pp. (without blank A1). With 11 engravings in text (of which 9 are pasted in) and 2 folding plates. Leiden, Cornelius Boutesteyn 1699. 4° (200x160 mm). Contemporary blind-stamped vellum over boards. Later ms. label on spine. chf 8 500

A beautifully illustrated summary of 17th century experimental science, the third, enlarged edition. There were four editions issued between 1680 and 1687, the last two bearing the imprint editio secunda on the title. In the world of bibliography Senguerdius is still celebrated for his catalogue of the Library of Leiden University (1716).

“The instruction given in natural philosophy at the University of Leyden in the academic year 1679-80 is shown by a compendium based upon his lectures then which Wolferd Senguerd, Ordinary Professor of Philosophy in that institution, dedicated on August 1, 1680, to the curators of the same, and which was printed in 1681 ... He includes numerous experiments, with about fifty diagrams and pictures, chiefly astronomical and physical ... His teaching in some respects is reminiscent of Descartes, but especially avails itself of the notion of ferments of contemporary chemists and the subtle particles or corpuscules of contemporary physicists ... Light is explained, as by Descartes, in terms of round particles. The nature of colour exists in

the disposition of the parts of bodies; black bodies are more porous and so reflect light less than white ones do” (Thorndike VII, pp. 690-91). Senguerdius extensively treats theories of fermentation, matter, astronomy (preferring Tycho Brahe to Copernicus), magnetism, optics, the vacuum, gravitation etc.

Bound at the end is the second edition of Senguerd’s Inquisitiones experimentales, which is mainly concerned with the phenomenon of Air resp. Vacuum and their action in the lung and respiration, cupping and combustion; the last chapter deals with the atmosphere, and contains, at the end, the earliest short series of instrumental observations of the weather in the Netherlands.

The engravings, which are of excellent quality, depict various optical and mechanical experiments and observations, air-pumps, the solar system, a small vessel, models of corpuscules, etc. The engraved title and some of the illustrations are early works by Adriaan Schoonebeeck, a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe. Unlike the majority of copies, the three engravings on pp. 327, 369, 385 are not pasted over; the illustration on page 369 is printed upside down.

All editions are rare. An impeccable copy.

References: Bierens de Haan p. 250; Krivatsy 10901.

55 [SMITH, Charles Hamilton, 1776-1859]. Costume of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations, 1814. Designed by an officer on the staff. Folio (370x256 mm). With a printed title, a frontispiece, engraved dedication leaf, 6 plates with regimental facing colours, and 54 plates of uniforms in aquatint by Joseph Constantine Stadler after C. H. Smith, all in beautiful contemporary handcolouring. Contemporary

tree calf gilt by Susse. Smooth spine divided in panels decorated alternatingly with a lattice pattern and a large fleur-de-lis, red label, covers with a dentelle border composed of acanthus and fleur-de-lys, crowned monogram CF in the corners, centre with coat of arms, turn-ins with a meander roll, all edges gilt. London, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for Messrs. Colnaghi and Co., [1812-] 1815. chf 12 000

Duc De Berry’s copy of this important record of the British Army in the Napoleonic period.

The plates cover all the branches of service including line infantry, light infantry and rifles, heavy and light cavalry, general officers, foreign troops, artillery and engineers, cadets and veterans. Smith’s illustrations are a faithful and delightful record of the uniforms of Wellington’s troops during the closing years of the Peninsular War and at the epic battle of Waterloo.

The earliest plates in this work are dated March 1812 and the last June 1815, a reflection of the fact that it first appeared periodically in 15 parts with four plates in each. Ogilby notes that in the parts issue the date of the ‘Last Regulations’ on the title is 1812, whereas in the bound edition this is altered to 1814.

Smith served in the army between 1797 and 1820, and therefore was well placed to present an accurate and authoritative view on military history. A writer as well as an artist he was responsible for a number of well-received works on British costume, though the present work is his masterpiece.

The duc de Berry, born at Versailles in 1778, left France with his father at the beginning of the revolution. He served in the French royalist army and then the imperial Russian army before settling in England in 1801 where he remained until 1814. The present work was probably

bound for the duke shortly after Waterloo when the royalists were again in charge of Paris. In 1816 he married Princess Maria, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Calabria, and it is she, under her married name of Duchesse de Berry, who is now the better-known of the two, as a collector and bibliophile.

The binder’s label states: «Susse Papetier de S. A. R. le Duc de Berry. Passage des Panoramas N° 7 à Paris”. The stationery Susse Frères was founded in 1758 in Paris. The brothers Nicolas and Victor Susse established a shop at Passage des Panoramas n°7 in 1806 and bought the nos 7-8 in 1816. They were suppliers of the Empress, the Duke of Berry, Princess Louise of Orléans and the Queen of the Belgians. Susse is renowned today as one of the best art foundries.

A fine copy with rare provenance.

Provenance: Charles Ferdinand d’Artois, duc de Berry (1778-1820), his arms and initials on binding.

References: Colas 2754; Vinet 2195; Hiler/Hiler 803; Lipperheide Qh10; Ogilby 870; Tooley 456; Brunet II, 324; Oxford DNB vol. 51, p. 265 f.

56 SORESINI BINDING – ARISTOTLE (384-322 BC). In tres Aristotelis libros de anima.8° (195x132 mm). Latin manuscript on paper in a neat cursive. [2] blank leaves, 153 numbered leaves (1 blank), [32] (last two blank) unnumbered leaves (Index rerum omnium). Contemporary red morocco profusely gilt tooled. Covers with a large border of two double fillets, with foliage and scroll tooling, a large fleur-de-lis on each side, a heart at top and bottom and a salamander in the corners; the central panel filled with leafy scrolls, winged sirens with

snails on their heads, and small heraldic lions, the center formed by a cartouche with a semy of crosslets, spine on five raised bands, the panels decorated with scrolls; plain endpapers, edges gauffered and gilt; one (of two) clasps. Head and foot of spine, joints and corners slightly rubbed. Some ink corrosion to the text, one of two clasps. [Dated and signed on leaf 153 and at the end]: Rome, MDCVI (1606), Vicentius Cavalcantes – V. F. chf 9 500

A stunning Roman baroque binding by the Soresini workshop made for Vincenzo Cavalcanti.

The volume contains the lecture notes of lessons on Aristoteles’ three books of the De anima by the Palermo born Jesuit theologian Giuseppe Agostini (1575-1643) held at the Collegio Romano. The notes were written down by Vincenzo Cavalcanti who signs the manuscript twice: on leaf 153 dating probably the end of the lecture by 26th of August 1606 and again on the last leaf of the lengthy thematic index.

The Cavalcanti were originally a patrician family from Florence where they sided with the Guelph faction. An eminent member of the family was the poet Guido Cavalcanti, a friend of Dante and proponent of the ‘Dolce stil novo’. As a result of the rivalry between Guelphs and Ghibbelines the Cavalcanti were forced to flee to Calabria in 1305, settled in Cosenza and then branched off to Sicily, Udine Gaeta and Naples where they were ascribed to the Neapolitan patriciate. As to Vincenzo Cavalcanti we have very little biographical data. He was the fifth of seven children of Francesco Maria Cavalcanti, 2nd barone della Rota (+1590) and Violante Barracco, daughter of the baron of Lattarico. As evidenced by the present manuscript, Vincenzo stayed in Rome in the early sixteen hundreds, where he might have studied at the Collegio Romano. Cavalcanti signed the manuscript with his full name and the abbreviation V.F., which could mean ‘Vicario foraneo’ (Vicar forane), a priest responsible for a subdivision of a diocese. In 1509 he is

mentioned as a nobleman from Cosenza being awarded the knighthood of the Order of Malta (L. Araldi, L’Italia nobile nelle sue citta’, e ne’ cavalieri figli delle medeme, i quali d’anno in anno sono stati insigniti della Croce di San Giovanni e di San Stefano, Venice 1732, p. 273).

Thanks to researches made by Piccarda Quilici, Guido Vianini Tolomei and others published in the exhibition catalogue Legatura Romana Barocca (see ref.) we can finally put names on bindings executed by artisans active in Rome in the transition period of the 16th to the 17th century. According to these researches the binding at hand can unmistakably be attributed to the workshop of Baldassare Soresini, nephew of Francesco, who founded one of the most celebrated Roman dynasties of binders active throughout the sixteenth and first three decades of the seventeenth century and patronized by noble Roman families, cardinals, and popes. Baldassare Soresini was the most

famous of the Vatican bookbinders of his time working for Pope Paul V and often referred to as Maestro Borghese. Some tools used on our binding (winged siren, salamander, heraldic lion, etc.) are reproduced in the afore mentioned catalogue (plate I) and turn up on an archival binding made for pope Clement VIII in 1608 (plate 17). A striking feature of our binding is the central cartouche with a semy of crosslets, which, at first glance, give the impression of a decorative tooling, but actually reveals to be the coat of arms of the manuscript’s originator, Vincenzo Cavalcanti, who most probably commissioned the binding from Soresini.

We thank Silvio Umberto Cavalcanti for the information on the history of his family.

REFERENCES: Silvio Umberto Cavalcanti, Si chiamavano Cavalcanti, 2009; Legatura romana barocca 1565-1700, catalogo della mostra, Roma 1991, pp. 15-32, plate I and plate 17.

57 THÜNEN, Johann Heinrich von (1783-1850), Der isolirte Staat in Beziehung auf Landwirthschaft und Nationalökonomie, oder Untersuchungen über den Einfluss, den die Getreidepreise, der Reichthum des Bodens und die Abgaben auf den Ackerbau ausüben. 8° (195x120 mm). VIII, 290 pp., [4] ff. (the third blank). With 2 handcoloured plates in lithography. Contemporary half calf, back gilt with fillets, label. Front endpaper with ms. entry (Tom I. pag. 100. D. 27). Hamburg, (Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn in Braunschweig for) Friedrich Perthes, 1826. chf 16 000

First edition of one of the greatest achievements of scientific economics in the 19th century.

Thünen received agricultural training with Lucas Andreas Staudinger

at Groß Flottbek near Hamburg and Albrecht Thaer at Celle. In 1809, after his studies at Göttingen, Thünen purchased Tellow Manor in Mecklenburg which became a model farm. Here he developed the first serious treatment of spatial economics and economic geography, connecting it with the theory of rent and the basics of the theory of marginal productivity in a mathematically rigorous way.

Thünen assumes that agricultural products are not consumed or

processed at the site of their production, hence there are transport costs, which in the 19th century depended on distance, volume and weight of the goods. Therefore Thünen elaborates a concentric geographical model (the famous Thünen Rings) in which the farmer seeks to maximise his profits by reducing labor and transport costs, by choosing the appropriate production location in relation to the distance to the market.

In the first circle with the city in the centre the free economy dominates. In this zone, theoretically all goods could be produced. However it is mainly used for perishable goods or goods with high carriage costs. This is followed by a zone of forest, which supplies the city with firewood and timber. The next is an area of crop rotation, dedicated to potatoes, carrots, legumes etc., followed by a zone in which the land is used alternately as a field or pasture. The fifth zone is dominated by the three-field system, mainly used for grain farming. The outer fields are used for cattle rearing that can defray the transport costs due to their high value.

This approach has been central to modern applications of understanding urban land use patterns, urban sprawl and other spatial studies where transportation costs have an influence over decisions on land use.

The author had to be urged by his friends to have his text eventually published by the Hamburg publisher Friedrich Vieweg and Son who allegedly offered 75 Thaler in form of books, payable only after the sale of at least 400 copies. A second part was published in 1842 together with the second edition, and a third and a fourth part appeared posthumously in 1850 resp. 1853.

An immaculate copy.

References: Goldsmiths›-Kress n° 24861.9; Humpert 1635 and 7984; Kress C. 5974; New Palgrave IV, 639; Edgar Salin, J. H. von Thünen

in seiner Zeit, in: Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte: Special issue Thünen, p. 243 f.; Blaug/Lloyd, Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics (2010) p. 170 f.; Kunz, Klassiker des ökonomischen Denkens vol. I (2011), p. 140 f.

58 VADIANUS, Joachim (1484-1551). Epitome trium terrae partium, Asiae, Africae et Europae compendiariam locorum descriptionem continens, praecipue autem quorum in actis Lucas, passim autem evangelistae & apostoli meminere. Ab ipso authore dilige[n]ter recognita & multis in locis aucta. Cum addito in fronte libri Elencho regionum, urbium, amnium, , insularum, quorum Novo testamento sit mentio, quo expeditius pius lector quae uelit, inuenire queat. 8°. [26] ff. (Aa4 blank),

524 pp., 2 blank leaves (L7-8). With 3 woodcuts and 13 (12 double-page) woodcut maps. 18th century mottled calf, spine gilt and red lettering piece. Hinges repaired, faint dampstain towards the end of the volume, else fine. Zürich, Froschauer, 1548. chf 4 500

The second illustrated edition of this geographical textbook, with a poem by Johannes Kessler and Vadian’s preface addressed to Bullinger. The last chapter (pp. 503-524) is entitled Insulae Oceani praecipuae and concerns America.

The first edition of the Epitome appeared in 1534 in a folio edition with a world map and an octavo edition without any illustration. The second edition of 1546 was, eventually, supplied with maps. These maps were originally cut by Johannes Honter for his Rudimenta Cosmographica of 1542, and copied by Heinrich Vogtherr for the 1546 Froschauer edition of the same work and simultaneously for Vadian’s Epitome.

The image of the sphere is followed by a planisphere with the planetary orbits, a terrestrial sphere, and then the remarkable heart-shaped world map with the American continent in the Stab/Werner projection. The remaining maps show Spain, France, Germany, Poland and the European part of Russia, the Balkans, Greece, Italy, Palestine, Asia Minor, the Near East with India, North Africa with the course of the Nile from the “Montes Lunae” to the Delta and finally Sicily.

Provenance: Claudius Bygot, 16th century owner’s entry on last leaf. – 16th century purchase inscription on upper margin of title (shaved, but readable in places: “Emptus Lutetiae 1548?” etc.) and some marginalia by the same hand. – Unidentified stamp (crowned L) on page 3.

References: Sabin 98281; Harrisse, Add. 170; VD16 V23; Rudolphi 356; Vischer C398.

59 VANVITELLI, Luigi (1700-1773). Dichiarazione dei disegni del Reale Palazzo di Caserta. Alle Sacre Reali Maestà di Carlo Re delle Due Sicilie e di Maria Amalia di Sassonia Regina. Large folio (660x500 mm). [6], XIX pp. With an engraved title, two head and one tail piece, two initials and 14 double-page plates all engraved by C. Nolli, F.Morghen, N. D’ Orazi, R.Pozzi after Vanvitelli. Contemporary red morocco, covers with gilt ornamental border, back on raised bands, the panels gilt with fleurs-de-lys, all edges gilt. Edges and corners somewhat rubbed, small repair to the head of front joint. Dampstain to the lower corner. Napoli, nella Regia Stamperia, 1756. chf 12 000

First and only edition of a spectacular architectural monograph of one of the most grandiose royal palaces ever built.

“14 tavole di grandezza immensa formano la maggior bellezza di quest’opera, non esiste un palazzo inventato con altrettanta grandezza, veramente Reale, in alcun altro paese d’ Europa” (Cicognara 4105).

“This album of fourteen large folio plates, preceded by a brief explanatory text, illustrates the buildings and park of the royal palace at Caserta, south of Naples. The engravings were made after drawings by Luigi Vanvitelli, the architect of the palace, garden, and town of Caserta. Vanvitelli was commissioned by Charles III Bourbon, king of the Two Sicilies and the future king of Spain, to design the entire royal settlement. The engravings were made between February 1752 and July 1756 by three artists associated with the Portici royal school of engraving, from finished drawings by Vanvitelli that have been preserved in the archive Caserta. These engravers were: Carlo Nolli, the son and assistant of the architect and cartographer Giambattista Nolli, who in 1748 had published his famous map of Rome; Rocco Pozzi, son of a Roman ivory worker, student of Girolamo Frezza, and engraver of Pietro Bracci’s statues; and Niccolò Orazi, who worked with his brother Carlo... A fourth graphic

artist, Filippo Morghen, carried out the sumptuous decorative etchings in the dedication – a rococo composition of draperies, acanthus leaves, roses and putti surrounding the royal coat of arms – the headpieces, such as the foundation medal with royal portraits and the view of the Caserta palace at the beginning of the chapter Descrizione del sito... The Dichirazione is an accurate document of Vanvitelli’s design for the building complex on which his fame rests. Caserta was to be, Versailles-like, the public residence of an absolute monarch surrounded by the offices of his governing agencies, executives, military, and diplomatic...The fourteen plates represent the palace and garden of Caserta in plan, section, elevation, and perspective. They are preceded by fourteen long and elegantly printed captions that function as legends to the fourteen plates. There are four plans, of the site, the ‘ground’, the ‘royal’ floor, and the top floor. The site plan illustrates the palace located between the urban square and the landscaped garden and park. The urban square is framed by the oval carriage houses and stables of the guard. The artist Carlo Nolli used a great variety of stippling, hatching, and line weights to represent the variety of planted surfaces and built structures, and his illustration occupies the entire surface of the copperplate” (Millard).

“The plates show: 1-4. Plans of palace and garden, ground, first and top floors; 5, 6. Front and garden front elevations; 7. Section of portico and cortile; 8. Section of full extent of central part; 9. Section of Portico and main vestibule (with plan); 10. Section of cortili in the direction of the vestibule, and lesser entrances; 11. Section of main side of the Scala Regia (with plan); 12. Side of Royal Chapel (section, with plan); 13, 14. Aerial views of palace from front and rear. The design of the great staircase displays the architect’s mastery of the theatrical perspective developed by Bibiena and Longhena. The elevations of the palace have been likened at various times to those of the Buen Retiro, the east facade of the Louvre, and some designs in Colen Campbell’s Vitruvius Brittanicus.” (Royal Academy Collection nr. 03/2815).

The volume includes an engraved title, head and tail-pieces and initials, which were specially designed for it. All plates are signed as drawn by Vanvitelli, and as engraved by Carlo Nolli (pl. 1, 5, 7-10, 12-14), Niccolo Orazi (2-4) or Rocco Pozzi (6, 11). The vignettes of the title-plate and dedication and the head- and tail-pieces of the Descrizione Del Sito are all signed as drawn by Vanvitelli, and as engraved by R. Pozzi or F. Morghen; two decorated initials are signed as engraved by Nolli. They show two putti on a cushion toying with a crown, sceptre and other symbols of royalty (title vignette), royal arms (dedication), medallions with profiles of Carlos VII and his Queen, and a view of the Palace; a globe bearing a map of the dedicatees realm (head- and tail-pieces of the Descrizione Del Sito); a view of a fountain and a riverbank scene (initials). Page XIX ends with the words ‘Fine della prima parte’, and it was evidently the intention to issue a further part or parts; however, this was not the case.

Provenance: Red morocco bookplate with gilt monogram JB (Jacques Bemberg).

References: Fowler 348; Berlin Kat. 2706; BAL IV, 3386; Brunet II, 689. Millard IV, 140; Cicognara, 4105; Brunet, II, 689.

60 VARGAS MACHUCA, Bernardo de (1555-1622). Libro de exercicios de la gineta, compuesto por el Capitan D. Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Indiano, natural de Simancas en Castilla la Vieja. 8° (154x97 mm). [16], 120 ff. With coat of arms of the dedicatee on title and a full-page woodcut on verso of leaf [16].Contemporary morocco gilt, spine in compartments with triple fillets and floral ornaments, sides with triple fillets and cipher in the center. Toned throughout due to poor paper quality. Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, (3 March) 1600. chf 18 000

First edition of one of the earliest Hispano-American books on horsemanship. The Fabri de Peiresc, Camus de Limare, Serna y Santander, Huzard, Curnieu, and Luppé copy.

Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, caudillo and capitano general, had become an authority on the subject while serving for sixteen years in Latin America. After his studies at the university of Valladolid, Vargas Machuca entered the military service of the Spanish king and fought for six years against the Turks. In 1578, he left Spain and sailed to Santiago de Cuba. While in Mexico he was enlisted into the Spanish navy, which at the time was engaged in skirmishes with the warships of Sir Francis Drake. Vargas Machuca then travelled via Chile and Peru, to the town of Santa Fé de Bogotá, where he settled for many years. Early in 1594, he returned to Spain and dedicated himself to writing. Four of his works were published during his lifetime. Three of them are technical treatises on military horsemanship, of which the present

work was the first to be published. These publications fairly represent the attitude of an intelligent and enlightened conquistador in the last quarter of the 16th century.

In his preface the author reveals that the book was written at the request of Count Albrecht Fugger (Alberto Fúcar) a member of the powerful Augsburg family of merchants and bankers to whom the work was dedicated. In addition, there are two sonnets by the Columbian poet Alonso de Carvajal of Tunja and by Don Alonso de Bustos. The illustration comprises the coat-of-arms on the title page of the dedicatee Albrecht Fugger (1574-1614), and a full-page woodcut of a lance-wielding cavalryman; the coat-of-arms above it is probably that of the author.

An exceptional copy in red morocco with the gold-tooled Cipher of Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc.

Peiresc (1580-1637) was a French antiquary, humanist, and influential patron of learning, who also laid claim to the discovery of the Orion Nebula in 1610. He was among the first to emphasise the study of coins for historical research. He traveled in Italy between 1599 and 1602; while studying at Padua, he became acquainted with Galileo who stimulated Peiresc’s antiquarian and astronomical interests. A senator at the Parliament of Aix from 1605, he corresponded with the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens and many of the noted scholars of the day. Peiresc was also the first to verify William Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of blood. Sir Isaac Newton cited the use of his work on optics. He encouraged the legal studies of the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius, and was largely responsible for the publication of a well-known political satire of the time, Argenis, by the Scottish poet John Barclay (Encyclopedia Brittanica).

In his home in Aix en Provence Peiresc amassed a very important collection of books, which he had luxuriously bound by his personal

bookbinder and amanuensis Simon Corberan and by the most accomplished Parisian artisans, such as Le Gascon and others. The more “modest” bindings, just adorned with his cipher are by Corberan. The library was dispersed after his death and only a handful of his books were bequeathed to his friend and biographer Gassendi. – Very rare!

Provenance: Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637; see comment). – Le Camus de Limare (sale 1786). – Charles Antoine de la Serna y Santander (1752-1813), conservateur at the Brussels library (his sale 1809 in Paris). – J. B. Huzard (1755-1838), inspecteur général des écoles vétérinaires, with his autograph entry: «cet ouvrage n’a passé dans aucune vente, depuis celle de M. Le Camus de Limare, en 1786, jusqu’à celle de M. De la Cerna Santander, en 1809, ou je l’ai acheté», his sale 1842, cat. III, nr. 4626. – Charles-Louis-Adélaïde-Henri Mathevon, baron de Curnieu (1811-1871), hippologist and professor at Ecole des Harras; «possédait une très belle bibliothèque hippique – acquis un grand nombre d’ouvrages rares et précieux à la vente d’Huzard» (Mennessier de la Lance). – Marquis Pierre Louis François de Luppé (1866-1934), his bookplate.

References: Dejager 229; Palau 352447; Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, 418; Alden/Landis I, 600/96; E. Otero de Costa, Biográfica disertación sobre el capitán don Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, in: Revista de Indias XII (1952), p. 49f.; B. Flores Hernández, La jineta indiana, in: Anuario de Estudios Americanos LIV/2 (1997), 639f.

61 [VEIRAS, Hans Franz, c. 1576-1672]. Heutelia, Das ist: Beschreibung einer Reiß, so zween Exulanten durch Heuteliam gethan ... 8° (152x95 mm). Engraved title, [6], 297 pp. (recte 295), [4] ff., of which one blank. 18th century boards with ms. labels. Slightly scuffed and browned. Lutetiae [recte Ulm, no printer], 1658. chf 1 800

First edition. A rare work from the Baroque period, situated between travelogue, satire and utopia, whose authorship could never be fully clarified. It is generally assumed, however, that the book was written by Hans Franz Veiras, a religious refugee living in exile in Protestant Switzerland. Immediately after publication, the work was banned by the authorities, because the social conditions of the country were critically examined from a reformed, aristocratic and humanistic point of view. It describes the journey of two German religious refugees mainly through the territory of Bern. – Complete copy with the key (Clavis Heutelia) for the numerous anagrams and malapropisms.

Provenance: Matthias Usteri, with his notes, dated 1703.

References: Haller V, 1195; Faber du Faur 448; Jantz, 2572; VD 17 (Online Kat.) 23:299560W (unter Gravisset).

62 [VILLENEUVE, Daniel Jost de, pseud. Listonai (fl. 1750-1764)]. Le voyageur philosophe dans un pais inconnu aux habitants de la terre. Two volumes 12° (165x105 mm). XXIV, 339, [1]; VI, 384 pp. Contemporary boards, spine gilt and with labels. Somewhat rubbed, a few gatherings browned. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de l’éditeur, 1761. chf 1 200

First edition of a scarce tale of a voyage to the moon by means of one of the earliest fictional aeronautical devices. On a trip to Canada, the narrator embarks on an interplanetary airship piloted by ‘intrépide calculateur de l’infini’. Arriving on the Moon’s capital, Selenopolis, he discovers a radiant city where the inhabitants live harmoniously and where physical and metaphysical knowledge is within the reach of the people. He describes education, literature, government, costumes, arts, etc., and multiple inventions. Meeting an old man, the story then

develops into a philosophical tale that satirizes society, comparing the natural and the social state. It is only at the end that we learn that everything described was a dream, with the narrator waking up at the foot of his bed. The work was put on the index in January 1763.

Provenance: 18th century engraved armorial bookplate and of Franz Pollack-Parnau (1903-1981).

References: Negley 1141; Conlon 61:1110; Racault, L’utopie narrative en France et en Angleterre 1675-1761 (1991), 265f.; Fortunati/Trousson 683f.; C. Imbroscio, Le voyageur philosophe: alterità e specularità nel viaggio lunare di Listonai, in: Minerva, La luna allo specchio (1990), p. 55ff.

63 [WIMPFEN, François Louis Alexandre de (1752-1820]. Lettres d’un voyageur. Two parts in one volume 8° (165x101 mm). XV, 131 pp.; [2] ff., 152 pp. Contemporary boards. Spine and edges rubbed, corners somewhat scuffed. Amsterdam et se trouve à Paris, De Bure l’aîné, 1788. chf 450

First edition of a rare travel account. Baron Wimpfen, scion of an old Alsatian family, relates in epistolary form his journeys to London, Brittany, the island of Oléron, Canary Islands and particularly the island of Annobón in the Gulf of Guinea. A German translation by P. J. Rehfues was published in Darmstadt in 1814 under the title: Letters of a traveller, written from England and France, part of Africa, and from North America.

Copy on bluish paper.

References: Conlon XXIII, 88:4178; Cf. Quérard, La France littéraire X, 521.