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2 Vols The Botanic Garden: A Poem in Two Parts

1789réf. 1014H20Lichfield; London: J. Johnson; Printed by J. Jackson 1789-1791. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 11" by 9". William Blake; John Henry Fuseli. A particularly desirable pairing of the first editions of Erasmus Darwin"s complete Botanic Garden transforming botanical science into verse illustrated with engravings by William Blake after Fuseli. In a contemporary half calf binding with marbled paper boards later rebacked and recornered with spine labels. First editions of both parts: The Loves of the Plants although designated Part II was published first in 1789; The Economy of Vegetation followed in 1791 completing The Botanic Garden. The second volume is slightly taller than the first. Part II is seldom encountered in its first edition making its presence here particularly desirable. A fantastic poetic rendering of contemporary botany and science in which Erasmus Darwin 1731-1802 physician naturalist inventor and grandfather of Charles Darwin. In The Economy of Vegetation Darwin celebrates natural philosophy invention and technological progress; in The Loves of the Plants he popularises the Linnaean sexual system of botanical classification through the romances of personified flowers stamens and pistils. The verse is accompanied throughout by extensive philosophical and scientific notes. Volume I is illustrated with an engraved frontispiece engraved by Anker Smith after Henry Fuseli and nine further plates one of which is folding. This copy includes William Blake"s engraving "The Fertilization of Egypt" after a design by Henry Fuseli depicting Anubis and the Nile; the British Museum identifies the plate as Blake"s work. The four Portland Vase engravings are also by Blake produced for The Economy of Vegetation. The four Portland Vase plates are bound at variance with the directions to the binder at the rear: "The Whole Vase" facing p. 53 "The First Compartment" facing p. 54 "The Second Compartment" facing p. 55 and "The Handles" facing p. 58 rather than all four facing p. 88 as called for. Volume II is illustrated with aesigned by Emma Crewe and engraved by Samuel Alken seven further engraved plates and a vignette. The directions to the binder and errata leaf at the end of volume II have been neatly cut down and pasted to the foot of page 184. The first part also includes Darwin"s abolitionist passage inspired by Josiah Wedgwood"s celebrated medallion of the kneeling chained slave invoking the appeal: "Are we not Brethren" Collated complete. Volume I ESTC No.: T82160 Volume II: ESTC No.: T82159 4 b2 B4-2E4 A4-S4; 7 B4-Z4 2A2-2B2 In a contemporary half calf binding with marbled paper boards later rebacked and recornered with spine labels. Externally a little worn. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Rubbing to boards resulting slight surface loss to paper. Worcester Library bookplate to front pastedowns with contemporary ink annotations marked "Fourteen Days" to the first volume. Hinges reinforced. Slight ink offsetting to front free endpaper of volume II. Slight discolouration from binder's glue and light scattered spotting to endpapers. Small ink mark to fore edge of front free endpaper of volume I. Internally firmly bound. Pages characteristically age toned with light scattered spotting heavier to fore edge margins of plates and first and last few leaves more pronounced to volume I notably to the frontispiece and pp. 184-202. Discreet archival repairs to the margins of the plates and first leaves of volume I; slight cropping to the margins of the Portland Vase plates. Small closed tear to lower margins of plates facing pp. 58 and 54 in the additional notes of volume I. Slight cockling to fore edge. Minor edge wear resulting in one or two very small closed tears and chips. Directions to the binder and errata leaf to end of volume II laid down to the foot of pp. 184. Very Good J. Johnson; Printed by J. Jackson hardcover

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Erasmus Desiderius.ABAA

Desiderii Erasmi opera omnia in decem tomos distincta.

1500réf. 31801Lugduni Batavorum Leiden: Pieter van der Aa 170306. Folio extra 39.4 cm 15.5". 10 vols. in 11. I: 3 ff. 24 64 pp. 1226 cols. i.e. 1240; engr. t.-p. 1 double-pg. engr. plt. and 1 full-pg. engr. plt. II: 6 ff. 1212 cols. 54 pp. IIIa: 15 ff. 1104 cols.; 18 full-pg. engr. plts. IIIb: 2 ff. cols. 1105-944 92 ff.; 2 full-pg. engr. plts. IV: 3 ff. 758 cols. i.e. 768; 1 full-pg. engr. plt. 75 single-col. engr. vignettes 3.5 sq. and 6 double-col. engr. vignettes 4.25 x 7.25. V: 3 ff. 1360 cols. VI: 29 ff. 1126 cols. 17 pp. VII: 6 ff. 1198 cols. 1 p. VIII: 3 ff. 652 cols. IX: 3 ff. 1248 cols.; 1 fold-out plt. 1 full-pg. plt. X: 2 ff. cols. 1249860 64 ff. Before his death Erasmus 14661536 divided his writings into nine ordines categories for posthumous publication. This is the second edition of his collected works first published in nine volumes by Froben in 1540. Like the original this set includes additions by authors from the Dutch humanist's international circle and portraits of the same as well as => myriad engravings after Holbein. The printer Pieter van der Aa 16591733 was an apprentice of Daniel van Gaasbeeck fl. 165592 and primarily known for maps and travel books. The text in all volumes is in Latin with some Greek printed in roman and italic mostly double-column with sidenotes and many large woodcut initials and tailpieces as well as some engraved headpieces. Vol. I has both a general title-page and a volume title-page; each of the volume title-pages is printed in red and black and features a large engraved vignette signed by the illustrator J. Goeree and the engraver J. Baptist; some volumes also have sectional title-pages. There are many engraved plates: vol. I features an added engraved title-page a double-page plate and one full-page plate; in vol. III part one there are => 18 full-page engraved portraits of contemporaries of Erasmus including Melanchthon Alciatus Charles V and Bembo as well as two more full-page portraits in vol. III part two. In Praise of Folly in vol. IV is illustrated with => 75 single-column-width engraved vignettes 3.5 sq. and six double-column-width engravings 4.25 x 7.25 after the famous Holbein originals and a full-page engraved portrait of the artist. Vol. IX has one large engraved fold-out plate signed by van der Aa at Leiden engraved by D. Stoopendael as well as one full-page engraved plate unsigned of medallions against a drapery backdrop. => A handsome folio set. Provenance: Most volumes have a large stamped "Y" on the front pastedown and a faded => 18th-century ink inscription by a monk on the title-page. All volumes in contemporary sheep recently rebacked and repaired using brown calf spine with raised bands accented by gilt ruling with a blind ornament in each compartment title and tome number gilt on green leather spine labels and date gilt collector-style on red leather labels at bases; marbled endpapers and red edges. Boards scuffed and chipped in places; all hinges inside repaired with later marbled paper. Ex- library: most volumes with bookplate and old-fashioned oval stamp on front pastedown stamps on bottom edge and multiple leaves of text early accession number to front free endpaper verso and bottom margin of first text leaf. In all volumes some leaves very browned; occasional dampstaining foxing or other small stains from chemical reactions in paper; small natural paper flaws short closed tears and a few corners torn away not affecting text. Title-page of vol. I with closed interior tear stemming from deep impression of its large engraved vignette; one small tear in vol. IV repaired with monogrammed sticker! Tout entière a nice set. Pieter van der Aa hardcover books

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FRANCISCI Erasmus 1627 1694ABAA

Die letzte Rechenschafft Jeglicher und aller Menschen

1681réf. 4103Nürnberg: Wolfgang Moritz Endter and Johann Andreas Endter 1681. Thick 8vo 161 x 95 x 77 mm. 26 1214 2 pages. Title printed in red and black double-page engraved frontispiece or additional engraved title sixty-four numbered engraved plates of which four folding; 43 signed by Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz 21 unsigned including one of the two frontispiece engravings folding plates 36 and 41 by J. Sandrart. Final errata leaf. Two gothic typefaces woodcut initials typographic printed music on p. 257. Contemporary vellum over pasteboards upper cover stamped in silver-gilt faded I.B.G.V.H. Johann Bernhard Graf von Herberstein and 1681 manuscript spine title edges red-stained lacking pair of fore-edge ties. fine. Provenance: Johann Bernhard Graf von Herberstein 1630-1685 binding and ms. inscription on frontispiece; Christoph Wenzel Graf von Nostitz -Rieneck 1648-1712 bibliophile art collector and art patron engraved armorial bookplate with initials C.W.G.V.N.; stencilled shelfmark 58 on backstrip; with Haus der Bücher Basel catalogue 706 Deutsche Literature der Barockzeit part 1 1963 no. 280.First Edition of a very rare baroque emblem book on the Last Judgment by one of Germany's first professional writers a beautiful copy in immaculate condition. Francisci son of the Lübeck jurist Franciscus von Finx named himself "son of Franciscus" i.e. Francisci. More unusual than this endearing foible was his successful career as a free-lance man of letters. A prolific and popular polymath Francisci died at the age of 68 "having left behind almost as many volumes" Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Throughout his career he worked as a sort of house author with the Nuremberg publishing house of the Endter family. "There was hardly an area of knowledge at which he did not try his hand. As one of the first full-time professional authors of Germany Francisci understood how to switch if the need arose to a new area of interest that promised good sales for his publisher" Dunnhaupt Bibliographisches Handbuch I p. 628 my trans. With gusto and success he catered to an audience hungry for tales of distant lands for folklore and "a world saturated with wonders" Faber du Faur German Baroque Literature p. 198 compiling tales of travel and distant lands compendia of natural history and curiosities historical works and devotional meditations. As the thickness of this volume intimates Francisci's Sitzfleisch was awe-inspiring. His versatility huge readership and connections with many members of the "republic of letters" made him one of the most influential German writers of the Baroque. While the prose of his religious works may seem cloying to the modern reader they sold as well as his secular compilations. Being widely read across social classes fine copies of his books are rare. The 64 Bedenckungen considerations of the present treatise are interwoven with fables anecdotes and digressions. Each is illustrated with an engraved emblem Sinnbild set within an exuberant ornamental border the borders of most of the 21 unsigned plates apparently by a less skilled engraver than Schurtz are plainer. Francisci is known to have worked closely with his illustrators and presumably collaborated on the design of these engravings by Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz Joachim von Sandrart and one other engraver the 21 unsigned plates are in plainer borders and appear to be the work of a less skilled engraver. Characteristically varied in subject-matter the emblems and emblematic scenes are largely secular showing scenes of war domestic life natural disasters seafaring including shipwrecks the plant and animal world including exotic species children romping fireworks alchemical apparatus and even an amputation and a corpse being dissected in an anatomy hall. Only a few contain biblical scenes. Most striking are the four folding plates frightening panoramas of Judgment Day and the two unearthly frontispiece illustrations of which the first shows two men a virtuous man and a sinner in bed dreaming of their respective afterlives. Himself a tireless hymn-writer Francisci dedicated this work on Doomsday to one of the most important composers of Baroque hymns Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt Duchess of Württemberg 1652-1712. The book includes twenty original hymns or Kirchenlieder to be sung to identified choral melodies. The presumably less well-known music for one Trostlied hymn of consolation is provided on p. 257 with accompanying bass line. This edition collates :8 - :1.8 : : 8 -::8 A-4G8: the signing of the two preliminary quires is odd but this copy is complete. The double-leaf engraving at front may have been counted as the first leaf of the first quire since the first letterpress leaf following the letterpress title is signed ":iii". Both the first quire containing the title-leaf and dedication and the second containing laudatory poems signed by S. E. Gr. zu L and by Joachimus Simon the foreword and the table of contents contain no 8th leaf. This matches other copies and seems to have been due to composing miscalculations resulting in the removal of the final blank of each quire. Some cataloguers included the two-leaf engraved title or frontispiece in their folio count counting 15 preliminary leaves and others more correctly count 13 leaves.Not in NUC; OCLC locates a single copy in an American library at Berkeley. VD-17 reveals that this edition is one of two variant typesettings with the same imprint the other is VD17 1:664300Y; priority is not known and they may be different states of the same edition. A second edition or possibly a re-issue of these sheets appeared in 1684. VD17 12:102498K; Goedeke Grundriss zur Geschichte der Deutschen Dichtung III: 90 176; Dünnhaupt Personalbibliographien zu den Drucken des Barock 1990-93 1538 32.1; Dünnhaupt Bibliographisches Handbuch der Barockliteratur 1980-81 I: 649 32; Praz Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery 339. Wolfgang Moritz Endter and Johann Andreas Endter unknown books

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ERASMUS, DesideriusBiblio.com

De ratione studii ac legendi interpretandique auctores libellus aureus. Officium discipulorum ex Quintiliano. Qui primo legendi ex eodem. Erasmi concio de puero Iesu in schola coletica Londini instituta pronuncianda. Eiusdem expostulatio Iesu ad mortales. Eiusdem carmina scholaria.

1516réf. ABC_49694Colophon Strasbourg: Matthias Schürer 1516. Modern brown pigskin with a blind-tooled single fillet frame on both boards gold-tooled turn-ins red edges in a beige paperboard slipcase. 4to. With a woodcut decorated title frame and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Early edition of Erasmus seminal educational treatise De ratione studii here presented alongside several other influential pedagogical and devotional texts. It further includes: Officium discipulorum ex Quintiliano The duties of students according to Quintilian including a section on the first stages of learning to read also derived from Quintilian a sermon on the child Jesus by Erasmus intended for delivery at the Colet School in London a lament of Jesus addressed to mankind and a collection of school poems.The opening dedication addressed to Peter Viterius a professor of liberal arts sets the tone for this work: Erasmus praises his friends discernment and judgment in matters of education using vivid comparisons drawn from military strategy and classical mythology to underscore the importance of order and method in learning. Without it he argues even the most gifted minds may falter. Of particular note is Erasmus endorsement of an instructional technique that became central to Renaissance humanist pedagogy: the use of structured annotation. In De ratione studii he recommends that students classify selected passages under thematic headings a mnemonic device that aids both retention and retrieval. This principle would go on to shape the methods of early modern teaching and note-taking. It also reflects Erasmus' broader educational reforms where rhetoric and moral philosophy intersect. His engagement with progymnasmata preliminary rhetorical exercises especially those of Aphthonius favoured for their clear organisation into theory and examples demonstrates his commitment to practical and accessible instruction for young learners.With some contemporary and later underlining and annotations in red and brown ink mainly consisting of corrections additions to the text and markings of significant passages. Two minor worm holes througout barely affecting the text. The gutters between leaves V-VI; VII-VIII; XX-XXI; and after leaf XXIII have been reinforced in the gutter with linen tape slightly browned throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l Adams E 346; Bezzel 1709; USTC 653250 9 copies; Vander Haeghen I 169; VD16 E 3534; not in BM STC German; De Reuck; Kossmann. Matthias Schürer, hardcover

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ERASMUS, DesideriusBiblio.com

Epistolae ad diversos & aliquot aliorum ad illum per amicos eruditos Ex ingentibus fasciculis schedarum collectae.

1521réf. ABC_49922Basel 1521. Folio. Johann Froben Modern blind-tooled red morocco with the author title and year of publication lettered in gold on the spine a single fillet border on both boards red edges. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page by Urs Graf 2 decorative woodcut borders in the text by Ambrosius Holbein numerous decorated woodcut initials and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. 12 "668" =618 6 pp First complete edition of the letters of Desiderius Erasmus containing 171 letters which had never been published before with correspondence with many of the most prominent figures of the 16th century. The work has been beautifully illustrated with a splendid large woodcut title border by Urs Graf ca. 1485-1528 known as "The triumph of Humanitas" and two fine borders by Ambrosius Holbein ca. 1494-1519. The present copy has been annotated in several contemporary hands and was owned by Ralph Widdrinton d. 1688 the Regius professor of Greek at Cambridge University.The Epistolae ad diversos contains 617 letters in total and is far larger than any of the earlier collections of Erasmus' correspondence namely the Epistolae aliquot of January 1518 52 letters the Auctarium of October 1518 63 letters and the Farrago of November 1519 333 letters. The present letter collection is also the first with a preface by Erasmus. The majority of the letters date to 1519-1521 but some are earlier with the first dated to 11 July 1513. They reflect Erasmus' changing stance towards Luther and Protestantism but also continue his attacks on friars and the theologians of Louvain. Among the authors correspondents are prominent humanists and other important figures including Beatus Rhenanus Ulrich Zasius Johann Eck Guillaume Budé Jean Grolier Georg Spalatin Hermann von dem Busche Konrad Peutinger John Colet Thomas More John Fisher Thomas Linacre William Grocyn Luther Melanchton Pope Leo X and Henry VIII King of England. Erasmus later made many editorial changes to the letters making the present edition of particular importance.With a later ownership annotation "R. Widdrington" on the title page. The binding is very lightly soiled. The work is slightly browned throughout with contemporary and later manuscript annotations in the margins in three different hands a vertical tear in the upper part of the first errata leaf without loss of text. Otherwise a very good copy with ample margins.l Adams E 852; BM STC German p. 276; Erasmus Online 2069; USTC 651629 34 copies; Vander Haeghen I 99; VD 16 VD16 E 2925. EARLY PRINTING & MANUSCRIPTS LAW PHILOSOPHY & POLITICS RELIGION & DEVOTION Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion 16th Century hardcover

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Erasmus, Desiderius; Gebwiler, JeromeBiblio.com

Ratio seu methodus; Enchiridion; Modus orandi Deum; Gravissimae sacrilegii

1528réf. 1361Strasbourg Hagenau: Knobloch; Seltz 1528. Four works in one volume. In contemporary wooden panels with the traces of leather and a codex leaf on spine. Spine with three raised bands. The original copper clasps are presented. The title pages of the first three works by Erasmus with identical architectural borders. Signs on top edge in ink. Old collection stamp on verso of inner front pastedown. Sporadic manuscript marginal notes removed. Occasional underlines in the text throughout. Few stains throughout some leaves tanned. The title page of the fourth work Gebwiler with a tiny loss to the right edge with no effect on the text. Overall in fine condition. Four works in one volume. In contemporary wooden panels with the traces of leather and a codex leaf on spine. Spine with three raised bands. The original copper clasps are presented. The title pages of the first three works by Erasmus with identical architectural borders. Erasmus Desiderius Ratio seu methodus compendio perveniendi ad veram theologiam. Ratio verae theologiae. Argentorati Strasbourg: Ioannes Knoblochus Knobloch October 1523. 80 leaves. Bound with: Erasmus Desiderius Enchiridion militis Christiani saluberrimis praeceptis refertum …. Argentorati Strasbourg: Ioannes Knoblochus Knobloch November 1524. 100 leaves. Bound with: Erasmus Desiderius Modus orandi Deum. Argentorati Strasbourg: Ioannes Knoblochus J. Knobloch December 1524. 46 leaves. Bound with: Gebwiler Hieronymus Gravissimae sacrilegii ac contemptae theosebiae ultionis ethnicorum Hebraeorum et Christianorum verißimis comprobatae exemplis syngramma …. Haguenau Wilhelm Seltz 1528. 32 leaves last blank. Three sixteenth-century early Erasmus editions printed by Knobloch bound with Gebwiler’s first edition containing the earliest printed quotation from Hortus deliciarum. The third work in the volume Modus orandi Deum is generally regarded as the central text of Desiderius Erasmus’s teaching on prayer. The present edition dated December 1524 is the second following the first edition issued by Froben in October of the same year. The work circulated widely soon after publication: by the end of 1525 ten further impressions had appeared from presses across Europe. USTC records only eight surviving institutional copies of this December 1524 edition B. Er. I; Mynors 587; Bezzel 1285; Schmidt VII 284; VD16 E 3169; USTC 676366; EON 2424. The first work Ratio seu methodus October 1523 is likewise an early edition. Its editio princeps was published in Leuven by Thierry Martens in November 1518. This Knobloch edition is scarce: USTC records only four copies Augsburg Cambridge Edinburgh Neuchâtel and it is not listed in VD16 USTC 709423; Müller Knobloch 395; Benzing 544. The second work Enchiridion militis Christiani Handbook of the Christian Knight is among Erasmus’ earliest writings first printed in 1503. The preliminaries include all four Latin poems by Thomas More which first appeared together in the Mainz edition of 1520. This edition is also rare: USTC records only five institutional copies VD16 E 2774; USTC 650176. The final work in the sammelband is Gravissimae sacrilegii by Jérôme Gebwiler. Gebwiler is recognized as the earliest scholar to describe Hortus deliciarum Bischoff 1973 p. 13 the illuminated encyclopedic manuscript compiled by Herrad of Landsberg twelfth-century abbess of Hohenburg Abbey Mont Sainte-Odile destroyed in 1870 during the siege of Strasbourg. In this work Gebwiler quotes the dedicatory poem of Hortus deliciarum attributed either to Herrad herself or to Relinda of Hohenburg her predecessor as abbess Griffiths 2013 p. 231. This quotation represents the earliest appearance of the text in print VD16 G 597; USTC 660780. References: Bischoff C.: L’histoire. In: Green R. et al.: Herrad von Hohenburg Hortus deliciarum. London Leiden: The Warburg Institute University of Leiden E. J. Brill 1979. pp. 9–16.; Griffiths F.: Herrad of Hohenbourg and the Poetry of the Hortus deliciarum: Cantat tibi cantica. In: Churchill L. J. et al.: Women Writing Latin. … Volume 2. Medieval Modern Women Writing Latin. New York London: Routledge 2013. pp. 231– 264. . Knobloch; Seltz unknown

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ERASMUS, DesideriusBiblio.com

In novum testamentum Annotationes ab ipso autore iam quartum recognitae. auctario neuti poenitendo locupletataes.

1527réf. 33077-1245Basel Joh. Froben Febr. 1527. Half-title with woodcut printer's device title-page within woodcut architectural border 2nd title-page fol. 1v. with different figured woodcut border different printer's device on last leaf verso and at the end numerous large and small figured woodcut initials in the text by Urs Graf Ambrosius Holbein and Hans Frank. 4 leaves 710 1 pp.; 28 leaves index. Folio. 17th century calf back gilt joints and foot of spine somewhat restored. Old ms. name on title. Basel Joh. Froben Febr. 1527. An important document of the humanistic spirit and remarkably beautifully printed with outstanding book decoration during Erasmus' lifetime. In the early years of the 16th century the demand for the original text of the New Testament began to mount and Erasmus 1467-1536 soon saw the necessity to translate the original Greek text into Latin. His first text-critical edition of the New Testament was one of the important foundations for Reformation theology. These present Erasmus commentaries were the first ferment of theological discussion at that time and are of great value. This is the 4th printing of the additional text notes contributed by Erasmus. They show mistakes that ancient theologians had made during their translation and revealed misunderstandings that had arisen due to the lack of knowledge of the text copyists. The first separate printing of this work was done by Froben at Basel in 1519 Bezzel 1212 as an indepent work. Through the years probably altogether a total of eight editions appeared as listed by most of the bibliographers. Numerous excerpts and vernacular versions circulated later.- Some little wormholes in the last 30 leaves some spots otherwise with wide margins and still a good copy. - VD 16 E 3096; Adams E-891; Vander Haeghen II 58; Bezzel 1215; Hieronymus Oberrhein. Buchillustration II 302 detailed; cf. Knaake II 302. BIBLES ; HELVETICA: ALLGEMEIN ; BIBELN RELIGION ; HUMANISM ; REFORMATION ; Basel, Joh. Froben unknown

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Erasmus, DesideriusBiblio.com

Paraphrases Des. Erasmi Roterodami In epistolas Pauli apostoli ad Rhomanos Corinthios & Galatas quae commentarii vice esse possunt

1520réf. 2283Basileae Basel: Apud Ioan. Frob. Colophon: Per Hieronymvm Frob. Ioan Filium Johann and Hieronymus Froben 1520. First collected edition. . In 17th century vellum the author’s name lettered in ink to spine tinted edges. Leonhard Bürck’s possessor’s inscription in ink on the title page and p. 431. Woodcut borders to the four title pages. Woodcut initials and headpieces. Woodcut printer’s device at the end. Old underlines and marginal notes in ink to a few pages. Stains occasionally. Old restoration to O1–2 with no effect on the text. Overall in very good condition. First collected edition. . In 17th century vellum the author’s name lettered in ink to spine tinted edges. Leonhard Bürck’s possessor’s inscription in ink on the title page and p. 431. Woodcut borders to the four title pages. Woodcut initials and headpieces. Woodcut printer’s device at the end. 465=495 1 p. Some misnumberred omitted. Coll.: A–K8 L4 M–Z8 2A–2e8 2F4 2G–2I8. Scarce first edition of Erasmus’ paraphrases on the first four Pauline epistles with possessor’s inscription of the important 17th-century publisher in Frankfurt Leonhard Brück. The present volume of Paraphrases is the first collected edition of Erasmus’ monumental commentary on the Gospels which was composed and published between 1517 and 1523. Erasmus began the work on the commentary of the Gospels with the Pauline epistles. They were first issued separately starting with the paraphrase of Romans in 1517 Thierry Martens continued with both epistles of Corinthians 1519 Thierry Martens and the Galatians which was published in 1520 by Martens in Louvain and Froben in Basel. The remaining epistles appeared by 1521 when they were also published in a collected edition by Froben. Any of the lifetime editions of the Paraphrases both separate and collected are rare on the market. Provenance: inscription on title page and on p. 431 “M. Leonhardus Bürck me possidit Anno 162”; Leonhard Bürck Burck Burkius Burcken was a printer and publisher in Frankfurt active between 1611 and 1628. Bürck is identified as the step-grandfather of Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. USTC 682544 5 copies only in Germany; Bezzel 1163; VD 16 E 3060. Apud Ioan. Frob. [Colophon: Per Hieronymvm Frob. Ioan Filium] [Johann and Hieronymus Froben] unknown

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ERASMUS ULRICH VON HUTTEN DIOGENES LAERTIUS 1 Burley, Walter, Pseudo- (ca 1320); Diogenes Laertius (3rd c CE)Biblio.com

Vita Philosophorum et Poetarum : cum auctoritatibus et sententiis aureis eorundem annexis

1516réf. 4621Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch 1516. Hardcover. Fine. Bound with: 2. Erasmus Desiderius 1466-1536 De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commentarij duo. Ab authore ipso diligentissime recogniti & emaculati atque in plerisque locis aucti. . ; Item Epistola Erasmi Roterodami ad Iacobum Vuimphelingium Selestatinum. Strasbourg: Mathias Schürer October 1516 And: 3. Hutten Ulrich von 1488-1523; Weiditz Hans 1495- ca. 1536 artist. ΟΥΤΙΣ. Nemo Augsburg: Johann Miller 9 September 1518 Three Publications in One Volume: Quarto: 19.3 x 13.6 cm. I. Burley 8 LII ff. Collation: i-viii8 A-B8 C-D4 E8 F4-H4 I8 leaf 8 in fist gathering blank. II. Erasmus 6 LXXIII 5 ff. Collation: 1-66 a4 b8 c4 d8 e-f4 g8 h-i4 k8 l-m4 n8 o6. III. Hutten 12 ff. Collation: A-C4 A humanist sammelband featuring Ulrich von Hutten's satire championing the liberal arts with the impressive woodcut of Hutten's Odyssean hero surrounded by the equipment of all students: books a flagon board games musical instruments. Bound in 16th c. pigskin signed S.K.E. and dated 1575 soiled and stained corners bumped. The binding tooled in blind with a roll tool with images of Christ St. Paul and King David playing his lyre signed HW Haebler I p. 486/8. Contents in good condition a little careworn binding and contents moderately soiled scattered marginal notes and underscores occasional stains. Text block cut a bit close at the head at the time 1572 of rebinding; text block separating at front of volume. I. Burley: title page with numerous pen-trials 17th c. ownership note; short worm-trail to first three leaves only not affecting text; damp-stain to corner of first gathering. II. Erasmus: Title with white-on-black woodcut border with fools columns and putti supporting a shield with the printer’s initials. The name of Erasmus has been censored on the first two lvs. in ink with shine though onto the following two lvs. and by scratching out the name elsewhere in the text. Small marginal dampstain occ. notes. III. Hutten: With the iconic full-page woodcut title by Hans Weiditz see below for details. Mild soiling throughout final gathering lightly browned/stained cut close at head. I. Medieval Encounters with the Ancient Philosophers Burley Walter Pseudo- ca. 1320; Diogenes Laertius 3rd c. CE Vita Philosophorum et Poetarum : cum auctoritatibus et sententiis aureis eorundem annexis Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch 1516 ONE OF NUMEROUS EARLY EDITIONS. The first edition was printed in 1470. Now believed to have been composed in the early 14th c. from the 15th c. up until the 20th “The Lives of the Philosophers and Poets” was transmitted under the name of Walter Burley ca. 1275–1344 one of the most prominent and influential philosophers of the fourteenth century. Burley had a very long career in both England and France becoming Master of Arts at Oxford by 1301 and Master of Theology at Paris by 1324. He produced a large body of about fifty works many of which were widely read in the later Middle Ages. “In 1990 the image of ‘De vita et moribus’ suffered a terrible blow when Mario Grignaschi severed its connection with Walter Burley Grignaschi “Lo Pseudo Walter Burley” 131–90 and in the same volume “Corrigenda et addenda” 325–54. Grignaschi showed that the work had to have been composed in northern Italy which had the resources in classical materials and that – from the evidence of an anonymous work dated 1326 that made use of it – it had to have been made no later than the 1320s perhaps even about 1310 that is during a period long before Burley arrived in Bologna. Overnight ‘De vita et moribus’ was deprived of its glamorous Burleian associations with Oxford Paris high scholasticism debates about realism and the Plantagenet court to be revealed as the work of an anonymous Italian who is now referred to – teasingly and cruelly – as the ‘Pseudo-Burley.’ How the work came to be attributed to Burley in fifteenth - century manuscripts is unclear although the attribution stuck and was reaffirmed in early prints… “Adding insult to injury the ‘De vita et moribus’ was hack work not the product of thoughtful pedagogical ruminations in the Oxford common rooms. The anonymous Italian was keen to get his work out there in a competitive literary market so he worked quickly. To this end to find lively day-to-day pictures of the ancient philosophers the Pseudo-Burley turned to that eminently chatty anecdootal resource long derided by classicists and philosophers Diogenes Laertius’ Lives and scooped out from it as much detail as suited his purpose supplementing it with anything else to hand to expand his topic. Thus he lumps Pre-Socratics Cynics Skeptics Epicureans Academicians and Stoics together almost indiscriminately with poets dramatists orators and sophists physicians historians and grammarians and he extends the coverage beyond Diogenes’ Hellenic limits to include various authors of Latin antiquity. Some of the gnomic material in the work is derived from the Arabic -Spanish-Latin ‘Bocados de oro’ notably in the chapter on Plato Hasse 50–52; Ferrer 682.”Rita Copeland “Behind the Lives of Philosophers Reading Diogenes Laertius in the Western Middle Ages” A Pleasing Fullness of Expression II. Erasmus Desiderius 1466-1536 De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commentarij duo. Ab authore ipso diligentissime recogniti & emaculati atque in plerisque locis aucti. . ; Item Epistola Erasmi Roterodami ad Iacobum Vuimphelingium Selestatinum. Strasbourg: Mathias Schürer October 1516 An early edition of ‘De duplici copia’. Erasmus was working for a number of years on a treatise on Latin composition begun while in Italy but completed only in 1512 during his third stay in England at the request of John Colet for use in the latter’s newly founded school in St. Paul’s churchyard. This treatise was designed to help the young student in acquiring an elegant and copious style and to provide abundant examples of how to say the same thing in different ways. It was first printed in Paris by Badius in 1512 but was soon reprinted several times becoming a standard textbook in schools throughout Western Europe. This edition contains Erasmus’ long letter to the Alsatian humanist Jakob Wimpfeling 1450-1528 dated 21 September 1514 in which he relates his previous journey to Basle mentioning all the humanist scholars he had met from Alsace and Basle where Erasmus had just taken up residence. Erasmus had first become acquainted with Wimpheling in August 1514 when he stopped in Strassburg on his way to Basle and was officially welcomed by the members of the recently founded literary society which included Sebastian Brant and Joannes Sturm. The work concludes with three poems by Erasmus addressed to Sebastian Brant Joannes Sapidus and Thomas Didimus together with the latter’s reply. "The word ‘copia’ presents a special problem to the translator. Weltkirch a sixteenth-century Erasmian commentator defined ‘copia’ as the ‘faculty of varying the same expression or thought in many ways by means of different forms of speech and a variety of figures and arguments. ‘Copia’ of words has its origins in grammar; ‘copia’ of thought in dialectic.’ However the word is used by Erasmus to denote not only the faculty of varying but also varying itself. Indeed as used by Erasmus ‘copia’ encompasses within its meaning the meaning of four English words: variation abundance or richness eloquence and the ability to vary or enrich language and thought. "In his lengthy discussion of school curriculum in Shakespeare’s age T.W. Baldwin discusses at great length the importance of the ‘De Copia’ in the educational pattern of the time. The schoolmasters’ editions and commentaries that began to appear even in Erasmus’ lifetime provide further evidence of Erasmus’ impact on Renaissance education… "In his study of Renaissance humanism R.R. Bolgar says: ‘The ‘De Copia’ provides us in a sense with a clue to the whole of Humanism. Specifying the techniques on which imitation depended it makes clear what men were attempting not only in Latin but also in the vernaculars . If we want to trace how the Humanist practice of imitation affected creative writing if we want to go behind the scenes and cast an eye on the mechanism of the process.our best guide is Erasmus. The ‘De Copia’ outlines his method. The ‘Adagia’ presents us with the fruits of that method. and finally the ‘Colloquies’ and the ‘Praise of Folly’ show us the finished product.’"Donald B. King and H. David Rix "On Copia of Words and Ideas". Bezzel Erasmusdrucke no. 740; VD16 E 2647; Knaake Reformationsschriften II 144 The Original Liberal Arts Student Hutten Ulrich von 1488-1523; Weiditz Hans 1495- ca. 1536 artist. ΟΥΤΙΣ. Nemo Augsburg: Johann Miller 9 September 1518 FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. With a full-page woodcut title page by Hans Weiditz. First printing of Hutten's second "Nemo" a substantially re-worked and enlarged version of the 1516 original. This edition has been augmented by 60 verses mainly on political subjects an introduction dedicated to Johannes Crotus Rubianus 1480-1545 and a letter to Julius von Pflug 1499-1564. It also marks the first appearance of the celebrated woodcut title page described in detail below. Hutten found the inspiration for his Nemo "Nobody" in Homer's Odyssey where Odysseus calling himself Nobody outwits the Cyclops Polyphemus. Hutten builds on this wordplay to create a new hero a humanist reformer capable of speaking out against the Church "Nobody dares to criticize the luxury of the priests and the idle life of the Pope." and one who appreciates the value of humanistic learning "Nobody gives scholarly studies the rewards they deserve." The title woodcut cleverly illustrates the dual identities of Hutten's satirical hero. Nemo clad in classical garb stands upon a beach with the familiar attributes of the humanities student gaming boards books a lute a drinking flagon strewn about him. In the background the Cyclops threatens to hurl a boulder onto Nemo's waiting ship. The revised "Nemo" is more overtly political than the earlier version. The added distichs reveal Hutten's anger over corruption in the Church and his mounting frustration with German politics. Shortly after he published "Nemo" Hutten assumed a central role in the politics of the nascent Reformation. In the letter to Pflug that concludes this edition Hutten praised Erasmus with whom he had maintained a good relationship since 1514 as the "Forger of a new way"; Erasmus spoke approvingly of Hutten's work Ep 961 967. Soon after publication of "Nemo" however relations between the two men became strained eventually leading to hostility between them. In 1522 Erasmus would lament that "This whirlwind of Luther" had torn Hutten away from him. See "Contemporaries of Erasmus" vol. II p. 218 ff. "Ulrich Von Hutten German humanist neo-Latin poet and political publicist in the service of the Reformation was born into a family of imperial knights in Steckelberg castle in Franconia. Between 1505 and 1511 Hutten pursued humanistic studies at various Germany universities. In 1512 on his way to Italy to study law he visited Joachim Vadian in Vienna and other humanists in the circle of the Emperor Maximilian. He then turned from personal literary interests to political matters. After studying at the universities of Pavia and Bologna and serving briefly in the army of Maximilian Hutten returned to Germany in 1514. There he met Erasmus who expected much of the young poet and who dedicated his epistolary biography of Thomas More to him. During his second stay in Italy 1515-17 he wrote a series of epigrams denouncing not only the enemies of the Emperor Maximilian -the French and the Venetians- but also Pope Julius II. "On his return from Italy Hutten was crowned poet laureate by Maximilian and entered the service of Albert of Brandenburg archbishop of Mainz as councilor; in four dialogues Hutten nonetheless castigated not only the luxury and moral excess of the papal court and the concept of celibacy but also Rome’s fiscal exploitation of the German nation. With its pointed triplets Hutten’s "Vadiscus sive trias Romana" 1521 contains the most comprehensive catalogue of German grievances against Rome. "Despite his antipapal stance Hutten initially viewed the controversy following Luther’s postings of the Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg as a monks’ squabble and a welcome rift among his opponents. It was only after two years of virtually ignoring Luther that Hutten began to consider himself as an ally. Although Luther’s opposition to Rome was rooted primarily in religious-theological concerns and Hutten’s was prompted by political-nationalist aspirations the two men exercised considerable influence on each other. "In 1520 Hutten embarked on a feverish campaign in which he challenged the Emperor the German nobility the princes the cities and the general reader to take up the fight against Rome if necessary with arms. During the Diet of Worms he next to Luther became the most prominent representative of the antipapal party in Germany. Realizing in the wake of the Diet that a general uprising would not occur Hutten launched the so-called "Priests’ War" in the hope that it would provide the spark that would ignite the German powder keg. In 1522 having lost the protection of Sickingen Hutten fled to Basel and then in 1523 to Zurich where he died on 29 August of Syphilis." Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation Benzing Hutten 62; Fairfax-Murray 211; Musper "Petrarka Master" L7; Roettinger 7; Adams H 1237; BM STC German p. 427; VD 16; H 6384; Worst Brock German humanism 1480-1520 2009 p 1200 f. No. 10.2; Röttinger Weiditz 7; Fairfax Murray 211; Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection I 114. Johann Knobloch hardcover

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De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis libellus et novus & elegans. & elegans . Eiusdem de ratione instituendi discipulos. uterque per autorem recognitus & locupletatus.

1536réf. ABC_49637Paris: Chrétien Wechel 1536. Half vellum and brown sprinkled paper sides with the faded manuscript title on the spine red edges. 8vo. Ad 1 with Wechels woodcut device on the title page and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 2 with Wechels woodcut device on the title page and the verso of the blank last leaf and 1 woodcut decorated initial. Ad 3 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Ad 4 with Frobens woodcut device on the title page and the verso of the last blank leaf. 4 works in 1 volume. With:2 ERASMUS Desiderius. Responsio ad Petri Cursii defensionem nullo adversario bellacem.Paris Chrétien Wechel 1535.3 ERASMUS Desiderius. Responsio ad epistolam paraeneticam clarissimi doctissimicque viri. Alberti Pii carporum principis. Paris Pierre Vidoux April 1529.4 ERASMUS Desiderius. Purgatio adversus epistolam non sobriam Martini Luteri.Basel colophon: Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius April 1534. Together these four works capture the remarkable breadth of Erasmuss influence from his visionary humanist pedagogy to his forceful engagement in the theological controversies of the Reformation. Brought together in this volume they reflect both the moral urgency and intellectual sharpness that defined his contribution to early modern thought.Ad 1: First published in September 1529 De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis and De ratione instituendi discipulos represent Erasmus principal contribution to Renaissance pedagogy. He argues for the early and liberal education of children stressing mildness rather than severity moral formation alongside learning and the formative power of classical texts. Ad 2: An exceptionally rare edition of a polemic against the Louvain theologian Petrus Curtius in which Erasmus defends his humanist theology whilst ridiculing Curtius as a fighter without an adversary. First issued by Froben and Episcopius earlier that year with only that edition and the present Wechel edition extant; the text was not reprinted until the Opera omnia.Ad 3: A spirited reply to the accusations of Alberto Pio Prince of Carpi coupled with sharp extemporaneous notes against Edward Lee Beda. This double defence displays Erasmus wit and sharpness at the height of the Reformation debates. A very scarce edition; the editio princeps had appeared from Froben in March of the same year.Ad 4: An early witness to the high demand in 1534. Erasmus rejoinder to Luthers intemperate letter written in the wake of De servo arbitrio. Here Erasmus defends himself against charges of paganism whilst censuring Luthers furious and mendacious tone. After 1534 the text was no longer issued separately.With a manuscript owners inscription and a later purple stamp of the library of the Franciscan church and convent of Saint Clare in Kotor Montenegro on the title page of the ad 1. Further with a few manuscript annotations in the margins and some of the text underlined and crossed out throughout the work. The binding shows signs of wear the boards have been rubbed with some loss of material some occasional slight browning. Otherwise in good condition.l Ad 1: Adams 338; Inventaire chronologique des editions Parisiennes du XVIe siecle V no. 144; USTC 185690 1 copy; Vander Haeghen I 164; not in BM STC German; Ad 2: Inventaire chronologique des editions Parisiennes du XVIe siecle IV no. 1299; USTC 185562 1 copy lost; Vander Haeghen I 174; WorldCat 492052585 1 copy; cf. for the 1535 Froben edition see: Bezzel 1782; USTC 635442; VD16E3622; not in Adams; BM STC German; Ad 3: Adams 828; Inventaire chronologique des editions Parisiennes du XVIe siecle III no. 1758; USTC 181160; not in Vander Haeghen; BM ST C German; Ad 4: Vander Haeghen I 164; cf. Adams 809 later edition; USTC 635432 6 copies; VD 16 E 3481; not in BM STC German. Chrétien Wechel, hardcover

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Moller DG.; Phillipe Fermin; R. J. Camerarius; Marbodus Bishop of Rennes; F. E. Bruckmann; Erasmus Stella; J. E. Hebenstreit;ABAA

Dissertatio De Technophysiotameis Von Kunst- und Naturalien- Kammern; Dissertation inauguralis medica de lapidum figuratorum usu medico; Marbodei Galli Poetae Uetustissimi de Lapidibus Pretiosis Enchiridion Cum Scholiis Pictorii Villingensis; etc.

1675réf. 009581Various places: Various publishers 1675. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Numerous works bound in one volume. Half vellum binding with marbled paper-covered boards; moderately soiled. Previous owner's bookplate Bilharz on front paste-down endpaper and circular private library sticker at bottom of spine. Works include: 1. Moller D. G. "Dissertatio De Technophysiotameis Von Kunst- und Naturalien- Kammern." Henrici Meyeri: Altdorfii 1704. Dissertaion/Thesis F. S. Wuffbain respondent. 68 pages. 2. Fermin Phillipe. "Memoire sur l'origine de la belemnite contenant la decouverte de l'animal analogue a ce fossile." 4 page manuscript with folding manuscript illustration. Apparently a fair copy of the above named article published in Ph. Renard's "Considerations d'histoire naturelle" pp.63-76 in 1775. 3. Camerarius R. J. "Dissertation inauguralis medica de lapidum figuratorum usu medico." Johannis Cunradi Reissi: Tubingae 1718. Dissertaion/Thesis J. J. Straskircher respondent. 32 pages. 4. Marbodus Bishop of Rennes; edited by F. E. Bruckmann. "Marbodei Galli Poetae Uetustissimi de Lapidibus Pretiosis Enchiridion Cum Scholiis Pictorii Villingensis." Bruckmanniana: Wolffenbuttleae 1740. 82 2 pages. 5. Stella Erasmus; edited by F. E. Bruckmann. "Interpretament Gemmarum Libellus Unicus Plinius Secundus de Gemmis." Carol. Frid. Jungnicolium: Erfurti et Lipsiae 1736. 68 pages. 6. Hebenstreit J. E. "De Ordinibus Gemmarum Verbis C. Plinii ex eius Naturalis Historiae Libr. XXXVII. Qui Totus de Gemmis Est Disserens Panegyrin Medicam." Lipsiae 1747. 16 pages. 7. Hueber G. L. "Disssertatio Inauguralis Physico-Chemico-Medica de Margaritis Earumque Virtute Medica." Joannis Jacobi Christophori Kleyer: Wirceburgi 1744. Dissertaion/Thesis J.G. Gross respondent. 71 xv pages. 8. Vogel R. A. "Terrarum Atque Lapidum Partitio Disputatio Medica Solemnis." Schulzianis Rosenbusch: Gottingae 1762. Dissertaion/Thesis A. F. C. Hempel respondent. 54 pages. 9. Roederer J. G. "Decanus Ordinis Medici in Academia Georgia Augusta Jo. Georg Roderer D. Dissertationem Inauguralem" Schulzianis Rosenbusch: Gottingae 1762. Dissertaion/Thesis with vita of A. F. C. Hempel. 12 pages. 10. Reiske Johannes. "M. Joh. Reiskii de Glossopetris Luneburgensibus ad Virum Nobilissimum Atque Esperientissimum Joh. Georg Hieronymi." Joh. Georg. Lipperi: Lipsiae 1684. 56 pages one folded leaf of illustrations. 11. Guettard Jean Etienne; Philippe Buache. Folding Map. "Carte Mineralogique de la Suisse par Philippe Buache." 1752. 12. Hottinger J. H. "Dissertatio de Crystallis." Bodmeriano: Tiguri 1698. iv 44 pages illustrated by one folding leaf of gems/crystals. 13. Hensing J. T. "Dissertatio Chemica de Germinatione Metallica Arificiali Ejusdemque Novo Invento." Joh. Reinh. Vulpii: Giessae-Hassorum 1718. Dissertaion/Thesis Joh. Georgio Beck respondent. 35 pages. 14. Muller P. L. S. "Dubia Coralliorum Origini Animali Opposita." Io. Diter. Mich. Camerarii: Erlangae 1770. 22 pages. Probably another dissertation: Suscipiet Philippus Ludovicus Statius Muller. 15. Frank Johann. "Disertatio Physica de Coralio Juxta Ductum Plinii Hist. Nat. Lib.32.c.2. adornata." Praelo Bauhoferiano: Jenae 1675. Dissertaion/Thesis Paulus Linsius respondent. 12 leaves. 16. Folding leaf with text and illustrations of tube worms. Measures 10 x 14 inches. "Kurtze Abbildung und Beschreibung der ungewohnten entsetzlichen Wuermen.in gank Nord-holland." Circa 1735. Various publishers Hardcover books