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1731ref. 007704London: Printed for Henry Lintot at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates Fleetstreet 1731. RARE. First Edition 1731. "Translated anonymously by George Ogle who adopted a poetical version of the 1st and 2d stanza by Elijah Fenton and of the 9th and 16th by Edward Ward." - cf. Brit. Mus. Cat. Latin and English on opposite pages. xxvi 2 98 pages frontispiece portrait. Bound in contemporary vellum leather label 4 raised bands. Very Good vellum darkened evidence of bookplate removal front pastedown text evenly and lightly browned. Joannes Secundus' most noted work with 86 editions published between 1539 and 2013 in 6 languages. The only institutions holding this edition according to Worldcat are Yale University Library and University of Cambridge Library. . First Edition. Vellum. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates, Fleetstreet, Hardcover books
ref. 65888West Burke VT: Janus Press 1976. First Edition. One of 150 copies unsigned as issued. Orange wrappers with silver moon decoration printed in two colors with double-page cut-out endpapers; 8vo. ".designed handset in Monotype Times Roman printed torn cut and bound by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press on and of Kozu Fabriano and Canson paper. The endpapers are the topiary gardens of Levens Hall Westmorland England. This is copy no 85." Back cover almost imperceptibly sunned along the front edge else Fine unopened. Claire Van Vliet's work has been heavily collected for over 50 years well before she won an early MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 1989 with many institutions subscribing. This title particularly elusive in the trade. Janus Press unknown
1541ref. AQ19652Lugundi i.e. Lyon: Seb. Gryphium 1541. 150 153-154 151-349pp 16. Leaf K4 misbound. Later gilt-tooled diced russia all edges red. Rubbed joints starting some scoring to boards; but an attractive copy. Endpapers browned ink-stamp of the Lawes Agricultural Trust to FEP contemporary ownership inscription to title page: 'Johannis Alardi x Armcoruf / Gronopol. 1544. empts.' marginal worm- track throughout the majority of text-block closed tear to lower corner of final leaf of index. The Rothamsted library copy of an early edition of the first complete Latin translation by Saxon humanist Janus Cornarius c. 1500-1558 of the Geoponica: the only extant Byzantine agricultural treatise first published in 1538. A twenty-book compendium of agricultural lore the Geoponica was compiled in the tenth-century at Constantinople during the Macedonian Renaissance and dedicated to emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. The anonymous work is often erroneously ascribed to seventh-century author Cassianus Bassus whose collection also titled Geoponica itself derived from a fourth- century text by agricultural compiler Vindonius Anatolius was integrated into the extant work. The primary sources for the text include Pliny's Naturalis Historia the now lost writings of various Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman agriculture and veterinary authors Carthaginian agronomist Mago and works purporting to originate with Persian prophet Zoroaster. The Geoponica embraces all manner of 'agricultural' information inter alia celestial and terrestrial omina viticulture oleoculture apiculture veterinary medicine and the construction of fish ponds. . 8vo. Seb. Gryphium hardcover
2006ref. 229581Newark Vt: Janus Press 2006. No. 26 of 150 copies. Translated from the Greek by Karen King with commentaries by Rosemary Radford Ruether. 40 4 pages printed on calendered Barcham Green Boxley with a central popup of "the journey of the soul" on a double-page pulp painted base sheet by Claire van Vliet with Katie MacGregor. 1 vols. 11-1/2 x 10 inches. Woven binding by Audrey Holden using "clous" cover sheets pulp painted by Van Vliet and MacGregor; in clamshell box of birch trays by Richard Holmquist lined in DeWint by Holden. As new. No. 26 of 150 copies. Translated from the Greek by Karen King with commentaries by Rosemary Radford Ruether. 40 4 pages printed on calendered Barcham Green Boxley with a central popup of "the journey of the soul" on a double-page pulp painted base sheet by Claire van Vliet with Katie MacGregor. 1 vols. 11-1/2 x 10 inches. Janus Press unknown books
ref. 9777Newark VT: Janus Press 2012. Wrappers. Fine binding. 6-1/2" x 7." 28 ll. illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Signed by Sgantas. Bound in Barcham Green 140lb DeWint handmade watercolor paper using a woven strip binding designed by Claire Van Vliet. Each leaf folds out to reveal a three-page spread-the digitally printed insect-embellished Roman capital letterforms in black and white on the left and in color on the right with the field-guide descriptions in between is printed letterpress. All housed in cloth clamshell with printed paper title label on the spine. A fine copy. This is an engaging collaboration between Sgantas and Van Vliet describing common garden pests and plants with information ranging from "common habitat" to "natural control." Simultaneously delightful and useful with consultations from entomologist Trish Hanson as well as gardeners Mark and Jan-Michael Sgantas. Janus Press unknown
ref. 10460Janus Press 1975. Broadside. Prints. Sizes vary but most are 12-1/2" x 10." Limited edition prints and artist's proofs. 19 lithographs and 4 relief etching from 4 works all housed in Janus Press-issued cloth clamshell with printed title label on the spine. Contents in three paper portfolios: 10 lithographs labeled The Tower of Babel: An Anthology Janus Press 1975; a mixture of artist's proofs and lithographs from a numbered edition including two not used in the book; prospectus for the book is laid in. The second portfolio contains the balance of lithographs used to illustrate The Tower of Babel: 9 lithographs titled Builders of Babel: Proverbs - Geneva Bible 1560; all are artist's proofs. Printed in Oslo by Eystein Hanche-Olsen at SKHS each of these 19 lithographs are signed by Van Vliet. The final portfolio contains 3 of 10 relief etchings printed by Jerome Kaplan for Kafka's Der Kubelreiter / The Bucket Rider Janus Press 1972 as well as one relief etching by Van Vliet for A Country Doctor Janus Press 1962. One lithograph with small crease to the bottom corner of the margin else all are fine in a generally Very Good or better clamshell. All the Van Vliet illustrations are signed by her and most with title A/P denotation or limitation and number on the verso. The three Kaplan relief etchings are unsigned. A wonderful collection of lithographs from the artist's archive. Janus Press unknown
ref. 9779Newark VT: Janus Press 2018. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 2 24 ll. illus. Limited edition of one hundred numbered copies. Signed by Dawes and Gregg at the colophon. In a glued leaf binding in printed Canal paper covers. Gregg's drawings have been digitally printed here with Dawes's holographic poems letterpress printed from polymer plates around the drawings. Accompanying this is a smaller french-fold chapbook printed with matching foliation all housed in clamshell with maple wood sides in a slipcase with printed paper label. A fine copy. The chapbook offers a transcription of the holographic poems in the main work-though Dawes's handwriting is plenty legible. Additionally a short "Poet's Note" at the beginning of this chapbook describes his process of writing these poems in response to Gregg's drawings of Vallarta. He writes: "The poems collected here represent the most exciting part of making poems for me which is writing the first draft in that breakneck pace of someone in search of what a poem is offering and doing so with faith that it will eventually reveal itself to me." And of this particular collection of poems Dawes makes a fascinating observation: "I write to understand how I have been moved by the art." A beautiful idea searching for understanding through writing. A wonderful and accidental or perhaps inspired collaboration between the founder of the Vermont Studio Center and the Ghanaian poet. Janus Press unknown
ref. 11635Newark VT: Janus Press 2006. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 40 4 pp. pop-up. Limited edition one of 150 numbered copies. Signed by Van Vliet Holden Miller-Brown. Bound by Audrey Holden in pulp-painted covers by Van Vliet and Katie MacGregor. who also created the pulp painting background for the centerpiece pop-up. Text is printed in Victor Hammer's American Uncial with wraparound commentary in Monotype Plantin by Andrew Miller-Brown. All housed in a paste-paper over boards clamshell with birch sides; boldly titled on the spine. A fine copy. A remarkable rendering of the 2nd century Gnostic Gospel. Van Vliet's edition is a wonderful marriage of early and modern printing: the design echoing early printing islands of text within a sea of commentary. Similarly the choice of American Uncial a typeface modeled by Hammer after early letterforms from a century near to the time of this gospel's composition recalls early books. But this is a remarkably modern printing with modern abstracted embellishments where we would expect to find illuminated illustration in an early manuscript. Every page of the scholarly edition is visually engaging-a rare marriage indeed! As if this exceptional design was not enough "the reader" in the words of John A. Buchtel "reaches the center of the book and unexpectedly the pop-up explodes out of the mottled purple and blue pulp painted page spread in the vivid multiple colors of Katie MacGregor's handmade papers. Its abstract design echoes the diagrams elsewhere in the book and its sense of rising expansiveness is reinforced by the radiating silver paper strips woven through the surface of the pulp painting. . . . The pop-up is emblematic perhaps of a sudden realization-an epiphany-as the soul moves 'upward from its bondage to the flesh and the lower world to its liberation in the higher celestial realm.'" p. 48. A stunning work. Buchtel John A. The Art of Paper: Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press: Papermaking Collaborations 2024. Janus Press unknown
1602ref. 36585Francofurti: Sumtibus ionae Rhodii Bibliopola 1602-1605. Sei volumi di cm. 19 pp. 9.000 circa complessive. Frontespizi con vignette in xilografia. Solida ed elegante legatura del tempo in piena pergamena rigida con nervi passanti e titoli in oro su tasselli ai dorsi. Rade bruniture qualche nota manoscritta di mano antica. Esemplare genuino ed in ottimo stato di conservazione. Celebre compilazione dell'erudito Greuter in cui si trovano un gran numero di commentatori e di critici divenuti a suo tempo rari o che erano rimasti fin'allora inediti. La parte finale dell'ultimo volume con autonomo frontespizio contiene le Dilucidationes di Marcello Donati conte di Ponzane. Nel 1634 dopo la morte del'autore venne inoltre aggiunto un settimo volume con varie osservazioni tra le quali alcune sopra l'opera di Plauto. Opera divenuta assai rara soprattutto in tale stato di conservazione. Cfr. Brunet II 1771: "Pas commun". Sumtibus ionae Rhodii Bibliopola unknown
ref. 114141Lugduni Lyon Antoine Vincent 1562. . Later Janus Cornarius edition; 8vo 16 x 10.5cm; woodcut initials contemporary ownership signature to the title and a few small notes in the contents light dampstain affecting the final 20 leaves of text occasional light spotting to the rest of the contents; early 19th century calf spine gilt in compartments with floral and star tools and roll with birds to the tail triple gilt fillets gilt roll to turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges dyed red small worm hole to the spine dampstain to upper board a few other small scuffs and marks; very good condition; 542pp. A lovely copy of the Janus Cornarius translation of the works of Hippocrates originally published in 1545. In handsome early nineteenth-century calf with gilt-tooled spine. Janus Cornarius 1500-1558 was a gifted humanist scholar who edited and translated classical medical works particularly on pharmacology. Erasmus addressed him as 'ornatissime Cornari' 'oh-so-refined Cornarius' and extolled his translation of Hippocrates: 'The genius is there; the erudition is there the vigorous body and vital spirit are there; in sum nothing is missing that was required for this assignment confronted happily it would seem despite its difficulty'. Lugduni [Lyon], Antoine Vincent, 1562. unknown
ref. 10880Newark VT: Janus Press 1992. Broadside. Broadside. 24" x 17." Limited edition one of 90 copies. Signed by Lopez. Printed dry in black and blue on pulp painting landscape made from kozo gampi and abaca fibers. A fine copy. A beautiful except from Lopez's Arctic Dreams the pulp painting is a inspired illustrations to Lopez's sentiment: "Whatever evaluation we make of a particular stretch of land no matter how accurate or profound it finally proves inadequate. The land retains an identity of its own still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind with an attitude of regard. To try to sense the range and variety of its expression-its weather and colors and animals. To intend from the beginning to preserve some of the mystery within it as a king of wisdom to be experienced not questioned. And to be alert for its openings for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane and you know the land knows you are there." Fine Janus Press - Fifty Years p. 46. Janus Press unknown
1521In -4°, cc. 58, piena pergamena e titolo manoscritto al dorso. Frontespizio in cornice xilografica, iniziali e marca editoriale di Mazzocchi in fine. Prima edizione della traduzione in latino di quest’opera di Senofonte fatta da Bessarione (Trebisonda 1403 - Ravenna 1472), Cardinale, teologo e umanista, intorno agli anni ’40 del secolo precedente. Si presume che a scoprire il manoscritto sia stato lo stesso Giano Vitale, autore della lettera dedicatoria che apre il volume. L’opera di Bessarione contribuisce in maniera decisiva alla rivalutazione delle opere di Senofonte, autore pressoché dimenticato nel Medioevo, avvenuta nel Rinascimento, opere che forniranno, relativamente al mondo socratico, una cospicua alternativa alla rappresentazione che ne dà Platone nei suoi Dialoghi. Bellissimo il frontespizio incorniciato (riprodotto in Mortimer, “Italian 16th century books”, p. 583). Adams X-43 Title page in a xilographic frame, initials and Mazzocchi’s printer’s mark at the end. The first edition of the latin translation of this Xenophon’s work, made by Bessarion (1403-1472), a Cardinal and a humanist, in the first half of the XV century. The manuscript was probably discovered by the very Giano Vitale, author of the dedication letter at the beginning of the volume. Bessarion’s work is a crucial contribution to the revaluation of Xenophon’s work, happened in the Renaissance. A very charming title page (reproduced in Mortimer, “Italian 16th century books”, p. 583) Adams X-43
2016ref. 121407Edinburgh University Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- with a bonus offer--; Critical Connections EUP . 2016. 1474407498 . Edinburgh University Press hardcover
1994ref. 14455Somerset New Jersey U.S.A.: John Wiley & Sons Inc. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Book In fine Condition -- with a bonus offer--; 014455; SEX PSYCHOLOGY HUMAN SEXUALITY . 1994. 0471525405 . John Wiley & Sons Inc hardcover
ref. 51-5448Geneva : Excudebat Henricus Stephanus illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus.Anno M.D. LXVII 1567. Folio. 21 x 33.7cm. Contemporary roan. Odd pagination. 5 parts.OCLC Number 44822093.Henri Estienne's collection of the most important Greek Roman and Byzantine medical writers exclusive of Hippocrates and Galen through the 13th centuryPrinter's device on the first title pageThe Oribasius is illustrated with 43 fine woodcuts based on those in Gesner's Ghirurgia. Zürich 1555.HIPPOCRATE & GALIEN. Medicæ artis principes post Hippocratem & Galenum . • EPHESIUS. Ruffi Ephesii medici de appellationibus partium corporis humani . • TRALLIANUS. Alexandri Tralliani de arte medica . • AEGINETA. Pauli Aeginetæ de re medica . • CORNARIUS. Jani Cornarii medici physici . • HORNANO. Cassii medici medicæ quæstiones & problemata . • RASARIO. Oribasii Sardiani Medici longem excellentissimi opera . S. l. Excudebat Henricus Stephanus anno 1567. 7 titres en 2 parties et un volume in-folio basane dos à nerfs orné reliure de l'époque.Cinq titres intermédiaires ; textes sur deux colonnes. Quelques bois dans le texte du dernier titre.De la bibliothèque Gabriel Mellinet avec ex-libris manuscrits en page de garde sur le titre et à l'intérieur.Mention tome I au dos. Coins émoussés ; petit accident à la coiffe de pied ; quelques rousseurs mouillures et galeries de vers marginales. [Geneva], : Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus.,Anno M.D. LXVII [1567) unknown
ref. 1893Lugduni Batavorum, Ex Officina Iannis Paetsij. Anno M. D. Lxxxv (1585) et M. D. LXXXIII (1583) pour la deuxième partie.Un volume relié in-12 (10 x 15,5 cm) de 14-144 pages et 230 pages. Reliure plein vélin d'époque à rabats et à lacets. Reliure tachée, lacets un peu courts et un coupé à raz, hauts des pages roussis des pages 127 à 144 et des pages 1 à 113.Rare édition originale du SATYRICON donnée au XVIème siècle avec les commentaires de Johan van der Does en seconde partie (1545-1604) datés de 1583.
ref. 1893Lugduni Batavorum, Ex Officina Iannis Paetsij. Anno M. D. Lxxxv (1585) et M. D. LXXXIII (1583) pour la deuxième partie.Un volume relié in-12 (10 x 15,5 cm) de 14-144 pages et 230 pages. Reliure plein vélin d'époque à rabats et à lacets. Reliure tachée, lacets un peu courts et un coupé à raz, hauts des pages roussis des pages 127 à 144 et des pages 1 à 113.Rare édition originale du SATYRICON donnée au XVIème siècle avec les commentaires de Johan van der Does en seconde partie (1545-1604) datés de 1583.
1711ref. 0030381711 Amstelaedami [Amsterdam], Excudit Franciscus Halma, 1711. In-quarto (208 X 258) maroquin vert, triple encadrement de filet doré sur les plats, filets dorés en place des nerfs, urnes dorées dans les compartiments, coupes filetées, tranches jaunes (reliure de lépoque) ; (1) f. blanc, frontispice gravé, titre avec vignette gravée, 10 ff. (dédicace, préface et élégie), 502 pages, (14) pp. (index), (2) ff. blancs.
ref. 9788Newark and Burke VT: Janus Press and Plowboy Press 2022. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Folio. 4 58 4 pp. plates maps illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Letterpress printed on Barcham Green Boxley by Andrew Miller-Brown of Plowboy Press. The frontispiece is Durer's northern celestial map. There are 28 illustrations of the constellations from Caspar Vopel's 1534 woodcuts and eight full-page original digital prints of weather by Claire Van Vliet based on her pulp paintings. Additionally there are numerous in-text illustrations some mounted some printed. This is sewn longstitch into pulp-painting covered boards by Katie MacGregor; pocket inside the front cover contains prospectus and Translator's Introduction and Notes. The book is wrapped in a linen-covered chemise lined with Durer's 1515 celestial maps all housed in maple and birchwood slipcase with a lasercut title on the spine. A fine copy. Aratus was born in Soli in present day Turkey in about 315 BCE. Educated in Athens he eventually made his way to the Macedonian court where it is believed he wrote the Phaenomena. It describes in verse the constellations their rotation in the night sky throughout the year various other natural signs and their uses as a calendar and weather forecasting tool for farmers and sailors. For Aratus these sky signs from the constellation Ursa Major to the smallest mouse tossing straw with its paws represent a gift from Zeus to guide human endeavor if only we would take notice. The Phaenomena was enormously popular in its time and afterwards. It inspired many translations some with a liberal dose of revisions and additions as well as many commentaries starting in at least the second century BCE. This edition of the Phaenomena features a verse translation from the Greek by Stanley Lombardo and a new commentary for the modern reader by Mark Breen senior meteorologist and director of the planetarium at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury Vermont. And while it is easy to get caught up in the interesting particulars of the book and its history as well as the particulars of this edition Van Vliet Miller-Brown and their collaborators have created an edition that has reinvigorated this millennia-old navigational and practical treatise. This edition is full of wonder. MacGregor's pulp painted covers are haunting and exquisitely suited for the work. And further the book designed with a mind towards early scholarly works with Aratus's text surrounded by commentary and illustration is a joy to leaf through every page spread is visually engaging from the early section on the constellations to the section on weather that is elevated by Van Vliet's art. After 70 years of bookmaking Van Vliet has not stopped pushing forward in her design and vision. Janus Press and Plowboy Press unknown
ref. 9785Newark VT: Janus Press 2016. Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 114 pp. frontis. illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Signed by Hulme and Van Vliet. Bound using a woven strip binding designed by Claire Van Vliet; the covers are a dynamic pulp-painting with a vitreograph frontispiece with five additional illustrations that were digitally composed by Van Vliet and are original archival inkjet prints on handmade paper; these seem to blend photography and Van Vliet's pulp painting creating a striking and textured result. This is accompanied by a small octavo glossary with eight letterpress pages and fold-out photograph. All laid into a clamshell box of paper boards with acrylic-painted fore-edge and moon inset on the spine; map of Moeraki mounted inside the upper cover; maple and tamarack sides. Housed in slipcase with printed title label. A fine copy. Among the most ambitious projects of the Press it is one of the largest at 114 pages and the longest projects of the Press taking 20 years from contact to completion. Each of the 6 "Conversations" are printed on different handmade papers many of which have varying leaf sizes. The poetry by Booker Prize-winning author of Bone People Keri Hulme rewards attention and patience. Similarly Van Vliet's books require more attention from the reader and Silences is no exception. For instance in one "conversation" she varies the page size and relationship-some leaves being half-page strips on the lower portion of the book can be paged through while sequences of cutouts and illustrations along the top remain are turned less frequently creating a constancy. Even the form of the book can be altered: the page-spread illustrations for instance can be pulled forward at the inner fold making what was two dimensional into three-dimensional. One can do this with all the illustrations simultaneously creating what Van Vliet describes in her Notes for Press Patrons "a three dimensional wagon wheel display." This book is a beautiful choreography between text image and form-all elements in harmony. Buchtel John A. The Art of Paper: Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press: Papermaking Collaborations 2024. Janus Press unknown
1585ref. 164455Ex Officina Ioannis Paetsij Lugduni Batavorum, Ex Officina Ioannis Paetsij, 1585.Omnia & ampliora & emendatiora, ex recognitione Iani Douase, additis eiusdem Praecidaneis cum auctario. 2 volumes in-8 relié plein vélin de l'époque, dos muet. 1ff blanc, titre, 7ff non chiffrés + 144 pages. Relié en suivant : Inani Douase Nordovicus, pro Satyrico Petronii Arbitri, viri consularis, praecidaneorum libri tres. Lugduni Batavorum, Ex officina Ioannis Paetsij, 1583. Titer, 230 pages, 2 ff blancs. "Ecrivain et poète latin du 1er siècle de l'ère chrétienne, sur la vie duquel on a que des renseignemetns incertains. Il nous est parvenu sous son nom des fragments d'un des ouvrages les plus curieux et en même temps les plus obcènes de la littérature latine Le Satyricon, roman de moeurs qui offfre évidemment la peinture de la corruption romaine sous Claude et Néron" : Larousse XIXeme Tome 12 pages 727. Petit manque sur le haut du vélin, écritures manuscrites sur le premierer denier feuillet blanc. Bel exemplaire peu courant.
1597ref. 70284Lugduni Batavorum: ex officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelengium 1597. 4to pp. 16 695 17; collating: â´ 4 A-Zâ´ a-3uâ´; printer's woodcut device on title page; woodcut initials; text in double column; contemporary full limp parchment with extensive ink notation on upper cover and titling on spine; early ownership inscription at the bottom of the title page of Zanius Dacier dated 1602. The cover notes quote Martin Marie Charles de Boudens Vanderbourg who edited an edition of Horace in 1812 so this quote likely dates to after 1812. The complete annotated Horace by the humanist Cruquius 1520-1584 who was Latin schoolmaster at Bruges. The 'commentator vetus' known as Commentator Cruquianus "is a collection of scholia published by Cruquius from various mss. notably the four codices blandinii which were destroyed by fire in 1566 with the Benedictine abbey Blandigny near Ghent" OCLC. "'Cruquius' says Dr. Harwood 'is deservedly esteemed one of the best commentators on Horace. Consult the notes in these editions on any of the difficult passages in Horace and you will have your doubts satisfactorily solved.' Barthius and Tanaquil Faber think but slightly of Cruquius: they observe and in this observation Mitscherlich seems to concur that he has performed little more than the old commentators Acro and Porphyrio. Harles thinks that Cruquius is not equal to Lambinus in research ingenuity and general critical knowledge: yet Baxter has not scrupled to call Lambinus Cruquius and Torrentius the 'tria Horatii lumina'" Dibdin. Adams H-946; Dibdin Greek and Latin Classics 4th ed. II 96; Graesse III 352; Mills College Check List 250; Riedel-Horatiana A-61. ex officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium unknown
ref. 52867Nuremberg Gabriel Hayn 1554. FIRST EDITION 1554 small 4to approximately 170 x 135 mm 6¾ x 5¼ inches Latin text small woodcut printer's device on title page full page woodcut illustration on verso b4 a few woodcut historiated initials leaves: 8 1-124 numbered on rectos only making a total of 264 pages bound in 17th century sheep and rebacked in lighter calf gilt lettering and tiny blind stamped motifs to spine new cream endpapers followed by 1 original free endpaper. Upper cover slightly bowed and slightly rubbed at upper inner corner neat ink initials at foot of title page JS a small number to top outer corner faint orange and dusty stain to upper part of blank side of title page faint discoloration on woodcut illustration faint pink stain to 3 outer margins not affecting text old front endpaper stained at edges small old ink stain to margin of H2 pale damp stain to lower blank corners almost throughout leaving tidemarks from G-H4v a larger one on text from T-Hh4 all easily legible see attached images tiny chip to fore-edge margin of Cc2 1 small pointing hand occasional very light browning. A good first edition copy of this manual of alchemy. Janus Lacinius is thought to be a pseudonym for Giovanni da Crotone a Franciscan Friar from Calabria. Duveen Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica page 332; Wellcome Library Volume I No.3608. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Nuremberg, Gabriel Hayn, 1554.
ref. 51-4709Basileae : Guarinus Thomas Guarin 1564 & Mich. Isingrinium 1553. Folio. 21.3 x 32cm. 17th Century calf with spine preserved on new goatskin base by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov.12 785 145pp index; 84 pp. index 270 leaves = 540pp. Two works in one vol. Very good with historiated initiials throughout.OCLC Numbers: 630821401 and 1264199895.PLUTARQUE. Vitae comparatae illustrium virorum. Bâle Thomas Guarin 1564. 2 tomes en un vol. in-folio veau du XVIIe s.Première édition de la traduction de Herman Croeser des Vies parallèles de Plutarque.Rares annotations manuscrites en marge. Ex-libris manuscrits sur le titre : Galoys ; sur la garde Claude Francis Balland 1754. Manque au tome II le dernier f. marque d'imprimeur .Expertise by :Ségolène Beauchamp 86bis rue de Bellébat 45000 Orléans - 06 64 67 12 60;Pierre Prévost 75 rue Michel Ange 75016 Paris - 06 80 20 81 70 Basileae : Guarinus [Thomas Guarin], 1564 & Mich. Isingrinium 1553 unknown
ref. 10461Janus Press 1975. Broadside. Prints. Sizes vary from 11-1/2" x 8" to 15" x 11-1/4"; but most are 12-1/2" x 10." Limited edition prints and artist's proofs. 29 lithographs and 10 relief etchings and 1 woodcut from 6 works all housed in Janus Press-issued cloth clamshell with printed title label on the spine. Contents contained in five paper portfolios: 1 3 lithographs from Parables and Paradoxes Janus Press 1963; all denoted as artist's proofs and signed by Van Vliet on recto or verso. Minor foxing to one lithograph else fine. 2 8 lithographs from Conversation with the Supplicant Janus Press 1971 printed by Eystein Hanche-Olsen at SKHS Oslo; all are noted to be from an edition of 20 or artist's proofs; each signed by Van Vliet. Fine. 3 10 lithographs labeled The Tower of Babel: An Anthology Janus Press 1975 printed by Eystein Hanche-Olsen at SKHS Oslo; 8 are noted to be from an edition of 20-35 as well as 2 not used in the book; also included in a woodcut by Van Vliet for this work numbered 12/20. All are signed by Van Vliet. Fine. 4 The balance of the illustrations for The Tower of Babel being 9 lithographs in a folder titled: Builders of Babel: Proverbs - Geneva Bible 1560; all being signed and hand-numbered 6/20 by Van Vliet. Fine. 5 finally 9 relief etchings printed by Jerome Kaplan for Kafka's Der Kubelreiter / The Bucket Rider Janus Press 1972; all signed and hand-numbered 15/20 by Kaplan; as well as one relief etching by Van Vliet for A Country Doctor Janus Press 1962 signed and hand-numbered 1/8 by Van Vliet. A wonderful collection of lithographs from the artist's archive. Janus Press unknown
