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1638réf. 73714Lutetiae: Regis Typis Compagnie de la Grand Navire 1638. Folio leaf 34.0 cm 6 in 7 volumes; volume I: pp. 28 433 1; 631 1 933-963 1 46; volume II: pp. 8 920 20; volume III: pp. 4 870 20; volume IV: 4 1123 63 including blank leaves 7B6 and 7G4; volume V part I: pp. 4 804 28 including blank leaf 2 K4; volume V part II: pp. 8 417 1 213 3 180 including blank leaf 2D4 and final blank; volume VI: pp.4 252 i.e. 260 398 235 1 69 i.e. 77 3 64 including blank leaves 2L4 k4 b4 4 and o4; many errors in pagination; text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns title pages printed in red and black woodcut device on title pages of the Compagnie de la grand-Navire woodcut initials and ornaments; 18th-century full calf spines in 7 compartments morocco labels in 1 edges stained red; joints cracked on volume I cords holding; otherwise a nice attractive set. Cyril of Alexandria ca. 376-444 was a Christian theologian and Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. Brunet II 462; Ebert 5601: "One of the more rare editions of the Greek fathers. Regis Typis [Compagnie de la Grand Navire] unknown
1575réf. 31751Urbini D. Frisolini 1575. Small 4to. Fine recent full vellum in old style with written title on back. Titlepage 80 leaves title unnumb. F 1-80 with 4 leaves misnumb. e.g. F70 instead of 80. The dedicationleaf unnumb. after title missing. Text complete fine and clean with broad margins. One large initial in woodcut and 89 large textillustrations in woodcut. First edition of Heron's main work being his first publication. The work stimulated and contributed substantially to the interest in pneumatics that arose suddenly in the late 16th century and led to the work of Toricelli and Boyle. The "Pneumatics" was not published in Greek until 1693. It is one of the major sources to our knowledge of the techniques and mechanics of Antiquity and the many hydraulic and mechanical inventions by Hero are here depicted for the first time in print. The work includes studies of pneumatics and mechanics and include 89 illustrations of different inventions such as siphons fountains engines an account of a small stationary steam-engine which is of the form now known as Avery's patent the double-force pump etc. which "by the union of compressed air earth fire and water and the concurrence of.elementary principles. supply the most pressing wants of the human life or produce amazement and alarm." The book describes many gadgets and magical tricks and includes the first suggestion of a steam engine see f. 52. - Sarton Introduction.Vol. I pp. 208 ff. - Adams H:369 - Poggendorff I: 1084. hardcover
1575réf. 31751Urbini, (D. Frisolini), 1575. Small 4to. Fine recent full vellum in old style with written title on back. Titlepage + 80 leaves (title unnumb. + F 1-80 with 4 leaves misnumb., e.g. F70 instead of 80). The dedicationleaf (unnumb.) after title missing. Text complete, fine and clean with broad margins. One large initial in woodcut and 89 large textillustrations in woodcut.
1637réf. 34701Uppsala Eschillus Matthiæ 1637. Small 4to. Cont. full vellum over wood. Spine ends worn tears to hinges but not broken lower edges of boards with old repairs. Some old ink annotations on boards. Inside frontcover and on title many old owner names small wholes cut in titel without loss of letters. First ab. 20 leaves with a faint dampstain in upper margin inkspots on last page. Internally clean. 243502 pp. numerous geometrical diagrams in the text. Scarce first edition of the first Swedish edition of Euclid's Elements Book I-VI with Gestrinius' commentaries to the axioms and porpositions and with his attempt of a proof of the "Parallel-axiom" The Fifth Postulate. In the preface he discusses the use of plane-geometry in the theories of Aristoteles Eudoxus Ptolemy and Kepler. - Gastrinius 1594-1648 became professor of mathematics in Uppsala in 1621 after studies in Greifswald.Collijn 1600-Talet I:310. - Riccardi p. 436 16372 - Poggendorff I:889. - Not in Max Steck. hardcover
1637réf. 34701Uppsala, Eschillus Matthiæ, 1637. Small 4to. Cont. full vellum over wood. Spine ends worn, tears to hinges, but not broken, lower edges of boards with old repairs. Some old ink annotations on boards. Inside frontcover and on title many old owner names, small wholes cut in titel without loss of letters. First ab. 20 leaves with a faint dampstain in upper margin, inkspots on last page. Internally clean. (24),350,(2) pp., numerous geometrical diagrams in the text.
réf. 16-3612Paris: Impr. impériale Dépôt de la Guerre Kaeppelin et Frick 1858. Large oblong folio. 62 x 90cm. Original board covers worn and defective along the edges.Complete with 47 plates some maps and some excellent views and battle scenes.Waterstainis and defects in the margins of some of the prints. Rare. Only 1 copy in OCLC at the Bibliothèque nationale de France no. 466311387.1 vol. in-folio oblong. Cartonnage éditeur rubans. Importants manques reliure enl ‘état.Titre 1f table 11 feuillets 47 planches numérotées de 1 à 34 représentant lesdifférentes étapes de la guerre d’Orient.Bien complet des 47 planches.Mouillure dans la marge supérieure à partir de la planche XI de plus en plusmarquées selon les planches. Paris: Impr. impériale, Dépôt de la Guerre, Kaeppelin et Frick, 1858 unknown
1902[20], 644 pages. Index. Twenty-six black and white photographic plates. Leather binding. "Comprising a history of Egypt, with a comprehensive and authentic account of the antiquity of masonry resulting from many years of personal investigation and exhaustive research in India, Persia, Syria and the Valley of the Nile." - title page. After first receiving the Light in India, the author was moved to "investigate, to the fullest extent, the meaning and purport of the numerous hieroglyphic inscriptions, symbols and characters found upon the ancient tombs and temples, so that the Masonic Fraternity might understand, appreciate and apply the teachings of the hierophants and sages of bygone days." - Preface. Chapters: Alexandria - the Antiquity of Masonry; Ruined Temples - Masonry and Masonic Symbols; Ancient Cities - Soirian Myth - Karma; the Nile - Origin of the Name Free Mason - Scottish Rite Philosophy; Ancient Mysteries - Scottish Rite philosophy; Suez Canal - The Druses, Their Manners and Customs; Agriculture - Irrigation - Lotus - Papyrus; The Supreme Architect of the Universe; Mosques - Tombs - Massacre of Mamelukes - Heliopolis; Esoteric Teaching of the Scottish Rite - Brain and Thought; Pyramids - Sphinx - Tombs; Solomon - Death of Hiram - Cross - Swastica; Mummification - Transmigration - Re-incarnation; Sixteen Saviours - Lost Knowledge; The Golden Fleece - Roman Eagle - Masonic Apron - What it Teaches; Pyramids of Sakkarah - Lisht - Medum - The Fayum - Labyrinth; Sun Worship - Zodiac - Masonic Allegories; A Voyage up the Nile - Description of Tombs and Temples - Pro Doric Columns; Ineffable degrees - Thoughts on Ecclesiastes - I.N.R.I. - Voyaging up the Nile - examining Tombs and Temples - Paintings - Sculptures; Masonic teachings - Hindu beggar - Roman Catholicism; Thebes - Colossi - Der-El-Bahari - Luxor - Karnak; Ceremonies - Initiation - Blue Lodge - Transmigration - Mystery Language; The Gawazee - exploring Temples and tombs - Philae and its ruins - Nubia; Jewish Traditions and customs - Cable tow - Ceremonies of ancient Initiation - book of the Law; Circumsision - upon what the Ancient Craftsmen were obligated - the lost word. All edges gilt. Protected frontis portrait of author. Ornately embossed boards. Raised bands to spine. Partially rubbed gilt lettering and decoration upon back strip. Marbled endpapers. Hinges intact internally, open or opening externally. Front board partially detached. Somewhat above-average wear to boards. Unmarked. A worthy original copy of this monumental work. 12" x 9.5" x 2.5". 11 pounds. Book
1558réf. 32859Basel Johannem Hervagium & Bernhardum Brand 1558. Folio. 305x215. Bound in 19th century brown hmorocco with 5 raised bands. Light wear to back and corners a bit bumped. 2587 pp.Numerous wood-cut diagrams and initials throughout. First ab. 20 leaves with different degrees of yellowing and occasional with marginal faint dampstaining. 3 leaves with upper right corners repaired without loss of text. The "privilege" at verso of title partly unreadable as a piece of paper is pasted on some of these letters are faint just as some letters in "Basiliae" on title are weak. Last leaf with colophon and printers large woodcut-device on verso is mounted but not hiding the wood-cut. The word "Basiliae" on last leaf recto is weak or nearly gone. Overall a large good copy as usually without the foreword by Melanchton. A small rubber-stamp on title: "Duplum Bibliothecæ V.E." and in old hand: "Bibliothecæ Conventij Romani S. Andrea de Fratrij " Scarce third printing of the so-called Zambert-Campanus Edition of the Elements all printed by Johann Herwagen in Basel - this edition printed together with his son-in-law Bernhard Brand. The first of the Herwagen prints was the famous Editio Princeps in Greek from 1533 and in 1537 he published a Latin version which became the first Euclid-editon to contain also Euclids smaller tracts as "Phenomena"Spherical geometry "Katroptik" Mirror-reflexion "Optik" und "Data"Geometrical excersises. The 1537- edition was reprinted 1546 and in 1558 the present."The most famous source of Greek geometry is the monumental work of Euclid of Alexandria called the "Elements" around 300 B.C. No other book of science had a comparable influence on the intellectual development of mankind. It was a treatise of geometry in thirteen books which included all the fundamental results of scientific geometry up to his time. Euclid did not claim for himself any particular discovery he was merely a compiler. Yet in view of the systematic arrangement of the subject matter and the exact logical procedure followed we cannot doubt that he himself provided a large body of specific formulations and specific auxiliary theorems in his deductions. It is no longer possible to pass judgement on the authorship of much of this material; his book was meant as a textbook of geometry which paid attention to the material while questions of priority did not enter the discussion." Cornelius Lanzos in "Space through the Ages".Max Steck III:57 - Thomas-Stanford: 15 - Riccardi 1558/3 - Adams E:976. hardcover
1558réf. 32859Basel, Johannem Hervagium & Bernhardum Brand, 1558. Folio. (30,5x21,5). Bound in 19th century brown hmorocco with 5 raised bands. Light wear to back and corners a bit bumped. (2),587 pp.Numerous wood-cut diagrams and initials throughout. First ab. 20 leaves with different degrees of yellowing and occasional with marginal faint dampstaining. 3 leaves with upper right corners repaired without loss of text. The ""privilege"" at verso of title partly unreadable as a piece of paper is pasted on, some of these letters are faint, just as some letters in ""Basiliae"" on title are weak. Last leaf with colophon and printers large woodcut-device on verso is mounted, but not hiding the wood-cut. The word ""Basiliae"" on last leaf recto, is weak or nearly gone. Overall a large good copy as usually without the foreword by Melanchton. A small rubber-stamp on title: ""Duplum Bibliothecæ V.E."" and in old hand: ""Bibliothecæ Conventij Romani S. Andrea de Fratrij (?)""
1588réf. 0031131588 A Paris, Chez Hierosme de Marnef & la veufve Guillaume Cavellat, 1588. Petit in-quarto (165 X 222) veau marbré, double filet doré et guirlande dorée en place des nerfs, caissons dorés, pièce de titre maroquin grenat, encadrement de filet noir sur les plats, coupes filetées, tranches rouges (reliure XVIIIe) ; (1) f. blanc, titre, (11) ff. (épitre, préface, table et portrait), 468 pages, (1) f. (achevé d'imprimer et marque de l'imprimeur). Restaurations à deux angles et un mors. Exemplaire un peu court de marge en tête mais sans atteinte au texte, infime travail de vers dans la marge inférieure des premiers feuillets, à peine visible ; cerne de mouillure claire dans la marge inférieure des cinq premiers feuillets, minuscule manque de papier en pied des deux premiers feuillets (feuillet blanc et titre).
1508réf. 4444Paris: Printed by Wolfgang Hopyl for himself Jean Petit and Thielmann Kerver 1508. First Complete Edition. Very good. Folio. a-o8 p3 A101 B-G8 H10 q-z8 A-C8 D4 COMPLETE. Inconsistent foliation: 115 64 116-223 i.e. 222 ff. With Wolfgang Hopyl's elegant title-page woodcut Sylvestre Marques typographiques 1066 depicting two eagles displayed in their beaks a circle crowned with letterpress title in the center in their claws a second circle early ownership canceled evidence of what may have been MS notes surrounding it in the margins are fine renderings of trees and plants. Slight foxing or toning occasional minor stains or wormholes in blank margins inexplicable 2 cm. tears in lower blank margins of a number of consecutive leaves 55-126 second numbering none affecting text. Occasional marginal notes and notes of chapter parts. Contemporary Italian blind stamped leather heavily restored SEE IMAGES modern smooth spine with portions of original spine laid down four deerskin ties replacements original pastedowns and endleaves retained 3 at the front and 3 at the back. The binding and annotations are INTRIGUING and the paper stock is VERY CRISP AND CLEAN. FIRST EDITION OF CYRIL'S COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPELS OF SAINT JOHN. OUR COPY WAS EXPORTED TO ITALY AT AN EARLY DATE WHERE IT WAS BOUND POSSIBLY IN ROME AND BEARS AN EXTREMELY INTRIGUING APOCALYPTIC POEM IN MANUSCRIPT AS WELL AS A MANUSCRIPT COPY OF A LITTLE KNOWN POEM BY PETRARCH. The Apocalyptic Prophecy: On the rear pastedown is following 14-line poem dated 1529: "Bella fames pestis fraudes Saturnia regna Sternent et veteres pellentur ubique tyranni. Monstra loquor tunc cum pariet bos rubeus hydram Nec Deus extinguet flammas nec deseret iram Ni prius Ausoniae feriant mala singula gentes. Poenae Tempus erit prope lustrum. Mox aliger ingens Surget et issomno rostro metuendus et ungue. Colla bovis caedet sitibundus iniqui draconis Viscera depascet. Gallorum insignia flores Sternet humi; reduces statuetque in propria reges. Galatia genitus terra Vir Justus et aequus Pastor erit coeli claves non sceptra gubernans. Pax erit: et toto surget Concordia Mundo. Una fides unus regnabit in omnia Princeps." TRANSLATION: "War famine pestilence and deceit shall prostrate the Saturnian i.e. ancient Italian kingdoms and the old tyrants shall everywhere be expelled. A shepherd will hold the keys not the one governing kingdoms. I speak of monsters! When the red cow shall give birth to the hydra God will not extinguish the flames nor abandon his anger until all these calamities shall have stricken the people of Ausonia. This state of affairs shall last about five years. Then an enormous bird shall awaken as from a sleep and with its terrible beak and claws shall cut off the neck of the ox and shall feed on the entrails of the thirty wicked dragon. He shall spread the insignia and flowers of the Gauls on the ground and restore the legitimate kings. Born in the land of Galatia is a just and equitable man he will lead as a shepherd with the keys of heaven not govern with scepters. There will be peace and harmony shall rise throughout the world. One faith one ruler shall reign over all." A number of variants of this extraordinary apocalyptic prophecy exist and its authorship remains unconfirmed. Petrus Galatinus Pietro Galatino has been proposed for which see Sharon Ann Leftley Millenarian Thought in Renaissance Rome with Special Reference to Pietro Galatino c. 1465- c. 1540 and Egidio da Viterbo c. 1469-1532 Univ. Bristol thesis 1995. Jennifer Britnell mentions Boethius Severinus in conjunction with Galatinus for which see "Jean Lemaire de Belges and Prophecy" in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 42:1 p. 160 & n. 86. A revisionist political version of the poem was published in "I futuri destini degli stati e delle nazioni ovvero Profezie e predizioni" 1860 pp. 135-136 and it is presumably this that appears uncredited in R. Gerald Culleton's The Reign of Antichrist 2009 no. 347. The Petrarch Poem: On the front binder's blanks are written by the same hand as the preceding two poems the second and longer one being a copy of Francesco Petrarch's beautiful but little known 36-line "Dulcis amica Dei" Petrarch Seniles XV 15. 6 in hexameters in praise of and supplication to Mary Magdalen: "Dulcis amica dei lacrimis inflectere nostris Atque humiles attende preces nostræque saluti Consule namque potes. Nec enim tibi tangere frustra Permissum gemituque pedes perfundere sacros Et nitidis siccare comis ferre oscula plantis Inque caput Domini pretiosos spargere odores" etc. Petrarch had made a pilgrimage to the shrine of Mary Magdalene in Sainte Baume near Marsailles and wrote several Latin hymns in her honor. Petrarch here commences with a brief imprecation to Magdalen to "look kindly" on his tears. Michael Haag explains: "In a manner suggesting at once the spiritual and the carnal Petrarch is calling on Mary Magdalene who soaked the wounds of Jesus with her tears to soak his own wounds with her tears also" see The Quest for Mary Magdalene: History and Legend. Petrarch then reflects upon Mary Magdalene as a contemplative hermit in her cave where her "hunger cold and hard bed of stone were sweetened by her love and hope." THE WATERMARKS: On three of the six binder's blanks appear a very distinctive Bull's Head with 5-leaf flower above being a distorted version of Briquet 14950 which he recorded at Ferrara in 1505 and Constance in 1507. THE BINDING: At least one tool on this binding is reproduced by De Marinis i.a. the unmistakale corner ornaments which are shared on BAV R.I.II.1069 Vipera Rome 1517 and which De Marinis attributed to Rome. THE PUBLISHERS: Responsible for printing and publishing this book was a multinational consortium acting in Paris: Wolfgang Hopyl was from the Low Countries Thielmann Kerver was German and Jean Petit Parisian. Roger Chartier described the latter as "a capitalist who without question was at the head of the Paris book trade at the end of the 15th century and in the early 16th century. From 1493 to 1530 he published more than a thousand books most of them of major importance amounting to one tenth of the entire output of the Paris trade" The Coming of the Book p. 121. Our publishers engaged Judocus Clichtoveus Josse van Clichtove as the editor who utilized the Latin translation by Georgio Trapezontio. THE PRINTING TYPE: This was Wolfgang Hopyl's "English-bodied Roman" r 98 which was apparently used here for the first time and was apparently proprietary to him. Records of his 1523 estate list an entry for "texte romyn" almost certainly the type used for printing this book according to Vervliet "Early sixteenth-century Parisian Roman types" in: De Gulden Passer 83 2005 p. 27 and fig. 10. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Two so-called issues of this first edition exist; our copy belongs the second and obviously most complete issue "with fresh material inserted" according to Adams. This so-called "fresh material" consists of an additional 64 ! folios which literally constitute Books 5-8 of the total 12 books thereby rendering ours the first complete edition of Cyril's Commentary on the Gospels of Saint John. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We believe that in this instance the term "issue" has been wrongly employed by bibliographers. "Issue" is a conscious publishing effort i.e. issued on fine paper special binding etc. Here however Hopyl's press made a series of colossal errors in which only Books 1-4 and 9-12 were printed and then sold. Was that intentional We find it to be very unlikely. RARITY ON THE MARKET. Rare Book Hub which currently lists more than 15 million records in the Rare Book Transactions database lists just three copies at auction in over a century: 1. Gonnelli Casa Daste 3/12/25 lot 340 lacking fols. A2 and A7 or p8; this copy is currently being offered on by a British dealer; 2. Bonhams 12/2/12 lot 1006 Serendipity copy; 3. Sotheby's 12/5/1991 lot 95 in a Sammelband of two other titles printed by Hopyl. Ours is currently the only complete copy on the market. § Adams C-3177. Moreau Inventaire chronologique 1508 no. 59. Index Aureliensis 149.143. Bibliographie des oeuvres de Josse Clicthove Gand 1888 pp. 401-402. Printed by Wolfgang Hopyl for himself, Jean Petit and Thielmann Kerver unknown books
1508réf. 4444Paris: Printed by Wolfgang Hopyl for himself Jean Petit and Thielmann Kerver 1508. First Complete Edition. Very good. Folio. a-o8 p3 A101 B-G8 H10 q-z8 A-C8 D4 COMPLETE. Inconsistent foliation: 115 64 116-223 i.e. 222 ff. With Wolfgang Hopyl's elegant title-page woodcut Sylvestre Marques typographiques 1066 depicting two eagles displayed in their beaks a circle crowned with letterpress title in the center in their claws a second circle early ownership canceled evidence of what may have been MS notes surrounding it in the margins are fine renderings of trees and plants. Slight foxing or toning occasional minor stains or wormholes in blank margins inexplicable 2 cm. tears in lower blank margins of a number of consecutive leaves 55-126 second numbering none affecting text. Occasional marginal notes and notes of chapter parts. Contemporary Italian blind stamped leather heavily restored SEE IMAGES modern smooth spine with portions of original spine laid down four deerskin ties replacements original pastedowns and endleaves retained 3 at the front and 3 at the back. The binding and annotations are INTRIGUING and the paper stock is VERY CRISP AND CLEAN. FIRST EDITION OF CYRIL'S COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPELS OF SAINT JOHN. OUR COPY WAS EXPORTED TO ITALY AT AN EARLY DATE WHERE IT WAS BOUND POSSIBLY IN ROME AND BEARS AN EXTREMELY INTRIGUING APOCALYPTIC POEM IN MANUSCRIPT AS WELL AS A MANUSCRIPT COPY OF A LITTLE KNOWN POEM BY PETRARCH. The Apocalyptic Prophecy: On the rear pastedown is following 14-line poem dated 1529: "Bella fames pestis fraudes Saturnia regna Sternent et veteres pellentur ubique tyranni. Monstra loquor tunc cum pariet bos rubeus hydram Nec Deus extinguet flammas nec deseret iram Ni prius Ausoniae feriant mala singula gentes. Poenae Tempus erit prope lustrum. Mox aliger ingens Surget et issomno rostro metuendus et ungue. Colla bovis caedet sitibundus iniqui draconis Viscera depascet. Gallorum insignia flores Sternet humi; reduces statuetque in propria reges. Galatia genitus terra Vir Justus et aequus Pastor erit coeli claves non sceptra gubernans. Pax erit: et toto surget Concordia Mundo. Una fides unus regnabit in omnia Princeps." TRANSLATION: "War famine pestilence and deceit shall prostrate the Saturnian i.e. ancient Italian kingdoms and the old tyrants shall everywhere be expelled. A shepherd will hold the keys not the one governing kingdoms. I speak of monsters! When the red cow shall give birth to the hydra God will not extinguish the flames nor abandon his anger until all these calamities shall have stricken the people of Ausonia. This state of affairs shall last about five years. Then an enormous bird shall awaken as from a sleep and with its terrible beak and claws shall cut off the neck of the ox and shall feed on the entrails of the thirty wicked dragon. He shall spread the insignia and flowers of the Gauls on the ground and restore the legitimate kings. Born in the land of Galatia is a just and equitable man he will lead as a shepherd with the keys of heaven not govern with scepters. There will be peace and harmony shall rise throughout the world. One faith one ruler shall reign over all." A number of variants of this extraordinary apocalyptic prophecy exist and its authorship remains unconfirmed. Petrus Galatinus Pietro Galatino has been proposed for which see Sharon Ann Leftley Millenarian Thought in Renaissance Rome with Special Reference to Pietro Galatino c. 1465- c. 1540 and Egidio da Viterbo c. 1469-1532 Univ. Bristol thesis 1995. Jennifer Britnell mentions Boethius Severinus in conjunction with Galatinus for which see "Jean Lemaire de Belges and Prophecy" in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 42:1 p. 160 & n. 86. A revisionist political version of the poem was published in "I futuri destini degli stati e delle nazioni ovvero Profezie e predizioni" 1860 pp. 135-136 and it is presumably this that appears uncredited in R. Gerald Culleton's The Reign of Antichrist 2009 no. 347. The Petrarch Poem: On the front binder's blanks are written by the same hand as the preceding two poems the second and longer one being a copy of Francesco Petrarch's beautiful but little known 36-line "Dulcis amica Dei" Petrarch Seniles XV 15. 6 in hexameters in praise of and supplication to Mary Magdalen: "Dulcis amica dei lacrimis inflectere nostris Atque humiles attende preces nostræque saluti Consule namque potes. Nec enim tibi tangere frustra Permissum gemituque pedes perfundere sacros Et nitidis siccare comis ferre oscula plantis Inque caput Domini pretiosos spargere odores" etc. Petrarch had made a pilgrimage to the shrine of Mary Magdalene in Sainte Baume near Marsailles and wrote several Latin hymns in her honor. Petrarch here commences with a brief imprecation to Magdalen to "look kindly" on his tears. Michael Haag explains: "In a manner suggesting at once the spiritual and the carnal Petrarch is calling on Mary Magdalene who soaked the wounds of Jesus with her tears to soak his own wounds with her tears also" see The Quest for Mary Magdalene: History and Legend. Petrarch then reflects upon Mary Magdalene as a contemplative hermit in her cave where her "hunger cold and hard bed of stone were sweetened by her love and hope." THE WATERMARKS: On three of the six binder's blanks appear a very distinctive Bull's Head with 5-leaf flower above being a distorted version of Briquet 14950 which he recorded at Ferrara in 1505 and Constance in 1507. THE BINDING: At least one tool on this binding is reproduced by De Marinis i.a. the unmistakale corner ornaments which are shared on BAV R.I.II.1069 Vipera Rome 1517 and which De Marinis attributed to Rome. THE PUBLISHERS: Responsible for printing and publishing this book was a multinational consortium acting in Paris: Wolfgang Hopyl was from the Low Countries Thielmann Kerver was German and Jean Petit Parisian. Roger Chartier described the latter as "a capitalist who without question was at the head of the Paris book trade at the end of the 15th century and in the early 16th century. From 1493 to 1530 he published more than a thousand books most of them of major importance amounting to one tenth of the entire output of the Paris trade" The Coming of the Book p. 121. Our publishers engaged Judocus Clichtoveus Josse van Clichtove as the editor who utilized the Latin translation by Georgio Trapezontio. THE PRINTING TYPE: This was Wolfgang Hopyl's "English-bodied Roman" r 98 which was apparently used here for the first time and was apparently proprietary to him. Records of his 1523 estate list an entry for "texte romyn" almost certainly the type used for printing this book according to Vervliet "Early sixteenth-century Parisian Roman types" in: De Gulden Passer 83 2005 p. 27 and fig. 10. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Two so-called issues of this first edition exist; our copy belongs the second and obviously most complete issue "with fresh material inserted" according to Adams. This so-called "fresh material" consists of an additional 64 ! folios which literally constitute Books 5-8 of the total 12 books thereby rendering ours the first complete edition of Cyril's Commentary on the Gospels of Saint John. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We believe that in this instance the term "issue" has been wrongly employed by bibliographers. "Issue" is a conscious publishing effort i.e. issued on fine paper special binding etc. Here however Hopyl's press made a series of colossal errors in which only Books 1-4 and 9-12 were printed and then sold. Was that intentional We find it to be very unlikely. RARITY ON THE MARKET. Rare Book Hub which currently lists more than 15 million records in the Rare Book Transactions database lists just three copies at auction in over a century: 1. Gonnelli Casa Daste 3/12/25 lot 340 lacking fols. A2 and A7 or p8; this copy is currently being offered on by a British dealer; 2. Bonhams 12/2/12 lot 1006 Serendipity copy; 3. Sotheby's 12/5/1991 lot 95 in a Sammelband of two other titles printed by Hopyl. Ours is currently the only complete copy on the market. § Adams C-3177. Moreau Inventaire chronologique 1508 no. 59. Index Aureliensis 149.143. Bibliographie des oeuvres de Josse Clicthove Gand 1888 pp. 401-402. Printed by Wolfgang Hopyl for himself, Jean Petit and Thielmann Kerver unknown
1520réf. 909Paris: Joanne Paruo i.e. Jean Petit with Venundantur eidem Ascensio i.e. Badius Ascensius 1520. Bound in Alum-tawed pigskin elaborately tooled in blind over wooden boards with metal and leather clasps; one clasp perished. Binding with one corner tip broken off; small hole in leather on rear board; dust-soiled. Inside some early marginalia and underlining in red; narrow arc of old light water staining to fore-edges of one part. Pages generally very clean. This is a pleasing copy of two substantial books edited and assembled by very notable scholars_ _contemporary to the publications of the works. Two Folios bound together; leaf size: 32 x 22 cm. Signatures: ad. I a-z8&8A-H8I6K8 aaa-ggg6hhh4iii6iii6 is blank & present ad. IIA¹0 a-x⸠yⶠzâ´ Both are first editions of quite influential books. Moreau II Nr. 2242m; P. Renouard Bibliographie des impres Paris I908s II I46 and BL STC France 16th cent.; Ind Aur III 311; Wierda 2006; p. 210 nr. 40 p. 42; Moreau 1511-1520: 2246; Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du 16. sie_̀cle . Bade-438/. St. Athanasius's text was translated into Latin by three noted Renaissance scholars and edited by Nicholas Beraldus and has the added prestige of apparatus by Erasmus. The title-page is printed within a four-piece woodcut border with the title in red and black and the page bears the famous Petit printer's device. The St. Basil is from Badius Ascensius's press and he acted as the editor the translators having been Johannes Argyropoulos Georgius Trapezuntius and otherssee above and below . The title-page uses the same four-part woodcut title-page border as found on the St. Athanasius bound in at the front which makes much sense given the familial relationship between Ascensius and Petit. Moreau II Nr. 2242m; P. Renouard Bibliographie des impres Paris I908s II I46 Athanasius was the greatest champion of Catholic belief of Incarnation that the Church has ever known and in his lifetime earned the characteristic title of "Father of Orthodoxy" by which he has been distinguished ever since. "Athanasius the Apostolic was the 20th bishop of Alexandria as Athanasius I. His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years c. 8 June 328 – _2 May 373 of which over encompassed five exiles when he was replaced on the order of four different Roman emperors. Athanasius was a Christian theologian a Church Father the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism and a noted Coptic Christian Egyptian leader of the fourth century. Athanasius' earliest work Against the Heathen – _On the Incarnation written before 319 bears traces of Origenist Alexandrian thought such as repeatedly quoting Plato and using a definition from Aristotle's Organon but in an orthodox way. Athanasius was also familiar with the theories of various philosophical schools and with the developments of Neo-Platonism. Ultimately Athanasius would modify the philosophical thought of the School of Alexandria away from the Origenist principles such as the "entirely allegorical interpretation of the text". Still in later works Athanasius quotes Homer more than once Hist. Ar. 68 Orat. iv. 29. Athanasius was not a speculative theologian. As he stated in his First Letters to Serapion he held on to "the tradition teaching and faith proclaimed by the apostles and guarded by the fathers." He held that not only was the Son of God consubstantial with the Father but so was the Holy Spirit which had a great deal of influence in the development of later doctrines regarding the Trinity. Athanasius' "Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea" De Decretis is an important historical as well as theological account of the proceedings of that council and another letter from 367 is the first known listing of all those books now accepted as the New Testament. With Basil the Great is sapientissimus potentissimus sanctissimus piissimus. This volume includes the following works: the Hexameron translated by Argyro- pulos for Sixtus IV; Adversus Eunomium translated by George of Trebizond at the re- quest of Cardinal Bessarion and sent by him to Eugenius IV; Gregory Nazianzen's funeral oration on Basil the Great in the translation of Raphael Volaterranus; a large selection of Basil's sermons and several letters also translated by Volaterranus; and finally the De institutis monarchorum RuEinus' transation adaptation and fusion of Basil's two monastic rules the Regulaefusius tractatae and Regulae brevius tractatae. Texts in Migne P.G. XXIX XXX XXXI and F. Boulenger Gre'goire de NazEanze. Dis- coursfunebres en l'honneur de sonfrere Ce'saire et de Basile de Cesarete Paris I908 pp. S8-23I. Argyropulos' Hexameron was sent to Badius from Rome by Lefevre fol. Ir and Badius' preface: 'Nuper autem divi Basilii vere magni monumenta aeterna cedro dignissima ab urbe Roma ad nos usque perlata hinc ad negocia sua profecturus prelo nostro commisit'. It and the translations of Volaterranus had been printed in Rome by Mazochius in September and December ISIS Panzer vm 255 no. 92 and 256 no. 9S; inJune ISo8 Matthias Schurer had printed Basilfi Oratio de invidia Nic. Perotfo interprete in Strasbourg Panzer VI 42 no. I3I; the letters on reading the pagan classics and on the solitary life were well known; but Badius' is the first printing of so important a collection of Basil's works. Joanne Paruo [i.e., Jean Petit] with Venundantur eidem Ascensio [i.e., Badius Ascensius
1551réf. ST21071Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino 1551. First Edition in Latin. 400 x 272 mm. 15 3/4 x 10 3/4". 47 1 pp.; 113 3 pp.; 2 p.l. 277 1 pp. 26 leaves last blank.Translated from the Greek by Gentien Hervet. Contemporary limp vellum flat spine with faded ink lettering vestiges of paper labels yapp edges early vellum manuscript scraps used as sewing guards remnants of two fore-edge ties. Housed in a very fine felt-lined linen drop-back box tan morocco label on spine. Title page with ornate allegorical woodcut frame historiated initials. A Large Paper Copy. Inside front cover with armorial bookplate of Michael Forbes Tweedie see below; front flyleaf with Tweedie's signature dated 1888; verso of front flyleaf with Tweedie's biographical notes on Clement. Adams C-2105; Hoffmann I:497; EDIT16 CNCE 12689; USTC 823004; Brunet II 93; Graesse II 198. Vellum somewhat soiled five short slits to yapp edges two old repairs to title page where earlier owners' names have likely been removed half a dozen leaves a little foxed occasional minor smudges or stains including to the title page but A VERY APPEALING COPY nevertheless--the original unrestored binding retaining its antique appeal extremely fresh and clean internally and with immense margins occupying a good deal more area than the text. This stately Large Paper Copy of the works of Church Father Clement of Alexandria represents a landmark in 16th century theology and a pinnacle of printing from its Florentine press. Born in Greece Clement ca. 150 - ca. 215 A.D. sought knowledge in the learning centers of the Mediterranean before studying at the Catechetical School of Alexandria under the Stoic-turned-Christian Pantaenus. Clement converted to Christianity and became a leading apologist for the faith uniquely blending Christian theology with classical Greek philosophy and literature particularly Homer. Although the original Greek text of the present work based on manuscripts in the library of Duke Cosimo de' Medici had been printed by Torrentino one year earlier our Latin version by renowned French humanist Gentien Hervet 1499-1584 carries more historical weight. By translating these foundational texts into Latin--the universal language of Renaissance academia--Torrentino unlocked Clement's intricate philosophy for Western Europe and created a cornerstone of 16th century theology. Published during the peak of Cosimo I de' Medici's campaign to enhance his duchy's cultural reputation through printing classical and patristic texts from manuscripts in the family library this volume demonstrates the legendary craftsmanship of official ducal printer Torrentino born Laurens van den Bleeck in Brabant 1499-1563 known for his beautiful typography elegant composition and use of high-quality paper. Our copy is further distinguished by its dimensions and sprawling margins--at least 50 mm. taller than any other copy we could locate--suggesting it was produced for high-level diplomatic or ecclesiastical presentation within the Medici court. Such a large folio with such vast margins leaves a dramatic visual impression. Our volume was once in the library of London attorney and author Michael Tweedie 1860-1938 founding partner of Tweedie & Prideaux of Lincoln's Inn. Lorenzo Torrentino unknown books
1551réf. ST21071Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino 1551. First Edition in Latin. 400 x 272 mm. 15 3/4 x 10 3/4". 47 1 pp.; 113 3 pp.; 2 p.l. 277 1 pp. 26 leaves last blank.Translated from the Greek by Gentien Hervet. Contemporary limp vellum flat spine with faded ink lettering vestiges of paper labels yapp edges early vellum manuscript scraps used as sewing guards remnants of two fore-edge ties. Housed in a very fine felt-lined linen drop-back box tan morocco label on spine. Title page with ornate allegorical woodcut frame historiated initials. A Large Paper Copy. Inside front cover with armorial bookplate of Michael Forbes Tweedie see below; front flyleaf with Tweedie's signature dated 1888; verso of front flyleaf with Tweedie's biographical notes on Clement. Adams C-2105; Hoffmann I:497; EDIT16 CNCE 12689; USTC 823004; Brunet II 93; Graesse II 198. Vellum somewhat soiled five short slits to yapp edges two old repairs to title page where earlier owners' names have likely been removed half a dozen leaves a little foxed occasional minor smudges or stains including to the title page but A VERY APPEALING COPY nevertheless--the original unrestored binding retaining its antique appeal extremely fresh and clean internally and with immense margins occupying a good deal more area than the text. This stately Large Paper Copy of the works of Church Father Clement of Alexandria represents a landmark in 16th century theology and a pinnacle of printing from its Florentine press. Born in Greece Clement ca. 150 - ca. 215 A.D. sought knowledge in the learning centers of the Mediterranean before studying at the Catechetical School of Alexandria under the Stoic-turned-Christian Pantaenus. Clement converted to Christianity and became a leading apologist for the faith uniquely blending Christian theology with classical Greek philosophy and literature particularly Homer. Although the original Greek text of the present work based on manuscripts in the library of Duke Cosimo de' Medici had been printed by Torrentino one year earlier our Latin version by renowned French humanist Gentien Hervet 1499-1584 carries more historical weight. By translating these foundational texts into Latin--the universal language of Renaissance academia--Torrentino unlocked Clement's intricate philosophy for Western Europe and created a cornerstone of 16th century theology. Published during the peak of Cosimo I de' Medici's campaign to enhance his duchy's cultural reputation through printing classical and patristic texts from manuscripts in the family library this volume demonstrates the legendary craftsmanship of official ducal printer Torrentino born Laurens van den Bleeck in Brabant 1499-1563 known for his beautiful typography elegant composition and use of high-quality paper. Our copy is further distinguished by its dimensions and sprawling margins--at least 50 mm. taller than any other copy we could locate--suggesting it was produced for high-level diplomatic or ecclesiastical presentation within the Medici court. Such a large folio with such vast margins leaves a dramatic visual impression. Our volume was once in the library of London attorney and author Michael Tweedie 1860-1938 founding partner of Tweedie & Prideaux of Lincoln's Inn. Lorenzo Torrentino unknown
1543réf. 34704Colophon: Venice Venturino Rossenelli 1543. Folio. 305x22 cm. Contemporary full Italian limp vellum. Remains of ties. Old handwritten title on spine. Upper part of front cover slightly creased. A few small nicks to hinges at cords. Vellum with brownspots. 242 leaves 2-241 numb. II-CCXXXIX. Misnumbering of leaves in sign. A 10 lvs. due to the insertion of corrections on f A5. Collation corresponds to that given by Thomas-Stanford No. 34. Large margins profusely illustrated with diagrams. Upper right corner of title gone with loss of of 3 letters "NSE" in MEGARENSE f A2-A6 with upper right corners and a wormtract-hole in lower margin repaired. A wormtract in lower margin on the next 11 lvs. A1-A6 mounted skillfully on thin opaque parchment-paper. A rather faint dampstain in upper right corner throughout. Last 5 leaves with a small nick in right margin no loss. Otherwise remarkably clean and printed on good strong paper. On the title a large woodcut device with arms with G.T. Gabriele Tadino to whom the work is dedicated. Colophon with large woodcut device with the letters .P.Z.F. and this repeated on verso of last leaf. Scarce first edition of the first translation of Euclid into any modern language by the famous Niccolo Tartaglia. The translation and Tartaglia's commentaries strongly accelerated the development of physics and mechanics in the 16th century as it showed how mathematics could be applied to dynamics and mechanics as well as to architecture construction and perspective. More than 20 years should elapse before the next language would receive the privilege of displaying Euclid among their goods this was the French translation published by Pierre Forcadel Paris 1564. "When Tartaglia submits that his redaction was made "secondo le due tradittioni" there is no question that Campanus - who appears to be heavely favored - and Zamberti are meant. When Campanus has added propositions or premises Tartaglia has approriately translated them and noted their absence "nelle seconda tradittione" while things omitted by Campanus but included by Zamberti receive the reverse treatment" John Murdoch in DSB. Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia of Brescia has a great name in the history of mathematics. A cut in the face from a French soldier caused him to stammer and as a consequence of this he was called 'Tartaglia' the stammerer. He is famous for his solution of third-degree equations which occasioned a long polemic with Cardano about priority. He is also known for "Tartaglia's Triangle" later known as "Pascal's Triangle" and he is well-known for his Archimedes-edition of 1543 and 1551 with his commentaries. "The most famous source of Greek geometry is the monumental work of Euclid of Alexandria called the "Elements" around 300 B.C. No other book of science had a comparable influence on the intellectual development of mankind. It was a treatise of geometry in thirteen books which included all the fundamental results of scientific geometry up to his time. Euclid did not claim for himself any particular discovery he was merely a compiler. Yet in view of the systematic arrangement of the subject matter and the exact logical procedure followed we cannot doubt that he himself provided a large body of specific formulations and specific auxiliary theorems in his deductions. It is no longer possible to pass judgement on the authorship of much of this material; his book was meant as a textbook of geometry which paid attention to the material while questions of priority did not enter the discussion." Cornelius Lanzos in "Space through the Ages". Max Steck III:40 - Thomas-Stanford: 34 - Riccardi Euclideana 1543 1 - Adams E:992. - Brunet II:1090. Premiere edition de ce travail estimé. - Graesse II:513. hardcover
1543réf. 34704(Colophon: Venice, Venturino Rossenelli, 1543). Folio. (30,5x22 cm.). Contemporary full Italian limp vellum. Remains of ties. Old handwritten title on spine. Upper part of front cover slightly creased. A few small nicks to hinges at cords. Vellum with brownspots. 242 leaves (2-241 numb. II-CCXXXIX). Misnumbering of leaves in sign. A (10 lvs.), due to the insertion of corrections on f A5. (Collation corresponds to that given by Thomas-Stanford No. 34). Large margins profusely illustrated with diagrams. Upper right corner of title gone with loss of of 3 letters ""NSE"" in MEGARENSE, f A2-A6 with upper right corners and a wormtract-hole in lower margin repaired. A wormtract in lower margin on the next 11 lvs. A1-A6 mounted skillfully on thin opaque parchment-paper. A rather faint dampstain in upper right corner throughout. Last 5 leaves with a small nick in right margin, no loss. Otherwise remarkably clean and printed on good, strong paper. On the title a large woodcut device with arms with G.T. (Gabriele Tadino, to whom the work is dedicated). Colophon with large woodcut device with the letters .P.Z.F. and this repeated on verso of last leaf.
1588réf. 62780Colophon: Pisauri Pesaro Hieronymum Concordiam 1588. Having the reprinted title-page: Venetiis Franciscum de Franciscis Senemsem 1589. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum. Repairs to upper part of spine and small nicks to back repaired. Edges of covers with tiny loss of vellum. Covers slightly soiled. Calligraphed title on back. Title-page with and old partly erased stamp. Woodcut printer's device on title-page. Ff 3 334 332 = 664 pp. Numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text. Printed on good paper. Ff. 2-3 with an old repair to inner margin no loss. F2 browned but otherwise remarkably clean with only a few brownspots. A few small worm-tracts to some margins. In spite of its flaws a very good copy of this monumental work. First edition title-issue with the fresh title-page stating 1589 but with nothing else reprinted and otherwise through and through the 1588-printing of Commandino's seminal Latin translation of the work that constitutes the culmination of Greek Mathematics. This printing which contains the complete extant text of Pappos in Latin translation is responsible for reviving ancient mathematics in the Renaissance and shaping much modern mathematics profoundly influencing the likes of Descartes and Newton. "Pappos was the greatest mathematician of the final period of ancient science and no one emulated him in Byzantine times. He was the last mathematical giant of antiquity." George Sarton Ancient Science and Modern Civilization. p.82. "Pappus of Alexandria in ab. 320 composed a work with the title Collection Synagoge which is important for several reasons. In the first place it provides a most valuable historical record of parts of Greek Mathematics that otherwise would be unknown to us. For instance it is in Book V of the Collection that we learn of Archimedes' discovery of the thirteen semiregular polyhedra or "Archimedian solids". Then too the Collection includes alternative proofs and supplementary lemmas for propositions in Euclid Archimedes Appolonius and Ptolemy. Finally the treatise includes new discoveries and generalizations not found in any earlier work. The Collection Pappus' most important treatise contained eight Books but the first Book and the first part of the second Book are now lost" Boyer A History of Mathematics p. 205. "Each book 8 is preceded by general reflexions which give to that group of problems its philosophical and historical setting. The prefaces are of deep interest to historians of mathematics and therefore it is a great pity that three of them are lost . Book VII is far the longest book of the Collection . and here we find in it the famous Pappo's problem: "given several straight lines in a plane to find the locus point such that when straight lines are drawn from it to the given lines at a given angle the products of certain of the segments shall be in a given ratio to the product of the remaining ones". This problem is important in itself but even so because it exercized Descartes' mind and caused him to invent the method of coordinates explained in his Geométrie 1637. Think of a seed lying asleep for more than thirteen centuries and then helping to produce that magnificent flowering analytical geometry . The final Book VIII is mechanical and is largely derived from Heron of Alexandria. Following Heron Pappos distinguished various parts of theoretical mechanics geometry arithmetic astronomy and physics. The Book is considered the climax of Greek mechanics and helps us to realize the great variety of problems to which the Hellenistic mechanicians addressed themselves. If Book VIII is the climax of Greek mechanics we may say as well that the whole collection is a treasury and to some extent the culmination of Greek mathematics. . The ideas collected or invented by Pappos did not stimulate Western mathematicians until very late but when they finally did they caused the birth of modern mathematics- analytical geometry projective geometry centrobaric method. That birth or rebirth from Pappos' ashes occurred within four years 1637-40. This was modern geometry connected immediately with the ancient one as if nothing had happened between." Georg Sarton op.cit. - It is from Pappus we have the famous words of Archimedes: "Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth" Se PMM No 72. - "Without pretending to great originality the whole work shows on the part of the author a thorough grasp of all the subjects treated independent of judgement mastery of technique; the style is terse and clear; in short Pappus stands out as an accomplished and versatile mathematician a worthy representative of the classical Greek geometry." Heath A History of Greek mathematics Vol. II: p.358. Adams P 224 The sheets of the Pisauris edition with a fresh title. hardcover
1588réf. 62780Colophon: Pisauri (Pesaro), Hieronymum Concordiam, 1588. (Having the reprinted title-page: Venetiis, Franciscum de Franciscis Senemsem, 1589). Folio. Contemporary limp vellum. Repairs to upper part of spine and small nicks to back repaired. Edges of covers with tiny loss of vellum. Covers slightly soiled. Calligraphed title on back. Title-page with and old, partly erased stamp. Woodcut printer's device on title-page. Ff (3), 334 (332) (= 664 pp). Numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text. Printed on good paper. Ff. 2-3 with an old repair to inner margin (no loss). F2 browned, but otherwise remarkably clean with only a few brownspots. A few small worm-tracts to some margins. In spite of its flaws, a very good copy of this monumental work.
réf. 185682Russia: mid-17th century. On the Antichrist and the Harrowing of Hell A miscellany with three theological works the first apparently unrecorded outside Russia - all rare both on the market and institutionally especially from such early date. Hippolytus of Rome 3rd century opposed the Bishops of Rome forming a sort of schismatic group; his Slovo circulated in manuscript form and was among the earliest treatises on the Antichrist. It is a collection of passages from the Old and New Testament with an apocalyptic and millenarian tone especially focused on "the relationship between the antichrist and the events that would lead to the end of time" Valdez p. 145. The National Library of Russia lists five copies of this work none as early as this. The second work here attributed to Eusebius of Samosata also known as "of Caesarea" 3rd-4th century is instead believed to have been written by Eusebius Bishop of Alexandria 5th century of whom little is known. His homilies were very popular in Eastern Christianity. The subject of numerous paintings and illustrations this work focuses on St John the Baptist's posthumous descent into Hell where he continued to preach about the coming of the Messiah anticipating Christ's own Harrowing of Hell. The National Library of Russia lists three copies of this work all later. The third text - a reflection on life which opens with the statement "Where is the goodness of youth in all its glory" and occupies the last three leaves - has not been traced and appears to be unrecorded. Provenance: Dr Ellis H. Minns Pembroke College Cambridge his bookplate on front pastedown - Dylan's Book Store Swansea Wales July 1994 - Martin Schøyen. Three works in one vol. quarto 190 x 150 mm manuscript on paper. Ff. 68 18-20 lines in Cyrillic half-uncial and Skoropis cursive per full page in two hands. Watermark: double-headed eagle cf. Heawood 440 dated 1652. Rubricated titles and initials some with penflourishing in red ink. Quarter brown calf over marbled boards c.1800 rebacked. Chapters 22 to 24 of first work copied at end. Extremities rubbed spine flaking contents toned and finger-soiled some marginal ink marks or small ink-burn holes to text marginal glosses occasionally trimmed but legible: a very good example. None in Cleminson. A. Valdez Historical Interpretations of the "Fifth Empire" 2010. hardcover
1538réf. 126667Basel: Johann Walder 1538. Theon's valuable commentary on the Almagest Editio princeps. Theon father of the celebrated female mathematician and philosopher Hypatia composed his commentary on the Almagest as a redaction of his lectures said to have been given at the Museum in Alexandria. Edited by Joachim Camerarius 1500-1574 the commentary is of particular value to modern scholars because it preserves information about now-lost mathematical and astronomical treatises. The book was issued as a companion volume to the editio princeps of the Almagest published the same year by Walder. Folio 316 x 203 mm 1 vol. only of 2. Contemporary limp vellum sewn on three cords yapp edges ties lacking. Housed in a vellum-backed folding case spine lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Elizabeth Sprague. Light dampstain at head some gatherings lightly browned still a very good copy. hardcover
1814réf. PHO-1225Paris , imprimerie Didot l’ainé , 1814 , 4 volumes composé de 3 tome de texte et un Atlas. TEXTE , 3 vol. in-8 (210x135) , relié demi maroquin et coins ,dos lisse avec auteur , titre et tomaison ,tranches marbrées, portrait de l’auteur en frontispice ,xix-395pp-1f (errata), 2ff-464pp-1f (errata),2ff-410pp-1f (errata) , dos et gardes refaits , cachets répétés , premiers feuillets brunis , quelques rousseurs , dos insolés. ATLAS , in-4 (330 x 260) Relié demi basane époque Portrait frontispice XIV-pp-texte 90 planches, dont 14 dépliantes ou sur double page, 5 grandes cartes d après les dessins de l auteur , les cartes Chypre, Maroc, Afrique du Nord, Cote d Arabie, El Cassaba ou le château de Tanger, Temple. Mission d Ali Bey à Tripoli. quelques rousseurs ,Pas de déchirures, coins usés, salissures , les gravures sont de Adam d’après les dessins de l’auteur. Très rare avec le texte
1588réf. 3991588. Numerous woodcut illus. & diagrams in the text. 4 p.l. the last a blank 334 i.e. 332 pp. Folio cont. limp vellum title a bit soiled last two leaves with some light dampstaining ties gone. Pesaro: H. Concordia 1588. First edition and a very fine and fresh copy of this uncommon book; this edition providing the complete extant text was the final work to be edited by Commandino and completes his life's work of reviving Renaissance mathematics by making available the best mathematical writings of antiquity. "In the silver age of Greek mathematics Pappus stands out as an accomplished and versatile geometer. His treatise known as the Synagoge or Collection is a chief and sometimes the only source for our knowledge of his predecessors' achievements. The Collection is in eight books perhaps originally in twelve of which the first and part of the second are missing. "Book VII is the most fascinating in the whole Collection not merely by its intrinsic interest and by what it preserves of earlier writers but by its influence on modern mathematics."D.S.B. X p. 293-95and see pp. 294-98 for a full discussion of the contents. This concerns in a passage on Apollonius' Conics the attempt to conceive of the product of more than three straight lines as geometrical entities known as "Pappus' Problem." Descartes devoted a major part of his own Géométrie to this and solved it by the use of algebraic notation. "Pappus' problem thus inspired the new method of analytical geometry that has proved such a powerful tool in subsequent centuries. In his Principia 1687 Newton also found inspiration in Pappus; he proved in a purely geometrical manner that the locus with respect to four lines is a conic section which may degenerate into a circle."D.S.B. X p. 296. Topics discussed in the other books include astronomy and mechanics. A very fine copy preserved in a green morocco-backed box. Rose The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics p. 214"Within 25 years of Commandino's death the first step in founding the mechanics of the seventeenth century was to be taken by Galileo when in criticising the inclined plane theorem of Pappus the Tuscan mathematician adumbrated the notion of inertia. This step was not taken in an intellectual vacuum but represents the culmination of the mathematical renaissance that had been achieved by the Restauratores."& see the whole of Chap. 9 for Commandino and this book. Smith History of Mathematics I pp. 136-37. unknown books
1588réf. 3991588. Numerous woodcut illus. & diagrams in the text. 4 p.l. the last a blank 334 i.e. 332 pp. Folio cont. limp vellum title a bit soiled last two leaves with some light dampstaining ties gone. Pesaro: H. Concordia 1588. First edition and a very fine and fresh copy of this uncommon book; this edition providing the complete extant text was the final work to be edited by Commandino and completes his life's work of reviving Renaissance mathematics by making available the best mathematical writings of antiquity. "In the silver age of Greek mathematics Pappus stands out as an accomplished and versatile geometer. His treatise known as the Synagoge or Collection is a chief and sometimes the only source for our knowledge of his predecessors' achievements. The Collection is in eight books perhaps originally in twelve of which the first and part of the second are missing. "Book VII is the most fascinating in the whole Collection not merely by its intrinsic interest and by what it preserves of earlier writers but by its influence on modern mathematics."D.S.B. X p. 293-95and see pp. 294-98 for a full discussion of the contents. This concerns in a passage on Apollonius' Conics the attempt to conceive of the product of more than three straight lines as geometrical entities known as "Pappus' Problem." Descartes devoted a major part of his own Géométrie to this and solved it by the use of algebraic notation. "Pappus' problem thus inspired the new method of analytical geometry that has proved such a powerful tool in subsequent centuries. In his Principia 1687 Newton also found inspiration in Pappus; he proved in a purely geometrical manner that the locus with respect to four lines is a conic section which may degenerate into a circle."D.S.B. X p. 296. Topics discussed in the other books include astronomy and mechanics. A very fine copy preserved in a green morocco-backed box. Rose The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics p. 214"Within 25 years of Commandino's death the first step in founding the mechanics of the seventeenth century was to be taken by Galileo when in criticising the inclined plane theorem of Pappus the Tuscan mathematician adumbrated the notion of inertia. This step was not taken in an intellectual vacuum but represents the culmination of the mathematical renaissance that had been achieved by the Restauratores."& see the whole of Chap. 9 for Commandino and this book. Smith History of Mathematics I pp. 136-37. unknown
1588réf. 5234Pesaro: Girolamo Concordia 1588. First edition of Pappus' Collection translated with commentary by Federico Commandino a princely copy from the notable collection of the great Papal family and patrons of learning the Piccolomini Dukes of Amalfi thence by marriage to the German nobleman von Troilo. The Collection is "by far the most important of Pappus' works . without it much of the geometrical achievement of his predecessors would have been lost forever" DSB. . GREEK GEOMETRY - A CRUCIAL INFLUENCE ON DESCARTES. First edition of Pappus' Collection translated with commentary by Federico Commandino a princely copy from the notable collection of the great Papal family and patrons of learning the Piccolomini Dukes of Amalfi thence by marriage to the German nobleman von Troilo. The Collection is "by far the most important of Pappus' works . without it much of the geometrical achievement of his predecessors would have been lost forever . The Collection deals with the whole body of Greek geometry mostly in the form of commentaries on texts which it is assumed the reader has to hand. It reproduces known solutions to problems in geometry; but it also frequently gives Pappus' own solutions or improvements and extensions to existing solutions. Thus Pappus handles the problem of inscribing five regular solids in a sphere in a way quite different from Euclid; gives a broader generalization than Euclid to the famous Pythagorean theorem and provides a demonstration of squaring the circle which is quite different from the method of Archimedes who used a spiral or that of Nicomedes who used the conchoid. Perhaps the most interesting part of the Collection measured by its influence on modern mathematics is Book VII which is concerned with the problems of determining the locus with respect to three four five six or more than six lines. Pappus' work in this field was called 'Pappus' problem' by René Descartes who demonstrated that the difficulties which Pappus was unable to overcome could be got round by the use of his new algebraic symbols. Pappus thus came to play an important if minor role in the founding of Cartesian analytical geometry. And it is another mark of his originality and skill that he spent much time working on the problem of drawing a circle in such a way that it will touch three given circles a problem sophisticated enough to engage the interest centuries later of both François Viète and Isaac Newton. For his own originality even if his chief importance is as the preserver of Greek scientific knowledge Pappus stands with Diophantus as the last of the long and distinguished line of Alexandrian mathematicians" Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography. "He formally defined analysis and synthesis as they are still commonly applied in the solution of geometrical riders. Pappus stumbled upon the projective invariance of the cross-ratio of four collinear points and other related results reclaimed by modern projective geometry; and he gave the first recorded statement of the focus-directrix property of the three conic sections. He formulated the 'centrobaric' theorems frequently attributed to Paul Guldin 1577-1643 for calculating the volume and surface generated by a plane figure rotating about an axis in its own plane. He discussed theoretical mechanics the equilibrium of a heavy body on an inclined plane the use of the mechanical powers and the construction of mechanical toys" Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. Provenance: Ex libris inscription of Princess Maria Piccolomini and signature of Count Franz Gottfried von Troilo on title; shelfmark on front free endpaper. Pappus of Alexandria c. 290 - c. 350 AD was the most important mathematical author writing in Greek during the later Roman Empire. Other than that he was born at Alexandria in Egypt and that his career coincided with the first three decades of the 4th century AD little is known about his life. "In the silver age of Greek mathematics Pappus stands out as an accomplished and versatile geometer. His treatise known as the Synagoge or Collection is a chief and sometimes the only source for our knowledge of his predecessors' achievements. The Collection is in eight books perhaps originally in twelve of which the first and part of the second are missing . The several books of the Collection many well have been written as separate treatises at different dates and later brought together as the name suggests . A. Rome concludes that the Collection was put together about AD 340 but K. Ziegler states that . the Collection may have been compiled soon after AD 320. It has come down to us from a single twelfth-century manuscript Codex Vaticanus Graecus 218 from which all the other manuscripts are derived . "The portion of book II that survives beginning with proposition 14 expounds Apollonius' system of large numbers expressed as powers of 10000. It is probable that book I was also arithmetical. "Book III is in four parts. The first part deals with the problem of finding two mean proportionals between two given straight lines the second develops the theory of means the third sets out some 'paradoxes' of an otherwise unknown Erycinus and the fourth treats of the inscription of the five regular solids in a sphere but in a manner quite different from that of Euclid in his Elements XIII. 13-17. "Book IV is in five sections. The first section is a series of unrelated propositions of which the opening one is a generalization of Pythagoras' theorem even wider than that found in Euclid VI.31 . The second section deals with circles inscribed in the figure known as the άÏβηλος or 'shoemaker's knife.' It is formed when the diameter AC of a semicircle ABC is divided in any way at E and semicircles ADE EFC are erected. The space between these two semicircles and the semicircle ABC is the άÏβηλος. In a series of elegant theorems Pappus shows that if a circle with center G is drawn so as to touch all three semicircles and then a circle with center H to touch this circle and the semicircles ABC ADE and so on ad infinitum then the perpendicular from G to AC is equal to the diameter of the circle with center G the perpendicular from H to AC is double the diameter of the circle with center H the perpendicular from K to AC is triple the diameter of the circle with center K and so on indefinitely. Pappus records this as 'an ancient proposition' and proceeds to give variants. This section covers as particular cases propositions in the Book of Lemmas that Arabian tradition attributes to Archimedes. "In the third section Pappus turns to the squaring of the circle. He professes to give the solutions of Archimedes by means of a spiral and of Nicomedes by means of the conchoid and the solution by means of the quadratrix but his proof is different from that of Archimedes. To the traditional method of generating the quadratrix Pappus adds two further methods 'by means of surface loci' that is curves drawn on surfaces. As a digression he examines the properties of a spiral described on a sphere. "The fourth section is devoted to another famous problem in Greek mathematics the trisection of an angle. Pappus' first solution is by means of a νευσις or verging-the construction of a line that has to pass through a certain point-which involves the use of a hyperbola. He next proceeds to solve the problem directly by means of a hyperbola in two ways; on one occasion he uses the diameter-and-ordinate property as in Apollonius and on another he uses the focus-directrix property. This property is proved in book VII. Pappus then reproduces the solutions by means of the quadratrix and the spiral of Archimedes; he also gives the solution of νευσις which he believes Archimedes to have unnecessarily assumed in On Spirals proposition 8. "In the preface to book V which deals with isoperimetry Pappus praises the sagacity of bees who make the cells of the honeycomb hexagonal because of all the figures which can be fitted together the hexagon contains the greatest area. The literary quality of this preface has been warmly praised. Within the limits of his subject Pappus looks back to the great Attic writers from a world in which Greek had degenerated into Hellenistic. In the first part of the book Pappus appears to be reproducing Zenodorus fairly closely; in the second part he compares the volumes of solids that have equal surfaces. He gives an account of thirteen semiregular solids discovered and discussed by Archimedes but not in any surviving works of that mathematician that are contained by polygons all equilateral and equiangular but not all similar. He then shows following Zenodorus that the sphere is greater in volume than any of the regular solids that have surfaces equal to that of the sphere. He also proves independently that of the regular solids with equal surfaces that solid is greater which has the more faces. "Book VI is astronomical and deals with the books in the so-called Little Astronomy-the smaller treatises regarded as an introduction to Ptolemy's Syntaxis Almagest. In magisterial manner he reviews the works of Theodosius Autolycus Aristarchus and Euclid and he corrects common misrepresentations. In the section on Euclid's Optics Pappus examines the apparent form of a circle when seen from a point outside the plane in which it lies. "Book VII is the most fascinating in the whole Collection not merely by its intrinsic interest and by what it preserves of earlier writers but by its influence on modern mathematics. It gives an account of the following books in the so-called Treasury of Analysis those marked by an asterisk are lost works: Euclid's Data and Porisms Apollonius' Cutting Off of a Ratio Cutting Off of an Area Determinate Section TangenciesInclinationsPlane Loci and Conics. In his account of Apollonius' Conics Pappus makes a reference to the 'locus with respect to three or four lines' a conic section. He also adds a remarkable comment of his own. If he says there are more than four straight lines given in position and from a point straight lines are drawn to meet them at given angles the point will lie on a curve that cannot yet be identified. If there are five lines and the parallelepiped formed by the product of three of the lines drawn from the point at fixed angles bears a constant ratio to the parallelepiped formed by the product of the other two lines drawn from the point and a given length the point will be on a certain curve given in position. If there are six lines and the solid figure contained by three of the lines bears a constant ratio to the solid figure formed by the other three then the point will again lie on a curve given in position. If there are more than six lines it is not possible to conceive of solids formed by the product of more than three lines but Pappus surmounts the difficulty by means of compounded ratios. If from any point straight lines are drawn so as to meet at a given angle any number of straight lines given in position and the ratio of one of those lines to another is compounded with the ratio of a third to a fourth and so on or the ratio of the last to a given length if the number of lines is odd and the compounded ratio is a constant then the locus of the point will be one of the higher curves . "In 1631 Jacob Golius drew the attention of Descartes to this passage in Pappus and in 1637 'Pappus' problem' as Descartes called it formed a major part of his Géométrie. Descartes begins his work by showing how the problems of conceiving the product of more than three straight lines as geometrical entities which so troubled Pappus can be avoided by the use of his new algebraic symbols. He shows how the locus with respect to three or four lines may be represented as an equation of degree not higher than the second that is a conic section which may degenerate into a circle or straight line. Where there are five six seven or eight lines the required points lie on the next highest curve of degree after the conic sections that is a cubic; if there are nine ten eleven or twelve lines on a curve one degree still higher that is a quartic and so on to infinity. Pappus' problem thus inspired the new method of analytical geometry that has proved such a powerful tool in subsequent centuries. "In his Principia 1687 Newton also found inspiration in Pappus; he proved in a purely geometrical manner that the locus with respect to four lines is a conic section which may degenerate into a circle . "Pappus observes that the study of these curves had not attracted men comparable to the geometers of previous ages. But there were still great discoveries to be made and in order that he might not appear to have left the subject untouched Pappus would himself make a contribution. It turns out to be nothing less than an anticipation of what is commonly called 'Guldin's theorem.' Only the enunciations however were given which state: 'Figures generated by complete revolutions of a plane figure about an axis are in a ratio compounded a of the ratio of the areas of the figures and b of the ratio of the straight lines similarly drawn to sc. drawn to meet at the same angles the axes of rotation from the respective centers of gravity. Figures generated by incomplete revolutions are in a ratio compounded a of the ratio of the areas of the figures and b of the ratio of the arcs described by the respective centers of gravity; it is clear that the ratio of the arcs is itself compounded 1 of the ratio of the straight lines similarly drawn from the respective centers of gravity to the axis of rotation and 2 of the ratio of the angles contained about the axes of rotation by the extremities of these straight lines.' "Pappus concludes this section by noting that these propositions which are virtually one cover many theorems of all kinds about curves surfaces and solids 'in particular those proved in the twelfth book of these elements.' This implies that the Collection originally ran to at least twelve books. "Pappus proceeds to give a series of lemmas to each of the books he has described except Euclid's Data presumably with a view to helping students to understand them. He was half a millennium from Apollonius and elucidation was probably necessary. It is mainly from these lemmas that we can form any knowledge of the contents of the missing works and they have enabled mathematicians to attempt reconstructions of Euclid's Porisms and Apollonius' Cutting Off of an Area Plane Loci Determinate Section Tangencies and Inclinations. It is from Pappus' lemmas that we can form some idea of the eighth book of Apollonius' Conics" DSB. Adams P223; Pietro and Bonelli Catalogo della Biblioteca Mediceo-Lorense 151; Riccardi I 364 11. Folio 307 x 204 mm ff. 4 including blank 334 recte 332 with woodcut printer's device on title several historiated woodcut initials and numerous woodcut diagrams in text small wormhole through blank area of last two leaves. Contemporary German half-pigskin over yellow boards pigskin dyed rose pink somewhat faded small split in upper joint and small wormhole in lower board with blind floral rolls gilt silver arms of Count Franz Gottfried von Troilo on upper cover and a phoenix surrounded by flames within a wreath on lower cover. A fine clean crisp copy. Girolamo Concordia unknown
