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POTATOES

1. Amoretti, Carlo: Della coltivazione delle patate, e loro uso. Istruzione di Carlo Amoretti, Bibliotecario nell’ Ambrosiana, gia’ Secretario della Societa’ Patriotica d’Agricoltura e d’Arti, &c. Milano, presso Giuseppe Galeazzi 1801. 8vo. (21.6 cms. x 13.7 cms.), pp. [4] 44 + fold-out engraving. Engraved vignette to title-page.Some light soiling, very good, bound in original blue paper wrappers, stab-stitched. Inscription (indecipherable) to margins, p. 3. Second of two editions from first year of printing (the other Parma), this illustrated treatise on the cultivation of the potato has

chapters on the making of potato bread, and preservation of potatoes, including as pasta and flour. It begins with an account of Sir Walter Raleigh’s bringing back the potato from America and cultivating it in Ireland at the end of the sixteenth century but the author reports that the first person to bring the potato to Europe was Antonio Pigafetta, who encountered the potato - called the ‘batate’ - in Brazil in 1519. The book includes discussion of British potato research and production. Uncommon in libraries (OCLC shows copies of 1801 editions in US at UC Davis, Hunt Institute and Indiana). [ref: 3154 ] $300

ANATOMICAL CHRIST

2. [Anatomical Christ on Cross]. [Italy] [eighteenth century]. Wax model of Christ crucified, c.22 cms. from top of hand to toe and c.19.5 cms. in width, attached to a wooden cross, c.40.5 cms. x c.21.2 cms. Hinged central panel to chest of figure, c.4.5 cms x c.2.1 cms., behind which are model entrails. Some abrasion, loss to Christ’s hands, recent expert repairs. Wax representation of Christ crucified on cross, with torso and much of ribcage a hinged panel behind which are carefully modelled bones and entrails. Although rare and unusual, and evidently borrowing from a non-religious genre of sculpture - medical anatomical models - such an iconography certainly fulfils a mainstream devotional purpose of making emphatic the corporality of Christ as he is put to death. The contemplation of the hand-held cross was a

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regular element of contemporary portraiture of religious persons (men and women). Devotional practices aided by the ‘devotio moderna’, of recalling the body of Christ and his sufferings and praying to his human/divine entity, could involve praying to his human organs which are concealed by the skin. This sort of prayer 'by layers' recognizing the torture and pain that Christ had to suffer during his sacrifice for mankind can also recall early modern flap prints of the human body, some of which, from the seventeenth century, had religious contents (a famous example, by Lucas Kilian (1613), is of an anatomical man standing on skull with snake and crucifix, with devotional text - with reference to Christ - below). There are at least two other located examples of wax anatomical crucified Christs known (in the Museo di San Martino in Rio, Emilia Romagna, and in Sicily), while a wax anatomical model of the entombed Christ is located at the Deutsches Medezinhistorisches Museum in Ingolstadt. The visual fascination of contemporary religious groups with the intricacies of the body can be seen in the anatomical waxworks of such a figure as Giulio Gaetano Zumbo (1656-1701), who was a Jesuit - or indeed in the Capuchin order’s custom of making displays in their crypts with bones and cadavers. The exterior of our Christ is of a high finish and bears similarity to contemporary works in wood or ivory. The same similarity was noted regarding the work at San Martino in Rio. The entrails behind the panel have a certain naturalism to them and are likely to borrow directly or indirectly from a printed source. Exhibition publication, ‘Anatomia del sacro, il crocefisso in cera del Museo di San Martino in Rio’ (2013) - downloadable at http://online.ibc.regione.emilia-romagna.it/I/libri/pdf/Anatomia_del_sacro.pdf. See also the blogpost of September 13, 2016 by Cali Buckley, ‘Other objects #4: wax Jesus figures’ (https://ivoryladies.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/other-objects-4-wax-jesus-figures/ - last viewed 15 July 2018), with interesting photos of other (unlocated) examples. For anatomical print described above, see Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Kimberley Nichols, ‘Altered and adorned, using Renaissance prints in daily life’ (New Haven 2011), p. 84 image 72. [ref: 3240 ] $10,400

DOWRIES IN LIMA

3. [Arias de Saavedra, Francisco]: Manifestacion de los derechos de la menor, dona[sic.] Grimaneza de la Puente en el juicio que en segunda instancia; ha promovido en esta Real Audiencia, con el Señor Marques de Corpa oydor de ella: sobre el entero de la dote de la Marquesa de la Puente su hija finada, para que se reforme la Sentencia de vista declaratoria de la simulacion del instrumento dotál. Impreso en Lima: en la Imprenta Real de los Niños Expósitos. 1793. Small 4to. (21.4 cms. x 15 cms.), pp. [6] 175 [1] + errata leaf. Title-page

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verso with a classical quotation within typographical border. Woodcut pictorial headpiece and initial to p. 1. A very good copy, in beautiful contemporary polychrome block-printed wrappers (some peeling to spine). First edition. An attractive copy - in a wrapper of fine contemporary block-printed paper, very possibly Hispanic - of this official submission in a case from colonial Peru. The volume includes discussion of a hacienda at Chuquitanta near Lima. Juan José de la Puente e Ibáñez de Segovia, fifth Marques de Corpa (1724-1796), a lawyer by training who was an honorary member of the Council of the Indies and a knight of the Order of Calatrava, was being sued for dowry money that he was said to owe his deceased daughter, who was called Constanza. The present plaintiff, a minor called Ana Maria Grimanesa, was having her claims to the dowry advanced - although she was not actually Constanza’s daughter (her father was Constanza’s husband but had subsequently married another woman and she was from that union). The senior Lima-born lawyer Francisco Arias de Saavedra (1746-1823) who was presenting the case, is stated also to be the young girl’s guardian. This suggests that by this time, Grimanesa’s father had died and the lawyer (as he is known to have done) had married her mother, thus becoming the plaintiff’s stepfather. Medina, Lima, 1764; Vargas Ugarte, Impresos peruanos, 2645. CCPB000499240-7 (one (Spanish) location). OCLC shows copies at JCB, Leiden, Yale Law and (the same) Spanish location. [ref: 3091 ] $1,000

FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PROGNOSTICATIONS

4. [Astrological manuscript] [Northern Italy] [Late fifteenth century] MS on paper, folio (27.8 cms. x 19.2 cms.; text block c.22.5 cms. x c.13.5 cms.), 6 pages, 48-53 lines. Waterstaining, slight soiling, a few wormholes, overall very good, in a recent binding. Later but early foliation (numbers 3-5); inscription to 2nd fol. recto (17th-cent.?) “un santo trovasti[?] a di 24 giugno” (you found a saint on the 24th of June). Illustrated Italian-language prognosticatory manuscript probably from fifteenth-century northern Italy, on paper watermarked it appears with Briquet 15370 (Eichstätt 1484). Contents include, following standard themes, a set of prognostics for the moon in the twelve zodiacal signs, a listing of the 168 planetary hours of the week, and prognostics for the seven planetary hours. The prognostics themselves, written,

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like the whole manuscript, in a northern Italian dialect, relate to such subjects as fishing, taking medicine, sowing seed, buying horses, making journeys, conceiving; there are also predictions relating to the nature of children. These prognostics do not appear to conform to any standard known Latin ones, and may represent a local tradition. The seventeen illustrations to left-hand margin can be identified as geomantic figures of the signs of the Zodiac and the planets (Charmasson). A complete transcription of the manuscript is available. Acquired in the USA by our source, loose and unbound, and bound by them as present, a later foliation to top right rectos, and the pattern of worming and waterstaining, suggests it survived through being part of a sämmelband. It may have had a prior life as an unbound ephemeral folded object such as found, in astrology, circulating in manuscript into the nineteenth century; this is suggested by a strong vertical fold-line at centre. Thérèse Charmasson, ‘Recherches sur une technique divinatoire: la géomancie dans l’occident médiéval’ (Geneva/Paris 1980), 43, 44. With many thanks to Dr. David Juste for his invaluable help. [ref: 3379 ] $5,900

LIVES OF ANCIENT LAWYERS

5. [Barbou] Rutilio, Bernardino: Iuris consultorum vitae, novissime elimatae, & mendis non paucis, quibus scatebant, repurgatae, Bernardino Rutilio autore. Lugduni, apud Germanum Rose [Ioannes Barbous excudebat] 1538. 8vo. (15.8 cms. x 10.8 cms.), pp. [16] 254 [2]. Light browning and staining, slight worming, but an attractive and very good copy, in a contemporary Italian binding made from a leaf of a late medieval manuscript on vellum over casing of cartonnage attached by longstitch, paper label at top of spine, slight rubbing, peeling and wear but binding good. MS code (shelfmark?) to bottom edge. Early edition, in an attractive simple binding, of a biographical study of the jurists of ancient Rome. It was first printed in Rome, 1536. The author (1504-1538) dedicates the work to the cardinal and patron Niccolò Ridolfi (1501-1550). The copy has what appears to be a shelfmark to bottom edge, suggesting how it was originally

stored. An early production from the long-lasting printing family the Barbou, Jean Barbou ('the Norman') (1489-1543) built his career in Lyon. Gültlingen (Lyon) VII #202. With many thanks to Prof. Nicholas Pickwoad for his comments on the binding. [ref: 2629 ] $1,000

HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, DRUGS

6. [Barcelona. Academia de Medicina y Cirurgía] [Balaguer, Gaspar]: Dictamen de la Academia Medico-Practica de la ciudad de Barcelona. Dado al mui ilustre aiuntamiento de la misma, sobre la frequencia de las muertes repentinas y apoplegias que en ella acontecen. [Bound with:] Noticia de la epidemia de tercianas, que se padeció en varios pueblos del Urgel y otros

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parages del Principado de Cataluña en el año de 1785, formada de orden de la Real Junta de Sanidad, que componen el Excelentisimo Señor Conde de Asalto, Capitan General Presidente de la Audiencia; y los Señores Don Ventura de Ferrán, Decáno de élla, en calidad de Regente interino, Don Miguel de Magarola, Don Joseph Antonio de Coronada, Don Juan Bautista de Larruy, y Don Jacobo Maria Spinosa, Fiscal de lo Civil. Secretario. El Baron de Serrabi. Con licencia. Barcelona: En la Imprenta de Carlos Gibért y Tutó, Impresór y Librero [Por la viuda Piferrer: vendese en su Librería administrada por Juan Sellent]. 1784 [c.1786]. First editions. 4to. (19.3 cms. x 14.7 cms.), 2 works in 1 vol., pp. [8] 109 [1] [2]; [20] 75 [1]. Bound without final blank in first work. Strip of paper to gutters in opening between half-title and title-page in second work. Light browning and foxing, bound in contemporary quarter-vellum and marbled boards,

title to spine, all edges yellow. Inscription to f.f.e.p. (Armengól), shelfmark stamp to 2nd f.e.p. recto. Two medical studies from Barcelona, the first on deaths from cerebral haemorrhage, the second on a recent epidemic of fevers. In the first, the author discussing city planning and the importance of protecting the city from the air (and water) pollution produced by various industries. In the second report, which was commissioned by the Real Junta de Sanidad, Gaspar Balaguer, and his co-author Vicent Grasset, find again environmental factors (an excessive humidity produced by the great rivers between the beginning of autumn and March), also dietary deficiencies. Much discussion is given here to the courses of treatment and drugs, the latter including quinine and ipecacuanha. Balaguer was professor of medicine at the University of Cervera and Protomedico of Cataluña. CCPB000460865-8; CCPB000403405-8. Palau 73375; 193475. Wellcome II 5; II 89. Simón Palmer 2860; 2917. First work: Blake 2. Second work: Aguilar Piñal I 3395. OCLC locates copies of first outside Spain at NLM, Wellcome, SB Berlin, BNF and Leipzig. Second: Wellcome, Harvard and Yale. On Balaguer, see also Morejón, VII, 413-414. [ref: 3340 ] $1,400

PROSECUTED FOR “DELUSION”

7. Berlanga, Cristobal de, S.J.: Fundacion, origen, progressos, y estado de el religioso Convento de la Purissima Concepcion Victoria de monjas descalças de èl Orden de N.P. San Francisco de la fidelissima y exemplar ciudad de Tortosa. Al illustre señor Francisco Martî, Doctor en Sacra Theologia, Dignidad, y Canonigo de la Santa Iglesia de Tortosa, Vicario General, y Oficial de su Obispado &c. Por el P. Christoval de Berlanga de la Compañía de Iesus. Con licencia: en Barcelona, en la Imprenta de Martin Gelabert, delante la Retoria de N. Señora del Pino 1695. 4to. (20.2 cms. x 16 cms.), pp. [16] 336 [4]. Woodcut borders to title-page and its verso, title-page verso also with woodcut of Virgin Mary. Woodcut decorations, woodcut factotum initial. Light or medium browning, contents loosening, bound in a contemporary stiffened vellum laced-case binding, remains of fastenings (binding slightly crumpled, some chewing along fore edge of lower cover). Title-page with stamp and inscription of Society of Jesus, Barcelona (one other inscription crossed out), f.f.e.p. with note ‘Duplicado’ (crossed out).

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Front pastedown with bookplate of Cristian Cortes Llado (1904-1974). First edition of this history of the Conceptionist convent in Tortosa from its foundation in 1644 up until the time of writing, along with a history of the order. From p. 124 the text consists in great part of lives of nuns of Tortosa. There are also accounts of the crucifix in the convent church, and the French invasion of Tortosa in 1648, and notes on recent admissions to the convent. Amongst the lives is one (172-193) for Sor Maria de la Cruz (1604-c.1679), who we know was prosecuted by the Inquisition in 1659 for dangerous mysticism or “delusion” (Lea). It includes an account of her fervour in the convent. Other nuns here include the first abbess, Beatriz de la Concepcion (124-140), Sor Paula de Jesus Maria, founder and first vicar (141-154), and some twelve others. An approbation from Francisco Bru of the Jesuit Order contains two quotations of a couplet

from the Roman poet Propertius (Lib. IV, Eleg. 11, 71-2). It translates, “this is the highest tribute in a woman’s glory, when candid opinion praises the full course of her married life” (tr. from Loeb). CCPB000034964-X. Backer-Sommervogel I 1338 # 1. OCLC shows copies outside Spain at St. Bonaventure University, and BN Chile. Henry Charles Lea, ‘A history of the Inquisition in Spain’, IV (Ontario 2017), 36. [ref: 3460 ] $1,600

MATHEMATICS AND THE ARTS IN SPAIN

8. Brambila, Fernando: Tratado de principios elementales de perspectiva que publica la Real Academia de S. Fernando para uso de los discipulos. Ordenado por el Director de esta Arte y del Adorno Don Fernando Brambila. Madrid,

por Ibarra, Impresor de Cámara de S.M. 1817. First edition. 8vo. (20 cms. x 14.5 cms.), pp. 27 [1] + 11 engraved fold-out plates. Light age-yellowing, clean tear (no loss) in one plate, a very good copy, bound in Spanish calf gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, very slight wear to corners, slight loss to head of spine and some wear and repair to lower cover, very good. Inscription to 2nd f.e.p. verso: “Casa de Educacion. Premio adjudicado el 23 de Junio de 1826. Al S.or Dn. Pedro Bayon Mogrovejo. Jph. Garriga. dir.or”. Stamp of this institution. Rare guide to perspective for students at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando,

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Madrid’s art academy. The text is a practical and geometrical commentary to the diagrams on the eleven fold-outs, which are finely done. Fernando Brambila, or Ferdinando Brambilla (1763-1834), was a northern Italian who made his career in Spain, as a painter and engraver to the court, as artist to the Malaspina expedition (an important Spanish maritime exploration expedition of 1789-1794), and as Director of Perspective and Decorative Art at the academy. He is known for prints of vistas in South America made from drawings taken on the Malaspina expedition. The copy was given in 1826 as a prize in another educational establishment, a “casa de educacion” which was dedicated to the arts and sciences and situated then on the calle de San Bernardo in Madrid (see ‘Diario de avisos de Madrid’, issue for Saturday 7 January 1826). The institution was popular with members of the aristocracy (see Xavier Torrebadella i Flix, ‘Gimnástica y educación fisica en la sociedad española de la primera mitad del siglo XIX’ (Lleida 2013), 108). The director Joseph Garriga may be the same as the Joseph/José Garriga (b. 1765), sometime professor of mathematics at the Observatorio Astronomico of Madrid and author of the astronomical handbook ‘Uranografia’ (1793). CCPB000082032-6 (four copies including Biblioteca Nacional). Palau 34419. OCLC only shows the copy at Biblioteca Nacional. [ref: 3446 ] $800

THREE-DIMENSIONAL EFFECT WITH PRINT

9. [Cartagloria:] [Altar card written and painted on vellum with cut-out print of Christ crucified]. [France] [c.1780]. Altar card, vellum on wooden board, 62.3 cms. x 40.1 cms., with central panel, 50.1 cms. x 28.6 cms. Polychrome painted floral decoration to outer border, including one flower, at top right, stuck on. At bottom centre, a lamb, on cross, on blue tomb stone, surrounded (at three sides) by garland. The central panel split further into three panels, to left and right

containing text in red and black, with two decorated initials to left in red and black, and with blue asterisks below the text of the ‘Gloria’. To centre, bottom half, text in red and black, and top half, cut-out and mounted engraving of Christ crucified on border, with hand-drawn ground below, and with border of flowers and cornucopia, all drawn in pencil. This section at centre of board itself flanked by simple polychrome floral borders. Rubbed, rumpling, fading, slight staining, slight damage to print. To verso, remains of two layers of marbled paper backing, and bordering of block- printed strips with black, green, grey, gilt and blue (slight peeling to borders but mostly intact). Illustrated altar card or “cartagloria” displaying text for the Mass. These altar cards were ordained for use by the Council of Trent. Often interesting for their decoration, and for their combination of print, decoration and manuscript, the present example both has some very fine floral work to borders, and an interesting pictorial strategy to the central image, which, as is often the case, is of the Crucifixion. Set against the colours found throughout the rest of the board, the Crucifixion image and its borders are rendered in blacks and greys. The grey to the image’s borders not only match the colour scheme of the Crucifixion but help flatten the background, along with the unpainted white of the vellum that the print is laid onto. With this background, the techniques of the print, the hatching and the stipple, as well as the use of perspective with the cross, come to the fore and create a sense of relief. The Crucifixion looks three-dimensional. [ref: 3427 ] ON RESERVE

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OATH DOSSIER

10. [Cartagloria] [Forma juramenti professionis] Forma juramenti professionis fidei à Cathedralibus, & Superioribus Ecclesiis, vel beneficii curam animarum habentibus, & locis Regularium, ac militiarum praeficiendis observanda. [Spain?] [18th-century]. Folio (25.3 cms. x 18.2 cms.), 2 leaves, comprising (1.) Single sheet, text to two sides, titled as above. (2.) Text of the beginning of the Gospel according to St. John, within an engraved border, signed “In Bassano per i Remondini”, the border hand-coloured, the sheet backed, the

printed text also worked over with black ink. Light browning, waterstaining to the first sheet, bottom outer corner (entirely blank) also torn away. Bound in contemporary pastepaper over boards, rubbed, loss to spine, worming to final pastedown and endpaper (with a pinhole showing through the cartagloria leaf). An “oath dossier” (our term), comprising the text of a profession of faith for priests with pastoral duties, bound alongside one of the components of the cartagloria (the text on boards that was often ilustrated or decorated and put on the altar for the Mass). The cartagloria could be written in manuscript, or indeed printed with engraved borders, as it was here, by the internationally-successful printing firm the Remondini of Bassano in Italy. The sheet here, with the text of the beginning of the Gospel of St. John, would be pasted to a board and placed on the right-hand side of the altar. It is interesting to find the sheet repurposed to a different use, and also to find the evidence of the international circulation of these paper goods (this present dossier I believe, from provenance, being made in Spain). [ref: 3468 ] $400

ACCOUNT OF ALGIERS AND CERVANTES

11. [Cervantes, Miguel de] Haëdo, Diego de, O.S.B. [Sosa, Antonio de]: Topographia, e historia general de Argel, repartida en cinco tratados, do se veran casos estraños, muertes espantosas, y tormentos exquisitos, que conviene se entiendan en la Christiandad: con mucho doctrina, y elegancia curiosa. Dirigida al ilustissimo[sic.] señor Don Diego de Haedo Arçobispo de Palermo, Presidente, y Capitan General del Reyno de Sicilia. Por el Maestro fray Diego de Haedo Abad de Fromesta, de la Orden del Patriarca San Benito, natural del Valle de Carrança. En Valladolid, por Diego Fernandez de Cordova y Oviedo, Impressor de libros [...] acosta de Antonio Coello mercador de libros. 1612. First edition. Folio (28.2 cms. x 19.8 cms.), fols. [12] 210 (lacking one prelim., as sometimes - see e.g. copies at BL and London Library and some OCLC entries). With index bound after prelims. Woodcut

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armorial to title-page, woodcut decorations, head- and tail-piece, and initials. Copy washed and with some careful repairs, but very nice and bright, in a fine burgundy morocco gilt binding, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt. The binding signed by Brugalla, 1946, and with gilt supralibros featuring scales of books and motto “Antiguo y moderno”; the same motto to a small exlibris to front pastedown of I. Fernandez, another small exlibris with text “Seleccion” (binding slightly scuffed but very good). Extraordinary and important first-hand account of sixteenth-century Algiers, its government, society, and its Christian captives, this book also contains the first biography of Cervantes in Algiers, with a detailed description of his second escape attempt. Captured by pirates in the Mediterranean, the writer was kept as a slave in the city between 1575 and 1580, before a ransom was paid. Cervantes’s experiences in Algiers informed writings including ‘Don Quixote’, and he wrote two plays on the subject (’El trato de Argel’ and ‘Los baños de Argel’). In England, the present book, and its account of Cervantes, were used by John Morgan in his ‘History of Algiers’ (1731). During his captivity, Cervantes made four escape attempts, a fact which the present author refers to. The second attempt (September 1577) is described, at fols. 184 recto to 185 recto, with Cervantes’s name appearing five times. Cervantes was the leader of the escape, which was betrayed. “[The Ottomans] seized them all, and particularly shackled Miguel de Cervantes, a gentleman from Alcalà de Henares, who was the author of this business, and was therefore the most to blame”. Cervantes was kept chained in the dungeons for five months, while some “were shut up without seeing the light [...] for more than seven months [...] Miguel de Cervantes sustained them with a great risk to his life, which four times he was at the point of losing - impaled or hooked, or burnt alive - for things he attempted to do in order to free many men [...] Hassan Pasha, king of Algiers, said that while the maimed Spaniard would be under his guard, his Christians, his vessels, and even the whole city were safe. This is how much he feared the schemes of Miguel de Cervantes” (tr. Garcès). It has been suggested that Cervantes wrote this book, but attribution has also been made to Antonio de Sosa, a Portuguese cleric captured and imprisoned in Algiers in 1577, who knew the writer. As an eyewitness to Algiers, the book has much of interest. “[It] covers hundreds of pages with infinite details about sixteenth-century Algiers - its geography, customs, history, and the ordeals of the Christian captives [...] [The book] was composed in the very dungeons of Algiers [...] The first book of this treatise [...] is dedicated to a minute description of the city [...] its geography and customs, while the second [...] is a chronicle of its most recent history, from the foundation of the Barbary State to the last decade of the sixteenth century [...] The three ‘Dialogues’ contained in the third part [...] represent the eloquent testimony of an eyewitness who participated in the dramatic experience endured by Christian slaves in Barbary [...] [This was] the most important sixteenth-century historiographical treatise on Algiers, one characterized by a modern historian as ‘the most extensive and exact of the documents’ on the first seventy years of Algiers under Turkish rule” (Garcès). The book has been explored for evidence of the rich racial and cultural mosaic of the contemporary city (its inhabitants listed as coming from as far as Suriname, New Spain (Mexico) and Brazil), and also as a source for linguistic studies (with usage and discussion of ‘lingua franca’). Our copy was bound by Emilio Brugalla Turmo (1901-1987), a celebrated Paris-trained binder of Barcelona. Examples of his work are found in the British Library online bindings database. CCPB000037047-9. Palau 111980: “Obra rara en comercio y buscada por hallarse en ella noticias relativas al cautiverio de Miguel de Cervantes, y datos sobre su patria” (erroneously calls for a frontispiece, not found e.g. in Spanish or Portuguese digitised copies, which show to have the full 5 prelims., or described on CCPB). IB 45116. OCLC shows nine copies in North America (NYPL, Kansas, BPL, BU, Harvard, JHU, Brown, NY Hist. Soc., Toronto), and three in UK (BL, Oxford, NLS, COPAC adding copy at London Library). María Antonia Garcés, ‘Cervantes in Algiers, a captive’s tale’ (Nashville 2002), esp. 32-35,

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45-49. On the book and ‘lingua franca’, see e.g. Phillip Strazny (ed.), ‘Encyclopedia of Linguistics’ (New York and Abingdon 2005), 626. For a suggested authorship by Cervantes, see Daniel Eisenberg, “Cervantes, autor de la "Topografía e historia general de Argel" publicada por Diego de Haedo”, in ‘Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America’, 16/1 (1996), 32-53. [ref: 2951 ] $3,500

NEW WORLD ANIMALS

12. [Chesneau, Augustin, O.E.S.A.] [Flamen, Albert]: Emblemes sacrez sur le tres-saint et tres-adorable Sacrement de l’Eucharistie. A Paris, chez Florentin Lambert, ruë S. Iacques, à l’Image S. Paul, vis à vis S. Yues. 1667. 8vo. (18.5 cms. x 12.7 cms.), pp. [12] 205 [1] (recte 204). Woodcut device to title-page, further woodcut decoration, 101 engraved plates numbered [1], 100. Light browning, a very good copy in c.1700 mottled calf, gilt decoration to spine and sides,marbled pastedowns and endpapers, edges mottled red (rubbed, abrasion to covers probably from the mottling chemical, discreet repairs to head and tail, binding still very good). The abridged first French-language edition - second edition in all - of the ‘Orpheus eucharisticus, sive Deus absconditus’ (1657), a Latin-language emblem book on the subject of the Eucharist which presents a fascinating variety of images from the natural and human worlds, with notes. The new text was prepared by Augustin Lubin. Our 101 emblems were engraved by Albert Flamen (c.1620 - after 1693). “Flamen’s work consists primarily of series of fish [...] birds, mammals, landscapes [...] [His] strength as

an engraver lies in his use of picturesque elements [...] Possibly he can be identified with the ‘A. Flament’ who is documented in 1692 as ‘peintre et dessinateur ordinaire de Monsieur, Frère du Roy’” (Christian Coppens in Grove Dictionary of Art). Emblem XXII shows the legendary legless apode bird recently reported in the Moluccas Islands. Emblem XXX depicts the pauxis, with a precious blue stone in its nose, which was understood to have been brought from America to Philip II of Spain. Emblem XXXI shows another bird of the Indies, and emblem XXXII shows a thrush from the area of Chiapas (in modern Mexico). Emblem XXXIII shows crows and has a report on fishing with crows in China. Emblem LIII has an elephant, and emblem LV, a unicorn. Emblem LXVI shows an electric eel found in the Meta river (a tributary of the Orinoco) - giving a fisherman a jolt. Emblem LXVII shows a shark (”tiburon”), “a large fish of the American seas”, jumping for flesh. Emblem LXX shows a poisonous snake of Mexico. Emblem LXXIV shows a crocodile, and emblem LXXXIII shows an

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armadillo. “The author’s intention [...] was to lead the most illustrious creatures to the foot of the altar, to offer there their homages to their Sovereign” (preface to this edition). Landwehr 'Romanic' 225. OCLC shows copies outside mainland Europe at Columbia, Newberry, Duke, Princeton, Getty, Yale, Glasgow, Ushaw, Harvard, McMaster, Huntington. [ref: 3504 ] $1,800

PROPHETIC LITERATURE

13. [Claus, Joseph Ignaz:] Finis venit, venit finis. Ezech. 7. v. 1. Conjectura prognostica physico-moralis-ascetica, qua ex signis prodromis probari contenditur, vanissimam mundi immundi gloriam ad interitum propendere, eum in finem proposita ut anima Christiana in schola Christi & Sanctorum doceatur terrena, quae transeunt, despicere, et coelestia, quae aeternum permanent, serio desidare [...] August. Vindelic. & Oeniponti [Augsburg & Innsbruck] sumptibus Josephi Wolff 1767. 8vo. (17.1 cms. x 11 cms.), pp. [32] 304. Typographical decoration. Browning, but a good copy, bound in contemporary half-calf and speckled paper paste boards, contemporary label, edges mottled red; binding rubbed, touch of wear, and peeling to paper on front cover, but good. The odd modern pencil note; ink MS index at end, possibly in same hand as owner Caspar Hirn, priest, 1803 (his inscription on f.f.e.p. verso); old ink stamp on 2nd f.e.p. recto. First edition. Prophetic work which foresees the end of the world,

and sees signs of this in the old and decrepit, in the evils of disciplinary and educational negligence, in mortal sin, atheism, lack of Christian charity, etc. The author wishes to help priests encourage their flock to despise worldly things and look to the afterlife. VD18 14426528-003. Uncommon in continental European libraries, OCLC (01/18) shows one copy outside (Notre Dame). [ref: 1336 ] $300

SEDUCTION COMEDY

14. Corneille, Thomas: L'Inconnu. Comédie meslée d’ornamens et de musique. A Paris, chez Jean Ribou, au Palais, dans la Salle Royale, à l’Image S. Louis. 1676. First complete edition. 12mo. (14.2 cms. x 9.5 cms.), pp. [8] 114. Woodcut vignette to title-page, woodcut ornament and initials. Light browning, a very good copy, bound in contemporary stiffened vellum (darkened), title (faded) to spine. First complete edition of this musical comedy by Thomas Corneille (1625-1709). A libretto (containing descriptive text and words to songs only) was published the previous year (cf. Harvard catalogue). The work was written in collaboration with the journalist Jean Donneau de Visé (1638-1710) and was based on his work ‘Nouvelles galantes’ (1669). The plot concerns a secret admirer and his methods of seduction. Corneille had the distinction or misfortune to be younger brother to the great Pierre Corneille (1606-1684).

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OCLC locates copies outside France in Williams College, Trinity College Dublin, Cambridge, Warwick, and British Library. [ref: 3412 ] $1,000

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TOUR OF CALABRIA

15. D’Amato, Elia, O.Carm.: Pantopologia calabra in qua celebriorum ejusdem provinciæ locorum, virorumque, armis, pietate, titulis, doctrina, sanguine, illustrium, monimenta expenduntur [...] Neapoli, ex thypographia Felicis Mosca 1725. 4to. (22.7 cms. x 16.6 cms.), pp. [12] 460. Woodcut decoration to title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials. Light or medium browning and spotting, a very minor trail of worming to entirely blank margins in some pages, bound in a laced-case binding of vellum over boards, shelf label of gilt stamping and yellow paint. Binding a bit wormed and torn, but good. Provenance: 1. Armorial bookplate “Ex libris Marchionis Salsae” (Francesco Maria Berio, Marchese di Salza (d.1820); bookplate may have been placed by his father Domenico (d.1791)). 2. Armorial bookplate to final pastedown of Viscount Dudley and Ward, with viscount’s coronet and motto “Comme je fus”. Books of the Salza library were purchased by this

family as a block after Francesco Maria’s death, possibly by William Ward, 3rd Viscount (1750-1823), although - if the sale was delayed - perhaps by his son John William (1781-1833), sometime Foreign Secretary under Canning, who was a viscount from 1823 to 1827, in which year he became an earl (for more on this purchase see below). 3. Early 20th-cent. stamp to f.f.e.p. “Ex libris Henrici Dietrich Professoris”. First edition of this topographical, historical, biographical and bibliographical dictionary of Calabria (the region encompassing the “toe” of Italy). It is organized by alphabetically-ordered place-name entry. The extensive bibliographical data furnishes the publications of the writers of the different places, who are also given some biography. The author (1666-1747) was a senior official of the Carmelite Order and prince of the academy “degli Indulti” of his home town of Montalto. A wonderful book for - outside Italy - amongst other things the British interest in the ‘Grand Tour’, the copy was bought by the Ward family in a library purchased from the family of the Marchesi di Salza, who, father and son, were book collectors and men of culture from Naples (the son holding notable literary salons and writing libretti for Rossini operas). The English family’s purchase has been traditionally ascribed to William, third Viscount Ward (1750-1823), although a blog on the Leeds University Library website notes, “it may be that his son, John William [(1781-1833), politician and briefly Foreign Secretary], was in fact the prime mover in this transaction. The latter is said to have considered that “the happiest life would be £1500 a year and the first floor over a bookseller’s shop”. Moreover, after his death, he was remembered as having purchased an “extensive Venetian library”. This could well be a slightly faulty recollection of

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the Berio/Salza transaction, funded by his father but instigated by the son, since at that time John William enjoyed a generous annual allowance from his father but had no capital of his own”. SBN: SBLE017226. OCLC shows copies outside European mainland at DC Carmelitana Collection; BL, Manchester, Oxford. For provenance, see entries at https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/collection/1315, also /1314, and /1916 (all viewed on 31 August 2019). See also entry at Sion College Library Provenance Project (sionprovenance.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/armorial-bookplate-of-william-ward-3rd-viscount-dudley-and-ward/) viewed 14 August 2019. [ref: 3501 ] $1,200

GENEALOGY - GOVERNOR OF SURINAME

16. De Launay, Pierre Albert: Remarques sommaires, faites sur la maison d'Aerssen issue de celle de Meurs au Duché de Gueldres, sa table généalogique, et les preuves qui la justifient depuis Walerand de Meurs, sire d'Aerssen père commun et tige de cette maison jusques à Jean D'Aerssen, qui fut le prem.r de sa famille qui transmit sa demeure dudit duché de Gueldres en celluy de Brabant dont la branche passa depuis enHollande ouelle continueencore aujourd'huy la sienne avec

beaucoupde splendeur et de lustre. Par Mess.ePierre Albert de Launay chlr des barons de Launay gentilhomme de la maison du roy, généalogiste et armoiriste general de ses royaumes et provces et prem.r roy d'armes provin.de ses Pays Bas au titre de Brabant. [Brussels] [1684]. MS, folio (44 cms. x 28.3 cms. in binding), pp. [16] 98. 22 of these pages blank. Ilustrated title-page, double-page map to pp. 22-23, artistic depictions of seals to documents at pp. 27, 36, 41, 47, 49, 52, 53, armorials to pp. 29-36, large depiction of tombstone to p. 57; a family tree with armorials to pp. 76-77. Decorated initials. Text written in styles imitative of older documents. De Launay's official seal to p. 96. De Launay's signatures to end of prelims. and to end of book. Light foxing and browning, some loose leaves neatly rejoined, very good, bound in contemporary green patterned silk, ties removed, all edges gilt (some wear and old repair to binding). Finely illustrated genealogical study for Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijk (1637-1688), the first governor of the Dutch South American colony of Suriname. The compiler, Pierre Albert De Launay (d.1694) was Brabant Herald of Arms in Brussels and issued the manuscript with this authority (Dutch people obtained patents of nobility from Brussels). Proving descent of van Aerssen's family from the illustrious house of Moers, De Launay copies and draws such items as the contents of a fourteenth-century armorial, charters (with seals) from the archives of the towns of Venlo and Nijmegen and Kamp Abbey, and the late fifteenth-century tomb of Theodore d'Aerssen and Marguerite de Carpen from the Kamp

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Abbey church. A map is after the work of Nicolaes van Geelkercken, and was published first by Joannes Janssonius in 1639. Janssonius was likely the source that the present illustrator used, as he copies his decorative detail. Rights relating to the present genealogy are discussed from p. 93. Interestingly, De Launay and his brother were implicated in multiple forgeries, the brother being executed for forgery in 1687. Provenance: ownership of the manuscript can with certainty be traced in the van Aerssen family as late as 1838 (see [Academie Royale de Belgie] 'Compte-Rendu des séances de la Commission Royale d'Histoire' VII (Brussels 1844), 299). The manuscript was also discussed in print in an unidentified turn-of-the-twentieth-century source (included). Mid-twentieth century armorial bookplate of Van Der Veen Hondius. On the De Launays as forgers, Louis Galesloot, 'Pierre-Albert et Jean de Launay, hérauts d'armes du duché de Brabant: Histoire de leurs procès (1643-1687), avec notes et pièces justificatives, entre autres, une liste de certificats de noblesse' (Brussels 1866). [ref: 2789 ] $5,200

ONE COPY ON SILK, ONE ON PAPER

17. [De Méric, Joséphine:] All' esimia cantante Madama Demeric Alexander socia onoraria dell’ Accademia di Mantova, il plauso dei molti offeriva. Ode. Padova, tipografia Cartallier e Sicca 1838. Two identical broadsides (432 mm. x 290 mm.), one printed on mauve silk, the other on paper. Text within a finely-cut neoclassical border, the text-block 336 mm. x 224 mm., typographical

decoration within the block. The paper copy with very light foxing and soiling, and minor loss and tearing to top right-hand corner (blank), very good copies. An interesting survivor, being two copies of an unlocated gratulatory broadside, one printed on silk and one on paper, addressed to the internationally acclaimed opera singer Joséphine de Méric (1801-1877). De Méric was born in Strasbourg. “As Mlle Bonnaud she sang in amateur concerts in Strasbourg; she made her operatic début in 1823 at the Théâtre Italien in Paris [...] Her greatest successes were in Italy, where she first sang in 1825 (at the Cannobiana and La Scala in Milan). After a disappointing reappearance in Paris and a short season in Lisbon, she took leading roles at the King’s Theatre, London, in 1832–3 singing Giulietta in the London première of Bellini’s ‘I Capuleti e i Montecchi’ [...] From 1834 to 1844 she sang mainly in Italy, and was particularly renowned for her Sandrina in Luigi Ricci’s ‘Un avventura di Scaramuccia’. De Méric compared her distinctive and wide-ranging voice to the sound of a

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clarinet [...] In later years de Méric was known as the wife of the Italian tenor Timoleone Alexander” (D.J. Cheke in New Grove Dictionary of Opera). We learn from the title of the present that she had been made an honorary member of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana of Mantua. The Accademia houses the famous Teatro Bibiena, where she may have performed. [ref: 3104 ] $1,300

BAROQUE DEVOTIONAL IMAGE ON CUT VELLUM

18. [Devotional artwork:] Devotional artwork on vellum featuring miniature portrait of Bohemian saint John of Nepomuk (c.1345 - 1393) in front of double-headed eagle of Holy Roman Empire. [Central Europe] [c.1730]. Sheet of vellum, 16.5 cms x 10.4 cms., carefully cut away to create a highly patterned image, incorporating coloured oval miniature portrait, with motto below. A crown possibly made from a separate piece of paper or vellum. In a gilt-painted wood and blue velvet frame, glazed. Devotional image of St. John of Nepomuk, a martyred senior 14th-cent. church official in Prague canonised in 1729, whose first church was dedicated in 1708. The cult developed after a publication on the saint by the Jesuit Boleslaus Balbinus (1670). In the miniature portrait here the saint carries a palm (sign of martyrdom), and also has a finger to his lips, his attribute that showed he kept the secrets of the Confessional - for which

reason he was believed to have been killed. The miniature portrait is placed before an eagle of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - which is itself interesting, as Nepomuk later became a national saint of Bohemia. The whole is very well executed. [ref: 2672 ] $1,000

ILLUSTRATED MORAL GUIDE TO RULERS

19. Dryselius, Erland: Monarch-spegel eller kort berattelse om de fyra monarchier och hufwud regimenteri weriden [...] Jonekjoping (Jönköping), truckt aff Petter Hultmann 1691. 8vo. (16.5 cms. x 10.5 cms. in binding), pp. [16] 469 [2]. With 75 full-page woodcuts in text. Light browning, occasional staining, a good copy bound in contemporary vellum boards, fore edge cover extensions, title inked on spine (binding soiled but good). Contemporary or early inscription to title page of Andreas Wulgemuth. Occasional contemporary or early reader's marks or marginalia, occasional contemporary or early additions to illustrations. Only edition of this profusely-illustrated Danish-language work of moral and historical instruction on the lives of the emperors. It is

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divided into four monarchies: the ancient empires of the Chaldees, Babylonians, and Assyrians; the Medes and Persians; Alexander and the dynasties of his generals; and the Roman Empire and its successor Holy Roman Emperors. A portrait of Martin Luther appears on p. 431. Peter Hultmann was the first printer of Jönköping in southern Sweden. He began working there in 1688. He may have used a local illustrator. This is one of two full-length works he produced. Collijn 1600-talet 211. OCLC (01/18) shows copies outside Scandinavia at NYPL, British Library and Princeton. [ref: 2497 ] $1,000

PROTECTIONS AGAINST EARTHQUAKE - NAPLES

20. [Emygdius, Saint, patron against earthquakes]: Orazione a S. Emidio avvocato per li terremoti [id.] [A flagello terraemotus per intercessionem S. Emygdii episc. et martiris tui protectoris nostri libera nos domine]. Rome, Loreto, Naples, c.1785-90. One 4to. illustrated bifolium (engraved plate 165 mm. x 116 mm.), one 8vo. broadside, one folio print (415 mm. x 262 mm.; engraved area 276 mm. x 192 mm.) Light browning particularly to the first, overall very good. Saint Emygdius, a third/fourth-

century Christian martyr and bishop of Ascoli Piceno, was adopted in Italy in the course of the eighteenth century as a patron saint against earthquakes. The present three items are examples of what the faithful hung on their walls to invoke his protection. Two items contain an identical prayer that, as the official preamble notes, was approved by Pope Clement XIII (ruled 1758-1769) following earthquakes in Lisbon (probably the great 1755 Lisbon earthquake). - The first (Rome and Loreto, Sartori press, n.d.) is illustrated. It is a 4to. bifolium with image and text to the second and third pages. On the left-hand page is an engraving, signed Loreto, Federico Sartori, showing the saint standing in foreground, in profile, conveying a blessing, with a scene of urban destruction behind. Below the image but in the print is the text “S. Emidius M. Primus Asculi Epus. Pat. Per intercessionem S. Emidii a flagello terremotus libera nos Dne” (Saint Emygdius, martyr, first bishop of Asculi, father. Through the intercession of St. Emygdius, free us, Lord, from the scourge of the earthquake). - The prayer is also here in a simple 8vo. broadside prayer sheet (Rome and Camerino, Vincenzo Gori, 1785). - The third item is an engraved invocational print, showing the saint interceding with Christ with an earthquake scene below. A port-town is depicted; this is probably Naples. The print, dated 1790, is by the Neapolitan print-maker Domenico dell’Acerra. Emygdius was an official protector of Naples; a text, within a cartouche below the image but within the plate, states “a

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flagello terraemotus per intercessionem S. Emygdii Episcop. et Martiris tui protectoris nostri libera nos Domine” (free us Lord from the scourge of the earthquake, through the intercession of Saint Emygdius, your bishop and martyr and our protector). No items in OCLC. For a recent article on St. Emygdius and earthquakes see Anna Maria Capoferro Cencetti, ‘I terremoti di Bologna del 1779-80 ed il culto di S. Emidio’ (Il Carrobbio 2011). [ref: 3106 ] $1,600

EARLY MODERN INFLATION

21. Facis, Francesco de: Liquidario di Francesco de Facis, liquidatore, e recevidore de' Conti Camerali di S.A.R. nel 1688. Continente la tariffa del valore delle monete communemente corso dall' anno 1400. fin al 1688. ricavata dalli Decreti, & Editti vecchi, e nuovi. Aggiontovi il nome, e valore delle monete vecchie cavate del Surdo, e Nevizano. con il peso, e bontà delle monete d'oro, e d'argento dal 1581. fin al 1688.;con la Nota de'carighi locali; Regola per li Servitori di Campagna, e nuova Tavola de'giorni feriati,ne' quali gli Eccellentissimi Magistarti di qua da' monti non sedono. In Torino, per Gio: Francesco Mairesse 1725. 8vo. (16.5 cms. x 10.5 cms.), pp. [2] 90. Light browning and foxing, title-page invisibly reattached, bound in contemporary quarter-vellum over cartonnage (binding loose at top joint); early inscription and later owner's stamp to front cover, date 1918 (possibly corresponding to stamp to inside front). Second edition of this rare and interesting study of medieval and Early Modern exchange rates, for the purpose of

settlement of estates. It shows first the changing value of the gold florin against international coinage over a period up to 1632. The author was a senior figure in the treasury of the Duchy of Savoy. For the period from 1632 to 1688, following government regulations in Savoy (which are detailed), the value of the same currencies are measured against a 'livra' - presumably the French livre. The work first appeared in 1688. The end of the book is taken up with notes on weights and measures, on standard outgoings (taken from a lawsuit of 1617), and on paying people, followed by a calendar of feast days. The last page contains a sonnet on the theme of death and the passing of time. SBN: IT\ICCU\LO1E\018604 (two locations (01/18) in Milan and one in Turin). This title not in OCLC (01/18). [ref: 2530 ] $800

SPANISH ROYAL BAPTISM

22. [Festival] [Margarita Maria Catalina Habsburg, Infanta of Spain:] Relacion verdadera, del acompañamiento y baptismo, de la serenissima Princesa, Margarita, Maria, Catalina. [Colophon:] en Madrid por Diego Flamenco 1623. Folio, pp. [4]. Light browning, foxing and staining, holes along fold, else good. Fulsome description of a Spanish royal baptism - that of the tragically-short-lived Princess Margarita Maria Catalina (d.1623), at the royal

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parish church of San Juan in Madrid, on 8 December 1623. Details include the scenes depicted on the tapestries and the altar decoration. The royal procession into the church is described. Performing the duties of godfather was the king's minister, the Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645). CCPB000354947-X. OCLC (01/18) shows copies outside Spain in Illinois, Oxford, BL, Biblioteca Casatense. [ref: 1764 ] $600

ALCHEMY, CHECKERS, COLOURS, LOVE, FOOD

23. Feymond, Jacques (compiler): Recueil de diverses pieces, choisies dans plusieurs autheurs. Par Jacques Feymond. Paris, 1660. MS, 4to. (21.7 cms. x 17.5 cms.), fols. [1], 67 (i.e. 136 pages). Margins double-ruled in red, ink drawing of a dish of fruit to title-page, carefully-drawn MS section dividers in text. Light browning and spotting, very good, bound in 18th-cent. marbled calf gilt, marbled pastedowns and endapers, all edges red (binding rubbed and slightly worn, peeling to spine, still good). Bookplate: “Ex libris Viollet le Duc” (Institut de France marque no. 229). A well-presented manuscript selection of verse, by an unlocated compiler, much of the poetry untraced. The highlight may be a 64-stanza poem ‘L’Enigme’ (24r - 30r), each stanza headed by a three-piece symbolic code, which is translatable from a four-page table (”le plan du Palais des Secrets”, 30v-32r). This work begins, “Je suis d’une eau subtille une poudre legere”. The text of

this work (as shown in the ‘incipit’) draws on the language of chemistry, and the alchemical connection is made stronger by the system of secret symbols. Much of the poems of the volume are on the subject of love and friendship. Fols. 3 verso - 9 verso comprise a facetious ‘Catechisme d’amour’, offering lessons in love as dogma and correct performance (Begins: “Du nom d’Amour et de la doctrine d’amour”). Fols. 14 verso to 15 verso are on a game of checkers, ‘Le jeu aux dames’ (begins, “Celle qui tient les billes ames”). 16 r and v have a poem on colours (”Sy je porte le noir je monstre la tristesse”). This is followed (16v-17v) by an ‘Ode to Blue’ (”O belle couleur azurée”), and on a puce (”Si lon a par souhaitter”). 19 (recto and verso) has a poem on May (”Voicy le temps que lon plante cette plante”). 46v-48r has a three-part poem on a meal (’Entrée de table’, ‘Entremets’, ‘Issue’; “Trois cramailleres parfumées”). The rest of the book includes facetious letters (“Madamoiselle[sic.], Cependant que vous m’avez appasté du biscuit de vôstre hypocrisie”) (56r-59v), and more. The volume starts with poems on the glory of Paris, which come from the collection ‘Les antiquitez et recherches des villes’ by André Duchesne (1584-1640), and other identified authors in the volume include Robert Garnier (1540-1590), François Béroalde de Verville (1556-1626), and Philippe Desportes (1546-1606)). From the library of Emmanuel Louis Nicolas Viollet-le-Duc (1781-1857), librarian to the Palais

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des Tuileries. A poetry-collector, he wrote the important annotated catalogue ‘Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque poétique de M. Viollet le Duc’ (Paris 1843), which explores the printed genre of ‘recueil’. He was father of the famous architect. None of the anonymous pieces highlighted here found in Frédéric Lachèvre, ‘Bibliographie des recueils collectifs des poésies publiés de 1597 à 1700’, (4 vols., Paris 1901-1905). [ref: 3509 ] $4,500

TAX FORM, 1797

24. [France]: Contribution personnelle. An 5. Déclaration. [France] [1797] Broadside, folio, 30 cms. x 19.9 cms. Light browning and staining, wormhole. A French Revolution-era blank form for a personal return for the ‘contribution foncière’, a tax on the income on land. The filler-in has to provide details such as name, gender, and address, annual value of property, profession, income, salaries paid out, number of waged employees under sixty, horses and vehicles, and number of children if any. It all seems very simple. The ‘contribution foncière’ was a new tax set up in 1790, at the same time that the old taxation system was

abolished (Nelson White). OCLC shows one comparable example, printed for the Loire region, at BNF. Eugene Nelson White, ‘The politics of government finance’, The Journal of Economic History, 55/2 (1995), 227-255, see 240. [ref: 2734 ] $300

MEDICINE, HOLY LAND, NATURAL HISTORY ...

25. [Franeker, University of:] [Inaugural lectures]. [Franeker and elsewhere] [1684-1767]. Folio (29.6 cms. x 21.5 cms.), contents as described below. Mostly very good, bound in 18th-cent. half calf and speckled brown paper-covered boards, binding somewhat rubbed and worn, still good. Interesting sammelband of twelve inaugural speeches, nine from the University of Franeker. These are ‘keynote lectures’ and seem to have that clarity and broad approach. The German-Dutch physician Frederik Winter (1712-60) addresses, in two lectures, the concept of certainty in medicine and practical medicine. In two speeches inaugurating professorships which he had been given, the oriental linguist Samuel Hendrik Manger (1735-1791) discusses travel in the Holy Land as a means of furthering biblical research, and Christians in Arab countries. The physician and botanist Tiberius Lambergen (1717-1763)

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gives a lecture on the subject of the relationship of natural history and medicine. The physicist Anton Brugmans (1732-1789) speaks on common sense as the background to mathematics and philosophy. Law lectures include one, by Christiaan Hendrik Trotz (1703-1773) on freedom of thought and speech amongst the ancient Roman jurists. Contents are, in full: - Zacharias Huber, ‘Oratio de usu atque autoritate juris Romani in Frisia’ (1695) (STCN 83037079X). Pp. 46. OCLC shows copies outside Netherlands in Oxford and Heidelberg. - Christiaan Hendrik Trotz, ‘Oratio inauguralis de libertate sentiendi, dicendiqve, jvrisconsvltis propria’ (1741) (STCN 227902300). Pp. [4] ‘102’ (recte 106) [2]. First Latin edition (a Dutch edition was also produced). OCLC shows copy outside Netherlands at BNF. - Herman Cannegieter, ‘Oratio inauguralis de multiplici et varia veterum juris consultorum doctrina’ (1751) (STCN 151546592). Pp. [4] 68. OCLC shows copy outside Netherlands at Tübingen. - Friderik Winter, ‘Oratio de certitudine in medicina’ (Leeuwarden [1740]) (STCN 156682028). Pp. [4] 52. OCLC shows copies in seven locations outside Netherlands, of which one outside mainland Europe (NLM). - Id., ‘Oratio inauguralis de certitudine in medicina practica’ (1747) (STCN 291922163). Pp. [4] 151 [1]. Second issue (first is dated 1746). OCLC shows copies of either issue in five locations outside Netherlands, of which one outside mainland Europe (NLM). - Samuel Hendrik Manger, ‘Oratio inauguralis, de incremento philologiae sacrae ab idonea Arabiae atque Palaestinae exploratione sperando’ (1762) (STCN 238128016). Pp. [4] 67 [1]. OCLC shows five locations outside Netherlands, of which one outside mainland Europe (Jewish Theological Seminary). - Id., ‘Oratio inauguralis de fatis christianæ religionis apud Arabas’ (1767) (STCN 151546738). Pp. [4] 53 [3]. OCLC shows copies outside Netherlands in BNF, Yale, and Denmark. - Jacobus Tollius, ‘De fontibus eloquentiæ oratio inauguralis’ (Leiden 1684) (STCN 169188612). Pp. [6] 32. OCLC shows copy outside Netherlands at Duisburg. - Tiberius Lambergen, ‘Oratio inauguralis de amico historiæ naturalis cum medicina connubio’ (1751) (STCN 151544212). Pp. [4] 79 [1]. OCLC shows copies outside Netherlands at Hunt Institute PA, BL, Erlangen, and Tübingen. - Johannes Ratelband, ‘Oratio inauguralis. De pietate christiana theologo prorsus necessaria’ (1767) (STCN 310361729). Pp. [4] 64 [12]. OCLC shows copy outside Netherlands at Duke. - Anton Brugmans, ‘Oratio inauguralis de sensu communi, matheseos et philosophiæ matre’ (1761) (STCN 151558221). Pp. [4] 74 [2]. OCLC locates four copies outside Netherlands, of which one outside mainland Europe (Michigan). - Henricus Hulsius, ‘Encaenia Brandeburgica reformata, seu memoria laeti ejus temporis’ (Duisburg 1713) (not in VD18 or OCLC). Pp. 34 [2], including final blank. [ref: 3375 ] $2,600

DANCER PRAISED

26. [Frassi, Adelaide:] Alla giovanetta Adelaide Frassi leggiadrissima danzatrice. Anacreontica. Padova, Tip. Penada 1839. Broadside, 387 mm. x 284 mm. 16 lines verse + title, signature, imprint. Light stain at bottom, very good. A charmingly spare Paduan gratulatory broadside to the ballet dancer Adelaide Frassi. It is signed, “alcuni ammiratori”. “La vezzosetta Adele/ Nel moto delle membra,/ Nel brio, negli atti sembra/ Eufrosine gentil.” Not in SBN or OCLC. A print illustrating this dancer (Livorno, c.1851) is located at NYPL, Jerome Robbins Dance Division. [ref: 3105 ] $500

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SMALL GALEN WITH A CLOTHES LIST!

27. Galen: (Laurenziani, Lorenzo, tr.; Thomas, Simon, ed.:) Claudii Galeni Pergameni de differentiis febrium libri duo, Laurentio Laurentiano Florentino interprete, accurate per Simonem Thomam recogniti, & ex fide Graeci exemplaris pene alii facti. Lugduni, apud Guliel. Rouillium, sub Scuto Veneto [excudebant Philibertus Rolletus, et Bartholomaeus Fraenus, impensis honestissimorum virorum Gulielmi Rouillii, et Antonis Constantini]. 1548. 16mo. (13 cms. x 8.2 cms.), pp. 114 [14]. Woodcut device to title-page. Light browning and staining, contents loosening, bound in contemporary limp vellum (soiled, pen trails, ties removed). Volume numbering, and titling (possibly recent) to spine. Contemporary inscription to title-page: “Laurentii Nutii Perusini”. Contemporary notes to front pastedown, to f.f.e.p. recto, and to final e.p. verso (discussed below). Also to final e.p. verso, repeated writing of the words “a mano” (by hand). Some underlining to text. 20th-cent. inscription at end of Thulins Antiquariat, Stockholm, label at front of Robert J. Hayhurst.

Amusingly-annotated copy of a new pocket-format edition of the standard Latin translation of Galen’s work on fevers. The handy practical volume incorporates printed side-notes (gloss) including some words in Greek, besides a thirteen-page index at end. We first have record of a 16mo. of the text from Lyon, 1547. The latest-dated one (cf. USTC) is from 1570. The present copy, which went to Italy, and it appears belonged to a Lorenzo Nuzzi of Perugia, has notes to front pastedown and front endpaper including a definition of the bregma (a point on the skull). At end is what appears to be a clothes-list, which includes three handkerchiefs, a hat, a pair of shoes, and two shirts. It appears that - as intended by the format - the owner kept the book close to him, and used it for whatever needs were at hand. USTC 149965. Gültlingen (Lyon) XI 42 (no. 17). [ref: 3438 ] $1,200

POETRY MANUSCRIPTS ASSEMBLED IN 18TH CENTURY

28. [Gauthier]: [Bound collection of sheets and booklets of manuscript poetry, 16th-18th centuries]. MS, folio (31.5 cms. x 22 cms.), 405 leaves, folio and 4to. 18th-cent. binding of boards made from cartonnage, covered (along with spine) in reused vellum, painted brown (rubbed, worn, loss to spine). Large bound collection of manuscript sheets and booklets of poetry dating from the sixteenth through to the eighteenth centuries - a ‘recueil’ in its original rough form (not subsequently recopied into a clean book). Because of the way it has been put together, its interest extends beyond the texts. It is a collection of early modern writing hands. It was assembled in the earlier eighteenth century by one Gauthier or Gauthier de Balagny, who we believe was secretary general of the intendance of Châlons (the last date we find is from 1742). The

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volume may incorporate an earlier collection made in the Touraine region - and also a collection of Gauthier himself of 1711 - and contains items of considerable curiosity. It has early modern ephemeral political and occasional literature, and copies of texts by known writers that invite comparison with published versions. Nearer to his time, the compiler shows interest in Voltaire, Rousseau, and Bayle. It is a multi-layered assemblage, with for example, commentary added in the eighteenth century to the margins of earlier sheets, poems written out in the eighteenth century below or to verso of copies from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and some occasional apparent censorship. A full list of contents is available. These include: a sonnet ‘Le triomphe de l’amour sur la mort au trepas de St. Joseph’ (begins “Admire icy passant”) (fol. 5), by the Minim François Tuffière (d. 1684), which has folds, address and seal for sending. The addressee (to verso) was one Father Julien de Saint-Joseph, Minim at the du Plessis convent of Tours. At fols. 6r-7r is a 14-stanza poem with date 1620 and title ‘Version du pseaume super flumina faite par Le Vivier’ (begins “Quand nous”). At fol. 12 r, a four-stanza anonymous poem titled ‘Le jeu de premiere du temps de la Ligue’ with date 1587 (begins “voyant de nre temps”). At fol. 14 r is a six-stanza poem ‘Tombeau du Roy Henri troisiesme’ with date 1589 (begins “puisque l’ingratte”). At fols. 15r - 17v is a 26-stanza poem ‘Chant triumphal sur les versions du nom du Roy tres chrestien Henry Quatriesme Roy de France et de Navarre’ (Henri IV, 1553-1610) (begins “Un ciel en toutes parts”). Again celebrating Henri IV, we find (fols. 19r - 21r) a 20-stanza ‘Chant nuptial sur les versions du nom du Roy treschrestien Henry quatriesme Roy de France et de Navarre’, and (at fols. 23r-24r) 15 stanzas ‘Larmes sur la mort du Roy Henry 4 Respondue sur son Tombeau’ and 20 lines ‘Epitaphe sur le tombeau de Henry le grand 4 Roy de France & de Navarre &c’. At bottom of this last is name or signature Habert (i.e. Isaac Habert (1560-1625) and these poems on Henri IV's death are probably from his ‘Stances sur la mort pitoyable de Henry IIII’ (1610)). At fols. 25r -26v are two items by the soldier Anne d’Anglure de Givry (c.1560-1594) the first to his wife the Marquise de Nesle on their marriage (1593), the second four sonnets to the same (‘A tres illustre dame Madame la Marquise de Nesle sur l’anagrame de monsieur de Givry et d’elle pour le soir de ses accords ou le Roy assista’ and ‘Sonnets du seigneur de Givry a tres illustre dame Madame la marquize de Nesle’). At fol. 83r is a poem on an anagram, ‘Au Roy, sur l’anagrame de son nom, et celuy de la tresillustre et tresexcellente Princesse d’Espaigne, Anne de Austriche’, (begins: “Deslors que vostre Dieu vous eust”). The copy has a carefully-drawn decorative initial. Another poem on an anagram is addressed to Great Britain's James II and VII (fol. 85r-v: ‘Au Roy d’Angleterre, anagramme sur son nom. Ou se trouve preditte la punition future du Prince

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d’Orange’, begins: “Sire ces derniers jours”). At fols. 86r-89v are a collection of twelve sonnets by E. De La Guette, ‘Les amours de E. De La Guette Parisien. 1616’ (first sonnet begin: "Est trop souffert"). They were intended for the press but never made it, and carry a note at bottom: “le poete vouloit mectre ses douze sonnets au commencement de ses Amours quil a esté empesché de parachever”. At fols. 98r-99v and 101r, are 25 four-line stanzas, ‘Stances de ce temps 1612 Au Roy’. The work begins:”En fin leur faux”. At fol. 321r-v is an ‘Epitaphium Petri Ronsardi’ (epitaph on Pierre Ronsard (1524-1585), begins: “Cave, viator, cave”). At fols. 322r-v is a poem with date 1626, ‘Les comme de la cour’ 1626 (begins “Comme dans une bonne ville”). At fol. 343r is an ‘Ode presentée a Madame par Monsr le Consr de Carleil de la part de Monseigneur le Prince d’Angleterre sur le mariage d’Henriette de France avec Charles Ier’. This begins: “Cheres delices de la France”. At fol. 345-6r-v is a period copy of ‘Contre ung juif’ by Philippe Desportes (1546-1606) (first printed 1662). Except where indicated we have not located the verse we list in this description. Provenance: Collections Aristophil 14 November 2018 lot 196. [ref: 3506 ] $23,500

WRITTEN BY A TEENAGER

29. Goens, Rijklof Michael van: Diatriba de cepotaphiis. Scripsit R.M. van Goens. D.F. Trajectinus. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht] apud Abrah. a Paddenburg Bibliopol. 1763. 8vo. (20.5 cms. x 13.2 cms.), pp. [8], VI, [6], 198, [22] + fold-out letterpress inscription, after p. 162. Latin and Greek letter, letterpress copy inscriptions (some within printed line borders). Engraved vignette to title-page, by N. v.d. Acer after D. v.d. Burg, of a contemporary Dutch harvesting scene, carefully hand-coloured. Bound in contemporary calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine and sides gilt, mottled edges (rubbed, slight loss to head and tail of spine, slight cracking to top joint). First edition of this study of classical garden tombs, using much evidence from epitaphs and written by a child prodigy, Rijklof Michael van Goens (1748-1810). The author includes discussion of ancient preparation of bodies and he makes comparative reference to burial practices in Mexico (64). Goens went on to

be a professor, an Enlightenment figure and significant person in Dutch political history. OCLC (01/18) shows copies outside continental Europe at General Theological Seminary, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, British Library, Durham. [ref: 3049 ] $800

HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

30. Gustà, Francesc: Memorie della Rivoluzione Francese tanto politica che ecclesiastica e della gran parte, che vi hanno avuto i giansenisti. Aggiuntevi alcune notizie interessanti sul numero e qualita dei preti costituzionali. Opera del signor abate D. Francesco Gusta. In Assisi, per Ottavio Sgariglia 1793. First edition. 8vo. (19.1 cms. x 13.2 cms.), pp. 264 [i.e. 234], [2]. Light or medium foxing and browning, a very nice copy in its original state, deckle edges, binding of yellow glazed paper over card, contemporary label to head of spine of MS on paper (mostly

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rubbed away), two small ink stains to upper cover. Copy in a nice original state of this rare history of the French Revolution, it concentrates on the role of Jansenists within it. Gustà (1744-1816) was a native of Barcelona, expelled from Spain (Valencia) during his training to become a Jesuit, when Carlos III banished the order in 1767. He moved to Italy, and received clerical orders in Modena, but had not reached the age required (thirty-three) to make a solemn profession in the Order, before it was suppressed in 1773. He went on to be a professor of church history, in Naples, and Palermo, where he died. Anti-Jansenism was an important theme of his writings. The present title appeared in a second edition (Ferrara 1794) - also rare - as ‘Dell’ influenza dei Giansenisti’. SBN: IT\ICCU\SBLE\006987. Outside Italy, OCLC shows five locations - Munich UB; Dayton; Biblioteca de Catalunya, BNE, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. On Gustà, see article by Miquel Batllori in Dizionario biografico degli italiani 61 (2004). [ref: 3434 ] $800

VALUABLE ANNOTATIONS

31. [Hardt, Richard von der:] Holmia literata. Holmiae, apud Theodorum Gotthardum Volgnau 1701. 4to. (25 cms. x 16.7 cms.), pp. [2] 97 [1]. Lacking final blank. Title-page cut shorter to rest. Early annotations to this leaf match a hand inside the book (see e.g. p. 86), so if title-page was replaced it was done at an early time. Interleaved, with notes mainly in a contemporary hand to 31 pages of blanks, and occasional marginalia to text itself. Some light foxing and browning, but very good. Bound in contemporary vellum boards (staining, a couple of small burn marks to spine, small label or inscription to spine scratched away). Later inscription of Pehr Erik Thyselius. First edition of this bio-bibliography of Stockholm authors and men-of-letters. Alongside information even about obscure writers, distinguished figures include René Descartes. A valuable copy for its frequent added

notes, these are mainly in a contemporary hand and include records of deaths particularly in 1709 and 1710, sometimes with months and dates. The annotator notes also, inter alia, (to pp. 92 and 94) that two people are "now" royal councillors, along with various other positions; also the odd new record of a publication, and (to p. 68) that somebody was now (1713) in Russian captivity. As the second edition had been produced in 1707, this information cannot be taken from that. The copy seems therefore to have been annotated by somebody with first-hand knowledge in Stockholm. An interesting copy. The book was later in the possession of historian Pehr Erik Thyselius (1808-1881). Collated with description of copy at Swedish National Library (cf. Regina Catalogue). OCLC (01/18) locates copies outside mainland Europe at NYPL, Harvard; Oxford, BL. [ref: 2518 ] $800

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MEDIEVAL LOVERS

32. [Heloise and Abelard] [Pope, Alexander]: Cartas de Abelardo y Heloisa en prosa y verso, sacadas de la correspondencia original, y traducidas nuevamente en español. Valencia: imprenta de Domingo y Mompié. 1821. 12mo. (14.7 cms. x 8.7 cms.), pp. 183 + 2 engraved plates. Half-title. Slight waterstaining, very good, bound in contemporary calf, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges red; some loss and abrasion to covers and slight loss to head and tail of spine but actually binding still fine. Spanish-language versions, in verse and prose, of the letters of the twelfth-century lovers Abelard and Heloise, with a Spanish-language life. The book has two plates, each with a portrait of one of the two protagonists, in modern clothes (and looking suitably intense). The book includes a Spanish translation of Alexander Pope’s verse version of an Heloise letter, ‘Eloisa to Abelard’.

Cf. CCPB000075052-2 (possibly a different issue of the same edition). This edition not located outside Spain (OCLC). [ref: 3482 ] $100

EDITION WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS

33. Hensbergh, Vincent, O.P. [Galle, Theodor]: Viridarium Marianum varijs Rosariorum, Exercitiorum, Exemplorumque, Plantationibus peramoenum. In gratiam et usum Cultorum Deiparae Virginis Mariae concinnatum. Auctore F. Vincentio Hensbergio Ord. Praedic. Cum Privilegio. Antverpiae apud Henricum Aertssium 1626. 8vo. (15.7 cms. x 10 cms.), pp. [16] 491 [5]. With half-title and final blank. With engraved title-page border, and 22 full-page engraved illustrations. Light browning, very good, bound in contemporary vellum boards, slightly warped, fore edge cover extensions (recent MS titling to spine replacing older lettering). Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, inscription of M. Weld, contemporary or early inscription to title-page “Collegij Societatis Jesu Bruxellae”, also a monogram AK (traces of same letters to foot of spine), and initials M.B. Second edition - with textual changes and a new set of illustrations - of this predominantly Marian Latin devotional compendium, by the Dominican Vincent Hensbergh (d.1634). the book includes an introduction to the rosary, with the privileges accorded its confraternities; rosaries; prayers, blessings, litanies and devotional exercises; and

(395-491) a section on miracles associated with the rosary. “For Vincent Hensbergh [...] the

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recitation of the rosary was the time for meditating on the wounds of our Lord” (Dominican website at opcentral.org/resources/2012/08/23/in-the-netherlands/ (consulted 25 April 2019)). Hensbergh was confessor to the Dominican women’s convent of Auderghem near Brussels (preface). This copy came from the library of Brussels’ Jesuit college. The illustrations, attributed to Theodor Galle of Antwerp (1571-1633), replace a quite different set in the previous (1615) edition, by Adriaen Collaert, although the engraved title-page border is kept from before. One of our plates, at sig. Y8 verso (p. 320), carries the name of M. Snyders (probably Michael Snyders of Antwerp, c.1588-c.1630). Preliminary comparison to the 1615 edition has brought up changes to content, and indeed, there is a new dedicatory letter, albeit to same dedicatee, Michael Ophovius O.P. (d. 1637), who in 1626 was promoted to bishop of ‘s Hertogenbosch. STCV 6649009. OCLC shows six copies outside mainland Europe (Saint Bonaventure University, UCD, Dominican House of Studies (DC), Emory, University of Kansas, Louisville). [ref: 3419 ] $1,800

THE ABBESS FLORENTINA / ISIDORE OF SEVILLE

34. Herraiz, Antonio, O.F.M.: Los quatro misticos rios del paraiso de la iglesia, quatro hermanos santos, Leandro, Fulgencio, Isidoro, y Florentina, honra de Cartagena, gloria de España, y esmalte de la Fè Catholica. Breve compendio de sus vidas, y virtudes, coronado con una devota novena, para incentivo de la devocion Christiana. Por el R. P. Fr. Antonio Herraiz, Predicador Conventual del Convento de N.P.S. Francisco de la Villa de Iniesta, de la Santa Provincia de Cartagena. Quien lo dedica al Exc.mo S.r Don Carlos Reggio, y Gravina, Theniente General de la Real Armada. En Valencia: por Benito Monfort [...] 1764.

First edition. 4to. (21.2 cms. x 15.5 cms.), pp. [28] 192 + (facing p. 1) fold-out engraving of the four saints with panorama of Cartagena, and (facing p. 59) woodcut and letterpress family tree. A very good copy bound in contemporary vellum boards, title inked to spine, edges mottled blue (loss of vellum along bottom of upper cover). Stamp to f.f.e.p. of Real Convento de Religiosas Ursulinas, Molina de Aragon; front pastedown with MS shelfmark label. Scholarly work on the history of the city of Cartagena, it contains the lives of four early saints - three brothers and a sister, including the bishop and encyclopedist Isidore of Seville, and his sister the abbess Florentina (d.612) - and an illustrated genealogy of their family. It has some guide-book elements: there is (10-11) a description of the ‘House of the Four Saints’, erected by the bishop Sancho Dávila Toledo (1546-1625) in the episcopal palace, and the iconography of its chapel; and (12-13) of the miracle-giving statue of the Virgin Mary the Virgen del Rosell, and its placement in a chapel of the cathedral, again alongside images of the Four Saints. At end is (165-175) a novena to the Saints, and (176-184) hymns to these. A life of Florentina (80-98) describes in particular her rule of the female monastery of St. Benedict in Écija, southern Spain. A brutal story is given (98) of how later, when the Arabs came to take the city ([711]), the nuns implored their saint for help in avoiding rape. This led

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them to cut up their own faces; thus bloodied they met their attackers, who killed them immediately. A later reader left a place-holder at this page. A fold-out engraving of the sibling saints has at bottom a panoramic view, taken from the sea, of Cartagena, an important naval city. Details include fortifications and ships, and the print carries a dedication to the people of the Spanish royal fleet. Appropriately, the book’s dedicatee is Carlos Reggio y Gravina (1717-1773), Teniente General of the Armada. CCPB000062531-0. Palau 113943. Aguilar Piñal IV 3043. OCLC (07/16) shows copies outside Spain at British Library and Chicago. [ref: 2954 ] $1,100

EARLY MODERN SCRIBBLINGS

35. [Herrey, Robert F.:] Two right profitable and fruitfull concordances, or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall. The first containing the interpretation of the Hebrew, Caldean, Greek and Latine words, and names scatteringly dispersed throughout the whole Bible, with their common places following every of them. And the second comprehending all such other principall words andmatters, as concerne the sense and meaning of the Scriptures, or direct unto any necessary and good instruction [...] 1615. 4to. (20.7 cms. x 16.3 cms.), pp. [164]. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Text in two and three columns, printed side-notes. Light browning, and spotting, top margins cut close (some shaving to headlines), bound in early 19th-cent. quarter-calf and marbled boards, leather peeling off spine, peeling also along top joint, with upper cover only still attached through two places. Inscription on front pastedown of F. Brown,

Feb. 11th 1817. Some early MS largely to recto and verso of first two leaves, and verso of last, of a simple nature, inscriptions (repeated) include the mottos "many are the troubles of thoroughness" and "evil communications corrupt good manners", the names John Tutton, John Jay of Nells, and John Coles, and a note possibly on a transaction, April 15th 1683, between John Tutton and George Gamlin. Copy with some charm due to its 17th-cent. scribblings (described above), of these two bestselling concordances to the Geneva Bible, first published in 1582. The first concordance contains the foreign words found in the Geneva, and includes some translations. "I have together placed by themselves in a maner, all the strange names and wordes which are to bee found here and there [...] to the end thou mayst by that meanes, learn to be conduced unto so much of the interpretation, History, Common places, and knowledge of them, and every of them, as I trust thou shalt thinke needefull" (compiler's preface). The second comprises the English words. ESTC S122242. STC (2nd edn.) 13234. [ref: 1331 ] $300

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DIET FOR SICK AND WOUNDED

36. [Hospital food] Estado de los oficiales y soldados, que han entrado enfermos, y heridos en los Reales Hospitales de [filled in: San Juan de Pages] en todo el Mes de [filled in: Julio] de 179[filled in:3] à quienes he subministrado las Raciones y Dietas compuestas cada una de las Porciones de Viveres que señale [changed in MS to señala] el reglamento de Alimentos. [French Pyrenees?] [1793]. Broadside printed table, printed in landscape, the sheet 50.2 cms x 36.4 cms., the table 42.6 cms. x 28.3 cms. Table filled-in, with

below, six lines of MS text. Docketed to verso. Light browning, spotting, a circular stain at centre and some damage from fold-lines (two printed words obscured, identifiable as “Sin el”), still very good. Printed table filled in and added to in manuscript, detailing the number of patients, and their meals, in a Spanish military hospital in the month of July 1793. The hospital may have been in what is now France: a later pencil note to verso states ‘Ceret’ and this city in the French Pyrenees was under Spanish control in the Franco-Spanish war of this time. Close to Céret is the municipality of Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts, which could perhaps be the site of “San Juan de Pages”. The French Pyrenean identification is strengthened by the fact that we acquired our item not far from there, in Spanish Catalonia. The hospital had between 46 and 60 patients, and a diet with bread, meat, wine, biscuits, sugar, eggs, chicken, and rice (there is also a column for cod, not filled in, so probably off the menu). Portions were organised as meals and half-meals, with diet-types ‘ordinary’ (and with/without wine), ‘regular/regulated’ (with/without wine), ‘biscuits’ (with/without wine), rice (ditto) and toast (which it looks like many people had besides another meal). There are columns for admissions into the hospital and at what time of day, and for deaths (left blank here). The official who filled out the form also provided the information in narrative, below it. [ref: 3469 ] $600

FRIEND AND EDITOR OF TORQUATO TASSO

37. [Ingegneri, Angelo:] Per la feliciss. e desideratiss. assuntione al Pontificato del Santiss. e Beatiss. Padre e Sig. Nostro Pape Clemente Ottavo. Leucippo overo Aventuroso Tebro. [In Roma, appresso Ascanio, & Girolamo Donangeli] [1592]. 4to. (21.9 cms. x 16.3 cms.), pp. [6] [2]. With last leaf (blank). Drop-head title, with woodcut head-piece decoration, woodcut initial, and a small further woodcut decoration. Light browning and foxing, flaws to bottom of first two leaves, affecting the odd letter (text still legible), a very good copy bound in patterned paper-covered boards, poss. 19th-cent. A rare 100-line gratulatory poem for the election in 1592 of

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Cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini (1536-1605) as Pope Clement VIII. The author (1550-1613), a poet, professional secretary and courtier originally from Venice, found a place in the service of the new pope’s nephew and secretary-of-state, Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini. Aldobrandini financed the publication (1593) of Torquato Tasso’s ‘Gerusalemme Conquistata’, which was prepared for the press by Ingegneri. CNCE 54244. USTC 836288. OCLC (5/17) shows no location outside Italy. [ref: 3102 ] $1,000

HAMMER TIME

38. Jonathan Shaw & Co., Gibraltar Steel Works, and Ecclesfield Forge, Sheffield: Best warranted solid cast steel hammers. Pawson & Brailsford lith., Sheffield [c.1890]. Folio (52.6 cms. x 33.4 cms.), lithographed broadside, as described below. 52.5 x 33.5 cms. (47.3 x 28.1 cms. within printed area). Small areas of loss at very top margin (blank) - perhaps from when the broadside was hung? - otherwise a practically spotless copy, neat fold lines, printed on high quality glazed tissue-like paper. Well-preserved advertising broadside, illustrating 48 various hammer and pick heads, plus 3 chisels and a long chipping spike. Grouped as "boiler makers' hammers", "smiths' tools", and "engineers' hammers", all of the items are numbered (probably as per listing in catalogue), and some also have their own individual label (miners' mash, colliers' wedge, top swage etc.) A fine ephemeral illustration of the output in working tools, of the Sheffield steel industry at its height.

Not in OCLC. [ref: 2542 ] $200

OWNED BY MATHIDE MAHIET

39. [[La Haye, Jacques de, S.J.]: Response au livre intitulé ‘Apologie pour l’université de Paris contre le discours d’un Iesuite’. A Paris 1643. First edition. 8vo. (16.4 cms. x 11 cms.), pp. [8] 242. 2 leaves loose, one of which, pp. 91-92 (a cancel detached from stub), was cut at a slant, with loss of three words to verso. Light age-yellowing, very good, bound in contemporary limp vellum, inscription to f.f.e.p. of Mathide Mahiet 1652, inscription of same person to title-page (Mathide Mahid 1657). A biographical note, 1700 or later, below ("par Jacques de la Haye, archevêsque de Nicée. Il éstoit frère de M. de la Haye ambassadeur à la Porte [Constantinople], qui le fit nommer à l'Archevêché in partibus, afin de l'avoir auprès de lui. Etant depuis retourné en France, il se retira dans le College de Clermont, ou il est mort bon Jesuite. Aussi ajoute-t-on à son nom 'plus Jesuite que jamais'. Simon, Let. choi. t. 2, lit. x.")

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Copy owned, I believe, by a woman, of this rare Jesuit controversial work written against a pamphlet of the Paris professor and Jansenist Godefroi Hermant (1617-1690), who became rector of the University of Paris in 1646. The arguments address the history and state of the university, and the disputed concern of Jesuit rights to teach at it. The name Mathide is a version of 'Mathilde' found in Normandy (where this book came from). It is of course interesting to see woman’s ownership from the 1650s of a book on an apparently ‘male’ subject such as early modern universities! One copy in OCLC outside mainland Europe (Harvard). [ref: 3515 ] $600

UNIVERSITY PAMPHLETS

40. [Lutheranism] [Wittenberg, University of]: Sammelband of five sixteenth-century pamphlets. These comprise: Christoph Pezel, ‘Oratio de D. Athanasio Episcopo Alexandrino’ (1573); Burkhard Matthesius, ‘Oratio de S. Martyre Iesu Christi Anna Burgio Tholosate, iurisc. clariss. &c.’ (1573); Michael Slavata, ‘Orationes duae [...] una de legibus, altera de Hussiticis motibus in Boemia’ (1572); ‘Constitutiones imperatorum veterum, Theodosii Secundi, et Iustiniani Primi, continentes [...] prohibitionem severam, ne libri haereticorum aliud sententium habeantur aut spargantur’ (1568); Johannes Sommer, ‘Oratio, qua exponitur argumentum, et multiplex usus trium dialogorum S. Theodoreti’ (1573). Wittenberg, (I,IV) Johannes Crato [Johann I Krafft], (II,V) Johannes Schwertel, (III) Johannes Lufft. 1568-1573. 5 works in 1 vol., 8vo. (16 cms. x 10.5 cms.), pp. [2] 133 [1]; [104]; [48]; [24]; [48]. Fourth work with facing Greek and Latin text. Light browning, very good, bound in contemporary vellum wrappers, MS shelf mark. Last work with contemporary inscription as described below. An interesting sammelband of five sixteenth-century

works, showing life and activity at the Lutheran university of Wittenberg, in the Counter-Reformation and at a time of dogmatic controversy between Reformed theologians. Authors are from present-day Germany, Bohemia and Transylvania. The first pamphlet contains a lecture given at Wittenberg on 30 June 1573. The important scholar Christoph Pezel (1539-1604) speaks on the 4th-cent. St. Athanasius of Alexandria, who did dogmatic battle against Arians. The second pamphlet is a speech given at the university on 3 September 1573, on the trial and execution in Paris of the Protestant jurist Anne du Bourg (1521-1559). The author, Burkhard Matthesius, was dean of the university’s college of philosophy. The third contains two lectures given by the rector of the university, one on laws, the other on the Hussites in Bohemia. Michael Slavata, author, was himself a Bohemian nobleman, and a correspondent of Sir Philip Sidney. The fourth includes early church law against owning and disseminating heretical texts, taken from Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis. The last pamphlet is a speech on the theology of St. Theodoret, given, according to the title-

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page, for the understanding and judgment of recent as well as ancient controversies. The author, Johannes Sommer, was a notable scholar from Transylvania, of Saxon heritage. Our copy of this last includes a gift inscription (cropped) and in same hand provision of additional author information. The name of the giftee has been overwritten by another, rendering both very difficult to read. It is quite possible that, as is often the case, the gift was authorial. 1. USTC 680104, VD 16 P 2116. OCLC (03/17) shows 2 copies outside mainland Europe (Concordia Seminary and National Library of Israel). 2. USTC 680343, VD 16 M 1408. Uncommon in mainland Europe, with Concordia Seminary and BL outside. 3. USTC 681149, VD 16 S 6641. Uncommon in mainland Europe, with Concordia Seminary outside. 4. USTC 625024, VD 16 O 1405. Uncommon in continental Europe, no copies located outside. 5. USTC 681054, VD 16 S 6996. Uncommon in mainland Europe, and only located in Concordia Seminary outside. [ref: 3043 ] $2,100

SPANISH COMEDIES

41. Matos Fragoso, Juan de [Villaviciosa, Sebastian de] [Bances Candamo, Francisco]: [Sammelband of twelve comedies]. [Places include Madrid and poss. Seville] [early 18th century] 4to. (21.4 cms. x 15.9 cms.), contents as described below. Light or medium browning, bound in 18th-cent.

stiffened vellum, traces of MS to spine and front cover, ties removed (torn and repaired at spine, binding loosening from text block, else good). Inscription to head of first work: “Es de Juan Armenado”. His MS table of contents to f.f.e.p. recto. Sammelband of 12 individually-printed comedies, from two seventeenth-century authors. Only one, anonymously printed, edition has been identified in Spain’s ‘Catalogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliografico Español’ (item 7). Two other apparently anonymous editions (items 5 and 10) may - from length and identical publisher’s catalogue number - be linked to editions with imprints that are recorded. Francisco and José de Hermosilla can be identified in this way as possible printer and publisher of item 5, and worked together, in Seville, between 1727 and 1733 (CCPB). The heirs of Gabriel de Léon were possible printers by the same measure of item 10, and worked, in Madrid, between 1688 and 1730 (see datos.bne.es/entidad/XX5547811.html). Two otherwise unlocated editions of comedies (items 9 and 11) carry the imprint of Francisco Sanz, who worked, in Madrid, between 1671 and 1710 (Delgado Casado).

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Francisco Bances Candamo (1662-1704) writer of five of the twelve comedies here, had a successful career as a court comedy-writer, becoming official playwright to the king, Carlos II. The play here ‘La restauracion de Buda’ (1686) was shown first at the theatre of the royal palace of the Buen Retiro in Madrid, and the ‘Duelos de ingenio y fortuna’, a mythological comedy, was performed as part of royal birthday celebrations in 1687. The two plays here ‘El esclavo en grillos de oro’ and ‘La piedra filosofal’ were performed in autumn/winter 1692/3, and had political content which led to the author’s having to leave Madrid. The other seven plays in the volume are written or part-written by Bances’ prolific older contemporary Juan de Matos Fragoso (1608-1689), who was born in Alvito in Portugal and died in Madrid. A writer of celebratory verse for auspicious (including royal) occasions besides being a playwright, he specialised in new versions of older works (by authors including Lope de Vega), and collaborations with other authors (see e.g. item 6 here). Item 3 here, ‘Ver y creer’, is believed to be a continuation of a work by Luis Vélez (1579-1644) (DBE). The volume comprises: 1. Matos: Callar, siempre es lo mejor. Num. 104. [n.pl. n.pr. n.d.] fols. 18. 2. [id.]: Con amor no ay amistad. Num. 99. [n.pl. n.pr. n.d.] fols. 18. 3. [id.]: Ver y creer. Num. 31. [n.pl. n.pr. n.d.] fols. 20. 4. [id.]: Aristomenes Mesenio. Num. 112. [n.pl. n.pr. n.d.] fols. 18. 5. [id.]: El impossible mas facil. Num. 234. [n.pl. n.pr. n.d. (but Seville, Francisco and José de Hermosilla?)] fols. 16. Cf. CCPB000879412-X. 6. Matos & Villaviciosa, Sebastian de: El letrado del cielo. Num. 309. [n.pl. n.pr. n.d.] fols. 20. 7. Matos: El amor haze valientes. Num. 168. [n.pl. n.pr. n.d.] fols. 18. CCPB000321392-7. 8. Bances: La restauracion de Buda. Num. 1. [n.pl. n.pr. n.d.] fols. [20]. 9. [id.]: [El] duelo contra su dama. [Madrid, Francisco Sanz, Calle de la Paz, n.d.] fols. [20]. 10. [id.]: La piedra filosofal. Num. 184. [n.pl. n.pr. n.d. (but Madrid, heirs of Gabriel de Léon?)] pp. 40. Cf. CCPB001301581-8. 11. [id.]: El esclavo en grillos de oro [Madrid, Francisco Sanz, Calle de la Paz, n.d.] fols. [20]. 12. [id.]: Duelos de ingenio y fortuna. Num. 80. [n.pl. n.pr. n.d.] fols. [20]. Juan Delgado Casado, ‘Diccionario de impresores españoles’, 2 vols., Madrid, 1996, II, 647-8, number 839 (’Sanz, Francisco’). For biographies of Bances and Matos, see DBE entries at dbe.rah.es, respectively by Celsa Carmen García Valdés and Javier Huerta Calvo, both consulted 24 September 2019. [ref: 3512 ] $2,500

NUNS AND MEDICINE

42. [Medical receipt] [Visitandines]: Recepte de la maniere de faire le beaume vert. [Paris?] [18th century]. MS, 8vo. (17 cms. x 11.2 cms.), bifolium, writing to first recto, the other sides blank. Light or medium browning and spotting, fold-lines, very good. Receipt for a green balm, which is noted as “given in charity to the convent of Ste. Marie of the Rue St. Jacques” - I imagine the Visitandine convent of St. Mary in Rue St. Jacques in Paris. An ointment that could be made it appears from a herb garden, ingredients include rosemary, thyme, marjoram, and laurel. It could be used against inflammations and dislocations, and for fortifying the nerves. [ref: 3455 ] $200

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NOVELLAS WITH MUSIC

43. [Mercier de Compiègne, Claude-François-Xavier]: Azoline, ou la rose d’amour. Nouvelle Turque, suivie des Albigeoises. Avec figure & musique gravées. Par M. Mercier, musique de M. Pollet. A Chypre et a Paris, chez Pollet, auteur de la musique, rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie, No. 43. 1791. 24mo. (13.5 cms. x 8.2 cms.), pp. 60, + engraved frontispiece by Flotte after Carrée, and [6] pp. engraved music. Foxing and light browning, small part of printed border to frontispiece has separated onto title-page, bound in contemporary half-calf and marbled paper over boards, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco gilt label (wear and rubbing to binding, slight loss to tail of

spine, top cover loosening at joint). Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst. Printed with music and pictorial frontispiece, a very rare printing (possibly the first) of these two novellas by the writer Claude-François-Xavier Mercier de Compiègne (1763-1800), ‘Azoline, or the rose of love, a Turkish story’ and (49-60) ‘The Albigensians’. The voluminous author was also a bookseller, producer of smut, and magazine publisher (cf. NBG). The music is reportedly written by the publisher, Pollet. Pollet, according to a note to verso of title-page, was offering the stories as well in a fortnightly ‘Journal of society airs with accompaniments set to harpsichord or to piano’, for which he was soliciting subscriptions. A. Martin, V.G. Mylne, R. Frautschi, ‘Bibliographie du genre romanesque français, 1751-1800’ (London, repr. 1978) 91.38 (copy at Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale, FC 91 VI 854, in-24, 60 pp., seen by authors). CCFr notes only a 94-page publication from 1791, containing also a further title (Reims, BM, shelf mark P 17018/2). Monglond II 403. This title not in OCLC. [ref: 3490 ] $1,200

UNBOUND COPY

44. [A mes concitoyens:] A mes concitoyens, ou réflexions patriotiques d'un françois, sur la sécularisation des religieux, & l'extinction de la mendicité. A Genève [Geneva] 1787. 8vo. (22.6 cms. x 14 cms.), pp. [2] [3] 4-61 [1]. With the initial blank, conjugate with final leaf (blank on verso). A copy in an entirely unsophisticated state, uncut, stab-stitched, the "covers" formed simply by the book's first and last integral blank pages (naturally, some light soiling and small tears to these first and last leaves; otherwise, light browning). First edition, an entirely unsophisticated, uncut, unbound copy of this Enlightenment philosophical discourse on questions of the extinction of mendicity and the secularisation of the monasteries.

Conlon XXII 87:3 (different issue). [ref: 1584 ] $300

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HOSPITAL VISITORS

45. Montllor, Ignacio Javier, S.J.: Reglas y reflexiones cristianas, dirigidas a las hermanas hospitaleras, que en el año 1757 se congregaron en el Hospital General de la Ciudad de Valencia, baxo la proteccion del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus. Y dispuestas por el P. Ignacio Xavier, de la Compañia de Jesus. En Valencia por Joseph Estevan Dolz, Impr. del S. Oficio. [1757]. 16mo. (14.7 cms. x 10.3 cms.), pp. XVI, 134. Some light or medium browning, a very good copy bound in contemporary stiffened vellum, chewing to top of outer edge of front cover. Rules and spiritual guidance for a female congregation given to voluntary Saturday visits to the General Hospital of Valencia, “with the holy intention of helping, consoling, and serving food to the infirm, notwithstanding many other exercises of charity, even those most repugnant to nature” (pp. V-VI). A chapter at pages 67-75 contains discussion of role-models, the

Virgin Mary, St. Catherine of Siena, and the early fifteenth-century charity worker, wife and mother, St. Frances of Rome. CCPB000985574-2, 000984785-5. Aguilar Piñal V 5584. Not in Backer-Sommervogel, but see entry on this author. This title not in Palau. OCLC shows one copy outside Spain (SMU). [ref: 3466 ] $400

ALPHA

46. Nicolai, Johann: Disquisitio de Mose alpha dicto. In qua multae intricatae Antiquitates Scripturae S. explicantur & contra cavillationes Ethnicorum defenduntur lectu jucundae. Lugduni in Batavis, apud Henricum Teering, Op de Hoeck van de Klocksteeg over de Academie 1703. First edition. 12mo. (13.7 cms. x 8.5 cms.), pp. 149 [2] [2], including final blank. Small woodcut vignette to title-page. Light browning, very good in contemporary quarter-vellum and marbled boards, MS titling to spine, edges mottled red (some wear to spine). Macclesfield bookplate and blind embossment. Fine copy of a work of biblical scholarship and philology, this is an argument with a fourth-century Byzantine grammarian, about a Jewish tradition that Moses was called 'alpha', after a white-coloured affliction to his skin. A statement to this effect is made in the 'Chrestomathia' of Helladius Besantinous, a lost text known through citation in a 9th-century literary encyclopedia, the 'Bibliotheca' of Photius. An edition of the 'Chrestomathia' was

published by Johannes Meursius in Utrecht, 1686. Johann Nicolai (1665-1708), a professor at Tübingen, wishes to give the term 'alpha' in this poem a meaning which functions as a precursor to the use of' 'Alpha and Omega' in Revelations. In his exposition, the author cites Greek, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic, (cf. 36-37) looks at scholarship and orthography of ancient alphabets, and, amongst English writers, makes use of the sermon collection 'The Best Religion' (1636) of Griffith Williams (1587/8-1672), and (with considerable quotation), the work of the Amsterdam separatist minister and Hebrew

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scholar Henry Ainsworth (1569-1622). OCLC (01/16) shows one copy in US (Columbia). A short introduction (and addition) to modern scholarship on the present question can be found in Howard Jacobson, 'Moses as Alpha', J. Theol. Stud. 50 (2) (1999), 626-7. [ref: 2831 ] $600

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS

47. [Paris] Ocellus, of Lucania [Simon Grynaeus; Alexander, of Aphrodisias; Aristotle; Philo of Alexandria:] [II] De mundo Aristotelis lib. I. Philonis lib. I. Gulielmo Budaeo interprete. Ocelli Lucani veteris philosophi libellus, de universi natura. [III] Annotatiunculae in libellum Aristotelis de mundo. [I] Alexandri Aphrodisiei problemata, omnibus studiosis non minus utilia quàm iucunda, Graecè & Latinè Ioannis Davioni studio illustrata. Parisiis, [apud Iacobum Bogardum]; (first work in vol.:) [apud Edmée Toussan] 1541 (third publication has date 1542 at colophon). 8vo. (13.8 cms. x 8.6 cms.), three publications in one vol., fols. 54 [2]; [40] (second and third works in vol.); 78 [2] (first). Woodcut printer’s devices to title-pages (I and II). errata leaf to I, final leaf of each work blank (two blanks at end of II), the third work in vol. has a woodcut device to colophon. Overall very good copies in c.1700 vellum boards, titled to spine, all edges blue. Inscription of the Member of British Parliament Sir Erasmus Philipps, bart. (1699-1743), armorial bookplate of his brother

and successor to Philipps baronetcy, Sir John Philipps, MP and Jacobite (1701-1764). Inscription of Mitford, 1806; this may be the MP and historian of ancient Greece William Mitford (1744-1827) as the next inscription is a note of its appearance in a Payne catalogue in the year of Mitford’s death. Subsequent bookplate (20th-cent.) of Robert Hayhurst; traces of contemporary French annotation (shaved). A small contemporary MS letter cipher to each title-page and to first page of unpaginated section in the Ocellus work. Three publications of ancient natural philosophy from Paris. The second in the volume (listed first here) includes the first Latin edition of a work on the universe by the 6th-cent. BCE Pythagorean philosopher Ocellus of Lucania (translation by Guillaume Chrestien), and the third comprises lengthy notes on Aristotle’s ‘On the world’ - we believe in first printing - by the important German Protestant scholar Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541). There are also reprints of Guillaume Budé’s translations of Aristotle’s same ‘On the world’ (Book I) and Book I of the work of the same title by the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria (c.20 BCE - c.50 CE). The first work in the volume is a new edition, with introduction and notes, by one Jean Davion, of the ’Problems’ by the Aristotle commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c.200). This is in the Latin translation by Theodorus Gaza (1378-1475). [II] USTC 140159, Adams A 1800; [III] USTC 116764; [1] USTC 116737, Adams A 694. [ref: 3415 ] $1,600

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SILVER MINES ADMINISTRATOR

48. [Peru] [Lopez, Juan Luis:] [Begins:] A Don Juan Luis Lopez hizo merced su Mag. de plaza de Alcalde del Crimen de la Real Audiencia de los Reyes, à instancia de el Duque de la Palata D. Melchor de Navarra y Rocafull, del Consejo de estado, en ocasion, que passò por Virrey a los Reynos del Perù [...] Sin lugar de impresion [Lima], sin impresor 1690. First edition. Folio (27.5 cms. x 20 cms.), 54 pages (numbered fols. 27). Woodcut first initial, small woodcut cross to head of first page. Light age-yellowing, very slight touch of foxing, very good copy in modern wrappers. The odd neat early reader's mark. Account of the actions and writings of the administrator and legal scholar Juan Luis Lopez (d.1732), later Marques del Risco, in Lima and Huancavelica in the years 1681-90. It includes bibliography of his works. Detail is given of his running the silver-mining area of Huancavelica. Information is found in the account on his interactions with

indigenous communities. This includes a note on how he addressed abuses in the customs of paying the non-European mineworkers. Not in Vargas Ugarte. Not in Palau or Medina. OCLC FirstSearch lists copy at JCB only (entry gives place of printing as Lima and cites Leclerc, Bib. Americana 1826). [ref: 1139 ] $600

MATHEMATICAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY

49. Pescheck, Christian: Vorhoff der Meß-Kunst: darinnen die Anfangs-Gründe dieser edlen Wissenschaft, d. Gestallt deutlich vorgetragen, u. d. dazu gehörige Instrumenta erkläret werden [...] Worbey d. nötigsten Instrumenta, in Holzschnitt gebracht sind, u. wie solche sollendurch d. Buchbinder u. Tischler zum Gebrauch construiret werden, gezeiget. [Bound with:] Rechender-Feldmässer, oder Geometra Welcher die bey der Geometrie eingeführte und sogenannte Decimal-Rechnung nicht allein mit allen deren Speciebus und Regeln sowohl nach dem Länge- und Quadrat- oder Flächen- aus auch Cubic- oder Körper-

maasse ausführlich beschreibet sondern auch vermittelt derselben, mancherley der Feldmeßkunst vorfallende Casus und Aufgaben deutlich und gründlich aufzulösen, lehret. [Bound with:] Selbstlehrender Trigonometra, oder Dreyeck=Mässer, welcher aller gradlinichten Triangul, ihre Winckel und Linien, vermittelst derer Tabularum Sinuum, Tangentium und Secantium,

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als auch Logarithmorum, dergestalt leicht und gründlich aufzulösen und zuberechnen lehret. [Bound with:] Reduction der Sächsischen müntzen in sich selbst, und in die gebräuchlichsten sorten der benachbarten länder samt ausführlichen zins-rechnungen zu fünf und sechs pro cento ; nebst einem anhange von getraidicht-maaß, pappier-rechnungen und vermögen-steuern. Budissin [Bautzen] David Richter (last: Johann George Hüneln). 1721 [1730] [1730] [1713]. First editions. 8vo. (16.9 cms. x 10.5 cms.), pp. [30] 343 [1]; [8] 88; 7, 134 [2]; [8] 469 [1] [34]. With two blanks in final section of last work. Titles of first and last works in red and black, engraved frontispiece to first work, numerous woodcut illustrations, including full-page measuring instrument (verso blank) at end of second work, the last work comprises mostly tables. At end of second work also, a fold-out woodcut illustration (probably belonging to a different issue of the first work). Last work partially unopened. Light browning, occasional slight worming, one bifolium in first work loosening and fold-out slightly torn. Bound in contemporary vellum boards, fore edge cover extensions, title inked to spine, all edges red. Traces of adhesive to front pastedown, inscription to same of Gu. M. Pescheck 1814. Sämmelband - probably from the library of a later member of the family - of illustrated mathematical works, all but one by a noteworthy author. The first two cover geometry (including practical geometry and surveying), sums and measurement; the third covers trigonometry; and the last covers exchange. This last is the only that is not listed as by the author Christian Pescheck (1676-1744), but was also printed in Bautzen in eastern Saxony. This town is some 30 miles from the town of Zittau, on the border with Bohemia, where Pescheck was a schoolmaster. “In the field of elementary education, Germany produced a number of important writers, but few whose names can be rated as international. Among the most industrious of the group was Christian Pescheck, who wrote a large number of textbooks and was one of the first of the German writers to consider seriously the methods of teaching the subject” (Smith). The great Saxon astronomer Johann Georg Palitzsch (1723-1788), rediscoverer of Halley’s Comet, is believed to have taught himself astronomy from one of Pescheck’s books. Also present - prior to the last work - is a copy without prelims. of Pescheck’s ‘Welcher Auf dem, nicht jederman bekannten, sehr hohen Berge derer Mathematischen Wissenschafften Die daselbst Befindlichen Arith- und Geometrischen Wurtzeln, als Radicem quadratam, cubicam, Zensizensicam [...] lehret’ (Zittau 1727) (VD18 15320480), another book on geometry and arithmetic. I: VD18 12674168; II: 11575409; III: 15320464; IV: 10267174. OCLC shows copies outside mainland Europe at (I) UCB; (II, III) Harvard. David Eugene Smith, ‘History of Mathematics’ (2 vols., New York 1958) I, 502. [ref: 3392 ] $3,200

TREATY WITH INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS

50. [Philippines] Carrillo, Manuel de, O.S.A.: Breve relacion de las missiones de las quatro naciones, llamadas Igorrotes, Tinguianes, Apayaos, y Adanes, nuevamente fundadas en las Islas Philipinas, en los Montes de las Provincias de Ilocos, y Pangasinan, por los Religiosos Calzados de N.P.S. Agustin de la Provincia del Santissimo Nombre de Jesus. Escrita por el provincial de la misma Provincia, el Maestro Fray Manuel Carrillo, que es el mismo que fundò las dichas Missiones. En Madrid en la Imprenta del Consejo de Indias 1756. First edition. 4to. (20.6 cms. x 15.8 cms.), pp. [4] 28. Woodcut title-page decoration and initial. Foxing and browning, small scorch mark to title-page, good, bound in modern boards (possibly even the first binding - there is only otherwise evidence of stab stitching).

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Rare first edition of this first-hand account of the Augustinian mission to the Igorot peoples of the island of Luzon of 1754/55. The unchristianised inhabitants of the highland regions of the island, many of whom were gold traders, were a security threat to the lowland areas and the Spanish governor of Pangasinan was preparing a punitive expedition against them. Carrillo, who was Provincial of the Order, received an Igorot delegation whose leader, called Lacaden, presented a document written in Ilocano, comprising an expressed desire to receive a priest and adopt Christianity, with a request that prisoners and confiscated gold be returned. The document was translated into Spanish and the terms of this preemptive offer on the part of the inhabitants accepted. 1767 Igorots, from 26 named communities (see here p.22) were to offer themselves as part of this initiative. For a study of the mission see W.H. Scott, ‘The birth and death of a mission: a chapter in Philippine church history’. Philippine

Studies 13/4 (October 1965), 801-821. CCPB000724068-6. Palau 45494. Pardo de Tavera 85 number 508. OCLC and COPAC locate copies outside Spain in Bodleian, BL; Indiana. [ref: 3425 ] $3,100

CONVULSIONARY LETTERS

51. [Pinel, Michel] [Babet, Angelique]: [Convulsionary letter collection titled ‘Année 1777’]. c.1777. MS, small 4to. (6.4 cms. x 15.7 cms.), 333 numbered pages, closely written. A n item in very good condition, bound in blue pastepaper-covered cartonnage (some wear, particularly around head and tail of spine, but very good). Remains of label to spine, which appears simply to have had year (1777) on it. Epistolary collection, containing letters of the Jansenist convulsionary community founded by Michel Pinel (d.1775) and led at this time by the prophet Angelique Babet (c.1727-c.1789) from the residence of the Gobert family on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Many of the letters have pseudonymous authors or recipients. Others appear to be by Pinel and were perhaps circulating poshumously; pages 21-57 comprise an “office du

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S. Pontife Michel Pinel”. Other authors include “bb. roi” and “Patriarch Abraham” (at 255 is a letter of Abraham to “mère Sara, mère de tous les enfans de l’eglise du regne” - possibly the wife of bb. roi, who we learn from various letters was called Sara). The name Angelique makes various appearances. A letter at p. 8 is signed off: “Babet qui est presentement Angelique se recommende à vos prieres”. At p. 11 we read “ne parlez en aucune façon d’Angelique”. At 103: “arrangez vous pour voir Angelique chez la veuve Anne mardi apres midi. Et j’embrasse vous comme Angelique”. At 192 is a “priere en l’honneur de la mere Angelique”, and at 301 is a “lettre de l’Angelique de bb. roi dictee par son petit bonhomme et[?] la mere Angelique”, which has a section beginning (303) “la mere Angelique dit...” At 307 is a “lettre d’Angelique”. At 292 is a “regle donnee par la mere Marguerite”, and women’s names indeed appear frequently among the recipients. The letters display a characteristically violent and body-centred attitude to contrition. “Je vous assure, mon cher fils, que le moyen le plus certain et que Dieu bénit, c’est de chasser le serpent par le moyen des humiliations, des crachats et des soufflets”. They are dated by arrival with the copyist. The evidence of the label suggests this was one of a series of annual volumes. Pinel was an oratorian priest and administrator of a convulsionary movement that was very strong in the south of France. He He prophesied the return of Elias and conversion of the Jews and was author of a millenarian work, ‘L’horoscope des temps, ou conjectures sur l’avenir’ (1749), and a work taking up Richerist ideas, ‘De la primauté des Papes’ (1769). For an account of Pinel, Pinelism, Babet, and others, see Véronique Alemany, ‘La dernière solitaire de Port-Royal’ (Paris 2013), 56-58. [ref: 3449 ] $2,300

COOLNESS UNDER PRESSURE

52. Pozzi, Vincenzo, O.P. (praes.) [Palazzoli, Vincenzo, O.P. (resp.)]: Propositiones metaphysicae, quas ad mentem D. Thomae Aquinatis v. ecclesiae doctoris publico exponit certamini Fr. Vincentius Pallazzoli de Bergomo Ord. Praed. philosophiae auditor [...] Disputabuntur in Templo S. Dominici Cremonar Anno 1762 mense Majo Die [blank] Hora [blank] Praeside Vincentio Pozzi de Brixia ejusdem ordinis philosophiae institutore. Cremonae, apud Petrum Ricchini [1762]. Broadside, 71.7 x 79 cms. (63.5 x 64 cms. within engraved area). As discussed below. Very good. Illustrated thesis print advertising a metaphysics disputation, it was undertaken by a Dominican monk, with another presiding. The broadside is made with two

engravings. One of these is an illustration possibly featuring the heroic 4th-cent. BCE Roman general Marcus Furius Camillus, receiving news that the Gauls had entered Rome. The general was immortalised by Livy and Plutarch. This general would, one can imagine, embody the ability to think clearly in a tough situation that would be useful for anyone undertaking an examination. It seems a very secular illustration for a monk's exam!

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This print is signed by Carlo Jos. [?]Cerutti, an unidentified artist who may be related to the 17th-cent. Cremonese artist Cesare Ceruti (also called Cerutto Ceruti). The other engraving in the broadside is found below this. It is a decorative frame, with putti, inside which the details of the disputation, including the three propositions to be argued, are printed in letterpress. This broadside not in OCLC or SBN (03/15). [ref: 2702 ] $800

BANNED FROM THE BAR

53. [Public order] [Modena]: Prohibicione à i capi di famiglia di andare alle hosterie, e bettole. In Modona [Modena], per Antonio Gadaldino stampatore ducale 1629. Folio broadside, 307 mm. x 406 mm., title and 11 lines of text plus name, date, imprint. Woodcut ducal armorial, woodcut initial. Light browning, very good indeed. Unlocated public order broadside from Modena, 1629, directed at agricultural workers coming into the city having too good a time. The Duke of Modena, “wishing to correct the continuing disorders and evils that stem from the abuse by those who leaving behind their duty to their own families spend whatever they can at hostelries, and taverns, to the suffering and ruin of their own houses, besides other pernicious consequences”, orders that “no landed head of family” dare go to the hostelries or taverns in the city or its district to eat or drink, on pain of a fine of ten gold scudi (a third of which was to go to the accuser, or discoverer of the contravention, and two thirds to

the Ducal treasury) - or three lashes, according to the quality of the person (as decided by the Duke). The proclamation was published on 7 and 8 January. This would be the beginning of the working year after Christmas. The date of the issue makes one wonder if there had been a particularly lively festive season. Not in SBN. Not in OCLC. [ref: 3116 ] $700

16TH-CENT. ACCOUNT BOOK FOR CASTLE ESTATE

54. Rechnungsbuch alles Einnemmens und Ausgebens an Geldt, Getraidt und anderm. [Account book of the income and expenditure in money, grains and other things]. Manuscript, in German, 1591. MS, folio (31.8 cms. x 21 cms.), writing to [81] fols., manuscript on thick paper, in German, in black-brown ink, secretary hand, typically 25 lines per page. Titles and post-scripts in red, initials with pen flourishes. A trifle yellowed, edges a bit dusty. Contemporary limp vellum, painted red, four ties, small scattered old stains, number inked to upper cover. ‘1591’ inked to lower edge, later exit stamp of the Amberg State Archive to upper cover, ffep and a couple

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of leaves. An excellent specimen, fresh and clean. Handsomely-produced manuscript account book, in a fine 16th-century German secretary hand. It concerns the localities of Schwarzenburg and Rötz (or Retz), in Bavaria. Founded in the 11th century, Schwarzenburg castle had been managed by an officer of the government since 1514, when the estate was sold to the Prince Palatine. Rötz was its nearest market town. The account book details the income and expenditure of money and grains for the estates, managed by the officer Luca Hartlieb, in the year 1591-92. The data spans the maintenance of the estate, including the castle, and the management of harvests. In particular, the second section is entirely devoted to grains. As in other sections, the accounts are subdivided according to the name of the surrounding village in which the cultivation was located (e.g., Hagenbrunn, Retz, Reisenberg and Berndorf). For each locality, there is a list of agricultural workers, each name being preceded by their individual tithe in types of grain. Remarkably fresh and clean, this copy is also a witness to the typically German custom of painting plain vellum bindings in

bright colours. [ref: 3368 ] $2,000

PAY

55. Rovira i Guixeres, Joan: Dissertatio theologico-moralis de distributionibus quotidianis. Cervariae Lacetanorum: Typis Academicis 1765. First edition. 4to. (20 cms. x 14.8 cms.), pp. [20] 230 [2]. With half-title and errata leaf. A nice bright copy, bound in contemporary vellum boards, titled to spine, mottled edges. Inscriptions: "Ex lib. Mujal" and "Vilaró". Moral and canon-law study of a subject of interest to political reformers: clerical pay. The key issue concerns the holding of livings for which no presence is required or work done. These livings might be held in plurality. They are discussed on pp. 19-166. Pages 166-204 contain discussion of whether these payments can be justified by custom. Possibly from the library of the contemporary Cervera law professor Joan Antonio Mujal i de Gibert.

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Palau 279794. CCPB000432804-3. OCLC (01/18) shows one copy outside Spain (USC). [ref: 2586 ] $400

THE HABSBURGS AND METALLURGY

56. [Rudolf II]: [Legislation for the Protection of Coppersmiths in Lower and Upper Silesia and Lower and Upper Lusatia]. [c.1584]. 342 x 590mm. Single vellum sheet, in German, in black-brown ink, secretary hand, 27 lines. First-line initials with pen flourishes, and with signature ‘Rudolf’ and counter-signature of Georg Mehl von Strehelitz, Vice-Cancellarius, at lower margins, handsome original wax seal with double-headed imperial eagle and Habsburg arms, within wax frame, joined with silk thread. Small clean tear in blank margin of horizontal centre fold, the odd ink mark, lower margin and verso a bit dust-soiled, wax frame flaking at edges. Docketing and early code ‘Fr. Inv. 560 l.’ to verso. Fascinating legal document, on vellum and

complete with the original wax seal. It concerns Silesia and Lusatia, territories now comprising parts of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Germany. Both had been major centres of ore mining and metallurgy since the 14th century. When this document was produced, the exploitation of copper was at its apex. The present ordnance, issued in 1584, sought to protect the work of local, trained coppersmiths against the abuses perpetrated by unauthorised practitioners of the trade like boilermakers-turned-coppersmiths and similar fraudsters. These were forbidden from purchasing, selling or exporting old (scrap) and new copper, as well as from building copper objects, usually with second-hand techniques and material, upon punishment of confiscation. Metallurgy and related crafts were greatly supported and promoted by the Emperor Rudolf II, also due to his well-known interest in alchemy. Indeed, in the late 16th century, metallurgy and alchemy went so much hand-in-hand at the Habsburg Court that, in several cases, people knowledgeable in the nature of metals, and capable of working and even transmuting them, were appointed to official mining posts, especially in Bohemia (Norris, ‘Mining’, 658). This ordnance is recorded in an 18th-century collection of statutes for Upper Lusatia. A substantial amount of primary sources like the present document was lost as Silesia and Lusatia underwent administrative and governance changes in the past few centuries. Collection derer den Statum des Marggrafthums Ober-Lausis (Budissin, 1770I, I, 560-61). J.A. Norris, ‘Mining and Metallogenesis in Bohemia during the Sixteenth Century’, in Alchemy and Rudolf II, ed. I. Purš and Vladimir Karpenko (Prague, 2016), 657-70. [ref: 3341 ] $2,600

HEROIC POEM ON AN ABBESS

57. Salas Barbadillo, Alonso Geronimo: [Pallas, Martin:] Los triumfos de la Beata Soror Juana de la Cruz, en verso heroyco. A Doña Policena Palavezino Fiesco. [Bound with:]

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Pratica de merecer, y aumentar el tesoro inestimable de la gracia, con las obras que haze el Christiano justo. Con Privilegio. En Madrid, por la viuda de Cosme Delgado [Con licencia, en Murcia, por Juan Fernandez, en la Carreteria]. 1621 [1642]. 2 works in 1 vol., 8vo. (15 cms. x 10.5 cms.), fols. [8] 80; 32. Woodcut vignettes to title-pages. Light or medium browning to first work, bound in early vellum, back pastedown and endpaper from a page of accounts, with dates from 1685 and references to one Juan Cassañas (front pastedown and endpaper plain and with early MS shelfmark). Interesting copy of this rare life in heroic verse of the Franciscan abbess and licensed preacher Juana de la Cruz Vázquez y Gutiérrez (1485-1534). The copy possibly contains evidence about the market in works on religious women. Juana is remembered for running away from a prospective marriage, dressed as a man. This episode is brought up at the start of the present poem, with an echo of the ‘Aeneid’: “I sing of the triumphs of

the most valiant virgin, always at war and never defeated, martyr of love, in whose flight is found glory foretold and anticipated”. At the end of the life of the abbess (fol. 77 verso) there is a woodcut of St. Francis of Assisi receiving stigmata, which is followed by a separate work on the subject of St. Francis, running over five pages. Alonso Salas Barbadillo (1581-1635), the author was an important novelist, playwright and poet, and it is very interesting that he wrote this verse life of this abbess. A search in CCPB of the publisher of the second title in this volume (a later work of theology which we have not otherwise located) shows, coming its press in Murcia (Juan Fernandez or his widow), nine publications, all religious, of which four concern the examples of religious women. These last may then have been a signature line of the Fernandez business. Perhaps the fact that the two works are bound together shows that the Fernandez business was selling or acquiring copies of Salas Barbadillo’s poem as another title in this area. The ‘Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature’ notes on Salas Barbadillo, “a complete edition of the works of this engaging satirist is still awaited, to restore him to the high reputation he justly enjoyed during his lifetime”. His friends included Miguel de Cervantes, imitators included Molière and Scarron, and he is even credited with writing the first true Spanish imitation of Boccaccio’s ‘Decamerone’. Neither work in CCPB. First work: IB 59245, Palau 286240; OCLC (07/16) shows copies at BNE and BNF. Second work: not in Palau or indeed in OCLC. [ref: 2972 ] $1,600

COPY FOR PRESENTATION

58. Samhaber, Johann Baptist Aloys (praes.) [Heilmann, Adam. resp.]: Dissertatio inauguralis de eo, quod circa accessionem iuris naturalis est: una cum brevi tentamine critices legum Romanarum, quae de iure accessionis statuunt, ad normam legum naturalium. Quam cum subiunctis ex iure universo thesibus A.D.O.M.Q. in alma Iulio-Ducali Herbipolensium Academia, auctoritate amplissimi iureconsultorum ordinis. Praeside praenobili clarissimo et consultissimo viro ac domino D. Ioann. Bapt. Alys. Samhaber, I.U.D. Reverendiss. et Celsiss. S.R.I. Principi, Episcopo Wurceburg. Franciae Orient. Duci cet. a

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consiliis aul. iuris publ. imp. Rom. Germ. iurisque nat. et gent. prof. publ. et ordin. facult. iurid. h.t. decano, pro licentia summos in utroque iure honores legitime aquirendi publico eruditorum examini submittit Adamus Heilmann, Hasfurtensis. Ad diem [added in MS: XXVIII] Iulii MDCCXCV. In aula praelectionibus iuridicis destinata. [Würzburg] Typis Francisci Ernesti Nitribitt, universitatis typographi 1795. 4to. (22.4 cms. x 18.4 cms.), pp. [4] 66 [10]. Printed on blue paper. Light browning, very good, bound in a red morocco (or morocco-style leather) binding, decorated in gilt, attractive geometric-patterned paste paper pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt. Contemporary shelfmark to verso of f.f.e.p.: “No. 1260. B.2”. Striking presentation copy of this rare Würzburg University thesis on natural law accession of property. A fine piece of book-production, with blue

paper, arresting pastedowns and endpapers, and red leather gilt binding. This style appears to have been a particularity at this stage of Würzburg University. For a comparable example of a Würzburg thesis presentation copy, although more ornate and with dedicatee arms to covers, see Susanne Schulz-Falster cat. 19 no. 26 (book published by Nitribitt in 1797). The juridical concept of natural law accession of property, we learn at beginning of work (pp. 1-2), was first described by the philosopher Christian Wolff (1679-1754). OCLC shows locations outside Germany at BM Lyon. [ref: 3433 ] $500

COPY OF LOUISE-ADELAIDE DE BOURBON-CONTI

59. [Séran de la Tour, Abbé:] Mysis et Glaucé, poëme en trois chants, traduit du Grec. A Génève [i.e. Paris?] 1748. First edition. 12mo. (14 cms. x 8.2 cms.), pp. [2] viii, 3-236. Woodcut vignette to title-page, woodcut headpiece decoration to p. i, woodcut pictorial headpiece and initial to p. 1. Light browning and staining, otherwise very good, bound in contemporary mottled calf, spine and sides gilt, red morocco gilt label, gilt supralibros (Olivier 2643 fer 3 - see below), marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges red, green silk ribbon (slight wear, slight cracking to spine, slight loss around tail and (more so) head of spine, binding still very good). Copy of Louise-Adelaide de Bourbon-Conti (1696-1750) - amongst other things a bibliophile, princess and unmarried mother - of this first edition of a prose love story set in ancient Greece. The work is claimed to be a translation of a classical poem. The ‘editor’, in a prefatory letter to the reader, notes that an Italian translation originally from the Greek exists in several manuscripts found at the court of the King of the Two Sicilies in Naples but a French

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translation has now here been made from a Greek manuscript discovered in the ruins of Heraclea. The editor adds that the translation has been made on the model of Montesquieu’s ‘Le Temple de Gnide’. Séran de la Tour (c.1700-c.1775) was author of nine works, most of a classical nature. They include a comparison of the Carthaginians with the English in the Seven Years’ War. The binding has one of the five known supralibros of Louise-Adelaide, who was known as Mademoiselle de la Roche-sur-Yon. “To judge by the number of volumes that we have seen adorned with these stamps, this princess must have had an important library” (Olivier, tr.). She never married, and on her death, the politician and friend of Voltaire the Marquis d’Argenson recorded, “she was a good princess, and left many bastards”. As a book collector, she may have used her different supralibros concurrently; although the present book would have been a late purchase in her life, the stamp to its binding is also found on imprints from 1731 and 1716 (Olivier again). Barbier III 385. Conlon 48:771. Gay-Lemonnyer III 309. S. Paul Jones, ‘A list of French prose fiction from 1700 to 1750’ (New York 1939) 99. OCLC shows one copy outside European mainland (University of Texas at Austin). For the Argenson quote, see vol. III of the Paris 1857 edition of his diaries, p. 367. [ref: 3511 ] $1,100

RITES CONTROVERSY

60. [Serry, Hyacinthe, O.P.:] La calunnia convinta, cioè risposta ad un libello pubblicato da' difensori de' riti condannati della Cina. Sotto il titolo di lettere d'avviso d'un buon amico, al Dottore di Sorbona, Auttore della Difesa del Giudizio formato dalla Sede Apostolica, &c. In Torino [Turin], a spese di Gio: Battista Fontana libraro [c.1710]. 16mo. (15.8 cms. x 11.2 cms.), pp. 84. Small spot of worming at gutter (blank) of f.f.e.p. and title-page and at same place in pastedown, very good copy in contemporary carta rustica, title inked neatly on spine, shelf-label (19th-cent.) also pasted over spine. 18th-cent. bookplate of Lucas Fanti, doctor of theology and first priest of the church of Santa Maria Jubenicorum in Venice. After writing in 1709 in defence of the landmark decree of Pius XI (issued in 1704 and communicated to the Chinese Emperor in 1707) which banned the practice of Confucian rites by Chinese Catholics,

Hyacinthe Serry, a Dominican priest, was accused of being a Jansenist. In the present follow-up pamphlet he turns the accusation on its head, and argues that defenders of Confucian rites were the true Jansenists. This was an inflammatory argument, because it was missionaries of the Jesuit Order - enemies of the Jansenists - who allowed the Confucian rites. Part of the long-running Rites controversy, which was importantly to see Catholic missionaries banned from China for their stance on Chinese customs. This pamphlet was issued by Fontana both in the present format, and in a 92-page 12mo., both without date. Cordier 'Sinica' 906 (12mo. edition). OCLC shows one copy of any edition outside mainland Europe (at BL). [ref: 1694 ] $400

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PENINSULAR WAR SOLDIER’S ARCHIVE

61. [Soldier's archive] [Nine books of manuscript and diagrams]. Nine books, five (items one to five) 4to. MS, 24.7 cms. x 18.9 cms., paperbound (three out of five with text starting on front cover), each tied up with green silk ribbon to head and tail of spine. One vol. (item six) 12mo., (21.2 cms. x 11.2 cms.), bound in vellum, prints and MS. Three vols. 8vo. (17.7 cms. x 11.8 cms.), bound in a dark tan leather. Some deterioration to final leaves of item two (no text affected) and some further fraying to this group, item six with some loss to head of spine and the last three items with some browning, overall a collection of manuscripts in very good condition. In a portfolio of red card and brown glazed cloth with red ribbons (poss. 19th-cent.) A collection of manuscripts owned by a British military officer in the Napoleonic Wars, who took part in Wellesley’s Portugal expedition of 1808, leaving (with the main force) on 13 July (see notes to final pastedown of our item nine and Fortescue VI 191). The officer worked with senior staff: he notes in brief (our item nine again) meals, meetings and conversations with people including General Sir Ronald Craufurd Ferguson (1773-1841), Captain (later Admiral) George Cadogan (1783-1864), and the soldier and politician Lord Burghersh (1784-1859).

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He writes a short character assessment of the Admiral “Sir C. C.” (i.e. the American Revolutionary War veteran Sir Charles Cotton (1753-1812)). He receives instructions sent by the war minister, Lord Castlereagh. He was clearly involved in strategy and planning, and writes his own studies - with maps - of the terrain for the British military advance in Portugal. He had Portuguese guides, whose names he records along with their pay. A fascinating aspect of the collection is the strong interest in military scholarship and historical literature. The collection includes five notebooks with French-language text of instruction in different aspects of the art of war, and he copies in his own notebooks various short works (with illustrations), including on Portuguese military history. We have not identified his sources. The miscellanea of a travelling person (a clothes list, currency conversion, sketches presumably of what he’s seen) also appear. It is worth noting that the officer studied texts in French and fought against the French army! Contents in full are: 1. Writing to 41/44 sides. “De l’attaque des camps” - “Des camps retranchés” - “Des camps”- “Des diversions” - “Des marches en avant” - “Des convois” - “De l’attaque des convois” - “Des blocus” - “Des marches an arrière” - “Des marches par les flancs” - “Des marches en secrete”. 2. Writing to 43/44 sides. “De la retraite Article 1er. De la retraite en général” - “[...]Manière de se conduire durant une retraite” - “Des fourages” - “Des fourages en sec” - “De l’attaque des fourages” - “Des projets militaires” - “De la guerre offensive” - “De la guerre en general”. 3. Writing to 44/44 sides. “Principes generaux de tactique” - “De la marche” - “Des manoeuvres” - “Des conversions” - “De la déffense des retranchemens” - “De la poursuite” - “De l’attaque des places” - “Des investitures” - “Des lignes pour couvrir un pays” - “Des suites de la victoire”. 4. Writing to 47/48 sides. “De la maniere de regler l’etat de la guerre” - “De la guerre déffensive” - “Des quartiers d’hiver” - “Des suites d’une défaite” - “De la défence des camps retranchés” - “De l’attaque des camps retranchés” - “Des camps retranchés sous les places” - “De la defense des camps” - “Du passage des rivières en général” - “Du passage des rivieres en retraite” - “Des retranchemens dans les montagnes” - “Des lignes dans les montagnes” - “Des actions dans les montagnes” - “Des marches” - “Des marches dans les montagnes” - “De la guerre dans les montagnes” - “De l’attaque des retranchemens dans les montagnes” - “De l’attaque et de la défence des armées en maches[sic.]” - “Des marches de nuit” - “Du secours des places”. 5. Writing to 12/16 sides. “De l’attaques des retranchemens”. 6. Vellum-bound notebook with 19 folding engraved plans also bound-in, identified as taken from Phillipe de Latour-Foissac, ‘Traité théorie-pratique et élementaire de la guerre des retranchemens’. MS notes and diagrams to 14 pages of the notebook (including pastedowns), in the same hand as the three next items. (As these plans are relevant to the content of the first group of manuscripts, the fact that they are owned by the writer of the second group probably shows that he owned all of them). 7. Smaller leatherbound notebook, titled to front “Linge or fortification”. Writing to pp. 69 [3] + pastedowns. A further sheet mostly torn away, with clothes list to recto and part of a pencil drawing of a woman to verso. + 2 large folded up sheets, folded in, containing MS military diagrams. The contents of this volume are: 1. a French-language work, written in eight chapters, on the subject of fortifications. 2. (p. 69 and pp. following) English-language diary entries, 1805. Further notes to pastedowns and elsewhere (including money conversions, and dates, 1798 and 1809). 8. Small leatherbound book, titled to front “Portugal”. Contents: 1. “A short account of the campaign of 1762 in Portugal” (11 pages). 2. “Coup d’oeil sur l’influence militaire de la Peninsule d’Almada” (9 pages). 3. “Observations sur la ville de Santarem et le terrein[sic.] environnant” (9 pages). 4. “3 objects in Cascaes Fort” (3 pages). The rest of the book blank until the end of the book where (started from other end) 4 pp. list of “guides 1808” (Portuguese names and what appears to be guides’ wages). 9. Small leatherbound book, titled to front “Tage roads”. 75 pages’ writing (including pastedowns). Mostly English-language notes, also MS maps (6 pages), and small pencil sketches. Contents include a 6-page memo beginning “It is not sufficient to defend the entrance of the Tagus”; 20 pp. “Observations on the right bank of the Tagus [...]”; notes on distances, names of Portuguese guides or soldiers and their pay, limited journal entries. [ref: 3510 ] $6,500

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DRUG AND ALCOHOL LABEL PROOFS

62. [Stern, G.:] Archive from the Paris engravers G. Stern, comprising some 109 items, mostly proofs, both for private and commercial commissions (in the latter, including drugs and alcohol bottle labels), for clients in countries including Brazil and Egypt. Paris c.1870-1900. The firm of Stern was started in 1836 and continues to this day. The collection comprises: I. Poudre Laxative de Vichy du Dr. Léonce Souligoux, Paris, 6 Avenue Victoria. Handbill, Single sheet, 220 x 185mm, two tone blue and black lettering over light blue decorative printers background. Lithographed script across main titling in red. [And] Identical sheet printed in light brown with pencil instructions for changes (both to the sheet itself and to an affixed scrap of paper) [And] Five identical sheets in slightly

darker blue [And] One identical sheet with pencil note “mauvais papier" [And] One identical sheet in salmon pink [And] One identical sheet in very light blue (ten pieces). II. Proof engraving for The Vichy Laxative Powder of Doctor Léonce Souligoux. Thin card, 320 x 240mm, plate size 150 x 230mm. This English language label proof for the above mentioned Poudre Laxative contains three rectangular and one circular label examples, presumably for different places on the package (one piece). III. Elixir du Docteur Thermes au citro-lactate de fer. Single sheet, 285 x 240mm, printed in brown and light blue on light blue printers background, on a glossy paper. 4 rectangular and two triangular labels. Split along centre fold, and one edge frayed, but still good (one piece). IV. Five identical sheets, 280 x 220mm, printed on one side, image size 170 x 90mm. Fine image of a fly on a rectangular background over a larger rectangle with arabesques and wave design border, printed in yellow ink (five pieces). VI. Hartmann & Fils a Munster Ht. Rhin. Single sheet, 210 x155mm, printed in blue. Sheet of four labels (one piece). VII. Hand drawn design for Le Bout de l'an de l’amour by Théodore Barriere (1823-1877), thick transparent paper, single sheet, 300 x 240mm, design made in red and gold, with corrections written on in black and blue, tipped onto larger thin card backing, again with notes and instructions [And] Lithographed version of the same, folded, with spelling corrections and various instructions written on.(Three pieces). VIII. Material for Chassaing & Cie., 6, Avenue Victoria, Paris. Comprising: (1) labels for Peptone bottle. Single sheet, 320 x 220mm, thin card, image size 240 x 220mm. Four bottle labels of varying sizes on single sheet [And] Identical image on alternative paper with MS note [And] Three identical images on differing paper types. (2) six sheets with lithograph of Chassaing logo, image size 50 x 40mm, with company name and address in raised blind lettering, two different types of paper. (3) Two cards with four lithographed designs for ta detail of he Peptone product label. a) thin card, 120 x 85mm with three small lithographs printed in brown ink on glazed paper affixed; b) thin card 120 x 85mm, single item affixed. (Thirteen pieces). IX. Designs for Otard Dupuy & Co. Cognac. Comprising: (1) single sheet of blue squared paper to which affixed two crescent shaped Otard Cognac bottle neck labels, 25 x 60mm, lithographed on white porcelain-faced paper, with MS notation "159 Le 26 Avril 1876 30,000”. [And] Otard Dupuy & co. Cognac main bottle label proof. Single sheet, thin card, 310 x 220mm, plate size 100 x 140mm, titling within double rule frame with ODC garter insignia above. [And] A Single label sample of the Otard Dupuy main bottle label. Single sheet, white porcelain-faced paper, 140 x 90mm. [And] four

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identical lithographed label designs for an Otard Dupuy bottle label. Single sheets, 220 x160mm, vignette of the Otard waterside chateau beneath the ODC garter, within double rule frame with trailing grape vine & foliage cornerpieces at head. One of these is printed on porcelain faced card and one has pencil notes with one blank corner torn away. [And] single Otard Label. Single sheet, lithographed on porcelain-faced paper, 130 x 110mm [And] a sheet of six Otard Labels. Single sheet, 175 x 70mm, white glazed paper. (Nine pieces). X. Proof label for M.B. & Co. (possibly a horse outfitters). Single indented sheet, thin card, 220 x 160mm, area of indentation 110 x 135mm, monogram (made of horse shoes and nails) flanked by studs and capped by horse’s head. Pencil notes and MS numbering. (One piece). XI. Proof for a small armorial. Single sheet, thin card, 120 x 130mm, pencil note "graveur chercher cette planche"(?) (One piece). XII. Pre-production proof for N. Boniface & Fils, Cambrai (fabric manufacturers). Single sheet, 250 x 155mm, porcelain faced paper (fold line, corners dog eared), gold rectangular frame with decorative corner pieces and central oval medallion with titling and two sample award medallions tipped on at corners. (One piece). XIII. Pre-production proof for a wine label for La Corona De Oro, Clos du Marquisat De Sillery. Single sheet, 120 x 85mm, gold crown above black lettering, signed Stern Gr Paris, tipped onto wider sheet of light purple paper, ink notes on label "cerné or moins le noir". (One piece). XIV. Lithographed proof for a label for Copena, Sevilla. Single sheet, 160 x 155mm, monogram CC beneath crown and with two flanking scrolls alternately Copena & Sevilla, pencil note "M.Robinson"?. (One piece). XV. Lithographed proof of address headers. Single sheet, 210 x 130mm, blue paper-stock. Five oval different lithographed address headers, 40 x 20mm. (One piece). XVI. Armorial for A. Manigot. Two single sheets, image size 60 x 60mm. Vignette of possibly a queen holding two shields flanked by putti blowing trumpets. One on thin paper, one on a thin card. (Two pieces). XVII. Proof design for (bookplate for?) A. Maze, Inspecteur des Museês et Bibliothêque de St. Etienne (i.e. Alphonse Maze-Sencier (1831-1892)). Thin card, image size 60 x 50mm, classical-style vignette incorporating titling within scroll, column and plinth. (One piece). XVIII. Proof for a card, 150 x 110 mm, with classicising medallions, and at centre, a cross (unidentified). This would appear to be for an order of merit or chivalry. See also item XXI. (One piece). XIX. Large decorative design for J.F. Guimaraes, photographer, 38 Rua dos Ourives, Rio de Janeiro. Single sheet, image size 130 x 90mm, titling within oval frame with classicising ornaments. (One piece). XX. Design for Geo. Sayer & Co. Cognac. Thin card, image size 50 x 40mm, titling within multiple scrolls, flanked by prize medallions and with, below, grapes and foliage. (One piece). XXI. Design for same order as at XVIII. Single sheet, thin card, 280 mm x 100 mm. (One piece). XXII. Eight repeated designs for a trade card. Single sheet (fraying to blank edges), image size 60 x 60mm, vignette of eagle with stars above standing atop two globes with blank scrolling. (One piece). XXIII. Trade card design for unnamed company. Single sheet, plate size 120 x 85mm, vignette of page boy holding rosary beads above a blank titling shield with two putti and burning lamp with insects and butterflies. (One piece). XXIV. Lithographed label for A. Bourdon, luxury goods provider of Cairo, Egypt. Single sheet, 135 x 110mm, titling on Egyptian style arch above winged sphinx and pyramids. (One piece). XXV. Oval blind-embossed stamp of Instituto Homeopathico Do Brazil, 47 mm in length. Three sheets. (Three pieces). XXVI. Circular blind-embossed stamp of the John. W. Wilson collection. Three 25mm diameter impressions and four 15mm diameter impressions on a single page. John. W. Wilson was an American art collector who amassed his collection of primarily Dutch paintings whilst living in Brussels. The paintings were dispersed in auction in 1874 and 1881. (One piece). XXVII. Wedding invitations (Italian) for Giulio Cottrau and Maddalena Fawna, London 6th July 1892. Three octavo bifolia, printing to front page, one with armorials at head. The groom was possibly the composer and singing teacher (b. 1831). (Three pieces). … And some 43 further pieces. [ref: 3090 ] $1,200

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MARIAN PROCESSION AND PILGRIMAGE

63. [Straubing, Bavaria. Jesuit College] [Fridrich, Jakob Andreas I]: [Confraternity certificate]. [Begins:] Die Hochlöbliche Bruderschaft unter dem Titul der Gnadenreichen Verkündigung Mariae bey dem Collegio Jesu in der Churfürstl. Haubt und Regierungs Statt Straubing. [Augsburg] [plate made c.1730] Engraved broadside, sheet 60.4 cms. x 43.6 cms. (area within platemarks 53 cms. x 37.3 cms.) Content as described below. Light browning, some staining and tear, almost entirely to areas outside platemarks (one tear just crossing platemark but stopping away from border of image). With, added in MS, besides name of awardee, official stamp (faded), and signature and inscription of Secretary (spaces left blank for date, and signature of Prefect). A particularly fine and baroque sodality

certificate, filled out for one Hubert Freilinger, from the confraternity attached to the Jesuit college of Straubing in Bavaria. This entirely engraved sheet has at bottom a view of the traditional procession of the Feast of the Annunciation in Straubing (March 25) - which continues to this day - where participants file out of the Jesuit church in the town and parade around the main square to its Lower Gate, before returning to the church. The occasion - and architecture - is presented here in careful detail. Behind the square, we see a natural landscape with two other places of Marian pilgrimage: the Mariahilfe church and monastery of Passau (here misspelt Sassau), and the church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on the Bogenberg hill by Bogen. Traversing through this landscape, we see Tobias and the Archangel Raphael (with dog) - who were traditionally invoked for help on journeys. Above a central cartouche with engraved text is a large image featuring St. Michael, accepting in intercession (for the Virgin Mary) from a layman a letter titled ‘testimonium’, before an altar above which is a painting of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary and to the side of which is a painting of the Immaculate Conception. The scene has curtains to sides as if for a stage. The print is signed by Jakob Andreas I Fridrich (1684-1751). Fridrich was a pupil of Christoph Weigel, and also, Benezit notes, “engraved military subjects in the style of Rugendas”. Fridrich works here after a design by Stephan Widenberger. See note on this print by Elisabeth Vavra at wwwg.uni-klu.ac.at/kultdoku/kataloge/57/html/3977.htm (accessed 27 September 2019). [ref: 3498 ] $2,000

UNLOCATED EARLY SERIES

64. [Tempesta, Antonio, after]: [Twelve Emperors On Horseback]. [Bologna?] [17th century]. Twelve engraved and etched prints, with uniform engraved and etched borders (measurements: 513 mm. x 382 mm. including borders; 289 mm. x 226 mm. excluding). The

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sheets themselves, 533 mm. x 402 mm. Printed on a thick paper. Light browning, occasional damage to extreme corners where the prints had been stuck in an album (one extreme outer corner torn, the damage only touching the platemark). Overall very good. An unlocated set of prints, of the first twelve Caesars on horseback, after the famous and influential series by Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630). They show what appears to be a new set of plates produced not long after the original, being similar in size and composition to the 1596 work of Tempesta. Our set is very unusual for its large borders of military spolia. These borders enlarge the design by almost 80%, turning the original compositions into much larger objects. The scale, and the thickness of paper, suggest that the set may have been intended for vertical display - hanging on walls, or similar. A border of military spolia was a new (although not original) idea for

presenting these prints. It was taken up much later by the Remondini press of Bassano, who presented emperors on horseback after Tempesta with quite different borders of spolia, for example surmounted by a large eagle. Only three of that set are located (see ‘The Illustrated Bartsch’ 35/2.534, 537, 542). Bologna seems a possible source for the present prints if one considers their recent provenance (they were purchased by us from a dealer in Emilia Romagna, before being imported from there to the UK with export licence). The prints and border are unsigned, and the prints are on paper watermarked with probably a GA in a circle with trifoglio. This is content that would be quite usual in watermarks in Bologna (see 'Filigrane bolognesi tra 1650 e 1750' at http://badigit.comune.bologna.it/filigrane/indice.htm) - although we have not found another sheet with the precise watermark itself. Looking for a possible workshop for the borders, we note that of Giovanni Battista Coriolano in Bologna (d. 1649), who produced soldiers and armour, borders with spolia, and Tempestan leaders on horseback. We have not however located these borders under his name in ‘The Illustrated Bartsch’ nor indeed anywhere in ‘Catalogo generale della raccolta di stampe antiche della Pinacoteca nazionale di Bologna, Gabinetto delle stampe. Sezione 3 Incisori bolognesi ed emiliani del sec. XVI [-XVIII]’ (Bologna, 1973-5). While compositionally, they keep close to the originals and early copies - with the emperors presented on simple plinth, without background - comparison between Tempesta's first print of the series, of Julius Caesar (1596) and ours, still points up small differences. Both prints face in the same direction, but there is different contouring to the face, there are differences in detail in hair at back, there is different lettering to plinth. If we compare the same with the image in an early set of copies made in the same direction, a series published in Rome by Domenico de' Rossi (see ‘The Illustrated Bartsch’ 35/2.534 C6) we again see different lettering to plinth, different contouring to face, and difference in detail in hair at back. “The ‘Twelve Emperors on Horseback’ issued in 1596 are among the most successful and influential prints that Tempesta ever produced. The impact of the series can be gathered not only from numerous engraved copies, but also from pictures of rulers and noblemen on horseback by Rubens, Van Dyck, Zurbarán, Velázquez and many others that were produced

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throughout the Baroque age. Even Jacques-Louis David’s painting ‘Napoleon at St. Bernard’ is indebted to the visual standards of representing supreme rulership which Tempesta created and diffused in these etchings [...]” (Eckhard Leuschner, Introduction to the series in The Illustrated Bartsch 35/2, p. 153). Not in Bartsch. With many thanks to Caroline Duroselle-Melish and to Robin Halwas for comments and advice. [ref: 3108 ] $7,800

POEMS ON TIPPED-IN ORIGINAL LETTERS

65. [Therresse, Emmanuel-Jacques]: Oeuvre d'un desoeuvré. [Paris?] [c.1783]. MS, 8vo. (14.8 cms. x 9.5 cms.), pp. 24, 24 [bis.]-236. Writing to all but three of the numbered pages. + six unpaginated tipped-in sheets (writing to seven of the 10 sides) + one unpaginated and folded-in sheet (writing to both sides). Light browning, very good, bound in contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt, marbled pastedowns, endpapers and sides. Pencil inscription to f.f.e.p. verso: Julien Durand, rue S. Dominique 90, Paris. A late 18th-century pocket ‘recueil’ of French society and festivity verse, some dated (see p. 53 for latest date, 1783), written in one hand. The presence of occasional corrections immediately suggests that the volume contains authorial autograph. An unusual and interesting feature of the book, found in five cases, is the habit of including poems in response to letters - the original of which is tipped in. One of these letters is from the author’s aunt. Another is a letter of congratulations on the author’s verse signed “Le Gouvé” (likely the author Jean-Baptiste Legouvé

(1729-1783)). Another is a written request from a friend asking the author to write a song for a young woman, and another, we learn from context, is an unsigned letter from the poet Antoine-Léonard Thomas (1732-1785). Other items of interest, besides these, include (p. 32) a poem to the artist Charles-Michel-Ange Challe (1718-1778); poems (80, 226) to the Estonian-born poet Constance de Lowendahl, Comtesse Turpin (1742-1785); and poems (141, 125) to Madame Destournelles, dressed as a man. There are translations of Salomon Gessner and of Metastasio. A very interesting aspect of this manuscript is simply the social life, and social history - the wedding poems, table poems, etc. that the author was asked to write - that the collection shows. We have not found the author (and it does appear to be all or mostly a single author) in print. Identity of author: although it is anonymous, we would suggest that the copyist and at least main author was a member of the Therresse family, lords of La Fossée, in the vicinity of Sevran, Île de France. On pp. 99-100-101 are a set of poems thanking the author’s sister for some net cuffs where she is addressed as “ma soeur” and “M.lle de la Fossée”; at pp. 39-45 there are poems to “Mesd.lles Therresse” followed by poems addressed to sisters, probably the same people; and at pp. 141-143 is a poem to the author’s “aunt Patu” in response to the letter which is tipped in (the Patu and Therresse families were related through the marriage of Jacques Therresse de la Fossée (1702-1778), to Marie Nicole Patu). At the end of the volume is indeed pasted in a copy-extract from the Paris registers recording the death in 1789, aged

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forty-four, of Emmanuel Jacques Therresse, lawyer and royal counsellor. This man, who was the son of Jacques Therresse and Marie Nicole Patu, is most probably then the author. Provenance: vente Ivoire-Primardeco, Toulouse, 12 October 2016, lot 26. For Therresse and Patu families see https://gw.geneanet.org/barbierd?lang=en&iz=43465&p=jacques&n=therresse, consulted 18 September 2019. [ref: 3508 ] $2,300

CURES FOR EYESIGHT

66. [Tobit, Book of] Stefani, Giovanni: Ioannis Stephani, philosophi, ac medici Bellunensis, Nicolai Venetis civis filii, Tobiae liber. Ad Illustriss. atque Reverendiss. Marcum Iustinianum episcopum Cenetensem meritissimum. Venetiis, apud Evangelistam Deuchinum 1629. 4to. (20.8 cms. x 15.8 cms.), pp. 47 [1]. Woodcut printer's vignette to title-page. Light age-yellowing, some light staining, a very good copy, generously-margined, bound in recent morocco boards. A rare rendering in Latin poetry of the story of the Apocryphal Book of Tobit. The author was a physician of the town of Belluno on the Veneto, and uses his professional knowledge. The story has a medical aspect, as Tobias, on orders of Archangel Raphael, cures his father Tobit's blindness with the gallbladder of a giant fish. Stefani discusses the cure in his preface to the reader, citing in side-notes one "Holler." (possibly Jacques Houllier, the 16th-cent. Paris physician) and the

great naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605). Stefani also discusses the nature of angels, and demons (demons being driven away by Tobias on his wedding night by burning the fish's heart and liver). SBN: IT\ICCU\VIAE\001490 (two copies). Not in OCLC (03/15). [ref: 2711 ] $800

CHIMNEYS

67. Toffoli, Bartolomeo: Saggio di una nuova forma di cammini che non fumano. Padova, nella Stamperia del Seminario 1790. 8vo. (10 cms. x 12.4 cms.), pp. 49 [3], + fold-out engraving by P. Scattaglia after Toffoli. Light foxing and age-yellowing, very good, bound in contemporary stiffened paper wrappers, spine strengthened with a further strip of paper (which partially obscures an old shelfmark). Illustrated study by the priest-inventor Bartolomeo

Toffoli of Calalzo-Cadore (1755-1834) of how to build a chimney that draws properly and does not let smoke into the house. One of a number of inventions of Toffoli: others included a lathe for grinding microscope lenses and a working model of the Copernican system. SBN: IT\ICCU\VEAE\005519. Cicognara I 175 (#964). One physical copy on OCLC (03/15)

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(Harvard). [ref: 2708 ] $500

BRITISH TRADE AND AMERICAN REVOLT

68. Urtassum, Juan de, S.J. [Dubos, Jean-Baptiste]: Interesses de Inglaterra mal entendidos en la guerra presente con España. Traducidos de un Libro Inglès, en Lengua Castellana, por el Padre Juan de Urtassum, Professo de la Compañia de Jesus, y Calificador del Santo Tribunal de la Inquisicion. Con licencia: En Sevilla, en la Imprenta Real de Don Diego Lopez de Haro, en Calle de Genova [1741]. 8vo. (14.7 cms. x 10.2 cms.), pp. [16] 301 [3]. With final blank. Woodcut decoration. Some light age-yellowing and light staining, a very good copy, bound in a contemporary limp vellum laced-case binding, fore edge cover extensions, ties present (loss to f.f.e.p., binding separating from text block, but still very good). Contemporary or early inscription to f.f.e.p. of Joseph de Ugarte. First Spain-printed edition of the first Spanish-language translation (second printing overall, first being Mexico City 1728). ‘Les interests de l’Angleterre mal-entendus’ (’England’s interest mistaken’ ) (1703) was

written by Jean-Baptiste Dubos (1670-1742). The translation from the French was made by the Jesuit Juan de Urtassum (1666-1732), originally from Zabaldica in Navarra, who became a novice in Tepozotlan (Mexico) in 1690, and taught at and in due course became rector of the Jesuit college in Mexico City, where he died. He published also a saintly life of an Iroquois woman. Our Seville edition includes a five-page publisher’s catalogue. Dubos - who pretended that his work was itself a translation of an English original (a conceit reused in our title) was involved in peace negotiations during the War of the Spanish Succession. His book includes analysis (including numerical) of British trade with Spain and Portugal, America, Guinea and Gambia (slave trade), France and the Spanish Netherlands, Holland and Northern Europe, the Mediterranean and Levant, East Indies (including Bengal and Japan), British fish trade, British imports and exports, and British motives in the war. There is much of direct and ongoing interest to a mid-eighteenth-cent. Spanish audience, as Spain is frequently referred to. The ‘Encyclopedia Britannica’ (1911) notes: “[The book] is remarkable as containing a distinct prophecy of the revolt of the American colonies from Great Britain”. CCPB000555333-4. Palau 346109 (misdated 1714). Backer-Sommervogel III 352 number 2. OCLC shows copies outside Spain in JCB and NYPL. Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Dubos found at: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Dubos,_Jean-Baptiste (consulted 1 September 2019). [ref: 3465 ] $1,600

BISHOP-ELECT OF BOGOTÁ - POOR REFUGE

69. [Valladolid, Real Casa de Misericordia] Sacristán y Galiano, Juan Bautista: Ordenanzas para el gobierno y direccion de la Real Casa de Misericordia, y Expósitos de la Ciudad de Valladolid, dispuestas por el doctor Don Juan Bautista Sacristan y Galiano, del

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Consejo de S.M., Inquisidor de Provincia, Doctoral de su Santa Iglesia Catedral, Director Unico, y Juez Conservador por S.M. de dichos establecimientos, y Electo Arzobispo de Santa Fe de Bogota. Madrid, imprenta de Don Josef del Collado 1806. 8vo. (20 cms. x 15.7 cms.), pp. [12] 115 [1]. Bound with half-title. A very good copy, bound in contemporary marbled sheep, spine with gilt decoration, and red morocco gilt label, decorative speckling to edges, marbled pastedowns and endpapers (spine rubbed, slightly worn, slight worming to spine and chipping to label, but still good). First edition of this rare detailed rule book for a poor refuge and workhouse for men and women, and foundling hospital, in Valladolid, with instructions on (8-9) the food, and (9-10) clothing, and much else. Services included an elementary school, whose master’s duties (62-67) are laid out. Pages

89-110 contain the rules of the foundling hospital. The author, Juan Bautista Sacristán (1759-1817) is an interesting figure of South American history. He was, as stated on the title-page, archbishop-elect of Bogotá in Colombia. At this time he was held back by the Napoleonic Wars. He set out for South America in 1810. Due to political problems, he was not allowed to settle in his see on arrival in the New World, having to stay initially in Cartagena de las Indias. He was exiled from there to the United States - although a storm diverted him to Cuba. He finally came to Bogotá in 1816, a year before his death (cf. Wikipedia). CCPB000415862-8 (three locations). Palau 284109. OCLC (01/18) adds one further Spanish location and shows, outside, a copy at Duke. [ref: 2943 ] $600

ANCIENT INDIAN LAW

70. Varadachariar, Srinivasa: Radha Kumud Mookerjee Endowment Lectures, 1945 on the Hindu judicial system. Published by the Lucknow University 1946. First edition. 8vo. (22.2 cms. x 14.2 cms.), pp. x, 267 [1]. Roman letter, occasional Sanskrit. Stamps of Middle Temple Library, neat pencil note "Withdrawn July 2013". Pasted in slip, "With the Compliments of The Registrar, Federal Court of India, New Delhi". Bound in blue publisher's cloth, printed in black on front cover, spine faded. Lectures on ancient Indian legal history. "It now seems to be more generally recognised that a sympathetic understanding of the oriental point of view is necessary [...] Indians must however recognise that for expressions of condescension [...] found in the writings of western historians and jurists, we are ourselves partly responsible. While foreign jurists, in spite of their many

disadvantages, have, out of a spirit of research, directed their attention to Hindu Law, no matter with what success, we ourselves have simply looked on" (Preface). The author was a judge in the Federal Court of India. [ref: 2287 ] $80

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CERAMICS

71. Viaplana, Ignasi: Memoria sobre la alfareria o arte de petrificar las substancias terreas fusibles y no fusibles, para restaurarla y perfeccionarla en España, al modo que lo estuvo en Sagunto en tiempo de los Griegos y Romanos, por Ignacio Viaplana. Barcelona, por Francisco Suriá y Burgada, Impresor de S.M. [c.1790]. First edition. 8vo. (14 cms. x 10.1 cms.), pp. [10], 20 [2]. With half-title and final blank. Light foxing and browning, very good, stab-stitched, with drawn-on marbled wrapper (the wrapper now loose). Rare discourse on ceramics. The author praises ancient Greek pottery found at the site of Sagunto and more recent work from Manises, both near Valencia, praises the famous factory at Alcora (1727-1895), again near Valencia, founded by the Conde de Aranda, and discusses Moorish earthenware and Chinese porcelain. The author sees pottery as an “artisan science, with theory and practice united with the mechanism of their operations”,

and puts forward proposals for public education in ceramics. Viaplana was involved with the Enlightenment society the ‘Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Valencia’, to which he presented papers in 1807 and 1808 on making crockery. The present publication - the only known printed output of this author - is dated c.1790 because the printer is recorded working 1749-1793 (CCPB). CCPB001064352-4. Palau 361777. OCLC shows no copies outside Spain. [ref: 3475 ] $500

WATER IN MEDICINE

72. [Water] Rogiss, Carl Gottlieb: Specimen de aquae salutari in forum medicum influxu et fere optimo contra universos morbos, praesidio festinante calamo, exaratum et in lucem editum. Wratislaviae [Wrocław], apud Michaelem Hubertum 1737. First edition. 8vo. (17.2 cms. x 10.3 cms.), pp. [16] 68 [3] [1]. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Light browning, a short wormtrail to bottom margin (blank) at very end, a good copy, probably removed from a sammelband (remains of a navigation tab to outer blank margin of title-page), bound in modern marbled boards. Interesting treatise, by a Polish physician, on the health-giving properties of water, including in cases of fever, hypochondria, fever and arthritis. A preface to the reader includes a paean to the properties of water. The work has a three-page schematic outline of the book's argument at the end. Rogiss came from Dobroszyce (Juliusburg) and studied at Erfurt. He dedicates the work to the Erfurt medical professor Andreas Elias Büchner (1701-1769) and to

two physicians from Wrocław. Wellcome (1641-1850) IV 549. OCLC (01/18) shows copies outside mainland Europe in BL, Toronto, and Wellcome. [ref: 2394 ] $400

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