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259 Grisone (Federico). Gli ordini di cavalcare. De nouvo ristampati ed emendati de molti errori che nelle altre stampe si legeva, Naples: Mattio Cancer, 1559, signatures pi2 A-P8 Q4 (Q4=blank), 50 full-page woodcuts of bits, variable light toning, section excised from foot of title-page not affecting text, old oil-staining in fore margins of quire D, a few other marginal spots and marks, contemporary 6-line manuscript poem in Italian to front free endpaper (incipit ‘Se questo libro assorta si perdessi’), scored through once, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, ties perished, 4to (20.5 x 14.5cm) A rare early edition of Grisone’s foundational manual of horse-riding, first published in 1550 (also in Naples); this edition not in Adams or STC Italian, three copies traced on OCLC. (1) £200 - £300
258 Erasmus (Desiderius). Apophthegmatum opus cum primis frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso recognitum autore, è Graeco codiae correctis aliquot locis in quibus interpres Diogenis Laertii fefellerat, locupletatum in super quum variis per totum accessionibus, tum duobus libris in fine adjectis, Paris: Jean Roigny, 1533, pp. [10] 496 [30], signatures A-3X4 (X3 blank, X4 blank except for publisher’s woodcut device verso), woodcut device to title-page, woodcut initials, early ink annotations to title-page, manuscript marginalia and underlining throughout, bound with: Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum Apophthegmata summa cum diligentia nuperrime recognita, Raphaelem Regio interprete, [Paris:] Jehan Petit, [c.1525], 48 leaves, signatures a-f8, folios 478 misnumbered 28 and 4, woodcut title device, criblé initials, browning, manuscript marginalia and underlining, 18th-century French marbled sheep, 4to (18.6 x 13.5cm), together with a typed letter signed from Brigitte Moreau, Bibliothèque nationale de France, dated 3 March 1981 and discussing the edition of Plutarch (‘fort rare ... je pense que l’édition est datable ... de c.1525’) Neither edition in Adams. Rare early edition of Erasmus’s work, which was first printed by Froben at Basel in 1531. This edition was printed by Christian Wechel and copies are also known with the imprint ‘excudebat Christanus Wechelus’ and Roigny’s name omitted; OCLC traces three institutional locations only for the present imprint (British Library, Rotterdam and University of Missouri). Raffaele Regio’s translation of Plutarch was first printed in 1508, with another edition appearing in 1510. Apart from a copy noted at the Bibliothèque municipale du Mans (in the letter from Brigitte Moreau of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, accompanying this copy), this edition is untraced in libraries but has a similar collation to an edition with the imprint of Parisian bookseller Nicolas Crispin and dated 1523, itself represented by one institutional copy world-wide (University of Illinois). Erasmus became acquainted with Regio while living in Padua and was ‘plainly impressed with him ... Erasmus clearly knew Regio’s translations from Plutarch and compared them with Filelfo’s version’ (Bietenholz et al., Contemporaries of Erasmus, vols. 1-3, p. 134). (1) £500 - £800
260 [Illuminated manuscript]. ‘Privilegium in arte aromataria’, Venice: 10 February 1780, illuminated manuscript in black ink, liquid gold and watercolour on vellum, 6 leaves, decorative title-page, 2 full-page miniatures depicting Christ in Glory and Justice with the Lion of St Mark, both within rococo frames, 2 full-page composite miniatures, one containing 8 medallion portraits of various subjects all within rococo frames linked by pink ribbons, the other with the Lion of St Mark and 5 coats of arms all similarly linked, text in Latin, 2 decorative initials and floral swags in the text, autograph signatures of the examiners on 4 pp., embossed paper seal to final leaf verso, laid-paper endpapers, printed floral pastedowns, string-bound in contemporary Italian marbled sheep, sides panelled in gilt, light rubbing to extremities, 4to (21.3 x 15.5cm) Illuminated diploma awarded by the Venetian college of pharmacists (‘Collegii Pharmacopolarum’) to one Marco Antonio Basso. (1) £300 - £400
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