WEB AUCTION 118 - LIBRI E AUTOGRAFI

JOHANNES DE JANDUNO
Quaestiones De Anima, Venezia, Heredes Octaviani Scoti, 1501

folio, modern half vellum

Very poor copy, must stains on the borders.

ARISTOTELES
Problemata Cum Duplici Translatione, Venezia, Per Bonetum Locatellum, 1501

folio
Contemporary limp vellum with handwritten title on the spine. Traces of foxing all over the book and some very small holes. Water stains on the last pages. Otherwise good copy.

MARCUS IUNIUS COLUMELLA
Opera Agricolationum, Bologna, Benedictus Hectoris, 1504

folio, Half calf. Complete with 86 engraved plates and folding-plates. Very good copy.

IOANNES IOVIANUS PONTANUS (1429-1503)

Ioannis Ioviani Pontani Opera. De fortitudine: libri duo. De principe: liber unus. Dialogus qui Charon inscribitur. Dialogus qui Antonius inscribitur. De liberalitate. Liber unus. De beneficentia: liber unus. De magnificentia: liber unus. De splendore: liber unus. De conuiuentia: liber unus. De obedientia: libri quinque. (colophon: Venetiis, Ioannem Rubeum & Bernardinum Vercellenses, 1512)


§ Large 4to (23x32,5 cm.); 128 leaves. Sign: a-u1-6, x1-8 (x8 blank). Woodcut initials. Marginal annotations in sepia ink by ancient hands, ownership entry on free leaf dated 1817, later rustic cardboards, handwritten title on spine,some light browning in places, very fine copy and large on crisp paper

Second edition, posthumously published of this collection of works; the first edition was published in 1501 in Venice, the only to be printed during the author’s life.. The separate works had been previously published in Naples, between 1490 and 1498.
Ref. B. Figliuolo Pontano, Giovanni In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; Graesse, V, p. 406; Brunet, IV, 808; Lorenzo Gera (editor) Giovanni Pontano Dialoghi Milano 2014, p. 65

RABBI SAMUEL (Samuel Abu Nasr ibn Abba, Samuel of Morocco) (11th century)

Tractatus Rabby Samuelis, Errorem iudeorum indicans Impressum Venetiis, Per Alexandrum de Paganis Brixisien. 1514

§ 8vo (170 x 105); 32 leaves (last blank); signature: A-D1-8 (D8 blank). Vellum binding from an ancient manuscript leaf ,handwritten title on front cover, flyleaves renewed. Fine copy.

Anti-Semitic pamphlet, first printed in 1474; apparently written in Arabic at the beginning of the eleventh century and translated into Latin in the 14th century by the Spanish Dominican Alphonsus Bonihominis. Actually quite a lot is known about the translator (sometimes considered the actual author), the Dominican friar Alphonsus Bonihominis, appointed bishop of Marrakesh in 1344. Samuel of Morocco “... studied philosophy, mathematics, and medicine; and for purposes of study he traveled in Irak, Syria, Azerbaijan, and Kohistan. ... He composed a polemical treatise, "Ifham al-Yahud" (Confutation of the Jews), called also "Kitab-al-naḳd wal-ibram" (Hirschfeld, "Das Buch al-Chazari," p. v.). In this work he points out that from time to time the abrogation of the Law is necessary and that, in fact, it has often occurred in Judaism. He tries to prove the prophetic character of Jesus and of Mohammed ... He affirms that the Jews of his time possess the Torah of Ezra and not that of Moses...”. The work went through several editions and during the Reformation was printed in Germany in response to Luther’s “Das Jhesus Christus ain geborner Jude sey” of 1523.
Ref. Hartwig Hirschfeld, Richard Gottheil Abbas, Samuel Abu Nasr ibn In: Jewish Encyclopedia ; David M. Cheney Catholic-Hierarchy: Information on the Bishops and Diocese of the World, both current and historical .O. LIMOR-G.G. STROUMSA (editors), The Epistle of Rabbi Samuel of Morocco: A Best-Seller in the World of Polemics, in "Contra Iudaeos: Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews", Tübingen, 1996, pp. 177-194.

AULUS GELLIUS
Noctium Atticarum Commentaria, Venezia, Ioannes Tacuinus, 1517

folio, modern vellum

good copy

DIODORUS SICULUS
Libri Duo, Venezia, Apud Ioannem De Rusconibus, 1518

folio, hard vellum

fair copy
restored

PUBLIUS NASO OVIDIUS
Epistole Heroides, Venezia, Joannes Tacuinus, 1518

folio, hard vellum
Defects on the title page, the lower part of the page missing. Missing the page A6.

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Rhetoricorum Ad Herennium, Venezia, Bernardino De Vitali, limp vellum

folio. Contemporary hard vellum, with worm holes and scratches at the top corner on the left. A page from another manuscript was used to decorate the cover.


Last page glued to the flyleaf.

STRABO (63 B.C. - 19 A.D.)

En tibi lector studiose Strabonis geographicorum co[m]me[n]tarios, olim a Guarino Veronese, & Gregorio Trifernate latinitate donatus, iam vero denuo a Conrado Heresbachio ad fidem graeci exemplaris [...] recognitos. Basileae, (Valentinus Curio), (March) 1523.

§ Folio (330 X 210). [(36), 566, (2) pp]. With woodcut title border by J. Faber after Hans Holbein the Younger, two additional borders with floral motifs, fascinating large-size woodcut inizial letters, roman type, a couple of pages duststained but perfectly readable, a fine and crisp copy, bound in a fascinating contemporary blindstamped dark calf on wooden boards with five raised bands
The amazing title border shows King Solomon among the philosophers and poets of Greco-Roman antiquity; at the bottom, the Nine Muses lay a wreath on the head of Homer. The second leaf and page 1 are decorated by two complex architectural borders inlaid with plant compositions and animated by human faces and figures; numerous large initials (50x50 mm.) with scenes of games, cherubs, friezes with columns, grotesque figures and fantastic animals.
One of the most renowned edition printed in XVIth century of the largest and most valuable treatise on geography of Greek antiquity, divided into 17 books. Strabo's intentions were to compose a work which, leaving aside the more scientific aspects, described the present state of the inhabited earth, so that it would be of use above all to politicians. The first two books are a sort of general introduction; books III-X deal with Europe; X-XVI with Asia; XVII with Egypt and North Africa. It can be considered the first treatise on political and ethnic geography, with mythological and historical digressions..

PETRUS LOMBARDUS
Textus Sententiarum, Lyon, Vincentius De Portonariis

8° Contemporary limp vellum. Partially disbound, worm holes on the back cover.


Nice copy.

PLATINA GIOVANNI BATTISTA
De Vita Et Moribus Summorum Pontificum, Basilea, Eucarius Cerviconius, 1529



folio


18th-century half calf, damaged. Good copy with a few handwritten notes on the margins, some stains and slight foxing. First edition.