WEB AUCTION 118 - LIBRI E AUTOGRAFI

TOMMASO GARZONI
La Piazza Universale Di Tutte Le Professioni, Venezia, Roberto Meietti, 1599

4°


Original calf, with gilded decorations on 4-rib spine. Good copy with some minor defects.

COSTANZO FELICI
Il Calendario, Urbino, Battista De' Bartoli, 1599



Contemporary vellum, title handwritten on the spine, good copy

IOANNES BAPTISTA LADERCHI
Consiliorum Sive Responsorum, Ferrara, Apud Victorium Baldinum, 1600

folio


Contemporary hard vellum, 6-rib spine with handwritten title. Very fine copy.

SERLIO, SEBASTIANO
Tutte l’opere d’architettura et prospettiva dove si mettono in disegno tutte le maniere di
edificij, e si trattano di quelle cose che sono più necessarie a sapere gli architetti. Con la
giunta delle invenzioni di cinquanta porte ... Diviso in sette libri. et vn breve discorso ..,
raccolto da m. Gio. Domenico Scamozzi vicentino.
Venice, eredi di Francesco de’ Franceschi, 1600.

In-4 24.5x18 cm
Modern binding in full parchment.
Some pages of the seventh book with woodworm holes professionally restored.
Second edition of the works but first complete edition of the seventh and last book.

HIERONYMUS MERCURIALE
Tractatus De Comp.Medicamentorum & Morbis Oculorum, Venezia, Apud Iuntas, 1601

4°


Contemporary three-rib vellum. Slight water stains and folds all over the book. Otherwise good copy.

Girolamo Frachetta (1558-1620)


Il Prencipe di Girolamo Frachetta Nel quale si considera il Prencipe & quanto al governo dello Stato, & quanto al maneggio della Guerra. Distinto in due libri. ... In Roma, Ad instanza di Bernardino Beccari. Stampato per Nicolo Mutij, 1597



§ 8vo (11x16,5x3 cm.); [10] leaves (last blank), 245, [3] pp., signature: …1-8, A-Z1-8, Aa-Dd1-8.


(…1, blank, misbound after …8). Woodcut head-piece and initials. Printed ex libris of Barone Gioacchino Malfatti di Montetretto pasted on end paper and hi signature “G. Malfatti”on title page. Contemporary calf. First pages a little soiled, wasome page waterstained at the right lower corner, but a good copy.



First edition. Girolamo Frachetta was a philosopher and political writer; born in Rovigo, he was a pupil of Francesco Piccolomini, from whom “he assimilated a Platonizing Aristotelianism and above all the conception of a politics guided by ethical principles and the highest good (but also by Tridentine dictates), and based on prudence. ...” (Baldini, translated). Frachetta served Luigi D'Este, Scipione Gonzaga, and the Spanish embassy in Rome, but later, banished from the Papal Sate, moved to Naples, where he acted on behalf of Francesco Maria II Della Rovere, duke of Urbino. “... Sessa [Antonio Fernández de Córdoba y Cardona, 5th Duke of Sessa (1550-1606), Spanish ambassador in Rome] continued to insist that he [Frachetta] be granted a second pension in Rome and in November 1596 he even commissioned a work dealing with the sovereign's actions in government and on his effective knowledge of the problems of his state. Thus was born Il prencipe, written in just seven months - as the extensive dedication to Sessa specified - and published in Rome (B. Beccari) at the end of 1597. F. reproduced the scheme already proposed in the "Idea" of his "Seminario de' governi" [previously publised], dividing the treaty into two books, dedicated respectively to the "government of the state" and the "handling of war", opposing Machiavelli right from the beginning and theorising a model of a prudent prince, guided by profit and honesty at the same time, but always in full respect of morality and religion. The work consecrated F. as a prestigious political writer in the eyes of the Spaniards, to whom all his subsequent publications will be dedicated.” (Baldini, translated).


& Francesca Chiarelli Girolamo Frachetta In: The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature; Enzo Baldini, Frachetta, Girolamo In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.

ANTONIUS MASSA
Formularium Vararum Commissionum, Roma, Apud Haeredes Nicolai Mutij, 1602


Complete.


Some small water stains and worm holes on the pages. Contemporary limp vellum with some warm holes on the cover.


Nice copy.

NICOLAUS PIMENTA (1546 - 1614)

Lettera del p. Nicolo Pimenta Visitatore della Compagnia di Giesu nell'India Orientale. Al molto reverendo p. Claudio Aquaviva della medesima Compagnia, Preposito Generale. Da Goa, li 25. di decembre. 1598 [i.e. 1599].Milano, per l'herede del quon. Pacifico Pontio, & Gio. Battista Piccaglia compagni Stampatori Archiep., 1602

§ 8° (160 x 105), 166, [2] pp., sign.: A-I8, K12. Title page with Jesuit emblem,slightly later vellum, endpapers renewed, a fine and crisp copy. First edition The Jesuit Nicolò Pimenta was born in Santarem (Portugal) and entered the Society of Jesus in 1562. Some years after he was sent as Visitor to the Eastern Indies and, shortly after, appointed governor of the provinces of Goa and Malabar
The work is a collection of letter-relations from the Jesuit missions of the Southeast Asian territories, during a long and dangerous journey to the various missions, carried out between the end of 1597 and 1599. Thus, we can observe reports from Bengal, Burma, Malacca and southern India coastal cities, such as Madras (today Chennai), Calicut (today Kozhikode) and Chandragiri. Ref OCLC 64035267; Sommervogel VI, 757-758

GIOVANNI BOTERO
I Capitani, Torino, Gio.Domenico Tarino, 1607



Complete.


Contemporary limp vellum, worm holes on the cover and on the pages. Two works within one copy.

PIERGEROLAMO GENTILI
Concerto Delle Muse, Venezia, Sebastiano Combi, 1609



Complete.


Contemporary limp vellum with a hole on the front cover and a scratch on the back cover.


Poor copy.

Angelo Roccha (1545-1620)

De Campanis commentarius a Fr. Angelo Roccha Episcopo Tagastensi, et apostolici sacrarij Praefecto elucubratus ... Romae, apud Guillelmum Facciottum, 1612

§ 4to (170 x 230.); viij, 168, [30, 1st and last leaf blank] pp. Signature: 1-4, A-Y1-4, Z1-6, a1-4 (X4 and a4 blanks). 4 (3 folding) plates; title within woodcut allegorical frame, woodcut initials. Ownership annotation on title page Collegij Nazareni ann: 1734. Contemporary vellum, handwritten title on spine. Ties missing. Z5-a4 traces of worm-holes in inner margin, skilfully restored; inner margin of the plates restored, not affecting the engravings; some foxing/browning in places; traces of worm-holes on endpapers. A good copy.
First edition. Angelo Rocca (1545-1620), scholar and philologist, is best remembered as the founder of the Biblioteca Angelica and bishop in partibus of Tagaste; was also a collaborator of the Manutius and director of the Vatican Printing House under Sixtus V and an active collaborator in drafting the text of the ‘vulgata’ bible, definitively edited in 1592. He also wrote some books concerning astronomy, mentioned by Riccardi. One of the first treatises exclusively devoted to bells (preceded only by Maggi’s De tintinnabulis, published in 1608), the present work describes the origin of bells, their terminology, the functions of the bell-ringer and the liturgical occasions in which the bells are played. The four beautiful plates depict the clock of San Marco in Venise, the clock in Liège and an illustration of chimes, reproduced later in the Frisius edition of Maggi's book as well as in Bonanni.

Camillo BaldI (or Baldo) (1550-1637), Giovanni Battista Coriolano (1579 c. - 1649)


In physiognomica Aristotelis commentarii a Camillo Baldo ordinariam philosophiam in patrio Bononiensis archigymnasio profitente lucubrati. Opus multiplici doctrina referentum: Physiologicis, Medicis, virisq. Politici aequè utile ac iucundum. Hieronimi Tamburini diligentia & sumptibus nunc primum in lucem editum ... Bononiae, apud Sebastianum Bonomium, 1621









§ 4to (21x29,5x5 cm.); [16], 562, [2] (blank), [20] pp., signature: …1-6, X3-4 (misnumbered for X1-2) A-Z1-6, Aa-Zz1-6, Aaa1-6 (Aaa6 blank), a1-6, b1-4; engraved title page, signed Coriolanus (Giovanni Battista Coriolano), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initialswoodcut schematic illustration, large woodcut printer’s device on last page. Ancient ownership signature on title page. Contemporary vellum, handwritten title on spine. Endpapers renewed. Fine copy.



First edition. Camillo Baldi taught philosophy and medicine in Bologna. “His works present him above all under the three guise of Aristotelian commentator, initiator of graphology from afar and courtier theorist of politics. ... But the most important work of B. still remains the commentary on the pseudo-Aristotelian treatise on physiognomy (In Physiognomica Aristotelis Commentarii), ... Nothing original when one thinks that it was the time in which practical philosophy was confused with theoretical medicine and vice versa, and researches on this area multiplied, ... What is relevant is the completely Aristotelian character that such interest assumes in B.; but it is also an obvious point for who, in accordance with tradition, occupied the chair that had once been of Pietro Pomponazzi. The passage from Aristotle's text to partial investigations on the subject was, moreover, a constant concern of him that he was even able to express in a speculative way.” (Tronti, translated). Giovanni Battista Coriolano, author of the engraved title page, was a painter and engraver: “...in any case the popularity of C. was great, who also worked as a vulgarizer, through the figurative intervention, of cultural themes in vogue at his time ...” (Garzya Romano, translated).


& Mario Tronti Baldi, Camillo in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; Krivatsy, 615; Wellcome, I, 650; Thorndike, VIII, p. 451; Chiara Garzya Romano Coriolano, Giovanni Battista in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.