Null (1575). MIRABELLIUS (Nanus). POLYANTHEA. HOC EST, OPUS SUAVISSIMIS FLORIBUS…

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(1575). MIRABELLIUS (Nanus). POLYANTHEA. HOC EST, OPUS SUAVISSIMIS FLORIBUS CELEBRIORUM SENTENTIARUM TAM GRAECARUM QUAM LATINARUM. Cologne, Maternus Cholin, 1575. In-folio of [16]-877 pages, brown calf, gilt design in the center of the boards (period binding). Encyclopedia in the form of a florilegium covering religious issues, but also friendship, war, health... Period handwritten bookplate on title (Durozier), stamp and bookplate J.F. Sonyer Dulac (1670-1749), of Saint Didier en Velay. Copy faded, many pages browned, binding worn. (USTC 684669).

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(1575). MIRABELLIUS (Nanus). POLYANTHEA. HOC EST, OPUS SUAVISSIMIS FLORIBUS CELEBRIORUM SENTENTIARUM TAM GRAECARUM QUAM LATINARUM. Cologne, Maternus Cholin, 1575. In-folio of [16]-877 pages, brown calf, gilt design in the center of the boards (period binding). Encyclopedia in the form of a florilegium covering religious issues, but also friendship, war, health... Period handwritten bookplate on title (Durozier), stamp and bookplate J.F. Sonyer Dulac (1670-1749), of Saint Didier en Velay. Copy faded, many pages browned, binding worn. (USTC 684669).

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A North Italian dorsal tapestry depicting an allegory of Fortitude, Probably Mantua, dated 1528, The central field with the figure of Fortitude standing full length and holding a fasces, to the left side with Saint Peter standing beside the kneeling figures of a Pope, possibly Clement VII or Paul III, and Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, identified by the Gonzaga coat of arms hung by a tree nearby, the right side with the horned figure of Moses presenting the tablets of the law to further kneeling figures, set within an expansive undulating landscape with birds flying above, worked and dated HOC OPUS F F E DECA MDXXVIII, within a tablet above the lower edge, later backed, approx. 175 x 585cm Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, 19 December 1969; C. John Antiques, London, acquired by the present owner, before 1985. Published: G. Delmarcel, C. M. Brown and A. Lorenzini, Tapestries for the Courts of Federico II, Ercole, and Ferrante Gonzaga, 1522-63, p. 33, 43, fig. 5.

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[17th to 19th centuries] [Mathematics] Marolois, Samuelis. Opus Mathematicum Anthology in one volume w. 7 parts in 3 works. Sm. folio, rebound in older overlapping vellum, orig. spine reused, new endpapers. (1) Opticae sive Perspective, pars prima [-quarto]. Amst., J. Janssonius, 1633. 50 p. Title vignette, 80 double-p. engr. copper plates (8 signed in the plate by H. Hondius). (2) Perspectiva theoretica ac practica. Hoc est Opus Opticum Absolutissimum. Hans Vredeman de Vries. Ed. by S. Marolois. Ibid., idem, 1632-1633. 24 p. 2 title vignettes, 73 double-p. engr. copper plates. Plate 33 and 34 on one copper plate, plate 24 of second part rebacked and repaired. (3) Geometria theoretica ac practica. Samuel Marolois. Ed. by A. Gerard. Ibid., idem, 1633. 51 p. Title vignette, 47 double-p. engr. copper plates, of which a few browned. Splendid series of 200 plates in total, illustrating perspective, optics, architectural motifs and techniques. Rare.

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