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Lot 1 - Abraham a Santa Clara (d.i. U.Megerle). - Something for everyone, that is: A short description of all kinds of status, office and business people... Mixed edition. 3 vols. Würzburg, Hertz 1711-33. front, 7 p., 530 (of 532) p., 5 (of 6) p., ╔100 copper plates;╗ front, 6 p., 793 p., 19 p. reg., ╔77╗ copper plates. Frontispiece, 7 fol., 886 p., 1 fol., pp. 887-974, 15 fol., ╔103 copper plates ╗ Hardcover d. Zt. With ribbed boards and rebound. Dünnhaupt 35.I.3 (with different date), 35.II.1 and 35.III.2, Bertsche 38a, 3b, 56a, 2 and 57a, 2, Goed. III, 240, 20 (II). Faber de Faur I, 1119 (II). Jantz I, 313 (I). - Part 1 in third edition, part 2 in first edition and part 3 in second edition. - The plates with an abundance of baroque depictions of professions, below each explained with a six-liner. Including: apothecary, doctor, bookbinder, bell founder, merchant, cook, engraver, organ maker, scribe, type founder, cobbler, dancing master, weaver, carpenter etc. - Some plates somewhat faintly printed. Part 1 lacks pp. 287/288 (enclosed in photocopy) and the last reg. sheet. Title of vol. 3 deeply torn at top edge. Plate 29 in vol. 2 with small hole in the illustration. Pp. 237/238 in vol. 1 and 737/738 in vol. 2 laterally with small tear with some loss of text. Three plates and three text leaves with small marginal or corner tears without loss of image or text. Partly slightly foxed, mostly slightly browned. Vol. 1 somewhat fingerstained. book block of vol. 1 compressed and broken. Bindings somewhat scuffed, top. Top spine of vol. 1 with small tear, the lower capitals of vols. 1 and 3 somewhat damaged. - Leather bindings of the time with gilt and spine decoration - part 1 in the third, part 2 in the first and part 3 in the second edition. - Boards partly somewhat faded in impression. Part 1 lacks pp. 287/288 (photocopy enclosed) and the last index leaf. Title of part 3 deeply torn at upper bow. Plate 29 in part 2 with small hole in the illustration. P. 237/238 in part 1 and p. 737/738 in volume 2 with small tear at sides with some loss of text. Three plates and three text leaves with small marginal or corner tears without loss of image or text. Partly lightly foxed, mostly slightly browned. Volume 1 somewhat fingerstained. Book block of vol. 1 compressed and broken. Bindings somewhat scuffed, top capital of vol. 1 with small tear, lower capitals of vols. lower capitals of volumes 1 and 3 somewhat damaged.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 5 - Albumasar (Ja'far ibn Muhammad al Balkhi). - Introductorium in astronomiam Albumasaris abalachi octo continens libros partiales. (On the last leaf:) Venice, Penthius de Leucho for Melchior Sessa, 1506. cl.-4°. 62 unnum. (without leaf b1 and the last white leaf; numbering of quires: a8, b2-8, c-g8, h1-7). With large woodcut title, 43 small figurative woodcuts, 3 diagrams and - on the last leaf - Sessa's printer's mark with the cat with the mouse. Pastiche binding from ca. 1900 in brown leather. (Rubbed, back cover with worm marks). Adams A-567, not in Zinner. Sander 214. Very rare second edition of this important work by the most celebrated Arab astronomer of the 9th century, first printed by Ratdolt in 1489, also in Venice. Ja'far ibn Muhammad, who was born in Balkh, the "mother of all cities", lived in Baghdad and died in 886. His "Introductorium" is an astronomical theory on the laws governing the tides, which are dependent on the movements of the moon. The work was very popular throughout the Middle Ages. In the 12th century, Hermannus Dalmata from Carinthia produced the first Latin translation. Traces of dust and spotting throughout. The title most worn. Brown stain on the title woodcut (caused by the erasure of the library stamp on the verso of the title). Old ownership inscription "Liber magistri Constable" at the foot of the title. Title somewhat frayed at sides and with small loss at fold. Leaf b1 missing. Stamp of the British Museum and cancellation stamp "British Museum Sale Duplicate 1767" on verso of title. On the flyleaf ownership entry by Baron Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1908.

Estim. 1 200 - 1 800 EUR

Lot 20 - Biblia - cum summarioru(m) apparatu pleno quadruplicique repertorio insignita: cui ultra castigationem diligentissimam et signanter in vocabulario dictionum hebraicaru(m). (On the last text leaf:) Lyon, Guilbert de Villiers, 1524. 8°. 30 unnum. Leaf, 500 leaves, 54 leaves of indices (numbering of quires: aa-bb8, cc4, dd10; a-z8, A-Z8, AA-QQ8, RR4; A-D8, E6, F-G8). With 1 folio-sized woodcut opposite the beginning of Genesis and 28 small woodcuts. Leather binding of the period over wooden boards on three bands, the boards stamped with scroll stamps (including a Charitas Spes Fides scroll) and lines of chisel. (Without the old brass clasps, chipped capitals, rubbed edges). Baudrier XII, p. 412, Stuttgart Bible Collection D-328, not published by Adams and Darlow & Moule. Title page printed in red and black with large lily printer's mark. The woodcut on the last leaf shows Jerome in the case, with the lion. The large woodcut shows God's work on the six days of creation. The other small-format woodcuts are very schematic and mostly show portraits, for example of the evangelists. Longer conservation note on the title, which shows the Bible as a gift from Eric Andrea to Johann Jacob Pastor, dated 1608. Not the best copy. Title with mended tear in fold. Browning and spotting to lower margin throughout (partly with paper damage), soiling and ink marks throughout the volume, some erasures and marginalia, as well as a few white-outs. Frequent in libraries (but mostly incomplete), but rare in the trade. I can only find one - also incomplete - copy in trade in cat. V. by Weiss & Co, Munich, 1929.

Estim. 550 - 800 EUR

Lot 33 - Bünting, H. - Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. That is, a travel book on the whole of the Holy Scriptures, divided into two books. The first part covers all the journeys of the dear patriarchs, judges, kings, prophets, princes, etc (...). The other deals with the New Testament (...). Previously supplemented with a booklet De monetis et mensuris. Now, however, diligently revised by the author himself. 4 pp. in 1 vol. Magdeburg, P. Donat for A. Kirchner, 1591, fragment. 4°. Partly held together by remnants of a stitched binding, title page ff. missing. 3 woodcut maps. Before: pp. 44-47, pp. 63-66, pp. 74-93, pp. 96-107, 110-153, 156-167, 170-177, 180-215, 218-240 (of 240?). Index w. 7 unpag. pp. - 1 p. (intertitle w. woodcut) 34 pp. 1 leaf. 4 unpag. pp. 1-40 (partly incorrectly pag.), 43-58, 63-102 pp. Register w. 7 unpag. pp. - 5 unpag. pp., the first intertitle. 25 partly incorrectly pag. p. 20 not pag. p. - Heavily läd. - ╔Binding: Saur,M.A.╗ Diarium Historicum, Das ist Ein besondere tägliche Hauß und Kurchen Chronica / darinn Summarischer weise auff ein jeden Tag/ Monat und Jar/ (...) / so vor und nach der Geburt unseres HERRN und Heylands Jesu Christi sich zugetragen haben/ kürzlich und eigentlich annotirt und verzeichnet werden. Frankfurt a.M. by Nikolaus Basse 1582. fragment. 4°. 1 (instead of 16) leaves 1-60, 73-134, 137-336, 339-346, 349-358, 371-372, 397-408, 421-422 and 3 further single pag. leaves (instead of 536 pp.). 8 (instead of 12) book woodcuts. 1 printer's mark. Title page in black and red. Most leaves with strong marginal foxing. Partly w. Text and illustration loss. Partly w. Inscr. by late ed. Purchased as seen, overall very poor condition. Numerous pp. damaged and loose.

Estim. 120 - 180 EUR

Lot 37 - [Biblia, - Thet är all then Helgha scrifft på swensko. 6 parts in one volume. Upsala, Jürgen Richolff the Younger, 1540-1541]. Fol. 716 foliated leaves (instead of 760 leaves; without the first six leaves of preliminaries, 107 leaves [instead of123 leaves; B3-6, C1-5, D-E6, F1-2and 5-6, G-T6, V1-2 and 5-6, X4], 158 leaves [Aa-Zz6, aa-bb6, cc8]; 78 leaves [AA-NN6]; 138 leaves [instead of 140 leaves, Aaa-Kkk6, Lll1-2 and 5-6, Mmm-Yyy6, Zzz8], 88 pp. [instead of 90 pp., Aaa-Ooo6, PPp1-2 and 4-5], 147 pp. [instead of 165 pp.; A-Z6, Aa6, Bb1-5]). With 14 full-page woodcuts, 15 half-page and 7 quarter-page text woodcuts (instead of ?). Half leather binding of the 19th century with gilt-stamped spine title and somewhat ornamental gilt spine. (Rubbed). Collijn, I. Sveriges bibliografi intill år 1600, p. 88. Darlow-Moule 8808. First edition of the first Swedish complete Bible, initiated by King Gustav I Wasa and named after him. Sweden had only gained independence from Denmark in 1523. Gustav I Vasa was appointed head of the Swedish state church in place of the Pope at the Diet of Västerås in 1527. This led to tensions with Rome, which culminated in the appointment of Laurentius Petri - the brother of Stockholm's reformer Olaus Petri - as the first Protestant Archbishop of Upsala and led to a break with Rome. The Reformation then spread rapidly in Sweden, and from 1531 onwards, sermons were preached in Swedish in the churches. It was in this context that the king commissioned Olaus and Laurentius Petri and Laurentius Andreae to translate the entire Bible into Swedish. The New Testament was translated and published first in 1526, followed in 1541 by this complete Bible, which closely followed Luther's translation of the Bible. The main part of the translation work was done by Laurentius Andreae (around 1470 - 1552), who had proclaimed Gustav Wasa King of Sweden at the Diet of Strängnäs in 1523, whose secretary he subsequently became, but with whom he soon fell out. This translation was of the utmost importance for the standardization of the Swedish language. Only with this translation was it possible to establish a binding orthography in Sweden. The Gustav Wasa Bible is the most comprehensive book printed in Sweden in the 16th century. The printer was Jürgen Richolff (1494-1573) from Lübeck, who had already printed the New Testament in 1526. Richolff returned to Sweden solely for this huge print job; the printing process took place over the two years 1540-1541. The Bible is considered a typographical masterpiece. The Bible's pictorial decoration was created by Georg Lemberger after designs by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Not a good copy. 44 leaves missing completely, especially at the beginning and end. Some of the present leaves partially cut out. Numerous leaves with old glued tears, partly also underlaid, also affecting some woodcuts. Heavily fingerstained and soiled throughout. Somewhat trimmed at the sides, with some loss to the printed marginalia. Handwritten marginalia by various hands and from various periods. - Obviously of great rarity. The Swedish Union Catalogue lists only 14 copies in Swedish public libraries. - ╔The first Swedish complete Bible.╗

Estim. 2 600 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 48 - [Biblia latina - cum glossa Wafridi Strabonis et interlin. Anselmi Landuniensis. Volumes 1 and 2 (of 4; in 2 vols. Strasbourg, Adolf Rusch von Ingweiler for Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, not after 1480]. Imp. fol. Gothic type, text and commentary printed in two columns; 64 lines. 254 resp. 326 unnum. (quire count: a10, 9 x b8, 5 x d8, d6, d10 (the last white), a8, 9 x d8, 3 x b8, 2 x b6; a8, 14 x c8, c10, 3 x h8, c6, h6, h8,2 x h6, h8, c8, 2 x c6, c8, c6, 10 x e8, e9). Rubricated in red throughout and with painted red and blue initials, 20 of which are two-tone initials with decorative decoration; in the first volume at the beginning of Genesis an excellent gilt miniature with the creation of Eve and at the beginning of the chapter Exodus a gilt initial with beautiful decorative decoration. With numerous, partly illuminated initials. ╔Chain bindings of the period╗ on five bindings with black leather cover, spine with bar decoration, covers with bar decoration and various stamps, each volume with eight brass edge fittings, the covers each with five brass buttons, 1 [of 4] brass clasps. (Rubbed, leather cover partially removed; some wormholes, joints chipped). ISTC ib00607000. GKW 4282. BMC I 92 (IC 813 and 814). Goff B-607. Despite the damage listed below, a splendid copy of the first two volumes of this monumental Bible edition in their first bindings with heavy iron chains. This is the first edition ever to contain the broad Glossa ordinaria by Walafrid Strabo and the interlinear gloss by Anselm of Laon; complete in itself, with the blank leaf in the first volume. That the present edition was printed by Rusch - the son-in-law of Mentelin, the first printer of Strasbourg - for Koberger is clear from a few laudatory verses addressed to Rusch by the Münster humanist Rudolf von Langen (see Schmidt, Zur Geschichte der ältesten Bibliotheken zu Strassburg, 1882, pp. 160ff.); this is confirmed by a letter from Rusch to Johann Amerbach from 1478 (see also Schmidt, p. 155). Of the four types used in the present work, three were also used by Amerbach in Basel between 1478 and 1481, which is why the Bible has already been identified as an Amerbach print. It is not known whether Rusch borrowed the types from Amerbach or purchased them. ISTC lists more than 400 copies, of which a good third are either single volumes or incomplete. This edition is therefore frequently found in libraries, but rarely appears in the trade. Very wide-margined copy, printed on wonderfully strong paper. Traces of moisture - mostly in the margins - through both volumes, mostly only slightly disturbing. Spore stains and dust stains in some leaves, only occasional finger stains - possibly caused by the printer's assistants! Some quires browned.

Estim. 8 000 - 12 000 EUR

Lot 50 - Biondo, Flavio. - [Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decades, begins on the first leaf]: Decadis primae Liber primus Blondi Flavii Forlivie(n)sis historiarum ab inclinatio(n)e Romanoru(m) liber primus. [With the Additiones by Johannes Antonius Campanus]. Venice, Ottaviano Scoto, August 16, 1483. fol. Roman type, 42 lines and headline; printed in one column. 371 unnum. (with the first white leaf; without leaf s10; numbering of quires: a-l8, m-r10, s1-9, t-z10; A10-C10, D8, E8, F10-M10, N8-S8). With a beautiful Renaissance border on the first printed leaf, with a large painted initial "R", at the foot a coat of arms cartouche with the coat of arms of Cesare Borgia as Duc de Valentinois. Modern calf binding with gilt-stamped spine title and blind-stamped spine and cover ornaments; fragment of an old (Venetian ?) binding with the portrait of Julius Caesar set into the front cover. ISTC no. ib00698000. BMC V, 277 (IB 21194). Goff B-698. First edition of the main work of the Forli-born humanist (1392-1463), the history of Europe from the fall of Rome to Biondo's present day, based on the most reliable sources. Biondo wrote the work in the years 1439-1453, applying the then emerging three-division scheme - antiquity, Middle Ages, modern times - to his historical work. Biondo's historical work is the first to have a truly European perspective: "Il valore delle 'Decades' consiste, oltre che nell'accurato studio critico delle fonti, nel fatto che per la prima volta vi è tracciato un quadro complessivo della storia non solo italiana ma europea, in cui, ed è questo un altro aspetto originale, anche l'età medievale è vista come un periodo di preparazione alla età moderna, e quindi, per quanto di decadenza, degno di studio" (Dizionario enciclopedico della letteratura italiana, I, 383). - The coat of arms on the first page suggests that this is Cesare Borgia's copy; Cesare Borgia had borne the coat of arms as the first Duc de Valentinois since 1498 - the enfeoffment with the duchy in Provence was King Louis XII's thanks for the fact that Cesare Borgia's father, Pope Alexander VI, had divorced the French king's marriage. Cesare Borgia had excelled as a student at the universities of Perugia and Pisa. It is quite possible that he actually read the thick volume. Unfortunately, the numerous contemporary marginalia in the volume are not in his hand. They are by two different contemporary hands - one has a very beautiful and easily legible typical secretarial handwriting, the second is a wilder hand. The marginalia have been trimmed somewhat during binding. Some foxing throughout, occasional traces of moisture. Moisture damage in the outer margins of the last fifty or so leaves has been expertly restored with paper strips. The worst defect is the absence of leaf s10.

Estim. 5 500 - 8 000 EUR

Lot 52 - [Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Filocolo, deutsch:] - A very beautiful new hystori of the high love of the royal prince Florio: and of his dear Bianceffora: you should get great pleasure from it. Also worth mentioning: how great the love is. With beautiful figures. (On the last leaf:) Metz, Caspar Hochfeder, August 2, 1500. fol. Gothic type; 45 lines and headline; printed in two columns. 106 leaves (instead of 130 leaves, namely: 4 unnum. Title and index and 102 Roman foliated leaves; quire numbering: [4], a1-2, b4-5, c6, d1-5, f3-6, g-r6, s1-2 and 5-6, t-x6). With 82 (of 96) woodcuts. Newly bound in a brown half pigskin binding with gilt-stamped spine titles (signed Hedberg). ISTC no. ib00747000. GKW 04471. BMC III 664(IB.12721) . Goff B-747 (1 single copy in private ownership). Marburger Repertorium zur Übersetzungsliteratur im deutschen Frühhumanismus no. 20400. Goedeke I, 353, 14, 2. Larger fragment of the second edition of the anonymous German translation of Boccaccio's "Filocolo" (first published in 1499, also by Hochfeder in Metz), of extreme rarity. ISTC and GKW list only 12 copies; the Marburg repertory also lists the present copy as the 13th, which was published in 1906 in cat. XL of the Jacques Rosenthal company under no. 2241 and which has since been considered lost. Pages 3-9, 12-17 and pp. 32, 105 and 106 with 14 woodcuts are missing. The very large-format and specifically narrative woodcuts - they cover both columns and take up more than half the height of the pages - are the same as in the 1499 edition; the artist is unknown. The woodcuts are in fine, fresh impressions. Only the left-hand column of the second leaf (register) is present. Fold tears in the first four and the last leaf repaired. Tears with loss of image and text in leaves XXXVI, XXXVII and LXXXI. The first five leaves heavily dampstained and stained, otherwise a quite clean copy. Marginalia in German by various hands, including one contemporary hand, scattered throughout the volume. Ownership inscription by Baron Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1906 - Enclosed is a letter from the Swedish collector Otto Smith to E.P. Goldschmidt December 1, 1925.

Estim. 6 000 - 9 000 EUR

Lot 53 - [Decembrio, Pietro Candido]. - Ioanni Boccatii Die Gantz Römisch histori auffs fleissigst un(d) kurzst begriffen. A strikingly beautiful oration by M. T. Ciceroni / for M. Marcellum / to the council of the city of Rome / and to Julio Cesari. All brought together / and Germanized / by Christophorum Brunonem von Hyrtzweil / Baïder Rechten Licentiaten / jetzund Poeten / der löblichen und fürstlichen Stat München. Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1542. fol. 4 unnum. With large woodcut title page, two large woodcuts on the verso of the title page and on the last leaf, 22 woodcuts of text about half the size of a page and 7 decorative woodcuts. Modern half vellum binding. VD16 D-330, not in Adams. - A work by the Italian humanist Pier Candido Decembrio (1392-1477) which was attributed to Boccaccio, here in the first German translation. This was written by the humanist Christoph Bruno, of whom little is known; Luis Vives' "De institutione feminae Christianae" from 1524 ("Von underweysung ayner Christlichen Frauwen, Drey Bücher") was also published by Steiner in 1544 and was similarly illustrated with woodcuts. The work was decorated with woodcuts that Steiner had already used on previous occasions. Some of them are by Hans Weiditz and appeared in the "Trostspiegel" and the "OPfficia". The majority of the woodcuts were used to illustrate the "Scanderbeg" of 1533 and were reused in the Xenophon of 1540; two woodcuts bear Hans Schäuffelein's monogram, including the very beautiful Lucrezia woodcut. The two large woodcuts of the coat of arms are printed here for the first time. The coat of arms of Antonius Sänftl, the dedicatee of the book, is printed on the back of the title page, and that of the translator Christoph Bruno on the last leaf. The title page masked (with some loss to the outer margins). The upper corner of the second leaf with an old repair, another leaf with a repair in the lower margin. Two small (worm?) holes in the centers of the leaves (some of them backed with Japan paper). Some browning throughout. Faint trace of moisture in the upper half of the leaf, through the entire volume. Ownership inscription Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1908 on flyleaf. Very rare, like all classic editions in vernacular languages.

Estim. 1 400 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 55 - Boëmus, Johannes, Aubanus (d.i. Johann Böhm aus Aub). - Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges & ritus, ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus, à Ioanne Boëmo Aubano Teutonico nuper collecti, & novissime recogniti. Tribus libris absolutum, Aphricam Asiam & Europam describentibus. Non sine Indice Locupletissimo. Freiburg i. Br., Johann Faber, 1536. 8°. 304 pp., 12 unnum. Leaf index. With large woodcut printer's mark on the title. Leather binding of the 18th century with rich spine gilt. (Somewhat rubbed and bumped). VD16 B-6311. This edition not in Adams. Sabin 6117. Apponyi 1637. not in Gay (Afrique), Göllner (Turcica) and Tobler (Palestine). Early, extensively enlarged and very rare edition of this European bestseller of the 16th century, which was published immediately after the first edition of 1520 in numerous reprints and translations into German, Italian, French, Spanish, Czech and English; by 1620 more than 30 Latin editions alone had been published. The humanist Böhm (around 1485 - 1533/35) from the Swabian town of Aub was a chaplain at the Teutonic Knights' House in Ulm, but spent most of his life in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, where he probably also died. He secretly sympathized with Lutheranism. M. T. Hodgen, Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Philadelphia 1964, p. 131ff: "Boemus made his simple purpose very clear. There were two of them. He wished, first to make accessible to the ordinary reader an already not inconsiderable body of kowledge concerning the variety of human behavior, to arrange it on a broad geographical plan, with the geographical features subordinatedto the ethnological, and to use the printed page for assembling and exhibiting the range of human custom, ritual and ceremony. Second, in the interest of improved political morality, he desired to inform his readers concerning the laws and governments of other nations . His collection of ethnological descriptions begins with Africa . Later, when he turned to the manners and costums of Asiatic and European peoples, the geographical stage becomes broader, and the cultural panorama wider and more familiar. In Asia, it was the ten 'most famous' nations which received his attention: Panchaia, a region of Arabia; Assyria and Babylonia; Medea and Parthia, Persia, Scythia, India, Tartaria and Turkey. In Europe, working from the west by north, he described twenty-nine areas, many of them neighbors of his own Germanic home: Greece, Russia, Lithuania, Livonia, Prussia, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Saxony, Westphalia, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and Britain . With the clear intention of isolating the major social institutions for inspection, and with some degree of orderliness, Boemus placed special emphasis on divergence in marriage and the family, divergences in social organization, in religious, funeral rites, weapons, warfare, justice, diet, and apparel. Out of about twenty-five peoples to whom he gave his most detailed attention, he described the institution of marriage (inlcuding the morality of women and child care) for twenty-three; religion for eighteen; funeral rites for seventeen, weapons and warfare for fourteen; diet for twelve, and so on". Böhm's work was of great influence on Sebastian Münster's cosmography. It was also known and appreciated by Jean Bodin, Edmund Spencer, Montaigne and many others. Title page soiled and with handwritten entry at foot. Trace of moisture in lower margin throughout. Glue stains to endpapers. Ownership inscription J. Morio de Landia on the title, on the flyleaf ownership inscription Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1905 - Der Anfang der Ethnologie.

Estim. 600 - 900 EUR

Lot 57 - (Widekindi, Johann, et al.). - Imagines illustrissimæ Familiae Braheae. Comnburi possunt libri, monumenta perire, Nostra mori possunt, & tua scripta mori, Insita vivæ vim quasi vocis habet. Visingsborg, "Typis Celsis: Com: Reg: Drotz: Typographi Johannis Kankelii", 1673. fol. Title page, 1 sheet. Woodcut with coat of arms, pp. 2-41, 1 folding typographical plate, 2 unnum. Leaves. 1 large, multi-folded engraved family tree, 1 multi-folded engraved view of a tomb and 9 engraved, firmly pasted engraved portraits. Modern polished calf binding on five bands with gilt-stamped spine label and some gilt to spine and cover, gilt-stamped standing and inner edge borders. Collijn, Sveriges Bibliografi 1600-Talet, 1017 (without reference to the illustrations). Apparently extremely rare genealogy of the famous Swedish noble family Brahe, created during the lifetime and probably commissioned by Per Brahe the Younger (1602-1680), Count of Visingsborg, since 1641 "Reichsdrost" of Sweden, i.e. highest state official. Visingsborg is located on the island of Visingsö in Lake Vättern in Småland, in the south of Sweden. Brahe had also installed a printing press in his castle; he recruited Johann Kankel from Wolgast, who had established himself in Stockholm in 1664 after training in Gdansk, as his printer. The print shop in Visingsborg was set up in 1666 and remained active for five years after Per Brahe's death. After Per Brahe's death, King Charles XI ceded the county of Visingsborg to the Crown. The copies of the print in Swedish national libraries make no reference to the engraved plates, which are included here. The portrait plates show five male and four female members of the House of Brahe. The large folding plate before shows the tomb of Birgur Brahe and his wife Ingiburgis in the cathedral of Upsala, with the two large Gisant figures, set in filigree Gothic architecture. The most significant image is the large "Arbor genealogica Brahea". In the center is the family tree, designed as a real tree, to which a large and very detailed map of the county of Visingsborg is attached. Some staining and browning throughout. The family tree with a fold hole. The illustration of the tomb with a fold hole and partly underlaid (with loss of image in the lower right corner. The engraved portraits in excellent, brilliant impressions. Ex-libris with coat of arms on the front inside cover.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 59 - Breviarium ad usum Cistercien(sis) ordinis. - Anno dni. Millesimo cccc.xii. Ab eode(m) monachi qui precedentia disposuit / sedula cura castigatum / taliterque in omnibus emendatum: ut qua(n)to ceteris havtenus imp(re)ssis / prepolleat: diligens quisque lector facile iudicabit. Paris, de Marneff, 1512. cl.-8°. Printed in two columns; Gothic type; 36 lines and headline. 23 unnum. Leaf, 191 roman foliated leaves (wrongly foliated 192), 1 white leaf (numbering of quires: a8, ê8, i1-7; A-Z8, AA8). With 2 color illuminated borders on gold ground (fol. Ir and CLXXXv) and 18 painted initials heightened with gold. Printed in red and black throughout, rubricated and ruled. Woodcut printer's mark on the first leaf. With lombards painted in red. Modern pigskin binding (signed Hedberg) with gilt-stamped spine title and brown-stamped cover ornaments, gilt edges. Bohatta, Bibliographie der Breviere 1501-1580, p. 120, 1350 (a single, defective copy in Munich (no longer traceable today). Pettegree & Walsby, French Books, 66540 (no proof of copy). Moreau, Répertoire II, p.116: no.258 (only with reference to the missing Munich copy). Not in Brunet and Adams. Not to be found in WorldCat. or in the electronic catalog of the Bibliothèque nationale. Fragment, comprising about two thirds of the text. According to the list of quires on the last available leaf (AA8), a complete copy should have the following quire count: a-k8, A-Z8, AA8, A-T8, i.e. a total of 372 leaves. Our copy has the first 23 unnumbered leaves (ã8, e8, i1-7) and the 192 Roman foliated leaves (A-Z8, AA8). Contains first a "Tabula" (fol. a2), followed by the "Regule generales ordinarii" (fol. a3-a6r), the "Directorium kalendarii" (fol. a6v) and the calendar (fol. a7-e4v); this is followed by two further tables with Sunday numbers and instructions for their use (fol. e6r-e7r). This is followed by the "Commemorationes proprie", the "Collecte", the "Suffragia quadragesime" and the "Benedictiones" (fol. e7v-i7v). This is followed by the entire Sunday section. The volume is thus missing the entire psaltery and the saints' part. In excellent condition, but somewhat trimmed during binding, with loss to the borders, but not to the text. The first of the two very finely illuminated borders heightened with gold with floral scrolls and a dragon at the foot, the second also with floral scrolls and a mythical creature at the foot, unfortunately with a heavily trimmed bird at the side.

Estim. 2 600 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 60 - Breydenbach, Bernhard von. - [Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, Low German; on the last leaf:] Die heylighe beuarden tot dat heylighe grafft in iherusalem. en van daen totten berch Synai tot die heilighe maghet en martelarisse Sunte katherin ghedruct doir meister Eerhaert rewich van vtrecht in die Stadt van mentzs Int iaer ons heeren. m.cccc. acht endet achtich. opten. xxiiii. dach in Meye Endet salichliken [Mainz, Erhart Reuwich, May 24, 1488]. Fol. (ca. 283 x 214 mm). Gothic type, 42 lines, rubricated throughout. 149 (instead of 188) unnum. (quire count: a8, b4, 4 unsigned quires2, e8, f6, h-m8, n1-6, o6, p-q8, r6, s1 and 8, t-z8, *1-7). With 21 woodcuts (of 25): folio-sized title woodcut (fol. a1 verso), 1 double folio-sized and 4 multiple fold-out city views (instead of 7; present: Paros, Modon, Candia and Rhodes [fragmented]; the views of Venice, Jerusalem and Corfu are missing), 1 folio-sized woodcut with animals, 2 woodcuts with depictions of the tomb church in Jerusalem, 6 woodcuts with various types of people, 6 woodcuts (of 7) with alphabets and 1 woodcut printer's mark. Half marocco binding from ca. 1880 on five bands with gilt-stamped spine title and somewhat decorative blind embossing, cover covered with marbled paper (corners bumped, edges rubbed). ISTC ib01191000. GKW 5081. BMC I, P. 44 (IB 340). Goff B-1191 (only 3 copies!). Polain (B) 897, Schreiber 3633, Pellechet 2981, the only Low German edition of the "Peregrinationes" by Bernhard von Breydenbach, first printed in Latin in 1486, also by Reuwich in Mainz. Reuwich printed only three books in Mainz, always with the same title: on 11.II.1486 he completed the printing of the first edition of the "Peregrinatio" in Latin, on 21.VI.1486 the second printing in German and on 24.V.1488 this Low German edition. The translation of Breydenbach's travelogue was also made by Reuwich, who had taken part in Breydenbach's pilgrimage and had drawn views of the towns he visited. This Low German edition is far rarer than the two previous editions and the edition by Peter Drach in Speyer. - Bernhard von Breydenbach (d. 1497) had been a member of the Mainz cathedral chapter since 1450. His travelogue describes a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, Mount Sinai and Egypt. He undertook the journey together with a young Count Johann von Solms and a knight Philipp von Bicken in the spring of 1483, returning to his homeland at the beginning of 1484. The travelogue is a mixtum compositum of his own experiences and transcripts. The success of the book is also due to the extraordinarily impressive panoramic views of the cities; four of the seven views are included in our copy: Paros (ca. 266 x 390 mm), Modon (ca. 272 x 760 mm), Candia (ca. 256 x 760 mm) and Rhodes (fragmented; ca. 261 x 592 mm; about a third of the right half is missing). The spectacular views of Venice and Jerusalem, both measuring more than one meter in width, are missing, as is the view of Corfu. The remaining woodcuts show various types of people in traditional costumes and alphabets, as well as typical animals of the region: crocodile, camel, Indian goat, salamander, giraffe, etc. The woodcuts were probably made by Reuwich, who was trained as a form cutter. As a type, Reuwich used Schöffer's oldest so-called. "Schwabacher". Not a very good copy. Some text leaves and views as well as an alphabet are missing. The large views as always with mended tears and some holes; the view of Rhodes composed of two different copies. The title woodcut with a deep, glued tear. Some old repairs with paper strips in the wide white margins. Occasional tears in and out of margins (without loss of text), frequently with old repairs and backing. Faint traces of moisture in the margins of some leaves. Fingerprints and smudges occasionally. The image of the Jewish changer with contemporary marginalia in the outer margin. Ownership inscriptions by various hands on the first leaf, the second leaf and (repeatedly) on the penultimate leaf. At the beginning of the flyleaf an entry by the Swedish collector Baron Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1902.

Estim. 5 500 - 8 000 EUR

Lot 79 - Slange,N. - Den Stormaegtigste Konges Christian den Fierdes Kongel til Danmarck og Norge, de Venders og Gothers, Hertugs til Slesvig, Holsten, Stormarn og Ditmersken, Greves til Oldneborg og Delmenhorst, Historie . Men ester Kongel. Allernaadigst Befaling igiennemseet og af Archiv-Documenter forbedret af Hans Gram. Copenhagen, Königliche Buchdruckerei, 1749. gr.fol. Engraved frontispiece, title, 1 leaf, 10 pp., 1 engraved portrait, 1536 pp. (incorrectly numbered 1534; last page unnumbered, p. 968 numbered twice). Wonderful red marocco binding of the period on seven bands with rich floral and ornamental gilt spine and cover, gilt-stamped standing edges, inner edge borders, endpapers covered with intricate marbled paper, gilt edges. (Slightly rubbed and bumped; small losses at the joints). Edition of the monumental biography of King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (1577-1648) edited by Peter Fogh. The title portrait shows the state councillor and court historiographer Niels Slange, the portrait at the beginning of the text shows the monarch; both are engraved by Fritzsch, the first after a model by Denner from 1718, the second after a model by Carl van Manter. Wonderful contemporary red marocco binding; intricate ribbonwork is combined with floral ornamentation, with additional vases and individual flowers on the covers. At least five copies of this work are known with the same binding: a copy in the Library of Congress, which was shown in the famous exhibition at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore in 1957 (cf. Miners, no. 488, pl. 88), a copy in the Wormsley Library, two copies in the Sotheby's catalog "Six Centuries of Bookbindings", 7. XI.2002, nos. 143 and 181, as well as the present one. It is assumed that these bindings were created by employees of the Danish master bookbinder Niels Anthon in Copenhagen as "demonstration pieces". Apparently the copies were bound over a longer period of time; I suspect that the present copy was bound rather late. Traces of dampness now and then throughout the volume, some foxing throughout, but overall a good, clean copy. - Danish master binding.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 82 - Colombo, Fernando. - Historie... Nelle quali s'ha particolare, & vera relatione della vita, & de' fatti dell' ammiraglio D. Cristoforo Colombo suo padre: Et dello scoprimento, ch'egli fece dell' Indie Occidentali, dette Mondo Nvovo, hora possedute dal Sereniss. Re Catolico: Nuovamente di lingua Spagnuloa tradotte nell' Italiana dal S. Alfonso Vlloa. Venice, Francesco de' Franceschi, 1571. 8°. 20 nn. Leaf, 247 pl. (without the last white leaf). With woodcut printer's mark on the title. Flexible vellum binding. (Newly bound). Sabin 14674 - Rare first edition by Alfonso Ulloas (died in Venice 1570). Translation by Fernando Colons (1488-1539). Biography of his father, which was only preserved in manuscript. Luis Colon, Columbus' "playboy" grandson, who was always in need of money, sold the manuscript to a Genoese doctor, Baliano de Fornari; it is now lost. Ulloa's translation saved the biography, which contained much valuable information about Columbus' discoveries, for posterity. Fernando Colon was the second illegitimate son of Columbus and Beatriz Enriquez de Arana. He accompanied his father on his fourth voyage to the New World. The treatise by Fran Ramon Panés "delle antichità de gl'Indiani, le quale egli, come huomo che sà la lor lingua, ha raccolte per commandamento dello Ammiraglio" printed on p. 126ff. is of particular importance; this is the earliest report on Native Americans and the earliest sample of the Arawaka language. Fernando Colon was a cosmographer, but his most important achievement was probably the expansion of his father's library into one of the most valuable collections of books of its time. It contained up to 15,000 titles. Today, the library is kept in the cathedral of Seville in a shrunken form - legal disputes arose. Owner's stamp on the title (Vincenzo Botteon, Conegliano).Tears - some with loss of text - old repairs to 8 leaves. Traces of moisture in the margins. Ink scribbles on the last leaf. Cut ink stained.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 85 - Crescentiis,P.de. - De Agricultura. Istoriato. (On the last leaf :) Venice, n.d., 1504. cl.4°. 206 nn. (numbering of quires: A6, a-z8, &8, 8). With a large woodcut title, a second larger woodcut with the portrait of the author and 46 small woodcuts in the text. 17th century parchment binding with gilt-stamped spine label. (Lower capital torn, stained, somewhat rubbed, corners bumped; upper joint cracked). Essling 843, Sander 2236, not in Adams and Mortimer. One of the first editions printed in Italy in the 16th century of the guide to agriculture by the Bolognese jurist Piero de' Crescenzi (c. 1235-1320), first printed under the title "Ruralia commoda" in 1471. He wrote his treatise at his country estate Villa del'Olmo outside Bologna during his "otium", between 1305 and 1309. The work is divided into 12 chapters. The first deals with the construction of a country estate with agriculture. The second deals with the characteristics of plants, the third with grain cultivation and the construction of a granary. The fourth chapter deals with viticulture and wine pressing, the fifth with arboriculture and the sixth with horticulture - both of which also contain references to the medicinal uses of plant products. In the seventh chapter, Crescenzi talks about the cultivation of pasture and woodland, in the eighth about the creation of ornamental gardens, and in the ninth about animal husbandry and beekeeping. The tenth chapter is devoted to hunting and fishing - with a very curious section on elephant hunting. The last two chapters contain a summary and the agricultural activities listed by month. The edition is particularly valuable and attractive because of its very high-quality woodcuts, which, despite their small size, show a wealth of narrative detail. The large title woodcut shows an ideal villa with a large courtyard and adjoining fields, while the other text woodcuts depict all kinds of agricultural activities, gardens, animals, fishing and hunting scenes, etc. The woodcuts are important iconographic sources for the appearance of an Italian Renaissance country house. The woodcuts were already printed in the Venetian edition by Matteo Capodecasa from 1495. Margins foxed throughout. Small hole in title page and owner's stamp Giuseppe Martini, Lucca. Various 18th century entries on the flyleaf.

Estim. 1 600 - 2 400 EUR

Lot 88 - Dante Alighieri. - Divina Commedia. (With commentary by Cristofor Landino and appreciation of Dante by Marsilio Ficino). (On the last printed leaf:) Florence, Niccolo di Lorenzo, August 30, 1481. fol. Roman type, commentary printed around the verses; 57 to 60 lines (incl. header). 361 unnum. (instead of 372 leaves; Prooemium: 10 instead of 14 leaves, without the first and last white leaf and without the first and eighth printed leaves; Inferno: 153 leaves instead of 154, without the first white leaf; Purgatorio: 107 leaves instead of 108, without the first white leaf; Paradiso: 91 instead of 96 leaves, without the two printed leaves 85/86[L1-2] and the last three white leaves). With a large initial painted in red and black at the beginning of the first canto and two engravings (repeated) printed in the text at the beginning of the second and third cantos. Late 19th century parchment binding with gilt-stamped spine label. (This damaged). ISTC id00029000. GKW 7966. BMC VI, 628. Goff D-29. Mambelli 2311. First edition of the Commedia printed in Florence, the first with the very extensive commentary by Cristofor Landino and the "Gratulatio" by Marsilio Ficino. As usual, with only two engravings printed in the text. Complete copy except for four text leaves and the white leaves. "Niccolo di Lorenzo of Florence is the only printer thus far encountered that did not abandon copper engraving after the first asttempt. He conceived the idea of the first illustrated Dante. At the head of each of the one hundred cantos he planned for an engraving. A magnificent folio resulted, but the illustrations give an almost perfect picture of the difficulties which he was not able to surmount. Of the one hundred engravings contemplated, only nineteen were finished. No copy is known to-day in which more than three of these are printed on the same page with the text, but in the bottom margin of the page - simply because the printer in setting up the type had forgotten to leave space for it! To-day, we invariably find it badly cropped. The balance of the nineteen engravings - and only a ferw copies contain this full number - are alwys pasted in. Some authorities have endeavored to relate the engravings to Botticelli's designs, and to attribute them to the Florentine engraver Baccio Baldini. The discovery of a real series of Botticelli drawings for Dante, now at Berlin, which must be dated after 1490, has made rather short shrift of this theory." (Philip Hofer, Early Book Illustration in the Intaglio Medium, I, in: Print Collector's Quarterly vol. 21, No. 1, 1934, p.218ff.). "In most copies only the first and second plates are printed on the book's own paper, the others being ommited altogether or seprately printed and pasted on their places. In a few, of which this is one, the plate for Canto II is repeated at the head of Canto III. These illustrations influenced those of the Brescia and Venice editions of 1488 and 1491." (Dyson Perrin catalog, no. 23). The present copy shows the same peculiarity. The present copy was provided with 22 facsimiles of the original engravings at the beginning of the 20th century. What is very attractive about this copy is that the verses missing from the print - the edition, which was produced at great expense, is not very reliable! - were added by a contemporary hand (Inferono Canto VI 3 verses, Canto XXX 4 verses; Purgatorio Canto XXXII 6 verses and Paradiso Canto XVI 4 verses). Another peculiarity of this copy is that the recto side of the second leaf of the Purgatorio is not printed, whereas the verso side is printed correctly. Fingerstained throughout, also numerous browning and faint foxing. The first present leaf heavily stained, reinforced at the fold and with several holes. The lower margin of the first leaf of the Inferno has been cut away and replaced by a facsimile of the original engraving; also a tear, backed in the fold. A number of other leaves with old repairs in the margins and corners. Ownership inscription " Ex libris Nuti" or "Io Franco Nuti" on some leaves; a Francesco Nuti was one of the donors for the Dante monument in Santa Croce in Florence.

Estim. 6 000 - 9 000 EUR

Lot 90 - Dictys Cretensis und Dares Phrygius. - Historical History and Description / of the Troian War / and Destruction of the City of Troy / By the highly esteemed historians / D[i]ctyn Cretensem / and Darem Phrygium / First described in Greek language / then Latin / and now and recently by Marcum Tatium etc. Transformed from Latin into German / never seen before / decorated with thoroughly beautiful figures. (On the last leaf:) Augsburg, Heinrich Stayner, 1540. fol. 12 unnum. With a large woodcut title page and 66 woodcuts in the text, 7 large initials and 28 (partly repeated) woodcut ornaments. 19th century paperback (slightly rubbed and bumped). VD 16 D-1414, Muther 1110, not published by Adams. Second edition published by Steiner (first in 1536) of these "eyewitness accounts" by "Dictys Cretensis" and "Dares Phrygius", which are probably Latin elaborations from late antiquity. The Cretan Dictys is said to have taken part in the battle for Troy with his king Idomeneus on the side of the Greeks; the account of the Phrygian Dares is a kind of counter-account from the Trojan perspective. What both accounts have in common is that they rationalize and de-heroize Homer's story. The texts were discovered in the 12th century and subsequently became decisive for the reception of the Troy material in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. Even Goethe drew on Dares and Dictys for an "Achilleis". To this day, it is not clear whether a Greek original even existed. The translation into German was made by the Swiss humanist Marcus Tatius (probably Tach), who was born in Zernez in the Engadin. After studying in Munich, he became a professor of poetry in Ingolstadt. He was crowned "poeta laureatus" in 1526. The woodcuts come from various Augsburg prints, including cuts from the "Theuerdank", Steiner's Petrarca and Cicero, and the Scanderbeg. They are by Jörg Breu, Hans Schäuffelein and Hans Weiditz. Not the very best copy. Some browning throughout, a little soiled or dampstained in places. Weak spot in title woodcut (without loss). Quite a number of leaves with old backed tears in margins and reinforcements in folds with paper strips.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 99 - Plenarium. - Das new Plenariu(m) oder ewangely buch, so inhaltet alle Ewangelien und Epistelen des gantze(n) iars, sampt alles gesangs aller Messen... Basel, A. Petri, March 8, 1518. fol. With old col. With old col. woodcut title page, 7 almost full-page old col. Woodcuts (incl. 2 repetitions) and 56 further old col. Woodcuts (incl. some repetitions) by Hans Schäufelein and 73 small old col. Woodcuts mostly by Urs Graf, some after Baldung, etc. as well as numerous (86 larger) woodcut initials also old col. 8 no., 278 num. Late. (c. 1900) with gilt stamped title and blind embossing). VD 16, E 4462. Oldenbourg, Schäufelein L 109. Cf. Murray 338 (edition 1514). Not in the BL a. in Adams. - Third edition of this plenarium by Adam Petri, the first under the title "New PIeriarium". With the 5 large, splendid Schäufelein woodcuts (Oldenbourg 492-496, all illustrated): Crucifixion (once again), Pentecost (once again), Nativity, Adoration of the Magi and Christ's Resurrection. - Somewhat trimmed, slightly browned throughout, partly with slight fingerprints, partly stained and waterstained. 3 pp. with tear at lower corner. Corner with loss of text, 2 leaves (1 woodcut) with repaired tear. Tear, title page rubbed at bottom, 1 leaf bottom corner. Lower corner set. From the collection of the Swedish bibliophile Per Hierta, with his eh. Signed entry on one flyleaf, dated 1898. 1898 - Contains on one front and one back flyleaf. Contains 1 ╔woodcut by Albrecht Dürer glued to each front and rear endpaper.╗ Both trimmed to the framing line and glued to the corners. Front endpaper: The small Calvary. Woodcut c. 1503/04. 21.4 x 14.9 cm. With the monogr. below. - Meder 180, 2 (of 2). SMS 131 - Back fly-leaf: Beheading of John the Baptist. Woodcut 1510. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. With the monogr. lower left at the stone bench and the date upper right (indistinct). - Meder 231 k (of k). Probably partly retouched with ink and pencil.

Estim. 4 000 - 6 000 EUR