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INCUNABULA.
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the year 1492. Some cuts are here printed for fthe first time: On 1. B8 Durdi
subtile bildung seint abgotterey vffkommen; on 1. BG Wie Joseph oerkaufft ward; on 1. C’v
Hercules; on 1. D4 The stoning of Zacharias. The curious large cut on 1. 1 v represents a blind
beggar with a staff and a rosary. The other cuts in the text represent the Ark, the Tower of
Babel, the view of Nineveh, Rome, Syracuse etc., the Salvator (1. numb. 49), a dog-man, and
a comet.
“The Fasciculus Temporum, a summary of universal history, with fuller notes on recent
events, was written by Werner Rolewinck, a Carthusian of Cologne, who . . . lived till 1502. The
first edition of the Fasciculus was printed in 1474 by Therhoernen.” (Cat. Hawkins p. 19.)
Well preserved copy, a small wormhole running through the top of the blank margin, in
1. T1 a rent repaired without any loss of text. The cuts are in this copy all uncoloured.
See Reproduction on plate XIV.
98 SACRO BOSCO, JOHANNES DE, (John Holywood) of Halifax. Sphaera mundi,
cum commento Wenceslai Fabri de Budweiss. Leipzig, Wolfgang
Stockel, 1499.
4to. Gothic letter, 39 lines, 50 11. with sign., the last blank. Capital spaces.
With a full-page woodcut on verso of the title, 27 very inter-
esting astronom i cal woodcut diagrams, comprising two maps
of the world, and the printer’s device at end. Old Vellum. Frs.1000.—
Hain (not seen) -Cop. 14123. Proctor 3065. Brit. Mus. Cat. Ill, p. 655. Schreiber 4392.
Very rare edition of this important cosmographical work. The full-page woodcut on vers*
of title represents the „sphaera mundi“ supported by two angels. The very interesting
woodcut diagrams represent constellations, eclipses and geometrical figures, on I. E4 and H1 there
are two very curious maps of the world showing Asia, Africa, and Europe. The lettering
in all these diagrams is also in woodcut.
The author, Joh. de Sacro Bosco, lived in the 13th cent. He studied at Oxford and was
afterwards professor of mathematics at the University of Paris. His work ,de sphaera" was the
second astronomical work to be printed. It gained a great reputation at that time.
Large copy, a few old marginal notes, the last 11. stained, in the two last 11. a wormhole
with loss of a few letters.
2 copies in U. S. A. (acc. to Census).
See Reproduction on plate XIV.
98a SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS. Opera et epistolae. Naples, Mathias Moravus,
1475.
Fol. Roman letter, 46 lines, 144-{-108 unn. 11., in all 252 11. without signa-
tures. The first and the last blank 11. wanting. Old brown calf, gilt back (XVII**»
cent.) Frs. 6000.—
Hain-Cop. 14590. Proctor 6694. Giustiniani p. 108—111. Fava e Bresciano II, p. 94 ff.
Dibdin, Bibl. Spenceriana II, p. 338 ff. Dibdin, Greek & Latin Classics II, p. 391.
EDITIO PRINCEPS.
Magnificent specimen of an delicately printed product from the Neapolitan press of
Moravus, with full colophon. It is the second product from this press printed with its fine first
Roman type.
“The Moral Works and the Epistles of Seneca were published by different printers, in
separate publications, during the same year, namely 1475. Count Reviczky thought that, as the
edition of the Epistles by Pannartz was published in Febr. 1475, it should claime chronological
precedence; but the very opposite inference must be drawn. The Parisian impression of the
Epistles, of 1475, does not specify the month in the colophon; and therefore it may not be any
violation of chronological order to give precedency to the present production. The rarity and
worth of this first impression of the entire Moral Works and Epistles of Seneca, are acknow-
ledged to be considerable. . . . This edition exhibits the grandest specimen of the Roman type
of Moravus with which I am acquainted" (Dibdin, Bibl. Spenc.)
Our copy is erroneously dated M. C. LXX1IIII. Dibdin says in his “Introduction to the
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.
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the year 1492. Some cuts are here printed for fthe first time: On 1. B8 Durdi
subtile bildung seint abgotterey vffkommen; on 1. BG Wie Joseph oerkaufft ward; on 1. C’v
Hercules; on 1. D4 The stoning of Zacharias. The curious large cut on 1. 1 v represents a blind
beggar with a staff and a rosary. The other cuts in the text represent the Ark, the Tower of
Babel, the view of Nineveh, Rome, Syracuse etc., the Salvator (1. numb. 49), a dog-man, and
a comet.
“The Fasciculus Temporum, a summary of universal history, with fuller notes on recent
events, was written by Werner Rolewinck, a Carthusian of Cologne, who . . . lived till 1502. The
first edition of the Fasciculus was printed in 1474 by Therhoernen.” (Cat. Hawkins p. 19.)
Well preserved copy, a small wormhole running through the top of the blank margin, in
1. T1 a rent repaired without any loss of text. The cuts are in this copy all uncoloured.
See Reproduction on plate XIV.
98 SACRO BOSCO, JOHANNES DE, (John Holywood) of Halifax. Sphaera mundi,
cum commento Wenceslai Fabri de Budweiss. Leipzig, Wolfgang
Stockel, 1499.
4to. Gothic letter, 39 lines, 50 11. with sign., the last blank. Capital spaces.
With a full-page woodcut on verso of the title, 27 very inter-
esting astronom i cal woodcut diagrams, comprising two maps
of the world, and the printer’s device at end. Old Vellum. Frs.1000.—
Hain (not seen) -Cop. 14123. Proctor 3065. Brit. Mus. Cat. Ill, p. 655. Schreiber 4392.
Very rare edition of this important cosmographical work. The full-page woodcut on vers*
of title represents the „sphaera mundi“ supported by two angels. The very interesting
woodcut diagrams represent constellations, eclipses and geometrical figures, on I. E4 and H1 there
are two very curious maps of the world showing Asia, Africa, and Europe. The lettering
in all these diagrams is also in woodcut.
The author, Joh. de Sacro Bosco, lived in the 13th cent. He studied at Oxford and was
afterwards professor of mathematics at the University of Paris. His work ,de sphaera" was the
second astronomical work to be printed. It gained a great reputation at that time.
Large copy, a few old marginal notes, the last 11. stained, in the two last 11. a wormhole
with loss of a few letters.
2 copies in U. S. A. (acc. to Census).
See Reproduction on plate XIV.
98a SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS. Opera et epistolae. Naples, Mathias Moravus,
1475.
Fol. Roman letter, 46 lines, 144-{-108 unn. 11., in all 252 11. without signa-
tures. The first and the last blank 11. wanting. Old brown calf, gilt back (XVII**»
cent.) Frs. 6000.—
Hain-Cop. 14590. Proctor 6694. Giustiniani p. 108—111. Fava e Bresciano II, p. 94 ff.
Dibdin, Bibl. Spenceriana II, p. 338 ff. Dibdin, Greek & Latin Classics II, p. 391.
EDITIO PRINCEPS.
Magnificent specimen of an delicately printed product from the Neapolitan press of
Moravus, with full colophon. It is the second product from this press printed with its fine first
Roman type.
“The Moral Works and the Epistles of Seneca were published by different printers, in
separate publications, during the same year, namely 1475. Count Reviczky thought that, as the
edition of the Epistles by Pannartz was published in Febr. 1475, it should claime chronological
precedence; but the very opposite inference must be drawn. The Parisian impression of the
Epistles, of 1475, does not specify the month in the colophon; and therefore it may not be any
violation of chronological order to give precedency to the present production. The rarity and
worth of this first impression of the entire Moral Works and Epistles of Seneca, are acknow-
ledged to be considerable. . . . This edition exhibits the grandest specimen of the Roman type
of Moravus with which I am acquainted" (Dibdin, Bibl. Spenc.)
Our copy is erroneously dated M. C. LXX1IIII. Dibdin says in his “Introduction to the
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.
