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INCUNABULA.
Voullieme. The only description we find is in M. Claudin’s History of Printing in
France in the XVth <& XVIth Cent., vol. II, pp. 244, 246, 254 where it is ascribed to the
press of Et. Jehannot who was printing at Paris between 1495 and 1497. The work itself
is the most popular Antisemitic publication of the middle ages and passed through a
great number of editions. It consists of an apocryphal letter that was supposed to have
been sent in the year 1000 A. D. from Rabbi Samuel of Morocco to Rabbi Isaac and to
have been translated from the Arabic in the year 1338 by Alphonsus de Bonihominis,
a Dominician Monk. Its object is the refutation of Judaism from Scripture, espe-
cially the Old Testament.
Fine large and clean copy (washed) with very broad margins, in a splendid
French binding.
No copy in U. S. A- according to Census.
72 SAVONAROLA, GIOV. MICH. De omnibus mundi balneis. Venice,
Christophorus de Pensis (de Mandello). (1496.)
Folio. Roman letter, double columns of 59 lines, 32 leaves with
foliation and sign., capital spaces, with guide-letters. Half vellum.
Frs. 480. -
Hain-Cop. * 14492 (=Hain * 14495). Proctor 5241. Brit. Mus. Cat. of Incun. V,
470 (. . . “The year of issue is pretty certainly 1496 and not 1497, as Hain, followed by
Proctor, assumes”).
Scarce edition of one of the earliest books relating to balneology. The author,
Michele Savonarola (about 1390—1462), was physician at Padua and Ferrara and wrote
several important medical works. He was the grandfather of the celebrated reformer
and martyr Girolamo S. — We quote some chapter-headings: De balneo calido
simplicis aquae. — De balneo igneo sicco. — De naturis & proprietatibus balnearum
naturalium. — De sale. — De cinere. — De gipso. — De balneis sancti Bartholomei.
— De balneis pisanis. — De balneis urbis veteris. — De balneis aquae maris. — De
pronosticis utrum balnea anno futuro erunt salubria. — Etc. etc.
A clean and perfect copy, slightly wormed in margins, but very well preserved
and with many rough edges.
73 SAVONAROLA, GIOV. MICH. De pulsibus, urinis ef egestionibus.
Venice, Christophorus de Pensis (de Mandello), 1497.
Fol. Roman letter, double columns of 61 lines and head-tine,
44 unn. 11. with sign, and MS. foliation, capital spaces. Half vellum.
Frs. 500.—
Hain-Cop.* 14491. Proctor 5240. Brit. Mus. Cat. of Incun. V, 470—71. Voullidme,
Berl. 4303.
Notes of ownership on title, wormed throughout but a good and perfect copy
of this rare edition. Engrav. armorial bookplate pasted on title leaf.
Only three copies in American Census.
KATALOG Nr. 180 DES BUCH- UND KUNSTANTIQU ARI ATES
INCUNABULA.
Voullieme. The only description we find is in M. Claudin’s History of Printing in
France in the XVth <& XVIth Cent., vol. II, pp. 244, 246, 254 where it is ascribed to the
press of Et. Jehannot who was printing at Paris between 1495 and 1497. The work itself
is the most popular Antisemitic publication of the middle ages and passed through a
great number of editions. It consists of an apocryphal letter that was supposed to have
been sent in the year 1000 A. D. from Rabbi Samuel of Morocco to Rabbi Isaac and to
have been translated from the Arabic in the year 1338 by Alphonsus de Bonihominis,
a Dominician Monk. Its object is the refutation of Judaism from Scripture, espe-
cially the Old Testament.
Fine large and clean copy (washed) with very broad margins, in a splendid
French binding.
No copy in U. S. A- according to Census.
72 SAVONAROLA, GIOV. MICH. De omnibus mundi balneis. Venice,
Christophorus de Pensis (de Mandello). (1496.)
Folio. Roman letter, double columns of 59 lines, 32 leaves with
foliation and sign., capital spaces, with guide-letters. Half vellum.
Frs. 480. -
Hain-Cop. * 14492 (=Hain * 14495). Proctor 5241. Brit. Mus. Cat. of Incun. V,
470 (. . . “The year of issue is pretty certainly 1496 and not 1497, as Hain, followed by
Proctor, assumes”).
Scarce edition of one of the earliest books relating to balneology. The author,
Michele Savonarola (about 1390—1462), was physician at Padua and Ferrara and wrote
several important medical works. He was the grandfather of the celebrated reformer
and martyr Girolamo S. — We quote some chapter-headings: De balneo calido
simplicis aquae. — De balneo igneo sicco. — De naturis & proprietatibus balnearum
naturalium. — De sale. — De cinere. — De gipso. — De balneis sancti Bartholomei.
— De balneis pisanis. — De balneis urbis veteris. — De balneis aquae maris. — De
pronosticis utrum balnea anno futuro erunt salubria. — Etc. etc.
A clean and perfect copy, slightly wormed in margins, but very well preserved
and with many rough edges.
73 SAVONAROLA, GIOV. MICH. De pulsibus, urinis ef egestionibus.
Venice, Christophorus de Pensis (de Mandello), 1497.
Fol. Roman letter, double columns of 61 lines and head-tine,
44 unn. 11. with sign, and MS. foliation, capital spaces. Half vellum.
Frs. 500.—
Hain-Cop.* 14491. Proctor 5240. Brit. Mus. Cat. of Incun. V, 470—71. Voullidme,
Berl. 4303.
Notes of ownership on title, wormed throughout but a good and perfect copy
of this rare edition. Engrav. armorial bookplate pasted on title leaf.
Only three copies in American Census.
KATALOG Nr. 180 DES BUCH- UND KUNSTANTIQU ARI ATES
