Robles, Francisco de
Ratio accentuum...dictionum difficilium
Toledo, Fratres Ferrariensis, 1552 (Palau 271146). Octavo, pergamino de epoca, lomo restaurado. 58 folios; 2 hojas, 167 folios; 1 hoja (colofon)
Segunda edición (primeras en 1533). Reglas de las lenguas Latin, Griego y Hebreico para poder entender la biblia. Very rare, not sold in auction in the last 30 years.
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Alonso X El Sabio
Astronomicae tabulae...
Paris, Wechsel, 1553 (Adams A 734).In quarto. Contemporary vellum. Title in manuscript on spine. (4) 274 (1). Printers device title page & colofon. As bookmarker double coat of arms: hinc occidit, inde resugit (going under here, coming up again elsewhere). Title page & first and last leaves slightly spotted. About 15 leaves with marginal wurmhole. Else fine.
The astronomical tables of Alfonso el Sabio were in reality the tables by the Cordoban astronomer al Zarqali (1029-1087). It was one and who knows the most famous of the various translations of classics from Arabian into Spanish or Latin. At the time the observations of the XI century were updated with data from 1262 and 1272. Of course it followed Ptolomys concept of celestial motion. Those tables were again rewritten in the early XIV century. That text was first printed in 1483 by Ratholt in Venice. Ratholt added John of Saxonys popular canons which completed the Alphonsine tables in various areas (Sothebys, Streeter, 2007). The present edition is the second edition of the update by Hamleius (Duhamel, professor at the University of Paris).
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Ribera, D. de
Escripturas y orden....
Granada, Rabut, 1563 (Palau 266804). En folio, pergamino de epoca. 10 hojas, 101 folios. Portada con escudo y borderes xylografiadas. Letra Gotica; decenas de iniciales en xylografia. Ejemplar lavado y restaurado, ultima hoja en buen facsimile sobre papel antiguo.
Existe una primera edicion editado en Granada en 1560. La bibliografia de este libro sin embargo es complicada, posiblemente porque es tan rara. Palau dice que “todas las ediciones de este libro se han hecho raras” y dice de nuestro ejemplar: en la biblioteca de Don Eduardo Sainz de Zaragoza existia una primera parte, impresa en Granada.. por Rabut in 1563... la segunda parte de esta, quiza segunda edicion, Granada Rabut, 1564 existe en la Biblioteca Nacional, pero no la primera parte”. Palau da por nuestra edicion de Granada por Rabut la colacion de 10 hojas mas 109 folios y la fecha del 20 de junio 1563. El nuestro si embargo es 1563 sin mas, y la colacion completa es 10 hojas, 101 folios. El patrimonio bibliografico da un solo ejemplar de 10 hojas y 98 folios, diciendo que falta el folio XCVIII (98) e adelante. Obviamente hablamos de un libro muy raro en sus primeras ediciones que por su importancia legal tuve muchas reediciones posteriores que empiezan por las ediciones de Luis Sanchez en Madrid en 1596. Su escasez justifica que presentamos nuestro ejemplar, a pesar de sus defectos, con orgullo.
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Granada, Luis de
Collectanea moralis philosophiae
Lisboa, Correa. 1571 (Palau 108090; Anselma 502) ; In octavo. Contemporary vellum ; 12 nn leaves; 494 pages; 1 nn leaf. First edition (which in case of Granada is always rare). Three parts in one volume. Filosophical quotes form famous philosophists: Seneca (first part) Plutarch (second part and others (third part) collected and explained by the famous Dominican Luis de Granada, a gifted religious man and writer.
Fray Luis de Granada (1504-1588) is one of the pillars of culture of XVI century Spain. His writings were very popular and went through many editions in many languages. Still his works were considered on the border of heresy ("hay algunas graves errors que tiene un cierto sabor a heregia...e otros que contradizen a la fe" ). Francisco Correia (or Correa) was "um dos mais notaveis impresores do seculo XVI em Portugal" (Anselmo). Anselmo mentions only three copies in Portugal.
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Granada, Luis de
Ecclesiasticae historicae sive...
Lisboa, Antonio Ribeiro, 1576. (Palau, 108132; Anselmo, 923). In quarto, contemporary vellum. 6/8 nn lvs; 362 pp; 1 nn lve. Lacks two preliminary leaves (licencao e previlegoa de Castela e Aragao, 1572 e 1576). Water stain upper quarter of about 40 leaves. Old underlining in some parts. Else fine.
Rare original (first) edition, written a grand Castellano and a style that reminds us of Erasmus. The book was reprinted in many editions and languages. Fray Luis de Granada (1504-1588) is one of the pilars of culture of XVI century Spain. His writings were very popular and went through many editions in many languages. Still his works were considered on the border of heresy (“hay algunas graves errors que tiene un cierto sabor a heregia…e otros que contradizen a la fe” ). About Antonio Ribeiro: E um dos nossos mais notavias impressores na segunda mitade do seculo XVI (Anselmo, p 267). According to Palau Salamanca and Lisbon both usually claim the first editions of separate texts of Fray Luis de Granada.
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Monardus, Nicolas
Historia medicinal de nuestras Indias Occidentales
Sevilla, Diaz 1580 (Palau 175487; Sabin, 49938). Quarto, 7 nn leaves; 168 lvs. Modern vellum. Title page; a3 and last 2 lvs in manuscript.
Nicolas Monardus was born and raised in Sevilla in 1493, studied medicine in Alcala. He wrote a best selling book on medicinal herbs from the Americas and gave the world the first image of the tobacco plant and a nice image of the armadillo.
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Dell historia della Chinas
Roma, Martinelli, 1586. (Cordier I, p 10; cfr Lust 23; Boxer South China in the sixteenth century). In quarto (27,5x16,5cm), (8) 380 (16) pp. Washed copy, rebound in contemporary vellum. First and last leaves with small restorations, affecting a few letters. Clean, wide margined copy.
First edition in Italian of this instant bestseller. There were three editions in Italian in 1586, one by Bartolome Grassi; one by Vicentio Pellagallo and this one by Giovanni Martinelli. " ces editions ne sont que des exemplaires du meme tirage avec des noms differents; ce qui le prouve c'est que la p 378 est dans tous cifres par erreur 578" (Cordier, I, p 10). Curiously, Lust calls the copy he has seen "in octavo" and gives a much smaller size: 18x10,5 cm). Mendoza (1545-1618) was an Augustinian monk at the court of Rome. Pope Gregory XIII ordered him to collect all that was known at the time about China. Mendoza was never in China. The work consists partly of travel accounts by Augustine and Franciscan monks. Another source as material gathered on China by father Martin de Rada in Fukien. His work became the standard authority at the time. It appears as one of the first general histories/ descriptions of China . " The first, serious survey of China, it ran some 33 editions in Western Europe between 1585 and 1613. Its influence can be imagined" (Lust, nr 23)
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Nova et succincta..historia...Regno China
Frankfurt am Main, Henning. 1589
(Cordier, 14/15; Lust 27; VD 16 G 2658)
In octavo. Book rebound in old vellum. Slight waterstain first half of the book. Small hole in title page restored. Else fine.
First edition in Latin of this instant bestseller. Mendoza was an Augustinian monk at the Rome court. Pope Gregory XIII ordered him to collect all that was known at the time about China... His work became the standard authority at the time.
It appears as one of the first general histories/descriptions of China in Cordier who mentions like 20 editions in Spanish (First, 1585), Italian; French, German and English before this 1589 Latin first edition. " The first, serious survey of China, it ran some 33 editions in Western Europe between 1585 and 1613. Its influence can be imagined" (Lust, nr 23)
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Gallucci, Giovanni Paolo
Della fabrica & del novo horlogio...
Venetia, Perchacino 1590 (Riccardi I, 569; Brunet II, 1468; Poggendorf I, 838; Horblit Collection, Sotheby's, 1974, part 2 nr 433). Quarto, newly bound in old vellum. Free end papers. Two books in one volume. 4 nn lvs; 28 folios; 4 nn lvs; 36 folios. Two title pages with woodcut printer device, initials historiated in woodcut. With two original moving parts and many woodcut illustrations. Fine copy.
Gallucci (1538-1621) was a productive scientist, especially known for his Theatrum Mundi, a book on astronomy. He was a co-founder of the Academy of Sciences in Venice.
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Fernandez, Juan Bautista
Primera parte demostractiones catolicas
Logroño, Mathias Mares, 1593. (Palau 87895). En folio, pergamino de epoca, 3 hojas, 395 folios, 27 folios. Portada grabada (F.P. Bredel). Colofon (Ddd8) impreso con licencia... con xilografia (San Francisco recibe las signaturas). Completo.
Primera e unica edicion de este obra del Franciscano Juan Bautista Fernandez de religion polemico.
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