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Bruxelles, 1854. Lex8vo. Cont. hcalf. Back rubbed. XXIV, 376 (10), XXVII, 446 pp. (Text in Latin a.French).
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Operum moralium et civilium.... - [LARGE-PAPER COPY - FIRST ED. IN LATIN OF ""NOVA ATLANTIS"" AND THE ""ESSAYS""]
London, Edward Griffin [John Haviland, Bernard Norton, and John Bill], Richard Whitaker [& John Norton], 1638. Folio. (Binding: 32x22 cm, leaves: 31,1x20,8 cm.). Contemporary full speckled calf binding with six raised bands and gilt red leather title-label to spine. Boards with blindstamped ornamental border. Scuff marks to boards and hinges worn, so bands showing. Large woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials, printer's devices, and typographical ornaments (that have been of great significance to the Baconians in their attempts to establish Bacon as the author of the works attributed to Shakespeare). Roman and Italic lettering, and some Greek. Several neat inscriptions to front free end-papers and verso of frontispiece, in Latin, Greek, English, and German, dated 1704, 1740, and 1926, the last being a presentation-inscription for the renowned German Bacon-scholar and noted Baconian George J. Pfeiffer. Neat early 18th century inscription to top of title-page. Old description of the copy (1946) neatly pasted on to inside of front board. Vague minor damp-staining to lower margin throughout, far from affecting text, and mostly barely visible. A vague minor dampstain to margins of a few leaves at the beginning, also far from affecting text. All in all a lovely, clean and crisp copy on large paper. Full page engraved frontispiece-portrait + (14), 386 (pp. 177-78 omitted in pagination)"" (16), 475, (1) pp. Fully complete, with separate half-titles for the different works.
Scarce first edition, first issue, on large paper - THE GREAT BOOK COLLECTOR VOLLBEHR'S COPY, GIVEN TO THE IMPORTANT BACONIAN G.J. PFEIFFER - of the monumental first collected edition of the works of Francis Bacon, containing the seminal first printing in Latin of not only his greatly influential ""Nova Atlantis"" (""The New Atlantis"" - often referred to as ""the blueprint for the founding of America""), but also his groundbreaking Essays (""Sermones Fideli"") as well as his history of Henry VII (""Historiam Regni Henrici Septimi"") and his Dialogue on the Holy War (""Dialogum de Bello Sacro""), published by Bacon's literary executor, his close friend William Ramsey, to whom Bacon bequeathed most of his manuscripts. This first edition of his works in Latin is of the utmost importance to Bacon-scholarship and has played a seminal role in the spreading of his works as well as the understanding of two of his greatest achievements, The Essays and The Nova Atlantis, which is usually referred to with its Latin title instead of the English.This magnificent copy with its wide margins contains several interesting inscriptions in different languages. One of them, 19th century, in German states that ""This book is to remind you of the ""15th Century Plot"". When, in 1926, you showed to scholars his collection of 2000 incunables. He is also known as ""Otto H.F. Vollbehr., [...]"" - "" Dated ""N. York City 29/11 26"" And in the same hand, the presentation inscription is continued: ""This ""little book"" is being handed over in friendship to Mr. George J. Pfeiffer the famous ""Bacon-scholar"" in order for him to continue his fruitful studies [...]."" -THE PRESENT COPY THUS EVIDENTLY BEING THE GREAT BOOK COLLECTOR VOLLBEHR'S COPY, GIVEN TO THE IMPORTANT BACONIAN PFEIFFER. ""Vollbehr was a German industrial chemist turned book collector who at the close of World War I found himself with more assets than most. Either in his own collection or through consignment Vollbehr had control of thousands of incunabula. In 1926 Vollbehr came to the United States, bringing with him a collection of 3,000 incunabula to be exhibited at the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago. After the exhibition in Chicago, Vollbehr traveled with the collection by train to several other cities. His last stop was in Washington, and over 100 of the books were exhibited in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress. Vollbehr proposed that if a benefactor would step forward to buy the collection for an American institution for half the asking price of $1.5 million, he would donate the other half. In addition, he would include a complete copy of the Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum as one of the 3,000 incunabula.The Gutenberg Bible which crowned Vollbehr's collection had had only three owners. The first owner was said to have been Johann Fust, who took it to Paris and sold it as a manuscript to a representative of the monks of Saint Blasius. It resided with the monks in the Black Forest until they had to move to St. Paul in Carinthia in the face of the Napoleonic army. Finally, in 1926, Otto Vollbehr purchased the three volumes from the monks for $250,000.In December 1929, a bill was presented to Congress proposing that public funds be used to acquire the Vollbehr collection for the Library of Congress. In June 1930 Congress passed the bill and President Hoover signed it into law. Between July 15 and September 3 the Vollbehr books arrived at the Library of Congress. The Bible, one of three known perfect copies printed on vellum, is one of only a few items that are permanently on display in the Library."" (from the Library of Congress web-site). George J. Pfeiffer, Ph. D., of New York, graduate of Harvard University, and Vice-president of the Bacon Society of America, is considered one of the most important Bacon-scholars of his time. His thorough scientific studies convinced himself and many others that Bacon was in fact the author of the works attributed to Shakespeare. With THE FIRST PRINTING IN LATIN OF ""NOVA ATLANTIS"", Bacon's famous theories of his masterly utopian work became widespread and hugely influential. It had originally been printed, posthumously, in English and appeared at the very end of his ""Sylva Sylvarum"" of 1626, where it was more or less hidden away and quite humbly presented by Rawley, who was responsible for his leftover papers. Rawley's introduction to the Latin edition of the work is quite different from that of the English edition and has had quite an impact upon the reception of the work, a work which came to inspire a totally new philosophical and political genre and which fundamentally changed the way that we view the world. The ""Nova Atlantis"" occupies a unique place within the works of Bacon"" among many other things, it is the only overtly fictional product of his career (if one does not, like Pheiffer, believe that he is actually the true author of the Shakespearean works). The printing of this major work in the history of man's thought is quite interesting and fairly complicated. As mentioned, it appeared at the back of the larger, and much more conform, work ""Sylva Sylvarum"", which was published by his secretary and friend William Rawley shortly after Bacon's death. It does not, however, seem to have much in common with the ""Sylva Sylvarum"", and the ""New Atlantis"" was not even mentioned when that work entered the Stationers' Register on July 4th, 1626.The ""Sylva Sylvarum"" was being compiled during the last couple of years of Bacon's life, and there is evidence to conclude that ""Nova Atlantis"" was being translated into Latin at the same time, whereas it seems that the English version of it was written about a year or two earlier. Although the Latin translation was thus left lying around for quite some years before it was finally printed, perhaps due to the fact that it was an unfinished text, Bacon himself seems to have concerned himself a great deal with the Latin translation of the work (as well as the other works). The appearance of them in the ""universal language"" were, in the words of Bacon himself to be carried out 'for the benefit of other nations', a phrase which is paralleled in the text of ""Nova Atlantis"", as the father of Salomon's House remarks of his relation of the institution's working that 'I giue thee leave to Publish it"" for the Good of other Nations'. And finally does this great work appear to the benefit of all men and all nations, in the universal Latin language, when in 1638 Rawley publishes the ""Operum moralium"", in which his ""Essays"" also appear in Latin for the first time, as does the History of Henry VII, and the Dialogue on the Holy War, two other greatly important works. The printed title of the ""Operum Moralium"" not only informs the reader which texts are included within the volume" Rawley also provides information on the texts themselves, dividing them into two distinct sections (with two separate title-pages). The first section consists of five translations which (apart from De sapientia) had never appeared in Latin translation before" the second section consists in the first part of the ""Instauratio"" (originally published in 1620). The second issue of the ""Operum Moralium"" furthermore has the reissued sheets of the last part of the ""Novum organum"".Rawley's prefatory letter tells us quite a bit about the way that he (and Bacon himself) would like the ""Nova Atlantis"" to be viewed, and for the first time the work is addressed in a direct and assertive manner, bringing it forth as an important philosophical work, now for the first time properly introduced. Rawley informs the reader that Bacon began the process of translating the Essays and the Nova Atlantis, because he wished his moral and political works not to perish. He goes on to explain the importance of the moral and political works being published in the ""universal"" Latin and groups the texts in a new way. He now makes a new category of text for the final two works, ""De bello sacro"" and ""Nova Atlantis"", calling them 'fragmentary', as opposed to the ""Worke Unfinished"" that he used for the English ""Now Atlantis"" of 1626/7, stating that this is at the request of Bacon himself: ""And finally he ordered that two fragments be added, the Dialogue of the Holy War, and the New Atlantis: but he said that these were the three kinds of fragments."", giving to them a certain status of their own and a deliberate character that they had not possessed before. For the first time, the ""Nova Atlantis"", the hitherto hidden-away work that was never properly introduced, is now included in the general preface, which it was not in 1626/27, and the ""Nova Atlantis"" is given the central position within Bacon's works that it deserved - and that it has possessed ever since. This also explains the great impact of the first Latin version of the ""Nova Atlantis"" as opposed to the English version, which was far less influential. Not only is ""Nova Atlantis"" no longer just an unfinished work worthy of no more than being hidden away at the back of a larger work, it is now the central part of a seminal collection of works appearing for the first time in Latin ""for the Good of other Nations"".""Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era. As a lawyer, member of Parliament, and Queen's Counsel, Bacon wrote on questions of law, state and religion, as well as on contemporary politics"" but he also published texts in which he speculated on possible conceptions of society, and he pondered questions of ethics (Essays) even in his works on natural philosophy (The Advancement of Learning).After his studies at Trinity College, Cambridge and Gray's Inn, London, Bacon did not take up a post at a university, but instead tried to start a political career. Although his efforts were not crowned with success during the era of Queen Elizabeth, under James I he rose to the highest political office, Lord Chancellor. Bacon's international fame and influence spread during his last years, when he was able to focus his energies exclusively on his philosophical work, and even more so after his death, when English scientists of the Boyle circle (Invisible College) took up his idea of a cooperative research institution in their plans and preparations for establishing the Royal Society.To the present day Bacon is well known for his treatises on empiricist natural philosophy (The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum Scientiarum) and for his doctrine of the idols, which he put forward in his early writings, as well as for the idea of a modern research institute, which he described in Nova Atlantis."" (SEP). Gibson: 196" Lowndes I:96.
De overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla, in de jaren 1596 en 1597.
Leeuwarden Hugo Suringar 1873
Tiende druk. Boekje. Een gevierd gedicht over de Nederlanders die overwinteren in een houten hut. Zachte covers zijn delicaat en bijna los. 32 pagina's. 170 x 105 mm (6٠x 4Πinches).
Compendium anatomicum nova methodo institutum : ubi ars ipsa capitibus & divisionibus ita illustratur, ut omnia uno quasi intuitu conspiciantur, & eofirmiùs idcirco retineantur ; figuris æneis illustrata
Amstelodami [Amsterdam] Apud Georgium Gallet 1696 Un bel exemplaire de cette première édition. Malheureusement, il manque la page de titre gravée supplémentaire (frontispice)*. Mais les sept planches sont présentes comme prévu. Reliure en plein cuir de l'époque avec décoration et étiquette dorées au dos. Reliure attrayante. Un peu de frottement mais dans l'ensemble en très bon état. Les pages et les planches sont en excellent état. Le titre (imprimé en rouge et noir avec une vignette) porte une signature du Dr Menard datée de 1700. Il y a un petit nombre de marginalia encrés de la même main tout au long de l'ouvrage. John Case (c. 1660-1700) était un astrologue et un médecin charlatan anglais. "Bien qu'il n'y ait aucune preuve que Case ait jamais acquis une qualification médicale, il a néanmoins pris le titre de docteur et a ouvert un cabinet à Ludgate pour vendre des médicaments à un public sans méfiance et sans questionnement. Au Moyen Âge, le terme "charlatan" signifiait "crier", car ces charlatans avaient l'habitude de vendre leurs marchandises sur les marchés en criant pour attirer l'attention. Case a fait de la publicité à profusion pour ses remèdes pendant des décennies et le prix élevé de ses élixirs et remèdes témoigne d'une clientèle régulière et aisée, dont beaucoup cherchaient un remède contre la claudication. Bien qu'il ait prédit la fin du monde, qu'il ait possédé un appareil d'illusionnisme pour effrayer les gens avec des images de leurs amis décédés et qu'il ait vendu des médicaments non éprouvés, il a connu une brève gloire grâce à son Compendium Anatomicum. Dans cet ouvrage, Case défend l'opinion de William Harvey sur De Generatione Animalium (Sur la génération des animaux), publié en 1651, où le médecin et scientifique renommé établit plusieurs théories qui ouvriront la voie à l'embryologie moderne et abordent de nombreuses questions embryologiques, notamment la conception, l'embryogenèse et la génération spontanée. Le travail de Case était tellement supérieur à ses autres ouvrages que certains ont douté de sa paternité". (extrait des archives en ligne de Gonville & Caius, Cambs). *Il semble qu'il y ait une certaine confusion au sujet de la collation, et l'absence du titre gravé semble courante. L'exemplaire de la fondation Wellcome en est également dépourvu. De même que plusieurs anciennes offres de vente aux enchères (par exemple, Sothebys 1984). Cependant, d'autres exemplaires proposés aux enchères portaient ce titre gravé. [Wellcome II, 308 ; Russell 121 semble inclure le frontispice dans le nombre de planches indiqué] [XII], 192, [ii]. pages.
A lovely copy of this first edition. Sadly, lacks the additional engraved title page (frontispiece)*. But has all seven of the plates as called for. Full contemporary leather binding with gilt decoration and label to the spine. Attractive binding. A little rubbing but overall in very good condition. The pages and plates are in excellent, good, clean condition. The title (printed in red and black with a vignette) has an ownership signature for Dr Menard dated 1700. There are a small number of neat inked marginalia in the same hand throughout the book. Text in Latin. John Case (c. 16601700) was an English astrologer and quack doctor. "Although there is no evidence that Case ever acquired a medical qualification, he nonetheless took up the title of Doctor and set up a practice in Ludgate selling medications to the unsuspecting, unquestioning public. The term quack in the Middle Ages meant "shouting", as these charlatans used to sell their wares at markets by shouting to gain attention. Case advertised profusely his remedies over decades and the elevated price of his elixirs and remedies hints at a steady and affluent clientele, many of whom were seeking a cure for the clap. Despite predicting the end of the world, owning an illusionist apparatus to scare people with images of their departed friends and selling unproven medicines, he rose briefly to fame thanks to his Compendium Anatomicum. In here Case defended the opinion of William Harvey's 1651 De Generatione Animalium (On the generation of animals), where the renowned physician and scientist established several theories that would set the stage for modern embryology and addressed many embryological issues including conception, embryogenesis, and spontaneous generation. Case's work was so superior to his other books that some doubted his authorship." (from Gonville & Caius, Cambs. Online archive). *There seems some confusion about collation, and the lack of the engraved title seems common. The Wellcome foundation copy also lacks this. As do several old auction offerings (eg. Sothebys 1984). However other copies offered at auction have had this engraved title. [Wellcome II, 308; Russell 121 appears to include the frontispiece in the number of plates given] [XII], 192, [ii]. pages. .
Itinerarium Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae: huic libro accessére novâ hâc editione : I. Monita peregrinatoria duorum doctissimorum virorum : itemq[ue], II. incerti auctoris Epitome praecognitorum historicorum, antehac non edita.
Noribergae [Nuremburg] Typis Abrahami Wagenmanni, sumptibus sui ipsius & Johan. Güntzelii, 1629 Ouvrage de voyage de Paul Hentzner, avec Daniel Gruber et Hugo Plotius. Première édition donc (Worldcat ne dispose pas d'éditions antérieures de cet ouvrage, mais les registres de vente aux enchères suggèrent que la première partie de cet ouvrage a été publiée pour la première fois en 1612, et qu'il s'agit de la première édition avec les appendices). La partie anglaise de ses voyages a été imprimée plus tard en anglais (en 1757). Les voyages décrits dans la partie principale ont été entrepris par Hentzner, juriste et conseiller du duc Carl de Munsterberg et d'Oels, entre 1597 et 1600. Très bon état. Reliure contemporaine en plein cuir avec titres dorés au dos et étiquette en cuir bordeaux. En très bon état, légèrement frotté. L'intérieur est en très bon état, propre, avec un peu de noircissement et des rousseurs. Pagination. [16], 614, [162] pages, [1] feuillet plié de planches. Au verso se trouve le colophon de l'éditeur avec une vignette gravée. Signatures : [8, A-3C4. (2T2, 3C3 & 3C4 vierges)]. "Dn. Danielis Gruberi Discursus de peregrinatione studiosorum" : p. [47]-[102] à la fin (Tt3--Yy6) ; "Tabula peregrinationis continens capita politica per D. Hugonem Plotium... " : p. [103]-[118] (Yy7-Zz6) à la fin ; "Incerti auctoris Praecognitorum historicorum epitome... " : p. [119]-[157] (Zz77-Ccc2) à la fin. Conforme à WorldCat / OCLC : 17381238. Bibliographies : Graesse III, 243. Stagl 52. - Pas dans Pescarzoli et Tresoldi. Il n'y a pas d'exemplaires disponibles à la vente au moment du catalogage et l'ouvrage n'est apparu qu'une seule fois aux enchères depuis 1980. Paul Hentzner (1558-1623) était un juriste et un écrivain de voyage allemand, surtout connu pour ses récits détaillés sur l'Angleterre de la fin de l'époque élisabéthaine. Né à Crossen, dans le margraviat de Brandebourg, il devient le tuteur d'un jeune noble silésien en 1596. L'année suivante, ils ont entrepris un voyage de trois ans à travers la Suisse, la France, l'Angleterre et l'Italie. L'ouvrage est considéré comme une source historique précieuse, qui donne un aperçu des coutumes, des lieux et des personnes de l'Europe de la fin du XVIe siècle et du début du XVIIe siècle, avec une attention particulière pour l'Angleterre sous le règne de la reine Élisabeth I. Son uvre fournit des descriptions vivantes de la cour, de la société et des paysages anglais. Il a fait l'éloge de l'intelligence et des capacités multilingues de la reine Élisabeth I, la présentant comme un symbole de la prospérité et de la force de l'Angleterre.
A travel work by Paul Hentzner, together with Daniel Gruber & Hugo Plotius. First edition Thus. (Worldcat has no earlier editions of this work, but auction records suggest that the first part of this work was first published in 1612, and that this is the first edition with the appendices). The English portion of his travels was later printed in English (in 1757). His travels, described in the main part, were undertaken by Hentzner, jurist and councillor to Duke Carl of Munsterberg and Oels, between 1597 and 1600. Very good condition. Contemporary full leather binding with gilt titles to the spine and burgundy leather label. In very good, slightly rubbed condition. Internally in very good, clean condition throughout, with a little darkening and foxing only. Pagination. [16], 614, [162] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates. To the rear is the publisher's colophon with engraved vignette. Signatures: [8, A-3C<sup>4. </sup> (2T<sup>2</sup>, 3C<sup>3 </sup>& 3C<sup>4</sup> blank)]. "Dn. Danielis Gruberi Discursus de peregrinatione studiosorum": p. [47]-[102] at end (Tt<sup>3-</sup>-Yy<sup>6</sup>); "Tabula peregrinationis continens capita politica per D. Hugonem Plotium... ": p. [103]-[118] (Yy<sup>7</sup>-Zz<sup>6</sup>) at end; "Incerti auctoris Praecognitorum historicorum epitome... ": p. [119]-[157] (Zz7<sup>7</sup>-Ccc<sup>2</sup>)at end. Conforms to WorldCat / OCLC: 17381238. Bibliographies: Graesse III, 243. Stagl 52. - Not in Pescarzoli and Tresoldi. A scarce work. There are no copies available for sale at the time of cataloguing and it has appeared at auction only once since 1980. 15cm x 9.5cm Paul Hentzner (15581623) was a German lawyer and travel writer, best known for his detailed account of late Elizabethan England. Born in Crossen, in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, he became a tutor to a young Silesian nobleman in 1596. The following year, they embarked on a three-year tour through Switzerland, France, England, and Italy. The work is considered a valuable historical source, providing insights into the customs, places, and people of late 16th and early 17th century Europe, with a particular focus on England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. His work provides vivid portrayals of the English court, society, and landscapes. He praised Queen Elizabeth I's intelligence and multilingual abilities, portraying her as a symbol of England's prosperity and strength. .
Nova typis transacta navigatio Novi orbis Indiae Occidentalis... nunc primum e variis scriptoribus in unum collecta...
[Linz], 1621. 1621 1 vol in-folio (315 x 197 mm) de: 1 titre gravé ; [3] ff. ; 102 pp. ; [3] ff. (dont 1 schéma gravé sur bois à pleine page) ; 18 planches gravées à pleine page numérotées et 1 à demi page. La planche représentant Christophe Colomb avec une carte du monde est signée Wolfgang Kilian. (Traces de mouillures, quelques comblements discrets de galeries de vers). Plein vélin d'époque, dos à nerfs titré à l'encre, encadrement de filets à froid sur les plats avec, frappés à l'encre noire, un médaillon central représentant l'insigne de l'abaye Benedictine de Michaelbeuern (diocèse de Salzbourg) sur le premier plat, et un autre de leurs armes sur le second, tranches rouges, traces de lacets.
Édition originale, deuxième tirage de cette fameuse relation des missionnaires bénédictins qui ont accompagné Christophe Colomb lors de son second voyage vers les Amériques. Bien que jalonné de récits miraculeux, à commencer par la messe célébrée par saint Brendan sur le dos d'une baleine (pl. 2), le récit est plein de détails authentiques des coutumes, de la flore et de la faune des Caraïbes et de ses produits agricoles. Un spécimen de musique est donné aux pages 35-36. L'auteur accuse les récits du protestant de Brys d'être remplis de mensonges, et il insiste sur les cruautés barbares des indigènes à l'appui de la notion que Satan aurait régné sur les religions amérindiennes. Seule la première gravure est signée, par Wolfgang Kilian (1581-1662), maître-graveur d'Augsbourg, mais les autres sont de style comparable et ont probablement été également exécutés par lui. La planche de Kilian montre un portrait complet de Colomb sous un globe ou une carte circulaire, avec l'inscription "Almirante de nauios par las Indias". Bel exemplaire. 1 vol. in-folio (315 x 197 mm) of : 1 engraved title ; [3] ff. ; 102 pp. ; [3] ff. (including 1 full-page woodcut diagram); 18 numbered full-page engraved plates and 1 half-page plate. The plate depicting Christopher Columbus with a world map is signed Wolfgang Kilian. (Traces of wetness, some discrete fillings of wormholes). Contemp. vellum. First Edition, second issue of this famous relation of the Benedictine missionaries who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage to the Americas. Although laced with miraculous accounts, beginning with the mass celebrated by St. Brendan on the back of a whale (pl. 2), the narrative is full of authentic details of Caribbean customs, flora and fauna, and agricultural products. A specimen of music is given on pp. 35-36. The author accuses the Protestant de Brys' accounts of being filled with lies, and dwells on the barbaric cruelties of the natives in support of the notion that Satan ruled the native American religions. Only the first engraving is signed, by Wolfgang Kilian (1581-1662), Augsburg master-engraver, but the others are comparable in style and were probably also executed by him. Kilian's plate shows a full length portrait of Columbus under a globe or circular map, with the inscription Almirante de nauios par las Indias. Fine copy, nicely bound.
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