European historyThere are 10 items
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Vita et gesta Karoli Magni [edited by Hermann von Nuenar]
Cologne, Johannes Soter, 1521First printing of the earliest memoir of Charlemagne (742–814), written perhaps a decade after his death by a former courtier adopting the literary model of Suetonius’ Vita Augusti. The fine title-page illustration, depicting Charlemagne and Charles V together within a border charged with imperial insignia, and also the printer's device, and woodcut initials, were designed and cut by Anton Woensam von Worms (circa 1493/1500–1541).
Bound with San Giorgio, Benvenuto da, conte (1450–1527). De origine Guelphorum, et Gibellinorum. Basel, Andreas Cratander, [January 1519]
Bound with Buonaccorsi, Filippo, called Callimaco Esperiente (1437–1496). Historia de rege Vladislao, seu clade Varnensi. Augsburg, Sigismund Grimm & Marcus Wirsung, [30 May 1519]
Bound with Basse, Heinrich (fl. 1519) Panegiricos genealogiarum illustrium principum domiorum de Anholt. Leipzig, Wolfgang Stöckel, 1519 -
Romische historien Titi liuii mit etlichen newen Translation so kurtzuerschienen jaren im hohen thum Styfft zu Mentz jm latein erfunden und vorhyn nit mer gesehen sein [a free paraphrase by Bernard Schöfferlin, continued by Ivo Wittich, with additions by Nikolaus Fabri Carbach]
Mainz, Johann Schöffer, 1523First printing of a revised and enlarged German translation of Livy's Ab urbe condita, featuring illustrations from woodblocks cut for editions published by Johann Schöffer at Mainz in 1505, and by Johann Grüninger at Strasbourg in 1507, newly married with a large and highly acclaimed set of blocks attributed to Conrad Faber von Creuznach. -
Sommare beschrijuinghe vande triumphelijcke Incomst vanden doorluchtighen ende hooghgheboren Aerts-hertoge Matthias binnen die Princelijcke stadt van Brussele, in t’iaer ons Heeren M.D.LXXVIII. den xviij dach Januarij
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1579A lavishly illustrated description of the triumphal entry into Brussels on 18 January 1578, of Archduke Matthias of Austria (1557-1616), brother of the Emperor Rudolph, to take his oaths as Governor-General of The Netherlands, and of festivities during the days following. Our copy was bound for Ferdinand Hoffmann, baron of Grünpühel and Strechau (1540-1607), whose library comprised at his death more than ten thousand volumes, the modern acquisitions ordinarily bound in green-stained vellum, as here.
Bound with Houwaert, Johan Baptista. Oratie der Ambassadeuren vanden doorluchtighen Prince Matthias Aertshertoge van Oostenrijcke… Verhaelt inden Rijckxdach gehouden tot Wormes, voor die Raetsheeren ghedeputeert by die Princen Electeurs, ende ander Ambassadeurs ende Ghecommitteerde van t'heylich Roomsche Rijcke… Rhetorijckelicke in ons Nederlantsche tale ouerghestelt, door Jean Baptista Houwaert. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1578
Also in the volume is a verse translation by Houwaert of the famous speech delivered (in Latin) on 7 May 1578, by Philippe de Marnix de Sainte Aldegonde (1540-1598), before a delegation of the Diet (Reichstag) of Worms, a fruitless appeal to gain the German princes to the cause of the States-General against the Spanish. Of this work, only five other copies are known.
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Le storie della citta di Firenze… Doue con tutte particolarità, che si possono disiderare si contiene cio che dall’anno 1494. fino all’anno 1531. è successo. Con la Tauola della cose Notabili, e co’ Sommari à ciascun libro[.] Aggiuntoui vn’istruzione per leggere le storie ordinatamente
Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1584Second edition of Nardi’s chief work, an account of the previous century of Florentine history from the standpoint of the defeated Savonarolian republicans. The first edition had been published in Lyon, in 1582, and this reprint is testimony to the new freedom of speech then prevailing in Florence, and extended by Ferdinando I. Our copy has on its title-page the black ink ownership stamp of an unidentified member of the Martelli family of Florence; the family’s exlibris is pasted to an endpaper. The copy presumably was supplied directly by the printer, Bartolomeo de’ Libri (Bartolomeo Sermartelli), who for commercial reasons had adopted the name of his patrons, the Martelli family. -
De Frisiorum antiquitate et origine libri tres
Cologne, House of Birckmann, 1590First edition of this history of the Northern Netherlands, relying on traditional accounts of the origin and identity of the Frisians to prove the ancient autonomy of the region, and justify thereby its independence from the dominant province of Holland. On the title-page and again on the upper cover of our copy, Suffridus Petrus has written presentation inscriptions to Gregor Tengnagel, a lawyer born at Louvain about 1555, who was then employed as a judge of the imperial court in Speyer. Gregor’s books were inherited by his brother Philipp and afterwards passed through the Helfenstein library into the Fürstenberg library at Donaueschingen. -
Turcica : Die europäischen Türkendrucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts. 1. Band. MDI-MDL § … 2. Band. MDLI-MDC § … 3. Band. Die Türkenfrage in der öffentlichen Meinung Europas im 16. Jahrhundert (Bibliotheca bibliographica Aureliana, 19; 23; 70)
Bucharest & Berlin (Bucharest & Baden-Baden), Editura Academiei / Akademie Verlag (Editura Academiei / Librairie Heitz, Editura Academiei / Valentin Koerner), 1961-1978Three volumes (24.5 cm), I (1961): 458 (6) pp., 30 text illustrations. Entries 1-901. II (1968): 807 (1) pp., 38 text illustrations. Entries 902-2463. III (1978): 443 (1) pp., 34 text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jackets. - First editions. Publisher’s retail price €140 (www.koernerverlag.de). ¶ Fine set with minimal traces of use and no marks of ownership. -
Storia d’Italia, VI: Atlante
Turin, Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1976(22 cm), xiv, 873 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth binding. - One volume from the series published by Einaudi 1972-1983 (six volumes in 10). ¶ As new -
Biblioteca istorica della antica e nuova italia : Saggio di bibliografia analitico comparato e critico compilato sulla propria collezione § Repertorio dei personaggi a qualunque titolo menzionati nella "Biblioteca istorica" di Carlo Lozzi. Seguito dal Repertorio delle pubblicazioni anonime registrate nella medesima opera
Sala Bolognese, Arnaldo Forni Editore, 1981-1985Two volumes (22 cm), I: (4) 493 (3) pp. II: (4) 503 (3) pp. Uniform publisher’s blue cloth. - 6508 titles, classified. Facsimile of edition published Imola 1886-1887.Offered with Forni (Arnaldo), Repertorio dei personaggi a qualunque titolo menzionati nella “Biblioteca istorica” di Carlo Lozzi. Seguito dal Repertorio delle pubblicazioni anonime registrate nella medesima opera. Sala Bolognese: Arnaldo Forni Editore, 1985. (22 cm), (2) ix (1), 397 (5) pp. Publisher’s blue cloth (uniform with the main work). - Index of names and “Repertorio delle pubblicazioni anonime”. ¶ Fine set.
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Florence 1138-1737
London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984(29.5 cm), 278 pp., illustrations (most in colour). Publisher’s boards, pictorial dust jacket. - A beautifully illustrated and informative work, originally published as Firenze 1138-1737: L’Impero del Fiorino ([Milan]: A. Mondadori, 1983). ¶ Very good copy. -
O grande terramoto de Lisboa : Ficar diferente
Lisbon, Gradiva, 2005(25 cm), 638 pp., illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - Twenty-seven essays about the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
