WEB AUCTION 118 - LIBRI E AUTOGRAFI

SERAFINO BERTOLINI
La Rosa Peruana, Roma, Per Il Tinassi, 1666

4°


Contemporary limp vellum, with handwritten title on the spine, partially disbound. Slight waters stains all over the book, otherwise good copy.

ANTONIUS CONCIìOLUS
Resolutiones Criminales, Macerata, Eredi Grifei-Piccini, 1667


Contemporary velum, an ancient restoration of the 4-rib spine, very fine copy, some slight foxing. PP. 47/52 old restorations and tears but the text not missing.

TRANQUILLUS AMBROSINUS
Processus Informativus, Roma, Typis Michaelis Herculis, 1667

Complete.


Contemporary limp vellum, with manuscripted title on the spine and handwritten on the cover.


Good copy

JOANNES KINNAMOS (c. 1143 - c. 1185)

Joannis Cinnami imperatorii grammatici historiarum libri sex, seu De rebus gestis a Joanne et Manuele Comnensis [...]Accedunt Caroli Du Fresne, D. Du Cange [...] in Nicephori Bryennii caesaris Annae Comnenae caesarissae, & ejusdem Joannis Cinnami Historiam Comnenicam notae historicae & philologicae. His adiungitur Pauli Silentiarii descriptio sanctae Sophiae, quae nunc primum prodit Graece & Latinae, cum uberiori commentario. Parisiis, e Typographia Regia, curante Sebastiano Mabre-Cramoisy, eiusdem typographiae directore, 1670

§ Folio (440 x 300 x 60.); [22], 602, [32] pp., signature: ã1-6, ẽ1-4, ĩ1, A-Z1-4, Aa-Zz1-4, AAa-ZZz1-4, AAaa-IIii1-4 KKkk1-5. Large engraved coat-of-arms on title page, large engraved head- and tail-pieces, engraved initials, two engraved illustrations (a map of Constantinople and a profile of Hagia Sophia). Partially parallel Greek and Latin text. Contemporary red morocco, gilt coat-of-arms and fillets with decorative corners on both covers, gilt spine. 2 stamps and old ownership annotation (dated 1680) on title page, some browning / foxing as usual but a good / very good copy in a magnificent binding.

First complete edition of Joannes Kinnamos Byzantine chronicle, covering the years 1118-1176, during the reigns of John II (1087 - 1143) and Manuel I Komnenos (1118 - 1180), until Manuel's unsuccessful campaign against the Turks, which ended with the disastrous Battle of Myriokephalon (September 17, 1176). This chronicle had been originally created as a continuation of the Alexiad, written around 1148 by Princess Anna Komnene (1083 - 1153), daughter of the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1048/1056 - 1118). The volume contains also the editio princeps of the description of the Church of Saint Sophia of Costantinople (Hagia Sophia), an ekphrasis of 1029 hexameters with a 134 iambic trimeters introduction by Paulos Silentiarios (d. 580 AD), recited at the second dedication of the building, in 562 AD.
This magnificent book is part of the celebrated series of 24 volumes, printed between 1648 and 1711, forming the Corpus Byzantinae Historiae.
The present copy preserves, almost intact, the original red morocco leather binding, with richly gilt back and gilt coat of arms of Marc-Antoine Mazenod (XVIIth century) on both covers. Mazenod was lawyer at the Parliament and at the royal court of Lyon. After his death, this volume, perhaps as well as a large portion of his library, became property of the Jesuit's College of Lyon, as it is stated by a manuscript note on the titlepage.
Ref: Brunet I, 1435 (14); Hoffmann II, 429; OCLC 314617783; OHR 1520 (for the coat of arms).

CASPAR MANZ
Commentarius Ratio.Regularis, Nonimberga, Fredrick Endter, 1673

folio, 17th century half vellum

good copy
2 volumes

GALEAZZO GUALDO PRIORATO
Teatro Del Belgio, Frankfurt, S.T., 1673

folio, modern half vellum



Tile page and three plates missing, present all 120 engraving of fortifications of all important cities and towns.

GULIELMUS DONDINI
Historia De Rebus In Galliae Gestis, Roma, Apud Nicolaum Angelum Tynassi, 1673



Contemporary half calf, complete with an engraved frontispiece and five folding plates. Very fin

OVIDIUS (43 BC - 17/18 AD), CHARLES LE BRUN (1619-1690) SEBASTIEN LE CLERC THE ELDER(1637-1714), FRANÇOIS CHAUVEAU (1613-1676), CHARLES LEBRUN (1619-1690), ISAAC DE BENSERADE (1613-1691)

Metamorphoses d’Ovide en rondeaux imprimez et enrichis de figures par ordre de sa majesté, et dediez à Monsieur le Dauphin A Paris, de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1676


§ 4to (220 x 305); [12], 463, [18] pp. Signature: [no sign.]1-6, A-Z1-4, Aa-Zz1-4, AAa-NNn1-4. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title page (coat-of-arms of Louis XIV), 2 large engraved tail-pieces, about 226 engraved illustrations. Frontispiece signed by Charles Le Brun (artist) and Sebastien Le Clerc (engraver). Some of the illustrations signed by Sebastien Le Clerc (artist and engraver) and François Chaveau (artist and engraver). Contemporary calf, gilt coat-of-arms of Louis XIV on both covers, spine gilt. Very good copy.

First edition, beautifully illustrated. Benserade was a French poet, writer and playwright; he composed several ballets, which thanks to him became a true literary genre, and collaborated with Lully. The Metamorphoses, as the same Benserade had expected, had no success and it was this failure that prompted him to retire to his house in Gentilly.
Ref. Brunet IV, 288; Graesse, V, p. 90; Schweiger, III, p. 700-701; Benserade: les Métamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux

CARLO CESARE MALVASIA
Felsina Pittrice, Bologna, Eredi Domenico Barbieri, 1678
4°, modern half canvas

good copy
first volume only (of 3)

CARLO CELANO
Degli Avanzi Delle Poste, Venezia, Giacomo Zinia, 1678



Complete.


Worm holes, moderate foxing. Partially disbound. Copertina di cartonato d’attesa.


Nice copy.

FRANCESCO REDI (1626-1697)
Lettera intorno all’invenzione degli occhiali scritta da Francesco Redi all’illustriss. Signor Paolo Falconieri. In Firenze, per Francesco Onofri stampatore Granducale, 1678


§ 4to (245 x 175); 14, [2] pp (last blanks); signature: A-B1-4 (B4 blank). Large engraved printer’s device on title page, large engraved heraldic head-piece, woodcut initial. Original boards. Unimportant foxing. Fine copy.

The famous controversy on the invention of spectacles began around 1668, when the philologist Carlo Roberto Dati (1619 - 1676) dedicated to his friend and colleague Francesco Redi one of his learned dissertation called vigils (veglie), concerning the invention of spectacles. In it mention is made for the first time of what would appear to be the oldest known reference to the manufacture of spectacles - produced by the Dominican friar Alessandro della Spina (d. 1286) -, as observed in a XIV century chronicle of the convent of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Pisa (now MS 78 of the Biblioteca Cateriniana of Pisa, leaf 13r).
The Dati’s vigil remained unpublished until 1780 but when Redi disclosed the research contained in it through the present Lettera, he gave rise to a contention that lasted for over two centuries.
Like Galileo, Redi used the Italian language with mastery, both in his scientific works and in the consultations, he produced as a practicing physician.
Ref; Brunet IV, 1175; Gamba 825 : “Prima e rara edizione”; Prandi 19; Razzolini-Bacchi della Lega, p. 288.

DANIELLO BARTOLI (1608-1685)

Del suono de’ tremori armonici e dell’udito. Trattati del P. Daniello Bartoli dellla compagnia di Giesu. In Roma, a spese di Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, 1679


§ 4to (200 x 140.); [16], 330, [2] pp.; signature: a-b1-4, A-Z1-4, Aa-Rr1-4, Ss1-6 (numbered Ss1-2, Tt1-4). Small woodcut on title page, woodcut tail-pieces and initials, several schematic woodcut illustrations. Contemporary vellum. Inner hinges loosening, very small worm-hole on last page and free leaves. Fine copy.

First edition. Daniello Bartoli, a Jesuit, was the official historian of the Jesuit order and the rector of the Collegio Romano from 1671 to 1673. Beyond his famous historical work on the first century of Jesuit activity and several moral and religious treatises, he wrote some books of scientific subject, such as barometric experiments, acoustics and about phenomena linked to freezing. The present work is the first extensive treatise on acoustics, discipline generally neglected during the XVI and the XVII century. Bartoli devised a series of ingenious experiments to study the movement of sound through bodies of different densities, the speed of sounds different in loudness, pitch and timbre; the form and transmission of sounds and the rules governing harmonic and sympathetic vibrations.. Bartoli was the first to demonstrate that sounds can be conducted through solid bodies as well as through air; he denies Kircher’s and Gassendi’s assertion that loud sounds are endowed with more speed than subdued ones.. A large section is dedicated to the anatomy of the ear, where Bartoli borrows much from Bartholin and Realdo Colombo, but recognizes for the first time the function of the Eustachian tube in the ventilation of tympanic cavity. Ref: DSB I, 483-484; Honeyman 233; Wellcome II, 109; Zeitlinger 4395 (2nd supplement): “Rare”; Gamba 1775; Vinciana 1512.

MARTENS FRIEDRICH
Viaggio di Spizberga o Grolanda fattola Federico Martens amburghese l’anno 1671.
In Venezia, Iseppo Prodocimo 1680

In-16 16x9.4 cm
A rare account of the FIRST JOURNEY TO GREENLAND in modern times and the first book in which whaling is described. This edition was published in the same year as the Bologna princeps edition. Of extreme rarity, only 3 copies are recorded in Italian public libraries.
Coeval hardback, with barbe.

FRANCISCUS MARIA PECCHIUS
Tractatus De Aquaeductu, Ticinii Regii, Ex Officina Andreae Magri, 1681

folio, contemporary hard vellum

fine copy
3 volumes . first edition, spine restored

JACOBUS SPONIUS
Miscellanea Eruditae Antiquitatis, Lyon, Sumptibus Auctoris, 1685


Contemporary vellum with 6-rib spine, engraved on the front. Perfect copy with illustrated plates.

CHARLES HENRY FRANÇOIS DESMARTINS

L’expérience de l’architecture militaire, où l’on apprendra à fonds la méthode de faire travailler dans les places…. Paris, Maurice Villery, 1685


§ 12mo; 14 double-page engraved plates. Contemporary calf, gilt spine. Fine copy.

First edition.. Almost nothing is known about the author but his position of commissaire ordinaire des guerres (military personnel and officials responsible for military administration, accounting, stewardship and logistics) and, surprisingly, as inventor of games (war games, naturally). It is thanks to this activity and the discovery of a previous unknown set of card that it is possible to gather few more information about Desmartins: “Charles François Henry Desmartins is not the most famous inventor of 17th century games. ... In fact, we do not know the date of his birth, nor the date of his death. In February 1673, he received a thirty-year privilege for the manufacture and sale of a game ... He was then qualified as “commissaire ordinaire des guerres” [ordinary commissioner of wars Ref: Jordan n. 877; Thierry Depaulis and Maxime Préaud Découverte d’une rareté de la carte à jouer du XVIIe siècle français In: Nouvelles de l’estampe 254 (2016) pp. 18-36

francesco Redi (1626-1697)

Osservazioni intorno alle vipere fatte da Francesco Redi Gentiluomo Aretino, Accademico della Crusca, rivedute dall’autore, e da lui scritte in una lettera all’Illustr. Sig. Conte Lorenzo Magalotti Gentiluomo della Camera e ora Cavalier Trattenuto del Serenissimo Granduca di Toscana. Firenze, per Piero Matini all’Insegna del Leone, 1686. Bound with: The same Lettera di Francesco Redi accademico della Crusca sopra alcune opposizioni fatte alle sue osservazioni intorno alle vipere. In Firenze, Per Piero Matini, 1685


§ Two parts in one volume, 4to (250 x 180 ); 66.; 31, [3] pp. (last 2 blanks); signature: π1-2, A-G1-4, H1-3, [H4], leaf H4 title page of the second part; A-D1-4 (D4 blank). Large-size engraved printer’s device on first title page, woodcut head - and tail-pieces and initials; title pages in red and black. Contemporary vellum, gilt frame and gilt fleurons in the corner of both covers. Very fine copy.

Originally published in 1664, these Observations on vipers are to be considered as one of the first work dealing with experimental toxicology..The experiments conducted on specimens of vipera aspis L. arrived from Naples in 1663 to the Ducal Pharmacy (superintended by Redi himself), showed that the poisoning resulted from the inoculation through the bloodstream of the stagnant liquid in the sheaths of the reptile teeth, while the poison was completely harmless if ingested. Moreover the beliefs about the therapeutic virtues traditionally attributed to the viper by-products used for the preparation of theriaca were denied.
In 1669 the French apothecary Moyse Charas (1619 - 1698) published his Nouvelles expériences sur la vipère (Paris, chez l’Auteur et Olivier de Varennes), stating that the stagnant liquid in the sheaths of viper's teeth, in itself harmless, was transformed into a deadly serum by animal spirits altered by the snake's anger. Redi replied in 1670 with the Lettera constituting the second part of the present volume that reaffirmed the validity of the many experiments carried out, from which he proved the lethal effects caused even by the poison extracted from dead vipers. Ref: Brunet IV, 1174-1175; Gamba 819 and 821; Krivatsy 9462; Prandi 4 and 14.

GIUSEPPE URCEOLO
Consultationes Forenses, Ginevra, Samuel De Touirnes, 1686


Complete.


Contemporary hard vellum


Five-ribs on the spine with manuscripted title


Moderate foxing due to paper quality


Fair copy

SARDI, PIETRO
L'Artiglieria, divisa in tre libri. Nel Primo dei quali, si discorre sopra le Macchine Antiche, et
Armi da offendere. Nel secondo si tratta, che cosa sia Artiglieria ... Nel Terzo Libro si tratta
con somma facilità .. dell' Uso di tale Artiglieria.
Bologna, Gio. Parisini all’insegna della Rosa, 1689.

Folio 37x24.7 cm
Contemporary vellum with covered spine and handwritten title, slight halo at top and bottom corners, signs of usage and small marginal restorations, 3 tables trimmed in the outer margin, however still a
fair copy; ex-libris. Engraved frontispiece with a portrait of the author within 2 cannons, surmounted by the coat of arms of the city of Bologna, to whose senate the publisher and engraver (?) Antonio Maria Orsoni, 'bombardier' in force in the city, who monogrammed the plates. pp. (14 incl. Frontispiece), 142 and 2 original bb., with 23 engraved plates, some of which are full-page, and 4 overleaf (there should actually be 9, but 5 of these are included in the numbering system).

MICHELANGELO DE LA CHAUSSE
Museum Sive Thesaurus, Roma, Jean Jacob Komarek, 1690

folio


Contemporary five-rib calf, with gilded ornaments on the spine, damaged. The volume is complete with all engraved plates depicting the artefacts of Roman museums. Very good copy except for the plate 1 after the page 124 marked with the blue pen.

ANGELO MARIA LENTI
Aspetti Di Compunzione Di Sacre Poesie, Fermo, Andrea De Monti, 1692



Contemporary veLlum, with handwritten title on the spine, pp. 397/400 missing portion of text, some stains and foxing. One plate. Fair/good copy.

GIOVANNI PIETRO DE CRESCENZI
Il Nobile Romano, Bologna, Eredi Di Antonio Pisarri, 1693

folio


Contemporary vellum, partially unbound. Some stains inside the book. Overall good copy.

Cesare Cittadella (1732-1809)


Catalogo istorico de' pittori e scultori ferraresi e delle opere loro con in fine una nota esatta delle più celebri Pitture delle Chiese di Ferrara. Tomo I-IV In Ferrara, Per Francesco Pomatelli,1782-1783






§ 4 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (12x18x3; 12x18x5 cm.); 1st vol.: title pge, 42, 197, [5] pp.(last 2 blanks); title page, vi, 246 pp. Signature: []1, A-O1-8, P1-10 (P10 blank); A-P1-8, Q1-4. 2nd vol.: title page, vi, 326, [2] pp.; title page, iv, 344, [4] pp., signature: []1, A-Y1-8, X1-7; A-Y1-8. Title pages within ornamental woodcut frame, signed Luigi Ughi, 25 engraved portrait of Ferrarese painters. Contemporary vellum, gilt title piece on spines. Title piece of the 1st volume missing, of the second one frayed. Quire N1-8 of the first part misbound after O8. Small stain on white lower margin of leaf D1 of the first part. Fine copy.



First edition. The author, Cesare Cittadella, was a priest and, according to Ughi, a poet of some reknown. Ornamental title pages frames signed Luigi Ughi. Ughi (the same painter or an homonimous?) describes the origin of the work: the memoirs of Carlo Brisighella came into into the hands of the Archpriest Girolamo Baruffaldi, who added his own supplement and on this basis Cittadella wrote the present work. The editorial vicissitudes of Brisighella works, however, seem to be more complicated than what reported by Ughi and Varese not only does not mention Baruffaldi Vite de' pittori (published much later, in 1844) as the basis of Cittadella’s work, but reports as the latter was published (according to Cittadella himself) precisely to remedy the absence (due to the non-publication of Baruffaldi’s work) of a work dealing with the unjustly ignored Ferrarese artists.


& Graesse II, p. 189; Luigi Ughi Dizionario storico degli uomini illustri ferraresi nella pietà, nelle arti, e nelle scienze colle loro opere, o fatti principali: compilato dalle storie, e da manoscritti originali Ferrara, eredi di Giuseppe Rinaldi 1804, p. 130; Novelli, Maria Angela Description of the Paintings and Sculptures of the City of Ferrara by Carlo Brisighella

ANDREAS
Specimen Universae Rei Nummariae, Lipsia, J Thomas Fritsch, 1695

8°


Contemporary hard vellum with hand-written title on the 7-rib spine, slightly damaged. Burnished pages. Otherwise good copy.