WEB AUCTION 118 - LIBRI E AUTOGRAFI

CONRADUS LANCELOTTUS
De Decurionibus, Venezia, Apud Io. Baptista Somaschum, 1563



4°


Contemporary hard vellum, with handwritten title on the spine, rebound. Some water stains, otherwise good copy.

MATTHIAS WESENBECK
Paratitla In Pandectarum Iuris Civilis Libros Quinquacinta, Basilea, Per Ioannem Oporinum, 1563

folio


Contemporary hard vellum, damaged. Extensive water stains all over the book, folds. Fair copy.

GIROLAMO RUSCELLI
Lettere Di Principi, Venezia, Giordano Ziletti, 1564

4°


1 volume of 3. Contemporary limp vellum, with claws and hand-written title on the spine. Good copy.

AULUS GELLIUS
Noctes Atticae, Venezia, Giorgio De' Cavalli, 1565





Complete.


Contemporary limp vellum


Title manuscripted on spine


Remnant of clasps


Warm holes on about twenty pages


Fine copy

TOBIAS NONIUS
Interpretationes In Nonnullos Institu. Titulos, Venezia, Al Segno Della Fontana, 1566



Complete.


Contemporary limp vellum and moderate foxing.


Nice copy.

REMIGIO NANNINI
Epistole Et Evangelii, Venezia, Gabriel Giolito, 1569

4°, modern half vellum

PUBLIUS AFER TERENZIUS
Comoediae Omnes, Venezia, Eredi Giov. Maria Bonelli, 1570

folio


Original hard vellum, 3-rib spine with handwritten title, slightly damaged. Waterstains and burnishing all over the book, some restorations non affecting the text. Fair copy.

AIMONE CRAVETTA
Tractatus De Antiquitatis Temporum, Venezia, Iacobus Sansovinus Iunior, 1570


Complete.


Contemporary limp vellum, worm holes, title manuscripted on the spine, partially disbound, remnant of its original clasps.


Good copy.

ABBAS PANORMITANUS
Commentaria In Decretalium, Venezia, Giovanni Di Gara, 1571


7 of 9, missing volume I part 1 and volume containing part 4 and 5


Fine contemporary four-rib spine vellum binding, original handwritten titles

AA.VV.
Tractatus De Syndicatu, Venezia, Al Segno Della Fontana, 1571

4°, limp vellum



On circa 5 pages of the Index wormholes affecting the text.

GULIELMUS REDOANUS
Tractatus De Rebus Ecclesiae, Piacenza, Francesco Comite, 1572





Complete.


Partially disbound


Contemporary hard limp vellum.


Manuscripted title on the spine, three-ribs.


Worm holes on the title page


Six letters on the inside


Spine slightly damaged

JACOBUS MENOCHIUS
De Arbitrariis Iudicum Quaestionibus, Firenze, Per Carolum Pectinarium, 1572

4° , hard vellum

fair copy
defected spine, first edition

IULIUS CLARUS
Volumen Alias Liber Quintus, Venezia, Iohannes Antonius De Antonii, 1573

4°.


Contemporary vellum, partially disbound, handwritten title on the spine, water stains on the first pages.

ARCHANGELUS MERCENARIUS
Dilucidationes In Plurima Aristotelis Et Averrois Loca, Venezia, Apud Paulum Et Aantonium Meietti, 1574

4°


First edition. Contemporary limp vellum, with handwritten title on the spine. Some water stains and burnishing. Fair copy.

IMPERATOR JUSTINIANUS
Instituitioines, Venezia, Nic. Bevilaqua, Damianus Zenarus, 1574

4°


17th-century hard vellum, 4-rib spine, slightly damaged. Very good copy.

BASILIUS MAGNUS
I Tre Libri Del Sacerdotio, Piacenza, Francesco Conti, 1574



Complete.


Some water and mildew stains on the back cover, contemporary limp vellum. Rebound.


Nice copy.

MARIUS CORRADUS
De Lingua Latina , Bologna, Apud Societatem Typographiae Bononien., 1575

4°. Contemporary limp vellum, damaged, partially disbound. Inside good copy

HYPPOLITUS DE BONACOSSA
De Servis Vel Famulis Tractatus, Venezia, Apud Damianum Zenarum, 1575

4°.


Contemporary vellum, with handwritten title. Damp spots on the margins of all pages, not affecting the text. Good copy

AA.VV.
De Febribus Opus Sane Aureum, Venezia, Gratiosus Perchacinus, 1576



Contemporary vellum. P. 171 presents a tear not affecting the text. The fist pages partially disbound

IULIUS FULCIUS
Eorum Qui Vel Elemosynas, Macerata, Apud Sebastianum Martellinum, 1576





Restored copy, modern binding with ancient material. Worm holes on about five pages in the central part.


Very good copy

ANGELO ROCCA DA CAMERINO
Osservazioni Intorno Alle Bellezze Della Lingua, Venezia, Manuzio, 1576

8°, hard vellum


spine reinforced

GULLAUME DURAND
Speculum Iuris - Pars Prima, Venezia, Apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1576

folio, limp vellum

good copy
only one volume

Carlo Fontana (1634-1714), Alessandro Specchi (1668 - 1729)


Templum Vaticanum et ipsius origo cum aedificiis maximè conspicuis antiquitùs, & recèns ibidem constitutis; editum ab equite Carolo Fontana ... opus in septem libros distributum ... Romae, Ex typographia Jo: Francisci Buagni, 1694 / Il Tempio Vaticano e sua origine, con gli Edificii più cospicui antichi, e moderni fatti dentro, e fuori di esso. Descritto dal cav. Carlo Fontana ... Opera divisa in sette libri ... In Roma, nella stamperia di Francesco Buagni, 1694.



§ Folio; [16] ll., 489 (1) pp., [14] ll.; 78 (of 79 ?) engr. full page (9 large, fold.) ills. 4 of the fold. plates follow the page numbering (after Cc and Bbb) but are not included in the register. Sign.: ad1-4, A-Z1-4, Aa-Cc1-4, Dd1-2, Ee-Zz1-4, Aaa-Fff1-4, Ggg (missing), Hhh, Iii and Kkk are each a single fold. plate, Lll-Vvv1-4, Xxx1-6. In Y, Ee and Hh one leaf is part of a fold. plate, wich corresponds to more pages also in the numbering. Some pages misnumbered. The portrait, apparently included in few copies only, is not present. 2 title pages and 2 dedication (in Latin and Italian), titles and text within woodcut frame, parallel text on 2 columns in Latin and Italian; woodcut coat-of-arms on title pages, woodcut initials. 19th century vellum, spine gilt and red title-piece on spine. End-papers and headbands renewed. Few pages a little browned but a very good copy. The (perhaps) missing plate Ggg and the following one Hhh are practically identical, with the second a bit more detailed than the first. one Ggg is also missing in several other copies and a possible explanation is that Hhh was meant a a cancel of Ggg.



First edition. Beautifully illustrated report of the construction of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, engravings by Alessandro Specchi from Fontana's drawings. This astonishing production was commissioned by the Sacred Congregation for the Fabric of St Peter's, to justify the expense incurred for the rebuilding of the Basilica. It is unproved that Carlo Fontana belong to the family of the famus architect Domenico Fontana who, appointed architect of St. Peter's by Pope Sixtus V in 1585, oversaw the completion of the dome. Carlo Fontana worked with Pietro da Cortona and Bernini. Probably thanks to the close collaboration with Bernini Fontana obtained in 1664 the prestigious position of "misuratore della Rev. Fabrica di S. Pietro" ("measurer of the Rev. Fabrica di S. Pietro") and, about two years later, alongside Felice Della Greca, that of "secondo misuratore e stimatore di tutti gli edifici della Camera apostolica in Roma e nello Stato della Chiesa" ("second measurer and appraiser of all the buildings of the Apostolic Chamber in Rome and in the State of the Church" (Bertolotti, cited by Hager)). The architect and engraver Alessandro Specchi was a pupil of Carlo Fontana and his main collaborator for the illustration of the works published between 1692 and 697, the Templum Vaticanum, being the most famous one. "Incluso da Lione Pascoli (Vite de' scultori ed architetti moderni, II, Roma 1736, p. 549) tra gli allievi di Carlo Fontana, ne fu il principale collaboratore per le incisioni dei volumi di architettura pubblicati tra il 1692 e il 1697, a partire dal Tempio Vaticano dato alle stampe nel 1694 ma in gran parte compiuto già nel 1687 (Hager, 2003)". (Manfredi).


The work, divided into seven books, describes the history of St. Peter's (the original site, the basilica constructed by Emperor Constantine, the transportation in 1585 of the obelisk to its present site, the square and Bernini's oval colonnade) and of its construction, discusses the cost in comparison with the Temple of Solomon and finally compares St. Peter's with the Pantheon and the Duomo in Florence.


"The Templum Vaticanum caused a sensation in the contemporary art world; it was ardently discussed, for instance, in the correspondence of the director of the French Academy in Rome for the next two years. The publication was an ambitious visual, intellectual, and typographic enterprise" (Millard). "The work begins by incorporating Domenico Fontana's plates on the moving of the obelisk, and then surveys the vanished Constantinian basilica in plan and section. One of the plates is a superimposed plan of the new basilica over the old, which is in turn superimposed over the circus of Gaius and Nero, with a numbered guide to the hundreds of altars and shrines which had to be moved and reconsecrated in the new church. Fontana was a faithful student of Bernini, and he includes plates which he alleges represent Bernini's plans for the prolongation of the piazza, not only through the addition of the terzo braccio but also through the demolition of the blocks of houses that made up the spina or backbone of the Borgo. In an interesting piece of late baroque archaeology, Fontana reconstructs the delicate, arched structure which, he feels, represents the original Pantheon before Agrippa's overlay of ornamental and structure-concealing forms" (Avery's Choice).


& Helmut Hager, in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-fontana_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ); A. Bertolotti, Artisti lombardi a Roma..., Milano 1881, ad Indicem; Tommaso Manfredi, in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alessandro-specchi_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ); Lione Pascoli Vite de' scultori ed architetti moderni, II, Roma 1736, p. 549; Helmut Hager, Carlo Fontana e il "Tempio Vaticano", in: G. Curcio (editor) Il Tempio Vaticano 1694. Carlo Fontana, Milano 2003, pp. XXXIV-LV; Berlin Kat. 2678; Fowler 122; Millard, Italian Books 38; Avery's Choice 59.

Baldassare Pisanelli (?-1587)

Discorso di M. Baldassare Pisanelli bolognese medico di S. Spirito sopra la peste diviso in due parti. ... In Roma, per gli Heredi di Antonio Blado, 1577


§ 4to, (210 x 150); [16], 131, [1] pp., signature: a-b1-4, A-Q1-4, R1-2. Heraldic woodcut on title page, woodcut printer’s device on last page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Modern boards. Stain on upper part of leaves E1-F1, otherwise very good copy.

First and only edition. Pisanelli, a physician from Bologna, was a pupil of Ulisse Aldrovandi; he taught meicine and was appointed physician of the hospital S. Spirito in Rome by Pope Gregorio XIII. As announced in the title, the work includes two parts: “Nella prima distintamente si tratta delle cause universali, e particolari e de gli effetti, e segni di quella. Nella seconda si contengono numerosi rimedij, e singolari segreti, … per preservar ciascuno dalla peste” (In the first it is especially question of universal and particular causes and effects, and signs of that (the plague). The second contains numerous remedies, and singular secrets, ... to protect each one from the plague). Uncommon publication.
Ref: Scifoni Dizionario biografico universale Firenze, 1845-46, IV, p. 565; De Renzi Storia della medicina in Italia Napoli, 1845, III, 584