"Erthe upon erthe wynneth castels and touris Than seith erthe to erthe this is al ouris. Whanne erthe upon erthe hath biggid up his bouris, So gooth erthe upon erthe al glittering in gold, And zit schal erthe unto erthe rather than he wolde." -and so on through many more lines. 17100 PILGRYMAGE OF PERFECCYON. A deuoute treatyse in Englysshe, called the Pilgrymage of perfeccyon; very profytable for all chrysten people to rede: and in especyall to all relygyous persones moche necessary. The auctour of this present treatyse hath added unto it the exposicyon of the Aue and the Crede, with dyuerse other thynges (by William Bonde), sm. folio, WITH THE THREE CURIOUS FOLDED WOODCUTS (the first of these in wonderful facsimile), EXTREMELY RARE, morocco, gilt edges, £40. Imprynted at London in Flete-strete, at the sygnne of the VERY RARE. Dibdin had never seen it, and only described it after Herbert, and Lowndes merely states the existence of the impression without specifying any copy. The above. formerly in Mr. Dunn Gardner's library, is the only one which has occurred in the sales, except an imperfect copy. 17101 PINTER (Ulrich) DER BESCHLOSSEN GART DES ROSENKRĀTZ MARIE, 2 vols. folio, an immense number of large and small woodcuts by Hans Scheuffelein and Caspar Rosenthaler, in the original wooden boards, covered with stamped leather, £28. Nürmberk, 1505 EXCESSIVELY RARE and very little known. Next to Dürer's works, the Beschlossen Gart (in which even his collaboration may be detected) is the chief monument of the art of wood-engraving in Germany in the early part of the sixteenth century. 17102 RODORICI ZAMORENSIS SPECULUM VITE HUMANE, sm. folio, old calf, £4. August., a Ginthero Zainer, 1471 A philosophic book on the various conditions of life, and on the means of avoiding temptation in them. It is a sensible work, full of interesting allusions to the habits and customs of the author's time. He died in 1470, having been Bishop of Zamora and Palencia. His proper Spanish name was Rodrigo Sanchez de Arevalo. 17103 [SCHEYT (Caspar)] DER TODTENDANTZ durch alle Stende vnnd Geschlecht der Menschen darinnen ihr herkowen vnde ende, nichtigkeit und sterbligkeit als in eim Spiegel zu beschawen fürgebildet, vnd mit schönen Figuren gezieret, 12mo. 53 fine woodcuts after Holbein's designs of the Dance of Death, vellum, RARE, £6. s..l. 1557 The text is followed by other pieces which are mentioned on the title-page. 17104 SAVONAROLA, Opere : Compendio di Revelatione, 54 leaves (a-h) 34 lines a page SAVONAROLA, OPERE―continued. Declaratione del Mysterio della Croce, 4 leaves, 34 lines a page sine notá S. n. Epistola a uno amico, 6 leaves, 38 lines a page s. n. s. n. Firēze, 1497 altra edizione, 4 leaves, 46 lines a page Epistola... cōtra la excomunicatione subreptitia, 2 leaves, 34 lines a page Expositione del Pater Noster, 24 leaves (a-c), 36 lines a page s. n. altra edizione, 26 leaves (a-d), 30 lines a page Firenze, Mischomini, 1494 sopra la oratione della Vergine, 12 leaves (a-6), Expositione s. n. Firenze, 1496 alle suore del tertio ordine di San Domenico, s. n. Fra Hieronymo Oratione di Hieremia propheta laquale Fra Girolamo da Ferrara ha cöfortato, 2 leaves, 30 lines a page s. n. s. n. 8. ጎ. Predica . . . facta adi xxv de Febraio, 1497, 20 leaves (a-c) Tractato . . in defensione et commendatione della Oratione mentale, 26 leaves (a, b), 38 lines on page Firenze, Miscomini Tractato (Breve & utile) della Humilita, 9 leaves (there ought to be 10), 38 lines a page S. n. CONCLUSIONES rationibus ac signis supernaturalibus probande, 6 leaves, gothic letter, EXCESSIVELY RARE s. n. (April, 1498) This piece is the public challenge of Savonarola's supporters, with the acceptance by the Franciscans, to the famous Ordeal of Fire, which led to the fall and destruction of the great Dominican a few days later. - together 24 pieces, small 4to. with many woodcuts, sewed, £36. 17106 SAVONAROLA. Prediche . . . facto lanno del 1496 ne giorni delle 17107 SAVONAROLA. Prediche .. facte in Sacta Maria del Fiore lāno 1494 .. raccolte por Ser Lorēzo Vivvoli dalla viva voce del predicante, sm. folio, hf. bd. Rare, £2. 17108 17109 Bologna, 1515 This contains the sermons preached during 1494 and 1495. Expositio in psalmos Miserere mei de' Qui regis expositio orationis dñice, 1517; Eruditoriu confessorum, 1517; Triumphus Crucis, De veritate fidei, 1524; Libri de Simplicitate Christiane vite, 1511-5 vols. in 1, 16mo. limp vellum, £2. 10s (Paris.) typogr. Ascensiana, 1511-24 With the well-known design of the Printing-press on the title-pages. AN EXPOSICYON UPON THE. .li. PSALME. | made by Hierom of Ferrarye, small 8vo. gothic letter, title in facsimile, old calf, £3. Parys, 1538 eights. 17110 SUBIDA DEL MÕTE SION; por la Via Contemplativa, cõtiene el conocimiẽto nrõ.; y el seguimiēto de xpo; y el reverenciar a dios en la contemplacion quieta; copilado en un convento de frayles menores, sm. 4to. title within woodcut border, the lower plain margin cut off, and numerous woodcuts in the text, vellum, £8.8s Seuilla, Jua Crōberger, 1535 The Aforismos Spirituales in rhyme which occupy chapter 37 are a curious portion of this book. Some of the woodcuts are of remarkable merit. 17111 TAMBACO (Johannis de) Consolacio Theologie, sm. 4to. very fine copy in calf neat, tooled in antique pattern, £7. s. n. (Moguntiæ, Petrus Schoeffer, 1470) VERY RARE. A curious circumstance in the printing of this book is not noticed by Brunet; which perhaps indicates that all copies are not like the present. After the fortieth folio which ends the fifth sheet, a single leaf is inserted, printed in a larger type than the rest of the book, for the purpose of supplying an omission made by the compositor. This additional leaf cannot have been added in all the copies, many of which had no doubt been distributed before the error was discovered. Signatures are added to the sheets in red ink by a contemporary hand; the inserted leaf is thus marked f 1, and sheet f contains nine leaves. 17112 TAMBACO (Joannis de) Speculù Patiētie cum theologycis consolationibus [at end: per doctorem Udalricum Pinder compilatum], sm. 4to. two large woodcuts which have been attributed to Albert Dürer, calf, 20s Nuremb. 1509 17113 VENEGAS (Alexis) Agonia del transito de la Muerte con los avisos y consuelos que cerca della son provechosos, sm. 4to. gothic letter, title mended, calf, gilt back, 30s Alcala, 1568 17114 [VILLE-THIERRY (Girard de)] Vie des Riches et des Pauvres, 12mo. fine copy in old French blue morocco, gilt edges, by Padeloup, from the Beckford library, £2. Paris, 1740 The author's name appears in the "Privilege du Roy." b. Imitation of Christ. 17116 IMITATION OF CHRIST, being the autograph MS. of Thomas à Kempis, reproduced in facsimile from the original in the Royal Library at Brussels, with introduction by Ch. Ruelens, 24mo. stamped morocco, uncut, 25s 1879 17117 LIBER DE IMITATÕE CHRISTI cum tractatu de meditatione Cordis, 18mo. woodcut on title mounted, morocco, 30s Colonie, 1501 The second leaf begins "Incipit liber pmus egregii viri Thome de Kempis." 17118 DE CONTEMPTU MUNDI (et de meditatione Cordis), 12mo. waterstain on last two leaves, red morocco, 20s Cōpluti, 1526 At end of the first work "Explicit libellus de contemptu mudi Thome de Kempis 17119 KEMPIS (Thomæ a) de Imitatione Christi libri quatuor, cum vita Thomæ par Herib. Ros-weydum, 12mo. vellum, 10s Antv. 1626 17120 THOMÆ A KEMPIS DE IMITATIONE CHRISTI libri quatuor, cum vita Thomæ per Rosweydum, 12mo. engraved title, purple morocco, silk linings, by Lefebvre, £4. 4s Lugd. apud Elsevirios (1653) "Cette jolie édition est une des plus recherchées et des moins communes qu' aient données les Elsevier."-Brunet. "Ce petit volume passe à bon droit pour un des plus beaux et des plus précieux de la collection Elzévirienne."-Willems. 17121 JOHANNIS GERSEN, Abbatis Sancti Stephani Vercellensis de Imitatione Christi et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi libri IV, sm. 8vo. frontispiece by Edelinck, red morocco, gilt edges, £2. 10s Lut. Paris. 1.674 17122 DE IMITATIONE CHRISTI libri quatuor, roy. folio, LARGE VELLUM PAPER, bds. £2. Parma, typis Bodonianis, 1793 Only 15 of the entire 162 copies were A magnificently printed volume. issued upon vellum paper. 17123 THOMAS À KEMPIS, The Christian's Pattern, or a treatise of the Imitation of Jesus Christ, now rendered into English... by George Stanhope, sm. 8vo. frontispiece, blue morocco, 27s 1721 Imitation of Jesus Christ, translated from the Latin original by Dibdin, 8vo. frontispiece, cloth, 20s 17124 1851 17125 THOMAS À KEMPIS and the Imitation of Christ, 8vo. portrait, s. d. 2s 6d 1883 This is an able dissertation on the authorship (by Mr. Edmund Waterton). 17126 KEMPIS (Thomas à) Imitation de Jesus-Christ, divisée on iiii livres, fidelement traduits du Latin, edition nouvelle, sm. 8vo. frontispiece and 3 beautiful engravings, old calf, 28s Paris, de l'Imprimerie et des nouveaux Caractheres de P. Moreau, 1643 the same, sm. 8vo. a large and fine copy in old French 17127 red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Boyer, £2. 10s 1643 Rare and curious, being the only important work amongst a few books printed in this type, the invention of P. Moreau. It is an elegant imitation of a written character, something between the Roman and the Italic; and the book is therefore, as a singularity of typography, eagerly sought for by amateurs. 17128 IMITATION DE JÉSUS-CHRIST, traduction de Michel de Marillac, sm. 8vo. printed on fine ruled paper, with 8 beautiful etchings by Flameng after the designs of J. P. Laurens, s.d. 18s Paris, 1878 17129 KEMPIS (Tom. de) volgarmente intitolato Gio. Gerson, dell' Imitatione di Christo, 18mo. frontispiece and plates (mounted), calf, 16s Venetia, 1689 17130 KEMPIS (Thomas de) Imitaçam de Christo que vulgarmente se intitula Contemptus Mundi, 18mo. calf, 10s Lisboa, 1679 Luis de Granada, 12mo. Madrid, 1783 c. Illuminati and Visionaries, 17132 BUNSEN (Ernest de) the Hidden Wisdom of Christ and the Key of Knowledge or History of the Apocrypha, 2 vols. 8vo. blue morocco extra, gilt edges, 15s 1865 A transcendental work on the origin and development of apocryphal tradition, valuable by reason of the author's intimate knowledge of the early Church and its history. 17133 JOACHIM magnus Propheta . . . in libruz Cirilli de magnis tribulationib' Explanatio in Apochalypsiz, etc. many curious woodcuts, different from those in other editions, Venet. per L. de Soardis, 1516-Psalterium beati Brunonis, Ant. Koberger, 1497; and other pieces-in 1 vol. sm. 4to. fine copies, original wooden binding, with clasps, £2. 10s 1516-1497, etc. The curious Prophecies of the Abbat Joachim concerning the evil fortunes and revolutions of the Church, caused them to be condemned and burnt, although the Abbat himself was canonized. 17134 JOANNINI (Hieron.) Vaticinia, seu prædictiones illustrium virorum, sex rotis ære incisis comprensa, de successione summ. Pontificis Rom. sm. 4to. engraved title and 6 plates, vellum, from the Sunderland library, £4. Venetia, G. B. Bertoni, 1600 A curious work collecting six various sets of prophecies concerning the succession of the Popes, illustrated each by an engraved exposition in orbicular shape, which the editor calls his six wheels. 17135 KHUNRATH (Henrici) Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ æternæ solius veræ, Christiano-Kabalisticum divino-magicum folio, engraved title, portrait, and curious plates, some mounted, calf gilt, £3. 16s Hanovic, 1609 An extremely curious work of mystical theology. A double translation of the Proverbs and Wisdom, of which one was new, serves as the string on which the Cabalistical pearls are strung. 17136 KOTTER, Revelationes Christophoro Kottero, 1616-24 factæ, portrait and numerous singular engravings of fine execution, 1664 -Revelationes Christina Poniatovia, 1627-29 factæ, 16642 vols. in 1, sm. 4to. beautiful copy in russia gilt, gilt edges, £3. 10s s. l. 1664 The Bohemian originals have never been printed. 17136* LIECHTENBERGERS (Johannis) Pronosticatio, 12mo. numerous woodcuts, title mended, calf, 16s Colon. P. Quentel, 1528 |