16TH-CENTURY BOOKS
16TH-CENTURY BOOKS
Famous “Medieval” Anti-Jewish Tract
Rare Translation
Samuel, Marochitanus (or Maroccanus). Ein Sendbrieff Rabbi Samuels von Israel, so Bürtig war auss der Stadt dess Konigs Morachiam, an Rabbi Isaac, Meystern der Synagogen, so in der Stadt Subjuliveta bemeltes Reichs ist : von der Jüden Zerstrewung, Ceremonien, Verblendung, vnd Vnglauben, auch welches die Sünde und Ursach sey, dasz Gottes Zorn so hart uber sie ergehe, und warumb sie in so langer Gefengnuss und Dienstbarkeit stecken müssen: so merhr als vor 500 Jahren in arabischer Sprach beschrieben, und hernach im Jahr
1239. in lateinische Sprach vertirt, nun aber durch ein Gottseligen Mann der Christenheit zu gut verdeutschet. Marpurg: Gedruckt ... Durch Paulum Egenolff, 1600. Small 4to. 59, [1] pp. 
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• VD16 S1581. Removed from a nonce volume, in later wrappers. Dust-soiled. Library pressure-stamp and private owner's (old) inked signature on title-page. A very good copy. (21113)
SPEECHES before
the DogeSansovino, Francesco, ed. Delle orationi recitate a principi di Venetia.... Venetia: [Apud Franciscum Sansovinum], 1562. 4to (20.5 cm, 8.125"). *4, A–Z4, AA–EE4; [4], 112 ff. 
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striking xylographic printer's device depicting a man looking up at the moon. The work is also decorated with a number of 
handsome, rather unusual woodcut historiated initials and headpieces.
The text is in italic and roman with sidenotes.
Provenance: “D.M. Armstrong / Venice 1872.”
• Not in Adams. Limp vellum with indications of lost ties; soiled, stained, and cockled with some holing (a natural hole in the vellum of the rear cover is repaired by sewing). Front fly-leaves with some holing and chipping, partially repaired with paper. Pages lightly waterstained and cockled with some shallow dog-earing, a little shallow tattering, and some browning and soiling, usually on the edges. Inked ownership inscription on front fly-leaf.
The Reformation Through the Reformers' Letters Schweblin, Heinrich (comp. & ed.). Centuria epistolarum theologicarum ad Johannem Schwebelium. Ante annos LXXV. ecclesiarum illustrissimi ducatus Bipontini praesidem. [Bipontinum]: Typographia Bipontia per Casparum Wittelium, 1597. Small 8vo ( ). [8] ff., 359, [1 (blank)] pp., [31] ff. (without the final blank).
Click the interior images for enlargements. The correspondence was printed in roman type with some italic, in this Zweibrücken imprint. Heinrich's life of his father, which occupies the first 16 leaves following the main text, is entirely in italic type.
Provenance: Ownership inscription on title-page of “D. Fr. Gothold Dürr 1773.”
Rare outside of Germany: We locate only one copy in a U.S. library.
• VD16 S4757. Full dark walnut modern calf old style: Spine with raised bands accented with gilt beading and blind rules, the latter extending onto covers to terminate in trefoils; title in gilt in one spine compartment and date in gilt at base of spine. Blind double fillets framing covers and with blind-tooled devices in the corners of the covers; a center panel on each cover with a cross-hatched diamond pattern in blind. 18th- century ownership note and a few other marks to title-page, with extended old note on front free endpaper opposite. Uniform age-toning, and all edges red. (25822)
Complete Manual of
Schwenckfeld's Theology Schwenckfeld, Caspar. Confession unnd Erklaerung vom Erkanthnus Christi vnd seiner Goettlichen Herrlicheit. Das Erste [-dritt] Theil. [Ulm: Hans Varnier, 1557]. 4to (20.5 cm; 8.125") [12], CCLXXXVIII [i.e.,291], [1] ff.
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• VD16 S4933. Recent calf old style: Round spine, raised bands defined by blind-tooled rules and fillets; blind-tooled center devices in spine compartments; blind-tooled rules from the bands extending onto covers and converging and ending with trefoils. Wax stain in lower outer corner area of leaves rr3, rr4, and ss1. A very nice copy. (25277)
The
Roman Empire
DividedSigonio,
Carlo. Historiarvm de occidentali imperio libri XX. Bononiae: Apud
Societatem Typographiae Bononiensis, 1578. Folio (30.6 cm, 12"). A–E6
F8 G–Z6 AA–ZZ6 AAa–EEe6
(EEe3–4 lacking); 564 (i.e., 568) pp., [24] ff. (of which 2 ff. lacking).
This is this history’s first edition and was followed by 1579, 1593, and 1628 editions. It is printed with a woodcut printer’s device on the title-page showing the goddess Liberty with two books labelled “Bononia docet” (“Bologna teaches”) at her feet. The text is enclosed in double-ruled borders and simply ornamented with a few woodcut initials, one of which shows Juno being pulled in her chariot by peacocks.
The Inquisition Appointment of a Fuentes FamiliarOn Vellum Spain. Inquisition. Manuscript on vellum, in Spanish. Begins: “Nos los inquisidores apostolicos contra la heretica privdad [sic] y appostassia en esta ciudad y arçobispado de Sevilla ... El Castillo de Triana: 16 April 1587. Small oblong folio (h x w : 40 cm x 47 cm; 15.75" x 18.5"). 1 f.
Click the image for an enlargement. Nicely indited on a very white piece of vellum. Text in sepia ink, contained within a three-sided red-ruled and Greek-keyed border. Illustrated with a cross and a banner “Exurge Domine Iudica Causam Tuam” with blue edging. The “L” of “Los” with a fantastical face added to it at time of inditement.
• Old folds and a little soil, mostly to back and more darkly to tip of one upper corner; the iron gall ink has eaten away slivers of vellum within two of the larger letters, and there are three other small piercings. With the signatures of the Inquisitors and with the paper and wax seal of the Holy Office. A handsome and interesting document.(25303)
The Holy Roman Empire, The Antichrist, The Catholic Church, Luther Staphylus, Friedrich. Vom letsten und grossen Abfall, so vor der zukunfft des Antichristi geschehen soll. Ingolstatt: Durch Alexander und Samuel Weissenborn, 1565. 4to (20.5 cm; 8"). [8], 175, [1(blank)] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. In this work Staphylus essays the relationship between the Holy Roman empire and the Catholic Church, and then turns his attention to the Antichrist and Luther. The two sections are captioned: “Des Hailigen Römischen Reichs vnd Catholischen Glaubens Grund, auff, vnd abnemen -- Dz das Luthertumb der gross Abfal, vnnd des Antichrists Vortrab sey.”
Published posthumously and edited by Daniel Prockel, the work is printed chiefly in fraktur type but with some roman and italic, with side- and shouldernotes. The title-page is in red and black.
Evidence of readership: Marginalia in German or Latin in different hands from different centuries (16th & early 18th) variously on fols. 8r, 12v, 14r, 17r, 22v, 28r, 42r, 48r, 52r–v, 73r.
• VD16 S8604. Full modern calf old style: Spine with raised bands, accented with gilt rule on bands and blind rules above and below the bands, rules extending on to boards forming a V and ending with trefoils and with blind chain fillet beyond. Date in gilt at base of spine. Browning, light waterstaining to some margins, the odd spot; solid. (25859)
Countering Marprelate Sutcliffe, Matthew. A treatise of ecclesiasticall discipline: Wherein that confused forme of government, which certeine under false pretence, and title of Reformation, and true discipline, do strive to bring into the Church of England, is examined and confuted. London: [Pr. by Eliot’s Court Press for] George Bishop, 1591. 4to. [10], 166 pp.
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Uncommon. ESTC locates only five U.S. copies.
• ESTC S117981; STC (2nd ed.) 23472. Recent full calf in the 17th-century English style, spine and covers gilt extra. Title-page and one other page with perforation-stamps; first text page with stamped numerals in lower margin. First few pages with early pencilled underlining and marks of emphasis; later pages with a few instances of early inked underlining and marginalia. Upper margins shaved throughout, affecting uppermost edge of title letters, many running titles, and page numbers; clean, with only intermittent light foxing. (19587)
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