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Nuremberg: Georg Merckel, 1553. FOURTH EDITION (1st ed. ca. 1532). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern quarter vellum and paste paper over boards. With an unsigned title woodcut (by Georg Pencz?). A tall, broad-margined copy with a few deckled edges preserved. Small natural paper flaw on the final leaf. Bound with a second, anonymous poem, "Klaglied: Deren von Magdeburgk, zu Gott und allen frommen Christen." [Coburg, C. Schnauß], 1551, which has light dampstains. A popular poem on the evils of slander and gossip by the poet and playwright Hans Sachs, an accomplished Meistersinger of the Nuremberg School (Sachs is the title character of Wagner's "Meistersinger"). A shoemaker and guild master by trade, Sachs' songs, plays, and dialogues address the social concerns of his day and the effects of the Reformation on the established social order. Sachs' conception of Slander personified shares affinities with Virgil's figure of "Fama" (gossip). The poem features a remarkable woodcut illustration, in which…
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Nachred das greulich laster, sampt seinen zwölff Eygenschafften
by Sachs, Hans (1494-1576)
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The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of England. By Robert Plot, LL.D.
by NATURAL HISTORY. Plot, Robert (1640-1696)
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Oxford: And are to be had there: And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard. 1677.Price: $8,500.00
Folio: DIM Collation: [a]2, b4, A-Z4, Aa-Yy4, Zz2, Aaa-Bbb2 (Bbb2 blank and present.) With 16 added engraved plates and an engraved folding map of Oxfordshire.
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The text is illustrated with a large folding map of Oxfordshire and sixteen full-paged engravings of fossils, minerals, plants, the fascinating Enston waterworks, and other marvels and curiosities, by Michael Burghers. Trivial blemishes as follows: Light finger-soiling to lower corner of t.p., light stain in the gutter of first two leaves, clear dampstain to outer margin of leaf B4,… Read More
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Note Overo Memorie Del Mvseo Di Lodovico Moscardo Nobile Veronese, Accademico Filarmonico, dal medesimo descritte et in Trè Libri distinte. Nel primo si discorre delle cose anitche; le quali in detto Museo si trovano. Nel secondo delle Pietre, Minerali, e Terre. Nel terzo de Corali, Conchiglie, Animali, Frutti, & altre cose in quello contenute. Consecrate all' Altezza Serenissima Di Francesco Duca Di Modena E Reggio
by MUSEUMS. WUNDERKAMMERN. Moscardo, Lodovico (ca. 1596- after 1671)
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Padua: Per Paolo Frambotto. Con Licenza de'Superiori, 1656. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. An excellent, crisp copy bound in 17th c. speckled calf, spine richly tooled in gold, with very discreet repairs to the end-caps and only light wear. A crisp copy with minor blemishes: Small stain to upper corner of first two lvs., a smaller one to upper margin of lvs. A1-3, leaf V3 with printer's fingerprints in margin, sm. stain at head of 1st index leaf, a few marginal paper flaws, edges sprinkled red and green. 1. Bookplate of the statesman, bibliophile, and collector Nicolas-Joseph Foucault (1643-1721), first Marquis de Magny, who commissioned archaeological excavations at the Ancient Baths of Alauna in Valognes. 2. Bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield. The Museo Moscardo: A fine copy of this catalogue of the celebrated collection of natural history specimens, archaeological remains, and ethnographic objects, assembled by the Veronese Count Lodovico Moscardo. Moscardo's museum catalogue, like those…
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