{"title":"Bibliography","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the history, cataloguing, and study of books, printing \u0026amp; publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"beughem-cornelius-von","title":"BEUGHEM, Cornelius von","description":"First edition of the first printed bibliography of incunabula compiled by the preeminent Dutch C17 bibliographer Cornelius (or Cornelis) van Beughem. This groundbreaking pocket sized volume (you could easily take it with you when visiting your favorite bookshop) lists more than 3000 incunables, helpfully in strict authorial alphabetical order, rather than first by subject matter, unlike most bibliographies of the period; the full title is usually given. In some cases, several editions are listed with date and place of printing, sometimes with names of editors and translators and sizes. In the case of editions of particular importance the printer may be also identified. At the end are appendices of anonymous editions and those of uncertain date or imprint. This was a remarkably comprehensive and useful volume, providing modern style bibliographical information on more than ten percent of now known incunabula, including many more obscure works.\r \r Beughem (c. 1637-1710) of Prussian origin, worked as a bookseller in Amsterdam for Jansson before setting up his own shop in Emmerich. He was  without doubt the foremost bibliographer of the seventeenth century  (Breslauer \u0026amp; Folter) who  provided for his contemporaries a series of bibliographies of outstanding usefullness, full, accurate, and intelligently compiled  (Besterman). Beughem can be justly considered the precursor to the great bookseller-bibliographers of the 19th century, although they were largely critical of his pioneering efforts.","brand":"BEUGHEM, Cornelius von","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816091197775,"sku":"L1570","price":3850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Beughem-2.jpg?v=1781795316"},{"product_id":"andre-valere","title":"ANDRÉ, Valère","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery good copy of the second and much augmented edition of Valère Andr é s  Bibliotheca Belgica , first published in 1623. Andr é (or Valerius Andreas or Walter Driessens, 1588-1650) was a scholar of antiquities, Hebrew studies and law, and professor at Leuven. His  Bibliotheca Belgica  is a monumental bio-bibliography of Dutch and Belgian authors in the arts, sciences and letters and their works in Latin, French and Flemish (these last often listed with Latinised titles). Prefaced by a topographical delineation of Belgium and an index of names absent in the first edition, it is a fundamental source for the bibliographic history of the early modern Low Countries, and the basis for Jean-François Foppens s  Bibliotheca Belgica  (1739).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANDRÉ, Valère","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816143331663,"sku":"L2826","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2826-2.jpg?v=1781795169"},{"product_id":"doni-anton-francesco-1","title":"DONI, Anton Francesco.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe splendid binding, the first owner of which remains unidentified, is a lovely example of the centrepiece fashion popular in Italy and France, in the second half of the C16. Its construction contains both Italian and French elements. It is likely that the binding was produced in Switzerland, where different traditions met. In the second half of the C16, gilt angular lozenge-shaped centrepieces were frequently employed by the influential ‘King’s Binder’ in Geneva (e.g., BL C46h3, Davis594 and the more elaborate Davis593).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA good copy of the first complete edition of the first, illustrated, bibliography of Italian literature, in print and ms. This is the first to unite both parts, originally published in 1550 and 1551. Anton Francesco Doni (1513-74) was a writer and translator who travelled widely in northern and central Italy, before settling in Venice. He was also an occasional printer and was involved with scholars of heterodox leanings, like Aretino. Indeed, he probably sponsored the production of the second edition in Italian of Agrippa’s ‘De incertitudine’ (1549). His most important work, ‘Libraria’ gathers together, though not in fully systematic fashion, all major works by Italian authors; unlike his predecessors, Trithemius and Gesner, he also included those in the vernacular, as well as music. Part I focuses on over 100 vernacular authors, in alphabetical order; each entry comprises a brief summary of the subjects, followed by the respective titles. Beside the likes of Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna and Castiglione are dozens of lesser known or obscure authors. There follow translations from the Greek or other European languages, two sections organised by genre (rime, tragedie, medicina, etc.), one listing all vernacular books, one on ‘libri di ricami’ (pattern books), and one on printed music (madrigali, mottetti, messe). The most unusual Part II focuses on ‘autori veduti a penna’ (seen in ms form), not yet in print, e.g., from the obscure Africo di Mensola’s ‘Rasoio del Burchiello’ to unpublished poems by Annibal Caro (who caught the eye of an early annotator of this copy). Part III lists all major literary academies in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral books are extant bearing the c.1700 inscription ‘Di Antonio Orsetti’. He was probably a member of the wealthy Tuscan family from Lucca.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DONI, Anton Francesco.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859658580303,"sku":"L3450","price":6950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_9113.jpg?v=1781793704"},{"product_id":"draud-georg","title":"DRAUD, Georg.","description":".Two very early and groundbreaking bibliographical reference books by  that indefatigable tracker- down  George Draud (1573-c.1630), recording editions printed from 1500-1610, frequently bound together. This volume was part of Frantz Ritter von Hauslab s library, an Austrian general and cartographer, who introduced colour lithography into cartography in 1826 and owned a prominent library and art collection. Bequeathed to his carer Laura Bertruch, it was inherited by prince Johann II in 1883. It later fell into the possession of Austrian politician Ernst Zenker, who wrote on the history of anarchist theory. The first work divides books by language, each section written in the language of the corresponding books. The largest section is dedicated to French books, while others focus on Italian, Spanish and Belgian literature. The t-p lists further languages, found in separate volumes, made clear by the final advertisement for a catalogue of Hungarian works. It was intended to be a comprehensive list of all the most popular publications printed in the previous century. Subjects vary greatly, even within categories, and theological works include Protestant and Catholic. There are references to books on law, politics, medicine, economics, history, cosmography, maths, architecture, geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, philology, poetry and music. Most notable is the small section devoted to erotic and gynaecological works, containing the eulogistically named  La louange des femmes , penned under the comically contrasting pseudonym  Andr é Misogyne , likely a man named Thomas S ébillet, who discusses marriage. Other works in this section focus primarily on the theme of love, making for a surprising and amusing addition to the mostly academic bibliography. .\r.\r..The second work, dedicated to the Burgrave of Friedberg, a local German magnate, includes only German texts, with a large emphasis on religious and legal works, as well as the history of Germany. Other subjects are headed under the title of  other arts , which comprises works on alchemy, architecture, child rearing, arithmetic, etc  in addition to calendars and dictionaries; there is also a section about America,  In section  Libri historici, geographici et politici  are included categories for America, Florida, India Occidentalis, Insularum description, Peruviana \u0026amp;amp; Virginia  (Alden 611\/32). First title not in Alden but the section  Libri historici, geographici et politici  lists many works relating to the New World. USTC: (i) 5040774, (ii) 2028850, BL Cat: D671, D672, Bestermann: pp. (i) 331, (ii) 1177-8..","brand":"DRAUD, Georg.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868693242191,"sku":"L2083","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_2378.webp?v=1781793464"},{"product_id":"estienne-henri-7","title":"ESTIENNE, Henri.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe only publisher's catalogue issued by Henri Estienne together with the very rare supplemental appendix issued 5 years later. These respectively occupy the second and third parts of the volume. The first part comprises initially Estienne's letter to his friends concerning the upcoming publication of his great Greek Thesaurus, finally published in 1572 after nearly two decades of effort. He extolls its superiority over its predecessors with some disparagement of other printers, apart from Aldus, Ascensius and his own family, as publishers of classical texts. The section concludes with his poem to Camerarius concerning his plans to exhibit at the next Frankfurt book fair, followed by a catalogue of the Greek authors used in the composition of the Greek Thesaurus. It was Henri's greatest achievement, still unsurpassed (see Printing and the Mind of Man p.36) but it very nearly ruined him. The following catalogue of Henri's publications, with a few of his father, Robert's, may well have been intended to be issued separately as both its pagination and collation are quite independent. The half-sheet appended, inevitably, was as it was published five years later when Henri had added an astonishing 30 further editions and translations, including the Thesaurus to his remarkable output.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ESTIENNE, Henri.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868713197903,"sku":"L4702","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Estienne-L4702-3.jpg?v=1781793387"},{"product_id":"clement-ix","title":"CLEMENT IX","description":" Apparently unrecorded edict prohibiting books issued by Clement IX and published by the Apostolic Chamber. The edict adds new works recently declared prohibited,  no matter where they were printed, and in which language . The warning and punishment can and will affect anyone who may  print, read or possess  them.   The books listed are: \n Matthaeus Parisiensis   Abreg é del Ancienne \u0026amp;; Celeste doctrine de Saint Augustin ; Sebastiano Bartoli s anti-Galenic  Artis Medicae Dogmatum  (1667), referring to the prohibition of his  Systemata  in 1666; Ferrante Pallavicino s  Baccinata, overo Battarella per le Api Barbarine ; Girolamo Brusoni s play  Carrozzino alla moda ;  Dialogo molto curioso   tra due Soldati volontari  ; Francis Bacon s  De Augmentis Scientiarum  (before being expurgated); Baronius   Apodixis Catholica ; Stockmann s  Hodegeticum Pestilentiale  (1667); Ricciolo s  Immunitas ab Errore  (1668), against procedures for the canonization of saints; Forerio s  Iubar Celestis ;  Mercurio Postiglione  (an Elzevir of 1667); de Franchi s  Parenesi ; Leti s  Puttanismo Romano  (1668), on the  whoredom  of the Catholic Church; Ugolini s  Religiosa difesa , in defence of St Francis  stigmata;  Romae Ruina Finalis , addressed to the English;  La Rome ridicule ; Ferrante Pallavicino s  Retorica delle puttane , also translated into English in 1683; Settimo s  Sindicato ; and  Traict é des Anciennes Ceremonies .   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