303 / 444
253
printer’s mark on title. Title in red and black. Text in gothic type. Ownership entries on title. Libr.
ticket.
Ref.
Moreau II 1968. Shaaber C-397. BN Paris (1). Not in Index Aurel., Adams, Machiels,
BL London, NUC. NUC records another issue by Claude Chevallon.
1143
[Antwerp imprint - binding]
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MIRANDULA, Ottavio
- Illustrium flores (...) in locos communes
digesti, locupletati, ac (...) castigati. Cum indice [and] De poetica virtute (...) Antonio Mancinelli
authore. Antwerp, J. Loeus, 1549, 8vo, cont. blind panelstamped calf over wood, bevelled edges,
covers with sm. allegorical portraits “Prudencia”, “Lucretia”, etc., spine on 4 raised bands (head
expertly repaired), metals clasps & catches, [8]-229 (= 230)-[3] ff. (title with ink stain and sm. hole,
some marg. dampstaining). Nice copy.
€ 250/400
Early Antwerp ed. of a very popular collection of 301 thematically arranged extracts from 26
classical Latin poets, by the Augustinian friar Mirandula (fl. c. 1500). Here, as often, combined
with a literary essay by the Italian humanist A. Mancinelli (1452-1506). Cont. presentation and
ownership entries on front endpaper.
Ref.
BT 1549. Pettegree NB 21426. Not in Adams, STC Dutch
(BL).
1144
[Antwerp imprint]
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[BANDELLO, Matteo]
- Het eerste deel van de tragische oft klachlijcke
historien/ inde welcke begrepen zijn zeer jammerlijcke feyten [trsl. from the French by] Merten
Everaerts. Antwerp [Maastricht?], Jan van Ghelen, 1598, 205-[3] ff. (final blank as pastedown)
[bound after] -
HELIODORUS
- De thien boecken (...) vervatende de ghetrouwe/ langhdurige/
Cuysche liefde/ van Theagenes Ridder van Thessalien, ende Chariclea konings Dochter van
Ethiopien. Haarlem, A. Roman, 1634, 532-[12] pp. (cut short occasionally shaving fore-edge
margin, paper age-toned, unobtrusive dampstaining), 8vo, cont. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in
ink. Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 400/600
1.
Extremely rare Pt. 1 (of 2), complete in itself, of the 1st Dutch trsl. of the Renaissance stories by
M. Bandello (1485-1561), after the French version of Boaistuau and Belleforest. The 3rd story “Van
twee gelieven, vande welcke d’eene sterf van verghift, ende d’ander van droefheyt”, was
the source
of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”
(1st 1597). Title within border of type ornaments. Gothic
type.
Ref.
Pettegree NB 3096. Clemens (Ital. boeken) 21a. Not in BT, TB, Adams, BL, BnF.
2.
1st
Dutch trsl. of a popular Greek novel. Ill. with
20 sm. woodcuts (portraits)
by S. de Bray in text, and
2 on the titlepage. Large woodcut mark at the end. Title within ruled border. Gothic type. Collector’s
ticket B[ob] L[uza].
Ref.
Geerebaert XXXVIII.1. Buisman 803. STCN (2).
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