307 / 444
257
1150
[Brabant]
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Van Brabant die excellente Cronike, van Vlaendere(n)/ Holla(n)t/ Zeelant int
generael
. Vanden oorspronck des lants va(n) Ghelre (...) Va(n) dat sticht ende van die stadt va(n)
Wtrecht (...) Ende van die nieuwe gesten gheschiet bi onsen prince en(de) keyser Karolo. Antwerp,
J. van Doesborch, June 1530, sm. folio, 18th-c. mottled sheep (rubbed), gilt spine on 5 raised bands
(joints starting to split, head and tail def.), red polished edges, marbled endpapers, [314 (of 320)] ff.
(lacking as often the “genealogical trees” between Cc1 and Ee; title underlaid with loss of top blank
corner, 1st ff. dampstained, worming in blank margin of last quires occ. touching a letter, repair to
f. Ee1, outer margins of last 3 lvs strengthened). Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 1000/1500
Rare chronicle of Brabant and the other Low Countries, often attributed to Jan van Naaldwijck.
The cont. part deals with the victories of Charles V.
Woodcut ills
: large woodcut on title, mark and
arms at the end,
double-page of the Siege of Vienna
(sm. hole rep.),
3 full-page
and
some 155 ills
of various smaller sizes, some within woodcut borders. Title in red & black. Gothic type in 2 cols of
42 ll. Old ownership entry dated “1592” on title. Cont. marg. notes (some cropped).
Ref.
NK 654.
Pettegree NB 5647. Adams B-2646.
1151
[Bruges imprint - numismatics]
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GOLTZIUS, Hubertus
- C. Iulius Caesar sive Historiae
imperatorum caesarumque Romanorum ex antiquis numismatibus restitutae liber primus. Accessit
C. Iulii Caesaris vita et res gestae. Bruges, H. Goltzius, September 1571, folio, old gilt half sheep
(rubbed, wormed), spine on 4 raised bands (head def.), crowned initials in the lower part, sp. edges,
bottom edge titled, cloth marker, [34]-lvii-[7], 231-[49] pp. (paper age-toned and spotted as usual,
title edge sl. frayed, occ. marg. dampstaining). Good copy.
€ 800/1200
Extr. rare 2nd ed. (1st Bruges 1562/1563) of a biography of Julius Caesar by H. Goltzius (1526-
1583), based on literary, epigraphica and esp. numismatic sources.
Engr. ills
: title, mark at the end,
54 full-page pls with numerous coin ills
. With Goltzius’ famous
list of European coin collections
.
Printed correction slips on pp. IV-V.
Ref.
Dekesel G-53 (only 2 copies). Pettegree NB 13505
(erroneous Ref. to Adams G-829!). Not in B.B., BT, Adams, BL, BnF, Cabrio, Le Loup (Goltzius),
Opac KBR, STCV.
1152
[Charles V]
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Vanden alder victorieusten/ en(de) onverwinlijcsten Prinche Karolus
/ Keyser
va(n) Roomen/ Coninck va(n) Spaengien (...) gheboren Graue van Vlaendren. Antwerp, W.
Vorsterman, 11 July 1531, folio, mod. quarter leather, gilt spine on 5 raised bands (tanned), marbled
paper on covers, lix = 60 ff. (lacking 5 final ff. with “Die Tafele”, paper age-toned, some staining,
long wormtrack in 2nd half touching a number of letters, double-page woodcut partly torn and
underlaid). Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 250/400
Part II of the famous “Excellente cronike van Vlaenderen”, containing the “contemporary”
narrative of the career of Emperor Charles V.
Woodcut ills
: large portrait on title,
30 ills
within
various borders,
double-page woodcut
with the “Siege of Vienna” (tear clumsily repaired with loss
of a sm. part of the border). Gothic type in 2 cols of 50 ll.
Ref.
NK 659. Pettegree NB 26840. B.B.
I:998-1004 C-318. Adams F-585.
1153
[Cologne imprint]
-
PHILOSTRATUS
- Historiae de vita Apollonij libri VIII [Latin trsl. from
the Greek] Alemannus Rhinuccinus [and]
EUSEBIUS
- Adversus Hieroclem [Latin trsl. Zenobius
Acciolus]. Cologne, J. Gymnicus, 1532, 8vo, 18th-c. half vellum, [20]-460-[4] pp. (somewhat short,
bottom edge dampstained and wormed in last ff.). Good copy.
€ 300/400
Apollonius of Tyana (b. ca. 170 A.D.) was a Neopythagorean sage at the beginning of the Christian
era, of whose wanderings to India, ascetic teachings and miraculous powers we only have
Philostratus’s account, which has been successively admired and dismissed as a fraud from the time
of its writing. Hierocles of Nicomedia had drawn parallels between Apollonius and Christ, which
provoked this reply from Eusebius. Printed in italics. Old notes (cropped). Libr. stamps.
Ref.
VD-16
P-2501. Adams P-1069. Hoffmann III:238-239.