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[Philosophy]
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POMPONAZZI, Pietro
- Tractatus de immortalitate animae. [France?, s.n.], 1534
[= 1630?], 12mo, cont. sheep (rubbed), spine on 4 raised bands, gilt sides, sp. edges, 147-[1] pp.
(blank top margin of title cut off, some dampstaining, worming in blank bottom inner margin of last
quires). Good copy.
€ 150/250
Probably a 17th-c. French ed. of the famous treatise on immortality (1st Bologna 1516) by the
Italian philosopher P. Pomponazzi (1462-1524), backdated to foil the censor. “His doctrines on
immortality, first set forth in “De immortalitate”, occasioned cries of outrage from prominent
philosophers and theologians and produced the immortality controversy, one of the most important
debates prior to the Reformation” (DSB XI 74). Title within woodcut border.
Ref.
BL (1), BnF (2).
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[Plantin Press - botany]
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LOBELIUS, Matthias
- Kruydtboeck oft Beschrijvinghe van allerleye
ghewassen, kruyderen, hesteren, ende gheboomten. Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1581, folio, mod.
embossed blindruled calf over wood (sl. rubbed), edges bevelled inside, spine on 5 raised bands,
metal claps, catches, corner pcs and hinge strip, [10]-994-[2], 312 (= 294)-[2], 15-[1], [50 (of 68)]
pp. (lacking *6 with Lobelius’s arms and Privilege, and 9 final Index ff., lower half of Y6 and EE3
partly torn off, orig. blanks preserved, dampstained with mouldy spots esp. in 2nd half, 1st and last
ff. marginally soiled, title strengthened and underlaid, Gg2 torn without loss of text, some marg.
tears). S.w.a.f.
Cfr. ill.
€ 800/1200
Only ed.
of the augmented Dutch version of Lobelius’ (1538-1616) “Plantarum stirpium historia”
(Antwerp 1576), dedicated to William of Orange (dedication not mentioned by Voet). A major work
of Renaissance book illustration, with
2.179 (of 2.187) woodcuts
. Engr. title. In gothic and roman
type. Title, large initials, and woodcuts
in old colouring
. Old ownership entries on *2r i.a. “Huy
1685”.
Ref.
B.B. III:1133-1136 L-119. Pettegree NB 19455. BT 1974. Voet 1579. Nissen Bbi 1219.
Bibl. Med. Neerl. I:502. Durling 2828. Wellcome I:3829. Not in Adams, Sorgeloos.
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