auctore Petro Bizaro sentinate. First edition. "The first 11 books recount the history up to 1578; book 12, with a historico-cultural focus,... Show moreauctore Petro Bizaro sentinate. First edition. "The first 11 books recount the history up to 1578; book 12, with a historico-cultural focus, contains excerpts from classical authors on ancient Persia" (cf. Fueter). Bound with the first edition of Pontus de Heuter's history of Burgundy in the late Middle Ages. - Some brownstaining throughout. Bound around 1618 by the Stuttgart master M.S. for Duke Ludwig Friedrich von Württemberg (1586-1631) with his arms and those of his wife Elisabeth Magdalena von Hessen-Darmstadt (Haebler I, 423 I & 424 III). Later in the library of the Princes' School in Grimma; then transferred and ultimately deaccessioned from the library of the Dept. of Cultural and Universal History at Leipzig University. Title page printer's device. Initials. Side-notes. Dedicated to Augustus I, Duke of Saxony, with his arms, t.p. verso and on covers. Errata included (last leaf recto). Includes index. Signatures: [dagger]⁶A-Za-p⁶q⁴r⁶. Main Heritage Shelves General DS272 .B59 1583 Book Item-ID: i16598763 BIB-ID: 1494597 Rerum Burgundicarum libri sex / auctore Ponto Hevtero Delfio. Antverpiæ : Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, MDLXXXIIII [1584] Show less
First Latin edition of Pietro Bizzarri's "Historia della guerra fatta in Ungheria dall' intuitissimo imperatore dei Christiani contro quello deui... Show moreFirst Latin edition of Pietro Bizzarri's "Historia della guerra fatta in Ungheria dall' intuitissimo imperatore dei Christiani contro quello deui Turchi" (Lyons, Roville, 1568/69). Contains interesting accounts of the Turkish wars in Hungary during 1564-68, of the siege of Malta, and about the French conquests in Florida and Canada. Also contains passages on Transylvania: "Caeterum paucae urbes, oppida vero complura, non obscuri nominis, in quibus Cibinium, Brassovia, Colosium, Bistricia, & plura alia a Germanis, quos nos Saxones appellamus, condita, & habita, nec rara passim, aedificia cernuntur. Eius solum variis in locis auriferos surculos, & glebulas aureas passim gignit [...] Hanc duae cingunt Walachiae, Transalpina, & Moldavia, illa Danubio, haec mari Euxino admota" (p. 8). "Other passages show that Bizzarri also considered the problem of the meaning of history [...] The second part is a checkered conglomerate of various notes, not without historical value. Bizzarri was especially interested in more or less credible reports of celestial phenomena" (cf. Göllner). - The Italian historian Pietro Bizzarri (1530-83) from Sassoferrato lived in France and England for a time, served the Elector August of Saxony for ten years, and spent most of his life in Antwerp (cf. Jöcher). - Occasional brownstaining (especially to title). Modern binding using old stamp material (fleuronnée stamps forming a border and a central ornament). Contains what is clearly an independent text of Ribaut's Florida narrative: begins p. 240. Main Heritage Shelves General DB924 .B59 1573 Book Item-ID: i16598751 BIB-ID: 1494595 Show less
auctore Petro Bizaro. Second edition (first printed in 1583). Important collection of previously published works about Persia, including the travels... Show moreauctore Petro Bizaro. Second edition (first printed in 1583). Important collection of previously published works about Persia, including the travels of the Venetians Giuseppe Barbaro (1436) and Ambrogio Contarini (1473), "together with several other tracts relating to the Turks, including works by Callimachus, Minadoi, [etc.]" (Sotheby's, Atabey sale, no. 117). - Somewhat browned due to paper, otherwise very clean. Binding rather rubbed; edges and corners bumped. Old bibliographic note on endpaper; bookplate of Eivind Hassler (1939-2009) on front pastedown. Includes Index Main Heritage Shelves General DS272 .B59 1601 Book Item-ID: i16598775 BIB-ID: 1494598 Show less
