Tomus II -- Tomus III Opus nunc primum à M. Matthia Martinez e gallico in latinum sermonem translatum. Volumes 2 and 3 (part 2) of the first Latin... Show moreTomus II -- Tomus III Opus nunc primum à M. Matthia Martinez e gallico in latinum sermonem translatum. Volumes 2 and 3 (part 2) of the first Latin edition of du Jarric's "Histoire des choses plus mémorables advenues tant és Indes Orientales qu'autres païs de la descouverte des Portugais" (first printed in 1608-14). The present set comprises the highly desirable volumes about Brazil, Hormuz in the Arabian Gulf, the Turkish Wars of the Portuguese and their settlements in India; also about Ethiopia, Congo, Angola, etc. "Contains a full account of the Jesuit mission to Brazil, St. Thomas, etc., with chronographical and historical descriptions of those countries" (Sabin). Du Jarric (1566-1617) vainly wished to join the missionaries of his order. Instead, he dedicated himself to writing on their behalf. His work gives a comprehensive picture of the missionary enterprises of the Jesuits up to 1612, chiefly within the sphere of Portuguese interests. It contains much valuable data on colonial history, geography, and ethnography. - Bond at the end of Vol. 2 are two rare controversial works by the Brabant Jesuit Martin Becanus (Verbeeck or Van der Beeck, c. 1561-1624), confessor to Emperor Ferdinand II. "He was one of the most fanatical champions of the return to Roman Catholicism" (Faber du Faur 944). - Some browning; index of vol. 3 misbound, otherwise very well preserved. Main Heritage Shelves General DS498.3 .D85 1615 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i16843708 BIB-ID: 1509215 Show less
Tomus II -- Tomus III Opus nunc primum à M. Matthia Martinez e gallico in latinum sermonem translatum. Volumes 2 and 3 (part 2) of the first Latin... Show moreTomus II -- Tomus III Opus nunc primum à M. Matthia Martinez e gallico in latinum sermonem translatum. Volumes 2 and 3 (part 2) of the first Latin edition of du Jarric's "Histoire des choses plus mémorables advenues tant és Indes Orientales qu'autres païs de la descouverte des Portugais" (first printed in 1608-14). The present set comprises the highly desirable volumes about Brazil, Hormuz in the Arabian Gulf, the Turkish Wars of the Portuguese and their settlements in India; also about Ethiopia, Congo, Angola, etc. "Contains a full account of the Jesuit mission to Brazil, St. Thomas, etc., with chronographical and historical descriptions of those countries" (Sabin). Du Jarric (1566-1617) vainly wished to join the missionaries of his order. Instead, he dedicated himself to writing on their behalf. His work gives a comprehensive picture of the missionary enterprises of the Jesuits up to 1612, chiefly within the sphere of Portuguese interests. It contains much valuable data on colonial history, geography, and ethnography. - Bond at the end of Vol. 2 are two rare controversial works by the Brabant Jesuit Martin Becanus (Verbeeck or Van der Beeck, c. 1561-1624), confessor to Emperor Ferdinand II. "He was one of the most fanatical champions of the return to Roman Catholicism" (Faber du Faur 944). - Some browning; index of vol. 3 misbound, otherwise very well preserved. Main Heritage Shelves General DS498.3 .D85 1615 Book vol.3 Item-ID: i22622317 BIB-ID: 1509215 Show less
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
Contains: Thomae Fazelli,... de rebus [...]. Included index. Has catchword. Initials letters in woodcut. Title page whith xilographic device Pages [166]... Show moreContains: Thomae Fazelli,... de rebus [...]. Included index. Has catchword. Initials letters in woodcut. Title page whith xilographic device Pages [166]-[167] have Chaldean script text with Madenhaya Syriac characters. Main Heritage Shelves General DG866.3 .R47 1579 Book Item-ID: i21477218 BIB-ID: 1888447 Ex-libris stamp on the pastedown: "Dampierre" Bibliothéque des ducs de Luynesm Château de Dampierre. 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
Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1700, R126 .G35 1562
Edited by Konrad Gesner. Index volume edited by Gulielmus Gratarolus and Joannes Guicaeus Stratander, 1562. Title page with woodcut border and... Show moreEdited by Konrad Gesner. Index volume edited by Gulielmus Gratarolus and Joannes Guicaeus Stratander, 1562. Title page with woodcut border and Froben's printer's device; Froben's device also at end of each section. Main Heritage Shelves General R126 .G35 1562 Book Item-ID: i22859287 BIB-ID: 2428614 With: Galeno ascripti libri. Spvrii libri, qvi variam artis medicae saraginem ex uarijs auctoribus excerptam continentes, optimo, quo sieri potuit, ordine sunt dispositi, & in unum corpus redacti, quorum seriem sequenti pagina habes. Basileae : In Officina Frobeniana, per Hieronymum Frobenium & Nicolaum Episcopium, MDLXII [1562] Show less
Chronology, Historical, Chronology, Historical--Early works to 1800, Calendar, Calendar--Early works to 1800, D17 .L35 1571
Ioanne Lalamantio. The publisher Jean Crespin the younger was active in Geneva from ca. 1550 to 1572. Main Heritage Shelves General D17 .L35 1571 Book I... Show moreIoanne Lalamantio. The publisher Jean Crespin the younger was active in Geneva from ca. 1550 to 1572. Main Heritage Shelves General D17 .L35 1571 Book Item-ID: i24482420 BIB-ID: 2615018 Show less
Main Heritage Shelves General D161.2 .W55 1893 Book Item-ID: i10097429 BIB-ID: 1011378 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General D161.2 .W55 1893 Book Item-ID: i10097429 BIB-ID: 1011378 Show less
Timur , 1336-1405, Turks--Kings and rulers, Turks--Kings and rulers--Biography, DS23 .I22 1636
تاليف احمد بن عربشاه = Ahmedis Arabsiadæ Vitæ & rerum gestarum Timuri, qui vulgo Tamerlanes dicitur, historia Ed. with a Latin preface by J. Golius. ... Show moreتاليف احمد بن عربشاه = Ahmedis Arabsiadæ Vitæ & rerum gestarum Timuri, qui vulgo Tamerlanes dicitur, historia Ed. with a Latin preface by J. Golius. Title on half t.p.: Historia Tamerlanis Arabice. First Arabic edition of this important eyewitness account of the life of Tamerlane (Timur Lenk), the successful and barbaric Turkish conqueror in the 14th century, printed entirely in Arabic. "An interesting feature of the book is the use of blue ink for the printing of the word 'Tamerlanis' (between two red lines) on the half-title, as well as for one typographical ornament on leaf 3 recto" (Smitskamp). Based on the original Arabic manuscript completed in 1437-38 by the Syrian author Ahmad lbn 'Arabshah who was secretary to Sultan Ahmad of Baghdad. In the 16th century Timur was made famous in Europe through Christopher Marlowe's play "Tamburlaine" (publ. 1590). - The present work was edited by Jacob Golius and includes a preface by him. The Arabic manuscript used by him is still preserved at Leiden University library and contains many notes in his hand. A French translation by Pierre Vattier appeared in 1658. - II: First edition of the first Persian grammar ever to be printed (Willems notes that Raimondi, in 1614, produced a grammar in Rome for the use of missionaries which remained virtually unknown in the West, but this existed only in manuscript [cf. Smitskamp 310]). "De Dieu's most striking performance" (Smitskamp). The grammars of Ignazio di Gesù (Rome 1661) and of Labrosse (Amsterdam 1684) were largely based on his work. "The two chapters from Genesis are taken from a complete transcription in Arabic characters after the Hebrew-printed Persian text was published by Soncino in Istanbul in 1546" (Smitskamp). - Several contemporary marginal notes in the text; old table of Persian alphabet on endpapers, as well as an old ms. note reproducing Pietro Della Valle's remarks on the Persian language. A very clean, attractive copy. The Life of Tamerlane, especially, is extremely rare: the last copy on the market was the Burrell copy in 1999 (sold at Sotheby's for £8400). Main Heritage Shelves General DS23 .I22 1636 Book Item-ID: i16587832 BIB-ID: 1494556 Rudimenta linguae Persicae / authore Ludovico de Dieu. Lugduni Batavorum : Ex Officina Elseviriana, MDCXXXIX [1649] 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
