16TH-CENTURY BOOKS
16TH-CENTURY BOOKS
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[Masson, Jean Papire]. Ad Franc. Hotomani
Franco-galliam Antonii Matharelli...responsio. Lutetiæ: Ex off. Federici
Morelli, 1575. 8vo. A–L8; 163, [1] pp., [6] ff. 
Provenance: Charles Spencer, Third Earl of Sunderland, lot 6554 in the Sunderland Library sale (1882).
• Adams M866. 17th-century sprinkled calf, plain sides, round spine, raised bands, gilt spine extra. Leather worn. Old dust-stain on title-page. A library's blind pressure-stamps; properly deaccessioned with no additional stamps. Speckled edges. A very good copy.
Sole Aldine Edition — Extensive Marginalia
Solinus's Polyhistor Mela, Pomponius. Pomponivs Mela. Ivlivs Solinvs. Itinerarivm Antonini Avg. Vibivs Seqvester. P. Victor de regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de situ orbis Prisciano interprete. [colophon: Venetiis: In aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri mense, M.D. XVIII {1518}]. 8vo (16.5 cm; 6.5"). 233, [1] ff., without the final two leaves (one blank, one with
Aldine device).
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As is to be expected, the text is in italic with spaces and guide letters provided for (unaccomplished) initials.
The register (leaf G2 recto) lists a gathering *4 that is not found here or in any known copy, so the reference would seem to be incorrect.
Evidence of readership: VERY Extensive marginalia in the Solinus, in a neat hand.
Binding: 19th-century straight-grain red goat with single gilt fillets defining “spine compartments” and “title-labels”; gilt circle devices in compartments. Single gilt rule border on covers; gilt double fillets on board edges. Blue marbled endpapers. All edges speckled blue.
• Renouard, Alde, 83; Adams M1053; Schweiger, II, 607 (“seltene Ausg.”). Volume expertly rebacked retaining old spine. Minor worming in upper outer area of all leaves to fol. 16, costing some letters but more typically parts only of same. Marginalia in Solinus as above. A good and, for its notes, important copy. (24667)
Dialectics Dissected Melanchthon, Philipp. Erotemata dialectices, continentia fere integram artem, ita scripta,ut iuventuti utiliter proponi possint. Lipsiae: [Iohannes Rhamba], 1562. Small 8vo (17 cm; 6.75"). [7] ff., 422 pp., [20] ff.
Click the interior/detail images for enlargements. Melanchthon here asks basic and important questions: Quid est dialectica? Quot sunt praedicabilia? Quid est genus? Quomodo differunt species item genera? Quid est deus? Quid est coelum? to mention only the first few.
• VD16 M3255. Full calf old style (signed G[race] B[indings] on lower inside corner of rear lower turn-in); tound spine with raised bands accented in gilt beading, author lettered directly on spine, fillets in blind extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils with blind double fillets beyond. Light stain in lower inside area of many leaves; darker one, slimmer, at top; a little foxing, including to title-page, which has the tiniest of pin-type wormholes near its top edge. Private 18th- or 19th-century ownership stamps on two leaves. (24818)
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