Early Printing & Manuscripts (15th & 16th Century)

[LANDO, Ortensio]. Questions diverses, et responces d'icelles. Divisees en trois livres assçavoir, questions d'amour, questions naturelles, questions morales & politiques. Nouvellement traduites de Tuscan en Françoys.
Paris, Nicolas Bonsons, 1576. 16mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Mid-19th-century gold-tooled morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet. "118" [=178] ll. Full description

LAPIDANUS, Guilielmus. Meditationes in septem psalmos poenitentiae.
(Colophon:) Louvain, Henricus Baers, 1530. 8vo (13.2 x 9.4 cm). With a woodcut frame on the title page, a full-page woodcut device at the end partially coloured green, some woodcut decorated initials throughout, and the manuscript section rubricated in red. Modern vellum, red edges. [56], [4] ll. Full description

LARGUS, Scribonius and Jean RUEL (editor). De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus, ...
(Colophon:) Paris, Simon Du Bois, October 1528. Folio (29 x 20 cm). With Du Bois woodcut tree and 2 birds device at the end with motto, about 40 woodcut decorated initials (7 series?) plus about 100 repeats, and a vine-leaf ornament (Vervliet 44). Set in roman types with some preliminaries in an Aldine-style italic (with upright capitals) and occasional words in Greek. Recent parchment. [9], [1 blank], 31, [5] ll. Full description

LAVATER, Ludwig. De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus, variisque praesagitionibus quae plerunque obitum hominum, magnas clades, mutationésque imporium praecedunt.
Geneva, Eustache Vignon, 1575. 8vo. Early 20th-century vellum. [6], 272 pp. Full description

LEMNIUS, Levinus. Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura duobus libris explicata, quae studioso avidoque lectori non tam usui sunt futura, quam oblectamento.
Antwerp, Willem Simon (colophon: Gillis Coppens van Diest), 1559. 8vo. With Simons woodcut device on the title-page and a woodcut coat of arms on title-page of the second part. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled calf. [16], 192 ll. Full description

LEMNIUS, Levinus. De gli occulti miracoli, & uarii ammaestramenti delle cose della natura, con probabili ragioni, et artificiosa congiettura confermati.
Venice, Lodovico degli Avanzi, 1563. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page, and some woodcut initials. Near-contemporary limp vellum. [15], [1 blank], 156 ll. Full description

LEMNIUS, Levinus. Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura explicata.
Antwerp, Guillaume Simon (colophon:) printed by Christophe Plantin, 1567. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, an oval woodcut portrait of the author, and 6 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, the supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet as a central ornament on both boards. [16], 473, [22], [1 blank] pp. Full description

LEMNIUS, Levinus. De habitu et constitutione corporis, quam Graeci "krasin", triviales complexionem vocant, libri II.
Erfurt, Esaias Mechlerus, 1582. 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of the author on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials and tail pieces. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the first compartment of the spine has been painted red, a manuscript shelf mark ("E. 188") in red ink in the fourth compartment, the boards are richly blind-tooled with a central panel featuring Justicia (signed "HB") on the front, and Lucrecia (dated 1570) on the back, framed by a decorative border containing small portraits of classical authors, secured with two brass clasps and catches. [8], 167, [13] ll. Full description

LENCKER, Hans. Perspectiva hierinnen auffs kürtzte beschrieben ...
Nürnberg, Dietrich Gerlach, 1571. Small folio (29 x 19 cm). With the title within a woodcut border, 10 full-page woodcuts within collation and 1 double-page woodcut within collation (the latter not included in page numbering). Decorated black and red boards (ca. 1900). [6], XXIX ll. Full description

LEO VI (the Wise) of Byzantium and Antonius SEVERUS of Rome (attributed). Vaticinium Severi, et Leonis Imperatorum, in quo videtur finis Turcarum in praesenti eorum imperatore, una cum aliis nonnullis in hac re Vaticiniis ...
Brescia, Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1596. Small 8vo (14.5 x 10 cm). With 16 numbered engraved emblematic illustrations. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. 106, [6 blank] pp. Full description