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

[STERLINCX, Pierre]. Een corte waerachtighe beschrijvinghe, van alle gheschiedenissen, aenslaghen, stormen, schermutsingen, ende schieten voor de vrome stadt Haerlem in Hollandt gheschiet. Midtsgaders hoe, ende met wat conditien de selve den al ghemeynen Viant Ducque d'Albe overghelevert is, oock hoe hy met den soldaten, ende burgheren ghehandelt heeft, ende dat tot den 12 Septembris anno 1573.
Delft, [printed by Aelbrecht Hendricksz and the widow of Herman Schinkel (the Schinkel-Hendricksz press)], 1574. 4to. With the oval woodcut printer's device on the title page. Later (18th-century) half vellum. [51], [1 blank] pp. Full description

STUCKI, Johann Wilhelm. Carolus Magnus redivivus, hoc est, Caroli Magni Germanorum, Gallorum, Italorum, et aliarum gentium monarchae potentissimi, cum Henrico M. Gallorum & Navarrorum rege florentissimo comparatio: utriusq[ue] regis historiam breviter complectens, quam regum & principum speculum possis appellare.
(Colophon: Zürich, Johann Wolf), 1592. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With a woodcut portrait of Charlemagne and Henry IV on title-page, two woodcut initials and a woodcut printer's device on the last leaf. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. 79, [1] ll. Full description

SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius. Caesarum XII libri, iam denuo bonorum exemplarium & commentariorum ope emendati, cum M. Antonii Coccii Sabellici commentariis, nihil annotatu dignum dissimulantibus. Jo. Baptistae Egnatii Veneti, annot. in Suetonium. Annotata in eundem, & loca aliquot restitutae per D. Erasmum Roterodamum.
Antwerp, Jan van der Loe, 1548. 8vo. With woodcut device on title-page and numerous woodcut initials in text. Later marbled boards. [24], 661, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Gaius [and Guillaume Michel de TOURS (translator)]. Des faictz et gestes des douze Caesars, nouvellement imprime.
Paris, Arnoul l'Angelier, 1540. 8vo. With a half-page woodcut illustration on the title page, and 11 half-page woodcuts in the text (repeats with different names in the cartouche), a smaller woodcut illustration at the start of the work by Denis Janot, numerous woodcut decorated initials throughout, and l'Angelier's woodcut device on the final page. Mid- to late-19th-century red morocco (not before 1861), signed by Chambolle-Duru. [8], 276 ll. Full description

SUSAN, Issachar ben Mordecai ibn. [in Hebrew:] Sefer Ibur shanim.
Venice, Giovanni di Gara, [5]339 [= 1578/79]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With the title set in an elaborate woodcut architectural arch and 6 round woodcut calendrical or astrological diagrams with text. Set entirely in Hebrew type, the main text in semi-cursive (rabbinical) and the headings in meruba, each of the two styles in at least 3 sizes. Contemporary limp sheepskin wrap-around cover with flap and fastened with strap. 136 ll., including the blank leaf [108]. Full description

TASSO, Torquato. Il Re Torrismondo tragedia.
Venice, Fabio & Agostino Zoppini, 1588. 12mo or long 24mo in 12s (13.5×7 cm). With the Zoppinis' woodcut device on the title-page, a woodcut headpiece, several woodcut tailpieces, several woodcut decorated initials (3 series), and cast fleurons. Gold- and blind-tooled overlapping sheepskin (ca. 1900?). 58, [1], [1 blank] ll. Full description

[TELESFORO DA COSENZA]. Livre merveilleux, contenant en bref la fleur et substance de plusieurs traittez, tant des propheties & revelations, qu'anciennes croniques, faisant mention de tous les faictz de l'Eglise Universelle, co[m]me des scismes, discords & tribulations advenir en l'Eglise de Rome, & d'un temps auquel on ostera & tollira aux ge[n]s d'eglise & clergé, ...
Paris, Thibault Bessault, 1565. 8vo. With Bessault's woodcut device on the title-page. 18th-century French grained red morocco (ca. 1745?), gold-tooled spine with pointillé ornaments, each board framed with thin-thick-thin fillets with a rosette(?) stamped over their intersections at the corners, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on the board edges, gilt edges. [54] ll. Full description

TERENTIUS AFER, Publius, Aelius DONATUS, and Desiderius ERASMUS. Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati co[m]mentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exe[n]plarium collatione, diligentius quàm unquam antehac, emendatae...
Paris, Robert Estienne, 5 April 1536. Small folio (20.2 x 30.3 cm). With Estienne's small woodcut device ona small woodcut the title page. Late 17th-century(?) calf. 378, [18] pp. Full description

THEOCRITUS, HESIOD, and others. [Indication of contents in Greek followed by Latin:] Haec insunt in hoc libro. Theocriti Eclogae triginta. Genus Theocriti & De inventione bucolicorum. Catonis Romani sententiae paraeneticae Distichi. Sententiae septem sapientum. De invidia. Theognidis megarensis siculi sententiae Elegiacae. Sententiae monostichi per capita ex variis poetis. Aurea carmina Pythagorae. Phocylidae Poema admonitorium. Carmina Sibyllae erythraeae De Christo Jesu domino n[ost]ro. Differentia vocis. Hesiodi Theogonia. Eiusdem Scutum Herculis. Eiusdem Georgicon libri duo.
Venice, Aldus Manutius, February "1495" [=1496]. Folio. With 8 fine woodcut headpieces (2 by the famous Poliphilus master) plus 29 repeats, and 23 woodcut outline interlaced initials (3 series: 3-line, 5-line and 7-line) plus 16 repeats. Modern red morocco, gold- and blind-blocked. [140] ll. Full description

THEODORET of CYRRHUS, and Zenobio ACCIAIUOLI (translator). De evangelicae veritatis ex Graecorum atque gentium philosophia cognitione, sive de Graecarum affectionum curatione, libri duodecim Zenobio Acciaolo interprete ...
Antwerp, (colophon: Joannes Grapheus for) Joannes Steelsius, 1540. 8vo. With some woodcut decorated initials throughout, and Steelsius's woodut device at the end. 18th-century red morocco. 8, 158, [6] ll. Full description