1. CICERO, Marcus Tullius. De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Para-doxa Stoicorum. Illuminated manuscript, written in Latin on vellum. Italy, Florence, ca. 1450-1460. ¥13,600,000
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), the great Roman lawyer, orator, philosopher and politician, had an immense influence on the Latin language. De Senectute became a popular ethical trea-tise, applying the prin-ciples of philosophy to lighten the troubles of old age, the so-called
“heaviest burden of life.”
The second text in the present manuscript, De Amicitia, describes what qualities make a good friend (and what characterizes a bad friend), providing ex-amples from Cicero’s personal life.
Cicero’s Paradoxa stoi-corum, the third text, was only rediscovered in the early 15th century. The Paradoxa is an introduction to Stoicism in which Cicero lays out six stoic principles (called paradoxes). It exerted enormous influence on Western intellectual thought as it became a standard school text during the Middle Ages and onwards.
In all the present manuscript is a fine humanist book with wide margins and interesting texts in a notable modern binding.
2. COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI… Small folio (272 x 190 mm.), cont. Parisian binding of light brown calf. Nuremberg: J. Petreius, 1543. ¥218,000,000
First edition, and a very fine and crisp copy, of “the earliest of the three books of science that most clarified the relationship of man and his universe (along with
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1. CICERO, Marcus Tullius. De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Para-doxa Stoicorum. Illuminated manuscript, written in Latin on vellum. Italy, Florence, ca. 1450-1460. ¥13,600,000
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), the great Roman lawyer, orator, philosopher and politician, had an immense influence on the Latin language. De Senectute became a popular ethical trea-tise, applying the prin-ciples of philosophy to lighten the troubles of old age, the so-called
“heaviest burden of life.”
The second text in the present manuscript, De Amicitia, describes what qualities make a good friend (and what characterizes a bad friend), providing ex-amples from Cicero’s personal life.
Cicero’s Paradoxa stoi-corum, the third text, was only rediscovered in the early 15th century. The Paradoxa is an introduction to Stoicism in which Cicero lays out six stoic principles (called paradoxes). It exerted enormous influence on Western intellectual thought as it became a standard school text during the Middle Ages and onwards.
In all the present manuscript is a fine humanist book with wide margins and interesting texts in a notable modern binding.
2. COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI… Small folio (272 x 190 mm.), cont. Parisian binding of light brown calf. Nuremberg: J. Petreius, 1543. ¥218,000,000
First edition, and a very fine and crisp copy, of “the earliest of the three books of science that most clarified the relationship of man and his universe (along with
Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller
www.jonathanahill.com e-mail: [email protected]: 646 827-0724 fax: 212 994-9603 325 West End Avenue, apt. 10B · NY, NY, 10023
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1. CICERO, Marcus Tullius. De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Para-doxa Stoicorum. Illuminated manuscript, written in Latin on vellum. Italy, Florence, ca. 1450-1460. ¥13,600,000
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), the great Roman lawyer, orator, philosopher and politician, had an immense influence on the Latin language. De Senectute became a popular ethical trea-tise, applying the prin-ciples of philosophy to lighten the troubles of old age, the so-called
“heaviest burden of life.”
The second text in the present manuscript, De Amicitia, describes what qualities make a good friend (and what characterizes a bad friend), providing ex-amples from Cicero’s personal life.
Cicero’s Paradoxa stoi-corum, the third text, was only rediscovered in the early 15th century. The Paradoxa is an introduction to Stoicism in which Cicero lays out six stoic principles (called paradoxes). It exerted enormous influence on Western intellectual thought as it became a standard school text during the Middle Ages and onwards.
In all the present manuscript is a fine humanist book with wide margins and interesting texts in a notable modern binding.
2. COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI… Small folio (272 x 190 mm.), cont. Parisian binding of light brown calf. Nuremberg: J. Petreius, 1543. ¥218,000,000
First edition, and a very fine and crisp copy, of “the earliest of the three books of science that most clarified the relationship of man and his universe (along with
Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller
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4. TRITHEMIUS (or TRITHEIM), Johannes. Liber de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis. Folio (290 x 188 mm.), late 17th-cent. panelled English speck-led calf. Basel: J. Amerbach, 1494. ¥8,175,000
First edition of the “first bibliography to be compiled as a practical work of reference.”–Grolier Club, Bibliography, 7. A fine and crisp copy of a book which has become uncommon on the market, preserved in a box.
¶ Goff T-452.
5. WALTER OF HENLEY. Decorated manuscript on vellum, in Anglo-Norman French, of Walter of Henley’s Hosbondrye, seven leaves (lacking the final leaf). Small 4to (198 x 140 mm.). Modern brown morocco. [England: early 14th century]. ¥13,600,000
An important early 14th-century manuscript of Walter of Henley’s Husbandry, the most widely read of several notable treatises on agriculture that survive from mid- or late 13th-century England. This manuscript exhibits notable dif-ferences from other surviving examples. Manuscripts of Hen-ley’s Hosbondrye are extremely rare on the market.
¶ Trow-Smith, A His-tory of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700, p. 88–one of “the first great agrarian trea-tises.”
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1. CICERO, Marcus Tullius. De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Para-doxa Stoicorum. Illuminated manuscript, written in Latin on vellum. Italy, Florence, ca. 1450-1460. ¥13,600,000
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), the great Roman lawyer, orator, philosopher and politician, had an immense influence on the Latin language. De Senectute became a popular ethical trea-tise, applying the prin-ciples of philosophy to lighten the troubles of old age, the so-called
“heaviest burden of life.”
The second text in the present manuscript, De Amicitia, describes what qualities make a good friend (and what characterizes a bad friend), providing ex-amples from Cicero’s personal life.
Cicero’s Paradoxa stoi-corum, the third text, was only rediscovered in the early 15th century. The Paradoxa is an introduction to Stoicism in which Cicero lays out six stoic principles (called paradoxes). It exerted enormous influence on Western intellectual thought as it became a standard school text during the Middle Ages and onwards.
In all the present manuscript is a fine humanist book with wide margins and interesting texts in a notable modern binding.
2. COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI… Small folio (272 x 190 mm.), cont. Parisian binding of light brown calf. Nuremberg: J. Petreius, 1543. ¥218,000,000
First edition, and a very fine and crisp copy, of “the earliest of the three books of science that most clarified the relationship of man and his universe (along with
Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller
www.jonathanahill.com e-mail: [email protected]: 646 827-0724 fax: 212 994-9603 325 West End Avenue, apt. 10B · NY, NY, 10023
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Newton’s Principia and Darwin’s Origin of Species).”–Dibner, Her-alds of Science, 3. This work is the foundation of the heliocentric theory of the planetary system and the most important scien-tific text of the 16th century.
A very large, fresh, and crisp copy (the leaves “crackle” when you turn them).
¶ Gingerich, An Annotated Census of Copernicus’ De Revolu-tionibus, Madrid 7. Horblit 18b. Printing & the Mind of Man 70–“a landmark in human thought. It challenged the authority of antiquity and set the course for the modern world by its effec-tive destruction of the anthro-pocentric view of the universe.”
3. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius. Historia Naturalis. Numerous initials & rubrics supplied in red & blue alternately, illuminated with 37 large initials in gold and colors, and a painted border heightened with gold & including a coat of arms on fol. 23. Folio (298 x 206 mm.), Italian 17th-century brown morocco. Treviso: Michael Manzolus, “25 August 1479” [but not before 13 October]. ¥24,500,000
Sixth Latin edition of the greatest general scientific and encyclopedic work of antiquity, a storehouse of physical, geographical, and historical knowledge which profoundly affected the Western world’s thought for more than 1500 years. A fine and large copy with wide margins, preserved in a box.
¶ Goff P-791. Klebs 786.6.
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Newton’s Principia and Darwin’s Origin of Species).”–Dibner, Her-alds of Science, 3. This work is the foundation of the heliocentric theory of the planetary system and the most important scien-tific text of the 16th century.
A very large, fresh, and crisp copy (the leaves “crackle” when you turn them).
¶ Gingerich, An Annotated Census of Copernicus’ De Revolu-tionibus, Madrid 7. Horblit 18b. Printing & the Mind of Man 70–“a landmark in human thought. It challenged the authority of antiquity and set the course for the modern world by its effec-tive destruction of the anthro-pocentric view of the universe.”
3. PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius. Historia Naturalis. Numerous initials & rubrics supplied in red & blue alternately, illuminated with 37 large initials in gold and colors, and a painted border heightened with gold & including a coat of arms on fol. 23. Folio (298 x 206 mm.), Italian 17th-century brown morocco. Treviso: Michael Manzolus, “25 August 1479” [but not before 13 October]. ¥24,500,000
Sixth Latin edition of the greatest general scientific and encyclopedic work of antiquity, a storehouse of physical, geographical, and historical knowledge which profoundly affected the Western world’s thought for more than 1500 years. A fine and large copy with wide margins, preserved in a box.
¶ Goff P-791. Klebs 786.6.
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4. TRITHEMIUS (or TRITHEIM), Johannes. Liber de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis. Folio (290 x 188 mm.), late 17th-cent. panelled English speck-led calf. Basel: J. Amerbach, 1494. ¥8,175,000
First edition of the “first bibliography to be compiled as a practical work of reference.”–Grolier Club, Bibliography, 7. A fine and crisp copy of a book which has become uncommon on the market, preserved in a box.
¶ Goff T-452.
5. WALTER OF HENLEY. Decorated manuscript on vellum, in Anglo-Norman French, of Walter of Henley’s Hosbondrye, seven leaves (lacking the final leaf). Small 4to (198 x 140 mm.). Modern brown morocco. [England: early 14th century]. ¥13,600,000
An important early 14th-century manuscript of Walter of Henley’s Husbandry, the most widely read of several notable treatises on agriculture that survive from mid- or late 13th-century England. This manuscript exhibits notable dif-ferences from other surviving examples. Manuscripts of Hen-ley’s Hosbondrye are extremely rare on the market.
¶ Trow-Smith, A His-tory of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700, p. 88–one of “the first great agrarian trea-tises.”
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4. TRITHEMIUS (or TRITHEIM), Johannes. Liber de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis. Folio (290 x 188 mm.), late 17th-cent. panelled English speck-led calf. Basel: J. Amerbach, 1494. ¥8,175,000
First edition of the “first bibliography to be compiled as a practical work of reference.”–Grolier Club, Bibliography, 7. A fine and crisp copy of a book which has become uncommon on the market, preserved in a box.
¶ Goff T-452.
5. WALTER OF HENLEY. Decorated manuscript on vellum, in Anglo-Norman French, of Walter of Henley’s Hosbondrye, seven leaves (lacking the final leaf). Small 4to (198 x 140 mm.). Modern brown morocco. [England: early 14th century]. ¥13,600,000
An important early 14th-century manuscript of Walter of Henley’s Husbandry, the most widely read of several notable treatises on agriculture that survive from mid- or late 13th-century England. This manuscript exhibits notable dif-ferences from other surviving examples. Manuscripts of Hen-ley’s Hosbondrye are extremely rare on the market.
¶ Trow-Smith, A His-tory of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700, p. 88–one of “the first great agrarian trea-tises.”
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4. TRITHEMIUS (or TRITHEIM), Johannes. Liber de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis. Folio (290 x 188 mm.), late 17th-cent. panelled English speck-led calf. Basel: J. Amerbach, 1494. ¥8,175,000
First edition of the “first bibliography to be compiled as a practical work of reference.”–Grolier Club, Bibliography, 7. A fine and crisp copy of a book which has become uncommon on the market, preserved in a box.
¶ Goff T-452.
5. WALTER OF HENLEY. Decorated manuscript on vellum, in Anglo-Norman French, of Walter of Henley’s Hosbondrye, seven leaves (lacking the final leaf). Small 4to (198 x 140 mm.). Modern brown morocco. [England: early 14th century]. ¥13,600,000
An important early 14th-century manuscript of Walter of Henley’s Husbandry, the most widely read of several notable treatises on agriculture that survive from mid- or late 13th-century England. This manuscript exhibits notable dif-ferences from other surviving examples. Manuscripts of Hen-ley’s Hosbondrye are extremely rare on the market.
¶ Trow-Smith, A His-tory of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700, p. 88–one of “the first great agrarian trea-tises.”
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telephone: 646-827-0724
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