ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital. London: Printed for and Published by R. Ackermann, 1816. 4to (336 x 275mm). Text by W. Combe and W. H. Pyne, 48 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Westall, Mckenzie, Pugin and others (plates lightly offset onto text, some very light spotting, but plates generally very clean). Contemporary panelled calf gilt, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Richard William Penn Earl Howe (armorial bookplate); catalogue description laid down on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, with issue-point plates in the following states: "Winchester College, from the Meadow" dated Jan. 1, 1815; "Westminster School-Room" with bareheaded Masters; and "Charter-House, from the Play-Ground" depicting a cricket match. Abbey Scenery 438; Hardie p. 311; Prideaux pp. 126 & 332; Tooley 3.
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JOULE, James Prescott (1818-89). [In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the Year MDCCCL. Part I.] III. On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat ... Received June 6, - Read June 21, 1849 (pages 61-82). London: Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, 1850. 4to (300 x 230mm). Tables. Original printed wrappers (upper wrapper and title detached, light stain to upper wrapper, some fraying and creasing to backstrip, corners a little eroded). Provenance: later stamps on title and occasionally internally. FIRST EDITION OF JOULE'S HIGHLY IMPORTANT PAPER. "Joule began work about 1845 on a fourth method for determining the mechanical value of heat. His latest efforts received a polite but unremarkable reception at the Cambridge meeting of the British Association. This time the experiments involved a paddle wheel placed in a can filled with water. Weights attached over pulleys working in opposite directions communicated motion to the paddle wheel. Joule argued that 'the force spent in revolving the paddle wheel produced a certain increment in the temperature of the water'..." (DNB). In honour of the scientist, the name "joule" was given to the derived unit of energy equal to the energy transferred to an object when a force of one newton acts on that object in the direction of the force's motion through a distance of one metre. In the same volume is Michael Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity (No. VII, pages 171-188).
GOGUET, Antoine-Yves (1716-58). De l' Origine des Loix, des Arts, et des Sciences; et de leurs Progrès chez les Anciens Peuples. Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant, 1758. 3 volumes, 4to (255 x 195mm). Half titles, titles printed in red and black, woodcut ornaments, 9 folding engraved plates, large folding table at the end of each vol. (some mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary calf, red edges (spines severely worn, heavily rubbed, joints split). FIRST EDITION of this social and cultural history of ancient civilizations seen through the prism of the French enlightenment. An impressive, but highly speculative, plate shows a pyramid under construction using wooden hoists and rollers. Barbier III, 746; Brunet II, 425: "Belle édition de cet ouvrage estimé ..." (3)
JOBLOT, Louis (1645-1723). Descriptions et Usages de Plusieurs Nouveaux Microscopes, tant Simples que Composez, avec des Nouvelles Observations faites sur une Multitude Innomerbrable d' Insectes, & d' autres Animaux de Diverses Especes. Paris: Jackques Collombat, 1718. 2 parts in one volume, 4to (249 x 185mm). Woodcut device on title, initials, head- and tail-pieces, first page of text engraved with head-piece, 34 engraved plates (tear to o1 just touching signature letter, some light mainly marginal staining and spotting). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red morocco lettering-piece (worn at extremities, rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the first treatise on Protozoa which had been discovered a few years earlier by Anton van Leeuwenhoek. Cole 1265; Nissen ZBI 2113.
CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de (1778-1841). Organographie Végétale, ou Description Raisonnée des Organes des Plantes. Paris: chez Deterville, 1827. 2 volumes, 8vo (205 x 130mm). Half title, 60 hand-coloured engraved plates (variable spotting, staining and browning, piece torn away from blank margin of one leaf in vol. II). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, black lettering-pieces spelling author's name as "Gandolle" (joints splitting, rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Nissen BBI 326; Pritzel 1504; Stafleu & Cowan 1004. (2)
GAY-LUSSAC, Louis Joseph (1778-1850) & Claude-Servais-Mathias POUILLET (1790-1868). Leçons de Physique de la Faculté des Sciences de Paris, Recueilles et Rédigées par M. Grosselin. Paris: chez Grosselin (and others), 1828. 2 volumes, 8vo (199 x 125mm). Half titles, 19 folding lithographed plates (?only, of 20, but the numbering of plates erratic and unclear, variable mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few plates in the second vol. quite heavily browned). Contemporary calf, spines gilt with black and green morocco lettering-pieces (corners of vol. one bumped and worn, extremities rubbed with some wear to foot of upper joints of vol. II). Provenance: later French pencil annotation to the half title of vol. one which seems to suggest the set is complete. FIRST EDITION. Sotheran 5271. Sold not subject to return. (2)
BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de (1698-1761). Architecture Hydraulique, ou l' Art de Conduire, d' Elever et de Menager les Eaux pour les Différens Besoins de la Vie. Paris: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1737-53. 2 volumes bound in 4, 4to (287 x 208mm). Engraved fronsipieces in vols. I and IV, engraved portrait of the author in vol. one, titles printed in red and black, engraved vignettes and illustrations, 219 folding engraved plates, tables (occasional very light spotting, staining and browning). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with tan and green morocco lettering-pieces and 5 raised bands, red edges (extremities rubbed, some scuffing). AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION. Brunet I, 279: "Bonne édition d' un ouvrage estimé"; Poggendorff I, 138; Sander 106. (4)
AMPERE, André-Marie (1775-1836). [In: Mémoires de l' Académie des Sciences de l' Institut de France. Année 1823 [but not printed until 1827]. Tome VI.] Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l' expérience, dans lequel se trouvent réunis les Mémoires que M. Ampère a communiquésà l' Académie royale des Sciences, dans les s 130ances des 4 et 26 décembre 1820, 10 juin 1822, 22 décembre 1823, 12 septembre et 21 novembre 1825. (Pages [175]-[388].) Paris: Chez Firmin Didot, Père et Fils, Libraires, 1827. 4to (276 x 220mm). Half title, 2 folding engraved plates illustrating Ampère's paper bound at the end (light stain to first few leaves including title, one plate lightly browned). Original blue printed wrappers, largely unopened, uncut. The author's name is written in pencil on the upper wrapper. FIRST EDITION of "Ampère's greatest work" (DSB) in which he describes the laws of action of electrical currents (electrodynamism) and provides a theory from which these could be mathematically deduced. Grolier 3a; Honeyman 135; Norman 50.
ROBINET, Jean Baptist (1735-1820). Vue Philosophique de la Gradation Naturelle des Formes de l' Etre, ou les Essais de la Nature qui Apprend a Faire l' Homme. Amsterdam: Chez E. van Harrevelt, 1768. 8vo (198 x 125mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with engraved illustration, 4-pages of errata, 10 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece and raised bands, red edges (joints split, quite heavily rubbed). Provenance: year of publication written in old manuscript beneath imprint. The first Dutch edition, printed in the same year as the Paris edition. Caillet 9509: "Ouvrage peu commun et très original ... L'auteur a donné une audacieuse théorie du monde, renouvelée de l'ésotérisme antique: l'univers est pour lui, un animal infini, et chacune de ses parties vivent également d'une existence qui leur est propre ..."; not in Brunet.
HOWARD, Henry Eliot (1873-1940). The British Warblers. A History with Problems of their Lives. London: R. H. Porter, 1907-14. 2 volumes, tall 4to (284 x 180mm). Half titles, 35 chromolithographed plates and 51 photogravure plates by Henrik Grönvold, maps printed in red and black, original part titles, unbound as issued, in pocket at the end of vol. II (some very light spotting). FINELY BOUND in contemporary green half crushed morocco, spines lettered and ruled in gilt with 5 raised bands. FIRST EDITION. Anker 213; Nissen IVB 454; Zimmer p.308. (2)
SCOUTETTEN, Raoul-Henry-Joseph (1799-1871). La Méthode Ovalaire, ou Nouvelle Méthode pour Aputer dans les Articulations. Paris: chez Mlle. Delaunay, 1827. 4to (311 x 225mm). Half title, 11 folding lithographed plates by Dupuy, Tavernier and Metz, after Dupuy (some spotting and browning, mainly to plates). Later olive green morocco-backed marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt with raised bands, old plain wrappers bound in. Provenance: old signature on upper wrapper. FIRST EDITION. Heirs of Hippocrates 1608.7: "First edition, uncommon, of this description of this new method of amputation at the joints, by the noted military surgeon Raoul-Henri-Joseph Scoutetten, illustrated with eleven superb lithographic plates. OCLC records just two copies, at the National Library of Medicine and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin"; Hirsch 189; Wellcome V, p.74.
GIRARD, Pierre-Simon (1765-1836). Traité Analytique de la Résistance des Solides, et des Solides d' Egale Résistance. Auquel on a joint Une suite de nouvelles Expériences sur la force, et l' élasticité spécifiques des Bois de Chêne et de Sapin. Paris: Chez Firmin Didot [and] Du Pont, 1798. 4to (253 x 195mm). Half title, errata leaf, tables, 9 folding engraved plates at the end (some mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this important work which contains the results of the author's researches on the strength and resistance of stone, timber and wrought iron as applied principally to architecture. It was the first book published in France to deal with "beam theory" in all its aspects (strength, flexural strength, elastic stability, yield strength). In the year of its publication, Girard travelled with Napoleon's army to Egypt where he studied the surface elevation and bed characteristics of the Nile; on his return to France, Napoleon appointed him director of the Paris water supply. (See DSB). Not in Brunet.
![ELIOT, George [i.e. Mary Ann EVANS (1819-80)]. The Mill on the Floss. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. 3 volumes, 8](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/90ffa5c4-0670-4589-81bb-ac7e00fac987/d6cc1cce-56d7-4de7-a52f-ac7e010f9505/468x382.jpg)
ELIOT, George [i.e. Mary Ann EVANS (1819-80)]. The Mill on the Floss. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. 3 volumes, 8vo (195 x 125mm). Half titles, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end of vol. one listing the third edition of Scenes of Clerical Life and the seventh edition of Adam Bede [Carter's second state], 16-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end of vol. III. Original tan cloth, the covers panelled in blind, the spines lettered in gilt (upper inner hinges of vol. one broken, some minor chipping to foot of spines, corners a little rubbed), later cloth slipcase. Provenance: J. Belton (armorial bookplate); Ex Libris Blairhame (label). FIRST EDITION of "one of the most widely read of [George Eliot's] works" (Drabble (ed.), The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985)). Carter pp. 110-111; Parrish pp. 14-15; Sadleir 816; Wolff 2060. (3)
MARIOTTE, Edmé (1620-84). Traite du Mouvement des Eaux et des Autres Corps Fluides. Divisé en V. Parties ... Mis en lumiere par les soins de M. de la Hire ... Nouvelle édition corrigée. Paris: Chez Jean Jombert, 1700. 8vo (163 x 90mm). Head-pieces and ornaments, woodcut diagrams (some leaves very lightly browned). Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands (some surface damage to a patch of the lower board, rubbed). Provenance: old bookseller's stamp on verso of title. The first edition was printed in 1686. Biblio-mechanica p. 217; cf. Norman 1440; Poggendorff II, 53; Waller 11398; not in Brunet.
SUE, Pierre (1739-1816). Histoire du Galvanisme; et Analyse des Différens ouvrages publiés sur cette découverte, depuis son origine jusqu' à ce jour. Paris: Chez Bernard, 1802. Volumes 1 - 2 only (of 4), 8vo (193 x 122mm). Half titles, folding engraved plate of an electrical experiment [inserted from another work] at the end of vol. II, 16-pages of publisher's advertisements (dated January 1804) at the end of vol. one, errata leaf at the end of vol. II, the following leaf, unusually, with "spare" printed paper spine labels for each vol. printed side by side (title page to the first vol. spotted, occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Attractively-bound in contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco lettering pieces and with classical urns and ceiling rose ornaments stamped in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Doctor P. A. Créhange (modern bookplate). FIRST EDITION. (2)
POMODORO, Giovanni (1550-99). Geometria Prattica. Dichiarasa da Giovanni Scala ... Opera per Generali da guerra, Capitani Architetti Bombardieri e Ingegnieri Cosmografinon che per ordinarii professori di misure. Nuovamente ristampato. Rome: Appresso Giovanni Martinelli, 1603 [but colophon dated 1599]. Folio (314 x 225mm). Fine elaborate engraved baroque title, initials and ornaments, 51 engraved plates, the first 44 by Pomodoro, the last 8 by Scala (small marginal hole in title, some waterstaining affecting about half of the plates, plates VII, XXIX, XXX and XXXXI with marginal repairs, the last touching the engraved frame, some light staining and spotting, a few ink stains). Contemporary limp vellum (stained, some worming, piece torn away from spine). Provenance: old illegible inscription (scribbled out) at lower margin of title; Alberto Lualdi (modern label). FIRST EDITION, second issue, with new engraved title and preliminary leaves, of this famous treatise on applied geometry and land surveying. Cat. Vinciana 1599; Graesse V, p.399; Harvard Italian 394; Honeyman 2513; Olschki 7562; Riccardi II, 201; not in Brunet.
PASTEUR, Louis (1822-95). Etudes sur la Bière, ses Maladies, Causes qui les Provoquent, Procédé pour la Rendre Inaltérable, avec une Théorie Nouvelle de la Fermentation. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. Large 8vo (240 x 155mm). Half title, 12 engraved plates at the end, wood-engraved illustrations, 4-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end. Original terracotta printed wrappers, largely unopened towards the end (some short tears and chipping to lower edge of wrappers). Provenance: illegible early signatures on title. FIRST EDITION. Garrison & Morton 2485; Osler 1550; Duveen 461; Norman 1658; Waller 10966.
CAVALLO, Tiberius (1749-1809). Theoretische und practische Abhandlung der Lehre vom Magnet. Leipzig: im Schwickertchen Verlage, 1788. 8vo (196 x 125mm). 2 folding engraved plates at the end. Contemporary or original paper boards with old manuscript label (section excised from front free endpaper). Provenance: inscription dated 1836 on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION. Poggendorff I, 405; Wheeler Gift 540.
![GILWELL [or GILLWELL] HOUSE ARCHIVE - An archive of printed and manuscript material relating to Gilwell House in Essex, compr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/90ffa5c4-0670-4589-81bb-ac7e00fac987/2a2662e7-1f49-4806-96ce-ac7e010fd085/468x382.jpg)
GILWELL [or GILLWELL] HOUSE ARCHIVE - An archive of printed and manuscript material relating to Gilwell House in Essex, comprising: William SOTHEBY (1757-1833). Farewell to Italy, and Occasional Poems. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1818. 4to (287 x 222mm). (Occasional light spotting and staining.) Contemporary plain wrappers (stained and creased at corners). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "The Author to [?] Chinnery In memory of many many most delightful hours enjoyed at Gillwell [sic, variant spelling] - Lower Grosvenor No. 13, May 2nd - 1818 -".Together with various documents relating to the house and estate, including a Christie's catalogue for the contents of the house, "principally of a most choice collection of Painted Greek Vases," (1812), a Winstanley and Sons catalogue for the sale of the house and grounds (1823), and a collection of ephemera relating to the East India Company, including many letters, documents on vellum, and others relating to Gilwell House, an album of manuscript music, and a copy of a granting of the Freedom of the City of London on vellum in a titled wooden container. (qty)
DAY-LEWIS, Cecil (1904-72). The Otterbury Incident. London: Putnam and Company, 1948. 8vo (203 x 135mm). Half title, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket by Edward Ardizzone (some chipping to edges with slight loss to letters at the foot of the backstrip, price clipped). FIRST EDITION.
![OWEN, David Dale (1807-60). First Report of a Geological Reconnoissance[sic] of the Northern Counties of Arkansas, made Duri](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/90ffa5c4-0670-4589-81bb-ac7e00fac987/ee03668b-b846-4a79-918b-ac7e01154497/468x382.jpg)
OWEN, David Dale (1807-60). First Report of a Geological Reconnoissance[sic] of the Northern Counties of Arkansas, made During the Years 1857 and 1858. Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1858. Folio (251 x 165mm). Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece, 6 tinted lithographed plates, wood-engraved plates, vignettes, diagrams (some text leaves browned, occasional spotting and staining). Contemporary marbled boards, paper spine label with title in manuscript (extremities rubbed). Provenance: not unsightly Basel library stamps to half title, title, plates and to a few text leaves. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 58006.
A collection of Monty Python memorabilia to include: 1977 '..Holy Grail' Eyre Metheun first edition 'First Draft' book, 2003 'The Pythons Autobiography' signed bookplate by Michael Palin, 'The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok', 1971 Monty Python 'Big Red Book', two BBC books for 'That Was The Week That Was'.
Fine quality leather bound volume ' Letters of Feodora, Princess of Hohenolhe-Langenburg 1828-72 ' First Edition, presentation copy, signed by Queen Victoria to Lady Gainsborough, annotations by Theodora to Lady G. together with a photographic portrait of Theodora, together with one volume ' Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats ', leather bound
Jowett, Hardy: Chinese Costumes 31 x 21,5 cm Provenienz: Aus der Sammlung von Prof. Dr. med., Dr. phil. Hermann Schroeder (1902-1991) - Titelseite an der Obekante beschnitten, Altersspuren Jowett, Hardy: Chinese Costumes, Peking: The Chinese Painting Association (1932), First Edition Folio, 310x215 mm - Property from the collection of Prof. Dr med., Dr phil. Hermann Schroeder (1902-1991) - Title page cut at the top, traces of age
1. E. F. Sandeman: Eight Months in an Ox-Waggon, 1975, 402 pp.2. T. J. Lucas: Camp Life and Sport in South Africa, 1975, 258pp.3. W. B. Lord and Thomas Baines: Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration, 1975, 734 pp.4. Emil Holub: Seven Years in South Africa, Vol. 1, 1975, 426pp.5. Emil Holub: Seven Years in South Africa, Vol. 2, 1976, 479pp.6. C. L.Norris-Newman: With the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, 1976, 387pp.7. Louis Cohen: Reminiscences of Johannesburg and London, 1976, 316pp.8. J. D. Kestell: Through Shot and Falme, 1976, 347pp.9. J. W. Matthews: Incwadi Yami, 1976, 542pp.10. Olive Schreiner: Thoughts on South Africa, 1976, 398pp.11. Captain Aylmer Haldane: How We Escaped From Pretoria, 1977, 231pp.This lot comprises of the first 11 issues of the Africana Reprint Library, published by the Africana Book Society in Johannesburg from 1975-1977. Each issue is a facsimilie reprint of the original edition. The books each have a dust jacket, stained top edges, and solid hardcover bindings.Some of the dust jackets have slight edgewear and a few instances of small closed tears. Previous owner's signature to half title page of vol. 6, and name stamp to half title page of vol. 1. All else fine. Solidly bound copies, with clean and clear text and illustrations.
Will McBrideIch war verliebt in diese Stadt Portfolio mit 11 Gelatinesilberabzügen 2014. 23 x 34,4 cm (30,4 x 40,3 cm) bis 23,4 x 35 cm (30,4 x 40,3 cm), Hoch- und Querformate. 10 Abzüge rückseitig mit Bleistift signiert, datiert, betitelt und nummeriert. Exemplar 10/10. - In originaler Portfoliobox..LiteraturMathias Bertram (Hg.), Will McBride. Berlin im Aufbruch. Fotografien 1956-1963, Berlin 2013, mit Abbn.Sein Portfolio "Ich war verliebt in dieser Stadt" produzierte Will McBride anlässlich der gleichnamigen Retrospektive, mit der das C/O Berlin im Herbst 2014 seine neuen Räumlichkeiten im Amerikahaus eröffnete. Bereits 1957 hatte der gebürtige US-Amerikaner in dem Bau am Bahnhof Zoo erstmals seine Arbeiten ausgestellt. Nur wenige Tage nach Ende der Ausstellung verstarb Will McBride Ende Januar 2015. So schloss sich mit seiner letzten Ausstellung zu Lebzeiten ein Kreis. Das hier zum Aufruf kommende Portfolio gehört zu den letzten Werken seines umfangreichen photographischen Schaffens. Die Motive: Das Kutscherpferd trinkt, Berlin, 1956Junge kauft Zeitung, Berlin, 1958Popcorn Essen am Wannsee, Berlin, 1959Riverboat, Berlin, 1959Horst Buchholz und Miriam, späte 1950er JahreMann in der Bernauer Straße, Berlin, 1961Kinder spielen an der Mauer, Berlin, 1961Babys über die Mauer zeigen, Berlin, 1971Kennedy, Brandt, Adenauer am Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, 1973Ohne Titel (Kontaktbogen mit den am Brandenburger Tor entstandenen Aufnahmen), 1973Das neue Kleid, Berlin, Pfaueninsel, 1980 Will McBrideIch war verliebt in diese Stadt Portfolio containing 11 gelatin silver prints, printed 2014. From 23 x 34.4 cm (30.4 x 40.3 cm) to 23.4 x 35 cm (30.4 x 40.3 cm), portrait and landscape formats. 10 prints signed, dated, titled and editioned in pencil on the verso. Portfolio 10 from an edition of 10. - In original portfolio box.LiteratureMathias Bertram (ed.), Will McBride. Berlin im Aufbruch. Fotografien 1956-1963, Berlin 2013, with ill.Will McBride produced his portfolio "Ich war verliebt in dieser Stadt" on the occasion of the retrospective of the same name, with which the C/O Berlin opened its new spaces in the 'Amerikahaus' in autumn 2014. The US-born artist had already exhibited his works there for the first time in 1957. Only a few days after the end of the exhibition, Will McBride passed away at the end of January 2015, thus closing the circle with his last exhibition in his lifetime. The portfolio on offer here is one of the last works in his extensive photographic oeuvre.Subjects: Das Kutscherpferd trinkt, Berlin, 1956Junge kauft Zeitung, Berlin, 1958Popcorn Essen am Wannsee, Berlin, 1959Riverboat, Berlin, 1959Horst Buchholz und Miriam, späte 1950er JahreMann in der Bernauer Straße, Berlin, 1961Kinder spielen an der Mauer, Berlin, 1961Babys über die Mauer zeigen, Berlin, 1971Kennedy, Brandt, Adenauer am Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, 1973Ohne Titel (Kontaktbogen mit den am Brandenburger Tor entstandenen Aufnahmen), 1973Das neue Kleid, Berlin, Pfaueninsel, 1980
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Ɵ Antonius Azaro de Parma, Homilies, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany (Ulm), dated 1393]To view a video of this lot, click here. 226 leaves (plus an endleaf at front and back), complete, collation: i-xvii12, xviii14, xix8, traces of occasional catchwords and quire signatures, double column of 38-40 lines of a series of late Gothic hands, opening words of each sermon in larger angular script, capitals touched in red in some sections, red paragraph marks, red rubrics, red underlining and simple red initials, red penwork boxes forming line-fillers between sermons, large opening initial in red strapwork enclosing trilobed design within its body, two leather tabs to mark major text openings, watermark close variant of Briquet 15021 (recorded Nuremberg in 1390; here 'tête de boeuf', but surmounted by a star rather than a cross), a few small spots and stains and a few wormholes, but overall in outstandingly fresh and crisp condition on heavy paper with wide and clean margins, 288 by 203mm.; fifteenth-century brown leather over bevelled wooden boards (bevelled in middle of board-edges in German fashion), tooled with diamond-shaped panels and various foliate stamps (one with Agnus Dei), remains of two brass clasps, small holes in leather on boards, losses of leather at top of spine and splitting at edges of boards, early monastic shelfmark on large paper label affixed to upper part of outer side of front board ("H19") in medieval fashion, with title in same place "Sermones dominicales fratris an-/ thony permensis R V I P", overall sturdy and robust condition; list of sermons and their corresponding reference nos. in Schneyer and Meersseman included with volume A large collection of some 95 Sunday and Lenten sermons in a manuscript with a precise date and provenance in the fourteenth century, in a fine medieval binding; the whole in an outstanding state of preservation Provenance:1. Additions to this book place it among the relatively small number of manuscripts for which we know almost all aspects of its creation. It was completed in 1393 for use by the Augustinian Canons of St. Michael's zu den Wengen in Ulm (founded as a pilgrim hospital and waystation from 1183 under the supervision of Augustinian Canons, closed briefly in the 1530s during the Reformation and reopened in 1549, and finally closed in 1803 and its goods sold): here with dated colophon "Anno domini Mocococolxxxxiii In vigilias Octave ma[u]ri" and a fifteenth-century ex libris on the front endleaf: "Iste liber est fratrum conventus monasterii in insulis vulgariter zü denWengen". Moreover, this second inscription continues, identifying the man who had it bound in the present binding as Petrus Rem, priest of the church at Hörvelsingen (a dependency of zu den Wengen), and perhaps it was in a temporary or loose binding for some decades after its creation. A further fifteenth-century inscription on the same endleaf supports this, stating: "Hunc librum legavit monasterio sancti Michaelis/ Ad insulis ulme dominus petrus dictus rem / Vicarius ecclesie nostre in Hervelsingen".2. By 1703, the book appears to have passed to nearby Wiblingen Abbey (Benedictine house, founded 1093, suffered greatly during Thirty Years' War, secularised in 1806 and then goods auctioned off), where the document that is loosely enclosed within this volume was written. The document attests to the death of A.P. Feliciano Müller in that year, during a siege by the French in the War of Spanish Succession, and is signed and sealed by Abbot Modestus of Wiblingen. If correct, then this volume sat for some time on the shelves in that abbey's celebrated Baroque library. Text:Antonius Azaro de Parma reached fame in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century as a Dominican preacher with a flair for simple and clear sermons expounding Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica. The first solid record of his works is a note of a copy of his sermons in the convent of San Domenico in Bologna in 1381 (that copy now Bologna, Archiginnasio, A.216), and a small number of extant manuscripts survive from the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The texts here are a collection of his Sunday and Lenten Sermons, and like other early manuscripts of his sermons have a handful of variant texts and others otherwise unattributed to the author that suggest substantial variation in the earliest layers of the corpus (see G. Meersseman, 'Le opere di Fra Antonio Azaro Parmense, O. P. nella Biblioteca Nazionale di Monaco di Baviera', Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 10, 1940, pp. 20-47, at pp. 23-26). Neither Schneyer (Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, 1969-1990) nor Kaeppeli (Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, I, 1970) lists a sermon collection for this author in this form, and we have been unable to trace another copy. While the first group of sermons here have received some scholarly scrutiny (see M. Michèle Mulchahey in Dominican Education Before 1350, 1998, p. 430), nothing has yet been written on the second group, and there is no modern edition of these texts. Thus, this codex is deserving of much further careful study.
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