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Armenta, Alonso de. Notarial document in Spanish manuscript concerning several public loans to the Spanish King Philip IV (King 1621 - 1665) by Don Alonso de Armenta y Casaus from Sevilla. Madrid, 6th December 1627. Original Spanish document handwritten on vellum leaves, with several signatures. 8, 2 blank lvs. Folio. Sewn. (# 3884)

The public loans were necessary (according to the text) to finance hospitals, schools, but also wars. In return for these Juro's, the donor got yearly a life-annuity. Enormous amounts of money are mentioned, e.g. 150 million ducats. Also the public loans given to the Crown by several forefathers of Armenta are mentioned. - Waterstain to last 2 blank leaves.

Audran, Benoît I (Lyon 1661-Louzouer 1721). David and Goliath, after Daniele da Volterra. 1716. Large oblong engraving of David, brandishing a sword, keeps Goliath on the ground while grabbing him by the hair. Lettered below immage: 'A monseigneur le Prince de Chelamar...Ministre de son Conseil privé, Grand Ecuier de la Reine, et Ambassadeur en France. etc. Benoît Audran, graveur ordin.re du Roy, dedie cette copie d'une des deux peintûres de Michel Ange Buonarrotta qu'occuppent les surfaces d'une grande pierre, representant le même sujet du combat de David et de Goliath en deux differentes attitudes, laquelle a eté presenté par son Ex.ce a Louis le Grand, à Marly le 25. Juillet de l'année 1715 au Nom de Monseigr. Judice son frere, Grand maître du Palais Apostolique. A Paris chés Le Pere et Vaulée rue St. Jacques à la ville de Rouan'. 36,1 x 42,2 cm. (# 5860)

Cf. I.F.F. XVIII, I, 225, No. 24 (other state). Cf. Le Blanc I, 73, No. 26 (other state). In database British Museum. State with later publication address: probably state 2 (of 2), published in Paris and Rouen by Le Père & Avaulez. Wrongly attributed to Michelangelo on plate. The original painting, oil on slate, by the Italian painter Daniele da Volterra (Volterra 1509-Roma 1566), is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Da Volterra, a close friend and follower of Michelangelo, painted a picture of David and Goliath on both sides of the stone. This original painting remained in Italy until 1715, year in which Louis XIV received it as a diplomatic present. The present engraving is one of a pair of two, made after these paintings. Benoît Audran I was admitted to the Académie Royale in 1709. At the request of Louis XIV he made many prints after paintings in his Royal collection. The dedicatee Antonio del Giudice, Prince of Cellamare (1657-1733), a Spanish politician and statesman, was Spanish ambassador in France. He plotted to overthrow the Regent and was sent to the frontier in 1718. - Blank margins slightly discoloured. Sharp impression on thick paper, with ample margins. Collector's stamp on verso of 'Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin' (Lugt No. 2273).

Columbus, Chr. Epistola de insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper inventis. (Rome, Eucharius Silber, after 29 April 1493). Facsimile Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariat, München, ca. 1920. With ornamental intitial. 4 lvs (last blank). 4to. In one folded sheet, unbound. (# 5120)

Hain-Copinger 5492. Klebs 284.3. BMC IV, 115. Goff C-759. GKW 7178. Harrisse No. 3. Facsimile edition of the third edition (of six editions all printed in 1493) of the Latin translation of Columbus' official account of his discovery of America (called: the Islands of India beyond the Ganges) in 1493. Translated from Spanish by Leandro di Cosco.

Columbus, Chr. Epistola de insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper inventis. (Rome, Stephan Plannck, after 29 April 1493). Facsimile Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariat, München, ca. 1920. 4 lvs. 4to. In folded sheets, unbound, uncut. (# 5118)

Hain-Copinger 5490. Klebs 284.1. BMC IV, 97. Goff C-757. GKW 7173. Harrisse No. 1. Facsimile edition of the first edition (of six editions all printed in 1493) of the Latin translation of Columbus' official account of his discovery of America (called: the Islands of India beyond the Ganges) in 1493. Translated from Spanish by Leandro di Cosco.

Columbus, Chr. Epistola de insulis nuper inventis. (Basel, Michael Furter for Johann Bergman von Olpe, 1493). Zuilichem, The Catharijne Press, 1991. With 4 woodcuts, one initial calligraphed in red. 16 lvs. Miniature book, 66 x 46 mm. Modern blind-stamped calf, on front-cover a reproduction of a 15th century original showing a sailing ship with inscription 'Oceanica Classis'; back with 3 raised bands. (# 5803)

Charming miniature book. Nr. P.C. (Presentation Copy) of a limited edition of 175 copies. This miniaturised reproduction of Columbus' famous letter has been printed from zinc-blocks on old Dutch handmade paper. The Latin text is illustrated with four reproductions of woodcuts, of which one, the famous 'Oceanica Classis' has also been used on the front-cover of the binding. - Added the original prospectus.

Desrochers, Étienne (Lyon 1668-Paris 1741). François Verdier. Peintre ordinaire du Roy, & ancien Professeur en son Academie de Peinture et de Sculpture. After Jean Ranc. 1723. Large engraved portrait of the painter François Verdier, half-length, head turned to the right, in an oval within rectangular frame, a palette with brushes and a portcrayon below; engraved inscription (see above) on pedestal; in the plate signed underneath 'Ranc pinxit. Gravé par E. Desrochers pour sa reception a l'Academie en 1723.' 36 x 25,8 cm (plate-mark). (# 5848)

I.F.F. VII, 260, No. 597. Le Blanc II, 121, No. 121. Firmin-Didot, Graveurs de Portraits en France, No. 2483. Second state (of II), with lettering. Fine artist's portrait/portrait d'artiste, also Reception Piece/Morceau de Réception for Desrochers' admission to the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris. Étienne Jahandier Desrochers was admitted to the Paris Académie in 1723 with this engraved portrait of the Royal painter François Verdier (Paris 1651-Paris 1730), after a painting of Jean Ranc (Montpellier 1674-Madrid 1735). Desrochers is especially known as a good portraitist. - Sharp impression on heavy paper. Thread margins. Paper very lightly browned.

(Dolivar, Jean). Retables. Aug. Vind. (Augsburg), Jeremias Wolff, (no date, before 1724). Complete suite of fine title and 5 plates, numbered in the plates, Nos. (1)-6, etched by Johann Leonhart Wüst. ca 21,2 x 14,6 cm. (# 4441)

Not in Fuhring or any of the other usual bibliographies. Very rare German edition copied from the original French series 'Nouveau livre d'Autel' (Paris 1690, see: Kat Orn. Berl. No. 3714 and Guilmard 99 - 100). Very elaborate designs for altar retables in baroque style, i.e. for architectural frames enclosing decorated panels above back of altars. Jean (Juan) Dolivar, architect and engraver (Saragossa in Spain in 1641 - Paris? 1692), worked in Paris together with his uncle Jean Le Pautre and after J. Berain. Johann Leonhart Wüst (1666 - 1735) was goldsmith and engraver in Augsburg. - 5 of the plates cut out within plate mark and laid down, plate 5 with ample margins; small defects to blank part of 2 plates, 1 plate thumbed. Blind collector's stamp, not identified in Lugt.

(Dolivar, Jean). Retables. Aug. Vind. (Augsburg), Jeremias Wolff, (no date, before 1724). Complete suite of fine title and 5 plates, numbered in the plates, Nos. (1)-6, etched by Johann Leonhart Wüst. ca. 22,5 x 15,6 cm on leaves of ca. 30 x 20,5 cm. Sewn. (# 4448)

Not in Fuhring or any of the other usual bibliographies. Very rare German edition copied from the original French series 'Nouveau livre d'Autel' (Paris 1690, see: Kat Orn. Berl. No. 3714 and Guilmard 99 - 100). Very elaborate designs for altar retables in baroque style, i.e. for architectural frames enclosing decorated panels above back of altars. Jean (Juan) Dolivar, architect and engraver (Saragossa in Spain in 1641 - Paris? 1692), worked in Paris together with his uncle Jean Le Pautre and after J. Berain. Johann Leonhart Wüst (1666 - 1735) was goldsmith and engraver in Augsburg. - Occasionally foxed, blank margins slightly thumbed. Contemporary handwritten numbers in blank corners. Ample margins.

Ehrentreich, A. Reprobatio Lydii Lapidis seu brevis refutatio tractatus, quem Franciscus Perea pro defensione probabilismi edidit Salmantica anno 1697. Romae, L.A. Chracas, 1699. Woodcut device at the end. 104 pp. - Bound with: Collectio propositionum damnatarum ab Innocentio X ad Innocentium XII inclusive, cum aliis constitutionibus apostolicis, & decretis. Romae, L.A. Chracas, 1699. Woodcut device on title. 237, 1 pp., 1 lf. Together 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary limp vellum. (# 5290)

Ad I: De Backer-Sommervogel III, 351 No. 2. First edition. Directed against 'Lydius Lapis recentis antiprobabilismi, seu dissertatio theologica contra nuperus ejus propugnatores.' Salmanticae, 1697. Father Thyrse Gonzalez, against whom this work was written, says that François Eustache de Perea y Porrès is the pseudonym of a Jesuit, probably Bern. Sartolo. The Jesuit Adam Ehrentreich was born in Donauwerth, was professor of theology at the university of Innsbruck, worked in Rome and Germany and died in München in 1708. Ad II: Willaert No. 926B. De Backer-Sommervogel III, 351 No. 1. First edition. Some of the Papal decrees and bulls, etc. deal with forbidden books of Jansenius and others. - Several contemporary annotations on paste-down end-papers, stamp and contemporary ownership entry on title; brown stain to inner blank margin of title, occasionally slightly browned.

Fisher, Edward (Dublin 1730 - London ca. 1785). St. Matthew. Done from an original picture in the collection of Mr. Hone. Spagneletto pinx. E. Fisher fecit. London, Laurie & Whittle, 12. May 1794. Beautiful mezzotint engraving by Edward Fisher after Giuseppe Ribera, nicknamed il Spagnoletto, with plate-number 36; showing the bust of St.Matthew with white hair and beard, reading a book. ca. 33 x 23 cm. (# 5798)

Le Blanc II, 234 No. 1. Nagler V, 22 and XIV, 394. Thieme-Becker XII, 54 and XXVIII, 233. Edward Fisher (Dublin 1730 - London ca. 1785) was a brilliant Irish engraver of mezzotints. Giuseppe (Jusepe, José) de Ribera (Játiba ca. 1588-1590 - Naples ca. 1652-1656), with nick name 'Lo Spagnoletto', little Spaniard, was a famous Spanish baroque painter, who worked in Naples. - Very lightly foxed, with ample margins; with collector's stamp on verso of the 'Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin' (Lugt No. 2273).

Fleury - Eigentliche Vorbildung des harten Treffens so zwischen den Mansfeldischen und Spanischen auff den Brabändischen Grentzen vorgangen Anno 1622. Frankfurt a.M., heirs of M. Merian, 1635. Large battle-scene near the village of Fleury in Hainaut (Henegouwen). 26,6 x 34,5 cm. (# 5443)

From Theatrum Europaeum. - Mounted, small tears in lower margin touching a few letters of the subscription only, slightly browned, with margins.

Gail, Wilhelm (München 1804-München 1890). Aus dem Kreutzgang des Klosters Sn. Juan de los Reyes in Toledo. Partie du cloître de Sn. Juan de los Reyes à Toledo. München, Piloty u. Loehle, (c. 1835). Large tinted lithographed plate, signed in the plate 'Wilh. Gaïl 3/9', lettered at bottom in the plate 'N. d. Natur u. auf Stein gez. v. W. Gail.', 'Gedr. in d. Kunstanstalt v. Piloty u. Loehle.', 'Zu finden bei H. Kohler et Comp. in München.' Lettered underneath with title in German and French (see above). 36,5 x 26,8 cm. (# 5913)

The German Painter Wilhelm Gail visited Spain in the early 1830's; the monastery was abandoned in 1835. - Ample margins, margins slightly foxed.

Küsel, Melchior (1626-Augsburg-1683). Praterjagd anlässlich der Hochzeit Kaiser Leopold I. und der Infantin Margarita Teresa von Spanien. Hunting party in Vienna/Wien on the occasion of the marriage of Emperor Leopold I to Margarita Teresa of Spain. 1666-1667. Oblong etching of dogs hunting boars; view of the Prater with a tribune at centre for the imperial guests; onlookers, some with horses, forming a circle around the animals; at bottom signed in the plate 'Melchior Kusell f.' 25 x 34,4 cm. (# 5878)

Hollstein, German, XX, 77 No. 190. In database British Museum. One of a series of six plates with 'Lustjagden', hunting parties organised at the Prater in Vienna/Wien on the occasion of Leopold I's marriage to Margarita Teresa of Spain, 5 december 1666. Melchior Küsel/Küsell, engraver and publisher, flourished in Augsburg, Wien and München; he married Maria Sibylla Merian. - Trimmed within plate-mark and mounted of old. Light waterstains, brown spots.

Ludovicus (Luiz, de Sao Francisco). Oratio funebris ex tempore habita ... apud Almae Urbis celebre templum Sanctae Mariae super Minervam praeclariss. Ordinis Praedicatorum. In obitu ... F. Marci Valladaris Hispani eiusdem instituti Procuratoris & Generalis Vicarij. Romae, V. Accolti, 1587. Woodcut printer's mark on title. Two typographical head-pieces, two ornamental woodcut initials. 4 lvs. 4to. Modern wrappers. (# 1135)

Edit 16 on-line No. 23329 (only one copy in Padova). Not in the STC of Italian books. Not in Palau. Rare funeral oration by the Franciscan friar Ludovicus (Luiz de Sao Francisco) from Lisboa, who was theologian 'ex Seraphico instituto, Provinciae S. Jacobi Hispaniarum', for the Spanish friar Marcus Valladaris, procurator and vicar-general at the same institute. - A very well preserved copy.

Lugo, J. de. Disputationes scholasticae de mysterio incarnationis Dominicae. Editio ultima. Lugduni (Lyon), for L. Arnaud, P. Borde, J. & P. Arnaud, 1679. Large woodcut publisher's mark on title, title printed in red and black. 4 lvs., 532 pp., 8 lvs. - Bound with: Lugo, J. de. Responsorum moralium libri sex. Hac postrema editione a mendis expurgati. Lugduni (Lyon), for P. Borde, J. et P. Arnaud, 1696. Large woodcut publisher's mark on title, title printed in red and black. 6 lvs., 257, 1 pp., 5 lvs. Together 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. 19th century half calf, back with red label (corners and top of spine slightly damaged, rubbed). (# 5064)

Ad I: De Backer-Sommervogel V, 176 No. 4. This edition not in Palau. First published in Lyon 1633, this work was reprinted several times. Cardinal Joh. de Lugo (Madrid 1583 - 1660), a Spanish Jesuit, was the author of numerous theological works. - Two old library stamps on title; occasionally some slight foxing. Ad II: De Backer-Sommervogel V, 178 No. 12. This edition not in Palau. This work was first printed in Lyon 1651 and also reprinted several times. - Slightly browned and foxed.

Nieremberg, J.E. De origine Sacrae Scripturae libri duodecim. In quibus multa scripturae loca explanantur, et antiquitates ex sacra, profanâque eruditione eruuntur. Lugduni (Lyon), for P. Prost, 1641. Large engraved vignette on title by Spirinx. Several passages in Greek and Hebrew. 8 lvs., 454 pp., 14 lvs. Folio. Contemporary vellum (front-joint splitting, somewhat stained). (# 5058)

Palau No. 190953. De Backer-Sommervogel V, 1744 No. 21. First edition of this significant work on the origin of the Holy Scripture, investigating especially the origin of writing. One chapter deals with the origin of the Hebrew language. Joh. Eus. Nieremberg (Madrid 1595 - Madrid 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and prolific author. - Library stamp on title; two preliminary leaves loose; foxed and browned.

Palafox y Mendoza, J. de. El pastor de noche buena. Practica breve de las virtudes. Conocimiento facil de los vicios. Corregido, añadido, y enmendado por su author. Barcelona, por R. Figuerò, 1712. Title within typographical border. 24 lvs., 286 pp., 5 lvs. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum, with ties (slightly stained, book-block loose; end-papers made from leaves of a contemporary Spanish imprint). (# 5385)

This edition not in Palau (cf. No. 209638). Cf. Sabin No. 58300. First published in Mexico 1644, this is one of the often reprinted works of Juan Palafox y Mendoza (1600 - 1659), bishop of Pueblo de los Angeles in Mexico, where he sought to protect the native (Red) Indians from Spanish cruelty, which brought him into conflict with the Jesuits. - Foxed.

Ruiz Lasala, Inocencio. Joaquin Ibarra y Marin (1725-1785). Zaragoza, 1968. With 10 plates. 15, 230 pp. Large 8vo. Original printed wrappers, uncut. (# 5919)

The standard reference work listing 1292 entries of works published by Ibarra and his successors. No. 509 of 550 numbered copies printed, with the author's signature.

Toletus, Fr. Commentaria, unà cum Quaestionibus, in universam Aristotelis Logicam. Multò accuratius... nunc denuò excusa. Lugduni (Lyon), A. Marsilius, 1579. Woodcut printer's mark on title and a different one at the end. With some woodcut diagrams in the text. 419, 5 lvs. 8vo. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wood, on both sides a central floral decoration surrounded by a roll-produced border with the 4 evangelists (slightly rubbed). (# 1212)

Palau No. 333090. Not in De Backer-Sommervogel (cf. VIII, 65, No. 2). Not in Baudrier, Cranz, Riley, STC of French books. Very rare edition. The Jesuit Francisco de Toledo (Toletus), (Cordoba 1532-Rome 1596), was a prominent Spanish philosopher and theologian, whose numerous commentaries on Aristotle were highly esteemed at the time. First published in Rome 1572, the present work was reprinted many times. - Erased old ownership entry on title; light waterstain in some blank margins; slightly foxed.

Vigliegas (Villegas), B. di. Soliloqui divini ... tradotti dalla lingua Spagnuola nell'Italiana dal Lodovico Flori. Aggiontevi le quattro Massime del Giovambatista Manni. 6e impressione. Padova, G. Conzatti, 1731. With engraved title, woodcut of Maria with Christ in the text. 24, 396 pp. 12mo. Contemporary light brown polished calf, on both sides gilt oval coat of arms with motto 'Non est mortale quod opto', gilt back with label (spine-ends and corners somewhat damaged, slightly rubbed). (# 4220)

Palau No. 369281. Not in De Backer-Sommervogel (Cf. VIII, 779-780). The Jesuit Bernardin de Villegas (Oropesa 1592 - Madrid 1653) was professor of humanities, philosophy and theology. He founded the College of Badajoz and was Provincial at Toledo. The translator L. Flori was also a Jesuit. - Library stamp 'Erberg' (probably an Austrian nobleman) on engraved and printed title. Copy in a nice binding.

Vindel, Fr. Escudos y marcas de impresores y libreros en España durante los siglos XV a XIX (1485-1850). Con 818 facsimiles. Prólogo de don Vicente Castañeda Alcover. Barcelona, Orbis, 1942. With 818 illustrations of Spanish printer's marks in the text. 23, 636 pp., 1 lf. Large 8vo. Red imitation leather, back gilt, top edge gilt, original covers bound in. (# 5910)

No. 546 of 800 copies printed on specially made paper. Standard work on the devices of Spanish printers used from 1485-1850. - A few pages slightly foxed, otherwise a good copy.