Rare books from BIBLIOPATHOS FINE ARTS

Renowned and rare first Edition of Joseph Furttenbach Military and civil architecture treatise
Furttenbach, Joseph. Architectura vniversalis, Das ist: Von Kriegs: Statt- vnd Wasser Gebäwen Erstlich, wie man die Statthor vnnd Einlaß, zu Wasser vnd zu Land mit Spitzgatter vnd doppelten Schlagbrucken, darhinder dann ein newe Manier der Soldaten Quartier zu Ross vnd Fuß, erbawen, vnd also vor Feindlichem Anlauff wol verwahren solle ... Auß eigener Experientza und viel-Jähriger Observation zusamen getragen, beschrieben, und mit. 60. Kupfferstucken vorgebildet und delinirt: Durch Josephum Furttenbach. Getruckt in deß Heyligen Römischen Reichs Statt Vlm : durch Johann Sebastian Medern, 1635. Folio (31 x 23 cm), contemporary stiff vellum binding (spine restored), edges sprinkled in red, pp. [26], 159, [1], double page engraved title page, double page engrave portrait of the author, title page in black and red and 60 engraved plates.
double plate engraved Frontispiece and double page portrait of the… Read More

Extremely rare First Edition
Clairaut calculation of the XVIII century return of the Halley's comet
Clairaut, Alexis Claude. Théorie du mouvement des comètes, dans laquelle on a égard aux altérations que leurs orbites éprouvent par l'action des planètes. Avec l'application de cette théorie à la comète qui a été observée dans les années 1531, 1607, 1682 & 1759. Par m. Clairaut ... A Paris : chez Michel Lambert, imprimeur-libraire, rue & à côté de la Comédie Françoise, au Parnasse, s.d. (but 1760)
8vo (21 x 13.5 mm), contemporary stiff vellum, gilt floral and geometrical decoration and gilt title on a leather label at spine, red edges, pp. [2], xiv, 247, [1], publication date alleged from the printing licence at leaf 2H4v, signature: a-b4 A-2H4.
The triumph of Newtonian mechanics
Clairaut's Théorie du mouvement des comètes is the first and only document containing the detailed description of the calculation made by the astronomer, to obtain the perihelion date (the point in the orbit… Read More

Two fundamental works of Canon Law in one single volume in a fine contemporary binding.Fully rubricated im red and blue, both volumes not in BMC - Only 4 copies in USA libraries.
Pope Bonfacius VIII (Benedetto Gaetano). Liber sextus Decretalium[With:] Johannes Andreae. Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis. Strasbourg: Johann Reinhard Grüninger, 14 February 1491.
[Bound with:]
Pope Clemens V, (Raimundus Bertrandi del Goth). Constitutiones. Strasbourg: Johann Reinhard Grüninger, 19 March 1491.
Two works in one volume, royal folio (408 x 279mm), Contemporary blindstamped leather over wooden boards, vol. I ff. 98, vol. II ff. 53 (of 54, lacking final blank). Signature: Vol. I a⁸bc⁶d⁸e⁶f⁸gh⁶i⁸kl⁶m–o⁸, Vol. II: A⁸B–E⁶FG⁸H⁶
Nice incunable edition by the renowned Strasburg Printer Johann Reinhard Grüninger printed in red and black, rubricated in red and blue
The Liber Sextus Decretalium, part of the Corpus Juris Canonici, is a collection of regulations of canon… Read More

An early incunabulum in superb copy with wide margins printed on thick, strong paper, clean and crisp throughout, in a beautiful contemporary binding

Turrecremata, Johannes de. Expositio super toto psalterio. [Augsburg]: Johann Schüssler, 6 May 1472.

Super-chancery Folio (304 x 210 mm). 136 leaves (112, 2-1310, 144: 1/1 blank, 1/2r text, 14/2v colophon, 14/3-14/4 blank). 35 lines. Printed in gothic type, Two- to six-line initial spaces. Rubricated with two large Lombard initials in red, small red Lombards and paragraph signs. Contemporary Augsburg blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, two clasps (lightly restored). Traces of contemporary manuscript paging in upper right corners of rectos (occasional very slight foxing to blank margins.).

Third incunable ed. (1st Rome 1470) of the famous exegetical commentary on the 150 Psalms by the Spanish Dominican Juan de Torquemada.
This edition was a reprint from an undated edition published by Schüssler not after 1471. The present text corrects the… Read More

Extremely rare edition of Publicius "Art of writing letters"; only 7 copies recorded in ISTC
Publicius, Jacobus. Ars Epsitolandi. Incipit: "Ars Tulliano more epistola[n]di Jacobi p. [Publicii] ad illustrissimum principem Tara[n]tinu[m] hispaniae Ducem Incipit feliciter. Paris, Antoine Caillaut. 1491/93.
4to (19 x 13,5 cm), modern blind-tooled calf, ff. [14], signature: a8 b6, text in 34 lines, gothic types, text réglée.
VERY RARE PARISIAN EDITION of Publicius best seller, the "Art of writing letters".
"Written around 1467, it was first published in Venice in 1482 as part of Publicio's Artisoratoriae epitome, which also included his famous Ars memorativa, the first manual on mnemotechnics ever published (first separate edition: Toulouse, 1475 ca.). Jacobus' rhetorical treatise became very well known in the last two decades of the 15th century. The first separate edition of the Ars conficiendi epistolas was issued in Deventer in 1488. The present is probably the fifth edition after three Deventer… Read More

Early incunabula Edition of Johannes Nieder renowned handbook for confessor
Nider, Johannes. Manuale confessorum. [Basel : Michael Wenssler, not after 1474].
Folio (290 x 215 mm), later stiff vellum binding, signature [a10 b c8 d10 e f8] but all leaves unsigned, [a1r] Nider, Johannes: Manuale confessorum. Incipit: '[Q]uoniam iuxta beati Gregrii(!) in suo Pastorali sententiam regimen animarum est ars artium . . .'
6-lines red letter "Q" on opening page.
Johannes Nider (1380-1438) was a German Dominican religious and friar. He entered the order of the Dominican friars in Colmar in 1402, then studied in Cologne and at the University of Vienna (1422-1426). He took part in the Council of Constance (1414-1418) and became one of the main exponents of the reforming current within the Dominicans.
He was also a prolific writer and polemicist, as well as author of various religious treatises and can be considered the most important church authority to write on witchcraft in the early fifteenth century.… Read More

Early incunabula Edition of Johannes Nieder interpretation of the Ten Commandments
Nider, Johannes. De morali lepra. [Basel: Michael Wenssler, not after 1475].
Folio (290 x 215 mm), later stiff vellum binding, gilt frame on boards, signature [a10 b–g8 h10]; [a1r].
Incipit: '[O]lim Deum legimus in Leuitico veteris testamenti mandasse sacerdotibus . . .' Explicit: late dictum est. Et sic de lepra morali dixisse sufficiat etc.
6-lines red letter "O" on opening page.
Early edition of Nider treatise on the interpretation of the Ten Commandments, and an outline of human vices, dedicated to confessors and preachers.
Johannes Nider (1380-1438) was a German Dominican religious and friar. He entered the order of the Dominican friars in Colmar in 1402, then studied in Cologne and at the University of Vienna (1422-1426). He took part in the Council of Constance (1414-1418) and became one of the main exponents of the reforming current within the Dominicans.
He was also a prolific writer and polemicist, as well… Read More

EXTREMELY RARE BOOK OF HOURS PRINTED ON VELLUMILLUSTRATION FROM MASTER OF THE APOCALYPSE OF THE ROSE'S ATELIER.THE ONLY KNOWN COMPLETE COPY!
BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF ROMAN CHURCH. A la louenge de dieu et de sa tres saincte et glorieuse mere et a ledification de tous bo[n]s catholiques furent commences ces presentes heures A lusaige de Romme. Colophone: " …achevez la[n] mil. ccccc. [et] iiii. le. xxii. iour de aoust pour Gillet Hardouyn libraire marchant demoura[n]t a Paris sur le po[n]t au change a l'enseigne de la Rose Imprimeez par Anthoine Chappiel i[m]primeur demourant a Paris en la rue de beau vois a lenseigne des Connins " [Paris: Antoine Chappiel for Gilles Hardouyn, 22 August 1504].
8vo, (17 x 10 cm) binding from a reused middle age handwritten vellum page, with Gregorian music notations, gilt edges, ff. [80], signature A-K8. Gothic type, 32 lines. Text in Latin except for the prayer opening the volume and the title (A1r), the almanac (A1v), some prayers appearing at the end of the volume and… Read More

Rare First Edition
First polyglot printing and earliest Arabic printing of any part of the Bible
Second book printed in Arabic with movable type
The first biographical sketch of Christopher Columbus and the first published account of his second voyage
Giustiniani, Agostino, Psalterium, hebraeum, graecum, arabicum, & chaldeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossis. Genuae : impressit miro ingenio Petrus Paulus Porrus : in aedibus Nicolai Iustiniani Pauli, 1516 mense VIIIIbri [Genua, Petrus Paulus Porrus, 1516].
Folio (30,2 x 22,5 cm), stiff vellum binding, handwritten title in sepia ink at spine, sprinkled edge, ff. [200], signature: A¹⁰ B-Z⁸ &⁸ ɔ6, printer device at leaf ɔ6r, below the printer device the motto Petrus Paulus Porrus mediolanensis, Taurini degens, title page within woodcut arabesque border and leaf A4v-5r printed in black and red, text on 8 columns on double page, printed in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Roman. 13 woodcut initials, 5 Latin, 4 Hebrew, 2 Greek and 2 Arabic.
The… Read More

THE UNIQUE PROOF COPY OF AN EXTREMELY RARE BOOK OF HOURS BY THE ATELIER OF GERMAIN HARDOUIN PRINTED ON VELLUM WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM JEAN PICHOIRE AND THE MASTER OF THE APOCALYPSE OF THE ROSE'S ATELIER AND FINELY ILLUMINATED IN PARIS BY THE MASTER OF NICOLAS DE LA FONS.
FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF ULRICO HOEPLI & HANS PETER KRAUS BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF ROMAN CHURCH.
Hore divine virginis Marie, secundum usum Romanum cum aliis multis folio sequenti notatis, una cum figuris Apocalipsis et destructio [sic] Hierusalem, et multis figuris Biblie insertis. Ad colophon: Parisius noviter impressum opera Germani Hardouyn commorantis ante Palatium regis, ad intersinium [sic] dive Margarete, [ca. 1518]). (Paris, Germain Hardouin, 1518)
8vo (170 x 110 mm), 17th century brown calf, gilt fillets and floral tools, a central piece on which is stamped the monogram TCC, a similar monogram with the only CC interlaced is gilt on the sides of the gilt frame, ff. [84], signature a-k8, l4, (not printed in this copy), almanac… Read More

Second edition, rarer than the first, of Girolamo Fracastoro poem on Syphilis
The hypothesis of invisible agents causing infective diseases:
personal hygiene, sexual abstinence and use of condoms
as a preventive measure against the disease
Fracastoro, Girolamo. Hieronymi Fracastorii Syphilis, siue morbus Gallicus. Romae, 1531, mense Septembri (Impressum Romae : apud Antonium Bladum Asulanum).
4to (20,5 x 11,5 mm), contemporary limp vellum binding (small defects, restoration at spine with different vellum), ff. [32], signature: A-H⁴, f. The H4 blank, very often missing, is present, xylographic headletter at A2 recto.
Second edition, significatively rarer that the first, published one year before, of the renowned work on Syphilis by Fracastoro, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (Syphilis, or the French Disease), dedicated to his patron, Cardinal Pietro Bembo.
In Italy the Syphilis, since its appearance, took the name of "Mal Francese" (French Disease). "Qualunque origine geografica si voglia attribuire… Read More

First edition of the work who anticipated the Enlightenment
[natural philosophy]. Pomponazzi, Pietro. De naturalium effectuum causis, sive de Incantationibus. […] Adiectis breuibus scholijs à Gulielmo Grataro lo Physico Bergomate. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Basel, [at colophon: Per Henrichum Petri, 1556].
8vo (175x110 mm), near contemporary limp vellum, handwritten author name in sepia ink at spine, pp. [16], 349, [3]. Five large woodcut initials and woodcut printer's device at verso of last leaf.
scarce first edition of Pomponazzi treatise on the natural causes of miracles and magic events: a revolutionary book and one of the most influential work in the history of modern thought.
With a purely naturalistic and immanent view of the natural process, Pomponazzi here frees man's thought from the bounds of religion and provides modern thinkers and scientists with pure empiricism and naturalism.
The work constitutes a forerunner of Naturalism and Empiricism and could be considered the… Read More

Extraordinary rare first edition of the famous treatise on Cyprus wine by Giovanni Mariti
A complete analysis on wines, grapes, vines and production technique
Mariti, Giovanni. Del vino di Cipro, ragionamento di Giovanni Mariti, socio corrispondente dell'Accademia dei georgofili di Firenze: Rei agrariae avgendae. [Firenze] : [G. Cambiagi] MDCCLXXII [1772].
8vo, (220 x 155 mm), original printer cardboard, pp. [2], XVI, 127, [1], illustrations along the text, engraved title page, before the dedicatory letter, at leaf a1r, a chalcographic vignette with coat of arms of the dedicatee, Lord Nassau Clavering, signature a⁸ (π+a1) A-H⁸.
xylographic illustrations along the text one full page plate, depicting tool for wine production
In his treatise Del vino di Cipro (About the Cyprus Wine) , published in Florence in 1772 by Cambiagi, Mariti dedicates an ample analysis to the wine of Cyprus, discussing a lot about the types and varieties of the vines and wines produced in the different regions of the island… Read More

First Edition of The most complete and accurate Pilot Book and nautical charts of XVIII century
All plates contemporary hand-colored
Roux, Joseph.Recueil des principaux plans, des ports, et rades de la mer Mediterranee estraits de ma carte en douze feuilles dediee a Mons.gr le Duc de Choiseul Ministre de la guerre et de la marine gravee avec privilege du Roy par son tres humble serviteur Joseph Roux hidrographe du Roy. A Marseille, 1764.
8vo oblong, quarter vellum binding on hand coloured paper, f. [1-title page], 121 [plates], pp.2 (index), engraved title page by Laurent.
121 engraved plates representing the plans of the main harbours and havens of the Mediterranean sea including coastline and main buildings, anchorages, sea depth, lighthouses, fortifications, best approach directions, main obstacles all handcoloured by a contemporary hand.
The Recueil des principaux plans, des ports can be considered the most detailed and accurate Portolan of its time. Meant to be used by sailors during navigations… Read More

Extremely rare first and only edition of Caspar Peucer confutation of Copernicus theory
Peucer, Kaspar. Hypotheses astronomicae, seu theoriae planetarum. Ex Ptolomaei et aliorum veterum doctrina ad obseruationes Nicolai Copernici, & canones motuum ab eo conditos accommodatae. Opera et studio Casparis Pevceri in Academia VVitebergensi. Witebergae : Iohannes Schvvertel, 1571.
8to, contemporary vellum covered by a XVIII handcoloured paper, pp. [16], 610, [but 614], [8 - Index], Signatures: )(⁸ A-2Q⁸.Final leaf blank. Numbers 80, 128, 237, and 238 repeated in pagination; other errors in pagination.
The Wittenberg interpretation
In 1543, Nicholas Copernicus changed the scientific world by publishing De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. This was the first time that a heliocentric model had seriously been considered, and publicised, and a resulted in a slew of opinions on how the universe may worked. One of the places where the debate reached the highest level was the University of Wittenberg, at that… Read More