Liber Antiquus Catalog 2016

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The First Complete Edition of Aeschylus device (Device 15, See p. 255 of Schreiber) appears Magnificently Illustrated
In Contemporary Blind-Stamped Calf on the title page. With Verses by Aphra Behn
1. Aeschylus (525/4-456 B.C.) FIRST COMPLETE EDITION of the tragedies of 2. Aesop (ca. 620-564 B.C.); Barlow, Francis
Aeschylus and the “editio princeps” of the “Agam- (1626?-1702); Behn, Aphra (1640-89)
ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ ΤΡΑΓΩΔΙΑΙ ZHTA (ΕΠΤΑ). emnon”. “The three previous editions (the Aldine
AESCHYLI TRAGOEDIAE VII. of 1518, and Robortello’s and Turnèbe’s editions of Aesop’s fables with his life: in English, French
1552) had all been based on a manuscript tradition and Latin. Newly translated. Illustrated with one
[Geneva:] Ex officina Henrici Stephani, 1557 exhibiting a lacuna of more than two-thirds of the hundred and twelve sculptures. To this edition are
Agamemnon, owing to the loss of 14 leaves in the fa- likewise added, thirty one new figures representing
$8,500 mous 11th-century Medicean codex, from which this his life. By Francis Barlow
tradition derives. The eminent Florentine humanist
Quarto: 24.4 x 17 cm. [4], 397, [1] (blank) Colla- Piero Vettori restored the 1275 missing verses of London: Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow,
tion: a-f4, g-z8, A-B8, C-I4 (lacks I4 blank) the Agamemnon from the 14th-century Laurentian 1687
codex F, which also allowed him to give an improved
A beautiful copy, bound in contemporary calf, richly text of the Scholia. Vettori, for the first time, careful- $28,000
tooled in blind, over beveled wooden boards, lacking ly distinguishes the Agamemnon from the next play,
clasps but with the original catches preserved. The the Choephoroi (‘The Libation Bearers’) unlike all Folio: 36.3 x 22.8 cm. [8], 40; 40; 17, 2-221, [3] p.
vellum pastedowns are taken from a manuscript of previous editors, who had combined the two plays With an added engraved title page, an engraved fron-
Gratian’s “De Consecratione.” This is a fine, very tall into one tragedy.” (Schreiber) tispiece, engraved arms of the dedicatee, an engraved
copy, clean and beautifully preserved throughout. portrait of Aesop, 31 leaves of plates illustrating the
The Greek text is printed in two sizes of Claude Schreiber 145; Renouard 116, #15; Gruys, Early life of Aesop, and 110 engraved vignettes illustrating
Garamond’s “grecs du roi” type. Estienne’s Printer’s Printed Editions of Aeschylus, II. 6 (pp. 77-96) the fables.
SECOND EDITION. THE FIRST EDITION For this second edition of his magnificent produc-
WITH THE VERSES OF APHRA BEHN tion, Barlow commissioned Aphra Behn, then at the
ADDED TO THE PLATES. With 31 new plates height of her popularity as a playwright and poet,
illustrating the life of Aesop. A very large copy in to write verses to be engraved on the 110 plates
contemporary English black morocco, paneled gilt, illustrating the fables. For each of the illustrations
the spine gilt in eight compartments (one reserved Behn composed a quatrain summarizing the fable
for lettering), floral gilt roll on board edges, marbled and added an additional moralizing couplet. “Behn
endpapers, edges gilt. feminized a number of Aesop’s fables, somewhat
improbably turning the ‘kingly eagle’ who steals a
young fox into a female, along with the kid whom a
wolf woos away from its mother. A female ape begs
in vain for an inch of a fox’s tail to ‘vaile’ her ‘bum’
and the fable of the dog in the manger is moralized
as a story about how ‘Aged Lovers’ who ‘court young
Beautys…/ Keepe off those joys they want the power
to give.’ Since Behn’s verses were printed as captions
to Barlow’s illustrations, throughout the book visual
images were virtually soldered to Behn’s tenden-
tious English words. The resulting figures effectively
ironized –even parodied- the very notion of an
indisputable emblem.”(Lewis, The English Fable, p.
22-24)
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), A703
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The Most Important Contemporary
Anthology of Elizabethan Poetry.
With 91 extracts from Shakespeare
including passages from Romeo & Juliet
3. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Marlowe,
Christopher (1564-1593); Spenser, Edmund
(c.1552-1599), Jonson, Benjamin (circa 1572-
1637); et al.; Allott, Robert (fl. 1600), compiler.
Englands Parnassus, or, The choysest flowers of our
moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons.
Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces,
mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c.
London: For N[icholas] L[ing]. C[uthbert] B[urby].
and T[homas] H[ayes], 1600
$85,000
Octavo: 15 x 9.2 cm. [12], 494 [i.e. 510] pp. Colla-
tion: A-Z8, Aa-Kk8 (lacking blanks A1, A2, Kk8)
FIRST EDITION, the issue with the dedication leaf works of some fifty Elizabethan writers. There are
to Thomas Mounson signed R.A. Bound in 17th c. included 91 genuine extracts from Shakespeare’s
blind-ruled sheepskin. A very nice, complete copy works, mostly (63) derived from ‘Venus and Adonis’
with just a little soiling to a few leaves. and ‘Lucrece’ but all from plays or poems that had
been printed before 1600.”(Pforzheimer) “Of the five
“This volume, a poetical dictionary with 2350 quota- Shakespeare plays from which extracts are incorpo-
tions of various lengths, generally with sources noted rated in the volume (Love’s Labour’s lost, Henry IV,
but not always accurately, taken from the poetical Part I, Richard II, Richard III, and Romeo & Juliet),
Romeo & Juliet is the most heavily represented,
signaling the play’s popularity, or perhaps utility, in
the period.”(Roberts)
The extracts are arranged alphabetically under
subject-headings, and the author’s name is appended
in each case. Spenser is quoted 225 times, Shake-
speare 91, Daniell 115, Drayton 163, Warner 117,
Chapman 83, Ben Jonson 13, and Marlowe 33. John
Payne Collier notes that, in addition to “Venus and
Adonis” and “Lucrece”, Shakespeare’s “Loves Labours
Lost” is quoted twice, “Henry IV part One” twice,
“Richard II” five times, “Richard III” five times, and
Romeo and Juliet 11 times.
Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica 1; Grolier, Langland to
Item 2, Aesop (see preceding page)
Wither 3; Pforzheimer 358
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A Riveting Account of the Destruction The Natural World & The Human Soul Contemporary ownership inscriptions (obscured by
of the Huron Missions at the Hands of the Iroquois ink) at the end of the table and on the penultimate
“Very Rare” –Sabin 5. Berenger of Landorra, Archbishop of Santiago leaf (crossed through); Another inscription, “Cristi-
de Compostela (ca. 1262-1330); annus Shab 1491” is written on the same leaf. With
4. [AMERICAS. JESUITS] Bressani, Francesco the bookplates of Jean Furstenberg (1890-1982)
Giuseppe, S.J. (1612-1672) Lumen Animae. [edited by Matthias Farinator] and E.P. Goldschmidt (See his catalogue VII (1925),
number 29).
Breve Relatione d’Alcune Missioni de’ PP. della [Strasbourg: Printer of the 1481 Legenda aurea, 22
Compagnia di Giesù nella Nuova Francia. March 1482] The “Lumen Anime” is a sprawling manual of
natural and moral philosophy, that gathers togeth-
Macerata: Heirs of Agostino Grisei, 1653 $34,000 er quotations on relevant themes from authors as
diverse as Aristotle, Theophrastus, the elder Pliny,
$15,000 Ptolemy, Solinus, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome,
Isidore, Hugh of St Victor, and Avicenna. The nat-
Quarto: 21.5 x 15.5 cm. [4], 8 pp., 9-10 ll., 11-127, ural history content centers as much on astronomy
[1] pp. and meteorology as on flora and fauna; it includes
a huge number of largely inauthentic citations of
FIRST EDITION. A nice copy with braod margins frequently exotic-sounding authors and the vast ma-
in 17th c. limp parchment. Some light browning jority of its exempla have a a tripartite structure – a
otherwise fine. scientific (or pseudo-scientific ‘proprietas’ is followed
by a moralizing interpretation, whose lesson is then
Bressani (1612-1672), an Italian Jesuit, travelled to reinforced by a quotation from a theological author-
Canada in 1642. After two years in Quebec and with ity.” In the version of the text edited by Matthias
the Algonquins on the St. Lawrence River, he set off Farinator, which is the basis of the printed editions,
for the most distant outposts, the missions on Lake “chapters tend to be much longer [and] the initial
Bressani also describes the many obstacles the Jesuits
Huron’s Georgian Bay, deep in the interior. He was natural historical ‘proprietas’ is often longer and
encountered: the harsh climate, river rapids and wa-
captured by the Iroquois who cut off his fingers and supported by a series of quotations, its components
terfalls, the dangers of the journeys due to Iroquois
eventually sold him to the Dutch, who helped him are then analyzed allegorically, and a moralization
attacks, the problems with the different Indian lan-
reach France. He returned to Canada in 1645, par- follows.”(Nigel Harris)
guages, conflict with the Indian medicine men, and
ticipated in peace talks with the Iroquois and finally
the plagues which killed large groups of Natives. In
reached the Huron missions, where he remained BMC I, 97; Goff L-396; Proctor 413; Wellcome I,
the second part he includes his letter to his superior
until the Iroquois destroyed them in 1649, killing 2175; Thorndyke III, 546ff. Mary A. Richard Rouse,
in which he recounts his capture by the Iroquois, his
most of the Hurons and missionaries. ‘The Texts called Lumen Anime,’ Archivum Fratrum
tortures, forced travels, beatings, starvation, mutila-
Praedicatorum, 41, p. 5-113
tions, and final rescue.
In the first part of his “Relatione”, Bressani describes
the geography and vegetation of Canada. In the
The third and final part of the Breve Relatione deals
second he describes the conversion of the Native Folio: 29.2 x 21.8 cm. 274 lvs. [A-C]8, [D]10; [a-
with the sufferings of the missionaries at the hands of
people and then goes into great detail describing the m]8, [n]6,[o-z]8, [aa-ff]8, [gg]10. Complete.
the Iroquois. He gives a graphic account of the suf-
society of the Hurons. He lists their food and feast
fering, torture, and martyrdom of the missionaries.
celebrations, their communal singing and dances, FOURTH EDITION (first printed in 1477). Con-
Perhaps the most arresting of these descriptions is the
and marriage practices. He explains that tribal chiefs temporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards,
author’s autobiographical account of the torture he
are determined by succession by way of the mother’s rebacked, from the bindery of the Augustinian
endured. In the course of his personal account, taken
line. In their system of justice crimes of theft and monastery of St Zeno in Reichenhall (Upper Bavaria,
from the autograph, he apologizes for the blood on
murder are dealt with through fines and gift giving active c. 1475-1528, EDBD w002516). Metal
the pages, explaining that the remains of his mutilat-
for reparation. It is clear that he admires these people corner-pieces removed. Original vellum label affixed
ed fingers had yet to fully heal.
for their honesty, hospitality, and inherent sense of to the front board. Text in excellent condition with
right and wrong. trivial blemishes. Text rubricated and with some 3-
to 8-line initials in red and/or blue.
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The English “Ship of Fooles”,
Illustrated with 116 Large Woodcuts
6. Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521); Barclay, Alexan-
der (1475?-1552) and Locher, Jacob (1471-1528)
Stultifera Navis… The Ship of Fooles, wherin is
shewed the folly of all States, with divers other
workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and
fruitfull for all men.
London: in Paules Churchyarde by John Cawood
printer to the Queenes Maiestie, 1570
$45,000
Folio: 28.2 x 19.5 cm. [12], 259, [3]; [42]; [24]
leaves
SECOND EDITION (first printed in 1509). 17th
century English calfskin, corners bumped, upper
hinge starting. A very fine copy, bright and crisp.
Two trivial wormtrails in the blank margin of the
first two signatures, quickly diminishing to a single,
tiny pinprick. Excellent.
derive from the Parisian copies made for the French
There are 116 woodcuts in the text of which 8 are re- translation of Pierre Riviere. Title page page with the
peated twice and 1 once. These illustrations are from iconic illustration of four ships laden with fools.
the blocks cut for Pynson’s edition, 1509, which
Sebastian Brant’s celebrated “Ship of Fooles”
(“Narrenschiff”), here in the English translation of
Alexander Barclay, printed together with the Latin
version of the poem by Jacob Locher. The first edi-
tion of Barclay’s translation (1509) is unobtainable.
In this second edition there are also additional works
by Barclay, “The Mirrour of good Maners” and
“Certayne Eglogues”, which did not appear in the
1509 edition. “The present edition is of considerable
interest and value because of the ‘Eclogues’ append-
ed, the original editions of which are exceedingly
rare.” (Pforzheimer)
“Barclay’s ‘Ship of Fooles’ is not only important as a
as a popular poem. As a graphic and comprehensive ture-poem is of unrivalled interest.” (T.H. Jamieson)
picture of the English life and popular feeling of his
picture of the social condition of pre-Reformation
time, it is, both in style and vocabulary, a most valu-
England, as an important influence in the formation STC 3546; Pforzheimer 41; Langland to Wither, 18;
able and remarkable monument of the English lan-
of our modern English tongue, and as a rich and Wilhelmi, Sébastian Brant (Bibliography) 218
guage…. In the long, barren tract between Chaucer
unique exhibition of early art this medieval pic-
and Spenser, the ‘Ship of Fooles’ stands all but alone
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Cardano’s Second Great Encyclopedia The Scandalous Life of Elizabeth Chudleigh
of Science & Nature A Very Fine copy of the True First Edition
7. Cardano, Girolamo (1501-1576) 8. Chudleigh, Elizabeth (c. 1720-1788)
De rerum varietate libri XVII. An Authentic Detail of Particulars relative to the
Late Duchess of Kingston.
Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1557
London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788
$8,500
$3,800
Thick octavo: 17 x 11 cm. [32] (the last two blank),
1194 (i.e. 1204), [64] pp. Foldout illustration of Octavo: 21 x 13 cm. pp. [ii], ii, 178, [18]. Engraved
an astrolabe (p. 769), separate sheet with volvelles portrait of the Duchess with her breasts exposed.
loosely inserted, and a folding table (p. 791.)
THE TRUE FIRST EDITION. Contemporary
SECOND EDITION. Contemporary alum-tawed polished calf, gilt, rubbed and with short crack to
pigskin over wooden board, lacking clasps, blind- the upper hinge. Contents excellent. The engraved
ruled in compartments, tooled with stamps of the frontispiece memorializes the Duchess’ scandalous
Evangelists and acanthus rolls alternating with appearance at a masquerade ball at Somerset House
medallion portraits of the reformers. Text in excellent in May 1749, where she appeared, topless.
condition.
“She wore a smile, some foliage rather low round her
The “De rerum varietate” is Cardano’s second middle, and a covering of the flimsiest flesh-coloured
important encyclopedia of science, mechanics, gauze. Princess Augusta reacted to this audacious
and metaphysics; it covers all aspects of the natu- impression of nakedness by throwing her veil over
scientific opinions expressed by Cardano in these two panions follow the pattern of the Duchess of Cleve-
ral world, “from cosmology to the construction of Elizabeth. The infatuated George II asked if he
works and those of Leonardo da Vinci, at that time land’s in ‘The Adventure of Rivella.’ To attempt to
machines; from the usefulness of natural sciences to could place his hand on her bare breasts; with great
unpublished, have led some historians... to suppose exculpate Chudleigh would be fruitless, for she often
the evil influence of demons; from the laws of me- presence of mind, she offered to put it on a still
that Cardano has used Leonardo’s manuscript notes; deliberately behaved like a monster. Her generosity,
chanics to cryptology. It is a mine of facts, both real softer place and guided it to the royal forehead. Far
others insist that the similarity is entirely coinciden- frequently noted by herself and her beneficiaries,
and imaginary; of notes on the state of the sciences; from taking offence, the king gave her a 35 guinea
tal. Be that as it may, Cardano must always be cred- was directed not toward worthy, needy objects but
of superstition, technology, alchemy, and various watch and made her mother a housekeeper at Wind-
ited with having introduced new ideas that inspired toward those who best flattered and served her. Her
branches of the occult. The similarities between the sor.”(ODNB)
new investigations.’ (DSB III, 66) passage through the world did not render it a better
place.”(Betty Rizzo, Companions Without Vows, p.
The posthumous biography of the courtier and
“The work forms a sequel to ‘De Subtilitate’, and, 61 ff.)
bigamist Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston,
together with it, contains the author’s notions on
granddaughter of the poet Mary Chudleigh (1656-
physics and metaphysics. Of special chemical interest In 1776 she was found guilty of bigamy and, in
1710), from whom “she seemed to have inherited no
is Book X (p. 375-410), comprising one chapter order to avoid being branded, she fled to the Conti-
notable literary tastes or talents.”(Rizzo) Elizabeth
on fire... a chapter on distillation with woodcuts of nent. She went first to Russia, as the guest of Cather-
was notorious for her sexual escapades and profligacy.
apparatus, and a chapter on chemistry. It finishes by ine the Great, and set up a vodka distillery. She died
a chapter on glass.”(Duveen). The book also in- in Paris in August 1788.
She modeled her behavior on some of the most scan-
cludes chapters on glass, metals, mineralogy, botany,
dalous women in the novels of the eighteenth-cen-
zoology, experiments of various kinds, astronomy, ESTC T92902
tury. “Her devastatingly triumphant and destructive
astrology, etc.
career is probably best understood as inspired by the
careers of the imperious court vixens in the pages of
VD 16, C 920; IA 132.071; Duveen 117; Thorndike
Delariviere Manley so it is not surprising that her
V, 563 ff.; Cf. Ferguson I, 141; Sinkankas 1145
initial courtship and subsequent abuse of her com-
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The Rare Church Calendar For the Leap Year 1684 concise directions concerning the Office and Mass to
No Copies in the U.S. be said on that day. There are also indications of fast
days, special indulgences, days of devotion, etc. Of
9. CHURCH CALENDAR. special interest are the calendric table indicating what
color vestments are to be worn by Roman Cardinals
Ordo Officii Divini Recitandi juxta Ritum Breviarii on which day and at what time, as well indications
Romani pro Anno Bissextili M.DC.LXXXIV. for in which churches and chapels services are to be
performed; the lunar table for 1684; and the per-
Romae: ex Typographia Rever. Cam. Apost. 1684 petual calendar giving the varying times for sunrise,
midday, midnight, etc. for the performance of the
$3,500 Mass and the Canonical Hours (Divine Office). The
times given in the perpetual calendar are for loca-
Octavo: 16 x 10.6 cm. A-D8, A8, a8 tions at a latitude of 41 gradi from the northern pole
but are also good for latitudes 39-42, that is, for the
A lovely copy in contemporary ivory vellum, ruled following territories: The Kingdom of Naples, Rome,
in gold with a double fillet. Arms of Pope Innocent Umbria, the March of Ancona, Urbino, Tuscany,
XI on the title page. Extremely rare. OCLC, KVK, Corsica and Sardinia. The volume concludes with
and VD17 locate 2 copies worldwide: Biblioteca orations to be said before and after masses and the
Vallicelliana (Rome) and Museum Plantin Moretus hours.
(Antwerp).
The Vatican “Directorium” consists of an annual First Edition of Coryate’s Bizarre Travelogue
calendar, in which there are printed against each day
10. Coryate, Thomas (1577-1617)
Coryats crudities; hastily gobled vp in five moneths
trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia co[m]monly
called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzer-
land, some parts of high Germany, and the Nether-
lands
London: printed by William Stansby for the author,
1611
$32,000
Quarto: 20.5 x 15.5 cm. π1 (engraved title), π1
(printed title), a3, b4, π1(arms), a4-8, b8, c-g8, h-l4,
B-C8, D1, (+D1-3), D2-8, E-Z8; Aa- Ccc8, Ddd4,
[Eee]1, signed “Eee3”, [Fff]1 (unsigned).
FIRST EDITION. Contemporary English calf,
spine richly tooled in gold. Joints cracked but sound.
Small defect to the upper corner of the 2nd plate,
mended with only slight loss, otherwise without
fault. With additional engraved title (“Coryats
Crudities Hastily gobled up “) by William Hole, 4
engraved plates, engraved text illustrations by Hole,
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A Baroque Cabinet of Jewels
A Rare Collection of Poems by Margherita Costa
11. Costa, Margherita (ca. 1600-1664)
Lo Stipo. Dedicato al serenissimo principe D. Loren-
zo De Medici.
Venice: no printer, 1639
$10,500
Quarto: 308 (i.e. 320) pp.
FIRST EDITION. 19th c. half-vellum, gilt moroc-
co label. A fine copy from the libraries of Gustavo
Galletti and Orazio Landau. With a fine engraved
portrait of the author. Extremely rare. I have located
2 copies in North America (Northwestern, Harvard)
and only 2 others outside of Italy (BL, Paris-Maza-
rine).
A renowned poet, playwright, singer, feminist, and
courtesan active in the courts of Rome, Florence,
Turin, and Paris, Margherita Costa was also the most
prolific female author of 17th-century Italy.
hierarchically ordered drawers (cassettini), containing
works varying from ‘high’ (verses in praise of the
and full-page woodcut arms of the Prince of Wales. for proclaiming against Islam. He left Venice on 7 “Margherita Costa is the most baroque of the
Medici and other notable figures) to the decidedly
August by boat to Padua, then walked to Vicenza, 17th-century Italian women writers. She stands out
‘low’ (the sixth cassettino includes comic poems
One of the earliest travelogues in English, written by Verona, and Bergamo. While in Switzerland he heard for attempting to be original in a period when the
on, among others, a syphilitic fortune-teller and a
Thomas Coryate (1577-1617), one of the great En- the story of William Tell. Coryate’s admirable ren- aim of poets was to have the reader marvel at their
go-between ‘messaggiera d’Amore’ who has forfeited
glish eccentrics and travellers. “Driven by curiosity dering appears to be the earliest in English. Arriving metaphors, antitheses, oxymora, or complex style.
her nose in the service of Eros.) In some respects,
he sailed from Dover in 1608 and arrived soon in in Strasbourg by boat he then got lost, alone and on As a feminist, Margherita stressed the obstacles she
Costa may be seen as a literary descendant of Isabella
Paris, which he found even filthier and smellier than foot, in the Black Forest, but the sole threat of armed faced as a woman and the difficult life of women in
Andreini, her most significant precedent as a theatri-
London. He journeyed on to Lyons, through Savoy violence experienced in Europe was from a German general. She criticized men for their infidelity, and
cal performer of literary pretensions. Like Andreini’s
to Turin, Milan, Mantua, and Padua. His description peasant, who resented Coryate picking grapes from a urged women to repay in kind. Some of her po-
‘Rime’, Costa’s ‘Lo Stipo’ serves to showcase her
of how Italians shielded themselves from the sun vineyard. He was hospitably received in Heidelberg ems begin as lamentations, but come to humorous
versatility and her capacity for ventriloquization,
resulted in apparently the first mention of “umbrella” and walked to Mainz. After a detour to visit Frank- conclusions, thus making her one of the first Italian
which extends, as in the case of Andreini, to the
in English literature. Table forks, almost unknown furt’s fair he sailed down the Rhine, with a brief stop women poets to use humor in published works.
frequent adoption of a masculine voice. By compar-
in England, were in general use in Italy; Coryate ac- at Cologne. He landed in London on 3 October Other poems are partially autobiographical, for they
ison with Andreini, however, Costa is notably more
quired one, imitated the Italian fashion of eating and 1608. With the rector’s permission Coryate hung his include allusions to events in Margherita’s life as well
eclectic, willingly stooping to forms of broad humor
continued to do so frequently when he came home shoes in Odcombe church. His Crudities (1611), as complaints about her ill fortune and lack of liter-
we find in no other female voice of the period.”(Cox,
... At Venice in June 1608 the English ambassador, was intended to encourage courtiers and gallants to ary recognition- a recognition she hoped to obtain
Women’s Writing in Italy, p. 213-4)
Sir Henry Wotton, rescued Coryate in the ambassa- enrich their minds by continental travel. It contains but never achieved.”(Natalia Costa-Zalessow, ‘Voice
dorial gondola from a threatening crowd of Jews who illustrations, historical data, architectural descrip- of a Virtuoso and Courtesan”, p. 19)
Vinciana 2405. Ferri, biblioteca femminile, p. 136:
objected to Coryate preaching Christianity to their tions, local customs, prices, exchange rates, and food
“bella edizione”. Fétis i, pp. 369-370
rabbi. Later he was to risk reprisals for antipathy to and drink.”(Oxford DNB) “Lo Stipo”(The Jewel Cabinet), is “a collection of
Roman Catholic rites and, during his Eastern travels, verses in various genres arranged in a series of seven
ESTC S108716; Pforzheimer, 218
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The first major work by a New Englander on The Most Accurate Measurements of Fortuna Virilis, Temple of Peace, Temple of Antoni-
psalmody and worship Roman Architecture to Date nus Pius and Faustina, Temple of Concord, Temple
Illustrated with 137 engravings of Jupiter Stator, Temple of Jupiter Tonans, and the
12. Cotton, John (1584-1652) Temple of Mars Ultor.
13. Desgodets, Antoine Babuty (1653-1728)
Singing of Psalmes a Gospel-ordinance. By John “Antoine Desgodets, born into a family of prominent
Cotton, teacher of the church at Boston in New-En- Les Edifices Antiques de Rome Dessinés et Mesurés craftsmen, was already working in the Département
gland très exactement des Bâtiments by the age of 16. In 1672 he began
to assist at the conferences of the Académie Royale
London: printed by M[atthew]. S[immons]. for Paris: Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1682 d’Architecture, and in 1674 was sent by Colbert to
Hannah Allen, 1647 Rome. In 16 months he measured many of the im-
$11,500 portant ancient buildings, with greater accuracy than
$12,000 had been achieved to that date. In 1677 he returned
Folio: 40 x 28 cm. [12], 324 pp. [ ]1 (Etched title to Paris and began to submit his Rome drawings to
Quarto: 18.2 x 14 cm. [2], 72 p. A1, B-K4 page), [π]2, e2, i2, A1, B-E2, F1 the Academy.
FIRST EDITION. Bound in modern, blind-ruled FIRST EDITION. Contemporary paneled sheep, “This splendid folio edition was financed by Col-
calf, edges gilt, gold-tooled label. A fine copy. the spine tooled in gold. Minor wear. Contents in bert, who had Desgodets’ drawings engraved by the
excellent condition. Illustrated with an etched title king’s engravers at His Majesty’s expense. The artists
“The first major work by a New Englander on page and 137 etched and engraved plates of ancient include, among others, de Chastillon, Simon de La
psalmody and worship [and] one of the best sources Roman architectural monuments, including the Boissière, Sébastien Le Clerc, and both Jean and
for the study of Puritan psalmody.”(Beeke) The Pantheon, Temple of Bacchus, Temple of Faunus, Pierre La Pautre. The subject of measured antique
singing of metrical psalms had been a feature of Temple of Vesta, Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Temple of monuments was unique among French publications
Puritan worship from the sixteenth-century. When
the psalm-loving Puritans migrated to New En-
gland, a group of ‘thirty pious and learned ministers’
English tunes. Since God “hath hid from us the
joined together to produce the “Bay Psalm Book”
Hebrew tunes, and the musical accents wherewith
(1640); its title page refers to the singing of psalms
the Psalmes of David were wont to be sung, it must
as a “heavenly Ordinance”, a title that Cotton
needs be that the Lord alloweth us to sing them in
echoes here. His grandson Cotton Mather similarly
any such grave, and solemne, and plaine Tunes, as
described psalm singing as a “holy, delightful, and
doth fitly suite the gravitie of the matter, the solem-
profitable Ordinance”.
nitie of Gods worship, and the capacitie of plaine
People.” He suggests that the ministers read the first
Setting out a series of objections and answers ad-
line of each song before the congregation sings it, “so
dressed to the scruples of ‘antipsalmists’, who argued
they who want either books or skille to reade, may
that singing was a distraction from worship, Cotton
know what is to be sung, and joyne with the rest in
points out that Christ sang a psalm or hymn with
the dutie of singing”.
his disciples after the Last Supper (Matt. 26:30).
Cotton would rule out the use of non-canonical
Wing C6456; Sabin, 17081; Joel R. Beeke, “Psalm
hymns in public worship, but not the spiritual songs
Singing in Calvin and the Puritans”
of Moses, Deborah, Mary and the like. The singers
should be the entire congregation, women as well as
men (Exod. 15:1), and, as psalm singing is a “general
Commandment”, those present who are not mem-
bers of the local congregation and even unbelievers
are bound to join in.
Touching the manner of singing, Cotton defends
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