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Photo [LIVRE d'HEURES ENLUMINÉ]. 

[LIVRE d'HEURES ENLUMINÉ]. 

Livre d’Heures à l’usage de Paris. 

s.l., s.n., [circa 1420].
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33000 €

From a follower of the Boucicaut Master.

The painter uses an extensive palette with sharp contrasts, and does not hesitate to use a bright minium red that he contrasts with the blues and greens in the happiest of ways.
The abstract backgrounds and the systematic use of a grassy ground, give to the whole manuscript a beautiful coherence and a great elegance.

Some of the preserved paintings, such as those of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Crucifixion, and St. Margaret, bear witness to the artist's talent and the high quality of this manuscript.

It should be noted that the composition of the The Flight into Egypt is closely mirrors of a Boucicaut composition.

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Photo GREGOIRE, Pierre ( Petrus Gregorius Tholosanus). 

GREGOIRE, Pierre ( Petrus Gregorius Tholosanus). 

Syntaxeon Artis Mirabilis alter tomus. 

Lyon, Antoine Gryphe, 1576.
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900 €

A veritable encyclopedia of science, the Marvelous Arts of Grégoire de Toulouse devote chapters, among other things, to cosmology, music, magic or medicine alongside astrology and mathematics.
Edition not listed by Baudrier.

Photo ESTIENNE, Henri. 

ESTIENNE, Henri. 

Epigrammata Graeca selecta ex Anthologia. 

[Genève], Henri Estienne, 1570.
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600 €

Printed by Henri Estienne, this collection is composed of the anthology formed of 260 Greek epigrams already published by him in 1566 but here enriched by his own translations into Latin prose, as well as by original translations in verse by himself and by Paulus Melissus.
This publication caused the imprisonment of Henri Estienne, who had not previously requested permission to publish from the Council of Geneva.

Photo [BIBLE POST INCUNABLE]. 

[BIBLE POST INCUNABLE]. 

Biblia cum summarioru[m] apparatu pleno quadrupliciq[ue] repertorio insignita. 

Paris, Jacques Mareschal pour Simon Vincent, 1519.
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Gothic Bible composed by Simon Vincent and printed by Jacques Mareschal in Lyon.
Title page printed in red and black with woodcut vignette (repeated in collophon). Beautiful full-page engraving representing the six days of Creation, initials engraved on wood.

Photo SUETONIUS. 

SUETONIUS. 

XII Caesares. Ex vetusto exemplari emendatiores multis locis. 

Paris, Robert Estienne, 1543.
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1300 €

One of the most important old editions of the Life of the Twelve Caesars.
The text has been compiled from the best and oldest manuscript of the work, dating from the 9th century, together with comments by G. B. Cipelli, Erasmus's Notice to the Reader (1518) and translations of the Greek passages by Egnazio.

Photo DANIEL. 

DANIEL. 

Somnia Danielis, seu Interpretationes. 

[Alost], [Thierry Martens], [ca. 1486-88].
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Rare incunabula edition of the “Somnia Danielis”.
Only 6 copies listed in public libraries, all in Europe. Only one in France, in Nantes.

With Sigmund Freud and the invention of psychoanalysis, an essential technique was born: the interpretation of dreams as a way to access unconscious knowledge.
But dreams have always tormented humanity.
While so many ambitious theories, more or less scientific, on the origin or the meaning of dreams have fallen into the most definitive oblivion, the humble interpretations of the "Prophet Daniel" are still alive today, and they have transmitted from century to century beliefs which, in the last analysis, go back to ancient Chaldea.
But it is in Byzantium that the tradition of Daniel's dreams is first attested.
The onirocritics enjoyed great favor there. Artemidorus' treatise was too complete and difficult to understand and was only intended for professionals.
The general public quickly preferred the key to Daniel's dreams.
These are summary keys of dreams where the dreams are classified in a more or less strict alphabetical order. After the statement of the dream theme, the prediction follows without any justification.
The Pseudo-Daniel was translated into Latin in the 6th century under the title Somniale Danielis.
It was then that it reached the West and was very successful, as can be seen from the number of preserved manuscripts, the oldest of which date from the 10th century (in Vienna and the British Library).
These books of dream interpretations, which originated from pagan divination rites, were strongly but ineffectively disapproved by the Roman church.
There were several dozen editions (princeps 1475).
The apparent insignificance of these anonymous prints, probably intended for peddling, has long distracted the attention of scholars and bibliophiles from these puerile leaflets.
"Today these modest pamphlets have become extremely rare, and are hardly to be found except in the great libraries" (Hélin. 1925, p. 65).

Photo CHASSENEUZ, Barthélémy de. 

CHASSENEUZ, Barthélémy de. 

Le Grant Coustumier de Bourgogne. 

Paris, François Regnault, 1534-1535.
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4000 €

Completely revised and expanded edition of the custom of Burgundy by Chasseneuz.

A book on the origins of French law.
Chasseneuz's comments on customary law in Burgundy draw heavily on Roman law. Following him, other authors will revise local customary rights, such as Bouhier with the Customs of Berry. At the beginning of the 16th century, all customary law was thus reviewed and put back in order, constituting a legal corpus which would serve as the basis for the great reform of the Napoleonic Code.
"The appearance of his book was an event in the legal world. Its success soon exceeded the limits of Burgundy. [...] We saluted, in its author, the man who, the first, had just introduced the light of Roman law in the chaos of local customs." PIGNOT, "A Jurisconsult in the Sixteenth Century: Barthélemy de Chasseneuz", Larose, 1880

Beautiful Gothic print on two columns embellished with initials and 7 full-page engravings of inheritance trees. The completely revised edition of 1534 appears with a sequel, dated 1535 and with its own title page, listing all the additions to the Commentaries of Chasseneuz published in 1517 and 1528.

Photo HIPPOCRATE || [CORNARIUS, Janus]. 

HIPPOCRATE || [CORNARIUS, Janus]. 

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, Opera, quae ad nos extant, omnia. 

Venise, apud Vicentium Valgrisium, 1546.
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950 €

Rare Venice edition of the works of Hippocrates by the humanist physician Janus Cornarius (1500-1558).

The printing is the work of Vicenzo Valgrisi one of the most famous printers of Venice in the 16th century, his typographic work is of high quality.

Photo RONDELET, Guillaume. 

RONDELET, Guillaume. 

Libri de Piscibus marinis. 

Lyon, Mathias Bonhomme, 1554-1555.
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4500 €

First edition of the most important treatise on aquatic animals and fish published up that time.
Richly illustrated with around 400 woodcut in text representing fish, shells, crustaceans, turtles, marine mammals (seals, dolphins, whales, orcas ...) and other marine animals including amphibians, reptiles, starfish.

Photo [LIVRE D'HEURES IMPRIMÉ SUR PAPIER]. 

[LIVRE D'HEURES IMPRIMÉ SUR PAPIER]. 

[HEURES A L’USAGE DE ROME]. (F° A1, r°, titre :) A la louenge de Dieu . . . furent commencées ces présentes heu || res pour Anthoine Verad (sic) libraire demourant || a Paris deuant la rue neuve Nostre dame. (F° B7, v° :) Horae intemerate dei genitricis marie || secundum vsum Romanum. 

Paris, Antoine Vérard, [v.1503].
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17500 €

Copy mentionned by Bohatta [710] . Not in Mac Farlane.

A rare copy printed on paper.

Photo JODELLE, Étienne. 

JODELLE, Étienne. 

Les Œuvres et Meslanges poetiques. Reveuës & augmentees en ceste derniere edition. 

Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1597.
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1800 €

Third edition.
Rare.

Photo BILLY, Jean de. 

BILLY, Jean de. 

Histoire de Barlaam et de Josaphat, roy des Indes, composée par sainct Jean Damascène et traduicte par Jean de Billy. 

Paris, Guillaume Chaudière, 1578.
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Second edition of this translation in french of the history and life of Buddha.

Photo BACCI, Andrea. 

BACCI, Andrea. 

De thermis libri septem. In quo agitur de universa aquarum natura, deque earum differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus, cum metallis. 

Venise, Felicem Valgrisum, 1588.
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550 €

Second enlarged edition.

Photo ARTÉMIDORE d'ÉPHÈSE. 

ARTÉMIDORE d'ÉPHÈSE. 

Les jugemens astronomiques des songes, par Artemidorus, autheur ancien & renommé.
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Le Livre d'Auguste Niphe des divinations, & Augures, par Antoine du Moulin. 

Paris, Nicolas Bonsons, 1576.
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1500 €

This rare treaty of dream interpretation - Oneirokritika in Greek - is the only ancient Greek civilization work on this subjet, to have survived in full.
Artemidorus make a detailed technical treaty that was extremely popular during the Middle Ages.
Freud wrote on the great importance of this book in its "Die Traumdeutung".

Photo FOESIO, Anutio, HIPPOCRATE. 

FOESIO, Anutio, HIPPOCRATE. 

Magni Hippocratis medicorum omnium facile principis opera omnia quae extant. 

Francofurdi, Andrea Wecheli, 1595.
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1800 €

First edition of this important translation from greek to latin of the Hippocratic corpus.
Remains the reference until its replacement by the French edition of Littre [1839-1861].

The Hippocrates works are a set of sixty text written between 450 and 350 bc.
During the sixteenth century, scholars have gradually given rise to the Hippocratic Corpus in Latin, which was current until its replacement by the French edition of Littre [1839-1861].

The editions that enabled this achievement are the first editions in Latin (1525 in Rome) and Greek (1526, Aldus), which led to the discovery of manuscripts hitherto virtually unknown.
Then came the Basel editions of 1538 and 1546 (Froben) that led to the systematic correction of many first editions.
Finally, in 1595, the doctor of Metz Anuce Foes (1528-1595) printed this important bilingual edition that became the reference until the Littré works 250 years later.

Fresh copy of this rare and important edition of the works of Hippocrate.

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