63 150
136
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OWEN, JOHN.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith through the Impu-
tation of the Righteousness of Christ, Explained, Confirmed, & Vindicated.
[28],
352, 345-348, 361-560 [i. e., 582], [2] pages, including final blank. 4to, 195x158 mm, con-
temporary calf, worn, needs rebacking; occasional marginal dampstaining, soiling and light
ink smudges on title.
London: R. Boulter, 1677
[250/350]
FIRST EDITION
.
Wing O-739.
137
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PALINGENIUS STELLATUS, MARCELLUS [i. e., pseud. of PIETRO ANGELO
MANZOLLI].
Zodiacus vitae; hoc est, De hominis vita, studio ac moribus
optime instituendis, libri XII.
Title within woodcut arabesque border. 331, [21] pages,
including colophon leaf, penultimate leaf with printer’s device, and final blank. 16mo,
107x78 mm, contemporary vellum boards with spine title in ink, discolored along fore
edge of covers; contents browned, occasional minor soiling; red edges.
Basel: Nicolaus Brylinger, 1600
[150/250]
Philosophical poem on human life, knowledge, and conduct organized in 12 books by zodiac sign,
first published in the 1530s and frequently reprinted and translated. Ellinger I, 339 and 345.
138
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PERNETY, ANTOINE-JOSEPH.
Dictionnaire Portatif de Peinture, Sculpture
et Gravure; avec un Traité Pratique des Différentes Manières de Peindre.
8 fold-
ing woodcut plates chiefly depicting printmaking tools and equipment. xxviii, 565, [5]
pages, including half-title. 12mo, 168x105 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine
chipped at top, cover corners worn through; contents generally clean.
Paris: Bauche, 1757
[150/250]
FIRST EDITION
.
WITH
:
Sculptura Historico-Technica; or, The History and Art of Engraving . . .
Fourth Edition. 10 engraved plates; numerous text woodcuts of artists’ monograms. xi, [1],
264 pages. 12mo, 173x103 mm, contemporary calf, worn, joints starting, top of spine chipped;
contents toned with occasional marginal soiling. Bookplate of Franklin Institute Library on
front pastedown, their perforated stamp on title. London: J. Marks, 1770.
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PEROTTUS, NICOLAUS [i. e., PEROTTI, NICCOLÒ]; et al.
In hoc volu-
mine habentur haec: Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae com[m]entarii
[and other
texts]. 79, [1] leaves, 1436 columns; lacks last leaf, blank except for Aldine device on verso.
Folio, 302x208 mm, 19th-century Spanish tree calf with red morocco lettering piece; occa-
sional marginal dampstaining, worsening toward end, scattered cropped marginalia.
Armorial bookplate of Joachim Gómez de la Cortina, Marqués de Morante (1808-68).
(Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, May 1517)
[800/1,200]
Third Aldine edition of an exhaustive lexicographical commentary on the first book of Martial’s
epigrams, consulted long after as a Latin dictionary. The original edition was printed in 1489,
the first Aldine in 1499. Renouard, page 81(10); Ahmanson-Murphy 151.