Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 718. Faenzi, De montium origine, Venice, Academia Veneziana, 1561, modern paper wrapper.

Faenzi, De montium origine, Venice, Academia Veneziana, 1561, modern paper wrapper

Auction Closed

October 18, 08:42 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Faenzi, Valerio. De montium origine, Valerii Fauenties, Ordinis praedicatorum, dialogus. [Venice]: Accademia Veneziana, 1561

 

First edition, “the first treatise written in Europe dealing exclusively with the origin of mountains” (Adams).

 

4to (187 x 138 mm). Roman type, 36 lines plus headline. collation: A-E4: 20 leaves. Title-page with engraved device, historiated initials, headpieces, early manuscript annotations. (Partially trimmed, minor marginal stains.)

 

binding: Modern paper wrapper (190 x 142 mm).

 

acquisition: Purchased from Libreria Alberto Govi, Modena, 2005. references: UCLA 662; Renouard 281/56; Edit16 18493; USTC 828623; Frank Dawson Adams, The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences (1938), pp. 344-46

You May Also Like

(Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay) | Bushrod Washington's Federalist, praised by George Washington as a "work [that] will merit the notice of Posterity"
(Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay) | Bushrod Washington's Federalist, praised by George Washington as a "work [that] will merit the notice of Posterity"

Estimate: 120,000 - 150,000 USD

Adams, John | Establishing an American Army: John Adams introduces a congressional committee charged with meeting with General Washington “concerning various Matters of Importance”
Adams, John | Establishing an American Army: John Adams introduces a congressional committee charged with meeting with General Washington “concerning various Matters of Importance”

Estimate: 150,000 - 250,000 USD

Adams, John | A learned disquisition on the common law and natural rights and the roles those concepts played in Adams's own contributions to the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States
Adams, John | A learned disquisition on the common law and natural rights and the roles those concepts played in Adams's own contributions to the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States

Estimate: 120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lincoln, Abraham | The President refutes rebel press propaganda about the siege of Vicksburg
Lincoln, Abraham | The President refutes rebel press propaganda about the siege of Vicksburg

Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lincoln, Abraham | The President thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated."
Lincoln, Abraham | The President thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated."

Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 USD

Jefferson, Thomas | In a widely discursive letter, Jefferson announces that he is joining Washington’s cabinet and expresses great relief at the recovery of the President from a serious illness
Jefferson, Thomas | In a widely discursive letter, Jefferson announces that he is joining Washington’s cabinet and expresses great relief at the recovery of the President from a serious illness

Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 USD

Smith, John | The General History of Virginia... 1624
Smith, John | The General History of Virginia... 1624

Estimate: 150,000 - 200,000 USD

Virginia House of Delegates | The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights
Virginia House of Delegates | The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights

Estimate: 350,000 - 500,000 USD

McKenney, Thomas L., and James Hall | History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a royal subscriber's copy
McKenney, Thomas L., and James Hall | History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a royal subscriber's copy

Estimate: 70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lincoln, Abraham | The President's letter to John Key—sent just four days after he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln, Abraham | The President's letter to John Key—sent just four days after he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 USD