1. Aristotle [Aristoteles] / Apuleius, Lucius / Averroes / Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus / Gilbertus Porretanus [Gilbert de la Porrée / Gilbert of Poitiers / Pictaviensis] / Plato / Porphyrius / Seneca, Lucius Annaeus / [Garaldi, Bernardino / Morandi, Bartolomeo].

Ecce lector candidissime notabilia dicta scitu & memoria digna. Timei Platonis. Aristotelis. Comentatoris. Porphirij. Gilberti Por. Boetij. Senece. Apulei. Quibus addita sunt pulcherima problemata Aristotelis philosophis attinentia, medicis quocumque vtilia.

[Pavia], Bernardino Garaldi / Bartolomeo Morandi [Papie, Impensis Bartolomei de Morandis Bergomensis, et per magistrum Bernardinum de Garaldis impresse], 1521. Octavo (15,5 cm x 11 cm). CXI leaves with woodcut-titlepage. Excellent modern Hardcover (full calf with spinelabel) bound to 16th-century style. Very good condition. Few pages with minor staining only. With some manuscript annotations and one longer manuscript-entry to the last page of the volume. Sole edition, only held in two libraries worldwide (Bergamo and Turin / Torino). An extremely scarce, early 16th century print of a repertory with chapters on Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics. Mainly philosophical but also some medical aphorisms from various philosophers. The Volume also includes an early edition of Aristotle’s “Problemata”.

2. Boccaccio, Giovanni / [Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari].

L’amorosa fiammetta di M. Giovanni Boccaccio, di Nuovo Corretta et Ristampata, con La Tavola et le Postille delle cose Piu Notabili.

Venetia, Appresso I Gioliti, 1584. 9.5 cm x 15.4 cm. 107, [1] pages including illustrated titlepage with Giolito’s printer mark and Giolito’s stunning colophon of Phoenix rising from the ashes and the Motto: “Semper eadem” (″Always the same”). Hardcover in custom – made solanderbox. Recently rebound in half-leather with marbled paper-covered-boards. The bookblock in very good condition with some minor, contemporary inkstains. Name of preowner “Exlibris Bernard Rielliae [″Bernard Reilly”] in contemporary ink (16th or 17th century entry). Small lesion to titlepage and first three pages only. Very faint, faded dampstain to the outer margins of a few pages.

3. (Conradus de Halberstadt) / [Conradus de Alemania (Konrad der Jüngere von Halberstadt)].

Concordantiae Maiores Sacrae Bibliae, Iam recens praeter priorem locupletationem, summis uigilijs passim cum adauctae tum recognitae.

Argentina [Straßburg], Ioannes Cnoblouchus [J. Knobloch d.Ä.], 1526. Folio (22 cm x 31 cm). 407 nn. Bll. Hardcover with new endpapers and an old sheet of Missale-Vellum as board-covering. Masterful binding, reimagining the original 16th century binding-style. Minor wormhole-damage. Otherwise in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. With manuscript annotation to the titlepage, mentioning Hugo Cardinali [Cardinal Hugo of Saint-Cher (Hugo de Sancto Charo)]. Former copy of the St.Ägidius Konvent in Hadamar with the old library-stamp obliterated / Ehemaliges Exemplar des Franziskanerklosters in Hadamar, St.Ägidius. Extremely important Bible-concordance. With some annotations in text (at word “Thabor” for example).

4. Holmes, George.

Renaissance.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996. 22 cm x 28 cm. 272 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

5. [Machiavelli, Niccolò di Bernardo dei] Janni, Ettore.

Machiavelli. Translated by Marion Enthoven.

London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., no year.. Octavo. Frontispiece Portrait of Machiavelli, 328 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

6. Montemayor, Jorge de.

Los Siete Libros de la Diana de George de Montemajor. Où sous le nom de Bergers & Bergeres sont compris les amours des plus signalez d’Espagne. Traduicts [sic] d’Espagnol en François, & conferez és deux langues. P.S.G.P. [édition bilingue française and castellane de ‘Diana’ de Jorge de Montemajor].

[Bilingual French-Castellan / Edição bilingue castelhano-francês]. Paris, De l’imprimerie d’Anthoine du Brueil, 1613. Small Octavo. Collated complete: Engraved titlepage, [6], 347, [21] pages. [Pagecount of 347 is incorrect and should be “694”, because only every second page is imprinted with progressing numeration]. Beautiful, recent Hardcover / Modern half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and marbled, paper-covered boards. New endpapers. Bookblock and interior in very good and firm condition. Faded dampstain to some of the text only. Very rare and important renaissance-publication.