Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1497.
Occasionally described as a work on the Immaculate Conception, Gaguinus's brief treatise is in fact a theological and physiological examination of the immaculate conception, not of Christ, but of Mary herself. The medieval doctrine, which has no canonical biblical authority, supposes that since Christ could not.....
Cologne: 1558.
First published in two books in 1549, and enlarged to three in 1552, Dedekind's elegiac poem concerns a certain St. Grobian, a personage first envisioned half a century before by Sebastian Brant as a the patron saint of coarse manners. In Dedekind's satiric masterpiece, St. Grobian teaches students.....
Paris: Musier, 1766.
[7319 lots, unpriced.] The celebrated library of Jean-François de Senicourt, bailiff at Poissy and avocat at Parlement in Paris (causidicus in supremo senatu), was dispersed from Monday 2 June to Friday 22 August 1766, and was naturally steep in law texts, with rare and obscure coutumiers numbering.....