W. S. Cotter Rare Books

CHARLES IX

CHARLES IX. Lettres patentes du roy, portants mandement tresexpres sur les peines y contenues, de publier, & faire observer & ensuyvre de poinct en poinct son dernier Edict de Pacification. [Woodcut device of Robert Estienne] A Paris. Par Rob. Estienne Imprimeur du Roy. M. D. LXVIII.

Paris: Robert Estienne, 1568. Octavo, 159 x 97 x 1 mm; A4, [8] pp. Binding of old, heavy, fawn paper wraps, slightly worn. Leaves toned, small hole in tail gutter margin, not near text, evidence of guarding to gutter margins. At one time a member of a Sammelband; ink numbering.....

Price: $1,100.00

COCLES, Bartolommeo della Rocca

In disem biechlin wirt erfunden von complexion der menschen. Zů erlernen leypliche vnd menschliche natur ir sittẽ geberdẽ vñ neyglicheit zů erkẽnen vñ vrteylen. [Colophon, C4r]: Getruckt vnnd volendet in der loblichẽ statt Straßburg durch Johannẽ Knobloch. Als man zalt nach d geburt Christi vnfers herrẽ Tausent Fünffhundert vñ sechtzehẽ Jare. [Straßburg: Knobloch, 1516.]

Strasbourg: Joannes Knobloch, 1516. Provenance: Modern penciled notes to front endpapers (Catalogue 11; 151 [circled]), clipping from an unidentified midcentury French bookseller's catalogue, upon which is penciled the remark "bibl. Himly," perhaps referring to Karl Gustav Himly, the noted Braunschweig-born ophthamologist who committed suicide in Göttingen in 1837, or possibly.....

Price: $3,400.00

DEDEKIND, Frederic

Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres, in gratiam omnium Rusticitatis amantium conscripti, per FRIDERICUM DEDEKINDUM. Iam denvò ab Auctore emendati, & plerisque in locis cùm præceptis tum exemplis aucti. IRON EPISCOPTES STudiosæ Iuventuti civilitatem optat. Ethica concenant veterum morosa sophorum, Cedat Aristoteles, cumque Platone Cato. Concedat Cicero Latius, concedat Erasmus, Et quotquot morum de gravitate docent. Hic liber exactam dat morum simplicitatem, Eque nova nuper prodiit ille schola. Hunc, studiose puer, vigili perdisce labore. Qui cupis ornatus moribus esse bonis. COLONIAE. AN. M. D. LVIII.

Cologne: 1558. Provenance: From the collection of Albert A. Howard; his monogrammatic ex-libris to lower pastedown. Howard was rare books cataloguer at the University of Southern Maine. It is there that his eponymous Book History Collection resides. VD16 D389; Milchsack, Grobianus, no. 15. Also see Simon, Bib. Bacch., p.59, and.....

Price: $1,250.00

DIEPOLD, Johannes

Ein Nützlicher Sermon von dem wort Gottes durch Johannes Diebolt am tag der enthauptung Johannis des Teüffers geprediget. Anno domini 1.5.22. Ein anderer Sermon Von dreyerlay büecher durch Johannem Diebolt geprediget zů Ulmam freytag vor nativitatis marie Anno domini 1.5.22. [Augsburg: Erhard Oeglin (Erben) 1522]

Augsburg: Erhard Oeglin, 1522. VD16 D1430; BM, STC German 241; Kuczynski 585.

Price: $2,100.00

HUBERINUS, Caspar

Sibenzig schlusred odder puncten von der Rechten hand Gottes und der gewalt Christi. Witemberg. 1529. [Colophon, A8r]: Gedruckt durch Joseph Klugk. [Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1529]

Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1529. Provenance: Sold at Kiefer 19 April, 2013; mid-century emblazoned bookplate to upper pastedown: Ex libris Martin Schupp; anonymous modern penciled notes and numbers to front and rear endpapers, including 120/84, perhaps an acquisition price and date; old manuscript number to head gutter corner of title: R.596.....

Price: $1,850.00
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