[Utopia], De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, and De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
Description:
Colophon: [Printer’s mark] Basileae apvd Io. Frobenlvm mense decembri an M.D.XVIII., Each of the three parts has its own colophon, that of first part, the Utopia, being dated November, 1518. The "Epigrammata" of More and of Erasmus have also special title pages., Initials. Some title page borders and the illustrations on p. [12] and p. [25] are from designs by Ambrosius Holbein., and Irregularities in paging: 8 pages between p. 162 and p. 167 counted in numbering as 4 numbered leaves; several typographical errors.
Achondroplasia, Bones --Diseases --Early works to 1800, Medicine --Research --Great Britain, Rickets --Early works to 1800, Scurvy --Early works to 1800, and Scurvy, Infantile
Blank versos not digitized., Preface by Adrianus Damman and Abraham de Bruyn, followed by a list of plates (to plate 52 only), and preceded by three poems (two by Damman, and one by George Buchanan)., Signatures: [a]1(engraved t.-p.)*-**4., The plates are numbered as follows: 1-8 (1 dated 1575), 8A-8D, 9-10, 1-E-10F, 11-16, 16G-16K, 17-18, 18L-180, 19-22, 22P-22R, 23-27, 27S-27K, 28-29, 29Y, 30, 30Z, 31-54., and The t.-p. is followed by 9 unnumbered plates, apparently inserted, viz.: (1) Neptune and Earth, with two equine heads; (2) full-page coat of arms; (3-9) armorial shields, without arms, (5) lettered "Excudebat Abraham D. Bruyn 1578".
Engraved t.-p., Map (16 x 24 cm, on sheet 27 x 27 cm, folded to 27 x 18 cm), bound in following leaf 26, with initials "F. P." in lower right-hand corner., Map: Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio, ex ea, qùam ex Magna Vniuersali Mercatoris Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat inhác cómodioré formá a Hieron: Porro redact. n.d. Scale not given., and World map engraved by Girolamo Porro after Gerhard Mercator.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Name):
Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604 engraver and Quad, Matthias, 1557-1613
Subject (Topic):
Explorers--Portraits and Kings and rulers--Portraits
Jacques d'Amiens' adaptation of the Ars amatoria ends on leaf G4b, and is followed by "Le chef damours" (G4b-K5a) and "Les sept are damours" (K5a-K6a, called in the colophon "Les sept artz liberaulx")., Signatures: A-I4K6., and With the bookplates of Ambroise Firmin Didot and Stroehlin. Quires misbound as follows: A G C D B F E H-K.
Publisher:
[Jean Trepperel?]
Subject (Name):
Didot, Ambroise Firmin--Bookplate, Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria. Old French. Jacques d'Amiens, and Stroehlin--Bookplate