Lucubrationes, ab innumeris mendis repurgatæ. and Selections. 1563
Description:
A collection of five works and 13 letters written by Thomas More., Beinecke copy imperfect: leaves M5-N8 wormed., Contents (from title page): Vtopiæ libri II. -- Progymnasmata. -- Epigrammata. -- Ex Luciano conuersa quædam. -- Declamatio Lucianicæ respondens. -- Epistolæ., Errata (p. [45], third count)., Includes index., Signatures: alpha-beta⁸ a-z⁸ A-N⁸ (alpha 1 verso, beta 8 verso blank., Story of "Utopia" (p. [3-32], first count; 1-164, second count) set in the New World, with references to Vespucci and his voyages on p. 4-5., This collection includes: "Epistola Des. Erasmi Rot. ad Vldricum Huttenum, de Thomæ Mori Angliæ baronis uita." (p. 497-510), dated at end Antuerpiæ X. Cal. Aug. Anno M. D. XIX. [22 July 1519]; "Epistola de morte D. Thomæ Mori & Episcopi Roffensis" [Ioannis Phischeri] "insignium uirorum in Anglia. G. Courinus Nucerinus ..." (p. 511-530), dated at end: Apud Lutetiam Parisiorum, X. Cal. Augusti, Anno M. D. XXXV [22 July 1535]., This edition of Utopia includes the letters of Desiderius Erasmus to Johannes Froben, Guillaume Budé to Thomas Lupset, Pierre Gillis to Jerome Busleyden, Thomas More to Pierre Gillis and Jerome Busleyden to Thomas More. It also includes the annotations by Desiderius Erasmus., and Title vignette: Printer's device, signed: Episcop.
Publisher:
apud Episcopium F.,
Subject (Name):
Birukov, N. N.--Bookplate., Birukov, N. N.--Stamp., Courinus Nucerinus, Gulielmus, Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536., Fisher, John,--Saint,--1469-1535., More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia., and More, Thomas,--Saint,--1478-1535.
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 3. Latin. 1596 Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Published / Created:
1596
Call Number:
E159 +B79 6-9
Image Count:
2
Description:
First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 158., Novae Novi Orbis historiae, liber 3 (by G. Benzoni, tr. and annotated by Urbain Chauveton)--Brevis insvlarvm quae Canariae appellantvr ... descriptio.--De Gallorvm expeditione in Floridam ... 1565 (including the petition on behalf of the families of those massacred there by the Spanish in 1565, repeated from America. pt. 2), The t.p., with a new engr. title on a slip mounted over the original text, is repeated preceding the plates., and With this is bound the editor's [America. pts. 7-9. Latin] Francoforti, 1599-1602. Imperfect: signature G6 (2nd count) blank, wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600, America--History--To 1600, Canary Islands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Florida--History--Huguenot colony, 1562-1565, and Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548
Tractatus secundus : De natvrae simia; seu, Technica macrocosmi historia in partes undecim divisa
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Topic):
Mathematics --Early works to 1800, Military art and science --Early works to 1800, Music --History and criticism --Sources, and Science --Early works to 1800
Each page contains a paraphrase in verse from the Metamorphoses, accompanied by an illus. and surrounded by a border. The illus. are attributed to Bernard Salomon.