Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Lomeier, De bibliothecis liber singularis, Zutphen, 1669, contemporary calf

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500 - 700 GBP

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LOMEIER, JOHANNES. De bibliothecis liber singularis. Zutphen: Jan Colomp [of Deventer] for Henricus Beerren, 1669 [bound with:]


[CINELLI CALVOLI, GIOVANNI]. Della bibliotheca volante scanzia prima [-seconda]. Florence: Giovantonio Bonardi, 1677


FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF BIBLIOGRAPHY. Lomeier's work addresses the history of libraries and their organisation from biblical times to the period of publication. The second work in this volume comprises the first two parts of Cinelli Calvoli's seminal Italian literary and bibliographical periodical. In the first part of Cinelli Calvoli's work, the dedicatory letter of a controversial theologian has been cancelled. (This letter, supplied in photocopied facsimile, is addressed to Enrico Noris, whose Historia Pelagiana was a banned book in France and condemned by the Inquisition in Spain).

2 works in one volume, small 8vo (151 x 93 mm). Roman and italic type. (1) *8 A-X8 Y4: 180 leaves; (2) A1 A4-8 B-F8 A-G8 (A4 missigned A3): 94 leaves (only, of 96: A2-3 supplied in photocopy). Title-pages with woodcut device, woodcut initials. (Some leaves browned, lacking pp.3-6 of Scanzia Prima, supplied in photocopy.)


binding: Contemporary brown calf (157 x 97 mm), spine with 3 bands, red and green speckled edges. (Rubbed.)


provenance: Late-nineteenth-century armorial bookplate with conjoined arms of Plettenberg and Esterházy de Galántha of Nordkirchen Castle in Westphalia—Reiss & Auvermann, sale number 47, 7 April 1992, lot 37—H.P. Kraus, Catalogue 197, no. 123. acquisition: Purchased in 1994 from H.P. Kraus, New York. references: (1) Petzhold 26; Short-title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN) 831230134; (2) Ottino-Fumagalli I, 615

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