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Daguerre Savoie

249 - (15th and 16th centuries) 7 volumes -
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(15th and 16th centuries) 7 volumes - - POSTEL (Claude). The Writings of Claude Postel Published in France and Their Publishers. 1538–1579. Foreword by Bernard Roussel. Geneva, Droz, 1992. In-8, publisher’s binding. [7 ff], 125 pp, [2 ff], illustrations in the text. - SECRET (François). Postelliana (edited by...). Nieuwkoop, 1981. In-8, 366 pp, publisher’s cloth binding. A volume published to mark the fourth centenary of the death of Guillaume Postel. It contains several rare or unpublished texts, preceded by an introduction. Index. François Secret has made obscure manuscripts accessible. - STAPLETON (Th.). History of Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII, translated from the Latin by Alexandre Martin. With an introduction, notes and commentary by M. Audin. Paris, Maison, 1849. In-8, XXXII, 476 pp, contemporary plum-coloured half-shagreen, ribbed spine with blind-stamped fillet borders, gilt head. A significant biography of the author of *Utopia*, who was beheaded by Henry VIII for opposing his divorce. Lithographed frontispiece portrait after Holbein. Waterstains. - SUDHOFF (Karl). *Bibliographia Paracelsica*. Berlin, 1894. (Reprint, 2000). In-8, XIV, 722 pp, publisher’s cloth binding. “As a physician, philosopher and chemist, Paracelsus was the driving force behind the great scientific revolution of the sixteenth century.” Larousse painted a particularly flattering portrait of “this restless and innovative genius”. This bibliography remains the most comprehensive devoted to this figure. It describes 518 works with commentary. Text in German. - MAC MANUS (M. J.). A Bibliography of Thomas More. No place, no date, pp. 55–63. Extract from a work with interleaved blank pages. Dark cloth binding with the title in gold lettering on the spine. Ex-libris bearing the coat of arms of Baron Esher with the motto ‘Vicimus’. - Nicolas de Cues. The Methods of Thought. Conference proceedings (2001). Louvain-la-Neuve, 2005. In-8, [2 ff], 214 pp, [1 f], paperback, illustrated cover. “Of the great Western philosophers, Nicholas of Cusa remains, even today, one of the least well-known”. 12 contributions (in French and English). Index. - ADAM (R.) and (M. de SCHEPPER). *Bibliotheca Lipsiana Bruxellensis*. The books of Justus Lipsius held at the Royal Library of Belgium. Catalogue and inventories published to mark the ‘Constance and Inconstance’ exhibition held at the Erasmus House Museum from 1 December 2006 to 4 February 2007. Turnhout, 2007. In-8, 276 pp, paperback. “This volume comprises two parts: a catalogue and an inventory… The catalogue includes, in particular, the text of the five letters from Justus Lipsius to his pupil Puteanus… The inventory lists the items relating to Justus Lipsius held at the Royal Library”. Extensive indexes. Around thirty illustrations. - A study of the life and works of Nicolas Clénard. Brussels, 1900. In-8, paperback.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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