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4to (199x150 mm). [76] leaves. Collation: A-T4. This is one of the copies without the leaflet with a supplementary poem pasted on leaf F1r (basically, beside this copy, only two of the five known copies have this addition). On the title page ownership's inscriptions "Conventus S. Wenceslai Egrensis" and "Ex libris Joannis Sedleckij". Contemporary limp vellum (soiled), ties, new endpapers, some light damp stains throughout, but a good copy.
FIRST EDITION. Soon after the death of the humanist and poet Konrad Celtes in 1508, the Collegium Poetarum,which was called into being by him in Vienna and which had the right of conferring the laureateship, came to an end. Efforts were made in the middle of the century to restore the Collegium, especially by some influential imperial councillors such as Jacob Jonas, Georg Sigmund Seld, Sigmund von Herberstein and Georg Eder. It was finally re-established in 1558 under the head of Nathanael Balsmannus, a member of the Collegium Archiducale.
The first important… Read More

8vo (158x93 mm). [4], 228 pp. Collation: *2 a-n8 o-p4 q2. With the printer's device on the title-page. Later stiff vellum, ink title on the spine, sprinkled edges. Slightly uniformly browned, some marginal foxing, but a fine copy.
FIRST EDITION of the second attack of Henri Estienne's on Ciceronianism. The first was published a year previously under the title De latinitate falso suspecta expostulation (with an appendix on the style of Plautus). The last volume of his critic, aimed especially at Mario Nizolio's Thesaurus as a kind of bible of Ciceronianism, appeared as Nizoliodidascalus, sive Monitor Ciceronianorum in 1578.
"Il est hors de doute qu'à un 'degré zero', pour ansi dire, de lecture, il s'agit d'un exercice promotionel: fustigeant les incorrections des éditions de Cicéron d'un Bade, d'un Lambin, d'un Manuce, et de tant d'autres, Estienne ne fait que souligner, par ricochet, la qualité des siennes. Rappelons en effet que qu'Estienne, ruiné par la publication de son Thesaurus, sortait,… Read More