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Verona, Italy
Auction Details
Treasures of Paper
“TREASURES OF PAPER: A SELECTED COLLECTION OF IMPORTANT ANCIENT AND RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS.
The auction will be placed on May, 8 at 7:00 AM PST.
All items have 0% commissions on hammer price: the amount to pay will be exactly your winning bid.”
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![[Manuscript on Vellum] Breviary, signed 1370](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706684_1_x.jpg?height=300&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Aldus] Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1545](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706714_1_x.jpg?height=300&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Aldine, Satire, Rolland] Juvenal and Persius, 1501](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706789_1_x.jpg?height=300&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Surgery, Islam] Paulus Aegineta, 1553: FIRST AND ONLY ALDINE EDITION OF PAUL AEGINETA'S MEDICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORK IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD PAULUS AEGINETAS. Pauli Aeginetae Medici Opera. A Ioanne Guinterio](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25703960_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Italian Language] Alunno, Ricchezze della Lingua, 1543: FIRST ALDINE EDITION OF ALUNNO'S TREATISE ON THE RICHNESS OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE One of the first specialized dictionaries of Italian language using Boccaccio’s words as a model for good style](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25703962_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1399103658)
![[Manuscript on vellum] Antiphonary, Spain 1618: GIANT DATED SPANISH ANTIFONARYILLUMINATED AND MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUMIN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING SPANISH ANTIPHONARY. Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae. [incipit: Dominica in ramis Palmaru(m)]. [Spain: 5](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25703964_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Incunable, Philosophy] Aristoteles-Colonna, 1500: SCARCE COLONNA’S EXPOSITION ON ARISTOTLE’S ELENCHAARISTOTLES-COLONNA. Expositio Egidii Romani supra libros elenchorum Aristotelis. [together with:] AUGUSTINUS DE MESCHIATIS. Questio defensiva](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25703968_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Ethics, Fine Binding] Aristoteles, Ethica, 1541: THE MOST RENOWNED COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLE’s ETHICS in its contemporary binding Aristoteles. Aristotelis Stagiritae Moralia Nicomachia cum Eustratii Aspasii, Michaelis Ephesii, nonnullorumq.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25703970_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Illuminated Blazonry] Armorial, 1887: ILLUMINATED BLAZONRY MADE BY THE FRENCH PAINTER LE BIHAN LE BIHAN, ALEXANDRE. Armorial [at f. (1):] Commencé le 10 Mars 1886, Terminé le 30 Septembre 1887, Relié le 23 Aôut 1888. [Alençon](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25703972_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Recipes, Wine] Athenaeus, Banquet, 1556: «THE BANQUET OF THE LEARNED», AN EXOTIC BLEND OF PHILOSOPHY AND PLEASURES, WIT AND ANCIENT RECIPES The most charming witness of Hellenistic culture in its original blind-tooled calf binding](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25705266_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Poetry, Alchemy, Aldus] Augurelli, 1505: THE POET ALCHEMIST AUGURELLUS, AURELIUS. Poemata. [at colophon:] Venetiis : in aedibus Aldi, mense Aprili 1505 [Venezia : Aldo Manuzio, April 1505]. FIRST AND ONLY ALDINE EDITION OF AUGURELLI'S](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25705272_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Bordeaux WIne, Aldus] Ausonius, Opera, 1517: FIRST AND ONLY ALDINE EDITION OF AUSONIUS’ POETICAL WORKSCONTAINING ONE OF THE EARLIEST MENTION ABOUT BORDEAUX WINEAUSONIUS, DECIMUS MAGNUS. Opera. Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25705268_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Alchemy] Johnson, Lexicon Chymicum, 1660: JOHNSON'S PRECIOUS LEXICON TO UNDERSTAND ALCHEMIST'S LANGUAGE AND SYMBOLS JOHNSON, WILLIAM. Lexicon Chymicum cum obscuriorum verborum, et rerum hermeticarum, tum phrasium Paracelsicarum, in scriptis](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25705270_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Incunable, Song of Songs] St. Bernard, Paris, 1494: RARE PARISIAN INCUNABLE ON THE FINEST BIBLICAL POEM [Incunable] Bernardus, abbot of Clairvaux. Sermones super Cantica Canticorum. Paris: [Georg Wolf], 1494. 4to (197x132 mm), 20th century brown](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25705273_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Anatomy] Berrettini Da Cortona, Anatomical Plates 1741: FIRST EDITION OF BERRETTINI’S «ANATOMICAL PLATES: «THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PAINTER OF THE ITALIAN BAROQUE» [Anatomy] Berrettini, Pietro [Pietro Da Cortona]. Tabulae Anatomicae a celeberrimo](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706674_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Flying Machines, Airship] Bettoni, The Flying Man 1784: THE FIRST EXTANT PROJECT OF AN AIRSHIP WITH OBLONG BALLOON [Bettoni, Carlo]. Bettoni, Carlo. L’uomo volante per aria, per acqua, e per terra. Novissima invenzione di un anonimo italiano](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706676_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)

![[Illuminated Incunables] Blondus Flavius, 1481-82: FOUNDATION OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY Two scarce illuminated incunables printed in Verona: «Rome restored» and «Italy illustrated» by the Croatian printer Dobrić](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706680_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Mushrooms] Bresadola, Iconographia Mycologica, 1927-41: THE MOST COMPLETE ATLAS OF MUSHROOMS With 1323 coloured plates representing all the varieties known at the author’s time Bresadola, Jacopo (abbot). Iconographia mycologica in XX partes […].](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706682_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Manuscript on Vellum] Breviary, signed 1370: WONDERFUL SIGNED AND DATED GERMAN MEDIEVAL BREVIARY ILLUMINATED AND MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUMBREVIARY-KONRAD HÖNER. Medieval manuscript on vellum, signed and dated. [At leaf 445v:]Anno Domini MCCCLXX.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706684_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[War, Military Logs] Caesar, 1595: ONLY TWO COPIES WORLDWIDE, NONE IN USAA VERY SCARCE MINUSCULE CAESAR EDITION CAESAR, JULIUS. Opera quae extant. [Heidelberg:] Apud Hieronymum Commelinum, 1595. 16mo, contemporary limp vellum, pp.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706686_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Inks] Canepari, De Atramentis, 1619: THE EARLIEST COMPLETE TREATISE ON INK, its compositions and uses, a half-way work between alchemy and chemistry applied to writing and printing Canepari, Pietro Maria. De atramentis Cuiscunque](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706688_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Syphilis & Arthritis] Capodivacca, De lue, 1590-92: SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF CAPODIVACCA'S TREATISE ON SYPHILIS bound with THE SECOND EDITION OF CAMPOLONGO'S WORK ON ARTHRITIS completed by Schneeberger’s remedies against joints’ pains Capodivacca,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706690_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Military Architecture, Machines] Capra, 1717: A MILESTONE IN MILITARY ARCHITECTURE AND FORTIFICATION TECHNIQUESCAPRA, ALESSANDRO. La nuova architettura civile, e militare, divisa in due tomi, in questa nuova impressione diligentemente corretta,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706692_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Medicine & Philosophy] Cardano 1557-59: Cardano’s natural observations and medical opuscula collected in their 16th century first editions Cardano, Girolamo. De rerum varietate libri XVII. Adiectus est capitum, rerum & sententiarum](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706694_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Agriculture, Farming, Fishing] Cato (& others) 1533: THE MOST IMPORTANT TREATISES OF ROMAN AGRICULTURE, FISHING AND FARMING CATO, VARRO, COLUMELLA, PALLADIUS ET ALII. Libri De Re Rustica. M. Catonis Lib. I. M. Terentii Varronis Lib. III. L. Iunii](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706696_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
![[Erotic Poetry, Aldus] Catullus, 1502: FIRST ALDINE EDITION OF CATULLUS POEMS CATULLUS, GAIUS VALERIUS. Carmina. Venetiis in aedibus Aldi, mense Ianuario MDII. [Venice: Aldo Manuzio 1502]. 8vo, 19th century amateur blue morocco, gilt](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/2198/53381/25706698_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1397259655)
