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A Catalan indulgence for the repair
of the cathedral of Lérida
Indulgence – Milá, Luis de, Cardinal. Letter of
Indulgence (in Catalan), beginning ‹A Honor
…› granted by Luis de Mila, Bishop of Lérida.
Lérida, Heinrich Botel, c. 1498. Broadside, 331
by 220 mm., printed in gothic letter, 31 long
lines; formerly folded, in fine condition, in a
lettered buckram portfolio. CHF 53 000.–
Printed at Lérida, the second city of Catalonia,
about 100 miles inland from Barcelona: an indulgence
granted by Luis de Mila, Bishop of Lérida,
in favour of the living (as opposed to the dead; see
below) to gather funds for the repair of the old Cathedral
of Lérida.
Inscribed by Joyce at Zurich to Svevo’s niece
Joyce, James. Chamber Music. London, Elkin
Mathews, 1907. Small 4to, a very good copy in
the original green cloth. CHF 38 500.–
First edition, third variant, of the first James Joyce
book. This copy is inscribed by Joyce at Zurich to
Vela Bliznakoff, who was taking English lessons
with him together with her sister Olga. Ellmann
describes Vela as a very handsome young woman,
the only one able to convince Joyce to shave and
wash more systematically when he was depressed
at not being able to complete the Ulysses while in
Zurich. Vela’s father Marco had been Bulgarian
consul in Trieste, where he became friends with
Joyce through his sister-in-law, Livia Veneziani,
Italo Svevo’s wife. This is the earliest inscribed third
variant recorded (see Horowitz) and the only one
we know of inscribed at Zurich.
Ketham, Johannes de [Johannes von Kirchheim].
Fasciculus medicinae. Venice, Johannes
and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 28
March 1500. Folio; with 10 full-page woodcuts,
numerous floriated woodcut initials, text
and woodcut captions rubricated throughout; a
very good, large, unwashed and unsophisticated
copy in old limp vellum. CHF 70 000.–
A very attractive copy of the last incunable edition
of one of the most beautiful books of the fifteenth
century, the first printed medical book to contain
illustrations.
Vitruvius. De Architectura libri decem, cum
commentariis Danielis Barbari … multis aedificiorum,
horologiorum, et machinarum
descriptionibus, & figuris… Venice, Francesco
de’ Franceschi and Giovanni Chrieger,
1567. Folio; with 135 woodcuts; a fine, crisp
copy in its original binding of Italian limp vellum.
CHF 11 300.–
First edition with Barbaro’s commentary in Latin, a
fine copy of a finely illustrated edition of Vitruvius.
[Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de].
L’Homme aux Quarante Écus. [Geneva, Cramer],
1768. 8vo; a good, crisp copy, bound in old
green paper covered boards. CHF 4400.–
Rare first edition of Voltaire’s only publication on
a distinctly economic subject.
In a contemporary wallet binding
Willich, Jodocus. Ars magirica hoc est, coquinaria,
de cibariis, ferculis opsonijs, alimentis &
potibus diversis parandis, eorumque; facultatibus…
Zurich, Jakob Gessner, [1563]. [bound
with:] [Gessner, Conrad]. Sanitatis tuendae
praecepta cum aliis, tum literarum studiosis
hominibus, & ijs qui minus exercentur, cognitu
necessaria. Zurich, Jakob Gessner, [?1561]. Two
works in one volume, 8vo; a very good copy in a
contemporary vellum wallet-binding, from the
library of the Swiss physician Johann Lorenz
Löeli. CHF 8500.–
I. First edition of a gastronomic treatise by the German
physician, theologian, and polymath, together
with one of the earliest treatises on Swiss cheese.
– II. Second edition (first, 1556) of Gessner’s work
‹on hygiene, the use and abuse of cosmetics by
women, and against the superstitious belief that
bloodletting should be performed according to
astrological indications› (Wellisch p. 81).
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