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Click here to subscribeA Royal Navy Flying logbook for PO M C Crumbie 848 Naval Air Squadron, dating from 22nd October 1964 to 19th December 1972, manuscript entries including deployment in Malaya and the Far East, various aircraft including Wessex MKI and Whirlwind MK VII, with one notable entry of the ditching of a Whirlwind in Weymouth Bay 17th May 1968, and a photograph of the aircraft being recovered.
A collection of 18th century manuscript accounts and documents relating to the sloop 'Sibella' by Thomas Phillips Jun. circa 1780s, including costs for pilotage, provisions, carpenters, rigging, porters for "discharging the Beef", a payment to "14 Men for Towing her in it being Calm", a large debit and credit account from 1781-1785 with details of cal cargoes from Neath and Swansea, and other documents relating to the Sibella and its cargo. Together with a copy of Rowett Jons, J 'The Smugglers Banker. The Story of Zephaniah Job of Polperro', second edition , 2008.*Notes- Owned by Thomas Phillips, the Sibella was engaged in trade between Cornish ports, the Scilly Isles and South Wales.
A midshipman's journal and photograph album for E W Sinclair,HMS 'magnificent' and HMS 'Britannia' 1906-1908, manuscript logs with additional sketches, three quarter cloth binding, the photograph album containing personal photographs as well as images aboard various ships including seaplane carrier HSS 'Hermes', a visit by King George V and the Surrender of the German Fleet November 21st 1918.
A midshipman's log for the Royal Navy Majestic-class battleship HMS 'Victorious', HMS 'Egmont' and HMS 'Leviathan' 1905-1905, kept by Francis H G Walker, from 1st June 1905 to 15th November 1906, manuscript logs with additional diagrams and sketches including a diagram and list of ships and positions 'L'entente Cordiale. Brest, July 10th-17th, 1904' and a list of ships taking part in the 'Battle of Korean Straits' (Battle of Tsushima, 1905). three quater cloth bound marbled boards.
An early 20th Century scale model of the American clipper 'Glory of the Seas', standing and running rigged over deck with lifeboats, cabins, and fittings, the hull painted black to waterline and copper beneath, on a mahogany plinth with manuscript label 'Glory of the Seas, Boston, 1869-1923', overall size 18cm x 16.5cm.*Notes- launched in 1869 and the last merchant vessel used by Donald Mckay.
A 19th century Midshipman's log book for the Royal Navy Steam sloop HMS 'Fury' 1860-61, kept by George Osbourne Moore, manuscript logs from February 22nd 1860 to June 19th , 1861, three quarter leather bindings, *Notes- Launched in 1845 HMS 'Fury' was a six gun paddle steamer serving in the Black Sea during the Russian War and later in the East Indies and China, taking part in the aftermath of the Battle of Tysami against the pirate fleet of Chui-A-poo for which she was awarded bounties.
A Victorian paper Christmas card model of a frigate in a glazed case, the lithograph printed ship set full sail and inscribed ; ' A Jolly Christmas' to jib sail and 'Victoria' to gunwale, on a waterline painted base, manuscript label to back of case 'Present from a sailor sailor to his mother,1866' the case 17x 31 x 9.5cm
Battle of Jutland. A WWI period midshipman's log book for the Royal Navy Town-class cruiser HMS 'Southampton', kept by Charles John Barton November 1914 to July 1916, manuscript entries including a five and a half page first hand account of the Battle of Jutland beginning May 31st , 1916 detailing action, damage and casualties. *Notes- Launched in 1912 HMS 'Southampton' saw extensive wartime action, taking part in the Battle of Heliogoland Bight and the Battle of Dogger Bank. At the Battle of Jutland she was the flagship of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron and torpedoed the German light cruiser SMS 'Frauenlob'. In his account Barton remarks '.. as soon as they saw we were flagship they let us have it, it only lasted 3 1/2 minutes, we had something about 20 killed outright and a lot mortally wounded...'
A Victorian Silky Oak and Tilt-Top Circular Breakfast Table, 3rd quarter 19th century, the moulded top above a plain frieze pivoting on an oak block with tapering support and carved socle, triform base and scrolled feet with recessed castors, the underside inscribed in manuscript THIS TABLE BELONGED TO CAROLINE ARMISTEAD A NIECE OF THOMAS RICHARDSON OF CLEVELAND LODGE GREAT AYTON132cm diameter, 75cm high
William Verner Longe, British (1857-1924) "The Grand National 1903 - The Canal Turn the last time Round," also "The National 1906 - The Water Jump," watercolour and gouache, a pair, each with manuscript legends of horses illustrated, each approx. 40cms x 55cms (16" x 22"),ÿsignedÿ mounted in matching frames. (2)
Books. Three shelves of general stock, early 20th c and later, including Americana manuscript research and genealogy, similar Australian, Empire and Commonwealth interest, various numbers and years of the Genealogical Research Directory, other directories, modern facsimiles, topography, London, cigars and smoking, art and visual graphics, pamphlets and monographs, bookplates, bibliography, Vanity Fair, etc
Joseph Clayton Clarke, "Kyd" (1857–1937) - "Truth escaping from the well", after the epigram by Democritus, almost certainly for a book illustration, signed Clarke in the lower-left margin, labelled mount, verso inscribed (Mr Bell, Howard Street) and further inscribed twice with a transcript of the poem in two different hands, n.d. [c. 1925-31], pen-and-ink over pencil, watercolour and gouache on board, 38.5 x 53cm The reverse of the board is twice inscribed in manuscript with the following and as of yet untraced verse, itself repeated on the labelled mount: Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong bell,/Truth is escaping from the well,/Run, ye maiden ladies, run,/The truth has got no clothing on,/Call the policeman, bring a gun,/Come and kill her everyone,/There's no telling what's about,/When the vixen truth gets out. The colours mostly fresh. The brown with toned portions and some occasional foxed spots, principally to the upper-left to upper-centre. The four corners with pin holes. Upper-right margin with 2cm stable split. Light surface scuffs and abrasions. Rounded verso corners taped to mount, some chipping but not affecting image.
° ° Stephen, James Francis - Illustrations of British Entomology ... A Manuscript Copy, in six volumes, of vols. 1-4 (part 2) of the original work, which was published in 12 vols (1828-1846). Title pages are reproduced, and 'with the exception of the Introduction, a few preliminary remarks on the science of entomology', and a few minor omissions, the text follows the printed version; the 95 coloured plates (by Curtis & Westwood) were, in all probability, never replicated; contemp. half calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated and panelled spines, marbled edges and e/ps. August 1839 - July 1840
° ° Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vols 6 - The Libraries of the Augustinian Canons, 10 - The University and College Libraries of Cambridge, 13 - St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury (parts 1 & 2) and 14 - Hospitals, Towns and the Professions, 15 - The Libraries of Collegia Churches, (2 vols), 8vo, red cloth, The British Library in association with The British Academy, 2002- 2013, together with The Banks Letters: A Calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, edited by Warren R. Dawson, 4to, green cloth, ex libris stamp of Peter Warren, published by the British Museum Trustees, 1958, (8).
Richard Wagner Handschrift, Autograph: Kuvert von Richard Wagner beschrieben: "An die K. K. Kammersängerin Frau Amalie Friedrich Materna. In eigenem Hause. Hohe Wrte 60 Wien", mit Briefmarke und Poststempel. / Richard Wagner manuscript, autograph: Envelope inscribed by Richard Wagner: "An die K. K.. Kammersängerin Mrs. Amalie Friedrich Materna. At her own home. Hohe Wrte 60 Wien", with stamp and postmark.
Codex Manesse. Die Manessische Liederhandschrift. Faksimile in farbigem Lichtdruck. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag 1925-1927. Mit 137 ganzseitigen farbigen Miniaturen. Weißer Orig.-Schweinslederband mit Deckel- u. Rückenprägung. Mit Orig.-Schober. Ohne Kommentarband. Eins von 320 Exemplaren. Der Codex Manesse, genannt auch Manessische Liederhandschrift, ist die umfangreichste und berühmteste deutsche Liederhandschrift des Mittelalters. Der Zürcher Patrizier Rüdiger Manesse und sein Sohn Johann legten zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts eine umfangreiche Sammlung mittelhochdeutscher Lyrik, Lieder und Sprüche von 140 Autoren, wie Walther von der Vogelweide, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg und Ulrich von Lichtenstein, an. / Codex Manesse. The Manessian song manuscript. Facsimile in color collotype. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag 1925-1927. 137 full-page color miniatures. Original white pigskin binding with embossed cover and spine. Without commentary volume. One of 320 copies. The Codex Manesse, also known as the Manessische Liederhandschrift, is the most comprehensive and most famous German song manuscript of the Middle Ages. At the beginning of the 14th century, the Zurich patrician Rüdiger Manesse and his son Johann compiled an extensive collection of Middle High German poetry, songs and sayings by 140 authors such as Walther von der Vogelweide, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg and Ulrich von Lichtenstein.
Dorset.- [Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of all the Genuine Household Goods and Furniture, Stock in Trade, &c. of Mr. John Scaplen, Joiner and Cabinet-Maker, Deceased; at his late Dwelling House In the High Street, Poole...Which will be Sold by Auction By William Drew, On Monday, April 4, 1785..., ruled in ink and with many prices in manuscript, a few small ink-stains to title, some light creasing, edges a little frayed, foxed and browned, some light dust-soiling, unbound, later stitching, 8vo, Poole, Rule, [1785]. *** Seemingly unrecorded catalogue of the stock-in-trade of a Dorset cabinet-maker. The sale also includes some household items and a few books, including works on architecture and building by Swan, Gibbs, Halfpenny and Chippendale. Not on ESTC, where the earliest recorded item printed in Poole is Hutchins' History of the town and county of Poole, printed for Joseph Moore in 1788.
Broadside.- Corn laws.- A bit of truth about cheap corn & sugar and other sundry matters, folds, chipped at head, just touching first line of title, but without loss of sense, lightly browned, 415 x 283mm., Southampton, J. Coupland, (the following supplied in manuscript) 78 High St., 1834. *** Unrecorded.
Naval.- Lang (W.M., Midshipman) Watch, Quarter, Fire & Station Bell of H.M.S. Narcissus' Guns, manuscript, 336pp., hand-coloured illustrations of signal flags, tables, occasional staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked in modern calf, corners worn, covers with some staining and rubbed and marked, small 8vo, 11 November, 1862. *** Narcissus was a 51-gun frigate launched on 26th October, 1859. She was a flagship at the Cape and the Americas, and was sold in 1883. Includes some notes at end relating to H.M.S. The Queen.
Asian languages.- Schlegel (Augustus William) Réflexions sur l'étude des langues asiatiques adressées à Sir James Mackintosh, suivies d'une lettre à M. Horace Hayman Wilson,, first edition, presentation copy from the author, half-title, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary wrappers, lacking backstrip, housed in a card chemise and board slip-case, 8vo, Paris, Bonn, 1832.*** Includes a prospectus for a plan to translate and publish relevant works on Eastern History, Science and Belles-Lettres that are still only available in manuscript in the BM, East-India House and the universities. The volume is presented to a Dr. Becker.
Catholic Church. Obsequiale sive Benedictionale, quod Agendam appellant secundum ritum, collation: ):(4 A-Z Aa-Rr4, printed in red and black, title with woodcut profile of the head of Jesus within woodcut decorative border, ):(2 recto near full-page woodcut depicting the saints of Bohemia and verso woodcut arms of Archbishop Martin Medek z Mohelnice of Prague within decorative border, woodcut musical notation and decorative initials, later ink manuscript music to verso of title and ink and pencil marginalia in Latin or German, lacking blank ):(4, marginal repairs, more extensive to first few ff. (including title), spotting and staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, ornately blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps, corners restored, some staining, rubbed and marked, 4to (260 x 184mm.), Prague, Michael Peterle, 1585.*** Rare. Unknown to the standard bibliographies, and with only two copies recorded by WorldCat (Munich & Michigan).
Annotated copy.- Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Werner, A Tragedy, first edition, first issue without "the end" and the imprint on p.188, half-title, lacking advertisements, interleaved and extensively annotated in a contemporary hand, ink library reference to foot of title verso, few gatherings loose, occasional spotting or finger-soiling, modern library cloth-backed boards, John Murray, 1823; [Byron Scrapbook], c.100pp., consisting of portrait frontispiece and first 32pp. only of Poems by the Right Honourable Lord Byron (Jones and Company, 1823), newspaper clippings relating to Byron and clippings of his poetry, including some illustrations, poetry extracts copied in ink manuscript, front free endpaper with contemporary ownership name of W.C. Wright, later pencil note beneath attributing the scrapbook to J.C. Wright, ex-library with bookplate, embossed stamps to frontispiece and title and ink-stamp to title verso, some spotting and light browning, later morocco-backed cloth, spine sunned, [19th century, ?c.1825]; and 5 others relating to Byron, including 2 copies of the order of service for the Byron Centenary service at Paris Church, Hucknall (1924) and a small porcelain plaque with bust of Byron, v.s. (7) *** The first mentioned annotated with various stage-directions, including a full-page stage layout plan at p.31, and various passages amended or crossed through. The annotations are attributed in a loosely inserted printed note to the American actor Hermann Vezin (1829-1910).
Sermons.- [Volume of Anglican Sermons], manuscript, 115pp., 1f. folded over, slightly browned, original panelled calf, repaired, joints with small splits but strong, gilt spine, small leather label, gilt, 8vo, [c. 1793]. *** Sermons comprise: "Ephes. IV. Cp. 1. The Xtians Vocation"; "James IV. 12. Cp. Against Censoriousness"; "Levit. XIX. 17. Upon Friendly Reproof."; "Ephes. V. 3. The State of y. Gentiles bef. & aft. Conv."; "Isaiah 1.f.p.17. On Well Doing."; "James. 1. 21. - 2 Serm. On Reading y. Scriptures." Six sermons preached variously in Ashley (Cheshire) , Eccleshall, Southam (Warwickshire) , Prestwich, Manchester, Gnosall, Gorton, Cheadle between 1749 and 1792. And in another hand "Hanbury 1798" and sermons numbered 360 to 366.
Shakespeare (William) The Works, 2 vol., Imperial edition, edited by Charles Knight, engraved frontispieces, additional engraved titles, 37 engraved plates, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature to early blanks, publishing and binding information in manuscript to early blanks, red morocco by ?J. Cuthbertson & Co., Brompton Road, g.e., gilt inner dentelles, 5 raised spine bands, lightly rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio, Virtue & Co, [1873-75].
Botany.- Curtis (William) Flora Londinensis; or, plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London, vol.1-5 (only, of 6) bound in 3, first edition, 360 hand-coloured engraved plates, title to vol.1 only, engraved author portrait mounted on front free endpaper of vol.1, 6pp. manuscript "alphabetical index to the first five (out of six) fasciculae of Curtis's Flora Londinensis" in vol.1, final text leaf supplied in manuscript, light browning, light scattered spotting affecting some plates, nineteenth-century green half morocco by Birdsall, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, slightly rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut, folio, printed for and sold by the author, 1777. *** William Curtis (1746-1799) set out to record all the wild plants growing within a 10-mile radius of London. Many of the substantial collection of hand-coloured plates show the details of the plant at each stage of its growth and development, rather than a snapshot at one particular stage.
Uzanne (Octave) Le Miroir de Monde, from a limited edition, an out of series copy labelled '?de presse' on limitation page (manuscript in ink), illustrations in colour after Paul Avril, initial gathering working loose, some foxing, original pictorial wrappers, Paris, Maison Quantin, 1888; La Francaise du Siècle. Modes, Moeurs, Usages [2 copies], aquatint plates and illustrations after Albert Jynch and Eugene Gaujean, original pictorial wrappers, Paris, Maison Quantin, 1886; La Locomotion à Travers l'Histoire et les Moeurs, one of 1500 copies, 20 folding colour plates, plain plates, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers bound in a few repairs, modern cloth, red leather label to spine, a very good copy, Paris, 1900, 4to (4)
Ashmole (Elias) The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies Of the most Noble Order of the Garter, first edition, second issue, initial imprimatur f., title in red and black, engraved portrait of Charles II and 37 engraved plates (includes 10 full-page of arms on 5 sheets), some by Wenceslaus Hollar, many double-page mounted on stubs, engraved illustrations, errata f. at end, ex-Westminster Public Library with bookplate and withdrawn stamp, the occasional small ink-stamp, including to title, blank upper margin of portrait and verso of plates (once or twice with show-through), 2 plates little chipped at fore-edge with very small loss, a few manuscript additions to catalogue of Knights in ink and pencil, one plate of arms with additional crest supplied in ink, slight cockling at head and foot, some light browning, light dust-soiling to upper margin, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, blind-stamp to upper cover, corners worn, rubbed, [Wing A3983], folio, J. Macock, for Nathanael Brooke, 1672. *** With the fireworks plate at p.424. This copy the second issue with pp.717-719 reset and various mis-paginations corrected.
Gunpowder Plot.- A True and Perfect Relation of the whole proceedings against the late most barbarous Traitors, Garnet, a Jesuite, and his Confederats, first edition, variant with four-line imprint, lacking E4 & Ss4, title laid down and loosely inserted, with paper repair to margin slightly affecting text, some light finger-soiling marks, final sig. working loose, contemporary vellum, manuscript title on upper cover, a little rubbed and creased, [STC 11619a], 4to, Robert Barker, 1606.
Steam Engines.- Congreve (William) Short Account (A) of a Patent lately taken out by Sir William Congreve...for a New Principle of Steam Engine, first edition, 3 folding engraved plates, title soiled and with contemporary ink inscription to head mostly trimmed away, some light browning and offsetting to plates, some spotting and soiling, some faint marginal damp-staining, later paper wrappers, ink manuscript title to head of upper wrapper, rare, 8vo, J. Whiting, 1819.
Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834)Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1585-1646), wearing black doublet and white ruff, seated before an embroidered curtain in a red chair, his right hand holding a paper, his left hand clasping the jewel of the Lesser George, the badge of the Garter, which is suspended from the blue ribbon of the Order around his neck. Enamel on copper, signed on the obverse, HBone, signed, dated and inscribed in full on the reverse, Thos Howard Earl of Arundel/ London/ April 1827/ Painted by Henry Bone RA/ Enamel painter to His Majesty &/ To His (late) RH the Duke of York/ &c &c after Van Dyke in the Marquis/ of Stafford's Collection Cleveland House/ London, gilded composition frame with scrolling acunthus leaf mouldings, the inner mount hinged and accompanied by a key. Rectangular, 191mm (7 1/2in) highProvenance:The Estate of Mrs. Charles W. Englehard, Christie's New York, 18 March, 2005, lot 132;The Twinight CollectionFootnotes:Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel was prominent during the reigns of James I and Charles I and noted for his art collections of marbles and manuscripts. In 1604, he was restored to his father's Earldom of Arundel and to the Baronies of his grandfather, Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk. His fortunes fluctuated under James I and Charles I; he held many high offices and was more than once imprisoned. He is best remembered for his patronage of the arts and for his magnificent collections. These were dispersed after his death, most of the marbles and statues being given to Oxford University in 1667 to become known later as the Arundel (or Oxford) marbles. The library was given to the Royal Society and to the College of Heralds, the manuscript portion of the Royal Society's moiety being transferred to the British Museum in 1831 forming the present Arundel Collection.The present lot derives from Sir Anthony Van Dyck's portrait of the Earl painted circa 1620/1 and now in the J. Paul Getty Museum (86.PA.532). Bone's squared drawing for his enamel is in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, no. NPG D17392 (catalogued as Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel) bears the inscription Earl of Arundel for Earl Suffolk. Vandcyk/ June 1801/ In the Collection of Lord Gower.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Geneva 1767-1849 London)A bay stallion from Lord Heathfield's stud in a landscape signed with initials 'J.L.A.' (lower left)oil on canvas76.1 x 63.8cm (29 15/16 x 25 1/8in).Footnotes:ProvenanceSale, Christie's, London, 16 June 1961, lot 95 With Ackermann, London, 1961The Paul Mellon CollectionTheir sale, Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1981, lot 117Private Collection, UKExhibitedVirginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Painting in England 1700-1850; collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1963, cat. no. 352LiteratureAgasse's manuscript Record Book, either 'February 16 1805 P of a little stone bay horse, got by a gray Arabian, good race in 3/4s', or '5 March 1805 Copy of the small bay horse small s. he is out of L. Heathfield stud'J. Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Painting, 1655-1867, 1978, pp. 182-3, cat. no. 187 Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield, F.R.S (1750-1813) was a great friend of Agasse's chief patron, Lord Rivers and shared his interest in horse breeding. It is thought that Agasse worked for him as early as 1801 and is know to have painted four equestrian portraits of Lord Heathfield, one of which is in the Collection of His Majesty the King, UK (RCIN 400136).The present work, which Egerton dates to circa 1805, can be compared to Agasse's A grey hunter in a wooded landscape, formerly in the collection of Eugene V. Thaw and offered Christie's, New York, 30 October 2018 and to Grey Horse in a Meadow, formerly in the Oskar Reinhart collection (see Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767-1849, Geneva, 1988, exh. cat., p. 90, cat. no. 25).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Facsimile of a unique edition made from the book "Poema del Mio Cid". The only medieval manuscript that has transmitted the Song of Mio Cid in its poetic form is the so-called "codex of Vivar", because this town in Burgos, the hometown of the Cid, is the place of its oldest known origin, which is currently kept in the National Library of Spain. The edition consists of 800 copies, this one numbered 348. Two books, one in cloth and the other in brown leather inside an elegant velvet or beige suede box.Size box: 5.5 x 25.2 x 30 cm; Size book: 2.5 x 16.3 x 21.2 cm (1); 1.9 x 15.1 x 21 cm (1)
Collectors lot - Herald Indian game, puzzles, Cowrie Shells (from Papa New Guinea- these were used as a form of currency in Norwich as they were the official means of payment there (png) and a visitor had made an agreement with the bank in the city-- vendors description), dip pen nibs inc Leonabot manuscript nib
Tengler, Ulrich.: Der neü Leyenspiegel vo(n) rechtmässigen ordnunge(n) in Burgerlichen und peinlichen Regime(n)ten. Mit Addition. Auch der guldin Bulla. Künigklich Reformation / landfriden. Auch bewärung gemainer recht und anderm anzaigen. (auf dem letzten Blatt:) Strassburg, [Matthias Hupfuff], 1514. Fol. 13 unnum. Bl., 164 röm. foliierte Bl. (statt 170; ohne die Bl. LXXXV-LXXXVIII[P2-5] und CLXVIII-CLXIX [f3-4] sowie ohne das letzte weisse Bl.[f6]). Mit 35 (statt 36) Textholzschnitten, dabei einige blattgrosse und einige wiederholte, sowie mit 7 schematischen Textholzschnitten. Halbpergamentband des 17. Jhs. mit handgeschriebenem Rückentitel. (Kleisterpapierbezug etwas verblasst; geringfügig berieben). VD16 T-343. Adams L-337. Goedeke I, 391, 32 (unter Sebastian Brant, der ein Vorwort beigesteuert hatte). Erste in Strassburg gedruckte Ausgabe des erweiterten Laienspiegels, eines der Hauptwerke der deutschen Rechtsliteratur. Die Erstausgabe war 1508 in Augsburg erschienen. Tengler (geb. zwischen 1435/45-1511), Landvogt zu Höchstadt, "beabsichtigte mit diesem Hülfs- und Nachschlage-Buche die 'Halbgelehrten', welche ohne vorgängige kostspielige Rechtsstudien auf Hochschulen damals als Schreiber, Advocaten, Procuratoren, Notare, Rathgeber, Redner oder in anderer untergeordneter Beschäftigung sehr zahlreich bei Gerichten thätig waren, in den Rechten zu belehren und ihnen ein richtiges Verhalten vorzuzeichnen. Das Werk verbindet somit praktische Belehrung mit theoretischem Unterrichte und kann als systematische Realencyklopädie der populären Rechtswissenschaft für den Praktiker bezeichnet werden . T[engler] sandte das Manuscript an Sebastian Brant in Straßburg, welcher hierdurch offenbar geschmeichelt, in der von ihm verfaßten Vorrede berichtet, daß T[engler] 'sein besonder günstiger und gebietender Herr solch Werck seiner klainmütigkeit zugefügt habe' und dasselbe (in offenbarer Uebertreibung) mit den Verdiensten der berühmten Seefahrer des 15. Jahrhunderts vergleicht. Brant's Vorrede schließt mit einem längeren Lehrgedichte über die nothwendige Kenntniß des geschriebenen Rechtes" (ADB). Enthalten ist auch ein Abschnitt "von kätzerey, warsagen, schwartzer kunst, zauberey, unholden etc." (Bl. CXXIXf.), der als Beleg für die Rechtmässigkeit der nun einsetzenden Hexenverfolgung gilt.
Poetae Christiani Veteres.: Vol. I & II (in 1 vol.; ohne vol. III). Venedig, Aldus, 1501[-1502]. 4°. I: 233 unnum. Bl. (Lagenzählung: [*8], ff-gg8, hh10, ii-xx8, yy10, hh-ii8, kk1-5, a10+8, b8+8, c10+8, d8+4; ohne die drei weissen Blätter k6 und d5/6); II: 294 unnum. Bl. (Lagenzählung: [*8], a-c8, d4, e-i8, k10, aa-dd8, ee6, ff-gg8, hh6, A-F8, G4, H-I8, K4, aaaaaa8+8, bbbbßß10+8, ??cccc8+8, dddddd8+10, eeeeee4+4); am Kopf zeitgenössische Foliation 1-510. Anker-Devise auf Blatt [*8]. Brauner italienischer Kalblederband d.Z. auf drei flachen Bünden, Rücken und Deckel mit schöner Blindprägung, die Deckel zusätzlich mit etwas Goldprägung, sehr schön gepunzter Schnitt. (Ohne die vier Schliessen; kleine Wurmlöcher; Kapitale ausgerissen; berieben und fleckig). Adams P-1685. Ahmanson-Murphy Coll. I, 31 und 46. Renouard, Annales Alde, S. 24ff.: "Collection infiniment rare et précieuse . le peu d'exemplaires qui restent, sont presque tous plus ou moins incomplets". Ein gutes Exemplar der ersten beiden Bände der Sammlung von Texten frühchristlicher Autoren, von denen eine ganze Anzahl hier erstmals im Druck erscheint - eines der ambitiösesten Druckerzeugnisse von Aldus. Es liegen Schriften vor von Prudentius, Sedulius, Iuvencus, Prosper Aquitanus und zahlreichen anderen. Aldus wollte mit seiner Ausgabe christliche Autoren populär machen, sie vor allem als Lehrstoff an die Schulen und Universitäten bringen, wie er in seinen beiden Vorreden darlegt. "The large-scale edition of the Christian Latin Poets seems to have been turned into a publisher's nightmare by this kind of enthusiasm. The first volume and the first half of the second were in print in January 1501, but the dedication of the second to Daniele Clari carries the date June 1502. Undated works in Greek and Latin, with the quires differently marked, are added at the end of both volumes. The third volume was delayed until June 1504. The most probable explanation is that Aldus had originally planned a fairly modest edition of the shorter works of Sedulius, Juvencus, Arator and Prudentius which would have been contained in a single volume and now stand in the earliest dated section. Then word got around, scholarly enthusiasm took over, and new material started to flow in: first, a more complete manuscript of Prudentius from England, which upset the balance of the volume; then the Greek works of John of Damascus, Cosmas and Epiphanius wehich were in due course translated, edited, and compounded with the first volume. This of course meant rounding off the second volume, so Piercandido Decembrio was deputed to edit and translate the Homerocentra and the two volumes were apparantly published together some eighteenth months late . It was appropriate that the second volume of this confused series was the first to carry Aldus' famous cipher of the dolphin and anchor, the symbol of the ancient proverb 'Hasten slowly' which Aldus has declared his motto as early as 1499 and seems to have expounded regularly to his friends. In 1502, it was in fact, a very neat apparaisal of his position. He had achieved much." (Martin Lowry, The World of Aldus Manutius, 1979, S. 148f.). Sehr qualitätvoller, aber restaurationsbedürftiger zeitgenössischer Venezianer Einband mit schöner Blind- und Goldprägung und speziell schön gepunztem Goldschnitt. In den breiten weissen Rändern einige wenige, zeitgenössische handschriftliche Einträge. Auf Blatt aaa1, hh1 und dem zweitletzten Blatt stark verblasster zeitgenössischer wiederholter Besitzeintrag "Iste liber est Monasterii SS. Servatoris Venetiae". Bei vier Blätter ist der untere weisse Rand weggeschnitten und durch einen weissen Papierstreifen alt ersetzt ([*2], a1, A1 und [1]). Ohne fliegende Vorsatzblätter. Feuchtigkeitsspuren im Unterrand der Blätter vor und nach den gelöschten Besitzeinträgen. Kleine Wurmloch im weissen Rand in einigen Lagen. Nur sehr geringfügig stockfleckig. Auf dem Innendeckel Besitzvermerk Per Hierta mit Datum 1907.
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