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Late seventeenth-century mottled calf, boards double-filleted in gilt, fleurs-de-lys cornerpieces, centrepiece incorporating Christogram ‘IHS’ and Three Nails, spine gilt in compartments with crowned dolphin and fleur-de-lis gouge at foot (Olivier pl. 2522 fer 17, \u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e), edges sprinkled red; pp. [16], 389, [27 (index)]; title-page engraved, woodcut initials, head-, and tailpieces; upper hinge with 60-mm split but holding firm; minute abrasion to upper board, corners worn, tailcap chipped, subtle restoration to endcaps and joints at head; the occasional small spot, light toning to first and final ff.; overall a very good, crisp copy; early ownership inscription ‘Colleg[ium] Rotomag[ensis] Societ[atis] Jesu’ in brown ink to title (\u003ci\u003esee below\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of this uncommon collection of essays on history and politics by the Protestant historian Georg Horn, our copy bound for the library of the Jesuit College of Rouen.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorg Horn (Georgius Hornius, 1620–1670), a German Protestant scholar and professor of history at the universities of Harderwijk and Leiden, was among the most widely read historical writers of the Dutch Golden Age. His \u003ci\u003eDissertationes historicae et politicae\u003c\/i\u003e gathers essays on a wide range of subjects, including the origins of the Batavians, the Aztec Empire, democracy and aristocracy, India and Vasco da Gama, and the rise of the Saracens, with discussions of Muhammad and the origins of Islam. Like his other, better-known works, notably \u003ci\u003eDe originibus Americanis\u003c\/i\u003e (1652) and \u003ci\u003eArca Mosis, sive Historia mundi\u003c\/i\u003e (1666), the \u003ci\u003eDissertationes\u003c\/i\u003e reflects Horn’s ambition to present universal history through the lens of contemporary Protestant scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy comes from the library of the Jesuit College of Rouen, one of the most important educational institutions in early modern France. Established in 1593, its alumni included Pierre Corneille, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, and the explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Following the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1762, the institution continued as the Collège Royal; its buildings now house the Lycée Pierre-Corneille.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe spine bears tools associated with bindings produced for Louis de France, the Grand Dauphin (1661–1711), eldest son of Louis XIV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside continental Europe, OCLC and Library Hub find three copies in the US (Florida Atlantic University, Newberry, and Wisconsin) and five in the UK (Aberdeen, Bodleian, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Trinity St David), to which CLC adds Carlisle Cathedral.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCLC H981; USTC 1819058; STCN 061448036.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125331\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039911555449,"sku":"2125331","price":550.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125331.jpg?v=1784817213"},{"product_id":"morel-jean-drop-head-title-de-nuptiis-d-eustachii-de-refuge-in-supremo-senatu-consiliarii-regii-d-helenae-de-bellievre","title":"[MOREL, Jean.] [ Drop-head title: ] De Nuptiis D. Eustachii de Refuge in supremo Senatu Consiliarii Regii \u0026 D. Helenae de Bellievre.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eA Wedding for the Court Elite\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[MOREL, Jean.]\u003c\/strong\u003e [\u003ci\u003eDrop-head title:\u003ci\u003e] De Nuptiis D. Eustachii de Refuge in supremo Senatu Consiliarii Regii \u0026amp; D. Helenae de Bellievre. [\u003ci\u003eParis: Philippe Du Pré\u003c\/i\u003e. 1595.]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4to. Nineteenth-century morocco, flat spine richly gilt, board-edges and turn-ins roll-tooled in gilt; pp. 6, [2 (blank)] woodcut headpiece to p. 1 signed ‘Denis du Pre’ and with central roundel incorporating his device with the motto ‘Odiosa veritas’; a few scuffs to boards, spine and corners rubbed; uniform light toning; else very well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, seemingly institutionally unrecorded, of this neo-Latin epithalamium by Jean Morel, head of the University of Paris’s Collège de Reims, composed on the occasion of the 1595 wedding of Hélène de Bellièvre and the statesman Eustache de Refuge, author of a best-selling Machiavellian guide for courtiers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHélène de Bellièvre (b. 1572\/73) was one of nine daughters of Pomponne de Bellièvre, Chancellor of France; he had undertaken more than a dozen diplomatic missions for Henry III of France and in 1586 had been sent to London to persuade Elizabeth I not to execute Mary, Queen of Scots. She had married Claude Prévost, Master of Requests, in 1586, and remarried Eustache de Refuge, Prévost’s first cousin on his father’s side, five years after her first husband’s death in 1590.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDe Refuge (1564–1617) was ambassador to the Low Countries and the Swiss Cantons and served in the Parlement of Paris.\u003cbr\u003eHe is perhaps best known for his bestselling treatise for courtiers, \u003ci\u003eTraicté de la cour, ou instruction des courtisans\u003c\/i\u003e, first printed anonymously in 1616 and translated into Italian as \u003ci\u003eTrattato della corte\u003c\/i\u003e (1621), into English as \u003ci\u003eA Treatise of the Court or Instructions for Courtiers\u003c\/i\u003e (1622) and as \u003ci\u003eArcana Aulica: or Walsingham’s Manual\u003c\/i\u003e (1652, second part only), into Latin as \u003ci\u003eAulicus inculpatus\u003c\/i\u003e (1644), and into German as \u003ci\u003eMr. du Refuge Kluger Hofmann\u003c\/i\u003e (1654). Here, Morel (1539–1633) draws heavily on classical mythology before making reference to the prowess of the bride’s father and wishing the happy couple a quarrel-free lifetime of joy (as well as many children and grandchildren). The poet was known for his 1580 pedagogical textbook \u003ci\u003eScholae rhemensis rhetorica\u003c\/i\u003e, a foundational text for the teaching of classical oratory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorel’s epithalamium to Bellièvre and Refuge later appeared as Ode XVII in his 1608 Lyra\u003cbr\u003e(pp. 157–162), followed by another poem celebrating the 1596 wedding of Refuge’s sister Anne to Timoléon de Grangier, seigneur de Liverdis. The woodcut headpiece is signed by Denis (or Denys) du Pré, with his ‘Odiosa veritas’ device; he was successor to the printer of scientific and mathematical texts Mathieu David, and it seems that this work was printed at the very end of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo copies traced on CCfr, OCLC, KvK, or Library Hub.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCatalogus librorum doctoris D. Joach. Gómez de la Cortina, March. De Morante, qui in aedibus suis exstant: V–Z. Supplementum A–B (1859), pp. 95–96; Catalogue des livres anciens et modernes composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Ed. Sénemaud (1888) 965 (possibly this copy). See BaTyR 27368; Renouard, pp. 115–16. Not in Adams, BP16, USTC, Brunet, or Pettegree \u0026amp; Walsby.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125132\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039914897785,"sku":"2125132","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125132a.jpg?v=1784817283"},{"product_id":"galluzzi-tarquinio-carminum-libri-tres","title":"GALLUZZI, Tarquinio. Carminum libri tres.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003ePoems on Devotion and Natural Disaster\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGALLUZZI, Tarquinio.\u003c\/strong\u003e Carminum libri tres. \u003ci\u003eRome: Jacopo Mascardi\u003c\/i\u003e. 1611.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Contemporary brown morocco, spine and boards gilt with alternating hatched lozenges and small floral tools, floral cornerpieces, borders gilt \u003ci\u003eaux petits fers\u003c\/i\u003e, edges gilt; pp. [xvi], 341, [1], [2 (blank)]; title-page engraved with elaborate architectural border, woodcut initials, typographic tailpieces; corners and extremities worn, ties and endcaps perished, small wormhole to lower corner of upper board; uniform light toning, sporadic light foxing (heavier to quire D), quires G, I, and L browned, small wormhole to inner margin of quires A–P; a very good copy; early shelfmark to title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScarce first edition of the sole collection of neo-Latin verse by the Jesuit professor of rhetoric Tarquinio Galluzzi (1573–1649), a key figure in solidifying the seventeenth-century rhetorical tradition at the Collegio Romano, our copy in a handsome contemporary binding.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Montebuono near the Sabine city of Rieti, Galluzzi entered the Roman novitiate of S. Andrea at the age of seventeen and quickly became distinguished as an orator. He taught rhetoric at the Collegio Romano, established by St Ignatius of Loyola in 1551, from 1606 to 1617, and subsequently taught large classes of ethics and moral philosophy until 1620. He spent the last eighteen years of his life as rector of the Pontifical Greek College of St Athanasius and was frequently entrusted with delivering speeches during the visits of illustrious guests, or to celebrate important occasions, most famously his funeral orations for Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino (1621) and Cardinal Arnaud d’Ossat (1604). As professor of oratory at the Collegio Romano, he was tasked with reciting the \u003ci\u003eOratio Christi Domini morte\u003c\/i\u003e in the Papal chapel during the Good Friday liturgy before the Pope and the College of Cardinals, an institutional privilege of the Jesuit college first granted by Pope Gregory XIII.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present collection of verse combines devotional themes with glimpses into Galluzzi’s life in Rome: there are poems on the Nativity, the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Assumption, the severed breasts of St Agatha, and the Miracle of the Snow (the commemoration of a miraculous snowfall on the Esquiline Hill in 352 A.D. following the intervention of the Virgin Mary), for example. Many of the poems are dedicated to his students of rhetoric, amongst them panegyrics to Virgil and Horace and poems on the autumn recess, as well as an ode to the study of rhetoric itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOf particular interest are Galluzzi’s many poems providing insights into contemporary politics, relationships with the Roman Curia, as well as happenings at the Collegio Romano.\u003c\/strong\u003e He commemorates in verse the 1598 peace between France and Spain under the Peace of Vervins, ending Spanish intervention in the French Wars of Religion; Pope Clement’s 1601 approval of the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, used at the Marian shrine at the Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto; the admission of Cardinal Scipione Borghese to the Collegio Romano (thanks to the efforts of Borghese's uncle, Pope Paul V), and on a statue of Urania from the cardinal’s collection; Cardinal Cesare Baronio’s extensive restoration of the basilica of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo after having been assigned Cardinal-Priest of the church in 1599; and an elegy to the physician Marsilio Cagnati (1543–1612) on the death of his son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the most poignant of Galluzzi’s Roman poems is his harrowing firsthand recounting of the 1598 Christmas Eve flooding of the Tiber, during which the river surged some twenty metres and claimed over three thousand lives; here, he emphasises the futility of human labour in the face of nature and describes the destruction of homes, people barricaded within their houses, the numerous funerals of children, and families torn apart by devastation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGalluzzi’s poems were widely appreciated by his contemporaries, including Galileo, who owned a copy of this edition. A second, expanded edition was published in 1616. The lovely gilt morocco binding is similar to that of the 1617 Paris-printed \u003ci\u003eBreviarum romanum\u003c\/i\u003e from the collection of Michel Wittock (Christie’s, 8–9 November 2004, lot 59).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOCLC finds six copies in the US (Brown, College of the Holy Cross, Huntington, JHU, Loyola University of Chicago, Yale). Library Hub finds no copies in the UK.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSTC 4022054; Sommervogel III, col. 1142, no. 2. 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