{"title":"Sport \u0026 Leisure","description":"\u003cp\u003eSports, games, and recreational activities.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"du-fouilloux-jacques","title":"DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques","description":"\u003cp\u003eExcellent, charmingly illustrated, first and only edition of Cesare Parona s translation into Italian of Du Fouilloux s famous and seminal text on hunting, and the first and only early edition in Italian. illustrated with forty charming and vigorously drawn woodcuts that often use blocks of black to great effect. The work is translated from the Paris edition of 1606 and is dedicated to Ercole Visconti. Du Fouilloux (1521-1580) was a very keen, knowledgeable and experienced hunter and his work created a considerable stir amongst the many enthusiastic hunters of the C16; it was the earliest scientific treatment of the subject in modern times and undoubtedly one of the best. The work deals on hunting in general and particularly that of the deer, hare, wild boar and wolf. It also deals with the management of the hunt and hounds, hound welfare and ailments, training, breeding and types and the habits of all their various quarries. The last chapter deals specifically with the welfare of dogs and gives twenty seven  recipes  for curing ailments ranging from rabies to snake bite. It swiftly became a standard work and editions in various languages were still being published into the mid 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816066621775,"sku":"L1105","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_0742.jpg?v=1781795330"},{"product_id":"lopez-de-sigura-ruy","title":"LOPEZ DE SIGURA, Ruy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first Italian translation, and second edition, of this fundamental treatise on chess by the Spanish Bishop Ruy Lopez de Segura; the very rare first Spanish text was published in Alcala de Henares in 1561. It was the first major chess book since Damiano's of 1512. L√≥pez de Segura was born in Zafra near Badajoz, probably of Marrano Jewish descent, and he studied and lived in Salamanca. Considered by many to be the first world chess champion, as he won the first modern chess tournament in Madrid, he was certainly one of the leading players of his day; there are still moves named after him such as the Ruy Lopez opening. In 1559-60 he went to Rome to attend an ecclesiastical conference and whilst there he defeated all the best players, including Leonardo di Bona. In 1561 he proposed the 50-move rule to claim a draw and introduced the word gambit (specifically, the Damiano Gambit). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n It was an important time in the development of the game in Europe when Kings, Popes and gentlemen become patrons of chess players and organised matches at court. In 1574-75 King Philip II of Spain organised a tournament and invited all the top Italian players, though this time L√≥pez de Segura lost to Leonardo da Curtie and Paolo Boi, though impressing the King by playing a simultaneous blindfold tournament. Curtie who eventually won the tournament, received the princely prize of a thousand ducats. Ruy L√≥pez de Segura's book starts with a basic description of the game and then gives detailed examples of plays and tactics. It has been object of numerous studies and is considered one of the founding books of chess theory, it is also charmingly illustrated. An interesting copy of an important work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LOPEZ DE SIGURA, Ruy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816117674319,"sku":"L737","price":4850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L737-5.jpg?v=1781795303"},{"product_id":"athenaeus","title":"ATHENAEUS","description":"\u003cp\u003eProbably the only copy combining the Editio Princeps with the first Latin edition. Written in Rome in the early 2nd century, the work provides a unique insight into the moneyed classes during the Hellenistic literary world of the Roman Empire.  A vast variety of erudition has been preserved by Athenaeus of Naucratis, who lived at Rome under Commodus and his successors. His comprehensive work 'Doctors at Dinner' originally consisted of thirty books. It was abridged into fifteen, and it is this abridgement that has survived in an incomplete form in a single ms. The scene is laid at the house of the Roman pontiff Larentius, and all kinds of accomplishments - grammar, poetry, rhetoric, music, philosophy and medicine - are represented among the many interlocutors. It is an encyclopaedia under the disguise of a dialogue. Food and drink, cups and cookery, stories of famous banquets, scandalous anecdotes, specimens of ancient riddles and drinking songs and disquisitons on instruments of music are only part of the miscellaneous fare which is here provided. We are indebted to the quotations in Athenaeus for our knowledge of passages from about 700 ancient writers who would otherwise be unknown to us, and, in particular, for the preservation of the greater part of the extant remains of the Middle and the New Attic comedy.  Sandys I:337. An important source of Classical Greek recipes, including the original text of the oldest recipe by a named author, Mithaecus, in any language, it also describes in detail different kinds of wine, categorizing them by place and origin and compares their characteristics, properties and effects. Sexual mores constitute another conversational focus, with pederasty discussed without restraint, including details of boy-lovers famed for their beauty and skill. In addition come insights into music, literary gossip and philology, as well as the stories behind the creation of many artworks and amusing stories. An invaluable resource for social historians. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Originating from Naucratis in Egypt, Athenaeus was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, who flourished at the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd C. Deipnosophistae is his only extant work, though he mentions other works on the history of the Syrian kings and on fish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ATHENAEUS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816119869775,"sku":"L674","price":29500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/titlepage2.png?v=1781795298"},{"product_id":"estienne-charles","title":"ESTIENNE, Charles","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond expanded edition of a curious encyclopaedia of fruit-trees illustrating nomenclature and cultivation, first published in 1536. Second son of Henri Estienne, the famous humanist printer and founder of the Estienne family press, Charles (1504-1564) was a pioneer in French anatomy and a respected Latin scholar. He published influential anatomical treatises and Latin textbooks, though he also contributed to agronomy and descriptions of rural life. Relying on ancient as well as contemporary sources, Seminarium et planetarium is particularly valuable for its account of the different types of apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, figs, nuts, citruses, olives and other fruits. For instance, it records for the first time the Martin Sec pear as a autochthonous species of France. The second part of the book dwells on sawing, pruning, transplantation, extirpation and general maintenance of plants. One can find guidelines for olive oil extraction, occasional reference to vines and vineyard management and, most curiously, the recipe for pear wine as prepared in antiquity. The work was published by Charles s brother, Robert, who was at the time the Royal Printer for Hebrew and Latin publications, as he proudly pointed out on the colophon. When Robert fled to Geneva because of his Calvinist belief in 1551, Charles, who remained Catholic, took over the management of the Parisian Estienne workshop for a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ESTIENNE, Charles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816134680911,"sku":"L2087","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_0789-rotated.jpg?v=1781795212"},{"product_id":"corte-claudio","title":"CORTE, Claudio","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare first edition of one of the most important and influential equestrian treatises of C16th England, a partial translation of of Claudio Corte s Il Cavalerizzo. The work is of particular interest as it takes from Corte what is essential for the English rider. As the translator, Thomas Bedingfield, states in his preface    I haue heere brieflie collected the rules of horsse_manship, according to Claudio Corte in his second booke. I haue not Englished the author at large, nor medled with his manifold digressions; neither haue I spoken of all things con_teined in the said second booke: but onelie those that concerne the making of horsses for seruice. I haue also left that part vntouched, which intreateth of bitting the horsses, bicause the same hath beene long since verie substantiallie handled by Mai_ster Blundeuile.  During the 16th century, riding evolved from its martial origins into an art form practiced by noblemen and kings. Instead of the medieval jousts and melees, horsemen began to display their skills in carousels, ballets, and individual performances, and riding masters, included in their riding manuals, instructions essential to the comportment of the horse and rider, as well as an overview of the figures used in the 16th century menage.  By the time of Elizabeth I s reign, not only had the manège become an actively promoted component of a young courtiers education, but the art had entered into a veritable golden age exemplified by widespread practice and the marked increase in horsemanship manuals (including ) Thomas Bedingfields  The art of Riding by Claudio Corte   Monica Mattfeld.  Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship.   (The Earl of) Leicester, as master of the horse from 1559 to 1581, imported foreign strains to improve native horse-breeding, and brought the Italian Claudio Corte to England, to train and exercise horses  for skirmish, for battell and for combate [which] standeth him in steed for the exercise of the turnie and all other feates of arms.  Corte s  Art of riding  was published .. with John Astly s Art of Riding in 1584.  Sue Simpson.  Sir Henry Lee (1533 1611): Elizabethan Courtier. . \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  From the point of view of horse training techniques during the Renaissance, the two fundamental texts of the sixteenth century are  Gli ordini di cavalcare  (The orders of riding, 1550) by Federico Grisone, a manual for the training of the horse  to the use of war,  and Il cavallarizzo (The Horseman, 1562) by Claudio Corte, one of the most refined and innovative works among those devoted to the equestrian art in the sixteenth century. Compared to Grisone s book, the work of Claudio Corte introduces various other training exercises, the most part of which are still used today, even if with slight differences. Clearly, these were not invented by Corte, but he had the merit to explain them in his treatise, consolidating their use. According to Corte, the starting point of the training is the work on circles. Therefore, he proposed an updated scheme of Grisone s  torni , which he calls  rote  ( wheels ). The difference between the two exercises is that, after covering the straight line, the horse had to turn on three contiguous circles with a diameter of 8-12 meters(26-39 feet), then he had to come back on the same straight path, after which he had to turn on three smaller circles. Another innovative exercise is what Corte called the tight S. It was a path in the form of a figure eight, from which the rider comes up with a  repolone , stopping the horse on the straight line.Finally, the last exercise introduced by Corte was what he called  to snake , i.e. the serpentine. Corte was also the first author to mention the use of the work in-hand, with the rider on the ground who guides the horse with the reins. Over time, this way of training the horse would subsequently have a remarkable development, being used to teach the horse the different exercises of dressage without the hindrance of the weight of the rider.  Giovanni Battista Tomassini.  The Italian Tradition of Equestrian Art . \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n A very good copy of this extremely rare, important and influential work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CORTE, Claudio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816139170127,"sku":"L2517","price":17500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_5697.jpg?v=1781795189"},{"product_id":"piccino-giovanni","title":"PICCINO, Giovanni","description":"\u003cp\u003eScarce, curious manual on tobacco, probably the earliest Italian attempt at a scientific disquisition on the topic. All we know about Giovanni Piccino is what is written on the t-p: he was a doctor in the town of Orte, near Rome. Based on ancient and modern authorities,  Petopiccino  is a systematic study of the excellency and virtues of tobacco a  divine gift , a  force of nature  addressed to the wider Italian public. Due to its intensive use in Europe after its arrival in Spain from the New World, Piccino calls it the  fifth element , a quasi-Aristotelian substance necessary for  the preservation of our Platonic microcosm . After discussing its botanical features and etymology, explaining that  peto  is a name given to it in the New World, he proceeds to list its virtues if cooked, chewed, distilled, etc., and its wondrous powers including chasing away venomous animals, repressing libido, treating stomach ache and relieving the symptoms of gout. He also mentions early criticism of tobacco; for instance, when sniffed in the form of powder its most popular use it may cause excessive sneezing and even lesions to the nose. An interesting medical, botanical and ethnographic compendium on the social importance of tobacco in C17 Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PICCINO, Giovanni","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816154472783,"sku":"L2852","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_8328.jpg?v=1781794922"},{"product_id":"hall-joseph-4","title":"HALL, Joseph","description":"\u003cp\u003eThird and final edition, considerably enlarged from the previous two, of this important work of meditations, full of the the epigrammatic concision and wit that are the hallmark of Hall s work in the genre. The first edition contained 91 meditations and this is enlarged to 140. These meditations differ from his earlier works in that they focus on observations from nature and moments that occur in every day life.  The Occasional Meditations show the latest development of Hall s meditative practices. In order to gain inspiration, Hall went directly to nature. He turns from focusing on scripture or other heavenly things to mediation on nature. This is different from the Lutheran tradition because it goes against the sola scriptura tradition .the meditations can focus on any object in nature  This focusing is the starting point for leading the reader to a religious or spiritual experience.  Darrau:  The Reception of English Puritan Literature in Germany.  These meditations range from such as  Upon the hearing of the street cries in London  to  Upon the sight of a great Library .   Bishop Hall s The Art of Divine Meditation (1606, 1633) and the three editions of Occasional Meditations (1630, 1631, 1633) warrant .. recognition. Contemporaries noted their influence or praised  the divine, and eloquent Contemplations, and occasional Meditations of Doctor Hall ; and modern scholars emphasise Hall s importance in the development of Protestant meditation. .. The genre commonly associated with Hall and practised by other seventeenth century authors turns on a distinction from formal meditation. By its nature, contemporary commentary notes, the occasional meditation resists the formality of the meditative practice variously described as set, solemn, or deliberate. Bishop Hall stresses  there may be much use, no rule  for the meditative mode that depends upon  suddain invention not composed by study.  It is essentially occasional or, in the often-repeated synonyms, extemporal, sudden, quick, rapt, and ejaculatory. Hall offers the further distinction between meditation  either extemporal and occasioned by outward occurrences offered to the mind; or deliberate and wrought out of our own heart. .. Hall s fundamental distinction between the extemporal and the deliberate outward occurrences offered to the mind  as opposed to those  wrought  from the heart, refines the accepted belief that meditation in general was a  bending of the mind  upon spiritual concerns. Later commentaries on the occasional meditation note a characteristic  sudden fixing of the mind,  a  profitable minding,  or a  serious bending of the mind.  Some attempt is also made to differentiate meditation from study, which turns on the difference between the head and the heart or discovering the truth as opposed to improving the truth spiritually.  Raymond A. Anselment  Robert Boyle and the Art of Occasional Meditation .  Joseph Hall (1574-1656), Bishop of Norwich, poet, moralist, satirist, controversialist (against Milton, i.a.), devotional writer, theological commentator, autobiographer and practical essayist, was one of the leading hommes de lettres of the Jacobean age. He was at the centre of public life under James I representing that King at the Synod of Dort in 1618, assisting in his negotiations with the Scots and in Lord Doncaster s French embassy and was foremost among the defenders of the temporal and spiritual powers of the Bishops in the Puritan Parliament of 1640-41. However, it is as a writer that Hall is now remembered. Fuller called him  the English Seneca for his pure, plain, and full style . While Hall may not have been the first English satirist, as he claimed, he certainly introduced the Juvenalian satire into English.  The National Archives at Kew record the will of  Degory Polwhele, Doctor of Physic of Golden, Cornwall  dated 1673.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALL, Joseph","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816157815119,"sku":"L2222","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/20190404_143054.jpg?v=1781794902"},{"product_id":"hall-joseph-5","title":"HALL, Joseph","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of this important work of meditations full of the the epigrammatic concision and wit that are the hallmark of Hall s work in the genre; a fine copy in a charming contemporary binding. These meditations differ from his earlier works in that they focus on observations from nature and moments that occur in every day life.  The Occasional Meditations show the latest development of Hall s meditative practices. In order to gain inspiration, Hall went directly to nature. He turns from focusing on scripture or other heavenly things to mediation on nature. This is different from the Lutheran tradition because it goes against the sola scriptura tradition .the meditations can focus on any object in nature  This focusing is the starting point for leading the reader to a religious or spiritual experience.  Darrau:  The Reception of English Puritan Literature in Germany.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  Bishop Hall s The Art of Divine Meditation (1606, 1633) and the three editions of Occasional Meditations (1630, 1631, 1633) warrant .. recognition. Contemporaries noted their influence or praised  the divine, and eloquent Contemplations, and occasional Meditations of Doctor Hall ; and modern scholars emphasise Hall s importance in the development of Protestant meditation. .. The genre commonly associated with Hall and practised by other seventeenth century authors turns on a distinction from formal meditation. By its nature, contemporary commentary notes, the occasional meditation resists the formality of the meditative practice variously described as set, solemn, or deliberate. Bishop Hall stresses  there may be much use, no rule  for the meditative mode that depends upon  suddain invention not composed by study.  It is essentially occasional or, in the often-repeated synonyms, extemporal, sudden, quick, rapt, and ejaculatory. Hall offers the further distinction between meditation  either extemporal and occasioned by outward occurrences offered to the mind; or deliberate and wrought out of our own heart. .. Hall s fundamental distinction between the extemporal and the deliberate outward occurrences offered to the mind  as opposed to those  wrought  from the heart, refines the accepted belief that meditation in general was a  bending of the mind  upon spiritual concerns. Later commentaries on the occasional meditation note a characteristic  sudden fixing of the mind,  a  profitable minding,  or a  serious bending of the mind.  Some attempt is also made to differentiate meditation from study, which turns on the difference between the head and the heart or discovering the truth as opposed to improving the truth spiritually.  Raymond A. Anselment  Robert Boyle and the Art of Occasional Meditation  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Joseph Hall (1574-1656), Bishop of Norwich, poet, moralist, satirist, controversialist (against Milton, i.a.), devotional writer, theological commentator, autobiographer and practical essayist, was one of the leading hommes de lettres of the Jacobean age. He was at the centre of public life under James I representing that King at the Synod of Dort in 1618, assisting in his negotiations with the Scots and in Lord Doncaster s French embassy and was foremost among the defenders of the temporal and spiritual powers of the Bishops in the Puritan Parliament of 1640-41. However, it is as a writer that Hall is now remembered. Fuller called him  the English Seneca for his pure, plain, and full style . While Hall may not have been the first English satirist, as he claimed, he certainly introduced the Juvenalian satire into English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALL, Joseph","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816160895311,"sku":"L2221","price":3950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/20190404_143427.jpg?v=1781794896"},{"product_id":"daneau-lambert-1","title":"[DANEAU, Lambert.]","description":"Third and last edition of this important and interesting treatise on dancing by the renowned Protestant theologian Lambert Daneau, first published in Geneva in 1579, giving tremendous insight into attitudes to the the forms and nature of dancing in the C16th. The author refutes all arguments in favour of dancing which he associates with the work of Satan. It commences with three sonnets condemning dancing and a dedication to the protestant King of Navarre, later Henry IV. The work was widely read in England where its arguments were most influential particularly amongst the Puritans, for instance in Philip Stubbs  Anatomie of Abuses  which contains a lengthy chapter on dancing, which he describes as  an introduction to whoredom, a preparative to wantonnesse.  Daneau was a close follower of Calvin in his attitude to dancing.  Nor did the campaign to suppress dancing end with Calvin, for in 1579, fifteen years after his death, we find a lengthy treatise on the subject published in Geneva by Lambert Daneau. The book was offered, in the name of the Ministers of the Reformed Church to the King of Navarre. The preface describes the moral disorder which, partly as the result of the religious wars, reigns in the protestant communities of the day; amongst the evils most rampant are gambling and dancing. The latter, in particular, the author declares, has been much defended by its supporters who, instead of accepting the recommendations of their ministers, persist in putting forward all kinds of arguments in its favour. It is clearly hoped that the  Trait é des Danses  will be accepted as a final convincing refutation of these protestations, for  nous condamnons les danses, \u0026amp; desirons de les bannir entierement du milieu de nous  We are accordingly treated to a very full exposition of the Calvinist attitude towards dancing and, to a lesser extent, of the arguments traditionally advanced in its defence.   In the first place, Daneau specifies that the dances he is attacking are not the sincerely religious dances mentioned in the Bible, but the kind currently practised .. .What particularly offends and disturbs the Calvinists in contemporary dancing is the fact that it is  mixed . Such dancing, asserts Daneau, is wholely the invention of the Devil who, under the cloak of pleasurable entertainment, kindles the lecherous desires of men and women. Light and salacious conversation is pernicious enough; but when the bodies come into such close contact, it is but a small step to the final perdition of the soul. Every dance offers opportunities for caresses and increases the dancers lustfulness. The gay atmosphere helps to foster this abandonment of all restraint, and not only the dancers, but also the onlookers, are in spiritual danger. In addition, all kinds of instruments, designed for a nobler purpose, are used to present the devilish poison the more temptingly. Nor is that all; for the dances are as a rule accompanied by lewd songs.  H. P. Clive.  The Calvinists and the question of dancing in the C16th century.  A beautifully bound copy very much in the style of  dentelle bindings  done in the atelier de Luc-Antoine Boyet, though the tools used here do not exactly match the tools tools used in his atelier.\r \r From the library of the American, bibliophile, philanthropist and feminist Grace Whitney Hoff. The contemporary autograph could perhaps be that of the French printer Gabriel Buon.","brand":"[DANEAU, Lambert.]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816164663631,"sku":"L3261","price":4250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_20190718_154710.jpg?v=1781794877"},{"product_id":"markham-gervase-4","title":"MARKHAM, Gervase","description":"An excellent and rare sammelband of some of Markhams most important works with an edition of Lawson s  A new orchard and garden  reissued here with an additional general title page by John Harrison, probably to sell unsold copies. It forms an important collection of Markham s best works on husbandry in the most complete editions. Markham s Farewell to Husbandry is an important and innovative agricultural work on the preparation and improvement of soils and on arable farming generally. The work also deals with the preservation of grains and pulses, including a section on the best grain to take to sea (which he concludes is rice). It also contains two chapters at the end on the husbandry of cattle for ploughing.  In the pamphlet,  The inrichment of the weald of Kent  of 1625, the Author advocated a systematic program for improving the productivity of the  unapt  soils of the region. It was to be based on the regular spreading of Marl (which was commonly found in the Weald) to enrich the ground, and, equally important, the introduction of ley farming to the enclosed fields which have previously been used for either pasture or arable. Michael Zell  Industry in the Countryside: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century \r \r The English housewife contains a huge variety of detailed recipes and information, the majority concerning the preparation of food and drink, with smaller sections on medicine ,household remedies and weaving. Markham starts with a brief description of the ideal temperament of a housewife, before moving on to household remedies  for the curing of those ordinary sickenesses which daily perturb the health of men and Women . Apart from the usual (C16th) remedies there are many concerning childbirth, and cosmetics, with a very interesting section at the end on how to make various oils, such as oil of lavender and camomile, for such things as  to make smooth hands . The next and most substantial chapter in on cookery, starting with a description of how to maintain a garden to supply the kitchen. Many of the recipes are for classics of English cookery such as rice and bread pudding, trifle, custards,  Gammon of bacon pie , apple tart, and  marmalad  among many others. The work then moves on to distillation and the making of many  aqua-vitae  and various  waters , and concludes with a section on the making of perfumes. Then comes a short chapter on the keeping and preserving of wine, including a description of  Burdeaux  and  Renish  wines, and how to choose them and  remedy  them. A short chapter on weaving and dying of wool is followed by chapters on dairy work and the making of a whole variety of cheeses and butter, the making of Malt and bread making and finishes with how to brew beer, ales, cider and perry.\r \r The final work is the beautifully illustrated work on gardening, the only published work of William Lawson, all early editions of which are now rare.  A man of some learning, he evidently read widely on agriculture and gardening, and his two works are also scattered with references to the classics. When he died he willed  all my latine books \u0026amp; mie English books of contraversie  to his son William, which suggests that he may well have owned a relatively substantial library of books for the period.  Julie Gardham   Glasgow University Library Special collections. Within a small compass he provides sound instruction for  planting, grafting as to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard  particularly in the north. The section entitled  the County Houswife s Garden  is valuable for its attention to the essential role of women in the rural household, as cooks, nurturers of fine flowers and keepers of the herbal medicine cupboard. Also appended, is Simon Harwood s short treatise on the art of propagating plants and another, which may be by Lawson or Harwood, on how to increase the yield from a wide selection of fruits. A simple practical work written with much charm by an obvious enthusiast and still eminently readable\r \r  Many books on agriculture and gardening were published during the century, but from the historical point of view the most important are those of Markham, because they appeared at an early stage in the new development, were widely read, and full of useful information and sound advice.   His most important work was  Markhams farewell to husbandry.  It dealt fully and expertly not only with ploughing, sowing and harvesting, but with methods such as sanding, lining, marling and manuring, by which fertility of land could be increased.  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After the prince s death in 1612 Dallington reworked his Aphorismes for publication, published here with a new dedication to Prince Charles.  Improbably the ruse worked a second time, and Dallington became one of the few members of Prince Henry s household to be retained by the new heir. It has even been suggested that Charles may have derived his unfortunate persuasion that duplicity was a princely virtue from reading Dallington s Guicciardini.  (see ODNB). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  In 1613 Robert Dallington dedicates his Aphorismes Civill and Militarie to Prince Charles. The overt purpose of his work is to offer this future ruler lessons in political prudence. Dallington condenses educational episodes from the first five books of Guicciardini s Storia d Italia, introducing each with a moral of his own and sententiae from various sources. On the surface, the Aphorismes is a typical approach to methodising the art of prudence. Dallington is only one of many early modern authors to compile a collection of political wisdom based on the works of the famously prudent Guicciardini, but the Aphorismes stands out from similar works because of how the author approaches the challenge of cultivating the reader s prudence. Like other collectors, Dallington does methodize, order, and condense. However, Dallington s method does not simply arrange static precepts for easy consumption. Rather, Dallington employs a method of prudent indirection to immerse precepts in dynamic and complicating contexts that enable readers to develop skills of discretion and flexibility. Dallington not only adopts an essentially Ramist method to Baconian and Guicciardinian ideals of induction, but he also takes an Odyssean route to prudence, incorporating romance conventions of voyage and digression that transform his manual of prudence into something more adventurous and more effective than the typical aphorism collection.  Patricia Davis Patrick  Judgement in Early Modern England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DALLINGTON, Sir Robert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820342616399,"sku":"L3381\/2","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_7219-scaled.jpg?v=1781794837"},{"product_id":"turberville-george-with-gascoigne-george","title":"TURBERVILLE, George [with] GASCOIGNE, George","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond editions, of these contemporary classics on the most favoured pastime of Tudor and Stuart England, two of the most attractively illustrated works of the period. They were first printed in 1575; in this edn. the figure of James has been substituted for Elizabeth's in the full-page hunting scenes. The two ll. of music, 'The Measures for Blowing the Horn', were intended to be taken out and used in the field, and are often missing. The works constitute an encyclopaedia of practical information on the care of, and hunting with, hounds and birds, and ideally, though they by no means always are, should be found together. Both the text and the woodcuts of the 2nd work are adapted from Du Fouilloux's 'La Venerie' (1560). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  In Shakespeare s day, falconry and hawking were elite, expensive sports pursued by the upper classes. This beautifully illustrated manual, aimed at  Noblemen and Gentlemen , offers advice on how to train hawks and conduct oneself in exclusive hunting circles. Turberville makes fascinating use of strongly gendered language to describe the process of training birds, especially female hawks or  haggards . In his instructions on how to  make a Falcon  fly (pp. 79 80) and how to  make flight for a Haggard  (pp. 151 52), the relationship between man and hawk seems based on subordination, but also the need for  care  and  cherishing  to make her do his will (p. 152). The (male) human tames the wild (female) hawk by  hooding  her and controlling her food. But he should  use hir gently  to ensure she is  better manned  (pp. 79, 128)   a term which makes taming seem masculine. However, Turberville also warns of the haggard s rebellious power. Without careful treatment  she will not long be at your commaundement, but make you follow hir  (p. 152). In Shakespeare s play, The Taming of the Shew, Petruchio employs the elite language of falconry to describe his taming methods, suggesting his dominant status, both in terms of social class and gender. He says he will  man  his  haggard  (4.1.193) by restricting Kate s food and sleep, but insists  all this is reverend care of her . George Turberville (1543? c. 1597) was part of an established family with a long history in Dorset   they appear in Thomas Hardy s famous novel, Tess of the D'Urbervilles. But because George was the fifth son, he didn t inherit the family fortune and had to support himself financially. The Booke of Faulconrie or Hauking was perhaps compiled with the hope of securing noble patronage to fund Turberville s other work as a poet and translator. The Booke of Faulconrie is usually bound with The Noble Arte of Venerie or Hunting (1575), which was previously thought to be by Turberville, but is actually by George Gascoigne.  BL. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The autograph on the e. p. is that of the mother of William Sacheverell (1638-91), a leading statesman of Charles II's reign (though virtually always in opposition) and one of the greatest of the early parliamentary orators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TURBERVILLE, George [with] GASCOIGNE, George","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820345139535,"sku":"L3484","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/1_e9dd7d4c-6501-46fb-966b-8b8a090be6eb.jpg?v=1781794820"},{"product_id":"wine","title":"[WINE].","description":"\u003cp\u003eRemarkably well-preserved, ephemeral deed granting the use of a vineyard in Morales, near Zamora. This area, with the province of Salamanca, in north-western Spain, was part of the Tierra del Vino later a controlled designation of origin. The document includes a  carta de troque, cambio y permutaci‚àö‚â•n  (for exchange and permutation) and a  carta de juramento  (oath), both in the name of Bachiller Alvar Rodrigues of Sant Ysidro, son of Dr Juan Rodrigues of Sant Ysidro, resident in Zamora a member of the Council of King Ferdinand and magistrate at the Real Chanciller‚àö‚â†a in Valladolid (Dominguez,  Nobleza , 485). A  carta de troque  stated the reciprocal transfer of items of the same kind between two parties here between Rodrigues, and Alfonso Estevan and his wife Cathalina Fernandes of nearby Morales in this case, also a  permutaci‚àö‚â•n , without the need for money exchange ( Discursos juridicos , 45-8). Rodrigues gave a vineyard he owned within the boundaries of Morales and Almantaya, between the vineyards of Juan de Morales and Juan Estevan, in exchange for two, the borders of which were the vineyards of the Bachiller himself, that formerly of Diego de Zamora, and another. The rest explains, for both sides, the conditions of the exchange, including specified fines for non-compliance equalling the value of the vineyards, the degree of ownership and their responsibility concerning the management of the vineyard, e.g., tax payment to the king, prince and lords. The  carta de juramento  reinforced the first document with an official oath.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[WINE].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820348088655,"sku":"L3507","price":8750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_9416.jpg?v=1781794805"},{"product_id":"academie-des-sciences","title":"[ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES].","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn excellent ms., on thick high-quality paper, of this fascinating work a meteorological perpetual calendar from 1521 to the end of the world, and an agricultural almanac, with numerous observations on wine. It was prepared in 1680 by the Acad émie des Sciences for François-Michel Le Tellier (1641-91), Marquis de Louvois, Secretary of War under Louis XIV. In the preliminaries, the work is attributed to the mysterious Neapolitan philosopher Joseph le Juste, frequently listed, in C18 French prophetic collections, alongside Pythagoras and Nostradamus.  The figure of Joseph Le Juste was already present in prophetic literature and almanacs.   the biblical Joseph, who interpreted dreams, who had received a revelation from an angel concerning the prediction of good and bad days  (Halbron,  Vaticinations , 2014). The Acad émie had allegedly collected the prophecies which had passed their tests, hence were deemed  infallible and truthful  a witty fiction ( Journal de Paris , 1807, 445). After a brief introduction on seasonal time, the work provides a meteorological perpetual calendar, in 28-year cycles, suggesting best practices in agriculture, fishing and cloth manufacture in relation to the weather. Great attention is paid to wine-making, with St Jean, Rochelle, Soitou, Auxerre and Champagne being the most profitable, resistant and tasty wines, and to the wine trade, with observations on the fluctuations of prices according to the quality of the harvest, the supply of specific wines and the effect of the surrounding economic situation on good or bad harvests. Fodder, rye, grain, cattle and wool are also discussed, with suggestions on how to avoid losing money by foreseeing demand and supply thanks to the almanac. Louvois himself owned numerous estates, with complex gardens and water pipes. \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n  A contemporary reviewer of the 1807 printed edition doubted whether the Acad émie ever offered the ms. to Louvois. In fact, the only recorded institutional copy in the US may even be the presentation copy, with Louvois s illuminated coat of arms on the t-p, now at UC Davis. The few others recorded (e.g., Cochran,  Catalogue , 1837, n.237; Uni Strasbourg, Ms.0.556) were copied from this, probably upon request of members of the Acad émie. The watermark of this copy dates it probably to the early C18 (Churchill,  Watermarks , n.130), like the Strasbourg copy. A ms. note suggests that it was sold from the inventory of M. De la Jonch√®re, arguably M. Lescuyer de la Jonch√®re, academician, topographer and hydrographer in the 1710s ( Le journal des sçavans , 192;  Histoire De L Academie , 555). It was later in the library of Jean-Baptiste Huzard (1755-1838), a French veterinary doctor, himself a member of the Acad émie and later the Institut. His large library comprised over 40,000 volumes, many on natural science; the present was lot 5507 in the catalogue  Biblioth√®que Huzard  (Part I) (1843).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820348940623,"sku":"L3523","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Screenshot-2021-06-03-at-17.49.01-e1622739125449.png?v=1781794803"},{"product_id":"modena","title":"[MODENA].","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exceptionally well-preserved (and probably the only surviving) copy of the first edition of this  grida  concerning taxes imposed on meat, fish, oil and their export. The  gride  were ordnances or edicts issued by the authorities, which were then  gridate  (declaimed loudly) by criers in squares to inform citizens. The present was issued to provide partial relief to the ducal coffers after difficult years including the plague of 1630-1, which killed over 40% of Modena s inhabitants, and the Thirty Years  War. By September 1636, when the  grida  was issued, Modena had first been prey to winter raids of grain and fodder by the French troops lodged in Parma, and had then participated in the invasion of Parma alongside the Spanish troops. The  grida  sought  extraordinary help  due to the  excessive expense caused by the ongoing wars . It forbad, within the walls of Modena, the killing of  oxen, cows, beeves, calves, goats, kids, lambs, sheep, pigs and gelding  anywhere but in public slaughterhouses, at the price of 4 quattrini a pound to be paid to the taxman. Fines for transgressors included the seizing of the animals, and a payment of 50 or 25 scudi, according to the size of the animal; the  snitch , if there was one, retained anonymity. Exempt was the killing for family use of pigs, kids or lambs, which had not been bought or acquired by exchange, or their killing (by anyone, except butchers) at Easter, from Good Friday to the Resurrection. Any sale or transport of oil as well as live or dead, salted or unsalted fish was subject to 6 quattrini a pound. For everyone the export, from the Duchy to or through foreign states, of the abovementioned animals plus poultry, and derived products, including  dead meat  like salame or sausages, was also banned. Exemption existed for shepherds, though they had to request a license. The  grida  included a list of fines, in Bolognini, for the export of poultry i.e., peacocks, geese, capons and pigeons. It was printed by the  stampatore ducale  Giuliano Cassiani. An esteemed printer of literary and legal works, as  stampatore ducale  he  monopolised the printing of all government acts, including grida and bandi ; he also printed the first Modenese newspaper,  Avvisi , first published in 1648 (Pugno,  Trattato , 90).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[MODENA].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820349235535,"sku":"L3515","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Untitled-23-2.jpg?v=1781794800"},{"product_id":"giegher-mattia","title":"GIEGHER, Mattia","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond edition of this very rare and beautifully illustrated collection of three culinary treatises on table service and food carving by Giegher, including the very first work on the art of folding table linen. Complete copies, remarkably including Giegher s portrait (often missing) are extremely rare.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Li tre trattati  was a popular book: this second (posthumous) edition contains a new letter to the reader by the printer Frambotto, warning of a plagiarised version. Giegher s plates have been reproduced and copied in many later cookbooks. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The Bavarian Mattia Giegher (born Mathias J‚àö¬ßger, c. 1589-1632) was a native of Moosburg who moved to Padua at the age of 22. Here, he worked as a  trinciante  (meat carver) and  scalco  (banquet manager), organising banquets and waiting tables for the prestigious German community of jurists at the University of Padua. At the time, aristocratic banquets were of enormous cultural importance, organised by courts and as a way of displaying wealth and power, consolidating friendships and forming political alliances.  Li tre trattati , first published in 1629, is a fascinating manual by Giegher containing all the information required for preparing and serving food to high-class clients. It comprises the expanded versions of two earlier treatises    Lo scalco  (1623) and  Il trinciante  (1621)   with the addition of a new and innovative work on napkin folding (never printed separately). At the time, fine dining was becoming more formal and elaborate in presentation: this work is an extraordinary witness of the unusual and extravagant dining practices of the rich and famous. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n In his  Trattato delle piegature  (Treatise on folding), Gieger for the first time describes in detail the art of napkin folding, using images for teaching and creative purposes. In addition to explaining how to fold napkins for wiping hands and mouth, he shows how to create complex artistic sculptures, called folded centrepieces. Renaissance table linens were expected to surprise and entertain: the plates in this treatise depict centrepieces shaped as birds, lions, fish, a crab, a tortoise, a dog, heraldic and mythological creatures, even a ship with four sails. These sculptures were not merely decorative, but objects with a symbolic meaning to be discussed by the participants. Interestingly, rather than providing models of certain shapes to be reproduced, Giegher teaches how to master the basic folding techniques (fan, curved and herringbone) so that the aspirant folder could invent his own designs. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\nThe second treatise is dedicated to the profession of the  scalco , sometimes translated as  head steward  or  banquet manager . The scalco was responsible for the organisation of every aspect of the banquet and for its success, from hiring the chefs and selecting what dishes to serve, to setting the tables. In this treatise, Giegher summarises the knowledge and skills that a scalco needs to possess: the first part explores the seasonality of foods indicating the best months of the year for eating certain meats, vegetables, fruits and mushrooms. Then, the author proposes long menus for meals that are perfect for different seasons or occasions: for example, the menu of a  breakfast of different fruits for noblewomen , interestingly including a  pizza , in this case being a particular type of cake. At the end, five plates show the proper placement of dishes on a table, and which foods they should contain. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\nFinally,  Il trinciante  (The meat carver) is a treatise on food carving and on the profession of the carver,  whose office is most honoured . After listing the moral qualities of the perfect trinciante, Giegher delineates the correct posture and movements for carving (in order to avoid making mistakes and being laughed at), and then describes all sorts of poultry, fish, red meats, as well as fruit, cakes and pies   showing in numerous plates where and how to cut them: for example, carving a turkey requires 21 separate steps. Two charming plates illustrate decorative fruit peeling. 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A magnificent full page engraved portrait of Pluvinel s student, Louis XIII, follows the double page frontispiece, showing the king surrounded by a dynamic scene of allegorical figures and medallion portraits. Following this are three portraits and 58 exquisite plates demonstrating various equine training methods and accomplishments signed by the famed Dutch engraver Crispijn de Passe the Elder (1564-1637). An excellent copy of this important influence on modern dressage... .\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eAntoine de Pluvinel worked as premier ecuyer to the Duc d Anjou, later Henri III, and was later appointed as tutor to the young Louis XIII, forming a close relationship with the future King. In 1594 Pluvinel founded the Academie d Equitation, where generations of French nobility were trained in horsemanship, as well as dancing, etiquette, and fashionable dress. The work was published posthumously by Crispijn de Passe and was edited by Menou de Charnizay. It was an instant success and was reprinted several times and translated into a number of languages. .\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eThe contents combine extensive textual description with richly illustrative engravings. It is written in the form of a dialogue between the king and the author. Pluvinel was known for his humane training methods, using positive reinforcement rather than punishment to make horses obedient and to encourage mutual trust, predicating modern training practices. He popularised the rise of single and double pillars in training of collection and levade, always insisting that the horse should be taking pleasure in the work; the secret is in  making the horse enjoy whatever it is doing till it does it of its own free will.  Thanks to Pluvinel s work, the harsh Italian training methods of Giovanni Pignatelli became obsolete, and the life span and well-being of his horses increased dramatically. .\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eSauf ces l ég√®res differences, c'est la meme  édon. Dans certains exemplaires, le titre grav é porte 1629 (Mennessier de la Lance).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DE PLUVINEL, ANTOINE.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868671222095,"sku":"L3729","price":9750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3729-2.jpg?v=1781793664"},{"product_id":"maineri-maino-de","title":"MAINERI, MAINO de.","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn attractive copy of this most important, popular work on health and nutrition. Maino de Maineri (or Magninus Mediolanensis, 1295-1368) was professor at Paris, physician to the Visconti in Milan as well as, for a short time, to Robert I, King of Scots. Written in Paris in 1331, the ‘Regimen’ was first printed in 1482, after a century of intense ms circulation; after 1504, it was regularly attributed to Arnaldus of Villanova. It is, like all of Maino’s works, devoted to the preservation of health, rather than pathology or diagnosis. Two sections were especially popular, and even circulated separately: on gynaecology and on culinary sauces. ‘For Maino, the process of writing was a combination of inherited learning and individual inspiration. […] one of the principal motivations for his composition […] was to make the wisdom of the authorities more accessible’, especially, as he stated in the preface, to the ‘poor unskilled, who have no access to even a fraction of the books, but who nonetheless would like to study this science’ (Proctor, p.40). His authorities included Galen, Rhazes, Avicenna, Isaac Israeli, Haly Abbas, Maimonides and Grosseteste. Part I introduces the nature of a ‘regimen’ and of health. Part II provides recommendations according to the patient’s complexion, sex, age (with a section on adolescents), habits and body, with specific advice for women. Part III discusses how exercise, baths, intercourse, sleep, and all kinds of food (and cooking methods) and drink, as well as clothes, can benefit one’s health. Part IV includes chapters on ways to remain healthy and avoid the plague and poisons (with a discussion of their flavours, and of poisonous mushrooms and truffles), while Part V is devoted to bloodletting methods, ‘pessaria’ and ‘cauteria’. This copy belonged to Johann Palmacher of Bamberg, who notes that, in 1505, he was consecrated a friar of the Augustinian Hermits by Johannes van Staupitz, Vicar of the Order, who would go on to meet and confess Martin Luther in 1506. Later, the copy was in the rich library of the Augustinian monastery of St Zeno, in Bad Reichenhall, Germany. Two early C16 annotators – probably the friars’ physicians – noted down recipes for improving digestion, as well as Latin rhyming verse beginning ‘Martini blasii philippi bartholomei \/ Hiis festis minuas \u0026amp; longo tempore vivas’ – a way to memorize the days and ways of bloodletting, examples of which are found in the margins of numerous C14 and C15 mss preserved in German libraries. A most interesting copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MAINERI, MAINO de.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868683149647,"sku":"L4357","price":7850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_8895.jpg?v=1781793473"},{"product_id":"savonarola-giovanni-michele","title":"SAVONAROLA, Giovanni Michele.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.A good copy of this important work on well-being and the preservation of health. Giovanni Michele Savonarola (1385-c.1461) was a physician in Ferrara, professor at Padua, and the author of popular medical books on pathology and obstetrics. First published in 1508, this is a little vernacular manual on the healthiest types and best methods of preparation and administration of food and drink. It is addressed to Savonarola s patron, Borso, Duke of Modena, and seeks to provide guidance on what should be served, and how, during his meals and banquets. It is thus a detailed snapshot of Italian diet, and eating and cooking habits, c.1400. For each food or drink Savonarola provides general information on recipes (e.g., asparagus with oil, vinegar and cinnamon) and therapeutic virtues (based on Avicenna and Galen), as well as the downsides (e.g., just the smell of garlic may make some people feel immediately sick). The treatise begins with maize, with observations on how it was ground to make flour, proceeding to bread (of which Savonarola lists three kinds, according to the amount of bran in it), barley, spelt, rice and other cereals. It continues with herbs, vegetables and fruit - e.g., mint (used boiled in water by women to treat breast inflammation), radicchio, asparagus (diuretic), figs (if eaten excessively, they could cause death), oranges, apples, pistachios and truffle (especially liked by Savonarola s patron). Meat, including fowls and quadrupeds, and fish are treated together, followed by eggs and dairy. After a section on wine and water, the penultimate part is devoted to dressings and spices, e.g., honey (from bees or sugar cane), sugar (also the fine white type called  taberzet ), black pepper ( expensive ), cinnamon, saffron (which makes people laugh without a reason, if served with wine), and salt (which makes all foods more pleasant). 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To him is attributed the invention of the hatching system of tinctures, as well as the rediscovery and adaptation of the image of chivalry, which would greatly influence C19 medievalism. ‘Vray theatre’ sought to make French aristocrats ‘familiar with the virtues of their ancestors’, and to show them, ‘as if on a mirror’, how chivalric tournaments can teach ‘the art of living well’, by banning laxity and laziness and encouraging the imitation of the illustrious deeds of the past. The 6 double-page engravings, cut by François Chauveau, illustrate lavish medieval and Renaissance festivals, including a tremendous folding scene, with a bird’s-eye view of Place Royale, a tournament organized for Louis XIII in Paris in 1612, and a man fighting a dog, cheered by the crowd, in Montargis under Charles V. Part I embraces chivalry from its classical origins to Renaissance France. The sections on antiquity and the early middle ages describe triumphal processions (with sundry types of crowns), chivalric orders and rituals, the meaning of shields and their code of honour, the history of tournaments and jousts, their structure and rules, and the accounts of a variety of famous festivals and events (e.g., ‘emprise de la guele du dragon’), with the names of the participants. A long section is devoted to Knights Errant and the Round Table, their names and heraldry, and several major tournaments held at the Arthurian court. Several accounts of recent historical festivals are also present, with a detailed chronicle of each day and even some lines (in French or Italian) recited by allegorical characters on pageants, e.g., one for Louis XII held in Milan in 1507, one for his wife in Paris in 1514, and one for Henry II in Paris in 1549. Vulson even includes proforma documents, e.g., a letter to be sent by knights or shield-bearers who cannot be present at the assembly of their order. Part II begins with a long section on tournaments ‘to the death’ (‘à outrance’), with accounts on their structure and rituals, and observations on their value and use ‘for justice and reason’. The remainder is devoted to ‘curious’ or memorable tournaments, for the strength of the participants or the winner’s virtue, from the late middle ages to the C17. A fine copy of this ground-breaking, sumptuous work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VULSON, Marc de.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868698091855,"sku":"L4079","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L4079-8.jpg?v=1781793450"},{"product_id":"estienne-charles-with-baif-lazare-de-and-teslio-antonio","title":"ESTIENNE, Charles. [with] BAIF, Lazare de. 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De re hortensi , on herbs for vegetable gardens, is concerned with the enclosure of suitable land, the types of herbs which grow spontaneously or need cultivating, ornamental ones used to embellish arbours, and the various garden areas subdivided by kinds of plants (e.g.,  coronalis ,  odorata  or  olitoria ). It concludes with a Latin-French vocabulary. The second and third were written by the humanist Lazare de Ba‚àö√òf (1496-1547).  De re vestiaria  is an entertaining work on countless types of clothing (both civil and military), head- and footwear, each with their Latin and French names and a brief historical context. For instance,  crepida , slippers or sandals, are highlighted for the noise of the heels, like clogs, and are said to be called  pianelle  by Venetian nobles. The subject of  De vasculis  is unusual the meaning and function of vases. It covers their history, materials (e.g., gilt, brass or glass like  the excellent, much celebrated from the city of Murano near Venice ) and functions (for drinking, keeping wine or cooking). The last work, on colours, was written by Antonio Telesio (1482-1534), first published in 1528.  The most extensive lexicon of colour terms of its time, taken from Latin and Greek sources spanning some 1,100 years  (Osborne). It describes 12 basic colours, and for each the work provides a historical account and several related names, which were not always only used for colours (e.g.,  flammeus  was used to describe the sun). \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n.Claude le Roy was probably a young student, as he glossed several Greek words across the four works. Another early annotator, interested in alchemy, wrote a page of text on the scents of the planets, connected to their alchemical symbols (e.g., Venus has a  rosy  scent). The C17 physician Joannes Guenebaldus was the author of  Le R éveil de Chyndonax  (1621), describing a stone he found on his Dijon estate, which he thought of Druidic origin. He also probably wrote the verse  Les Roys, Enfants du Ciel , probably from Jean de la Taille s (d.1607) s  Histoire des singeries de la Ligue .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ESTIENNE, Charles. [with] BAIF, Lazare de. [and] TESLIO, Antonio.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868707463503,"sku":"L4526","price":8500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/20250212_171902-copy.jpg?v=1781793427"},{"product_id":"damiano-da-odemira","title":"DAMIANO DA ODEMIRA.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.Extremely rare, beautifully illustrated early chess book in Spanish and Italian    the first chess book published in Italy  (Hooper, p.85). This is one of the earliest editions and the first to include depictions of the individual chess pieces in the initial list (cf. Van der Linde). In particular,  the modern form of the Rook as tower  first appears in this ed. (Murray, p.772). . \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..Pedro Damiano da Odemira was a Portuguese apothecary and chess player, of whom little is known. He first published his chess book in 1512. It is renowned for maxims such as  If you have a good move, check if there is a better one , and an early mention that each player should have a light square on the right-hand side. Damiano s is only the third early chess book   following Vicent s and Lucerna s - written after the change of rules in 1475, when the Queen and Bishop appeared instead of the Fers and Aufin. This also led to the study of openings, and generally  most of the endgame knowledge garnered in the preceding 800 or 900 years [had become] obsolete  (Hooper, p.145). .. . \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..The 10 chapters discuss the names of chess pieces and universal regulations; the following   all illustrated, and bilingual - deal with playing techniques, focusing on the pawn and the knight, the last is devoted to playing blind-fold, with techniques to remember the location of each piece on the board.  Damiano declares there are only two ways of commencing the game  . Under the first method he includes variations of the Petroff, the gambit now called after him, and the Giuoco Piano. The second method is The Queen s Gambit accepted.   His reputation during the 300 years following his death rested not on his analysis but upon his collection of problems  (Murray, p.788). Albeit known as  Damiano Defence , this move was actually criticised by Damiano as weak. A most interesting work in a wonderful copy.. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..The library of English chess player J.W. Rimington Wilson (1822-77), rich with rarities, was sold after his death. Rev. George Innes was head of Warwick School from 1792, for 50 years.. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..The bibliographical history is complicated. It was first published in 1512 (cf. Van der Linde), an ed. absent in USTC, which features instead one from 1518. It was republished a few times in 1520-40, mostly in 8vo, undated and without imprint. No prority has been established. All these early eds survive in 1-2 copies only. Palau lists this as the third; Sander calls this the fifth ed. and dates it after 1524, after Van der Linde, based on wear to the woodcuts..\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DAMIANO DA ODEMIRA.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868708217167,"sku":"L4440","price":27500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/20250123_122510-copy.jpg?v=1781793425"},{"product_id":"azzi-tommaso","title":"AZZI, Tommaso.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first edition of this uncommon work which passes off as a treatise on the game of chess, but actually tackles broader juridical questions. Tommaso Azzi was a jurist from Fossombrone, of whom very little is known.  De ludo   is not properly a treatise on chess, but a collection of arguments concerning more or less controversial juridical questions, of various kinds, using as a starting point observations connected with the game of chess. Only some parts are connected to the game, its appropriateness, nature, and rules  (Marchetto, p.284). Each of the 12 sections is based on a unifying chess theme, such as the nature of the game, its definition and similarities with 'a just war , with two armies facing each other, the origins of the game and why it was introduced, the characteristics of each pawn (with a symbolic interpretation), its appropriateness for clerics, its rules, and the appropriate behaviour of those watching a chess game. Connections with war are highlighted in its origins, for instance, it was probably invented to keep soldiers busy during interruptions in war, as well as in the game itself, and considered good exercise and practice to hone the strategic skills of army commanders, for instance disengaging and retreating from a lost battle. The 5th section includes a discussion on the Queen and on whether women should take part in wars at all, with Actius supporting this idea for the better defence of cities, whilst providing numerous references to canonical and popular sources in Latin and Italian concerning the social status of young women, widows, etc. Among the interesting information on chess and its rules found in  De ludo  is the  rule of courtesy  that  a player should warn his opponent of the fact whenever he attacked his Queen with a piece other than the Queen  (Murray, p.389). An interesting, uncommon work..\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AZZI, Tommaso.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868712575311,"sku":"L4397","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Azzi-L4397-3.jpg?v=1781793393"},{"product_id":"musculus-andreas","title":"MUSCULUS, Andreas.","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond edition, and the earliest obtainable, of this curious and scarce work entitled  The Trouser Devil , against the recent fashion of baggy trousers, beautifully depicted in the exquisite title woodcut. Andreas Musculus (1514-81) was a Lutheran theologian and reformer, trained at Leipzig and Wittenberg, and later professor at Frankfurt. First published in 1555 (an ed. marked as lost in USTC),  Vom Hosen Teuffel  was his first work. It emerged from a contemporary debate, centred around Wittenberg, concerning the attire customarily worn by university students, with strict regulations, passed in 1546, forbidding shorter gowns and luxury more generally. Most students, at Wittenberg and quickly elsewhere, wore  large, perforated hats and wide-cut trousers  inspired by the medieval fashion; considered  harmful  by the university authorities, baggy trousers were the subject of fines, aimed both at the tailors who made them and the student who wore them (Sixt, pp.54-5). Musculus  work was a sharp criticism of this fashion, with harsh statements such as:  God will strike us with Doomsday, because of this horrible, inhuman, and devilish clothing, which turns young people into monsters and looks so horrible that not only God, the angels, and all pious, honourable people, but also the devils themselves feel disgust by it and abhor it.  He later invokes the assistance of the civic and university authorities to put an end to this phenomenon in front of which, he says, preachers and clerics are powerless. Indeed, he tells that, after a priest had preached harshly against these baggy trousers,  the trouser devils hung such ragged trousers over his pulpit the next Sunday to mock him'. University life in Germany brought about additional issues, including excessive drinking and the carrying of weapons; yet, clothing was also considered something to be controlled, as a visual manifestation of morals. 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Editions with Long s translations appeared in 1633 and 1643, both printed in Paris..\r..Ostensibly a poem about medical ailments and their cures, the vast majority of the  regimen  concerns nutrition and diet, the commentary chiefly referring to advice from Galen, Hippocrates, and the medieval Arabic tradition, Avicenna, Rhazes and Averroes. This becomes an entirely gastronomical book, though herbal cures are also described. At the end the humours and their imbalances are discussed. This edition usefully breaks up the text to clearly denote which foodstuff is being dealt with: fish, meat, dairy, fruits, herbs, spices, and beer and wine. There are numerous sections on wine: on how  young  wines can be harmful; on the different effects of drinking  claret  (red) and sweet white wines; how to tell good wine; and a remedy for those who have drunk too much. .\r..The Regimen  was committed to memory by thousands of physicians and, after the invention of printing, was published in nearly three hundred editions, in Latin as well as in several vernacular languages   this collective effort remains one of the most revealing medical works of the Middle Ages  (Heirs of Hippocrates, p. 20). Diocles  ten Letters, dedicated with a preface to  King Antigone,  discuss several body parts (head, thorax, belly and bladder) as well as various astrological equinoxes. .   \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"[MEDIOLANO, Joannes de.]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868713886031,"sku":"L4780","price":1350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L4780-Mediolano-2.jpg?v=1781793381"},{"product_id":"savonarola-giovanni-michele-1","title":"SAVONAROLA, Giovanni Michele.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.Fourth edition, second issue, newly edited and enlarged by Bartolomeo Boldo, of this popular gastronomical work and manual of good digestive health, first published 1508. The guide considers both natural and  unnatural  aids to health, the latter referring to lifestyle choices rather than food or drink. The work is clearly divided into sections: grains, herbs, roots, citrus and other fruits, animals (meat), fish, eggs, milk, wine, oil, salt, spices and odorous flowers. The items in each section are then treated individually, usually with advice on taste, humoral effects and remedial qualities. Savonarola s treatise is sometimes noted for his advice on consuming artichokes as aphrodisiacs, equally useful for both men and women (p. 66). There are then sections on good air, exercise, maintaining  quiet,  good sleep, purgation and evacuation, the effects of the  animal passions  and  perturbation,  and, finally, eighteen observations for conserving health (all of which are linked to diet or digestion) along with nine doubtful (dubio) questions concerning habits for prolonging one s life. These include how many times you should eat per day, whether you should drink wine before you eat (and whether you should drink wine after eating fruit), and whether it is better to eat a good lunch or a good dinner; the answer is a good lunch. Savonarola was physician to the Estense court of Ferrara in the fifteenth century. .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAVONAROLA, Giovanni Michele.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868716245327,"sku":"L4833","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L4833-Savonarola-1.jpg?v=1781793377"},{"product_id":"greco-gioachino","title":"GRECO, Gioachino.","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of this collection of this treatise on chess by the Italian master Gioachino Greco (d. c. 1634), also called Il Calabrese, translated from his Italian manuscript by Francis Beale. Greco was probably the greatest player of his day and is sometimes considered to be the first professional player. He is also notable for being one of the first to record chess games in their entirety, though they may have been entirely constructed by him rather than being based on real play. His gambits are marked by their aggressive openings and sacrifice of pieces during attacking play, so as to control the centre or prevent the opponent s king from castling. \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nThe work begins with three poems on chess, one running for several pages, a history of the game, descriptions of the pieces, board and rules, and some  general observations  or advice on tactics. The value of this work lies in the collection of 94 gambits, which are defined as sequences of moves to be carried to the conclusion, in which all of the loser s moves will have been forced by the winner, while the winner s moves will be very difficult for the loser to predict. Some are variations of preceding gambits, Greco indicating at which point to begin the variation. Also included are two very quick checkmates, the Fool s Mate (two moves) and the Scholar s Mate (four moves).\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nThis was a royalist production, containing the portrait of Charles I and dedicated to Montagu Bertie, 2.nd. Earl of Lindsey (1608-66), who was in retirement after his exploits on the royalist side during the Civil War, and presumably much devoted to chess.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GRECO, Gioachino.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868721684815,"sku":"L4560","price":12500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"la-barthe-abbe-de","title":"[LA BARTHE, Abb é de].","description":"\u003cp\u003e.A rich and fascinating late eighteenth-century French manuscript containing lectures on physics delivered in 1762 at the Academy of Sciences in Paris by Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700-1770), apparently belonging to a characterful French Enlightenment intellectual, with further extensive notes on physics, including diagrams and tables, as well as medicinal receipts and accounts. Part of the manuscript refers to the management of the Ferme de Monziols or Marvejols in Loz√®re, southern France, owned by the la Barthe family (the name appears on p. 200 in this manuscript as the name given to some land undergoing  ameliorations ); construction of the property was begun in 1702 and completed in 1725. The Abb é la Barthe (1721-1801), who inherited in 1759, studied in Auvergne and Paris   presumably mathematics and physics   before serving as an artillery officer in the War of the Austrian Succession; on the pastedown he records buying a book in 1767  chez Jombert libraire , i.e. the Parisian bookseller Charles-Antoine Jombert (1712-84), who specialised in books on military science and artillery. In Paris, La Barthe associated with intellectuals including Charles Marie de la Condamine (1701-74), French explorer, mathematician and contributor to Diderot s Encyclop édie. Though the book is not signed anywhere by la Barthe, the dates fit perfectly, as does the scientific and experimental nature of the manuscript s contents, revealing a fascination with scientific methodology and instruments, as well as its content referring to intellectual Parisian life and the running of Monziols. The book itself was evidently made and sold by a stationer in Montpellier. . \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..The dates of the manuscript accord closely with La Barthe s inheritance of Monziols in 1759, since the earliest record in his hand is from 1758, detailing the 9-month process of teaching a canary to sing a fanfare. If not in Paris already, la Barthe was certainly in the city by 1762, since in this year he recorded Nollet s lectures, apparently using a different, more careful hand:  Extrait des leçons de physique experimentale faittes par M. l Abb é Nolet [sic] de l Academie des Sciences 1762.  Jean-Antoine Nollet is known for being the first to observe osmosis and for his outlandish experiments with electricity, which included electrocuting a boy hanging from the ceiling by silk cords, and simultaneously electrocuting two hundred monks to prove conductivity. He was the leading populariser of science in C18th France and aimed to increase public scientific knowledge through his lectures. The notes here include a description and diagram of Nollet s anemometer for measuring wind and cover the properties of water as ice, vapour and seawater, fire (described as a  fluid  element), use of the Marmite de Papin, i.e. pressure cooker, etc. . \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..Possibly by 1769 La Barthe was back at Monziols, since a note refers to building works undertaken in that year. The extensive notes on physics and mechanics, as well as receipts for medical and gastronomic recipes, are indicators of La Barthe s interest in running his estate; an index describes the contents. There are several pages of notes  from experience  on fixing pendulums in clocks, La Barthe complaining that the distance to Paris poses a challenge for small-town amateur horologists. Extensive notes on thermometers, partially derived from the Scottish physician George Martine s work, published 1766, include historically aberrant temperatures recorded in European cities and the ideal temperatures for growing exotic plants including pineapples; La Barthe also records changes to the mercury in his de Luc barometer in accordance with weather events in 1797. He notes a  secret  for cleaning telescopes. There are notes, with calculations, referring to Mathurin Jacques Brisson s experiments at the Academy of Sciences on the  specific weight  (pesanteur) of bodies such as gold and silver in water, vinegar, etc. He records the prices of art materials including pencils, pigments and papers and notes recipes for inks, including a  perpetual ink.  The medicinal receipts include remedies for children and horses and an elixir for long life; there are extensive lists of prices of medicinal drugs, pills, syrups, etc., some for a specific druggist, M. Grand of Montpellier. Gastronomic receipts include hams, cakes, pat és, lemonade, honey and gooseberry jelly, etc. . \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..Perhaps most interesting are the hand-coloured illustrations, possibly La Barthe s own invention, depicting  mechanical or philosophical  stoves capable of heating two rooms using the same amount of wood usually required to heat one, with depictions of the outside brick structures and the internal airflow (pp. 255-258). The large full-page diagram is a design for a particular folding box. After La Barthe s death the manuscript continued to be used in the running of the estate; there are several pp. of early nineteenth-century notes in a different hand, record matters relating to livestock farming and to the prices of grain, etc., many going back to the early C17th, copied from other accounts.. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n.. .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[LA BARTHE, Abbé de].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868723257679,"sku":"L4340","price":3950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/collections\/Screenshot_2026-06-20_at_3.16.52_PM.png?v=1781965086","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/collections\/sport-leisure.oembed","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}