Table of contents
CONTENTS
Foreword JAMES H. BILLINGTON xv
Preface LARRY E. SULLIVAN xvii
List of Subscribers xix
Lessing J. Rosenwald:"A Splendidly Generous Man" WILLIAM MATHESON ...xxiii
VISION OF A COLLECTOR
Illustrations for essays 1-50 appear on pages 109-56
and for essays 51-100 on pages 221-68.
MANUSCRIPTS
1. Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis (Edith G. Rosenwald Hours).
[Paris, 1370s]. Rosenwald Collection BX2080.A3B66 1340.
LILIAN M. C. RANDALL 3
2. Biblia Latina (Giant Bible of Mainz). [Mainz]: 4 April 1452-
9 July 1453.
Rosenwald Collection 5. ALAN SHESTACK 6
3. Roberto Valturio. De re militari. [North Italy, third quarter of the
fifteenth century]. Rosenwald Collection 7. JONATHAN J. G. ALEXANDER 8
4. Horae Beatae Mariae ad usum Romanum. [France], 1524. Rosenwald
Collection 14. ROGER S. WIECK 13
5. James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Venice. Second Series. Manuscript and
proofs of the catalog, dated 17 February 1883. Rosenwald Collection
1997. RUTH E. FINE 15
EARLY PRINTING, TYPOGRAPHY & WRITING BOOKS
6. Gulielmus Durantis. Rationale divinorum officiorum. [Mainz]: Johann
Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 6 October 1459. Rosenwald Collection 29.
WILLIAM SCHEIDE 21
7. Biblia. Mainz: Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 14 August 1462.
Rosenwald Collection 32. JANET ING FREEMAN 24
8. Marcus Tullius Cicero. De inventione, sive Rhetorica vetus. [Venice:
Nicolaus Jenson, 1470]. Rosenwald Collection 213. JOHN BIDWELL 27
9. Die geuerlicheiten und eins teils der geschichten des lob lichen
streytparen und hochberiimbten helds und ritters herr Tewrdannckhs.
[Nuremberg: Hannsen Schonsperger, 1517]. Rosenwald Collection 634.
PETER M. VANWINGEN 30
10. Ludovico degli Arrighi. La operina di Ludouico Vicentino, da imparare
di scriuere littera cancellarescha. [Roma, 1525]. Rosenwald Collection
807. SHEILA WATERS 32
11. Doctrina Christiana, en lengua espanola y tagala. Manila, 1593.
Rosenwald Collection 1302. HAROLD C. CONKLIN 36
12. C. Julius Caesar. La guerre des suisses, traduite du I. livre des
Commentaires de Ivle Cesar par Lovys XW. Paris: Imprimerie royale,
1651. Rosenwald Collection 1397. DONALD R. KELLEY 41
13. Pierre Simon Fournier. Manuel typographique, utile auxgens de lettres,
& a ceux qui exercent les differentes parties de l' art de
l'imprimerie. Paris: Imprime par l'auteur, 1764-66. Rosenwald
Collection 1658. JOHN DREYFUS 43
14. Giovanni Battista Bodoni. Manuale tipografico del cavaliere
Giambattista Bodoni. Parma: Presso la vedova, 1818. Rosenwald
Collection 1876. RODERICK STINEHOUR 45
15. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted.
[Hammersmith: Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press,
8 May 1896]. Rosenwald Collection 2041. WILLIAM S. PETERSON 48
16. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and
Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. .. . [Boston: Printed by
D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1930]. Rosenwald Collection 2322.
ROLAND M. FRYE and DANIEL TRAISTER 50
17. Five on Paper; a Collection of Five Essays on Papermaking, Books and
Relevant Matters. North Hills, Pa.: Bird & Bull Press, 1972. Rosenwald
Collection Z41.L48. ELLIOTT SHORE 53
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Fifteenth Century and Later
18. Apocalypsis Sancti johannis. [Southern Germany, ca. 1465]. Rosenwald
Collection 23. FELIX DE MAREZ OYENS 57
19. Passio Christi. [Germany, ca. 1470?]. Rosenwald Collection 24.
RICHARD S. FIELD 60
20. Speculum humanae salvationis. [Utrecht: Printer of the Speculum,
not after 1471-74]. Rosenwald Collection 458.
JOYCE LANCASTER WILSON 66
21. Francesco Petrarca. [Uber die Grisel. Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1474 or
1475]. Rosenwald Collection 50. MARILYN MIGIEL and ANN MARIE
RASMUSSEN 68
22. Johannes Mueller, called Regiomontanus [Kalender, 1475-1530/31.
Nuremberg: Sold by Hans Briefftruck?, 1474]. Rosenwald Collection 25.
RUDOLF HIRSCH 71
23. Flavius Vegetius Renatus. Des durchleichtigen wolgebornen Grauen
Plauii Vegecii Renati kurcze Red von der Ritterschafft. [Augsburg:
Johann Wiener, ca. 1475]. Rosenwald Collection 62.
BERNARD M. ROSENTHAL 76
24. Der sielen troest. Utrecht: t C, 10 November 1479. Rosenwald
Collection 471. ELLY COCKX-INDESTEGE 80
25. (Jacobus de Cessolis]. The Game of Chess. [Westminster]: William
Caxton, [1483]. Rosenwald Collection 558. JOAN M. FRIEDMAN 84
26. Dante Alighieri. La Commedia. Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus,
30 August 1481. Rosenwald Collection 229. KONRAD OBERHUBER 86
27. [Indulgence for Hospital of St. Mary Rounceval, Chafing Cross.
Westminster: William Caxton, 1480]. Rosenwald Collection 563.
PAUL NEEDHAM 88
28. Dialogus creaturarum moralizatus. Gouda: Gheraert Leeu,
31 August 1482. Rosenwald Collection 480. LOTTE HELLINGA 91
29. Bartholomaeus Anglicus. Boeck van den proprieteyten der dingen.
Haarlem: Jacob Bellaert, 24 December 1485. Rosenwald Collection 488.
EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN 96
30. Boethius. De consolatione philosophiae. Ghent: Arend de Keysere, 3 May
1485. Rosenwald Collection 535. ROLAND FOLTER 101
31. Aesopus. Vita et Aesopus moralisatus. Naples: [Germani fidelissimi
for] Francesco del Tuppo, 13 February 1485. Rosenwald Collection 242.
ARTHUR E. VERSHBOW 103
32. Bernhard von Breydenbach. Die heyligen reyssen gen Iherusalem. Mainz:
Erhard Reuwich, 21 June 1486. Rosenwald Collection 116.
F. THOMAS NOONAN 106
33. Homerus. Opera. Greek. Florence: Bemardus Nerlius, Nerius Nerlius,
and Vii Demetrius Damilas, 9 December 1488 [i.e., not before 13
January 1488/89]. Rosenwald Collection 250. NICOLAS BARKER 157
34. Chorea ab eximio Macabro versibus alemanicis edita. Paris: Guy
Marchant for Geoffroy de Mamef, 15 October 1490. Rosenwald Collection
406. BETTYE CHAMBERS 160
35. Heiltum zu Bamberg. Nuremberg: Hans Mair, 3 March 1493. Rosenwald
Collection 162. AND In disem puechlein ist verzaichent das hochwirdig
Heyligtub so man in der lob lichen Stat Wienn in Ostereich alle lar
an Sontag nach dem Ostertag zezaigen pjligt. [Wienn: Gedrugkt durch
J. Winterburg, 1502]. Rosenwald Collection 593. FREDERICK G. SCHAB 164
36. Titus Livius. Deche di Tito Liuio vulgare historiate. Venice: Joannes
Vercellensis, for Lucantonio Giunta, 11 February 1493.
Rosenwald Collection 274. LILIAN ARMSTRONG 168
37. Publius Terentius Mer. [Comoediae]. Lyons: Johannes Trechsel,
29 August 1493. Rosenwald Collection mcun. I493.J682. ERICH SEGAL 172
38. Bidpa'i. Exemplario contra los engafios: y peligros del mudo.
Zaragoza: Paul Hurus, 15 April 1494. Rosenwald Collection 581.
WERNER GUNDERSHEIMER 174
39. Giovanni Boccaccio. Des nobles maleureux. Paris: Antoine Verard,
4 November 1494. Rosenwald Collection 427. DAVID ANDERSON 175
40. Sebastian Brant. Das Narrensch!ff: Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe,
11 February 1494. Rosenwald Collection 361. ROBERT L. NIKI'RK 178
41. Publius Terentius Afer. [Comoediae]. Strassburg: Johann Griininger,
1 November 1496. Rosenwald Collection 175. CHRISTINE RUGGERE 180
42. Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Venice: Aldus Manutius,
December 1499. Rosenwald Collection 340. RUTH SAMSON LUBORSKY 184
43. The Knyght of the Swanne. [London: Enprynted by W. de Worde, 1512].
Rosenwald Collection 1214. JOHN N. KING 187
44. Albrecht Diirer. Hieriii sind begriffen vier Bucher van menschlicher
Proportion. [Niirenberg: Gedruckt durch I. Formschneyder, auff
Verlegung Albrecht Diirers verlassen Witib], 1528. Rosenwald
Collection 657. CHARLES TALBOT 189
45. Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort. Lyon: [M. et G.
Trechsel], 1538. Rosenwald Collection 1010. RUTH MORTIMER 192
46. Gerardus Vorselman. Hier begint eenen nyeuwen coock boeck.
Thantwerpen: Gheprint by dye weduwe van H. Peetersen, 1560. Rosenwald
Collection 1185. LEONARD BECK 194
47. Thomas Hariot. A briefe and true report of the new found land of
Virginia. Francoforti ad Moenum: Typis I. Wecheli, sumtibus vero
T. de Bry, 1590. Rosenwald Collection 723. EDWIN WOLF 2ND 197
48. Lodovico Ariosto. Orlando furioso in English heroical verse, by Iohn
Haringtõ. [London: Imprinted by R. Field, 1591]. Rosenwald Collection
1254. ELIZABETH MONGAN 200
49. Giovanni Battista Braccelli. Bizzarie di varie figure di
Giouanbatista Braccelli [Livomo], 1624. Rosenwald Collection 1345.
ALAN FERN 202
50. Les Plaisirs de l'Isle enchantee. Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1673
[i.e., 1674]. Rosenwald Collection 1409. H. DIANE RUSSELL 205
51. Desiderius Erasmus. Stultitiae laus. Basileae: Typis Genathianis,
1676. Rosenwald Collection 1365. HOWARD A. WOLF 206
52. Torquato Tasso. La Gerusalemme liberata con le figure di Giambatista
Piazzetta. Venezia: Stampata da G. Albrizzi, 1745. Rosenwald
Collection 1571. ELEANOR M. GARVEY 209
53. Alois Senefelder. Vollstiindiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey.
Miinchen: K. Thienemann, 1818. Rosenwald Collection 1871.
THOMAS M. WHITEHEAD 212
54. Stephen Crane. War is Kind. New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1899.
Rosenwald Collection 2075. JOHN C. BRODERICK 214
55. Leonard Baskin. Horned Beetles and Other Insects. Northampton: Gehenna
Press, 1958. Rosenwald Collection QL596.C4B37. ANTHONY HECHT 216
56. Denis Grivot and George Zamecki. Gislebertus, sculptor of Autun.
[Boissia, Clairvaux]: Trianon Press in association with Collins
[London, 1961]. Rosenwald Collection 2265.
REV. ANTHONY J. LAUCK, C. S. C. 218
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
57. Desiderius Erasmus.L'eloge de lafolie. [Paris], 1751. Rosenwald
Collection 1638. DAVID P. BECKER 271
58. Giovanni Boccaccio. Il Decamerone. Londra [i.e., Paris: Prault], 1757.
Rosenwald Collection 1646. AND Giovanni Boccaccio. Le Decamerone.
Londres [i.e., Paris: Prault], 1757-61. Rosenwald Collection 1647. AND
Hubert-François Bourguignon, called Gravelot. [Drawings for the
illustrations of Boccaccio' s Decamerone (published in Paris, with
the imprint: Londra, 1757)]. Rosenwald Collection 1645.
LUCIEN GOLDSCHMIDT 274
59. Jean de La Fontaine. Contes et nouvelles en verso Amsterdam [i.e.,
Paris: Barbou], 1762. Rosenwald Collection 1654. LESLIE A. MORRIS 277
60. Jean-Benjamin de Laborde. Choix de chansons, mises en musique. Paris:
De Lormel, 1773 [i.e., 1774?]. Rosenwald Collection 1675a.
JAMES W. PRUETT 280
61. Pierre Joseph Bernard. Poe-mes. Paris: P. Didot l'arne, 1796.
Rosenwald Collection 1711. AGNES MONGAN 282
62. Publius Vergilius Maro. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Paris: Petrus
Didot, 1798. Rosenwald Collection 1715. GEORGE LEVITINE 285
WILLIAM BLAKE
63. William Blake. Songs of Innocence [London]: W. Blake, 1789. Rosenwald
Collection 1797. AND William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of
Experience. [London: W. Blake, 1794]. Rosenwald Collection 1801.
DAVID BIND MAN 291
64. William Blake. The Book of Urizen. Lambeth: Printed by Will Blake, 1794
[i.e., 1815]. Rosenwald Collection 1807. ROBERT N. ESSICK 293
65. Edward Young. The Complaint and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts.
London: R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797. Rosenwald Collection 1819a.
NELSON HILTON 296
66. William Blake. Milton, a Poem in 12 [i.e., 2] Books.
[London: W. Blake], 1804 [i.e., 1815?]. Rosenwald Collection 1810.
MARTIN BUTLIN 298
MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
67. Edgar Allan Poe. Le corbeau, The raven, poe-me. Paris: R. Lesclide,
1875. Rosenwald Collection 1937. BREON MITCHELL 303
68. Paul Marie Verlaine. Parallelement. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1900.
Rosenwald Collection 2125. RIVA CASTLEMAN 305
69. Wassily Kandinsky. Kliinge. Miinchen: R. Piper, [1912]. Rosenwald
Collection 2080. STARR SIEGELE 308
70. Publius Vergilius Maro. Les eglogues de Virgile. Weimar: Cranach
Presse, 1926. Rosenwald Collection 2089. CLAIRE VAN VLIET 313
71. Honore de Balzac. Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu. Paris: A. Vollard, 1931.
Rosenwald Collection 2170. PIERRE BERES 315
72. Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol. Les ames mortes. Paris: Teriade, 1948.
Rosenwald Collection 2197. ELIZABETH PHILLIPS 318
73. Paul Eluard. A toute epreuve. Geneve: Gerald Cramer, [1958].
Rosenwald Collection 2120. COLTA IVES 320
ARCHITECTURE
74. Andrea Palladio. I qvattro libri dell'architettura. Venetia: D. de'
Franceschi, 1570. Rosenwald Collection 873. JAMES S. ACKERMAN 325
75. Sebastiano Serlio. Regole genera Ii di architetura. Venetia: Francesco
Marcolino, 1537. Rosenwald Collection 833. HENRY A. MILLON 327
76. Abraham Swan. The British Architect: or, The Builder's Treasury of
Staircases. Philadelphia: Printed by R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775.
Rosenwald Collection 1790. JAMES GILREATH 330
BINDINGS
77. [Contemporary Ferrarese covers]. Battista Fregoso. Anteros, sive
Tractatus contra amorem. Milan: Leonardus Pachel, 10 May 1496.
Rosenwald Collection 313. MIRJAM M. FOOT 335
78. [Grolier binding]. Michele Marullo Tarcaniota. Epigrammatum libri
W. Hymnorum naturalium libri IV. Florence: Societas Colubris,
26 November 1497. Rosenwald Collection 330. BERNARD H. BRESLAUER 339
79. [Canevari binding]. Galenus. Extra ordinem classium libri. Venetiis:
Apud haeredes L. Iuntae, 1541. Rosenwald Collection 838.
ANTHONY HOBSON 342
80. [Fanfare binding]. Ippolito Salviani. Aqvatilium animalium historiae.
Romae, 1554. Rosenwald Collection 856. JOHN P. CHALMERS 345
81. [Presentation binding by Padeloup]. [Antoine Danchet]. Le satre de
Louis XV. [Paris, 1722]. Rosenwald Collection 1618. PAUL CULOT 348
82. [Embossed paper binding]. Componimenti poetici per l'ingresso solenne
alla dignita di proccuratore de S. Marco per merito di sua eccellenza
il signor Lodovico Manin. [Venice: Albrizzi, 1764]. Rosenwald
Collection 1576. ANDREW ROBISON 352
83. [Bonet binding]. Guillaume Apollinaire. Calligrammes. [Paris]:
Gallimard, 1930. Rosenwald Collection 2163. JAN VAN DER MARCK 358
GEOGRAPHY
84. Claudius Ptolemaeus. Cosmographia. Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482.
Rosenwald Collection 88. WALTER W. RISTOW 363
85. Claudius Ptolemaeus. Geographiae. [Argentinae: I. Schotti, 1513].
Rosenwald Collection 624. RALPH E. EHRENBERG 366
86. Pedro de Medina. Arte de navegar. [Valladolid: F. Fernandez de Cordua,
1545]. Rosenwald Collection 1289. JOHN PARKER 370
87. [Christopher Saxton. An Atlas of England and Wales. London], 1579.
Rosenwald Collection 1248b. JOHN A. WOLTER 372
88. Gerardus Mercator. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de Jabrica
mvndi et fabricatifigvra. Dvisbvrgi Clivorvm, [1595]. Rosenwald
Collection 730. DAVID WOODWARD 376
HERBALS
89. Leonhart Fuchs. De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes. Basileae:
In Officina Isingriniana, 1542. Rosenwald Collection 905.
BERNADETTE G. CALLERY 381
90. [Jean Robin?]. Histoire des plantes, novvellement trouuees en l'Isle
Virgine, & autres lieux, lesquelles ant este prises & cultiuees au
Iardin de Monsieur Robin Arboriste du Roy. Paris: Guillaume Mace,
1620. Rosenwald Collection 1378. AND Pierre Vallet. Le iardin dv
ray ires chrestien Henry IV. [Paris]: Pierre Vallet, 1608. Rosenwald
Collection 1370. ROSEMARY FRY PLAKAS 383
91. Pierre Joseph Redoute. Les roses. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1817-24.
Rosenwald Collection 1892. MARY LEAHY 385
SCIENCE
92. C. Plinius Secundus. Historia naturalis. Venice: Johannes de Spira,
[before 18 September] 1469. Rosenwald Collection 212.
WHITFIELD J. BELL, JR. 389
93. Petrus Apianus. Instrument Buch. Ingolstadii, 1533. Rosenwald
Collection 661. SILVIO A. BEDINI 391
94. [Petrus Apianus]. Astronomicum Caesareum. [Ingolstadt, 1540].
Rosenwald Collection 678. OWEN GINGERICH 394
95. Andreas Vesalius; De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome.
Basileae: [Ex Officina I. Oporini, 1543]. Rosenwald Collection 906.
AND Andreas Vesalius. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.
Basileae: [Ex Officina I. Oporini, 1543]. Rosenwald Collection 907.
JEREMY M. NORMAN 396
96. Georg Agricola. De re metallica. Basileae: [apvd. H. Frobenivm et
N. Episcopivm], 1556. Rosenwald Collection 910. CYRIL STANLEY SMITH 399
97. Agostino Ramelli. Le diverse et artificiose machine. Parigi, 1588.
Rosenwald Collection 1086. DANIEL TRAISTER 402
98. Galileo Galilei. Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche. Leida:
Elsevirii, 1638. Rosenwald Collection 1430. LEONARD C. BRUNO 405
99. Johannes Hevelius. Selenographia. Gedani: Hiinefeldianis, 1647.
Rosenwald Collection 1321. RUTH S. FREITAG 407
100. Robert Hooke. Micrographia. London:J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1665.
Rosenwald Collection 1511. I. BERNARD COHEN 409
Contributors 413
Index 419
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