Calculating machine (c. 1860) for Multiplication and Division, based off Napier’s Bones (c. 1614), coming up for auction at Dominic Winter 10 April.

Savonarola title page with Josse Bade’s woodcut printing press device.

Girolamo Savonarola. Expositio in psalmos Miserere mei deus…(with) Expositio orationis…Paris, Badius Ascensius/Josse Bade, 1510-20, 1517.

Dictionary of phrases in eight languages - Latin, French, Flemish, German, Spanish, Italian, English, and Portuguese.

Noel de Berlemont,  Colloquia et dictionariolum octo linguarum… (Middleburg, Moulert, 1631).

Erasmus in sheets.

Erasmus, Enquiridio manual del Cavallero Cristiano. Toledo, en casa de Jua Ferrer, 2 December 1556.

“The Spanish translation of the Enchiridion that issued from the press of Miguel de Eguia, printer in Alcala, had a popular success without precedent in the history of Spanish printing up to that time. The translator was a famous preacher, Alonso Fernadez de Madrid, canon of the Cathedral of Palencia and archdeacon of Alcor. It first appeared in the spring of 1525 with a dedication to the Archbishop of Seville, Don Alonso Manrique, inquisitorgeneral. With such a translator and such a patron the book had a most auspicious beginning” Charles Fantazzi.

Sibylline Oracles (Paris, 1599) Pt I.

Who needs apostles when you can have 12 pretty oracles?

First Pictorial Map of England, Wynkyn de Worde

The Cronycle of Englonde with the fruyte of tymes (with) The Descrypcyon of Englonde. London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1515.    

“The description of the Popes Councell holden at Rome,in which appeared a monstrous Owle, to the utter defacing of the Pope, and all his Clergie.”

Foxe, John. [Book of Martyrs]

Illustration processes.

Zonca, Vittorio. Nouo teatro di machine…(Folio. Padua, appresso Pietro Bertelli, 1607).

Dance with Death,  contemporary Hand-Coloring. 

Schedel, Hartmann. Nuremberg Chronicle. (Folio. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 12 July 1493).

Brought to you by the Letter C, where C is for Cosimo de’Medici.

Vita di Cosimo de’Medici…(Folio. Venice, Aldus Manutius (his descendents) 1586.)

Yowsers. “Education of Boys and Girls represented in Mexican pictures”.

Purchas, Samuel. Purchas his Pilgrimes. (Folio. London, 1625)

People with chest faces and other curiosities.

Wolffhart, Conrad. Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon. (Folio. Basel, Henricus Petrus, 1557)

Filling in the blanks of the Laocoön.

Marliano, Bartholomaeo. Urbis Romae Topographia. (Folio, Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1550).

from “ACTION IS SIMPLE”, Leeds and Bradford Riot Grrrl! (1993).

“Here are some easy ideas for direct action in your own neighbourhood.”