[Rarebooks] FS: 2 rare 16th c. works bound together (by Laurentius Valla & Christoph Pezel)

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Valla, Laurentius. DE REBUS GESTIS FERDINANDI ARAGONUM ET SICULORUM
REGIS, LIBRI TRES. Recogniti, Adiectis Scholiis, a Joanne Lango
Silesio... Breslau: In Officina Andree Vingleri. 1546. Sm. 8vo.
(388)pp. With the final blank. BOUND WITH: Pezel, Christoph. ORATIO DE
GENERATIONE HOMINIS, in Qua Recitantur et Miracula Praecipua & Imagines
Insigniores, Quae in Opere Generationis Humanae Lucent ac
Conspiciuntur, Edita. Wittenberg: Apud Haeredes Georgii Rhau. 1565.
(80)pp., including the final blank. Both works bound together in cont.
1/2 roll tooled pigskin, hand lettered spine, over wooden boards
covered with a parchment fragment of a 15th c. Biblical manuscript. To
preserve the integrity of the binding, a third work, that had been
removed, was replaced with leaves of modern blank paper. Cont.
inscriptions at the bottom of each title-page are to Christophores
Schillingus from his brother Ferdinand. Small engraved armorial
bookplate of the Nordkirchen Library on front pastedown.    $2,000.00
(trade discount allowed)
1: this work by Valla (ca. 1406-1457) is a long eulogy of Ferdinand I
of Aragon. VD16 V302.  Only 2 copies in North America recorded by OCLC.
II: the work by Pezel (1539-1604) generally treats of the generation of
mankind with Biblical & historical examples, and also concerns the
development of the fetus and the miracles of childbirth and motherhood.
VD 16 P2117.  Only 2 copies worldwide recorded by OCLC.
Neither work is in the BMC or Adams.

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