[Rarebooks] FS: Very Rare work by Thomas More.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

More, Sir Thomas. EPISTOLA THOMAE MORI AD ACADEMIAM OXON. Cui Adjecta Sunt Quaedam Poemata in Mortem Clarissimi Viri Roberti Cottoni & Thomae Alleni. Oxford: Excudebat Johannes Lichfield, Academiae Typographus, Impensis Thomae Huggins. 1633. Sm. 4to. (4),18,(10)pp. With the final blank. Woodcut headpieces and decorative woodcut initials. BOUND WITH: Hoe von Hoenegg, Matthias. [in Greek; Chryseion Doron...]... SIVE EPISTOLA VERE AUREA, ET TEMPORIBUS HISCE PROFLIGATIS LECTU PLANE NECESSARIA... Ex Germanico in Latinum Translata a G. O.  No place: Albens' Appiglia, chi ben si consiglia. 1620. (2),21,(1)pp. Woodcut ornament on title page. Both works are bound together in 19th c. 1/2 black morocco, gilt lettered spine over marbled boards. Bookplate on front pastedown of Sir Thomas Brooks, and ownership signature of John Burns, June 3, 1921.    $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The very rare first work is the only edition of More's letter to the University of Oxford, exhorting them to abandon their anti-humanistic , anti-Greek tendencies and to make a stand against those who called themselves "Trojans" as enemies of Greek. This letter is one of the most eloquent defenses of the "New Learning" composed by any Englishman and is referred to by Erasmus in his letter to Mosellanus. The subject of the second work, probably just bound together with the first because it was the same page size!, is the Thirty Years War.
I: STC 18087. Madan I, p. 170.
II: Very rare work by Matthias Hoe (1580-1648), not recorded by the BL German 17th Century STC which does record 15 other works by Hoe.

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