14 Rare Books (La Vallière Catalogue)

The library of La Vallière was dispersed in 1784. I found these rare titles in Livres perdus et exemplaires uniques, Bordeaux, Charles Lefevbre, 1872,  (oeuvres postumes de J. M. Querard, publiées par G. Brunet). Some of the titles were last seen in London... but they were never found again.

Combat de mal advisé avec sa dame par amour sur le jeu de paume, cartes, dés & tablier, montrant comme tels jeux, avec plusieurs autres rodeaux & dizains, présenté au puis de risée. Lyon, 1547, in-16. By Du Verdier.

Le dessert des mal souppez contenant un plat d’histoires, de douze services au plat, le tout de bon appetit et bien assaisoné de sauce pour purger l’humeur bilieuse & melancolique. Rouen, 1604.

Discours facetieux des signes veuz au ciel par un aveugle, interpretez par un muet & entendus par un sourd. 1609, in-8º.

L’excellence des barbes rouges contre les noires. Nouvellement imprimé. S. D., petit in-8º. Verse. Late 15th century.

Monologue de messire Jean Tantost, lequel récite un dispute qu’il ha eue contre une dame lyonnoise à son advis mal sentant la foy ; avec la suite dudit Monologue, laquelle fait mention d’une autre dispute qu’il ha eue contre un petit garçon. S. l. MDLXII, petit in-8º. Verse.

La musique de la taverne & les propheties du cabaret. Ensemble le mépris des muses. (ca. 1620) in-8º.

Nouvelle defese pour les Francoys à lencontre de la nouvelle entrepinse des ennemys, comprenant la manière deviter tous poisons, by Bertrand de la Luce. Paris, 1537, in-81.

Le printemps des chansons nouvelles, composé sur chants modernes fort recreatifs. Lyon, Benoist Rigaud. S.d., in-16.

Rencontre & naufrage de trois astrologues judiciaries. Paris, 1634, in-8º.

Le restaurant des constipés de cerveau freschement apporté des isles d’Yambole, où le monde s’ennuie de trop vivre. Imprimé à Paris, par Pierre Latus, au commandement des drôles. S. D. (ca. 1620), in-8º.

Sermon ioyeulx de tous les foulx qui sont au monde pour rire ioyeusement. Lyon. Petit in-8º.

La tasse, comedie propre pour etre exhibée au temps de caresme-prenant, extraicte du cabinet de la muse du comte d’Aulbe Geurin, plus une salad d’espis de grume, le tout avec tant de facécieuseté & plaisanterie que l’auteur & imprimeur se condamnent de payer le vinà qui le pourra lire sans rire, moyennant que ce ne soit quelque ladre d’esprit, ou quelque chassieux héraclite, ou pour le moins quelque cerveau anormalement songe-creux ou rechineusemente heteroclite. Imprimé sous le quadre à la presse sur le marbre. S. d., petit in-8º, 53 ff. Impr vers 1650, Midi de la France. (Dialogues in Provençal, Italien & French). 

Le trésor de l’espargne, vérité des admirables merveilles du monde advenues ès terres inconnues : auquel est contenu la vie du preux géant Raminagrobis, fort joyeuse & récréative. Paris, in-16.

Les trompeurs trompez par trompeurs, par Dadouville. Petit in-8º. Verse.

5 Medieval Women Writers

Leonor López de Córdoba, author of Memoirs of Doña Leonor López de Córdoba.
Her short autobiography (of nine pages) includes an eyewitness narrative of the siege of Carmona (Seville). It was written in the early 15th century.

Teresa of Cartagena, author of The Grove of the Sick and Wonder at the Works of God  (Admiratio Operum Dei).
She was a Spanish nun, who became deaf mute in the 1450s. Her works are the earliest feminist texts in Spanish.

Florencia Pinar, author of several poems.
They were included in the lyric collections of the period (late 15th c).

Constanza de Castilla, author of a Devotionary (ca. 1474).
She was the prioress of Santo Domingo el Real (Madrid).

Isabel de Villena, author of Vita Christi.
She also wrote several treatises and a mystical work, the Speculum Animae, now lost.

Vicencio Juan de Lastanosa and the catalogue of his library

Vicencio Juan de Lastanosa (1607-1681) was a Spanish erudite and collector who gathered some 1500 rare books and manuscripts in his palace in Huesca. Athanasius Kircher and two secretaries of the King of France were among his correspondents. About 40 per cent of the books in the library were printed abroad; most of the items dated from the 16^th to the 17^th centuries. Lastanosa also gathered a huge coin collection from many historical periods (over 10000 old coins); he collected paintings - Caravaggio, Tiziano, Tintoretto, Ribera - engravings, maps, telescopes and microscopes, antiques and swords; his cabinet of curiosities included fossils, sculptures, cameos, medals and gemstones. Painters and writers (Baltasar Gracián, abbess Ana Francisca Abarca de Bolea) met in his literary circle.  

Next to the palace, there were five gardens, a hedge maze, a pond, and many species of trees, plants and flowers. The collections of Lastanosa were dispersed after his death; the catalogue of the library is kept in the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket, ms. U-379); two other documents have been preserved (1). Lastanosa was buried in a crypt of the Catedral of Huesca. Unfortunately, the palace was demolished in 1894.

Further information in this website (Spanish):
http://www.lastanosa.com/contenido.php?gama=1&tipocontenido=137&tipo=1&elemento=33

 
Some rare books in Lastanosa’s library:

Scientific Works:
Camillo Leonardo, Speculum lapidum, Venecia, 1502.
De Peces, Aves y Animales (On Fish, Birds and Animals), by Conrado Gesnero, 3 vols., Tiguri, 1558.
A work on Mineralogy by Juan de Arfe Villafañe, El quilatador, Madrid, 1558.
A book on Veterinary Medicine by Pedro López de Zamora, Pamplona, 1571.
Juan Baptista Nazari, De la transmutación metálica, Brescia, 1599.
Joannis Remelini, Catoptrum microcosmicum, Aug. Vindelic. 1619.
Museum hermeticum, Francofurti, 1625.
Juan Terrentio Linceo, Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae, Roma, 1628.
Vicentio Moles, Philosophia naturalis sacrosancti corporis Christi, Antuerpia, 1639.
Hadriano Minsicht, Tesaurus et armentarium medicum chimicum, Lyon, 1640.

 
Other Works

On Horse Training: Pedro de la Nove, Lyon, 1621.
Thainot, Orchesographia, Lengres, s. d.
Fabricio Caroso, Ballarino, Venecia, 1581.
A work on prestidigitation and hand tricks, the Eutropelia by Juan Bautista de Moya, S. l. s. d.
Del Juego de los Naipes (Playing Card Games), José Paulo de Bevagna, Roma 1627.
Del Juego de las Damas (On Draughts), Juan García Canalejas, Zaragoza 1650
On Hunting: De Montería, Gonzalo Argote de Molina, Sevilla, 1582.
On Falconry: Juan de Franchieres, Fauconeria, París 1585.
On cage birds: Juan Bautista Xamarro, Conocimiento de las diez aves menores de jaula, Madrid 1604.
Martín de Andujar, Del arte de los sastres (The Art of Tailorship), Madrid, 1640.

Respublica sive status Regni Scotiae et Hiberniae divers. auctorum.
S. l. s. d.
Thomae Smithi Angli, De respublica Anglorum lib. 3. Belgii confederati respublica seu Gelriae, Holland., Zeland., Traiect, Tris., Transisal, Groning. Chorografica descriptio. S. l. s. d.
Russia seu Moscovia itemque Tartaria comentario topographico atque politico illustratae.
S. l. s. d.
Arabia seu Arabum vicinarumque gentium orientalium leges, ritus sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia.
S. l. s. d.
De imperio magni mogolis sive India vera comentarius e variis autoribus congestus.
S. l. s. d.

(1) Las tres Cosas más singulares que tiene la Casa de Lastanosa en este año de 1639, and Narración de lo que le pasó a Don Vicente Juan de Lastanosa a 15 de octubre del año 1662 con un Religioso docto y grabe. 

45 Lost Books

-          A luxury edition of the Iliad, prepared by Aristotle. Alexander the Great took it with him on all of his travels. 

-          Aethiopis and Sack of Troy, by Arctinus of Miletus. A continuation of the Iliad.

-          Homer’s Margites

-          Ctesibius’ Memorabilia. A compilation of his research.

-          On Mechanical Toys and Diversions (Automatopoeica), by Philo of Byzantium

-          On the Ocean, by Pytheas of Massalia

-          An account of Alexander’s expedition, by Callisthenes

-          Origins (Origines), a history of Rome, by Cato the Elder. The first prose history in Latin. 

-          Rerum memoria dignarum libri, an encyclopaedic work by Verrius Flaccus.

-          De vita sua, by Augustus

-          Historical Sketches, by Strabo 

-          History of Babylonia (Babyloniaca), by Berossus. Written ca. 290-278 BC, using ancient Babylonian texts. 

-          On Rome (Roma), in 4 parts: Roman Manners and Customs, The Roman Year, The Roman Festivals & Roman Dress by Suetonius.

-          Iter ('The Journey') by  Julius Caesar. It was composed during a trip from Rome to Spain (46 BC).

-          Pamphilus of Alexandria’s comprehensive lexicon in 95 books of foreign or obscure words.

-           De Bibliotecis, by Marcus Terentius Varro

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-          Medea, by Ovid

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-          Republic, by Zeno of Citium

-          An Etruscan dictionary & an Etruscan history, by Claudius

-          A Carthaginian history, by Claudius

-          Affairs in Asia, Affairs in Europe & On the Erythraean Sea, by Agatharchides

-          Geographica, by Eratosthenes

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-          The Lives of Scipio Africanus, Augustus, Claudius and Nero, by Plutarch 

-          History of Constantine the Great, by Praxagoras

-          History of the German Wars & History of his Times, by Pliny the Elder

-          Catalogue of Women, by Hesiod 

-          Persica & Indica, by Ctesias. A history of Assyria, Persia and India.

-          On the Causes of Corrupted Eloquence, by Quintilian

-          De arte alea (a book on dice games), by Claudius

-          Critical Signs Used in Books, by Suetonius

-          Women Swimming (Kolymbôsai), by Alcman 

-          Euclid’s Book of Fallacies (Pseudaria)

-          Frying-Pan Men, by Aristophanes 

-          Men Who See Everything, by Eubulus 

-          Women Sailing Across the Sea,  by Alexis 

-          De jaculatione equestri, by Pliny the Elder 

      Titanomachy