Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva, senza saperla, fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca. Cognitioni necessarie a Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed a qualunque si diletta del Disegno
by TROILI, Guido
First edition and much scarcer than the second edition of 1683. "Troili, a pupil of the quadratura painter Michelangelo Colonna, became scene painter for the Farnese theater at Parma. Ferdinando Bibiena saw his work there (probably after the artist's death) and absorbed its influence. This original edition of Troili's exceptionally handsome book on perspective is one of the real milestones in the history of theatrical scenery: it describes the conscious use of visual deception, the creation of greater �depth' by... Read More
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Las Cosas Maravillosas de la Santa Ciudad de Roma, en donde de trata delas Yglesias, Estaciones, Reliquias, y Cuerpos Santos, que ay en ella, y diversos casamientos de pobres Donzellas, que se hazen
by VACCONDIO, Juan Baptista
Rome: Roque Bernabo, 1711. Rare Spanish-language Rome guide for Spanish-speaking pilgrims/tourists to the eternal city. Some of the woodcuts derive from early 16th-century Rome guides such as Santi Solinari.
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ART OF WAR: INCUNABLE EDITION
THE FIRST PRINTED BOOK WITH TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATIONS
De Re Militari
by VALTURIUS, Robertus
Folio [31.5 x 21 cm], (254) ff., including initial and final blanks, 96 woodcuts, of which 18 are full-page. Bound in late 17th-century vellum over boards, spine with raised bands, title neatly stenciled in gothic letters on spine. Housed in modern book box. Chapter headings neatly calligraphed in a contemporary hand in margins (chiefly in early signatures). A few cracks and some trivial soiling to covers. Portions of some blank margins of a handful of leaves unobtrusively renewed, with absolutely... Read More
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Pas Kaart van de Just van Carolina
by VAN KEULEN, J
Amsterdam, 1682. No Binding. Near Fine. 20 ¼ x 23 inches. Superb hand color; lower margin extended with slight loss, else fine with strong impression on heavy paper. One of the earliest printed charts to specifically focus on the Carolina coast and one of the most attractive maps of the area overall. The chart extends from the Chesapeake Bay to northern Florida. While van Keulen used a variety of sources, not all of the identifiable, generally speaking,... Read More
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Traitté de l’origine, demonstration, construction & usage du Quadrant Analematique…
by VAULÉZARD, [J.L.] Sieur de
Paris: Jean Le Brun, 1644. First edition of this description of an instrument by a Mersenne correspondent who was involved in the “Perspective Wars.”
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Risposta alle Reflessioni critiche sopra le differenti scuole di pittura del sig. Marchese d’Argens
by [VENUTI, Rodolfo/d’ARGENS, Marquis.]
Lucca: il Busdrago, 1755. Rare first edition of this spirited defense of the superiority of Italian painting by the archaeologist and antiquary Venuti, attacking the highly controversial Réflexions critiques sur les différentes écoles de Peinture (1751), of the Marquis d’Argens, which attempted to argue for the superiority of French over Italian and Flemish/Dutch art. Of interest for the history of taste in mid-eighteenth century Rome
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Restauration complete du nez, d'apr?s la m?thode de M. Dieffenbach
by VERHAEGHE, F.
EARLY PLASTIC SURGERY, PERFORMED BY THE FOUNDER OF PLASTIC SURGERY DEDICATION COPY OF AN ILLUSTRATED CASE STUDY 8vo (20.6 x 13.4 cm), pp. 1-7, p. 8 (blank), (2) ff. of lithograph plates. Bound in modern burgundy diced pasteboards, gilt title label laid to spine, retains original blue paper front wrapper. Very minor rubbing to board edges. Final text leaf a bit toned, otherwise internally very well preserved.Rare dedication copy of an early illustrated offprint on plastic surgery. This study by Dr. Verhaeghe... Read More
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La construction, l?usage, et les proprietez du quadrant nouveau de math?matique.
by VERNIER, Pierre
INTRODUCING VERNIER'S FAMOUS SCALE, A DEVICE "INDISPENSABLE TO ALL REFINED MEASUREMENT" (E. R. KIELY), WITH A FOLDING ENGRAVING OF THE INSTRUMENT 8vo (15.9 x 9.1 cm), [6[ ff., [1]-122 pp., with [1] folding plate [BOUND WITH:] WURSTISEN, Christian. Elementa arithmeticae, logicis legibus deducta, in usum Academiae Basil. Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, April 1602. 8vo. 182 pp., (1) f. Bound in 18th-century speckled calf, spine gilt with flowers, red morocco lettering piece laid to spine, gold-tooled board edges, red edges, bookplates of Earls... Read More
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Les Portraicts anatomiques de toutes les parties du corps humain
by VESALIUS, Andreas & GRÉVIN, Jacques
THE FIRST ENGRAVED ANATOMICAL ILLUSTRATIONS EVER PRODUCED AMONG THE EARLIEST "MODERN" ANATOMICAL ILLUSTRATIONS IN WOODCUT Paris, André Wechel, 1569. Folio (40 x 25.5 cm), [4] ff, 106 pp, [1] ff with printer's device on verso, plus 40 engraved full-page plates. [BOUND WITH:] ESTIENNE, Charles & RIVIÈRE, Estienne de la. La Dissection des parties du corps humain. Paris, Simon de Colines, 1546. [8] ff, 405 pp, (1 integral blank), including 64 full-page woodcuts. Folios, bound in early, possibly contemporary, reversed calf, covers somewhat worn, extremities with... Read More
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COLLECTED WORKS OF FRANÇOIS VIÈTE
“THE FATHER OF ALGEBRA”
WITH 3 VOLVELLES
Francisci Vietae Opera Mathematica in unum volumen congesta …
by VIÈTE, François / SCHOOTEN, Frans van
4to [30.3 x 19.6], (6) ff., 554 pp., with 3 volvelles, title and several text leaves with red printing, woodcut device on title page, numerous woodcut diagrams in text, woodcut initials, headpieces, and tailpieces. Bound in contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, double-ruled borders on upper and lower covers, remnants of ties, blue edges. Some staining and handsoiling to covers, minor edge wear. Contemporary annotations on front endpapers, very minor occasional staining, small wormhole in inner margin of last... Read More
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Cochin-China: Containing many admirable Rarities and Singularities of that Countrey. Extracted out of an Italian Relation, lately presented to the Pope, by Christophoro Barri, that lived certaine years there
by [VIETNAM] / BORRI, Cristoforo / ASHLEY, Robert (Trans.)
London: Robert Raworth for Richard Clutterbuck, 1633. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Tastefully bound in ruled red morocco, interior gilt dentelles; title-page dusty and trimmed at upper & outer margins; repaired corner of prelims. Otherwise very good. Rare first edition of the first book on Vietnam in English, an eyewitness account of the commerce, government and cultural life of Cochin-China (central Vietnam) written by the Jesuit missionary Cristoforo Borri... Read More
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Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentionali
by VISSCHER, N
Amsterdam, 1680. No Binding. Near Fine. 18 1/8 x 22 3/8 inches. Fine original color; excellent. A particuarly handsome map portraying all the Caribbean islands, part of Mexico, Central America, Florida (called "Tegesta Prov.") and part of South America. Strangely, the area of present day Georgia and part of South Carolina is called French Florida ("Florida Galli"); the French colonies in the area had been obliterated a century before this map appeared. The map extends as far... Read More
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Nova Tabula Geographica Complectens Borealiorem Americae Partem; Carte Nouvelle Contenant La Partie D'Amerique
by VISSCHER, N./ SCHENK, P
Amsterdam, 1717. No Binding. Near Fine. Each 23 x 18 1/2 in. Superb original color; excellent condition; each sheet museum-mounted & framed. A superb pair in fine original color. "This beautiful map . . . is probably the most detailed delineation of the coastline from the Carolinas to Labrador drawn in the 17th century. It appears primarily as a separate, but also is included in a few Visscher atlases. . . . The cartography of the Atlantic... Read More
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![THE FIRST FRENCH EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE EAST INDIES<br><br>Description du premier voyage faict aux Indes Orientales par les François en l'An 1603. [including separate title pages for the Description et Remarque de quelques animaux, episceries, drogues. and the Traicte du Scurbut].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/758/107/971107758.0.l.jpg)
THE FIRST FRENCH EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE EAST INDIES
Description du premier voyage faict aux Indes Orientales par les François en l'An 1603. [including separate title pages for the Description et Remarque de quelques animaux, episceries, drogues. and the Traicte du Scurbut].
by VITRÉ, François Martin de
8vo. [16.8 x 10.5 cm], (4) ff., 134 (i.e. 131) pp. Bound in contemporary vellum, housed in modern book box. Signature I misbound. Impeccable copy, excellent. Extremely rare first edition of the first French account of the East Indies to appear in print (cf. Lach & van Kley, III: 373), here in an impeccable copy bound in contemporary vellum. The work is that of the French adventurer François Martin de Vitré (c. 1575-c. 1631), who, upon his return to Brittany from... Read More
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De Architettura dal vero esemplare latino nella volgar lingua tradotto
by VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus
Venice: Nicolo de Aristotele detto Zoppino, 1535. Second Durantino edition of the first illustrated edition of Vitruvius (original Latin 1511) and the first attempt to establish a critical text of the only surviving ancient architectural treatise, notoriously difficult for its technical matter and crabbed means of expression.
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Ein Wolgegr�nds kunstreichs Summari B�chlin, aller Sonnen Uhr auff acht oder vier eckete stecklin in B�chsen Cylinder und auff Guldne ring
by [VOGTHERR, Georg.]
Early edition of one of the rarest 16th-century German language instrument books on the construction of sundials.
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Engraved portrait of Volta by Luigi Rados after Roberto Focosi
by VOLTA, Alessandro; RADOS, LUIGI
ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF VOLTA, WITH HIS INVENTIONS,THE VOLTAIC PILE AND HIS CROWN OF CUPS BATTERY, DISPLAYED IN THE BACKGROUND Milan, Editore Proprietario Luigi Rados, 1828. Stipple engraving (53 x 41.8 cm, platemark 49.6 x 37.4 cm). Engraved caption below the image, artist "Roberto Focosi disegnò" on the lower left and engraver "Luigi Rados incise 1828" on the lower right; below caption and following the imprint, the engraved text "In segno di venerazione Luigi Rados D.D.D." Strong, crisp impression. Excellent. Separately published, fine stipple... Read More
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Sigilla Comitum Flandriae et Inscriptiones Diplomatum ab iis editorum cum expositione historica.
by VREDIUS, Olivarius
Bruges: Jan van den Kerckhove, 1639. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to [29 x 19.5 cm]. (6) ff., 308 pp., (48) ff., engraved half page map of Flanders, engraved succession 'tree' of Flemish Counts, engraved key to heraldry, and some 300 engravings of seals. Bound in contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine, ties intact. Minor handsoiling to covers, ownership inscription excised at foot of title with repair not affecting imprint, inkstain on Aa4 not touching image; some edge wear to first... Read More
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Map of the Counties of Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket, Massachusetts
by WALLING, H. F
New York, 1858. No Binding. Very Good. 60 x 56 inches. With original rollers, separate; attractive original color, refreshed; expertly re-mounted on new linen & fully conserved; some usual splitting, relatively minor losses, relatively bright patina, overall excellent of this type. Very scarce and richly informative wall map of these historic islands and the beautiful Cape. As Garver noted, "Walling aimed for a comprehensive, almost encyclopedic, overview of these three counties and their principal population centers." Thus,... Read More
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A SUPERB DEATH OF COOK ENGRAVING DEDICATED TO BOUGAINVILLE
Mort Tragique du Capitaine Cook. Le 15. Fevrier, 1779.
by WEBBER, J./ FESSARD, Claude-Mathieu.
10 ½ x 11 ¾ inches. Excellent condition. A fine, separately published, French engraving of Webber's iconic scene of the tragic death of Captain James Cook in Hawaii. The edition was dedicated to Louis-Antoine Bougainville, the French explorer and circumnavigator, who is herein identified as a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. The official account of Cook's third and final voyage, both English and French editions, did not include this engraving of his death. Many, however, were subsequently published due... Read More
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Palma coccifera triangula, Calappa, Coccus-N?ssba?m.
by WEINMANN Johann Wilhelm
COCONUT Folio (38.9 x 23.1 cm the sheet; 33.1 x 21.2.cm the platemark), (1) copperplate engraving numbered 782 in the plate, in color 'mock mezzotint' with contemporary handcolor. Excellent. Engraving of the coconut plant from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, "the first botanical book to use color printed mezzotint successfully" (Hunt). Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) was a German botanist and apothecary in Regensburg, and his monumental series represents the most innovative achievement in botanical illustration of its time. "The mezzotint process used... Read More
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"Experiments and observations in soaring flight." In Journal of the Western Society of Engineers, vol. 8, no. 4, August 1903
by WRIGHT, Wilbur
A PIONEER WORK IN EARLY AMERICAN AVIATIONTHE FIRST MOTORIZED FLIGHT IN HISTORY[Chicago, Journal of the Western Society of Engineers, 1903.] 4to (22 x 14 cm), pp. 400-417, including 8 photographic halftones of the flights. Journal volume number VIII misprinted "III" on front wrapper. Journal bound in contemporary quarter- and corner-morocco with green gross grained morocco. Spine and corners of binding rubbed; otherwise immaculate. First edition of Wilbur Wright's (1867-1912) second report concerning his and his brother Orville's flying experiments, published, like their... Read More
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Zōho Sanpō ketsugishō, 5 kan
by Compiled by Isomura Yoshinori
Printer's colophon: "First year of Jōkyō (1684), [Kyoto] Teramachi Street, below (i.e., south of) Nijo [Street], Nakamura Gohei." Japanese xylographic edition [Block, half folio], 20.6 x 14.3 cm. Columns per page, irregular. Illustrated. Fukuro-toji (i.e. thread) binding, uniform original wrappers with printed title labels reading Tōsho Sanpō ketsugishō. 5 vols. 1: 1-2 (preface, dated 1684), 3-4 (table of contents), 5-6 (preface, undated), 7-46 ff. 2:1-2 (table of contents), 3-42 ff. 3:... Read More
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IRON MAN
WITH 4 ENGRAVINGS
De ferro ejusque nivis praeparatione dissertatio physico-chymica in qua varia de ipso metallo explicantur.
by ZANNICHELLI, Gian Girolamo.
8vo (18.6 x 12 cm), [8] ff. (the first blank), 79 pp., [1] p. blank verso, with [4] ff. engraved plates (one of which is folding), woodcut printer's device on title and woodcut initials. Bound in contemporary vellum, title piece laid to spine, block-printed floral pastedowns, green silk ribbon bookmark. Very minor rubbing and staining to spine and boards. Internally very well preserved, with only the occasional minor stain. Rare first edition of an early illustrated mineralogical treatise devoted to the... Read More
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Trattato teorico-pratico di prospettiva di Eustachio Zanotti
by ZANOTTI, Eustachio
Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1766. * DSB XIV.589; Riccardi II.654-5: “raro e pregiato” (erroneously calls for only 10 plates); Cicognara 874; Gamba 2508; Vagnetti, pp. 456-57. First edition and internally a fine, untrimmed copy of this general treatise on perspective by the astronomer and mathematician Eustachio Zanotti. “Eustachio Zanotti’s treatise, as would be expected from a scientist of his quality, provides an analytical treatment of the mathematics of perspective at a highly professional level... He is aware that... Read More
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