ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATED WORKS ON THE NEW WORLD
La Historia del Mondo Nuovo
by BENZONI, Girolamo
8vo. (4) 179, (1) ff., including author portrait and 18 half-page woodcuts. Bound in contemporary limp vellum with title inked on spine, later endpapers, leaf 103 with repaired marginal tear. Some worming and staining to binding, some spotting, occasional foxing; several early ownership inscriptions scored on title; generally very good.Scarce first complete edition (with 19 woodcuts) of the second printed work devoted to the customs of the American Indians illustrated from life. This edition is augmented with a section on... Read More
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Theatrum instrumentorum et Machinarum
by BESSON, Jacques
Lyons: Barthelemy Vincent, 1578. Early edition, with Latin commentary, of the most influential illustrated technological compendium of the Renaissance, “the first independent work on machinery published” – Zeitlinger
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Othello. G. Verdi.
by BIGNAMI, Vespasiano
VERDI'S OTELLO COMES TO PARIS Lithograph poster (88 x 65 cm, outer dimensions of frame), color lithograph, framed and glazed (plexi). Centerfold, very minor toning, excellent. Very rare color lithograph poster produced in conjunction with the Paris premier of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello. Verdi (1813-1901) had retired from opera after Aida in 1871, but his publisher, Giulo Ricordi (1840-1912), and the librettist Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) at last convinced him to return with Otello, which premiered on 5 February 1887 at the Teatro... Read More
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Galerie et Rotonde Colbert conduisant de la rue Vivienne au Palais-Royal. Plan du rez-de-chaussée, vue perspective de la galerie et de la rotonde, d’après les plans et dessins de J. Billaud, architecte de la Galerie, terminée en 1827
by BILLAUD, Jacques
GALERIE COLBERT, PARIS, NOW PART OF BnFNO U.S. COPIES Paris, Chez J. Billaud; Engelmann & Mantoux, Imprimeurs Lithographes; Imprimé chez Paul Renouard, 1828. Folio (60.5 x 45.4 cm, 44.5 x 34 cm and smaller at platemark). Letterpress title and four lithographed plates after drawings by Billaud, the first ("Plan des Galeries & Rotonde Colbert…Explication du plan") lithographed by Mantoux, the second ("Vue intérieure de la Galerie et Rotonde Colbert, Prise du passage des Pavillons descendant au Palais Royale") by Levelly and Engelman,... Read More
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Specimina Anatomica, cum clarriss. Doctissimorumque Virorum Epistolis aliquot & Testimoniis
by BILS, D.D. Ludovici de
Rotterdam: Arnoldus Leers, 1661. Hardcover. Very Good. 64mo - up to 3" tall. 27 pp., with three engravings. [Bound with:]___ Epistolica Dissertatio, Rotterdam, Joannis Naerani, 1659. 6 pp., with one engraving. [Bound with:]___ Epistola Apologetica. Rotterdam, Arnoldus Leers, 1661. 10 pp. [Bound with:]___ Omnibus verae Anatome Studiosis. Rotterdam, Joannem Naeranum, 1660. 4 pp. [And with:] MAJOR, Johannis. Historia Anatomica Calculorum. Lipsius, Johan-Ericus Hahnius, 1663. 14ff. 4to. [19.8 x 15.5]. Marbled paper over thin pine boards with some cracking, and a... Read More
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Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas
by BLAEU, W
Amsterdam, 1630. No Binding. Near Fine. 16 x 21 inches. Fine original color; excellent condition. The most richly decorative, early map of the island in a very attractive, original-colored example. It was based on Richard Norwood's 1618 chart, executed in behalf of the Bermuda Company. The map thus includes the parishes and tribes allotted to the company's principal members, with their names included, most of which survive to this day. The map vividly illustrates how hazardous the... Read More
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Delle famose donne [De mulieribus claris]
by BOCCACCIO, Giovanni / ALBANZANI, Donato degli (trans.) / PICCARDI, Francesco di Pagolo (scribe) / TUCCI, Angolo (cartolaio)
BOCCACCIO'S FAMOUS WOMEN, SIGNED AND DATED SEPTEMBER 1456 BY THE SCRIBE COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED WITH EARLY POEMS ON WOMEN, SOME UNPUBLISHED [Florence], F. di Pagolo Piccardi, 1456. 4to manuscript on paper (27.3 x 19.5 cm), [133] ff. (consisting of 13 quinions and 3 singletons), written in a single column of thirty lines, f. 1r. with white-vine initial 'D' and white-vine lower border in gold, blue, green, pink and white (with laurel wreath with blank space for arms; later, unidentified arms added in brown ink),... Read More
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Eccellenza della Statua del San Giorgio di Donatello Scultore Fiorentino, posta nella facciata di fuori d'Orsan Michele
by BOCCHI, Francesco
THE FIRST MONOGRAPH DEVOTED TO A CELEBRATED WORK OF ART, ON DONATELLO'S STATUE OF ST. GEORGE Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1584. 8vo (15.5 x 10.2 cm), 106 pp., [3] ff., without final blank. Bound in calf, red morocco title label on spine with title gilt. Light foxing on title and scattered leaves, generally in margin and some negligible soiling on a single leaf; generally very good. Rare first edition of the earliest monograph devoted to a specific work of art (Schlosser, p. 391), an... Read More
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Theatrum Machinarum Novum, das ist, Neu-vermehrter Schauplatz der Mechanischen Künsten
by BÖCKLER, Georg Andreas
Nuremberg: Paulus Fürsten, 1673. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. (Frontispiece dated 1661). Folio [33 x 21.5 cm], (6) ff., 44 pp., 154 numbered engraved plates. Bound in original blindstamped vellum over wooden boards, raised bands on spine, with title written in ink in an old hand, clasps and ties present. Some tiny wormholes in blank margin of engraved title and a few leaves; some minor handsoiling; small and light waterstain in... Read More
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Les Malades de Belle Humeur ou Lettres Divertissantes ecrites de Chaudray
by [BORDELON, Laurent, Abbè de.]
12mo [15.9 x 8.9 cm], (6) ff., 424 (i.e. 432) pp., with an added folding plate [26.1 x 26.1 cm]. Bound in contemporary French mottled calf, covers triple gilt ruled, spine in six compartments, red morocco title label, marbled end papers and marbled edges, engraved ex-libris of Maurice Villaret on front-end paste down. Covers and corners somewhat rubbed. Some leaves toned, an occasional spot in margin, otherwise very good. Very rare second edition (first in 1697) of an enigmatic and... Read More
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De Motionibus Naturalibus a Gravitate Pendentibus Liber
by BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso
(4) ff., 566 pp., (3) ff. Bound in contemporary vellum. Excellent. Very rare first edition of this important work on mechanics by Borelli and the first treatise on capillarity. It contains the important investigations from which the author formulated the law that the height of the ascent of liquids in capillary tubes is inversely proportional to their diameters. His investigations also led him to the conclusion that the phenomenon of capillarity is independent of the pressure... Read More
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Ueber das Anquicken der gold-und silberhaltigen Erze, Rohsteine, Schwarkupfer und Huttenspeise
by BORN, Ignaz Elder von
Vienna: Christian Freidrich Wappier, 1786. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. 24 x 18 cm], (8) ff., 227 pp., front.; 21 folding plates and 2 decorative vignettes signed "Iac. Adam." Contemporary turquoise paper over boards, with stamped decorative border. Head of spine slightly chipped, and joints weak. Title page backed and frontispiece and title cropped at top. Toning and minor foxing. Very good overall. First edition of... Read More
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Herbolario Volgare, nel qual e le virtu de le herbe, & molti altri simplici se dechiarano.
by [HERBAL / BOTANY]
WITH MANUSCRIPT ANNOTATIONS IN PORTUGUESE MENTIONING BRAZIL 8vo (14.4 x 9.6 cm), [180] ff., with 151 large woodcut illustrations of which 149 are of plants. Bound somewhat tightly in later vellum over boards, covers gilt-ruled, spine gilt with morocco title pieces, a.e.g. Some marginalia cropped at time of re-binding as well as 2 pages of manuscript annotations in Portuguese. Minor tear repaired at edge of title, just touching woodcut border; some minor soiling, but generally a fresh copy with dark strikes... Read More
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Bowles's New One-Sheet Map Of New England;
by BOWLES & CARVER/ JEFFERYS, T
London, 1796. No Binding. Near Fine. 25 x 20 ½ inches. Fine original wash color, slightly refreshed; light centerfold discoloration, else excellent condition. This attractive, separately published map provides a fascinating portrait of the borders of the former New England colonies at a time when some were in the process of becoming states. For example, this was one of the first maps to show Vermont as a state (admitted 1791). A note near the top printed border... Read More
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PIONEERING HYDROTHERAPY
Quam salubria balnea sint: cum ad sanitatem tuendam, tum ad morbos curandos, dialogus adversus neotericos medicos. Rome: A. Bladus de Asula, 1535.
by BRANCALEONI, Giovanni Francesco
4to. [20 x 14.4 cm], (30) ff. Woodcut printer's device on title, two woodcut initials. Bound in old stiff vellum stained green (rather spotted and abraded). Contemporary marginal annotations throughout, some possibly by Ottaviano Caligari (?). Scattered leaves lightly soiled, paper flaws in blank margins of ff. D, G, but generally very good. Rare first edition of this influential balneological treatise by one of the founding fathers of hydrotherapy. A modern interpretation of Galen, Avicenna and Hippocrates, Brancaleoni's work promoted the... Read More
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THIRTY NEW BRAZILIAN PLANTS
DESCRIBED BY LINNAEUS' FOREMOST DISCIPLE
Plantarum brasiliensium. Decas Prima / Secunda / Tertia.
by [BRAZIL] / THUNBERG, Carol Peter; BILLBERG, Immanuel; AHLBERG, Carolus Gustavus; HOLM, Carolus Otto
Three separately published parts. 4to. [20 x 16.5, 20.5 x 16, and 21 x 17 cm]. I: (1) f., 16 pp., with engraved plates of Lobelia westiniana [31 cm x 20.5 cm] and Rhexia imbricata & Berberis laurifolia [30 cm x 20.5 cm]. II: (1) f. 11 pp. III: (2) ff., 13 pp., engraved plate of Billbergia speciosa [35.5cm x 22cm]. Title pages slightly dusty. Part II unbound. Generally excellent. A rare series of three consecutively printed dissertations (2 of them... Read More
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Carte Des Etats-Unis D'Amerique et Du Cours Du Mississipi
by BRION DE LA TOUR, L./ ESNAUTS & RAPILLY
Paris, 1784. No Binding. Very Good. 20 x 27 ½ inches. Original outline color; a few stains, else excellent condition. Separately published. A beautiful, crisp example of a map published shortly after the post-Revolutionary War treaty negotiations and to show its results. It was one of the first printed maps to have in its title the term United States ("Etats-Unis"), to depict the American flag, and to show the borders of the fledgling country as set out... Read More
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Relation de plusieurs Voyages faits en Hongrie, Servie, Bulgarie, Macedoine, Thesalie, Austriche, Styrie, Carinthie, Carniole & Friuli
by BROWN[E], Edward
THE MINES AND MORES OF EASTERN EUROPE Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1674. 4to, [4] ff., including engraved frontispiece signed L. Cossin after P. Mignard and title, 208 pp., including one woodcut in text, and with 9 plates, of which 3 are folding. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum. Some toning in outer margin of frontispiece and scattered leaves, but a fresh copy in its original binding. Scarce first French edition (expanded from the 1673 English original) of an early illustrated British travelogue to southeastern Europe... Read More
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Opera Aliquot
by CALCAGNINI, Celio
Basel: Froben, 1544. First edition of this collection of writings of the Ferrarese humanist, posthumous but all appearing for the first time, including his proto-Copernican dissertation advocating the movement of the earth.
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Apologia pro Galileo, Mathematico Fiorentino. Ubi disquiritur, utrum ratio philosopahndi, quam Galileus celebrat, faveat sacris scripturis, an adversetur.
by CAMPANELLA, Tomasso
Frankfurt: Erasmus Kempffer for Godfried Tampach, 1622. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, [23.5 x 17 cm]. 58 pp, [1 integral blank]. Bound in old vellum, rebacked with vellum spine, endpapers renewed. Pages somewhat spotted as typical of Frankfurt printings of the time, mainly untrimmed at head and foot, occasional minute restorations to blank margins. Scarce first edition of this important polemic: Campanella's contribution to the defence of Galileo, written in 1616 during the latter's first brush with the authorities but only... Read More
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In Geometria Male Restaurata ab authore A.S.L. rimae detectae a Petro Paolo Caravagio
by CARAVAGIO, Petro Paolo
Milan: Ludovici Montiae, 1650. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. [23 x 16.5 cm], (4) ff., 79 pp., 1 folded plate. Bound in contemporary limp vellum; faint waterstain at upper corner of first 8 leaves, small inkstain on one preliminary leaf; otherwise excellent.Extremely rare first and only edition of this polemical volume of Italian geometry, responding to recent appropriations of the work of great French mathematician François Viète. In 1644 and 1648, respectively, the... Read More
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Istruzione Elementare per gli studiosi della Scultura
by CARRADORI, Francesco
Florence: Tipografia della Società Letteraria, 1802. Rare first edition of this illustrated treatise on the art of sculpture by Carradori, a neoclassical sculptor and professor at the Florentine Academy. The work considers basic tools and materials of the craft: clay, wax, stucco, stone and marble as well as the straw, wire, cloth and glue for ephemeral or festival decorations. There follows an outline of human anatomy and the basic methods of modelling in clay, direct and indirect stone carving,... Read More
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Chalcanthium Dodecaporion sive Duodecim Dubitationes in usu olei Vitrioli et defensio Antiquorum in Arsenici...ad Raymundum Minderum
by CASTELLO, Pietro
Rome: Mascardi, 1629. Rare first edition of this polemical work against the use of liquid salts and defending in their their stead the controlled use of arsenic, bound with three other titles by the same author on 1) pharmacy, 2) a distilled vitriolic spirit, and 3) the use of hellebore.
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Sfera Astronomica del Padre Bonaventura Cavalieri Lettore Primario delle Matematiche nello Studio di Bologna Con l’uso della Figura, e prattiche di Essa…
by CAVALIERI, Bonaventura
Rome: Molo, 1690. Rare first edition of this posthumously published astronomical primer which treats a select number of physics problems.
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Directorium generale uranometricum in quo trigonometriae logarithmicae fundamenta, ac regulae demonstrantur, astronomicaeq; supputationes ad solam fere unigarem additionem reductuntur... [Including:] Tabvla trigonom. logarithmica in qua sinus totus 10000
by CAVALIERI, Bonaventura
Bologna: Nicolai Tebaldini, 1632. Rare first edition of the first work on logarithms printed in Italy and this great mathematician's first published work. Professor of Mathematics at Bologna, the Milanese Cavalieri introduced and popularized logarithms throughout his country within a generation of Napier's invention of these "valuable auxiliaries to numerical calculation." The Directorium covers the construction, uses, and applications of logarithms, "together with noteworthy developments in trigonometry and applications to astronomy" (E. Carruccio in DSB III.152). It also contains the... Read More
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