Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit: caeterum diu desideratum, demum repertum non iuuenis recognouit, & uelut postliminio studiosis restituit. Ex quo reliquorum, qui diis propiciis propediem accedent, lector coniecturam facias licebit
by Erasmus, Desiderius (ca.1466-1536)
Basel: Apud Ioan. Froben. Mense Xbri., 1520. SECOND FROBEN EDITION (1st ed. May 1520). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary reversed-deerskin (with minor stains and surface wear). A fine, tall, and fresh copy. Woodcut border by Hans Holbein to title page, additional woodcut borders to second leaf and the opening leaf of the text. Woodcut Froben device on verso of final leaf. Neat contemporary annotations in the margins, a few trivial marginal stains, final leaf with light crease, light... Read More
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![Vita Philosophorum et Poetaru[m] : cum auctoritatibus et sententiis aureis eorunde[m] annexis](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/637/934/1510934637.12.l.jpg)
Vita Philosophorum et Poetaru[m] : cum auctoritatibus et sententiis aureis eorunde[m] annexis
by ERASMUS. ULRICH VON HUTTEN. DIOGENES LAERTIUS. 1. Burley, Walter, Pseudo- (ca. 1320); Diogenes Laertius (3rd c. CE)
Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch, 1516. Hardcover. Fine. [Bound with]: 2. Erasmus, Desiderius (1466?-1536) De duplici copia, verborum ac rerum commentarij duo. Ab authore ipso diligentissime recogniti & emaculati, atque in plerisque locis aucti. ... ; Item Epistola Erasmi Roterodami ad Iacobum Vuimphelingium Selestatinum. Strasbourg: Mathias Schürer, October 1516 [And]: 3. Hutten, Ulrich von (1488-1523); Weiditz, Hans (1495- ca. 1536), artist. ΟΥΤΙΣ. Nemo Augsburg: Johann Miller, 9 September 1518 Three... Read More
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Aula Subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, das ist, Untererdische Hofhaltung: ohne welche weder die Herren regiren, noch die Unterthanen gehorchen können : oder, Grundliche Beschreibung derjenigen Sachen so in der Tieffe der Erden wachsen, als aller Ertzen der königlichen und gemeinen Metallen..
by Ercker, Lazarus (ca. 1530-1594)
Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684. First printed in 1574, this is the second edition to include Christian Berward's important lexicon of mining terms, "Interpres Phraseologiae Metallurgicae. Hardcover. Fine. Complete with the engraved title page, which has been folded at the bottom to avoid trimming by the binder. Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and marbled boards with some minor wear. The contents are in very fine condition. Small adhesion scar to title. Illustrated with 41 large woodcuts. "Ercker's... Read More
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![[Title in Greek and Latin] Scholia in septem Euripidis tragoedias ex antiquis exemplaribus ab Arsenio archiepiscopo Mombasiae collecta, & nunc primum in lucem edita. M. D. XXXIIII](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/439/655/1701655439.0.l.jpg)
[Title in Greek and Latin] Scholia in septem Euripidis tragoedias ex antiquis exemplaribus ab Arsenio archiepiscopo Mombasiae collecta, & nunc primum in lucem edita. M. D. XXXIIII
by Euripides (484-406 B.C.); Apostolis (also called "Arsenios"), Aristobulus, Bishop of Monemvasia (1468/9–1535)
Venice: in officina Lucaeantonij Iuntae, 24 December, 1534. EDITIO PRINCEPS. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary limp vellum (vellum lightly worn and soiled, binding coming loose from text block at rear). Old library tickets on spine and upper cover. Internally fine with some very light damp-staining. Giunta lily device on title. A large copy, with about a dozen leaves uncut. Text in Greek. The type (20 lines=90 mm, Kallierges 2) was cut and used by the printer Zacharias Kallierges... Read More
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![[Title in Greek]: Τραγωιδιαι Οκτωκαιδεκα [followed by Latin]: Euripidis Tragoediae Octodecim, Hecuba Orestes Phoenissae Medea Hippolytus Alcestis [etc]..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/659/926/1738926659.0.l.jpg)
[Title in Greek]: Τραγωιδιαι Οκτωκαιδεκα [followed by Latin]: Euripidis Tragoediae Octodecim, Hecuba Orestes Phoenissae Medea Hippolytus Alcestis [etc]..
by Euripides (484-406 B.C.)
Basel: Joannes Herwagen, March, 1537. SECOND EDITION IN GREEK (1st 1503). Hardcover. Fine. An excellent copy in contemporary in German blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards, complete with the original brass clasps. The binding is a little soiled, but in excellent condition. The text is fresh and clean. Second edition of the tragedies of Euripides in Greek, following the 1503 Aldine edition. The text is printed entirely in Greek, with a brief Latin letter by the publisher, Johann... Read More
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Works, in Greek. Euripidis quæ Extant Omnia: Tragoediæ nempe XX, præter ultimam, omnes completæ: item fragmenta aliarum plusquam LX tragœdiarum; et epistolæ V. Nunc primùm & ipsæ hùc adjectæ: scholia demùm doctorum virorum in septem priores tragœdias, ex diversis antiquis exemplaribus undiquaque collecta & concinnata ab Arsenio Monembasiæ Archiepiscopo. ... Operâ & studio Josuæ Barnes S.T.B. Emmanuelis Collegii apud Cantabrigienses Socii maximè senioris
by Euripides (484-406 B.C.); Barnes, Joshua (1654-1712), editor
Cambridge: Ex officinâ Johan. Hayes, celeberrimæ Academiæ typographi. Impensis Richardi Green bibliopolæ Cantab, 1694. FIRST EDITION of Joshua Barnes’ Euripides. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments; there is an attractive red morocco lettering piece, gilt, on the spine. Aside from light wear and bumping to the corners, the binding is very well preserved. Internally, this copy is in excellent condition throughout. The Greek text is surrounded... Read More
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![Ein yder sehe für sich und verberg sich hinder keinen Schmeichler. [with] Ein schöne Histori von dem Neidigen und dem Geitzigen [and] Ein yder trag sein joch dise Zeit](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/151/627/1563627151.5.l.jpg)
Ein yder sehe für sich und verberg sich hinder keinen Schmeichler. [with] Ein schöne Histori von dem Neidigen und dem Geitzigen [and] Ein yder trag sein joch dise Zeit
by FABLES. FOLK TALES. Sachs, Hans (1494-1576); Aesop; Avianus (ca. 400 CE)
Nuremberg: Gedrückt zu Nürnberg durch Friderich Gutknecht, 1554. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. The first work was first printed in 1535 as "Eyn new gedichte von den Schmeichlern"( VD16 S 478). The third fable appeared as a broadside ca. 1540 (Weller 82, not in VD16). I have been unable to trace an earlier ed. of the second fable. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern vellum over boards (soiled, slightly bowed). The text is in very good condition with a little light... Read More
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Rime di Agnolo del Favilla nelle reali nozze de serenissimi principi di Toscana Cosimo Medici e Maria Maddalena d'Austria
by FESTIVALS. CEREMONIES. Favilla, Agnolo del
Florence: Appresso Bartolomeo Sermartelli e frateli, 1608. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in early 20th c. quarter red Morocco and marbled boards (small repairs to head and foot of spine). A fine copy with scattered mild spotting. Complete with the folding plate of the banquet (signed “Mattheus Greuter excudit”.) Two lines have been erased from the plate, as is the case in all copies I have examined. Manuscript foliation at head of first leaf. With the combined woodcut... Read More
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Esequie dell'Altezza Reale del Serenissimo Cosimo III Granduca di Toscana celebrate in Firenze dall’ A.R. Del Serenissimo Gio: Gastone Granduca di Toscana descritte da Leonardo del Riccio
by FESTIVALS & FUNERALS. COSIMO III de’ MEDICI, GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY (d. 1723); Del Riccio, Leonardo
Florence: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1725. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, edges of text-block sprinkled red. A very fine copy, printed on thick paper. The large, folding plate of the catafalque (51 x 35 cm.) is also in fine condition. An account of the funeral ceremonies for Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 30 Oct. 1723). The ceremonies took place in the basilica of San Lorenzo... Read More
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Circo agonale di Roma restituito all'antica forma con illuminazioni e macchine artificiali dall'E.mo, e R.mo Cardinale di Polignac ministro di S.M. Christianissima per celebrare il felice nascimento
by ROME. FESTIVALS
Rome: Nella Stamperia di Gio. Battista de Caporali, per andare all'Orso, 1729. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in later carta rustica. A fine, fresh copy on crisp paper. Very faint soiling to upper margin. A large historiated initial, decorative head- and tail-pieces. With the arms of Cardinal Polignac on the title page. A very rare account of the elaborate transformation of Piazza Navona to celebrate the birth of the Dauphin Louis, son of King Louis XV of France... Read More
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![Novae Coelestium Terrestriumq[ue] Rerum Observationes, et fortasse hactenus non vulgatae à Francisco Fontana, specillis a se inventis, et ad summam perfectionem perductis editae](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/014/919/1738919014.0.l.jpg)
Novae Coelestium Terrestriumq[ue] Rerum Observationes, et fortasse hactenus non vulgatae à Francisco Fontana, specillis a se inventis, et ad summam perfectionem perductis editae
by Fontana, Francesco (1602-1656)
Naples: Apud Gaffarum, Mense Februarii, 1646. SOLE EDITION of one of the great illustrated books of early observational astronomy, written by the Neapolitan Francesco Fontana, "the most renowned Italian telescope maker"(DSB) of his time. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary parchment (soiled and with very small defects), re-cased and with the front end-paper renewed. A fine copy with minor blemishes and some mild toning; there is a small patch covering a marginal hole, the patch intruding on an engraving.... Read More
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![Rerum in ecclesia gestarum, quae postremis et periculosis his temporibus evenerunt maximarumque per Europam persecutionem ac sanctorum Dei martyrum caeterarumq[ue] rerum si quae insignioris exempli sint, digesti per regna & nationes commentarii : pars prima in qua primùm de rebus per Angliam & Scotiam gestis ... narratio continetur](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/151/155/1769155151.0.l.jpg)
Rerum in ecclesia gestarum, quae postremis et periculosis his temporibus evenerunt maximarumque per Europam persecutionem ac sanctorum Dei martyrum caeterarumq[ue] rerum si quae insignioris exempli sint, digesti per regna & nationes commentarii : pars prima in qua primùm de rebus per Angliam & Scotiam gestis ... narratio continetur
by Foxe, John (1516/17-1587)
Basel: Per Nicolaum Brylingerum, et Ioannem Oporinum, 1559. Hardcover. Fine. [bound with] Pantaleon, Heinrich (1522-1595) Martyrum historia hoc est maximarum per Europam persecutionum ac sanctorum dei Martyrum, caeterarumque rerum insignium, in Ecclesia Christi postremis et periculosis his temporibus gestarum, atque certo consilio per Regna et Nationes distributarum, Commentarii. Pars Secunda Qvvm autem in prima parte Martyres salte[m] Angliae & Scotiae, a D. Ioanne Foxo Anglo superioribus annis sint annotatae, hac demum secunda nunc primum res... Read More
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Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa : e filosofo e matematico primario del serenissimo gr. duca di Toscana doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico e copernicano: proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche e naturali tanto per l'una quanto per l'altra parte
by Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
Florence: Per Gio: Batista Landini, 1632. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary limp vellum (discreet repair to a tear in the spine). A fine copy with a very rich impression of the frontispiece. A few leaves lightly toned, light damp-stain to outer margin of the first few leaves, marginal 17th c. note on leaf P8, final blank torn. With the added engraved frontispiece depicting Aristotle, Copernicus and Ptolemy discussing the heliocentric and geocentric models of the solar... Read More
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L'Archittettura civile preparata su la geometria, e ridotta alle prospettive. Considerazioni pratiche di Ferdinando Galli Bibiena cittadino Bolognese Architetto Primario, Capo Mastro Maggiore, e Pittore di Camera, e Feste di Teatro della Maestà, Dissegnate e descritte in cinque parti. La prima contiene la Geometria, e avvertimenti, prima che à fabbricar si pervenga. La seconda. un utile Trattato dell'Architettura civile in generale, e le divisioni di essa molto facilitate. La Terza. La Prospettiva commune, orizontale, e di sotto in sù. La Quarta. Un brieve discorso di Pittura, e la Prospettiva per li Pittori di Figure, colla nuova Prospettiva delle Scene Teatrali vedute per angolo, oltre le praticate da tutti gli altri. La Quinta. La Mecanica, ò arte di movere, reggere, e traspostar pesi. Dedicata Alla Sacra Cattolica Real Maestà di Carlo III. Re delle Spagne, d'Ungheria, Boemia &c
by Galli Bibiena, Ferdinando (1657-1743)
Parma: Paolo Monti, 1711. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Hardcover. Fine. A genuine, unsophisticated copy with no interventions. Bound in contemporary stiff parchment (worn, soiled and stained, corners and extremities worn with some restorations. The text is in overall fine condition, the paper fine, the margins broad, with just cosmetic faults: Marginal finger-soiling, heavier to first two leaves; pages 49-50, 135-136, and a few other leaves towards the end with marginal damp-stains, wrinkled gutter of plate opposite p. 95... Read More
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![Satyricon, Cum Fragmento nuper Tragurii reperto. Accedunt diversorum Poetarum Lusus in Priapum, Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonii cento nuptialis, Cupido crucifixus, Epistolae de Cleopatra, & alia nonnulla. Omnia Commentariis, & Notis Doctorum Virorum illustrata. Concinnante Michaele Hadrianide. [With] Integrum Titi Petronii Arbitri Fragmentum, Ex antiquo codice Traguriensi Romae exscriptum; cum Apologia Marini Statilii I.V.D.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/418/384/1624384418.0.l.jpg)
Satyricon, Cum Fragmento nuper Tragurii reperto. Accedunt diversorum Poetarum Lusus in Priapum, Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonii cento nuptialis, Cupido crucifixus, Epistolae de Cleopatra, & alia nonnulla. Omnia Commentariis, & Notis Doctorum Virorum illustrata. Concinnante Michaele Hadrianide. [With] Integrum Titi Petronii Arbitri Fragmentum, Ex antiquo codice Traguriensi Romae exscriptum; cum Apologia Marini Statilii I.V.D.
by GASTRONOMY. CODICOLOGY. Petronius Arbiter, Titus (d. 66 A.D.)
Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1669 and, 1671. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English calf (corners lightly bumped.) A fine copy, with the added, engraved title page by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708). Divisional title page for the "Fragmentum". Both title pages bear Blaeu's printer's device. Michael Hadrianides' (Michael Adriaens') 1669 edition of Petronius is the first to incorporate the manuscript discovered in Traù, Croatia, which contained the hitherto unknown text of the "Cena Trimalchionis" (the Dinner of... Read More
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De Naturae Divinis Characterismis; seu Raris & admirandis spectaculis, causis, indiciis, proprietatibus rerum in partibus singulis universi, Libri II. Auctore D. Corn. Gemma, Louaniensi, Regio Medicinae professore. Peculiarem partis utriusque materiem vel argumentum sequens pagina planius explicabit
by Gemma, Cornelius (1535-1579)
Antwerp: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A fine, tall copy in its original limp vellum binding (vellum lightly soiled, ties perished). Occasional light marginal foxing and the occasional light ink stain. Some short passages neatly underlined. Small damp-stain at the head of gathering a. Deaccession stamp (and duplicate stamp of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich) on title verso. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts of deformities and monstrosities; anatomical illustrations (relating to obstetrics); kidney stones, minerals and... Read More
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![Vitae Duodecim Vicecomitum Mediolani Principum. [Bound with] Estienne, Charles (1504-1564), Abbregé de l'histoire Des Vicontes Et Dvcz de Milan, le droict desquels appartient a la couronne de France. Paris: Charles Estienne 1552](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/563/284/1673284563.0.l.jpg)
Vitae Duodecim Vicecomitum Mediolani Principum. [Bound with] Estienne, Charles (1504-1564), Abbregé de l'histoire Des Vicontes Et Dvcz de Milan, le droict desquels appartient a la couronne de France. Paris: Charles Estienne 1552
by Giovio, Paolo (1483-1552)
Paris: Ex officina Rob. Stephani, typographi Regii, 1549. FIRST EDITIONS. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary limp vellum. Fine, broad-margined copies with minor faults: I. Text-block separating from first sewing support at front. Title lightly soiled at edges, 2 small ink spots; first 5 lvs with minor fraying at lower corner; slim, light dampstain along upper margin of gathering A, lower margin of gathering B; small stain in margin of leaf K8. II. Light dampstain at head, leaves D1-3... Read More
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Discorsi... intorno al comporre de i Romanzi, delle Comedie, e delle Tragedie, e di altre maniere di Poesie. Con la tavola delle cose piu notabili in tutti essi discorsi contenute
by Giraldi, Giambattista Cinzio (1504-1573)
Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari e fratelli, 1554. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Contemporary limp vellum, colored edges, some light marginal foxing, v. light stain on p. 80. A very nice copy with the 18th-c. engraved bookplate of Felice Durando Count of Villa (1729-1791), famous for his erudition and his famous library. With the printer's device on the title page and at the end of the volume. FIRST EDITION of Giraldi's most important contribution to literary criticism and his... Read More
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The art of glass. Shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel. Likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses. To which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling. Also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers. A work containing many secrets and curiosities never before discovered. Illustrated with proper sculptures. Written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English. With an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours
by GLASS. CHEMISTRY. Haudicquer de Blancourt, Jean, approximately 1650?-1704); Neri, Antonio (d. 1614); Merret, Christopher (1614-1695)
London: printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon, D. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh at the Rose and Crown, and R. Wilkin at the King's-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1699. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Jean Haudicquer de Blancourt's "De l'art de la verrerie. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, rebacked. Very fine condition. Two plates lightly browned, marginal foxing to a few leaves. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates of... Read More
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De Confessione Amantis
by Gower, John (1325?-1408)
London: In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette printer to the kingis grace, 1532. SECOND EDITION (1st ed. 1483). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. russia, boards ruled by a triple filet, gilt. Spine ruled in compartments, author, title and date on spine, gilt. The title is printed within a decorative woodcut border copied from master printer Geoffroy Tory. Text in black letter, double columns. With 16th c. signatures of John Man, John Smyth and Edward Hertford, and a few... Read More
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Modo brevissimo da far orioli orizontali, et verticali
by Grassi, Orazio, S.J. (1583-1654)
Italy: 17th c.. Hardcover. Fine. 17th c. manuscript in Italian on paper, illustrated with five diagrams, one of them tipped in. Bound in modern marbled boards. Leaves skillfully re-margined. Shine-through and occasional ink blots. From the collection of Robert B. Honeyman (1979, III, n°1195). A practical manual for making sundials, both horizontal and vertical. The last sentence ("ex Patre Horatio Grassio Socie[tatis] Jesu.") indicates that the text is the work of the Jesuit mathematician, astronomer, and architect, Father... Read More
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Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica De Vacuo Spatio Primùm à R.P. Gaspare Schotto, è Societate Jesu, & Herbipolitanae Academiae Matheseos Professore: Nunc verò ab ipso Auctore Perfectiùs edita, variisque aliis Experimentis aucta. Quibus accesserunt simul certa quaedam De Aeris Pondere circa Terram; de Virtutibus Mundanis, & Systemate Mundi Planetario; sicut & de Stellis Fixis, ac Spatio illo Immenso, quod tàm intra quam extra eas funditur
by Guericke, Otto von (1602-1686)
Amsterdam: Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, 1672. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 18th c. pigskin, richly tooled in blind and with two spine labels. A fine copy. Portrait leaf skillfully re-margined, small nick in blank margin of leaf Z2, light dampstain in blank margin of one folding plate. Wormtrail to pastedown, flyleaves and blank margin of portrait, clean tear to p. 131-2 with no loss; early cipher in blank margin of engraved and printed title pages. The... Read More
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Dialexis de novae et prius incognitae stellae inusitatae magnitudinis et splendidissimi luminis apparitione, & de eiusdem stellae vero loco constituendo. Accesserunt aliorum quoque doctissimorum virorum de eadem stella scripta
by Hájek z Hájku, Tadeáš (Hagecius, Thaddaeus) (1525-1600)
Frankfurt: A. Wechel for S. Feyerabend, 1574. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A very fine copy with a few small spots and a minor marginal stain to one leaf. With woodcut diagrams and a full-page woodcut map showing the nova within the constellation of Cassiopeia personified. "The style of this map was copied directly from Dürer" (Warner). Original limp vellum binding (defective at head of spine) from a medieval manuscript leaf. Extremely rare. Harvard and Stanford only in North... Read More
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De Motu Cordis & Sanguinis in animalibus, Anatomica Exercitatio. Cum refutationibus Aemylii Parisani, Romani, philosophi, ac medici Veniti; et Jacobi Primrosii, in Londinensi collegio doctoris medici
by Harvey, William (1578-1657)
Leiden: Johann Maire, 1639. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto: 3 books in 1 vol. 19.2 x 14.4 cm. I. Harvey: [iv], 267, [i]; 84, [iv] pp., with 2 engraved plates on two inserted leaves. Collation: (?)2, π2 (the plates), A-Z4, Aa-Kk4, Ll2; (a)-k4, l2, π2 (Ad Lectorem). II. Aselli: [viii], 104, [8] pp., with 4 engraved plates on 4 inserted leaves. Collation: )?(4, π4 (plates with letterpress on versos), A-O4. III. Beckher: (xvi), 170, (vi) pp. Collation: *4, **4, A-Y4.... Read More
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Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei
by Henricus de Herpf (c.1410-1477)
Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy, in an impressive binding, of the first edition, printed by Gutenberg’s apprentice, Peter Schoeffer. Bound in contemporary Bamberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 006, EBDB w000078, Bamberg Minoritenkloster], with flyleaves from vellum manuscript antiphonal, brass catch-plates with sphinxes, straps and clasps intact. Wormholes to both boards, endpapers renewed, binding a little soiled. Incipit and printer’s device printed in red. Rubricated throughout, some of the... Read More
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