Alpes Caesae, Hoc est, Andreae Caesalpini Itali, Monstrosa & Superba Dogmata
by [CESALPINO, Andrea] / TAURELLO, Nicolaus
Frankfurt: Zacharias Palthenius, 1597. Rare first edition of this commentary on Cesalpino’s Quaestionum peripeteticarum (1571) by Nicolai Taurelius, Professor of Medicine and Philosophy in Altdorf, of interest for the contemporary reception of Cesalpino as well as the spread of his doctrines outside of Italy.
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Catalogus gloriae mundi
by CHASSENEUX, Bathélemy de
Lyons: (Regnault for) Vincentius, 1546. Rare second edition of this discursive and illustrated survey of all ranks of society by the Lyonnais jurist Chasseneux, utilizing the original woodblocks of the 1529 first edition.
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![A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN MAP OF CHINA IN ENGLISH<br>IN RICH ORIGINAL HANDCOLOR<br>Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. [London, 1606].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/317/706/1359706317.0.l.jpg)
A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN MAP OF CHINA IN ENGLISH
IN RICH ORIGINAL HANDCOLOR
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. [London, 1606].
by [China] ORTELIUS, A. / BARBUDA, Luis Jorge de.
14 3/8 x 18 3/8 inches. Fine original hand color; slight split at centerfold, fine condition. ... Read More
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Clarks' Map of Fairfield County, Connecticut
by CLARK, R
Philadelphia, 1858. No Binding. Very Good. 60 x 52 inches. Attached to original wooden rollers; vibrant original color, refreshed; expertly conserved-re-mounted on new linen, usual separations, minor losses, very good. Richly illustrated wall map of Fairfield County, Connecticut, with 23 inset city and town plans, including ones of Greenwich, Westport, New Canaan, Weston, Wilton, and Fairfield. Both the main map and the insets provide the names and locations of homes throughout the area. Flanking the map are... Read More
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29 MOST PROMINENT ARTISTS IN LATE-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRANCE
WITH AN EXPLANATORY KEY
Réunion d'artistes / Dédiée aux amateurs des arts. Tirée du cabinet de Monsieur Bouillier
by CLEMENT, Alexandre after BOILLY, Louis Léopold
Lower left, below the image: à Paris chez l'Auteur, Cloitre des Bernardins d.ion des Plantes No.136. Bottom center: Imprimé par Bassand. Lower right, below the image: Et à l'Entrepôt de Thé, Rue des fossés Montmartre, no. 6. A stipple engraving (image: 39.5 x 35.5 cm; plate: 54.6 x 43.4 cm; sheet: 64.5 x 48.4 cm). Signature of the printer, P. Bassand, trimmed. A small repair at top of the print. Generally, very good.[with:]CLEMENT, Alexandre after BOILLY, Louis Léopold. Réunion d'artistes.... Read More
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40 Miles Around New York
by H. H. LLOYD & CO
New York,, 1867. Hardcover. Very Good. 22 ¾ x 17 inches. With original red covers, separate; bright original color; some light offsetting, else fine condition. An unusual, scarce, two-sided map, one a large, striking map of the metropolitan region covering a radius of 40 miles in all directions from Manhattan, and the other a street plan of the city and the immediately adjoining areas. The maps, especially the former, reflect the vibrancy of the dynamic, post-Civil War... Read More
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Compendio General de las Contribuciones y Gastos que ocasionam todos los Efectos, Frutos, Caudales y demas que se trafican entre los Reynos de Castilla y America
by [COLONIAL TRADE] / [GARCIA DE PRADO, Joseph]
Cadiz: Don Manuel Esoinosa de los Monteros, 1762. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. [20.5 x 14 cm], 158 pp., (1) f. index. With woodcut head- and tail-pieces, blazon of Charles III, and two Spanish galleons. Bound in mottled calf over boards, spine gilt in six decorative compartments. Somewhat worn at extremities. Generally very good. ... Read More
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Barberinæ Aulæ fornix Romæ Eq. Petri Berettini Cortonensis picturis admirandus cuius spirantes imagines et monocromata in hisce delineamentis ad similitudinem adumbrata Urbani VIII. Pontificis Maximi virtutes exprimunt
by CORTONA, Pietro, da (Berrettini)
Rome: J.J. de Rubeis, 1690. Two rare suites of engravings depicting Pietro da Cortona’s celebrated frescoes in the salone of Palazzo Barberini and the Pitti Palace, then the residence of the Duke of Etro
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![The Costume of Turkey, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings; With Descriptions in English and French. [ADDITIONAL TITLE-PAGE:] Costume de la Turquie; repr?sent? en soixante gravures, avec des explications en Anglois et en Fran?ois.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/893/119/1722119893.0.l.jpg)
The Costume of Turkey, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings; With Descriptions in English and French. [ADDITIONAL TITLE-PAGE:] Costume de la Turquie; repr?sent? en soixante gravures, avec des explications en Anglois et en Fran?ois.
by DALVIMART [or D'ALVIMART], Octavian
"ONE OF THE BASIC WORKS ON TURKISH COSTUME" (ATABEY) Folio (35 x 24.4 cm). Hand-colored vignette title-page in English, followed by title-page in French; preface in English and French (8 pp); table of contents in English and French (2 pp.); and 60 hand-colored stipple engravings (many on paper with watermarks dated 1796) after Octavian Dalvimart and engraved by John Dadley or William Poole (the title-page vignette by R. Jones); each engraving (always printed on the verso) with facing description page (English... Read More
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Le Septiesme Livre d?Amadis de Gaule, mis en Francoys par le Seigneur des Essars Nicolas de Herberay...
by DE HERBERAY, Nicolas
AN INSPIRATION TO CERVANTES 8vo (17.1 x 10.2 cm), [8] ff., CXCII ff., with title woodcut, 2 three-quarter page, and 17 quarter-page woodcut illustrations. Bound in old calf rebacked, with red morocco title on spine and renewed calf corners. Title slightly frayed, tiny wormhole continues throughout text not affecting legibility; occasional light foxing to margin of some leaves. Internally, unwashed & genuine. Extremely rare French edition of the seventh installment of Amadis de Gaule's adventures, the most popular chivalric romance of 16th-century... Read More
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Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium Et Virginia
by DE LAET, J./ GERRITSZ, H
Leiden, 1630. No Binding. Very Good. 10 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches. Fine early hand color; minor mended split, light offsetting, else excellent. Scarce. "First printed map of New Netherlands as well as the first printed map that names New Amsterdam and Manhattan . . ." (Schwartz). It is also the first collectible map to correctly show Manhattan as an island. According to McCorkle, this is also the first map with the place name Massachusetts. This landmark... Read More
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Globe Terrestre Dresse par Fx. Delamrche, Succr. de R. De Vaugondy 1832
by DELAMARCHE, Felix
Paris, 1832. No Binding. Very Good. 9 ½ inches (24 cm.) diameter; 21 inches (53 cm.) total height. Single pedestal globe with horizon ring, armature & meridian all of wood, wear and staining on meridian at point where fits into stand, some chipping at extremities, else fine; globe with vibrant original color and clear, sharp patina; some abrasion & losses, mostly in lower and upper extremities; overall very good plus condition. An attractive, very capably executed table... Read More
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Carte De La Louisiane Et Du Cours Du Mississipi . . . A Paris Chez l'Auteur le Sr. Delisle sur le Quay de l'Horloge avec Privilege du Roy Jun 1718
by DE L'ISLE, G
Paris, 1718. No Binding. Very Good. 19 ¼ x 25 ¾ inches. Original outline color; fine condition. The rare first state (without New Orleans) of the first edition in a superb example. "This map is the mother and main source of all the later maps" (Kohl) of the interior United States and the Mississippi River. It was, in fact, "the first large-scale map accurately showing the lower Mississippi River and surrounding areas." (Schwartz) This was... Read More
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Hell Gate/ Oyster Bay and Huntington/ Huntington Bay
by DESBARRES, J.F.W
London, 1778. No Binding. Near Fine. 30 ¾ x 21 ¼ inches. Original wash color; light staining in fold, else excellent condition. Rare, finely engraved work from one of the greatest maritime atlases ever produced, The Atlantic Neptune. Made for the use of the British navy during the American Revolution, the chart, in the large inset, shows hazardous water passage from Manhattan to Long Island Sound, known as Hellgate, and includes all of Roosevelt Island. The large,... Read More
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Les Principes de la Philosophie. Escrits en Latin, par René Descartes. Et traduits en François par un de ses Amis. Revues, & corrigez en cette derniere Edition
by DESCARTES, René [VIEUSSENS, Raymond]
Paris: Bobin & Le Gras, 1668. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. (55), 477 pp, (2). With 22 full-page woodcuts (1 folding) and 70 woodcut illustrations in text. Ink ownership inscription of Raymond Vieussens to front pastedown & shelf mark on front free endpaper. Bound in contemporary French calf, spine in six compartments with gilt florets and title; some wear to boards but generally an excellent copy, clean and fresh. Scarce... Read More
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A Discourse written by Sir George Downing, The King of Great Britain?s Envoy Extraordinary to the States of the United Provinces. Vindicating his royal master from the insolencies of a scandalous libel, printed under the title of [An Extract out of t
by DOWNING, Sir George
London: John, Luttone,, 1672. Scarce second, much augmented edition (first 1664) of this early tract on New York. Downing, an English diplomat, was accused by the Dutch of instigating the 1663-67 war between the two nations, as a result of which the British gained control over New Amsterdam. In 1664 Downing wrote a letter designed to clear his name, and published it as a 21-page pamphlet; the present edition reprints the original letter, and, as a simple glance at... Read More
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Toutes Les Oeuvres
by DU LAURENS, André
Paris: for Raphael du Petit Val à Rouen, 1613. Scarce, French-language edition of Du Laurens’ works, with a set of 26 anatomical engravings derived from Vesalius and others. "This is the second edition of the French translation of Du Laurens’ collected works... which preceded the publication of the Latin text. In addition to the author's textbook of anatomy and his account of scrofula, the volume contains works on geriatrics, melancholy and other mental afflictions, and an early... Read More
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Institutionum Geometricarum
by DÜRER, Albrecht
Paris: Christian Wechel, 1532. First Latin edition of Dürer’s first book on the theory of art, the Unterweisung der Messung, bound with the first Latin edition of his treatise on fortification, “strictly speaking the first treatise dealing exclusively with this subject” (Krufft), with important material on urban planning and utopianism.1) Illustrated by Dürer himself, the Institutionum Geometricarum outlines the artist’s theory of “the work of art as a natural object”, which became an accepted aesthetic dogma until the 19th... Read More
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Map of Morris's Purchase or West Geneseo in the State of New York: Exhibiting Part of the Lakes Erie and Ontario, the Straights of Niagara, Chautauque Lake and All the Principal Waters ... Purchased by the Holland Land Company
by ELLICOTT, J. & B
New York, 1800. No Binding. Near Fine. 20 ½ x 26 ¼ inches.. A few light stains, else excellent condition. Rare. The first detailed map of New York State west of the Genesee River, in a very strong example. Ellicott produced the map on behalf of the Holland Land Company in order to sell their extensive land holdings in the region. Nestler hails the map as "probably the most important map of western NY when Buffalo was... Read More
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Aula subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum. Das ist: untererdische Hofhaltung, ohne welche weder die Herren regieren, noch die Unterthanen gehorchen kn; Interpres phraseologiae metallurgicae
by ERCKER, Lazarus
WITH 41 WOODCUTS OF MINING AND METALLURGICAL APPARATUS Frankfurt, Paul Hummen for Johann David Zunners, 1672. Small folio (18 x 29.5 cm). Engraved frontispiece signed P. Kilian, (6) ff., 332 pp., (2) ff.; Appendix: (2) ff., 47 pp. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, covers and spine ruled. Ownership inscription of frontispiece shaved in right and lower margin, as often; some waterstain on frontispiece, title and scattered leaves, strictly in margin; a single word scored on p. 143 (i.e. 145r), and replaced in... Read More
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OXFORD ALMANACK FOR 1800 THE PRINTING HOUSE, THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE, AND THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
A View of the Theatre, Printing House, &c. The Oxford Almanack For the Year of our Lord God MDCCC
by [Etching/Oxford]
Drawn by E. Dayes. Engraved by James Basire. J. Cole, Cal. Sc. The sheet measures 57 x 68.5 cm; the plate measures 50 x 56 cm; the image is 45 x 31.5 cm. Edges untrimmed, small tears in the margins. Duty ink stamp in the lower right margin. Generally fresh and excellent.A full-sheet Oxford Almanack for the year 1800 with lists of the kings of England starting from William the Conqueror and of the officers of the university. It is... Read More
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I quindici libri degli elementi di Euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana
by EUCLID / CAIANI, Angelo, ed. & tr
Rome: Antonio Blado Asolano, 1545. Rare first edition of Euclid extracts in Italian, preceded only by Tartaglia’s translation of 1543, of which it is independent. The first Italian translation made directly from the Greek. According to Rose, (Italian Renaissance of Mathematics, p. 189), the editor and translator Cainai omitted the proofs and figures of most editions because they were not Euclidean. According to Thomas-Stanford, it was issued along with (but is bibliographically separate from) a Greek language selection... Read More
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Elementorum geometricorum libri XV
by EUCLID
Basel: Johannes Herwagen, 1546. A genuine and attractive copy of the Basel Euclid in a contemporary binding. This edition contains the whole of the Euclidean corpus: in addition to the Elements in the different versions of Campanus, Navara and Zamberti, the Phaenomena, Catoptrica, and Data, it contains the first printing of the Opusculum de Levi & ponderoso, a fragment of which was discovered just as the present work’s first edition was about to be printed in 1537
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A Map of the Middle British Colonies In North America...March 25th, 1776
by EVANS, L./ POWNALL, T
London, 1776. No Binding. Near Fine. 19 1/8 x 32 inches.. Original outline color; minor marginal mends not affecting image; else excellent. Rare. This is by far the most important edition of the pioneering Evans map outside of the original one, which was called by Schwartz "the most ambitious performance of its kind undertaken in America up to that time." Of the numerous later editions of map, Pownall's was the only one to utilize the original plate... Read More
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A General Map of the Middle British Colonies
by EVANS, L./ SAYER & BENNETT
London, 1776. No Binding. Very Good. 19 x 26 inches. Original outline color; reinforced fold separation & wear, slight losses due to abrasion, mended split into surface; nice, dark printing impression; overall very good, especially for a map originally issued folded. A scarce, handsomely engraved edition of the great Evans map intended for use by British officers serving in the American Revolution. This edition appeared as both a separate and in a work called the American Military... Read More
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