“Di Giulio Cesare e Luco Spinoli 1619.”
by [WALLET BINDING / BUSINESS / SPINOLA FAMILY]
n.p., 1619. Early 17th-century account ledger of Giulio Cesare and Luco Spinola, two brothers of the Genoese patrician family, recording debts and credits over a period beginning in 1619 and ending in 1631. Information about individual debts is registered at the top of each page, with ample blank space underneath for successive transactions relating to the debt. Other pages are filled with tables recording transactions in a given period of time pertaining to different debtors and creditors. Although the... Read More
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Les armes triomphantes de son altesse Monseignevr, Le Dvc d'Espernon : povr le sviet de son hevrevse entr�e faite dans la ville de Dijon, le huicti�me iour du mois de May, mil six cens cinquante six
by [FETES] / [DUC D'EPERNON, Bernard de Nogaret] / GRIGUETTE, Benigne
Folio [30.5 x 20 cm], (8) ff. incl. engraved title signed Mathieu after Godran, letter press title with woodcut printer's mark, 117 (1) [colophon], [ie 122 pp., see below, including 2 half-page engravings in text, and with 16 plates, of which 4 are folding, and 1 has a folding extension. Note: as often with provincially published illustrated books, the ennumerative system is slightly inconsistent: each plate has a leaf giving the explication'; also, verso of p. 79 is unnumbered... Read More
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Lagrimas Amantes de la Excellentissima Ciudad de Barcelona ... en las Magnificas Exequias, que celebrò á las Amadas, y Venerables memorias de su difunto Rey y Señor, Don Carlos II
by [FÊTES] / ROCABERTI, Joseph
Barcelona: Juan Pablo Marti for Francisco Barnola, 1701. Scarce first edition of this curious funeral fête for Carlos II, generally regarded by posterity as the most stupid and ineffective of the Hapsburg kings of Spain, whose reign (1665-1700) saw the utter dismemberment of the kingdom by Louis XIV. Needless to say, this is not how he is regarded in this account of the funeral proceedings by the Jesuit Rocaberti, which in addition to the standard description of... Read More
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SELLING AND HOARDING FOOD
ON THE PIAZZA NAVONA IN 1800
Editio sopra il buon Regolamento de’ publici Mercati, che si faranno in Piazza Navona
by [FOOD/ROME/ECONOMY]. Sinibaldi, Cesare Marchese
Single broadsheet [60 x 44.5 cm], folded. A very good copy. A rare survival of such an ephemeral piece (unrecorded on ICCU): a large broadside issued during the nine-month occupation of Rome following the fall of the Roman Republic, and proclaiming a complete revision of the running of the city's public market to prevent "hoarders and scalpers" from inflating food prices beyond the means of the "most sensitive" members of the populace during this tumultuous period. The edict instructs, for example, all... Read More
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Systeme des connnaissances chimiques, et de leurs applications aux Phénomènes de la nature et de l'art
by FOURCROY, Antione François
Paris: Baudouin, 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. [21.5 x 13 cm], 11 volumes. I: (2) ff., 176 pp., 220 pp.; II: 352 pp., (1) f. errata; III: (2) ff., 344 pp., (1) f. errata; IV: (2) ff., 324 pp.; V: (2) ff., 397 pp.; VI: (2) ff., 442 pp. [last 2 ff. mispaginated]; VII: (2) ff., 378 pp.; XIII: (2) ff., 330 pp. [pp. 321-4 misbound], (1) f. errata; IX:... Read More
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Descrizione della Stufa di Pensilvania dal Signor Franklin Americano, introducendo la quale in Italia…
by [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]
THE FRANKLIN STOVE COMES TO ITALY Venice, Antonio Graziosi, 1778. 8vo (18.4 x 11.9 cm), 47 (i.e. 43) pp., 1 folding engraved plate. Signatures: A6 [skip between pp. 6-11, (A4-5)], B-C6. Bound in publisher's wrappers. Complete and overall excellent. First Italian edition in book form of Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet describing the invention of his new stove, originally published by Franklin in 1744 as An Account of the new-invented Philadelphia Fireplaces. The work includes a foldout engraving copied after the engraving of Franklin's first... Read More
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Organon logikon, Kurtzer grundtlicher...Underricht, Zuberaitung und gebrauch, Des Circkels Schregmess und Linial in wahrer proportion
by GALGEMAYR, G
Augsburg: Weh, 1655. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to., (4) ff., 128 pp., with four folding plates; lightly toned. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, with title written in ink on spine in a neat hand. Ownership inscription on title-page, some careful underlining and annotations in a neat contemporary hand; lightly toned. Excellent.Rare edition and a fine copy of Galgemayr's very influential text describing the construction & use of two instruments, a proportional... Read More
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Opere di Galileo Galilei...In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell’ istesso autore non più stampati accresciute
by GALILEI, Galileo
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF GALILEO Bologna, HH. del Dozza, 1655-56. 2 volumes, large 4to. Vol. I: [28], 48 p.; 48 p.; [8], 160 p.; [4], 68 p.; 127 p.; [4], 264 p.; 43 p., including allegorical frontispiece signed Stefano della Bella, Villamoena portrait of Galileo, and folding engraved plate of military compass. Vol. II: [4], 41, [1] p., [1] f., 43-60 p.; [16], 104, [4], 105-156 p.; 48 p.; [8], 179, [1] p.; [51]-106 p.; [101]-126 p.; [8], 238 (i.e. 242), [6]... Read More
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Discorso al Serenissimo Don Cosimo II.Intorno alle cose, che Stanno in su l'acqua, o che in quella si muovono
by GALILEI, Galileo
Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1612. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. (2) ff, 77 pp, (1), (1) f with printer's emblem. Bound with: [GALILEI, Galileo & CASTELLI, Benedetto]. Risposta alle Opposizioni del S. Lodovico delle Colombe, e del S. Vincenzo di Grazia... Florence, Cosimo Giunti, 1615. (1) ff, (2), 319 [ie 335] pp with numerous mispaginations, (5) including printer's emblem. Bound in contemporary limp vellum with MS title on spine, "Galileo Galilei Opera',... Read More
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Quinto Libro degli Elementi d'Euclide ovvero Scienza Universale delle Proporzioni Spiegata colla Dottrina del Galileo
by [GALILEI, Galileo]/VIVIANI, Vincenzo
Florence: alla Condotta, 1674. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. [2] ff., (8), 149 pp, (3), 153-230 pp., 231-232 ff., 233-284 pp., 2 folding engraved plates. bound with [VIVIANI, Vincenzo]. Enodatio Problematum universis geometris Propositorum [.] Praemissis, horum occasione, Tentamentis Variis ad Solutionem illustris veterum Problematis De Anguli Trisectione. Florence, Gugliantini, 1677. [2] ff, (6), 63 pp., 4 folding engraved plates. With presentation inscription to verso of half-title of first work signed by... Read More
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Trattato del Compasso di Proporzione.
by [GALILEIANA / JESUIT EDUCATION] / MARCHELLI, Giovanni
Milan: Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1759. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo [20.2 x 14.4 cm]. XXII pp., 352 pp., (8) ff., with (1) large (40 x 50 cm) folding plate containing 5 illustrations; title-page printed in red and black, engraved device on title. Bound in contemporary publisher's binding, title in ink on spine. Minor edge wear, minor staining to lower cover. Quires C and E loosening, internally very fresh and clean, retaining deckle at fore-edge and bottom edge, toning to plate,... Read More
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Tractatus brevis et utilis, de erigendis figuris coeli, verificationibus, revolutionibus et directionibus
by GARCAEUS, Johannes
SAMMELBAND OF THREE TEXTS DOCUMENTING COPERNICAN INFLUENCE WITH TWO AUTOGRAPH DEDICATIONS TO WITTENBERG PROFESSOR JACOB MILICH, STUDENT OF ERASMUS AND TEACHER OF REINHOLD Wittenberg, G. Rhaus Erben, 1556. 8vo (16 x 10 cm), 104 ff. with two folding tables. Bound in rubricated vellum (music manuscript) with title on spine. Extensive annotations on front endpaper (religious), title page (with a dedication from Garcaeus to Jacob Milich), and on the first of several extra blanks bound in at end; scattered annotations and corrections. Strip of... Read More
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Theorica y practica de la arte de Ensayar. Oro, Plata y Vellon rico. Danse Reglas para Ligar, Triligar, Alear. y Reducir Qualesquiera Cantidades de Oro, y Plata a la Ley del Reyno
by GARCIA CAVALLERO, Joseph
Madrid: Agustin Fernandez, 1713. * Palau 986,613; not in Goldsmiths'-Kress; not in Alden-Landis though clearly an Americanum.. Very rare first and sole edition of this professional guide to assaying gold, silver and assorted precious metals by a practicing Madrid assayer, of interest for the international as well as mercantile history of Spain in the last years of her imperial period. The work treats the physical properties of metals from different parts of the Spanish empire (New Mexico, Peru), general methods... Read More
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Vue De New York. Prise de Weahawk, A View of New-York, taken from Veahawk./ Garneray pinx.t/ Himely sulp/ A Paris chez Hocquart Succr. de Basset rue St. Jacques No. 64./ Depose'
by GARNERAY, L
New York, 1840. No Binding. Very Good. 14 ½ x 17 5/8 inches. Aquatint with fine hand color; excellent condition. Rare. An exquisite aquatint view of New York City and Harbor as seen from Weehawken, New Jersey, a popular vantage point for early views of the city. In the foreground are picnickers in a sylvan setting on the heights overlooking a ship-filled harbor and busy port city. The view evokes the majestic sweep New York's spacious, double-bayed... Read More
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De motu impresso a motore translato. Epistolae duae.
by GASSENDI, Pierre
Paris: Ludovicus de Hequeville, 1642. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to [21.6 x 17.0 cm]. (4) ff., 159 (i.e. 151) pp., with woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams, woodcut headpieces and initials. Bound in contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges. Minor rubbing and handsoiling to covers, annotations on endpapers. Cancelled manuscript shelf mark on title, early annotations in several hands, small corner loss at p. 59. Rare first edition of Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) important illustrated treatise on inertial mechanics. Written in the form... Read More
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Multa petentibus
by [GASTRONOMY.] PEDRO, Fracesco del/ MAGGIOTO, Francesco
No Binding. Very Good. Copper plate engraving , [23 x 30 cm printed surface]. [n.d., but c. 1775.] A few folds but generally excellent, with a fine impression. Charming engraving of a genre scene depicting a man grating parmesan cheese, by the Venetian engraver and Volpato... Read More
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De sculptura
by GAURICO, Pomponio
Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1542. * Vagnetti EIIb1; Schlosser-Magnino, pp. 235-239; Kemp, Science of Art, pp. 40-41; modern ed. by A. Chastel & R. Klein (1969).. Rare early edition of this famous work on sculpture, perspective and the aesthetic theory of the plastic arts, of particular importance for the diffusion of perspective theory north of Florence. Kemp characterizes the work’s technical innovations as "a curious mélange of the Albertian method, using an intersecting plane (the central vertical), and the... Read More
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Sei omelie di nostro Signore papa Clemente Undecimo Esposte in versi da Alessandro Guidi
by [GHEZZI, Pier Leone / FREY, Jacob / WESTERHOUT, Arnold van et al.] / GUIDI, Alessandro CLEMENT ALBANI XI
Rome: Francesco Gonzaga, 1712. Extremely rare first edition of this luxuriously illustrated anthology of extracts from papal sermons delivered between 1703-09, in Latin prose and facing Italian verse: an unusual example of Baroque ecclesiastical culture from the pontificate of Clement XI. On the basis of extreme rarity and contents, the volume numbers among those commemorative and honorific volumes which were never sold in the trade, but offered as a ceremonial gift to cardinals, ambassadors, and other important personages—corroborated by... Read More
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De mundo nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova. Opus posthumum
by GILBERT, William
Amsterdam: Ludovico Elzevir, 1651. * Wheeler 1312; Willems 1128; Suzanne Kelly in DSB V.396-401.. Scarce first edition of Gilbert’s only other published work, whose first section contains “an extension of the cosmological ideas Gilbert introduced into the last section of de Magnete; it is dependent on the latter work for much of its vocabulary and basic assumptions...” (DSB V.397). Posthumously published and edited by the author’s brother, the title consists of a meteorology composed before de Magnete and... Read More
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Geometrica Demonstratio Theorematum Hugenianorum circa Logisticam, seu Logarithmicam Lineam
by GRANDI, Guido
Florence: Pietro Antonio Brigonci, 1701. First edition, and fine untrimmed copy of Grandi's demonstration of Huygens' logarithmic curve.
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Map Of The State Of Maine With The Province Of New Brunswick
by GREENLEAF, Moses
Portland, 1829. No Binding. Very Good. 50 ¾ x 40 ¼ inches. Steel engraving. Original wash color, refreshed; expertly conserved, re-mounted on new linen; a few cracks & marginal mends but fine for this kind. The very rare (three copies cited in OCLC), first edition of this excellent map of Maine by the state's first mapmaker. An exceptionally well-preserved example. Unlike many early American state maps that struggled to get completed, Greenleaf's received a warm commendation... Read More
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Fra i pelli-rosse d’America. Curiosità etnografiche
by GROSSI, Vincenzo
ITALIAN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY ON THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, ONLY ONE U.S. COPY Turin, La Letteratura, 1888. 8vo (18 x 12 cm), 25 pp. Bound in blue publisher's wrappers. Small tear to the upper margin of cover, and clean tear not affecting printed text on two leaves. Discreet collector's stamp on cover. Generally very fresh. First edition of this Italian ethnographic work on the Indigenous peoples of North America. The first section focuses on the funerary rites and ceremonial dances of the Choctaw, Otoe,... Read More
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Rela�am annual das cosas que fizeram os padres da Companhia de Iesus na India, & Jap�o nos annos de 600. & 601
by GUERREIRO, Fernao
4to., 11, (1) ff., 13-259 pp. Note: L3-4 misbound after L5. Bound in contemporary flexible vellum, title written on spine in ink. Inscription in upper margin of title: Dom. Prof. Societatis Jesu. Cat. Inscr. Bibl. Cois (inscribed in the catalogue of the library in the housed of the professed, Society of Jesus, at Coimbra?); block a bit loose in binding; some even toning and light foxing to a few signatures, but withal an unusually fine unsophisticated copy. ... Read More
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Traité des maladies de l'oeil, qui sont en nombre de cent treize, ausquelles il est sujet. A Monsieur Paré, Conseiller du Roy, & son premier Chirurgien
by GUILLEMEAU, Jacques
Lyon: Pierre Rigaud, 1610. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo., (30), (1) integral blank, 243, (3) pp. Bound in 19th-century calf à l'antique, lightly to moderately worn; generally toned throughout. Good. Rare second edition of "decidedly the best of the Renaissance books on opthalmology" (Garrison). "Guillemeau was a pupil of Ambroise Paré; his book was an epitome of the existing knowledge on the subject, chiefly from Greek and Arabian sources" (Garrison & Morton). Guillemeau... Read More
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Planiglobium Coeleste Ac Terestre Platte Stern-und Lander-Kugel
by HABRECHT, Isaac/STURM, J. C
Nurnberg, 1666. * Houzeau & Lancaster 3039; Zimmer 5089 (1628 Strasbourg ed.); Poggendorff 1984. Warner, The Sky Explored, pp. 104-5.. Extremely rare German edition (a Latin edition was published the same year) of Sturm’s enlargement of Habrecht’s famous treatise on the making of celestial and terrestrial globes, published in 1628. The Habrecht family of clock and instrument makers were famous throughout Europe from the last quarter of the sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth century. The... Read More
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