Die Insel Sanct Thomas mit den Plantagen 1767
by KUFFNER, P
Nuremberg, 1767. No Binding. Very Good. 6 ¾ x 12 ½ inches. Fine hand color; bottom and top margins extended with very slight loss, very good condition. One of the few obtainable maps of St. Thomas published prior to 1800. The attractively colored map names many plantations, many of the island's bays as well as the smaller islands surrounding Saint Thomas including Lille Saba. The map appeared in Oldendorp's "History of the Evangelical Brethren on the Caribbean... Read More
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Die Insel Sainte Croix mit den Namen der Plantagen die bestraendig sind
by KUFFNER, P
Nuremberg, 1767. No Binding. Very Good. 6 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches. Bottom margin close, top margin trimmed with slight loss, very good. One of the few obtainable maps of St. Croix published prior to 1800. The attractively colored map shows the island divided into its administrative quarters. Sugar mills, plantations, and the towns of Christiansted and Frederiksted are shown. The map appeared in Oldendorp's "History of the Evangelical Brethren on the Caribbean Islands of St. Thomas,... Read More
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Florida et Regiones Vicinae
by LAET, DE J./ GERRITSZ, H
Leiden, 1630. No Binding. Fine. 11 x 14 inches. Fine condition. A key early map of Florida that differs significantly from previous works. Although Cumming says the De Laet combines information found on the Ortelius/Chiaves and the 1606 Mercator maps, it in fact contains substantial new information not found on these maps. The place names St. Augustine and Tampa Bay are seen here but are not on the Ortelius and the Wytfliet (1597) maps. The general shape... Read More
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Traité de Perspective, où sont les fondemens de la Peinture
by LAMY, Bernard
Paris: Anisson, 1701. First edition of this handsomely illustrated perspective textbook.
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Brief Traict, ou maniment. D'Aulcuns (mais principaulx) usages, et observations des deux Globes, Celeste et Terrestre: Ensemble L'Explication de tous les Cercles, Linees, Instruments, et aultres Verbis-Artis, y appartenant, mises, escriptes, et Dedié
by LANGREN, Arnold Floris van
Brussels, 1617. Hardcover. Very Good. French manuscript written in brown ink in a French cursive hand, pages ruled in red, 21 lines per page. 15.3 cm x 9.5 cm, (58) pp. Bound in contemporary limp vellum with remains of green silk ties. A presentation copy with the dedicatee's name left blank. Clean and fresh, an excellent copy. Very rare manuscript user's manual for the famous terrestrial and celestial globes by the van Langren cartographic dynasty, notable as the first to... Read More
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Statuta Urbis Ferrariae nuper Reformata
by [LAW/FERARA/PIGNA, G.B. ed.]
Folio [30.5 x 19.5 cm], (10) ff., 307 [i.e. 308], (13) ff., including woodcut title showing Ferrara and Este arms, and full-page woodcut portrait of the printer Rossi on EEEviii v. Bound in 18th-century stiff vellum, title stenciled on spine. Some minor staining in scattered leaves and some trivial worming in margin, but generally a broad-margined and fresh copy, excellent. Rare and most likely the earliest acquirable edition of the municipals laws of Ferrara, one of the richest and most... Read More
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Floridae Americae Provinciae Recens & exactissima descriptio
by LE MOYNE, J./ DE BRY, T
Frankfurt, 1591. No Binding. Near Fine. 14 1/2 x 17 5/8 inches. Slight offsetting, else excellent condition. Fine example of this cornerstone map of Florida and the Southeast, with a bold impression and good margins. It "was the chief basis for maps of the European cartographers for over a hundred years" (Cumming, et al). It is also one of the most finely engraved of all early maps, and the well-inked impression of this example heightens the beauty... Read More
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Perspectiva hierinnen auffs kürtzte beschrieben mit exempeln eröffnet
by LENCKER, Hans
Nuremberg: Dietrich Gerlass, 1571. Very rare first edition of this illustrated perspective compendium, in the Nuremberg tradition of Kunstbuchleinen, with numerous woodcuts of stereometric bodies—mostly elaborate variations on regular and semi-regular solids—with working diagrams and perspective drawings, all matched to succinct text.
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RARE DUTCH/HEBREW POCKET-LEXICON
by LEUSDEN, Johannes.
1) Synopsis hebraica et chaldaica, continens praecepta ad notitiam linguae hebraeae et chaldaeae acquirendam perquam necessaria. Utrecht, Cornelis Coetsvelt, 1667. 12mo. [12 x 7 cm], 84 pp. 2) Manuale hebraicum & chaldaicum. Utrecht, Cornelis Coetsvelt, 1668. (6) ff., 478 pp., (9) ff. [BOUND WITH:] 3) Compendium biblicum, continens ex 23202 versiculis totius Veteris Testamenti, tantum versiculos 2289. Utrecht, Guilelmi á Walcheren, 1673. (6) ff., 179 [i.e. 180) ff. 4) HULSIUS, Antonius. Seu compendium lexici hebraici, compendio... Read More
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FUNERAL ORATIONS IN LIMA FOR A SPANISH QUEEN
Relacion Funebre de las Reales Exequias .de la Serenissima Magestad.La Señora Doña Maria Barbara de Portugal, Catholica Reyna de las Indias, mandò celebrar en esta capital de Los Reyes el dia 4 de Septiembre de 1759
by [LIMA IMPRINT] / LUXAN, Mariano
4to. [19 x 13], (2) ff., 132 pp., 112 (ie 214) (1) f., with one large [49.5 x 34.5] engraved plate of the catafalque signed Camacho after Bexerano 1759, and two woodcut plates of calligrams;[Including:] TAGLE Y BRACHO, Juan Antonio de. Oracion Funebre. (12) ff., 136 (ie 138) pp. Bound in contemporary calf, joints cracked but sound. Some minor staining at extreme edge of title. Plate toned but very fresh, as is rest of copy. Excellent.Rare first edition of the... Read More
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WITH 6 LARGE MAPS AND 36 PLATES IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING
Histoire de la Navigation
by LINSCHOTEN, Jean Hugues
Folio [20 x 30.5 cm], (4) ff. [including half-page engraved portrait on verso of 4th preliminary leaf], 206 pp.; (2) ff. [including second engraved title], 181 pp.; (1) f. [third engraved title], 1-60; 67-86 [i.e., 79] pp., 36 plates and 6 maps. Bound in contemporary vellum over pasteboards, edges of covers frayed and corners exposed; blank right corner of title and of preliminaries slightly dog-eared, some leaves a bit dusty; but generally an exceptionally fresh, altogether unsophisticated copy. Excellent.The preferred... Read More
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Znachenye nekotorich opredepennich intgrapov
by LOBACHEVSKY, Nicolai
Kazan, 1852. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 2 parts in one vol. 4to. [30.4 x 23 cm], 1-26 pp.; 27-34 pp., (the whole issue paginated [ii] 96 [2]); title with old stamp in Russian and shelfmark, crossed-through, some very faint marginal waterstaining, a very good copy in original printed wrappers, 'Uchenya Zapiski... 1852' on front wrapper within an ornamental border, wrappers worn. Very rare first edition of Lobachevsky's last work on analysis,... Read More
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Polnoe zatmenie solntsa
by LOBACHEVSKY, Nicolai
Kazan, 1842. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. [26 x 16 cm), (51-) 83 pp., (the issue paginated 216 [2]). Bound in original printed wrappers, leaves uncut. Very rare first edition of a treatise on a total solar eclipse by Nicolai Lobachevsky, one of the Russian mathematician's few works to treat a subject other than non-Euclidean geometry. Lobachevsky observed the eclipse of 8 July 1842 (recorded in the volume as 26 June,... Read More
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Abregé de l'essay de Monsieur Locke, sur l'entendement humain
by [LOCKE, John.]
Uppsala: Veuve du directeur Jean Edman, 1792. Rare French edition printed in Uppsala of the abridgement of the Essay on Human Understanding by John Wynne, the format in which Locke's thought was most effectively popularized at English universities and in Europe. "In the last decade of the seventeenth century, English culture held a frustrated fascination for the continental Republic of Letters. Frustrated, because few Europeans could approach English ideas in the English language. Gabriel Bonno1 has shown... Read More
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First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of his Countrymen
by [JACQUARD LOOM]
FIRST "COMPUTER" PORTRAIT OF AMERICA'S FIRST PRESIDENT Lyon, Joseph Marie Jacquard, 1856. Silk machine-woven textile (49.8 x 42.2 cm). Mounted on old board. Edge wear, some marginal tears and losses, edge toning from mounting tape, some damp staining and wrinkling. This said, a remarkable survival. Rare silk textile portrait of George Washington (1732-99) woven on the earliest programmable loom – the Jacquard Loom – which influenced the development of other programmable, punch-card-driven machines that in turn would lead to the early versions of... Read More
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Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii
by LOTTER, T.C./ JANSSON-VISSCHER
Augsburg, 1757. No Binding. Near Fine. 19½ x 22 5/8 inches. Original wash color; fine condition. A superb example of a richly engraved map of the Northeast, which includes a fascinating view of New York City with a rarely seen depiction of the original wall that would become Wall Street. Called the Restitutio View for its dramatic depiction of the restitution of Dutch power in the New York City in 1673, it shows Dutch soldiers marching south... Read More
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![[o sia] La Liberazione di Vienna Assediata dalle Armi Ottomane Poemetto Giocoso e La Banzuola](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/483/263/273263483.0.l.jpg)
[o sia] La Liberazione di Vienna Assediata dalle Armi Ottomane Poemetto Giocoso e La Banzuola
by LOTTI, Lotto
Bologna?, 1746. Very rare illustrated edition (second; first c. 1685) of this poem on the siege of Vienna, along with Dialogues between Men and Women on daily life (La Banzuola). The two compositions form the most extensive and most philologically genuine literary compositions in Bolognese dialect.
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![Deorum dialogi numero. 70. una cum interpretatione e regione Latina: nus[quam] antea impressi](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/558/214/1739214558.0.l.jpg)
Deorum dialogi numero. 70. una cum interpretatione e regione Latina: nus[quam] antea impressi
by LUCIANUS / NACHTIGALL, Ottmar (a.k.a. LUSCINIUS), tr. & ed.
FIRST EDITION OF NACHTGALL'S TRANSLATION OF LUCIAN'S DIALOGUES OF THE GODS Strassburg, Johannes Schott, 1515. [84] ff. Title and two illuminated initials printed in red and black; bilingual edition with Latin text on rectos, Greek on facing versos, with metalcut decorative borders for the Greek text. Bound in later marbled paper and cloth-covered boards, with gilt title on spine label. Ex libris and bibliographic note (dated 1907) of Dr. Josef Schwerdfeger. Toning throughout, small ink spots on title and verso of final... Read More
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LULL’S ART EXPLAINED TO LAWYERS
L’Art de Raymond Lullius esclaircy par Julius Pacius... divisé en iv livres. Où est enseignee une Methode qui fournit une grand Nombre de Termes universels, d’attributs, de Propositions & d’Argumens, par le moyen desquels on peut discourir sur tous sujets, amplifier un Discours, trouver des Questions, & les resoudre facilement.
by LULL, Raimund/ PACE, Giulio.
12mo., (6), 54 ff., 1 folding table. Bound in modern calf à l'antique. Underlining and a few textual annotations in Latin in an early hand; with manuscript text on endleaf; scattered staining to final quire; ff. 53-54 with worming affecting a few letters of text of 6 words repaired. Light even browning throughout. Otherwise good.Rare first French edition (first Latin 1618) of this pocket summary of the Lullian art for lawyers, by the Italian born Aristotelian and legal theorist Giulio... Read More
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Novae Coelestium Orbium Theoricae congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici
by MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio
Venice: Damiano Zenario, 1589. * Adams M-119; Riccardi I.2.65.5; Luigi Campedelli in DSB IX.12-13; Gingerich, “Science in the Age of Copernicus,” Harvard Library Bulletin XXVI, no. 4 (1978), no. 42; Thorndike VI.56-9.. First edition of New Theories of the Celestial Orbs Agreeing with the Observations of Copernicus, Magini’s principal astronomical treatise. The work is of interest for the 16th-century reception of Copernicus, whom Magini admired; and although he endorsed the unprecedented accuracy of Copernicus’s calculation of celestial movements... Read More
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Barbiere di Tiberio Malfi da Monte Sarchio Barbiere, e consule dell’arte in Napoli Libri Tre. Ne qualisi ragiona dell’eccellenza dell’Arte, e de’ suoi precetti. Delle Vene, e regole d’aprirle. Dell’applicatione de’ remed
by MALFI, Tiberio
Naples: Ottavio Beltrano, 1626. Very rare first edition of this handsomely illustrated work on barbers giving detailed instructions on both the medical and aesthetic aspects of the profession. Published at a time when barbers saw their territory increasingly contested by professional surgeons, Malfi’s work stresses the medical knowledge of barbers and their expertise in performing important medical procedures. Illustrated with portraits of famous barbers in history, anatomical models and scenes showing surgical procedures, the work is a mirror of... Read More
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Tariffa Perpetua. Con le ragion fatte per scontro di qualunque Mercadante si voglia, che dimostra quanto monta ogni quantita de cadauna mercantia ad ogni precio, si a peso come numero. Buona per ogniuno in Venetia, Dalmatia, & altri luoghi; nelli quail si ragiona, & si spende a moneda Venetiana, Bressa, Bergamo, Milan, Cremona, Mantova, & altri luoghi
by MARIANI, Giovanni
Venice: Francesco Rampazetto, 1572. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 279 ff, (20) ff, [lacking final blank]. Folio 13 misbound after folio 23; second woodcut title page on folio 157. Both title pages with Mannerist woodcut architectural borders; nearly full-page illustration of measuring instruments on folio 6v; woodcut printer's device on final leaf; and full-page woodcut of the Virgin and Child on verso of final leaf. Bound in contemporary limp vellum (recased), with manuscript... Read More
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La Litotomia delle donne perfezionata
by MASOTTI, Domenico
Faenza, Presso l'Archi, 1763. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (20 x 13 cm), 88 pp., [2] ff., 2 folding engraved plates at end, 4 engraved plates in text (of calculi, facing pp. 42, 54, 58 and 68), title page printed in red & black. Bound in stiff vellum with raised bands, spine label missing, covers somewhat soiled. Three old ownership stamps in margin of title, ownership tag on pastedown; overall a clean, fresh copy.... Read More
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Pratique de chymie, divisée en quatre parties… Avec un avis sur les eaux minerals.
by MATTE LA FAVEUR, Sébastien
WITH AN EARLY OWNERSHIP MANUSCRIPT ANNOTATION BY A WOMAN 8vo (16 x 10 cm). [7] ff. (including engraved coat of arms frontispiece), 360 pp., 10 pp. (with pp. 1-2 moved adjacent to the corresponding folding plate between pp. 46-47), [17] ff. (including final blank), and 12 engraved plates (comprising plate of chemical vessels at p. 46, plate of chemical symbols at p. 58, and 10 folding plates of different kinds of furnaces at end).Toning and light spotting throughout; occasional damp stains,... Read More
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Gloria Bellica Serenissimi et Potentissimi Principis Maximilliani .
by [MAXIMILIAN I OF BAVARIA] / [THIRTY YEARS WAR] / STENGEL, Georg.
Ingolstadii: Ex officina typographica G. Haenlini, 1623. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to [27 x 17.5 cm]. (17) ff., 388 pp. (recte 386), (7) ff., with misnumbered pages at pp. 203-06, 243-46 and 260-71, 1 full-page engraving [20 x 15.5, the platemark]. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, raised bands, boards beveled, somewhat scuffed, clasps missing. Blue edges, small hole repaired on half title and engraving, ownership inscription of Andechs Abbey on title page, minor browning in some quires. ... Read More
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