Reglamento para el gobierno interior del Palacio de Mexico 1867
by [MANUSCRIPT / MEXICO / MAXIMILIAN]
1867. Rare manuscript detailing the protocol of the Imperial court in Mexico City, written in 1867, apparently weeks before Maximilian left the city for Querétaro and a mere months before his execution by firing squad. The manuscript lays out the power structures governing the day-to-day running of the palace from security procedures to party planning. The document stipulates the appointment of a Prefect in charge of the government of the palace. The prefect was to report... Read More
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Rand McNally & Co.'s New 3 Inch Terrestrial Globe Copyright 1891, by Rand, McNally, & Co
by AMERICAN GLOBE AND SCHOOL SUPPLY CO./ RAND MCNALLY
Seneca Falls, NY, 1891. No Binding. Near Fine. 3-inch diameter globe anchored in magnifying glass as issued; 5 ½ inches total height. Color-printed, wax-engraved (?) gores; some fading of place names, a few repair in extreme southern portion, but overall remarkably little wear; overall excellent condition. An unrecorded, delightful cartographic curiosity: a very good quality miniature globe with a magnifying paperweight as its base. Only two other globes by the American Globe and Supply Company are known:... Read More
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LICENSING MEDICAL PRACTICE IN EARLY 18TH-CENTURY VENICE
ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT, FINELY BOUND
’Ill.mi: Et Ecc.mi Sig.ri: Sopra Proveditori, et Proveditori alla Sanità….
by [MEDICINE] / [VENICE]. [DAMUGLIANO, Antonio].
4to manuscript on vellum [23.5 x 17.1 cm], (7) ff., (4) ff. vellum blanks, including a full-page frontispiece illumination of Venetian Lion of St. Mark, each text page with foliate borders in gold ink, headings and initials in gold ink. Bound in contemporary Venetian morocco, elaborately gold tooled, gold block-printed foliate pastedowns. Edge wear and minor rubbing to spine and boards, manuscript loose in binding, oxidizing to edges of pastedowns. Marginal flaws to frontispiece illumination just touching border in places,... Read More
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Virginia Item et Floridae Americae Privinciarum, nova Descriptio
by MERCATOR, M./ HONDIUS, J
Amsterdam, 1609. No Binding. Near Fine. 13 ¾ x 19 ¼ inches. Fine original color; reinforced along margins, else excellent. A very attractive, original color example of one of the most richly engraved maps of the southeast United States. "Its influence, both direct and indirect, extended into the middle of the eighteenth century" (Cumming). The map assembled geographic knowledge of the Southeast that was largely derived from surveys conducted during the earliest French and English attempts to... Read More
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Norumbega Et Virginia
by METELLUS, J
Cologne, 1598. No Binding. Very Good. 7 1/8 x 9 inches. Fine condition. Attractively engraved and very rare work that shows the area "at a period just before the English sent a number of voyages to explore and settle the coast" (Burden). There is a possibility that the Metellus pre-dated the Wytfliet map of the same area; there is no question, however, that one was derived from the other. See Burden 118 on the question of precedence.... Read More
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Le vite de' piu celebri architetti d'ogni nazione e d'ogni tempo precedute da un saggio sopra l'Architettura
by MILIZIA, Francesco
THE VASARI OF ARCHITECTURE Rome, Paolo Giunchi Komarek, 1768. 4to, viii, 492 pp., with one engraved title page and 6 folding plates. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, morocco title label on spine, gilt rather faded. Unidentified private collector's monogram stamped on title RMS. Scattered foxing, generally in margins, heavier on a few leaves. Otherwise good. First edition of this compendium of biographies of well-known architects, a work which, in the historiography of architecture, is equal in importance to that of Vasari, whom the... Read More
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Map of the State of Missouri And Territory of Arkansas
by MITCHELL, S. A
Philadelphia, 1837. No Binding. Near Fine. 7 x 20 ½ inches. Lithograph with original wash color; fold reinforcements, else excellent. Rare, separately issued, folding map showing Missouri as a state, Arkansas as a territory, and the area of present-day Oklahoma as "Indian Territory Attached to Arkansas." This is a significantly updated edition of the map "has many changes topographically and new borders.There are many new counties in Missouri and Arkansas, and a table of Steam Boat Routes... Read More
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Essais. Édition seconde, revue & augmentée.
by MONTAIGNE, Michel de.
Bordeaux: Simon Millanges, 1582. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. (4) ff, 806 pp, (1) ff. Bound in luxurious 19th century red morocco by Chambolle-Duru. Very good. Rare second edition, carefully corrected by Montaigne himself, of his chef d'oeuvre and a masterpiece of world literature. Montaigne continuously corrected his Essais throughout his... Read More
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In duos Archimedis Aequeponderantium Libros Paraphrasis Scholiis illustrata
by MONTE, Guidobaldo del
Pesaro: Hieronymus Concordia, 1588. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to.,[29.7 x 19.7 cm], (2) ff., 202 pp., (1) f. Bound in 18th C mottled calf, some rubbing, with title gilt on spine. Ex libris of Alexander Henry Davis on front pastedown. Title soiled, cancel on p. 9, corner of 1 leaf torn, trace of former library stamp on f.R2, pp.155-58 misbound. Light toning on scattered leaves, but overall a bright copy, very good.... Read More
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Mechanicorum Liber
by MONTE, Guido Ubaldo, Marchese del
Pesaro: H. Concordia, 1577. Rare first edition of the authors first work, generally regarded as the most important treatise on mechanics since Archimedes and a critical influence on Galileo. The work is notable for its commitment to establishing mechanics on a rigorously mathematical basis, for its powerful argument that mechanics and statics are separate sciences and for its insistence that mechanics should not consider abstract and/or abstruse entities but the activity of machines. Stillman Drake particularly emphasizes the importance... Read More
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Bar Harbor Mt. Desert Island Maine
by MORRIS, G. W. / GEORGE H. WALKER & CO
Portland, ME, 1886. No Binding. Near Fine. 16 ¾ x 25 inches.. Two-stone lithograph. Few marginal mends; small duplicate stamp lower right margin; excellent to fine of this kind. A rare and beautiful view of Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert Island, evoked at the time when it was a favored summer resort of the elite of the Gilded Age. It was only one of three views of the area produced in the 19th century according to Reps... Read More
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Carte General de la Caroline Dresse sur les Memoires le Plus Nouveaux Par Le Sieua S***
by MORTIER, P./ COVENS & MORTIER
Amsterdam, 1730. No Binding. Fine. 22 ¼ x 18 ¼ inches. Full original color; fine. A superb, original color example of the first map of the Carolinas published outside of England. Though Mortier credited the map to Sanson, it was in fact closely derived from an English map, the extremely rare, separately issued "A New Map of CAROLINA" published by Thornton, Morden and Lea in 1685. Charleston is noted at its location on the Ashley and Cooper... Read More
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MORTIER'S BIBLE: CALVINISM MEETS CONTEMPORARY CITRON MOROCCO
L'Histoire du vieux et du Nouveau Testament, Enrichie de plus de quatre cens Figures en Taille Douce, &c. Avec Privilege de nos Seigneurs les etats de Holland et de West-Frise. Amsterdam/Antwerp: Pierre Mortier, 1700.
by MORTIER, Pierre / MARTIN, David
Large folio [27.5 x 44 cm], 2 volumes, (8) ff., including half-title, engraved frontispiece signed Gouwen Schulp after O. Elliger, and title with large engraved vignette, 282 pp., (4) ff., 141 numbered plates after a number of hands (see below), with large engraved head-piece and initial in preface; II: (12) ff., 154 pp., 73 numbered plates, 28 engraved vignettes, 5 double-page engraved maps, (6) pp. tables accompanying maps, 20 pp. Bound in contemporary citron morocco, covers triple gilt ruled, spine... Read More
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The World's Industrial And Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans, LA., U. S. A. Department of Installation. Plan No. 2 Map of the City of New Orleans
by MULLEN, S
New Orleans, 1884. No Binding. Very Good. 26 5/8 x 36 ½ inches. Lithograph. Fold wear with some losses; flattened & mounted on acid-free paper; very good. A large, visually rich plan of New Orleans made for visitors to the 1884-1885 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition. Held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the exportation of cotton from the United States, the exposition was one of the most ambitious world's fairs ever held. Audubon Park in... Read More
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USER'S GUIDE TO A PAPER INSTRUMENT
ILLUSTRATED BY HANS HOLBEIN
Canones super Novum Instrumentum Luminarium, docentes quo pacto per illud inveniantur Solis & Lunae medii & veri motus, lunationes, coniunctiones, oppositiones, caput draconis, eclipses, horae inaequales, & nocturnae aequales, ortus solis & occasus, ascendens coeli, intervallum, aureus numerus, &c.
by MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
4to. [20 x 15.5 cm], 51 pp, (1) p. woodcut printer's device. With large woodcut on title page and 6 woodcuts in text, woodcut initials. Bound in half vellum over marbled boards with gilt title label on cover. Only minor rubbing to binding, clipped dealer description and bookplate of the Swedish architect Theodor Wåhlin (1864-1948) inside upper cover. "4" in MS on title page, probably indicating that it was part of a Sammelband. Internally clean and fresh. Very rare first Latin... Read More
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Astronomicarum Institutionum Libri III. Quibus doctrinae sphaericae elementa methodo nova, facili, & ad captum Tyronum aptissima traduntur.
by NAIBOD, Valentin / [NABOD]
Venice: Paulo Meietti, 1580. Soft cover. Very Good. Large 8vo. [14.5 x 9.9 cm]. (8), 192 ff., with numerous textual woodcut illustrations. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine. Minor rubbing to binding, some wrinkling to spine. Minor browning in some quires, some minor marginal worming not affecting text, a few contemporary inscriptions in the text. Generally very good. Very rare first edition, second issue of this understudied work, "apparently the earliest Italian... Read More
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La Perspective Curieuse...Divisée en Quatre Livres Avec l’Optrique et La Catoptrique du R.P. Mersenne
by NICERON, Jean François / MERSENNE, Marin
Paris: Jean du Puis/Widow of Langlois, 1663. Scarce edition of this important treatise on perspective by the most scientifically rigorous of 17th-century French theorists, of particular interest for its contention that “the illustrations to earlier treatises were often defective” (Millard), thus making it the first work on the subject to treat the problem of didactic illustration in a deliberate and self-conscious manner. A comprehensive textbook, Book I gives basic geometrical definitions and an introduction to perspective construction; Book... Read More
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Observationes Mathematicae, et Physicae in India et in China Factae à Patre Francisco Noël Societatis Jesu, ab anno 1684. usque ad annum 1708.
by NOËL, François
FROM PEKING TO PRAGUE THE CHINESE ASTRONOMY OF FRANÇOIS NOËL WITH A LARGE FOLDING STAR CHART OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE 4to (19.1 x 15.2 cm), 133 pp., (1) pp., including full-page engraved Chinese Calendar (p. 59), numerous woodcut diagrams and tables with woodcut Chinese letters, a full-page engraved plate of astronomical observations (verso of p. 133), and with (1) large folding engraved star chart for the epoch 1687 (signed Balthasar van Westerhaut), woodcut headpiece and initials. Bound in contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, red... Read More
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A Chart of the Coast of America from Wood Island to Good Harbour From Hollands Surveys
by NORMAN, John
Boston, 1801. No Binding. Very Good. 20 x 32 inches. Expected soiling & wear, some repairs to outer areas with small areas of restorations, still very good of this kind. Only the second chart of the Maine coast published in America; the first chart by Clark is all but unobtainable. The Norman was the best available chart of this area in the early years of the United States, and as it was... Read More
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![A SUPERB EXAMPLE OF "THE FIRST PRINTED SEA CHART OF NEW ENGLAND AND NEW NETHERLANDS" [BURDEN]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/479/705/1359705479.0.l.jpg)
A SUPERB EXAMPLE OF "THE FIRST PRINTED SEA CHART OF NEW ENGLAND AND NEW NETHERLANDS" [BURDEN]
by [NORTHEAST, U.S.] R. DUDLEY.
18 ½ x 15 inches. Fine condition with a bold strike. An exquisitely engraved rarity, the earliest printed chart of the Northeast that was published in the first sea atlas produced by an Englishman (though published in Florence), the Arcano del Mare (Secrets of the Sea). One of the jewels of early cartography, the atlas's elegant Florentine engraving formed a link between hand-drawn portolan charts, which preceded it, and the technically more sophisticated works of the 17th century. Evidence of the... Read More
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Mappa Aestivarum Insularum
by OGILBY, J
London, 1670. No Binding. Near Fine. 11 ½ x 14 inches. Fine hand color; excellent condition. A beautifully engraved, early map of Bermuda based on the first separate map of the island, Richard Norwood's 1618 chart, executed in behalf of the Bermuda Company. The Ogilby map includes the parishes and tribes allotted to the company's principal members, with their names included, most of which survive to this day. An ornate cartouche of Neptune displays the bounty of... Read More
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Novissima et Accuratissima Jamaicae Descriptio
by OGILBY, J
London, 1671. No Binding. Near Fine. 17 x 20 7/8 inches.. Fine hand color, excellent with full margins. "The prototype for most of the maps of the 17th century and many beyond" (Kapp). It was also the first large scale map of Jamaica, and aside from a small outline map, it was the first English map of the island. The map was based on a survey made by order of Sir Thomas Modyford, which was done only... Read More
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Pagus Hispanorum in Florida
by OGILBY, J
London, 1671. No Binding. Near Fine. 10 ¾ x 14 inches. Fine hand color; excellent condition. Richly colored, finely detailed view of the oldest city in the United States. The northernmost bastion of the Spanish empire in America, the city is here depicted during a time of strength and prosperity with a busy harbor, lively scenes of trade, and its fort in good repair. The three Spanish galleons in the harbor are especially well delineated. The mountains... Read More
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(Terrae- Mariae) Nova (et) Virginiae Tabula
by OGILBY, J./ MONTANUS, A
Amsterdam, 1671. No Binding. Near Fine. 11 3/8 x 13 7/8 inche. Fine hand color; old manuscript additions to title, excellent condition. Attractively colored example of this edition of Capt. John Smith's landmark map, based on the first survey of the Chesapeake Bay. Curiously, the map is illustrated with images of a llama, goat, and unicorn, which were evidently considered by Europeans to be native to Virginia. In early ink, Maryland ("Terre-Mariae") was added to the title.... Read More
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Maris Pacifici, (quod vulgo Mar del Zur)
by ORTELIUS, A
Antwerp, 1590. No Binding. Very Good. Original and later color; some very slight restoration at margin, else excellent condition "One of the most important maps that appeared in the Ortelius atlases ..." (Burden). With its two splendid cartouches and a well-detailed illustration of Magellan's flagship, the Victoria, this is also one of the most beautifully engraved of Ortelius' maps. "Being one of Ortelius' most desirable maps combined with the fact that it was not issued in the... Read More
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