Missale Pragense [Prague Missale]

RARE INCUNABLE BY THE FIRST PRINTER IN BOHEMIA, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING[Pilsen, Printer of 'Statuta synodalia'], 19 Nov. 1479. Chancery folio (32.4 x 22.4 cm). Collation: [1⁴; 2⁸ 3⁸ (1+1: "-cro sancta"), 4-15⁸, 16-33⁸ 34⁴]; 264 leaves, leaf [1] blank; lacking the woodcut illustration of the Crucifixion (leaf [15]/8v) as in the Czech National Library copy. Printed in two columns in black and red; unsigned and without catch words, but foliated in pencil; printing in red normally in large blocks of... Read More

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Le Juif-Errant.

Single-sided broadside (64.1 x 41.3 cm), [1] sheet composed of a large woodcut in contemporary handcolor and letterpress text. Colors still fresh vibrant, unobtrusive centerfold, excellent. Rare early 19th-century French popular broadside, here in fine contemporary hand-color, depicting the legendary Juif-Errant, or "Wandering Jew", the mythical immortal man said to have been present at the Crucifixion who was cursed thereafter to walk the earth ceaselessly until the Second Coming. The broadside has at its center a large woodcut portrait in contemporary... Read More

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The Century of Invention. Anno Domini 2000. Or the March of Aerostation, Steam and Perpetual Motion.�

by [after GRANT, Charles Jameson (British, active 1829-1866)]

London?: ca., 1834. Extremely rare, separately-issued caricature printed on linen satirizing the early nineteenth-century British love affair with transportation. The print imagines the consequences of technological progress in the year 2000. It depicts a wild fantasy overrun with improbable vehicles from the impracticable and obsolete to the quixotic: steam-powered carriages, giant hydrogen balloons, and men sprouting wings. The handkerchief was also offered in sepia (McCormick Collection of Aeronautica, Item 284, no. 60, Princeton University). ... Read More

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Bermannus, sive de re metallica. Ab accurata autoris recognitione & emendatione nunc primum editus. Cum nomenclatura rerum metallicarum

by AGRICOLA, Georg

Leipzig: Valentinus Papa, 1546. Rare Leipzig printing of Agricola’s first book devoted to mining, a pioneer delineation of mining and metallurgy (DSB), and of particular interest for the study of occupational diseases.

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De la generatione de le cose, che sotto la terra sono, e de le cause de' loro effeti e nature.

by AGRICOLA, Giorgio

THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC MINERALOGY IN A VERNACULAR LANGUAGE 8vo (14.9 x 9.7 cm), [28] ff. (the last blank), 467 ff., [1] f., with woodcut printer's devices, 1 full-page woodcut on verso of f. 142 trimmed to the outer margin, and woodcut initials. Bound in 17th-century full morocco elaborately stamped in gold, all edges gilt. Spine and extremities restored. Some minor marginal waterstaining and spotting towards rear of volume, otherwise very good and internally fresh. Rare first Italian edition and first edition in... Read More

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Schorbuti Historia cui inobservatum vel saltem indictum hactenus symptoma accesit

by ALBERTI, Salomon

Wittenberg: Georg Muller, 1594.  Rare first edition of one of the earliest works on the subject of scurvy by the well-known anatomist, undertaken to survey the incidence of the disease in the ducal territories around Wittenberg, and consequently qualifying as an example of public health medicine. According to O’Malley, Alberti was able to positively demonstrate the disease’s prevalence in the territory surveyed, and astutely recommend citrus fruit as part of a preventative diet, a benevolent property later recognized by... Read More

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TRAVELS AND VOYAGES
THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF A EUROPEAN TRAVELER TO EAST AFRICA

Historia de las Cosas de Etiopia, en la qual se Cuenta muy copiosamente, el estado y potécia del Emperador della, (que es el que muchos an pesado ser el Preste Juan)...

by ALVARES, Francisco

8vo. (20), 207 ff., 1 blank. Bound in 19th-century calf, gilt title on spine, gilt-ruled borders on covers, fore-edges gilt. Repair to tear in blank margin of title and wormhole filled; cuts to lower blank margin of p. 132, just grazing a signature letter; apart from some toning in the margin, very good.Rare first Spanish language edition of one of the earliest detailed reports on Ethiopia available to Europeans: "incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has... Read More

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RARE EARLY CIVIL WAR SEPARATELY ISSUED BROADSIDE
MAP OF VIRGINIA & MARYLAND
Seat of War in America, 6d. [London]: Bacon & Co., [1861].

by [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR].

Wood-engraved map with contemporary hand coloring, engraved by Waters & Son, New York, with publisher's advertisement above map, near contemporary marginal annotation to lower right margin which reads 'Position of Federal Army under General Maclellan [sic] July 1862 stretching towards the James River'; two closed tears in image carefully restored and barely visible, a few other very minor repairs; a little fraying and some light discoloration at an old fold. 55.5 x 32.5 cms. Altogether a very nice example, attractive.An... Read More

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Il gazzettiere americano contenente un Distinto Ragguaglio di Tutte le Parti del Nuovo Mondo della loro Situazione, Clima, Terreno, Prodotti, Stato Antico e Moderno, Merci, Manifatture, e Commercio Con una esatta descrizione delle Città, Piazze, P

by [Gazzettiere Americano]

Livorno: Marco Coltellini, 1763. First Italian edition of this comprehensive geographical dictionary of the New World. This translation of the American Gazetteer [3 vols., London, 1762], is practically a new work, having been greatly enlarged, and with eighty plates and maps engraved for this edition (Borba, p. 347). In the Italian editors introduction, he explains that Americas growing importance in French and English affairs had produced a need for a general text on the continent, suitable for... Read More

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Stirpium rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte provenientium icones et descriptiones

by AMMAN, Johannes

St. Petersburg: Academia Scientiarum, 1739. Two important and generously illustrated botanical works produced by respected Linnaean correspondents at the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. Amman’s Stirpium rariorum contains useful descriptions of 285 plants from Eastern Europe and “Ruthenia” (now Ukraine), enhanced with 35 clear engravings. According to Hunt, Amman “made a notable contribution to Russian taxonomy under Peter the Great and his immediate successors; and was thus a precursor of Gmelin and Pallas” (Hunt 511). The... Read More

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CHRISTIANOPOLIS: THE LUTHERAN UTOPIA
Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio

by [ANDREAE, Johann Valentin.]

[Bound first:] Herculis Christiani luctae XXIV. Strasburg, Lazarus Zetzner, 1615. (2) ff., [1-]54, 59-62, + 3 blank leaves; note: lacking pages 55-58 (c6-7). [Bound second:] Turris Babel sive Judiciorum de Fraternitate Rosaceae Crucis Chaos. Strasburg, heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1619. 72 pp. [Bound last:] Civis Christianus, sive Peregrini quondam errantis restitutiones. Strasburg, heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1619. 235 pp., 2 blanks. Four works in one vol. Very lightly browned as usual; excellent copies in contemporary yapped vellum, spine lettered in ink;... Read More

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Collection of nine pamphlets celebrating royal entries into Barcelona (1783, 1802, 1827)

by [FÊTE] [ANONYMOUS.]

* 1. Palau 29,755, one record in OCLC: Northwestern; 2. Palau 80,255, no OCLC records; 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Palau 259,767, NUC records NYPL, Hispanic Society, no locations in OCLC. NOTE: Palau calls for 13 plates, but the two copies listed in the NUC contain only 11; this copy has 12. (separate issues: 4. Palau 193,624; 5. Palau 156,972, 20 pp.; 6. Palau 156,973, 19 pp.; 7. Palau 156,974); 8-9. Palau 259,934 (separate record for 9: Palau 156,976, 12... Read More

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Relacion Obsequiosa de los Seis Primeros Dias en que Logro La Monarchia Espanola… que hicieron en ella desde los dias 17 al 21 de Octobre de 1759…

by [FÊTE/CARLOS III] Anonymous

Barcelona: Maria Teresa Vendrell y Texido. Rare first edition and fine copy of this illustrated funeral festival book for Charles III of Spain

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Bird's-Eye View of New-York & Brooklyn

by ANTHONY, Edward (publisher)/ LEWIS, C. E. (artist)

New York,, 1849. No Binding. Near Fine. 13 x 23 inches. Chromolithograph with period hand color; light soiling & creasing, mended edge split well away from printed surface, overall near excellent with still vibrant color. An apparently unrecorded, very attractive view of New York City and Brooklyn, not listed in the relevant references* and not in major collections, including the NYPL and the New York Historical Society; also no copies in OCLC. It was the first, or... Read More

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Traité d'architecture, ou proportions des trois ordres grecs, sur un module de douze parties. Par Jean Antoine, Architecte & Arpenteur Général du Départment de Metz.

by ANTOINE, Jean

Treves: Imprimerie Electorale , 1768. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large 4to [25.5 x 19.5 cm]. (27) ff., pp. 1-132; 129-186, (5) folding plates, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, over 30 of them full-page. Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, raised bands, gilt title label on spine, some scuffing to boards, upper board tender, edges sprinkled red, internally a very fresh copy with broad margins, excellent. ... Read More

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Archimedis Opera quae extant. Novis Demonstrationibus Commentariisque illustrata

by ARCHIMEDES/ed. RIVAULT, David

Paris: Claude Morel, 1615. Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio [35 x 22.5 cm]. (22) ff., 549 (i.e. 551, with frequent misnumberings) pp., including title printed in red and black, bilingual text in Greek and Latin in two columns, and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations. Bound in full 17th-century calf, with unidentified gilt armorial device on both covers and gilt trim; spine in 7 compartments bearing gilt ornaments, arms, and title. Very light dampstaining touching margins of title and first... Read More

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The English Pilot. [The Fourth Book.] Describing The West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones.

by [AMERICANA / ATLAS]

THE FIRST ENGLISH SEA ATLAS OF AMERICA Folio (47.7 x 31 cm), 66 pp. (with pagination errors), with [26] engraved maps (21 of which are double-page or folding), the first chart with letterpress text attached (as called for), numerous woodcuts in the text. Bound in contemporary sheep, rebacked, blind-tooled borders to upper and lower covers. Minor rubbing to covers. Some spotting to the fourth map (Verner no. 62) and adjacent letterpress pages, small tear to fold of map 10 (Verner no.... Read More

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Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo Abstrusos Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi

by AUENBRUGGER, Leopold

Very rare first edition, first issue (without the errata printed on verso of F8) of "one of the greatest of medical classics" describing a new method of physical diagnosis—thoracic percussion, namely, tapping a patient's chest and determining from the resultant sound whether it was healthy or diseased.

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Les exp?riences d'aviation des fr?res Wright. Rapport pr?sent? a l'a?ro-club d'Am?rique.

by [AVIATION] / WRIGHT des fr?res, Ferrus, L., tr.

OFFPRINT IN FRENCH OF WRIGHT BROTHERS REPORT RECORDING THE LONGEST FLIGHT AT THE TIME 8vo, pp. (1-3) 4-7 (8 blank). In original printed publisher's wrappers. Printed advertisements on back cover. Ink stamp "From the private library of Orville Wright" on title page, signature of H. A. Miller. Uncut. A fine copy of the first French edition of Wright brothers' report from March 12, 1906 to the secretary of the recently created Aero Club of America, recording the longest flight in history at... Read More

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Panorama of the Seat of War: Bird's Eye View of Kentucky and Tennessee Showing Cairo and Part of the Southern States

by BACHMANN, J

New York, 1861. No Binding. Fine. 22 x 28 inches. Chromo-lithograph, superb original color; fine condition. Very rare, beautiful view of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, primarily showing Tennessee and Kentucky - the western seat of the Civil War. Bachmann, one of most highly skilled graphic artists of the 19th century, employed a vantage point of remarkable height in this panorama. The work presents literally hundreds of square miles of territory, making it a... Read More

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Panorama of the Seat of War. Birds Eye View Of Virginia, Maryland Delaware And The District Of Columbia

by BACHMANN, J

New York, 1864. No Binding. Near Fine. 21 x 28 inches. Chromolithograph; one mend in text area, else excellent condition. A work of ingenious design that blurs the distinction between map and view. Its perspective is from much too high a vantage point to be considered a bird's-eye view; it is, in fact, more satellite height in its perspective. Yet the work is too figurative to be strictly speaking a map. It is thus a unique hybrid... Read More

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Birds Eye View Of Hoboken

by BACHMANN, J./ SCHMIDT, C

Hoboken, 1865. No Binding. Fine. 13 1/4 x 19 inches.. Two-stone lithograph with original hand color; fine A very finely executed view of the prospering city of Hoboken in New Jersey in a superb example. Several ships can be seen at the terminals, including the paddle-wheel steamers, "Elise" and "Hoboken." Reps, J. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America, no. 2343.

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EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF MISSIONARY WORK IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Origine et progrès de la mission du Kentucky. Paris: A. Le Clère, 1821.

by [BADIN, Stephen Theodore].

8vo. (1) f., 32 pp. Bound in recent blue paper over boards. Excellent. Second edition, appearing the same year as the first, of this eye-witness account of missionary work in the American south. In 1793, Stephen Theodore Badin, a native of Orleans, became the first priest ordained in the United States by the Catholic church. A short while later he was appointed a missionary to Kentucky, with the center of work at Bardstown. Inexperienced and ignorant of frontier language and customs,... Read More

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La Noblesse, excellence, et Antiquit? de l?Asne. Traduict de l?Italien du Seigneur Attabalippa

by BANCHIERI, Adriano

Paris: François Huby, 1606. Extremely rare first and only French edition (first Italian: 1592) of this satirical work on the nobility of the ass by one of the major musical theorists of the early Baroque. This is the earliest extant work and by far the most successful by Banchieri (1568-1634). The work ran into several Italian editions as well as translations into English and German, and spawned imitations such as Giulio Cesare Croce’s panegyrics on the pig and the... Read More

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SS. Apostolorum et Evangelistarum Icones cum suis parergis.

by BARBÉ, Jean-Baptiste / VAN LOON, Theodoor

[Antwerp?]: Jean-Baptiste Barbé, 1620. No Binding. Very Good. [23.3 x 16 cm]. Single-sided engravings, (1) engraved title, (20) engravings. Unbound, fixed with small staples at top edge. Minor marginal handsoiling and spotting, small marginal holes to a few leaves, minor edge wear, light browning to a few leaves. Generally very good. Very rare first edition of a set of engravings by the Antwerp printmaker Jean-Baptiste Barbé (1578-1649) after the designs of Theodoor van Loon (c.1581-1649), a... Read More

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