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1921050580London Uk: John Murray 1921. 3rd Edition Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Maps Illustrations Some In Color. Cii 462 Plate And Folding Map At Rear; Xxii 662 Pp. Two Volumes. Green Cloth Stamped In Dark Green Morocco Spine Labels Gilt. Third Edition Of 1902 1921 Printing. Wear; Beginning To Fray At Ends Of Spine With Small Fray Near Center Of Spine Of Volume I; Front Hinge Of Volume I Just Beginning To Crack. With The Publisher's Publicity Sheet For Ser Marco Polo By Henri Cordier A Supplementary Volume Of Addenda To This Work But The Supplementary Work Itself Not Included Here. Ownership Signatures Of The Late Roger W. Jelliffe Usc Professor Of Medicine. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
200027549Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Jockey Club 2000. 1st. Hardcover. As New/As New. 12.9x12.0x1.1in. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>Commemorative presentation album illustrated with 51 mounted color photographs of the 2000 December 15th and 17th events on silver foil pages with cellophane protectors. A lavish production. <br>28pp 4.05lb 12.9x12.0x1.1in The Hong Kong Jockey Club hardcover
1942029115UK: Chatto and Windus 1942. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1942. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A collection of short stories. A few hand corrections by the author within the text. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is good and quite bright. Cloth with surface rubbing and marking. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Small closed tear to top front edge. Light age toning/marking. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670/18664 <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
1956008199London: Phoenix House Ltd. 1956. The DEDICATION COPY of this historical tale of the 14th century. Near Fine condition. Clean square and tight. Inner hinges are perfect. The binding is the original blue boards stamped in shiny silver on the spine. In addition to her considerable talents as a biographer and literary historian the author was a gifted artist who attended the Minneapolis School of Art. She has handsomely illustrated this book with endpaper maps and decorated head and tail pieces at the start and end of each chapter. This is the DEDICATION COPY probably one of two -- one per sister. The book's printed dedication is "To My Sisters." On the same page the author has sketched a delightful winged gargoyle. Next to that the author has written: "for my darling Joy signed Marrie." Joy was B. J. Beatrice Joy Chute the author's sister and fellow-author. Among B. J. Chute's books are: GREENWILLOW; THE FIELDS ARE WHITE; THE BLUE CUP; SHATTUCK CADET; THE END OF LOVING; KATIE AN IMPERTINENT FAIRY TALE; and THE GOOD WOMAN. Born in Wayzata Minnesota in 1909 Marchette "Marrie" Chute moved to New York City with her mother and two sisters in the early 1940s. Both sisters Beatrice Joy Chute and Mary Grace Chute later Mary Chute Smith of Morristown N.J. were also gifted writers. Marchette Chute wrote some 13 books and served as president of the American Center of P.E.N. from 1955-57. She was elected to the American Academy of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975. Among her other books are: SHAKESPEARE OF LONDON; BEN JONSON OF WESTMINSTER; JESUS OF ISRAEL; THE TWO GENTLE MEN THE LIVES OF GEORGE HERBERT AND ROBERT HERRICK. This is the first UK edition with "First published 1956" so stated on the copyright page. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED to the AUTHOR'S SISTER. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. 191pp. Phoenix House Ltd. Hardcover
172321208London: Printed by S. Palmer 1723. First English language edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Large quarto. XXVIII 540pp. Original gilt-stamped calf with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece. Vignette on title page. Title in red and black lettering. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. Originally published in 1696 "Apparatus biblicus" is a development of the author's "Introduction à la Lecture de l'Ecriture Sainte" 1689. In this work he calls in question the historical character of the Book of Tobias and the Book of Judith and maintains that even after the Council of Trent a difference of authority should be recognized between the proto-canonical and deutero-canonical books of the Bible. This work examines also subjects such as the history of the Hebrews and the Holy Land a description of the Tabernacle and Temple a history of the scriptures and a great many tangential matters like the plants animals minerals diseases and customs mentioned in the Bible. Illustrated with thirty striking copper plates including frontispiece with a folding map of the known world. This work is divided into three parts: 1 Of the Origin History and Antiquities of the Jews; 2 Of the Canon; 3 Of the False Gods together with an Explanation of Scriptural Names. Many of the plates are folded and some depict the following views: Map of the World; Noah's Ark; the Tower of Babel; Map of the Holy Land; Plan of the Ancient City of Jerusalem; the Ark of the Covenant; the Temple; the High Priest; the Great Sanhedrim; etc. Head and tail of spine chipped. Rubbing along edges of binding. Front hinge starting but front board still firmly attached. Minor to moderate age-toning/foxing to very first and very last pages. Minor worming and water-staining to upper margin of the last hundred pages not affecting text or plates. Binding in overall fair interior in good plates in very good condition. About the author: Bernard Lamy 1640-1715 was a French Oratorian mathematician and theologian. Printed by S. Palmer hardcover
1740007740London: Printed for the Editor 1740. Book. Very Good Plus. Full Calf. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Frontispiece engraving of Matthew Prior by J. Parr Sculpt. viii 472 index 8 pp. Bound by J. Clarke in full calf double gilt rule border to covers spine in six compartments with red and black morocco labels and gilt rules all edges gilt marbled end pages. Very Good Plus the spine repaired in keeping although the repair leaving the end pages rubbed at gutters small period bookplate bearing a dragon the name on the bookplate obscured. covers a bit rubbed and lightly soiled. The text clean and bright. A quite nice ccopy and rather uncommon thus. Printed for the Editor Hardcover
1642016944London: Printed for Michael Sparke Robert Milbourne Richard Cotes and Andrew Crooke 1642. Book. Very Good-. Full Leather. 4to. A clean and solid copy in original leather binding with five raised bands and original printer's red stain to all edges. Covers well worn with corners curling inward and leather rubbed from one corner. Hinges split but joints still intact. Eps clipped. Owner's name on front pastedown. Text clean. Binding tight. As is. Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair . Printed for Michael Sparke, Robert Milbourne, Richard Cotes, and Andrew Crooke Hardcover
186914623AB1869. Paris Levy 1869. 18 : 12 cm. 2 leaves 295 pages Contemporary cloth spine gilt. First edition. - On the first page 2-line dedication with signature by Marie Alexandre Dumas dated 14 Mars 1869. - Some light foxing. hardcover
1940N3484Ben Shemen Pre-State Israel 1940. Typoscript. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 4to. 17pp printed on one side only. Inscribed on title by Ludwig Strauss 3 lines Cover with small loss on upper left corner some marginal stains and light creases. Otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. <br/> <br/> unknown
1974036014Jerusalem: I.P.S.T. / Israel Universities Press / John Wiley & Sons / Halsted Press 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket. Xv 190 Pp. Red Cloth Printed In Black And Pink. First Printing. Inscribed By The Author To The Dedicatee Prof. Abraham Kaplan. Light Wear Rubbing And Bumping At Corners No Fraying Some Fading To Cloth On Spine Panel But Lettering Still Strong. Mendel Sachs 1927 -2012 Was An American Theoretical Physicist. His Scientific Work Includes The Proposal Of A Unified Field Theory That Brings Together The Weak Force Strong Force Electromagnetism And Gravity. Sachs Earned His Bachelors At The University Of California Los Angeles He Then Moved To Columbia University New York For Postgraduate Study. While At Columbia Sachs Was Taught By Willis Lamb And Hideki Yukawa.5 Yukawa Had Agreed To Be Sach's Thesis Advisor But Sachs Decided To Complete His Doctorate Back At Ucla. Following The Award Of His Phd In 1954 Sachs First Post-Doctoral Position Was At The New University Of California Radiation Laboratory At Both Berkeley And Livermore Which Was Run By Edward Teller And Ernest Lawrence And Was Also Home To Bryce Dewitt Who Sachs Would Later Co-Author Articles With In Physics Today. In 1956 Sachs Became A Senior Scientist At Lockheed Missiles And Space Laboratory While At Lockheed Sachs Began Developing With Solomon Schwebel A Field Theory Of Quantum Electrodynamics That Included Broken Symmetries That Did Not Require Recourse To Renormalization Or Perturbation Techniques - The "Schwebel-Sachs" Model. In 1961 He Became A Research Professor At Mcgill University; This Was Followed By A Post As Associate Professor Of Physics At Boston University 1962-1966. In 1964 While At Boston University Sachs Received An Invitation From Paul Dirac To Visit Cambridge University. Sachs Stayed In England For Three Months Where His Wife Yetty Had Family. Sachs Worked With Paul Dirac At The Department Of Applied Mathematics And Theoretical Physics Cambridge University. While Working With Dirac Sachs Also Had The Opportunity To Discuss Ideas With John G. Taylor John Polkinghorne And Graduate Students At Damtp. In 1965 Sachs Had Had A Breakthrough While At The Aspen Physics Institute Colorado. Sachs Was Able To Derive A Result For A Unified Field Theory If Quantum Mechanics Was Considered To Be A Linear Approximation For A Field Theory Of Inertia Expressed In General Relativity. Sachs Argued That The Work Of Albert Einstein And Erwin Schrödinger In General Relativity Did Not Yet Take Account Of The Inertia Of Matter Which Required Consideration Of The Mach Principle. In The Summer Of 1966 Abdus Salam Invited Sachs To Spend A Few Months At The International Centre For Theoretical Physics In Trieste Italy. During This Time Sachs Published The Details Of His Formal Structure Of Quantum Mechanics From A Generally Covariant Field Theory Of Inertia In The Italian Journal Il Nuovo Cimento. In The Autumn Of 1966 He Was Appointed Professor Of Physics At State University Of New York At Buffalo. <br/> <br/> I.P.S.T. / Israel Universities Press / John Wiley & Sons / Halsted Press hardcover
177130605Paris: Le Bas 1771. Nouvelle edition. Hardcover. Good. Four volumes 12mo. 3 130 235 85 71 leafs. Decorative paper covered boards spines worn. Remarkable narrative of Sacred History first published between 1760 and 1762. Illustrated mostly by Le Maire but also by Masquelier du Clos Gauché and many others. These volumes consist of an unascribed bilingual text Latin and French to accompany plates illustrating Biblical scenes along with short interspersed series of scenes drawn from Homer and Virgil and a gallery of Muses by way of conclusion with captions derived from Ausonius; the plates owe much to Goltzius Diepenbeeck and Le Temple des Muses and anticipate some of Le Mire-Basan's "Métamorphoses Gravées" Paris 1770. Bindings rubbed along joints and edges. Corners bumped not affecting pages throughout. Rear cover of second volume glued. Lacks the first leaf of Le Maire's dedication to the Duke of Burgundy. Otherwise this work is complete! Sporadic and very minor age toning throughout. Text in French and Latin. A good set. Le Bas hardcover
19662092902141301914Yamabushi Culture Preservation Society 1966. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Yamabushi Culture Preservation Society paperback
1684V74892London: Printed by Mary Clarke for Jos. Hindmarsh Bookseller to his Royal Highness. 1684. Hardcover. Very Good-. Octavo 11x17cm speckled brown leather on 4 raised bands with orange gilt spine title label neat small repair to head of spine tips rubbed All edges marbled but darkened 14pp titlepage dedication & contents 272pp errata leaf tipped in collated complete except lacks blank leaf A8. Side notes and good margins monogram engraved bookplate by W.G.R. pages crisp and clean throughout. Supports the succession to Charles II of his brother James Duke of York in spite of p 236 "the moral impossibility of introducing the Romish Religion tho the Prince were of that Persuasion". Very rare Wing W2921 ESTC R27078. Printed by M[ary] C[larke] for Jos. Hindmarsh, Bookseller to his Royal Highness. hardcover
190351567Milano Ulrico Hoepli 1903. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth gilt. A small paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. A stamp on htitle. Frontispiece and portrait heliogravure. XII592 pp. maps textillustr. and plates in heliogravure. Fine and clean. With dedication from the author on halftitle but the name of receiver cut out. <br/><br/><em>First edition. </em> hardcover
175343705Neapoli Naples Italy: Excudebat Joseph Raymundi. 1753. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to; 12 335 1 errata pp pages; Mid-eighteenth century sprinkled brown calf raised bands and decorative gilt stamped decoration in spine panels with red title label edges of the text block stained red. The dedication copy of the Latin edition of Dr. John Arbuthnot's last book -- An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies London printed for J. Tonson in the Strand 1733. With the bookplate of the dedicatee of this 1753 first Latin edition -- Niccolò Fraggianni. A full page engraved portrait of Fraggianni is included facing the text of the dedication of this edition to him. The binding displays some insect damage along portions of the outer gutter margins and at the red leather titling slip on the spine. Internally there is some minor damage which gets progressively less apparent to the front endpapers the half title and title page. At the rear there is similar damage to the endpapers but just a tiny hole in the gutter margin of the errata leaf. There is also a modest damp tide mark to the blank bottom margins of the final twenty pages. Dr. Arbuthnot was born in Scotland and in early life by training and habit of mind thought of himself as a mathematician. He came to London in 1691 the year his father a non-conforming Scottish minister had died. In London the following year Arbuthnot published 'Of the Laws of Chance' -- more or less a translation from the Latin text of Christiaan Huygens's 'De ratiociniis in ludo aleae.' This is widely thought to have been the first work on probability published in English. Arbuthnot became the tutor to a well-born son of a member of Parliament follwed his charge to Oxford where he met many eminent figures of the time -- including Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys. Arbuthnot felt that he would benefit in life by the formal possession of an advanced degree but did not have the necessary financial backing to spend years as a student. Thus impelled by circumstances he set what I believe must be an all-time speed record for obtaining an earned doctoral degree. He returned to his native Scotland entrolled as a doctoral student in medicine at the University of St. Andrews on 11 September 1696. On that busy day Arbuthnot defended seven theses dealing with medical subjects -- and was awarded his doctorate before that same day had come to a close. Arbuthnot used this new medical degree along with what must have been a vast repertoire of conversation and helpful advice to take advantage of a chance meeting to become physician to Prince George and then to his wife Queen Anne. For ten years he moved in higher and higher circles eventually becoming a member of the Royal household. And even after Queen Anne died without arranging for the continuing support of Dr. Arbuthnot and her other inner staff he never strayed far from the various London circles of power and high achievement. Today he is probably best remembered as a founder of the "Scriblerus Club" -- with his friends Pope Gay Swift Thomas Parnell Harley and Bolingbroke. Because Arbuthnot became famous among these friends for ducking credit as author of a number of poems and satires and his numerous contributions to the works of others. Certainly few would dispute that Arbuthnot had a major influence on Swift's "Gulliver's Travels -- which he saw in various manuscript drafts -- during which he almost certainly influenced its satirical portrayal of the Royal Society the real version of which Arbuthnot had been made a member in 1704. The traditional notion is that this book was not particularly important in the history of medicine since while the idea of "fresh air" is both pleasant and beneficial -- the air could hardly manage to carry pathogens responsible for spreading major disease. When Fielding Garrison wrote his pioneering American history of medicine in 1913 he mentions Dr. John Arbuthnot in his survey of the English Eighteenth century and treats him as the creator of "John Bull" -- friend to Swift and Pope and incidentally physician to Queen Anne. And it was not until four years after Garrison's death that scientists first were able to "see" a virus using the newly developed electron microscope. Naples became a center for publication of medical books in Latin during the eighteenth century. The translator of this text into Latin Fortunatus del Felic held the chair of experimental physics and mathematics at Naples University. He expanded his Lain text on a local point of interest. Dr. Arbuthnot's 1733 English text -- Section XVII of the first chapter -- refers to the "mortiferous Stream in the Grotto del Cane near Naples." The 1753 Latin text contains 8 full double columns of notes on four pages devoted to the nature and literature of this unusual place ranging from classical times forward. Moreover since the grotto represents one of earth's most unusually concentrated exhalations of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere there is more potential interest in Dr. Arbuthnot's fascination for this location and what it might meanfor the earth and life on the planet in the twenty-first century than might have been the case a century ago when this eighteenth century book was usually dismissed by historians of medicine and science as a relatively minor work. Through this Latin translation Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice 1723 – 1789 also known as the second Comte de Panzutt attracted the attention of Albrecht von Haller -- who influenced Felice to move to Swizerland where he eventually became one of the most important publishers of his time. More about the status of this copy as "the" dedication copy. While it sometimes occurs that the dedicatee of a book has many copies to distribute to friends and colleagues it really does appear that this copy has a unique status. We can find no other copies in library catalogues of copies in which the distinctive bookplate of Niccolò Fraggianni is reported. Moreover there is an ink inscription about the history of our copy following the death of Fraggianni in February of 1763. "Quondam / Nunc Aloysii Ranatila Scarpacci / Philosophiae et Medicinae Doctoris / 1768." . Excudebat Joseph Raymundi hardcover
199167<p>Très rare exemplaire d' Aktfotos dédicacé signé et daté par l'auteur Jacques Alexandre grand ami de Bourboulon.</p><p>Il a écrit : " Pour un collectionneur éclairé avec toute mon amitié Jacques Alexandre Cologne 10.09.1999."</p><p>Ce qui en fait une copie presque unique on notera que l'auteur ne nomme pas le collectionneur donc la valeur est largement supérieure à une dédicace avec le nom</p><p>Beaucoup de photos de nus spécialité de l'auteur.</p><p>Le livre est proche du neuf très peu manipulé</p> Willem Knapp Verlag hardcover
193417318AB1934. Paris Les Éditions Denoél et Steele 1934. 195 : 14 cm. 191 pages. Original wrappers. Edition original. - With a fine five-line dedication on the pre-title signed by Antonin Artaud "à Therese Drogoul avec ma grande amitié parcequ'elle connait le monde da la Magie des Reflets". Therese Drogoul was a writer poet and translator under the pseudonym of Thérése Aubray born Thérése Gros - Marseille 188 - 1974 Boulogne-Billancourt and was married to the musician Fernand Drogoul. She belonged to the first circle of the journal 'Lés Cahiers du Sud' managed by her friend Jean Ballard from 1931 on she was correspondent in Paris for the journal. Together with her husband she had a literary Salon where many poets and artists like Antonin Artaud Jean and Ida Cassou Leon-Paul Fargue Benjamin Fondane André Masson Henri de Régnier and others met. - Avant-garde artist Antonin Artaud 1896-1948 is celebrated for his raw surreal and transgressive work including Héliogabale his portrayal of Elagabalus the Roman emperor from 218 to 222 as a dark hero born into depravity and condemned by society. The book delves into the clash between Greco-Latin culture and Barbarism capturing the extremes of human experience. Through Héliogabale Artaud explores themes of societal collapse collision of civilizations and the descent into madness. Renowned French writer J.M.G. Le Clézio has described Héliogabale as the most violent book in contemporary literature exuding a beautiful and regenerating violence transl. - Paper as always a bit browned. unknown
172347525Lugduni Lyon: Jacobum Certe 1723. Editio Novissima New edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Quarto. 20 412 62 table and indices 11 plates 10 folding bound in 1 folding alphabet 11 plates at rear. Full vellum with brown lettering on spine. Title page with publisher's device. Decorative head- and endpieces historiated initials.<br /> <br /> In this work Bernard Lamy the renowned French Oratorian mathematician and theologian calls in question the historical character of the book of Tobias and book of Judith and maintains that even after the Council of Trent a difference of authority should be recognized between the proto-canonical and deutero-canonical books of the Bible. This study examines also such subjects as the history of the Hebrews and the Holy Land a description of the Tabernacle and Temple a history of the scriptures and a great many tangential matters like the plants animals minerals diseases and customs mentioned in the Bible. This book is exquisitely illustrated with 22 fine copper plate engravings ten of them folding in block one folding plate with Greek and Hebrew alphabet and eleven plates bound at rear. The eleven plates at rear depict animals and plants the others include two maps a plan of Jerusalem a detailed temple plan a priest with garments a rabbi with tefillin and 3 charts of coinage and measurements. Text in Latin. Binding with some wear few small chips slightly wavey some staining and light scuffing at spine. Some parts of book with stains at top margins due to water exposure. Binding in overall good- interior and plates in very good condition. About the author: Bernard Lamy 1640-1715 was a French Oratorian mathematician and theologian. Jacobum Certe hardcover
1997ABE-14619877748Stone Trough Books 1997 Superb quarter calf leather with cloth sides specially bound issue of ONLY 35 COPIES of which this is number 29. It has a vivid Vorticist cloth cover. Signed on the limitation page with a dedication to one of the greatest poets of the English language my opinion! Ken Smith. CL has written 'For Ken Smith with my thanks for a fine job from Christopher Logue'. A unique and wonderful association copy. Several tipped in photographs. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Stone Trough Books hardcover
192159051Lausanne Édition de la Licorne 1921. Bound in exquisite full morocco composed of 3 different colours of morocco green light brown and red. Inner joints in morocco. In matching slip-case. With a long dedication 8 lines from the author "á Mademoiselle Agnete With" signed and dated by the author "René Morax/ Morges. 1921". The book is bound by the recipient the respected Danish bookbinder Agnete With 1899-1972 and signed in blind on inside backcover. 1682 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Arthur Honegger composed the music to Morax's play and the music became his break-through as a composer."Arthur Honegger was commissioned to write incidental music to accompany René Morax’s play Le Roi David in 1921. Honegger was given the nearly impossible deadline of 2 months to complete the work and was rewarded with much acclaim at the premiere. In 1923 he combined Morax’s narrative with his music and created a "symphonic psalm" the form that is familiar today and titled his work Le Roi David."Wikipedia </em> unknown
190418278AB1904. Paris Vanier 1904 185 : 12 cm. 231 pages. Original wrappers. First edition of this important collection of poems from the creative fase of Marinetti. - Un the pre-title dedication 'Je vous dédie cher Maitre "Le Sabbat" page 104 votre admirateur a votre amí F.T. Marinetti" fully signed by Marinetti. unknown
1710ST19567-052Cantabrigiae Cambridge: Cornelius Crownfield 1710. THE DEDICATION COPY ONE OF 150 ON LARGE PAPER per Mackenzie. 248 x 192 mm. 9 3/4 x 7 1/2". 4 p.l. xxiv 532 2 318 283-304 pp. 84 leaves.Edited by Rev. Joseph Wasse. <br/> FINE CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO GILT covers panelled with gilt fillets accented with fleuron acorn and scallop tools raised bands spine compartments densely gilt with similar tools red morocco label marbled endpapers all edges gilt probably with some very facile repairs to top and bottom of joints and spine. Front pastedown with the armorial bookplate of the dedicatee Henry Grey Duke of Kent dated 1713 and with the armorial ex-libris of Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes Marquess of Crewe; front free endpaper with engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey see below for all. Dibdin II 385; Mackenzie "The Cambridge University Press 1696-1712" I 273-76. ◆Front joint with thin crack at head and tail covers with darkish splotches obvious but somehow not overly offending with antique morocco like this other very minor signs of use but the binding still extremely pleasing as a grand specimen for an important dedicatee. A MOST ATTRACTIVE COPY INTERNALLY especially clean and fresh with only negligible imperfections.<br/> <br/> This is the stately dedication copy of Wasse's monumental edition of Sallust in its original handsome unrestored binding. Described by Dibdin as "an excellent edition . . . the merits of which have long been acknowledged by the literary world" our version was prepared by Wasse after consulting nearly 80 manuscripts including "some very ancient editions." A huge undertaking it spent five years in the press. Oxford Antiquary Thomas Hearne mentioned it in his "Remarks" amazed that "Mr. Wasse . . . has so swell'd his Salust sic . . . with Notes" that "his Index will be upwards of 20 sheets"; in fact the Index consumes 84 leaves 21 quires. The text of the present volume contains the only two extant historical works of Sallust 86-34 B.C. which are his history of the conspiracy of Catiline against the senate in the year Cicero was consul and his history of the Roman war against the Numidian Algerian chieftain Jugurtha brought to its conclusion by the great soldier and populist politician Marius. As a stylist Sallust has enjoyed great fame for his artistic and epigrammatic speeches with their vividly delineated characters. A fellow of Queen's College Cambridge Joseph Wasse 1672-1738 served as chaplain to the Marquess later Duke of Kent Henry Grey 1671-1740 to whom he dedicated this work. The handsome binding is of very high quality and is decorated in the Cambridge style by an unknown binder of that city. Grey was a courtier who held a number of prominent positions: under Queen Anne he served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household and Knight of the Garter and as one of the Lords Justices Regents of the Realm upon her death; under George I he was Lord of the Bedchamber Lord Steward of the Household and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. Our volume was passed down in his family through the line of his granddaughter Jemima Campbell Marchioness Grey to Thomas Philip de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey 1781-1859 an amateur architect who rebuilt the family seat Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. He became the first president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. It was later in the 24000-volume library of the politician Robert Crewe-Milnes 1858-1945 Marquess of Crewe. Cornelius Crownfield unknown
1714ST20995Naples: Bernardo-Michele Raillard 1714. 343 x 223 mm. 13 1/2 x 8 3/4". 6 p.l. CCLXIX 15 pp. <br/> IMPOSING CONTEMPORARY BROWN MOROCCO EXUBERANTLY GILT covers with painted and gilt frames of floral rolls central panel with elaborate volute cornerpieces large central lozenge formed by myriad leafy gilt vines enclosing a coat of arms containing a three-turreted castle topped by a crown held up by two putti raised bands spine compartments framed by floral roll painted and gilt daisy centerpiece tulip cornerpieces all edges gilt. The Academy's engraved device on title page and 75 ENGRAVED PLATES of scientific instruments and experiments. DSB 9:3; Dibner Herald of Science 82 first edition. Joints with modern wear one short crack at top of rear joint head of spine a bit wormed corners and extremities somewhat rubbed gilt a bit rubbed in spots difficult to tell if some of the decoration is dark because painted or is now missing gilt a couple of leaves slightly browned in the text bed occasional minor foxing more pronounced on a couple of quires other trivial imperfections but an excellent copy--quite clean and fresh internally--in a solid binding still bright with gilt.<br/> <br/> Given its binding and provenance this is a uniquely desirable copy of a significant scientific work: our stately Neapolitan edition of the "Essays on Natural Experiments" is offered here in very animated morocco bearing the arms of the man who paid for its printing and to whom the book is dedicated. That remarkable patron Caesare Michelangelo d'Avalos Marquis of Pescara and Vasto prince of Isernia and Francavilla 1667-1729 was a true Renaissance man who took Machiavelli's "The Prince" as inspiration. He was both a wily political conspirator and a generous patron of the arts and sciences. His palace at Vasto was renowned for the beauty of its furnishings for its splendid art gallery and for its impressive library overseen by the humanist scholar Alessandro Berti. The present volume was a worthy addition to that library with its glowing dedication and its regal binding extravagantly gilt but so tastefully composed that it never crosses the line into ostentatious. <br /> First printed in 1666 "Essays" was produced by the Accademia del Cimento the most significant expression of post-Galilean scientific progress in Italy. Founded in 1657 as the first organization formed for the sole purpose of making scientific experiments the Accademia occupies a singular position in the history of the development of science. Prince Leopold of Tuscany the last exceptional member of the Medici family and his brother Ferdinand who followed the Medici family tradition of patronizing the arts and sciences provided the support free-thinking direction and financial patronage for the Academy. A well-equipped laboratory and an apparently inexhaustible supply of apparatus and materials helped to make the work of the 10 scientists associated with the Academy more sustained and broader in scope than anything that had come before it. W. E. K. Middleton "The Experimenters" According to Thorndike among many other subjects the experiments described here "were concerned with air pressure and freezing; or they aimed to prove that water was incapable of compression and that there was no such thing as lightness or positive levity. Some experiments were magnetic and others electric the latter being chiefly performed with amber. Other subjects investigated were the change of colors in fluids the motion of sound and projectiles." Although no author is given by name the title page of the 1666 first edition indicated that this account was written by the secretary to the academy Lorenzo Magalotti 1637-1712. A pupil of Viviani and a friend of Boyle Magalotti was celebrated for his highly finished colorful almost dramatic descriptions of experiments. DSB notes "He has the distinction . . . of having written the best scientific prose in Italian after that of Galileo.". Bernardo-Michele Raillard unknown
159639771Romae Rome: Apud Iacobum Lunam. Impensis Leonardi Parasoli & Sociorum 1596. First edition. Hardcover. poor to vg. Folio 15 1/4 x 10 3/4". 8 705 1pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped calf with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Striking floral design painting to paper edges with head of Christ on fore-edge. Engraved title by Francesco Villamena. Title page in red and black lettering and highlighted in gold. Decorative initials and tailpiece. Dedication to Pope Clement VIII by M. Vestrius Barbianus the Papal secretary. Printer's device on last page. <br /> <br /> Illustrated with no less than 156 magnificent hand-colored in-text engravings this monumental work is the official and complete liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. It contains the offices for sacramental and other sacred acts and ceremonies such as baptism communion confirmation ordination matrimony dedication of churches altars bells benediction of crosses sacred vestures burials coronations etc. Also includes numerous liturgical motets in Latin for Masses Te Deum and other religious ceremonies. All the engravings as well as the decorative initials and the printer's device at rear have been splendidly handcolored by a contemporary previous owner.<br /> <br /> Binding rubbed along edges. Covers detached but present. Title page repaired and re-laid. The first 24 leaves are disbound. Pages 15 to 30 heavily sunned with sporadic holes thus partly affecting text and some illustrations. Minor to moderate age-toning along paper margin for the remaining pages. Text in Latin. Binding in overall poor pages 15-30 in poor to fair the remaining pages in good to very good condition. Apud Iacobum Lunam. Impensis Leonardi Parasoli & Sociorum hardcover
