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Voyage en divers Etats d'Europe et d'Asie Entrepris pour découvrir un nouveau chemin à la Chine. Contenant Plusieurs Remarques curieuses de Physique de Geographie dHydrographie & dHistoire. Avec une Description de la grande Tartarie & des differens Peuples qui lhabitent. 2nd edition.

169368094Paris: Jean Boudot 1693. Later hardcover. Engraved title page 263422 pp. and 8 engraved plates. Text in French new binding low margins sometimes a little loss see pictures pages 283/284 misbound paper browned Although still very good very rare see pictures Jean Boudot hardcover

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Voyage En Divers Etats D'europe et d'Asie Entrespris Pour Decouvrir Un Nouveau Chemin a La Chine

1692BS44GLTBN504Paris: Claude Barbin 1692. Hardback later mottled calf gilt title to spine label. 24.5cm x 19cm. Engraved portrait of Stanislaus Jablonowski by Picart one folding map 3 engraved plates engraved headpieces all by Vallet historiated initials. 1st edition 1692. Binding is slightly rubbed and worn with a few very small worm holes not going all the way through. Some dampstaining to front free end-paper and to inner lower margin of last few pages of the Table at rear but otherwise contents is generally clean. Scarce. bs44. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Claude Barbin Hardcover

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Voyage en divers États d'Europe et d'Asie entrepris pour découvrir un nouveau chemin à la Chine

1692E0527titlepictorial platexviifolding map406xxiv pages with engraved initials and vignettes and three additional plates and index. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 7 1/2" bound in full leather with five raised bands and lettering in gilt and decorative vignettes. First edition. Philippe Avril was a Jesuit explorer of the Far East and professor of philosophy and mathematics at Paris when he was dispatched to the Jesuit missions of China. He was summoned by the Jesuit missions and sent as a Jesuit to the missions in China. Following the instructions of Ferdinand Verbiest another Jesuit then at Peking suggested that he attempted an overland journey which he ended up traveling for six years through Kurdistan Armenia Astrakhan Persia and other countries of eastern Asia arriving at Moscow. He now traveled to Grodno in Poland where he renewed an acquaintance with Count de Syri who had formerly befriended him at Astrakham. The count at the suggestion of Avril applied ot the French government for the appointment of ambassador from the King of France to the Emperor of China. He succeed in obtaining the appointment and it was arranged that Avril should accompany him. They set out to Moscow together. An accident detained Avril and the count arrived at Moscow days before his companion. On the arrival of Avril he received the intelligence that the Russian authorities and compelled the count to proceed and was refused permission to over take him. Avril proceeded to Warsaw and through the assistance of Prince Jablonowksi to reach Constantinople by way of Moldavia. Here he was seized with spitting of blood and he found himself compelled to relinquish his mission and returned to France. He landed at Toulon in 1690 and published an account of his travels. Avril's journal and writings provide a significant amount of useful material for modern historians and demographers. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed lacking 3E4 blank leaf between the end of the main text and start of the Table de Metiers occasional toning ink inscription to title spine ends and raised spine rubbed some spotting to leather else a good to very good copy. Claude Barbin, Jean Boudot, George & Louis Josse hardcover

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PHILIPPE, Avril (1654-1698).Biblio.com

Voyage en divers Etats d'Europe et d'Asie Entrepris pour decouvrir un nouveau chemin a la Chine. Contenant Plusieurs Remarques curieuses de Physique de Geographie d'Hydrographie & d'Histoire. Avec une description de la grande Tartarie & des Differens Peuples qui l'habitent.

1692LV1992Paris:: Chez Claude Barbin Jean Boudot George & Louis Josse avec privilege du Roy 1692. 1692. Sm. 4to. xx 406 xxiv pp. 6 chapter vignettes engraved by Vallet pp. aii 1 71 165 231 323 large engraved portrait of General Stanislas Jablonowski by Picart large folding map of Siberia 3 engraved plates: engr. pl. of transport sled of Moscow facing p.150 engr. pl. of a Calmouc Tartar facing p. 195 "Esquiss des Cosaques" facing p. 356. Nineteenth century quarter maroon morocco maroon paper over boards; rubbed. Rubber-stamp of Abbe E. Emile Longin Beaujeu fl.1904; receipt of sale of this copy to Armand Pushman 1932 NYC. First edition. This work was first translated into English in 1693. "At this time a major preoccupation of the Catholic Church and its China mission was to discover a safe land route from Europe to Peking through central Asia. This was due to the large numbers of out-going clergy who perished tragically every year at sea." Ames & Love p. 202. "The last decade of the century saw the publication of the accounts of several overland travelers to China and their destinations of China's inner-Asian neighbors. The story of the Jesuit Philippe Avril's attempt to establish a route across Russia for the safe passage of missionaries to China appeared in 1692 and includes descriptions of both the routes from Moscow to China and the peoples on China's frontiers. Avril himself however did not travel beyond Moscow and his descriptions therefore are not the result of his own observations." Lach & Kley pp. 1685-1686. The same for Nicolaas Witsen. Avril Philippe a Jesuit born in France explored extensively throughout Asia and the Far East. He was a professor of mathematics and philosophy in Paris before he began his overland journey. He traveled for six years through Kurdistan Armenia Astrakhan Persia and other parts of the southeast. At one point he came to Moscow and was refused entry to Tatary. He was sent by the government to Poland via Istanbul and back to France. Apparently affected by exhaustion and disease he still undertook another voyage his last for the ship was lost at sea circa 1698. – Love Ronald S. "A Passage to China: A French Jesuit's Perceptions of Siberia in the 1680s." French Colonial History 3: p. 94 2003. Ames & Love offer: "Though obliged to leave Moscow Avril did not return to France with Louis Barnabe . . . Remaining instead at Warsaw the two Jesuits had entered in early March 1688 Avril attempted twice more to achieve his objective or reaching China by land – if not through Siberia then via Persia and Central Asia. Aided in part by the Polish monarch John Sobieski r.1674-1696 and his ambassador to Russia the French priest once again traveled to Moscow in late spring. Just two days after his arrival in the Muscovite capital however Avril was ordered summarily out of the country. Once again he appealed the command in vain. 'Russia intended to keep her trade with China a secret.' Nor did he have better luck later the same year 1688 when he and a fellow Jesuit Pere de Beauvillier tried going south to Constantinople instead and thence through Persia to Bokhara Samarkland and the Chinese frontier. Crossing secretly into Ottoman territory the two men were arrested as spies. After several weeks they secured their release and resumed their trek. But Avril whose health had been waning as a result of relentless exertions suddenly developed a hemorrhage. Ordered to abandon the search and return home by his superiors he reached France in autumn 1689." Ames & Love p. 219. For Abbe Emile Longin provenance: see Bulletin de la Societe des sciences et arts du Beaujolais 1904 p.92. There is a Maggs Bros. London booksellers receipt of sale of this copy to Armand Pushman 10 Nov. 1932. Armand was one of two sons of Hovsep Pushman 1877-1966 an American artist of Armenian descent. He had studied art at the Imperial School of Fine Arts Istanbul. For a time Pushman lived at the famous Mission Inn Riverside California. He was also involved in the founding of the Laguna Beach Art Association. Armand Pushman d.1999 lived to 98 years and had been throughout his career a partner with his brother in their carpet business Pushman & Company. See: NYT Obituary January 11 1999. See: Henri Cordier Bibliotheca Sinica Dictionnaire Bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs a l'Empire chinois t. III 2088; De Backer Augustin & Carlos S.J. Sommervogel Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus. Bibliographie tome I p.706; Donald F. Lach Edwin J. Van Kley Asia in the Making of Europe Volume III: A Century of Advance book 4: East Asia. University of Chicago Press 1998; Glenn Joseph Ames Ronald S. Love Distant Lands and Diverse Cultures: The French Experience in Asia 1600-1700. Praeger 2003 – pp. 202 219; Howgego A142; Salmaslian Armenag Bibliographie de l'Armenie 1946 p. 238; Walravens Hartmut China illustrata. Das europaische Chinaverstandnis im Spiegel des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Mit einem Beitrag von David E. Mungello. Ausstellung im Zeughaus der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel vom 21. Marz bis 23. August 1987. Ausstellungskataloge der Herzog-August-Bibliothek Nr. 55 Wolfenbuttel: Herzog August Bibliothek 1987 55. 1691. Chez, Claude Barbin, Jean Boudot, George & Louis Josse, avec privilege du Roy, 1692. hardcover

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Voyage en divers Etats d'Europe et d'Asie, entrepris pour découvrir un nouveau chemin à la Chine.

169215848Claude Barbin, Jean Boudot, Georges & Louis Josse Paris 1692 1 vol. In-4 de X 406 pp. 12 ff.n.ch. (table), plein veau brun de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, roulette dorée sur les coupes.

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AVRIL (Philippe).Livre Rare Book

Voyage en divers États d'Europe et d'Asie, pour découvrir un nouveau chemin à la Chine. Contenant plusieurs Remarques curieuses de Physique, de géographie, dHydrographie & dHistoire. Avec une Description de la grande Tartarie, & des différens Peuples qui lhabitent.

16925782Paris, Barbin, Boudot, Josse, 1692. 1692 1 vol in-4° (250 x 185 mm) de : [10] ff. (faux titre, titre, épître, préface) ; 1 portrait gravé de Stanislaw Jablonowski (1634-1702) ; 406 pp. ; [11] ff. (Table) ; 3 planches gravées ; 1 carte dépliante de la Sibérie. Ex-libris : Ray m. Lud Sabatie D'astors. Baumés fecit Monspelii.. (trou de verre sur plusieurs feuillets, tâches). Plein veau fauve marbré dépoque, dos à nerfs orné, titre doré, roulettes sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées de rouge. (manque à la coiffe supérieure manquante, petit manque à la coiffe inférieure, 4 coins émoussés avec manques aux coins).

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[BOIVIN, Jean, LA HIRE, Philippe de & THEVENOT, Melchisedech (eds)]Biblio.com

Veterum mathematicorum Athenaei Bitonis Apollodori Heronis Philonis et Aliorum Opera: nunc primum edita ex manuscriptis codicibus Bibliothecae Regiae

16936467Paris: Typographia Regia 1693. First edition. First edition a very fine copy of this collection of early Greek writings on technology especially military technology and hydrostatics. It contains several treatises on the mechanics and siege operations or poliorcetica of the Hellenistic period the period between Alexander and Augustus including the construction and management of projectile engines.. DIBNER 84: ANCIENT GREEK TECHNOLOGY. First edition of this collection of early Greek writings on technology especially military technology and hydrostatics. It contains several treatises on the mechanics and siege operations or poliorcetica used in the Hellenistic period the period between Alexander and Augustus including the construction and management of their projectile engines. The first six works in the volume comprise the writings on the subject of military engines that were compiled by Athenaeus Apollodorus Biton Heron and Philon. These works include the first edition in both Greek and Latin of Biton's Construction of War Machines and Artillery of extant part of the Mechanike Syntaxis attributed to Philon of Byzantium and of the Poliorcetica of Apollodorus of Damascus. These are followed by the Greek and Latin texts of Hero of Alexandria's works on hydrostatics the Pneumatica and Automata which include what some regard as the first description of a steam-engine; this is the first printing of the Greek text of these works. ThÃ©venot the King's librarian to Louis XIV prepared the present work from a rather defective secondary manuscript Codex Parisinus 2435. After ThÃ©venot's death in 1692 it was revised by the mathematician La Hire with insightful annotations by Boivin an official in the King's library. It is one of three early publications of the French Academy of Sciences grouped together as Dibner 84. "Printed at the royal press in small editions they were intended as gifts for the King and Academy. In size binding and beauty of the plates they are among the most sumptuous books in science" Dibner. This is a rare book on the market only eight copies having appeared at auction in the last 40 years. The Evelyn copy was sold at Christie's in 1977. To gain access to the walls of a site under siege a siege tower or ram was brought into position and used to launch an attack onto the walkway aided by missile fire from the higher levels of the tower. Simultaneous attacks with scaling ladders took place. A siege tower is a specialized siege engine constructed to protect assailants and the ladders used when approaching the defensive walls of a fortification. The tower was usually rectangular with four wheels and a height roughly equal to that of the wall; it was sometimes higher to allow archers to stand on the top and fire into the fortification. The tower was made chiefly of wood but sometimes there were metal components as well. They were unwieldy to manoeuvre and slow to assemble and consequently were usually constructed at the siege site. Sometimes siege towers themselves incorporated other devices including artillery rams and dropbridges. Two main types of artillery equipment were used in this period: bolt-throwers ballistae: used for picking off prominent individuals and stone-throwers scorpiones onagri. Stone throwers could cause structural damage but were generally confined to firing at towers gates or siege machinery. Artillery might use incendiary ammunition when firing at gates or equipment. In common with much Byzantine literature poliorcetica draw heavily on earlier classical material. Since these were composed before the development of heavy artillery the poliorcetica are not so much concerned with large machines but rather with describing techniques for bringing men close to fortifications and then ways of undermining them. They also suggest various psychological tricks which might be used to outwit the enemy. Such ancient works on military machines were a source of fascination to the Italians of the late 15th and 16th centuries not only because of their historic interest but also as a source for modern inventions to be used in contemporary warfare and several of these works were first published in Renaissance Italy. The present volume begins with the De Machinis of Athenaeus a Cilician ex-statesman living in Rome in the 20s B.C. and a contemporary of the architect-engineer Vitruvius who like Vitruvius worked under the patronage of the Emperor Augustus Vitruvius devoted Book 10 of his De Architectura to machines. In addition to describing individual siege engines and theorizing on tactics Athenaeus draws on actual instances from history of the use of these machines in order to make various points and elucidate his text. The author of the next text is Apollodorus of Damascus who was a Roman architect and engineer of the late 1st to early 2nd century A.D. As Emperor Trajan's architect and military engineer he was responsible for Trajan's forum and possibly Trajan's column and produced designs for new siege machines. In his treatise Poliorcetica he describes a system of banks and ditches and also sheds that would be needed to protect the legionaries during undermining work or to carry battering rams against a tower gate or wall. Next he describes the construction of a siege tower followed by a system of interlocking ladders. He concludes his treatise with a description of a battlemented raft for river assaults. Although some of the elaborations are considered somewhat unrealistic âˆ’ for example the addition of a torsion-powered truncheon to the end of a battering ram âˆ’ and some of these are believed to have been added by a later editor the core of Apollodorus' text is believed to be authentic and to accurately describe highly effective machinery. Apollodorus dedicated Poliorcetica to the Emperor Hadrian perhaps an attempt to gain forgiveness for an earlier insult. On that occasion Trajan was discussing with Apollodorus the buildings which the great architect had built in Rome. Hadrian's assessment only demonstrated his ignorance which was bluntly pointed out by Apollodorus. Hadrian never forgot the insult and when he came to power banished Apollodorus accused him of several crimes and had him put to death. The third text in the volume is the Mechanike Syntaxis attributed to Philon of Byzantium who is believed to have been born about 280 B.C. in Byzantium and to have died around 220 B.C. Only the fourth and fifth books of this work have come down to us. Although there are few references to him in literature he is mentioned by Vitruvius. Amongst other weapons of siegecraft he describes the catapult recently invented by Ctesibius fl. 285-222 BC a Greek or Egyptian inventor and mathematician and probably the first head of the Museum at Alexandria. From this Philon's treatise can be dated fairly accurately to around 250 B.C. He describes journeys he made to Rhodes and to Alexandria to study catapults and it seems he may have earned his living advising military rulers. "The fourth book is headed Îº Ï„Î½ Î¦Î¹Î»Î½Î¿ Î²ÎµÎ»Î¿Ï€Î¿Î¹Î¹ÎºÎ½ and the general subject is the manufacture of missiles. He mentions in it an invention of his own which he denominates Î¾Ï…Î²Î»Î· p. 56. In the fifth book we are shocked to find that while recommending a besieging army to devastate the open country on the approach of an enemy he advises them to poison the springs and the grain which they cannot dispose of p. 103; and what renders this the worse he mentions his having treated of poisons in his book on the preparations that should be made for a war. What principally attracted attention to this work in modern times is his notice of the invention of Ctesibius p. 77. &c. The instrument described by him named ÎµÏÏ„Î¿Î½Î¿ acted on the property of air when condensed and is evidently in principle the same with the modern air-gun" A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology William Smith ed. Philon's work is followed by the brief treatise of Biton of Pergamon 3rd or 2nd century B.C. about whom little is known; it is the only extant work to give a full description of advanced tension catapults. Biton's handbook describes four tension bow catapults a helepolis city-taker = siege tower and a sambuca mechanical scaling ladder. The bow catapults consisted of two stone throwers small and large and two bolt shooters a medium "belly bow" and mountain "belly bow". The latter took their name from the concave rest at their rear end against which the archer braced his stomach while drawing the bow. The work is dedicated to a King Attalus and was therefore composed between about 230 BC when Attalus I assumed the title of King and 133 BC death of Attalus III. As Biton mentions older types of catapults but not the torsion catapult that was otherwise well attested from the end of the 4th cent. BC the work probably belongs to the early years of the reign of Attalus I King of Pergamum 241-197 B.C. We do not know if Attalus employed the devices Biton described but they were definitely used in numerous later sieges and naval battles. The final two texts of siegecraft in the volume the Belopoeica and the Cheiroballistra are both attributed to Heron of Alexandria ca. 10-75 AD. Heron possibly taught at the Museum at Alexandria since many of his writings have the appearance of student lecture notes. The Belopoeica "On arrow making" describes the hand-held "belly bow" also discussed by Biton. The Cheiroballistra describes a small hand-held catapult. Some of Heron's designs derived from the works of Ctesibius none of whose works survive although they are mentioned by Vitruvius Athenaeus and Philo of Byzantium as well as Heron. In 1616 Bernardino Baldi 1553-1617 published a Latin translation of Heron's Belopoeica along with Heron's Greek text and a biography of Heron also written in Latin. Some of Baldi's commentary is appended to the present work. The volume concludes with the Pneumatica and Automata of Hero or Heron of Alexandria fl. 62 CE. "The Pneumatica in two books describes a menagerie of mechanical devices or "toys": singing birds puppets coin-operated machines a fire engine a water organ and his most famous invention the aeolipile the first steam-powered engine. This last device consists of a sphere mounted on a boiler by an axial shaft with two canted nozzles that produce a rotary motion as steam escapes" Britannica. "The introduction treats the occurrence of a vacuum in nature and the pressure of air and water . Some of the theory is right some is wrong for instance the horror vacui of nature but it was the best theoretical explanation to be had at the time . The first chapters most of them taken from Philo's Pneumatics describe experiments to show that air is a body and that it will keep water out of a vessel unless it can find an outlet and will keep water in if it cannot enter. Hero goes on to siphons . With very few exceptions it is evident that the chapters were written by Hero himself and without exception they are very clear: each instrument can be reconstructed from the description and the figure. While there is no order at all in the general arrangement of the chapters we find here and there a short series of related chapters in which it is clear that Hero is searching for a better solution to a mechanical problem. This shows unmistakably that he was an inventor; it is therefore probable that he himself invented the dioptra the screw-cutter and the odometer as well as several pneumatic apparatuses" DSB. The first appearance in print of Pneumatica was a Latin paraphrase in Giorgio Valla's De expetendis et fugiendis rebus 1501; the complete text was first published in Latin by Federico Commandino 1509-75 in 1575. The excellence of Commandino's translation persuaded the editors that it was unnecessary to include a further Latin translation in the present work and therefore only the Greek text of Pneumatica appears. Some of the commentary on Pneumatica from the 1589 Italian translation by Giovanni Battista Aleotti 1546-1636 is appended to the present work. "The Automata or Automatic Theater describes two sorts of puppet shows one moving and the other stationary; both of them perform without being touched by human hands. The former moves before the audience by itself and shows a temple in which a fire is lit on an altar and the god Dionysus pours out a libation while bacchantes dance about him to the sound of trumpets and drums. After the performance the theater withdraws. The stationary theater opens and shuts its doors on the performance of the myth of Nauplius. The shipwrights work; the ships are launched and cross a sea in which dolphins leap; Nauplius lights the false beacon to lead them astray; the ship is wrecked; and Athena destroys the defiant Ajax with thunder and lightning. The driving power in both cases was a heavy lead weight resting on a heap of millet grains which escaped through a hole. The weight was attached by a rope to an axle and the turning of this axle brought about all the movements by means of strings and drums. Strings and drums constituted practically all the machinery; no springs or cogwheels were used. It represents a marvel of ingenuity with very scant mechanical means" DSB. The Automata was first published in Italian by Baldi in 1589. "The design of this collection was formed by ThÃ©venot 1620-92 deputy librarian of the Royal library in the reign of Louis XIV and after his death it was carried out by De la Hire 1640-1718. ThÃ©venot's plan was to publish an accurate transcript of the MSS. of the several authors. The inevitable obscurity arising from the numerous corruptions which had crept into the manuscripts was to be remedied by an appendix of notes and a Latin translation. But for the Pneumatics of Hero it seemed sufficient to adopt the already well-known translation of Commandine; and in consequence of the eight MSS. of this treatise existing in the Royal Library that one was chosen which most nearly agreed with the Latin version" The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria translated and edited by Bennet Woodcroft 1851 preface. Brunet V 1163; Dibner Heralds 84; Norman 2148; Schweiger I 358. For a detailed account of the works contained in the present volume see Marsden Greek and Roman Artillery: Historical Development 1969. Folio 432 x 288 mm pp. xvi including half-title 279 290-365 9 index & colophon occasional mostly light browning. Text in double columns Greek or parallel Greek and Latin many engraved diagrams and illustrations in text engraved head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. A very fine copy. Typographia Regia unknown

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[BOIVIN, Jean, LA HIRE, Philippe de & THEVENOT, Melchisedech (eds)]Biblio.com

Veterum mathematicorum Athenaei Bitonis Apollodori Heronis Philonis et Aliorum Opera: nunc primum edita ex manuscriptis codicibus Bibliothecae Regiae

16934930Paris: Typographia Regia 1693. First edition. First edition the Stanhope copy of this collection of early Greek writings on technology especially military technology and hydrostatics. It contains several treatises on the mechanics and siege operations or poliorcetica of the Hellenistic period the period between Alexander and Augustus including the construction and management of projectile engines.. DIBNER 84: ANCIENT GREEK TECHNOLOGY. First edition the Stanhope copy of this collection of early Greek writings on technology especially military technology and hydrostatics. It contains several treatises on the mechanics and siege operations or poliorcetica used in the Hellenistic period the period between Alexander and Augustus including the construction and management of their projectile engines. The first six works in the volume comprise the writings on the subject of military engines that were compiled by Athenaeus Apollodorus Biton Heron and Philon. These works include the first edition in both Greek and Latin of Biton's Construction of War Machines and Artillery of extant part of the Mechanike Syntaxis attributed to Philon of Byzantium and of the Poliorcetica of Apollodorus of Damascus. These are followed by the Greek and Latin texts of Hero of Alexandria's works on hydrostatics the Pneumatica and Automata which include what some regard as the first description of a steam-engine; this is the first printing of the Greek text of these works. ThÃ©venot the King's librarian to Louis XIV prepared the present work from a rather defective secondary manuscript Codex Parisinus 2435. After ThÃ©venot's death in 1692 it was revised by the mathematician La Hire with insightful annotations by Boivin an official in the King's library. It is one of three early publications of the French Academy of Sciences grouped together as Dibner 84. "Printed at the royal press in small editions they were intended as gifts for the King and Academy. In size binding and beauty of the plates they are among the most sumptuous books in science" Dibner. This is a rare book on the market only eight copies having appeared at auction in the last 40 years. The Evelyn copy was sold at Christie's in 1977. Provenance: Philip Stanhope 2nd Earl Stanhope 1714-86 bookplate on front paste-down. Stanhope was a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1735 and had a lifelong interest in mathematics. A student of Abraham de Moivre Stanhope made significant contributions to probability theory. He was also a patron of various mathematicians notably Thomas Bayes; Stanhope was responsible for Bayes's election to the Royal Society and probably also for Bayes taking up the study of probability Bellhouse pp. 190 & 201. To gain access to the walls of a site under siege a siege tower or ram was brought into position and used to launch an attack onto the walkway aided by missile fire from the higher levels of the tower. Simultaneous attacks with scaling ladders took place. A siege tower is a specialized siege engine constructed to protect assailants and the ladders used when approaching the defensive walls of a fortification. The tower was usually rectangular with four wheels and a height roughly equal to that of the wall; it was sometimes higher to allow archers to stand on the top and fire into the fortification. The tower was made chiefly of wood but sometimes there were metal components as well. They were unwieldy to manoeuvre and slow to assemble and consequently were usually constructed at the siege site. Sometimes siege towers themselves incorporated other devices including artillery rams and dropbridges. Two main types of artillery equipment were used in this period: bolt-throwers ballistae: used for picking off prominent individuals and stone-throwers scorpiones onagri. Stone throwers could cause structural damage but were generally confined to firing at towers gates or siege machinery. Artillery might use incendiary ammunition when firing at gates or equipment. In common with much Byzantine literature poliorcetica draw heavily on earlier classical material. Since these were composed before the development of heavy artillery the poliorcetica are not so much concerned with large machines but rather with describing techniques for bringing men close to fortifications and then ways of undermining them. They also suggest various psychological tricks which might be used to outwit the enemy. Such ancient works on military machines were a source of fascination to the Italians of the late 15th and 16th centuries not only because of their historic interest but also as a source for modern inventions to be used in contemporary warfare and several of these works were first published in Renaissance Italy. The present volume begins with the De Machinis of Athenaeus a Cilician ex-statesman living in Rome in the 20s B.C. and a contemporary of the architect-engineer Vitruvius who like Vitruvius worked under the patronage of the Emperor Augustus Vitruvius devoted Book 10 of his De Architectura to machines. In addition to describing individual siege engines and theorizing on tactics Athenaeus draws on actual instances from history of the use of these machines in order to make various points and elucidate his text. The author of the next text is Apollodorus of Damascus who was a Roman architect and engineer of the late 1st to early 2nd century A.D. As Emperor Trajan's architect and military engineer he was responsible for Trajan's forum and possibly Trajan's column and produced designs for new siege machines. In his treatise Poliorcetica he describes a system of banks and ditches and also sheds that would be needed to protect the legionaries during undermining work or to carry battering rams against a tower gate or wall. Next he describes the construction of a siege tower followed by a system of interlocking ladders. He concludes his treatise with a description of a battlemented raft for river assaults. Although some of the elaborations are considered somewhat unrealistic âˆ’ for example the addition of a torsion-powered truncheon to the end of a battering ram âˆ’ and some of these are believed to have been added by a later editor the core of Apollodorus' text is believed to be authentic and to accurately describe highly effective machinery. Apollodorus dedicated Poliorcetica to the Emperor Hadrian perhaps an attempt to gain forgiveness for an earlier insult. On that occasion Trajan was discussing with Apollodorus the buildings which the great architect had built in Rome. Hadrian's assessment only demonstrated his ignorance which was bluntly pointed out by Apollodorus. Hadrian never forgot the insult and when he came to power banished Apollodorus accused his of several crimes and had him put to death. The third text in the volume is the Mechanike Syntaxis attributed to Philon of Byzantium who is believed to have been born about 280 B.C. in Byzantium and to have died around 220 B.C. Only the fourth and fifth books of this work have come down to us. Although there are few references to him in literature he is mentioned by Vitruvius. Amongst other weapons of siegecraft he describes the catapult recently invented by Ctesibius fl. 285-222 BC a Greek or Egyptian inventor and mathematician and probably the first head of the Museum at Alexandria. From this Philon's treatise can be dated fairly accurately to around 250 B.C. He describes journeys he made to Rhodes and to Alexandria to study catapults and it seems he may have earned his living advising military rulers. "The fourth book is headed Îº Ï„Î½ Î¦Î¹Î»Î½Î¿ Î²ÎµÎ»Î¿Ï€Î¿Î¹Î¹ÎºÎ½ and the general subject is the manufacture of missiles. He mentions in it an invention of his own which he denominates Î¾Ï…Î²Î»Î· p. 56. In the fifth book we are shocked to find that while recommending a besieging army to devastate the open country on the approach of an enemy he advises them to poison the springs and the grain which they cannot dispose of p. 103; and what renders this the worse he mentions his having treated of poisons in his book on the preparations that should be made for a war. What principally attracted attention to this work in modern times is his notice of the invention of Ctesibius p. 77. &c. The instrument described by him named ÎµÏÏ„Î¿Î½Î¿ acted on the property of air when condensed and is evidently in principle the same with the modern air-gun" A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology William Smith ed. Philon's work is followed by the brief treatise of Biton of Pergamon 3rd or 2nd century B.C. about whom little is known; it is the only extant work to give a full description of advanced tension catapults. Biton's handbook describes four tension bow catapults a helepolis city-taker = siege tower and a sambuca mechanical scaling ladder. The bow catapults consisted of two stone throwers small and large and two bolt shooters a medium "belly bow" and mountain "belly bow". The latter took their name from the concave rest at their rear end against which the archer braced his stomach while drawing the bow. The work is dedicated to a King Attalus and was therefore composed between about 230 BC when Attalus I assumed the title of King and 133 BC death of Attalus III. As Biton mentions older types of catapults but not the torsion catapult that was otherwise well attested from the end of the 4th cent. BC the work probably belongs to the early years of the reign of Attalus I King of Pergamum 241-197 B.C. We do not know if Attalus employed the devices Biton described but they were definitely used in numerous later sieges and naval battles. The final two texts of siegecraft in the volume the Belopoeica and the Cheiroballistra are both attributed to Heron of Alexandria ca. 10-75 AD. Heron possibly taught at the Museum at Alexandria since many of his writings have the appearance of student lecture notes. The Belopoeica "On arrow making" describes the hand-held "belly bow" also discussed by Biton. The Cheiroballistra describes a small hand-held catapult. Some of Heron's designs derived from the works of Ctesibius none of whose works survive although they are mentioned by Vitruvius Athenaeus and Philo of Byzantium as well as Heron. In 1616 Bernardino Baldi 1553-1617 published a Latin translation of Heron's Belopoeica along with Heron's Greek text and a biography of Heron also written in Latin. Some of Baldi's commentary is appended to the present work. The volume concludes with the Pneumatica and Automata of Hero or Heron of Alexandria fl. 62 CE. "The Pneumatica in two books describes a menagerie of mechanical devices or "toys": singing birds puppets coin-operated machines a fire engine a water organ and his most famous invention the aeolipile the first steam-powered engine. This last device consists of a sphere mounted on a boiler by an axial shaft with two canted nozzles that produce a rotary motion as steam escapes" Britannica. "The introduction treats the occurrence of a vacuum in nature and the pressure of air and water . Some of the theory is right some is wrong for instance the horror vacui of nature but it was the best theoretical explanation to be had at the time . The first chapters most of them taken from Philo's Pneumatics describe experiments to show that air is a body and that it will keep water out of a vessel unless it can find an outlet and will keep water in if it cannot enter. Hero goes on to siphons . With very few exceptions it is evident that the chapters were written by Hero himself and without exception they are very clear: each instrument can be reconstructed from the description and the figure. While there is no order at all in the general arrangement of the chapters we find here and there a short series of related chapters in which it is clear that Hero is searching for a better solution to a mechanical problem. This shows unmistakably that he was an inventor; it is therefore probable that he himself invented the dioptra the screw-cutter and the odometer as well as several pneumatic apparatuses" DSB. The first appearance in print of Pneumatica was a Latin paraphrase in Giorgio Valla's De expetendis et fugiendis rebus 1501; the complete text was first published in Latin by Federico Commandino 1509-75 in 1575. The excellence of Commandino's translation persuaded the editors that it was unnecessary to include a further Latin translation in the present work and therefore only the Greek text of Pneumatica appears. Some of the commentary on Pneumatica from the 1589 Italian translation by Giovanni Battista Aleotti 1546-1636 is appended to the present work. "The Automata or Automatic Theater describes two sorts of puppet shows one moving and the other stationary; both of them perform without being touched by human hands. The former moves before the audience by itself and shows a temple in which a fire is lit on an altar and the god Dionysus pours out a libation while bacchantes dance about him to the sound of trumpets and drums. After the performance the theater withdraws. The stationary theater opens and shuts its doors on the performance of the myth of Nauplius. The shipwrights work; the ships are launched and cross a sea in which dolphins leap; Nauplius lights the false beacon to lead them astray; the ship is wrecked; and Athena destroys the defiant Ajax with thunder and lightning. The driving power in both cases was a heavy lead weight resting on a heap of millet grains which escaped through a hole. The weight was attached by a rope to an axle and the turning of this axle brought about all the movements by means of strings and drums. Strings and drums constituted practically all the machinery; no springs or cogwheels were used. It represents a marvel of ingenuity with very scant mechanical means" DSB. The Automata was first published in Italian by Baldi in 1589. "The design of this collection was formed by ThÃ©venot 1620-92 deputy librarian of the Royal library in the reign of Louis XIV and after his death it was carried out by De la Hire 1640-1718. ThÃ©venot's plan was to publish an accurate transcript of the MSS. of the several authors. The inevitable obscurity arising from the numerous corruptions which had crept into the manuscripts was to be remedied by an appendix of notes and a Latin translation. But for the Pneumatics of Hero it seemed sufficient to adopt the already well-known translation of Commandine; and in consequence of the eight MSS. of this treatise existing in the Royal Library that one was chosen which most nearly agreed with the Latin version" The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria translated and edited by Bennet Woodcroft 1851 preface. Brunet V 1163; Dibner Heralds 84; Norman 2148; Schweiger I 358. For a detailed account of the works contained in the present volume see Marsden Greek and Roman Artillery: Historical Development 1969. Folio 432 x 284mm pp. xvi including half-title 279 290-365 9 index & colophon occasional mostly light browning. Text in double columns Greek or parallel Greek and Latin many engraved diagrams and illustrations in text engraved head- and tail-pieces. Eighteenth-century mottled calf spine richly gilt in compartments with red lettering-piece. Bookplate of Philip Earl Stanhope on front paste-down. This is a very large copy 10mm taller than the Norman copy. Typographia Regia unknown

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NEESEN Laurentius [Laurent] (& BERTRAND Philippe)Livre Rare Book

Universa theologia in tomos duos divisa ad mentem ss. Augustini et Thomas exposita (Theologia moralis christiana, and supplement) [5 volumes]

1687R96631Coloniae Agrippinae [Köln], apud Hermannum Demen 1687 5 volumes (bound in 1 physical volume): [8],138,[9] + [12],256,[23] + [8],137,[7] + viii,247,[13] + xii + 360 + [21] pp., "Haec Editio correcta a pluribus erroribus, in alia impressione commissis", title of volume 1 in red and black, engraved vignette on title page, 36cm., contemporary full-leather binding (corners bit bumped, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt title and decorations on spine, front joint slightly broken at lower end, small piece of leather partl detached from upper end of spine), each of the 5 volumes has a separate title page, text in Latin, text printed in 2 columns, some occasional browning, good condition, [Content: Tomus primus (in 2 vols.): partim Deum unum, trinum, et incarnatum ; partim actus humanos, leges, christique Gratiam complectens // Tomus secundus (in 2 vols.): partim virtutes theologicas, Ius & Iustitiam, partim Sacramenta complectens // Supplement: Tractatus tres de Justitia et Jure ad Supplementum Theologiae moralis christianae, etc., per P.B.T.C.M.T.L (Philippe Bertrand), Antverpiae, apud Joannem Sleghers, 1687, viii + 247 + [13] pp.)], the 4th volume (De Sacramentis) was published by Franciscus Fievet (Insulis, 1687), [NEESEN Laurentius, born in Sint-Truiden in 1612, died in Mechelen in 1679, Belgian priest and theologian and president of the seminary of Mechelen], R96631

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AVRIL, PhilippeBiblio.com

Travels into divers parts of Europe and Asia: undertaken by the French King's order to discover a new way by land into China. Containing many curious remarks in natural philosophy geography hydrography and history. Together with a description of Great Tartary and of th different people who inhabit there

1693149461693 CHINA 1ed Avril Travels Asia Arabia Voyages Syria Iraq Iran Russia PolandPhilippe Avril was a 17th-century Jesuit French explorer who spent numerous years in China Tartary and the Middle East. While on his voyages Avril wrote an incredible historical account of his discoveries and experiences. 'Travels in the Divers Parts of Europe and Asia' covers the entirety of his voyages giving attention to each country he visited including Syria Kurdistan Iraq and Iran Armenia Persia Russia Moldovia Poland and of course China.This 1693 first English edition like the original French has regular anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish undertones throughout highlighting cultural superstitions and marking the differences between Christianity and other religious views.Item number: #14946Price: $1500AVRIL PhilippeTravels into divers parts of Europe and Asia: undertaken by the French King's order to discover a new way by land into China. Containing many curious remarks in natural philosophy geography hydrography and history. Together with a description of Great Tartary and of th different people who inhabit thereLondon : printed for Tim. Goodwin at the Maidenhead over-against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleetstreet MDCXCIII. 1693. First English edition. Details: · Collation: Complete with all pageso 10 191 1; 178 2· References: Wing A 4275; ESTC R 16481; De Backer/Sommervogel I 706; Löwendahl 207· Language: English· Binding: Leather; tight & secure· Size: ~6.5in X 4in 16.5cm x 10cm· Very rare and desirableOur Guarantee:Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!14946Photos available upon request. for Tim. Goodwin, at the Maidenhead over-against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleetstreet hardcover

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Jean PICARD - Philippe de LA HIREBiblio.com

Traité du nivellement par M. Picard

168457732à Paris: Chez Etienne Michalet 1684. Fine. Chez Etienne Michalet à Paris 1684 9 x 16 cm relié Rare first edition illustrated with several diagrams in the text and 3 plates of leveling instruments invented by Picard for the leveling of the château de Versailles. Edition produced by Philippe de la Hire after Jean Picard's death and from manuscripts found at his residence. Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Brown calf title label. 3 corners slightly bumped. Rubbing. Good copy. The work is divided into distinct chapters the first being a theory of leveling in relation to the earth's surface those that follow being an application of this theory and practical examples of leveling. One finds there for example the way to bring water to Versailles through measurements despite differences in terrain. The last part concerns the measurement of the earth. Picard had been charged by the Académie des sciences to measure one degree of meridian. The result found by Picard was the most accurate found at that time and allowed science and notably Newton to pursue his work on universal gravitation whereas he had been hindered by imprecise and faulty measurements. Chez Etienne Michalet hardcover

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DUFOUR, PHILIPPE SYLVESTREBiblio.com

Traitez Nouveaux & curieux du Café Thé Chocolat. - ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORKS ON COFFE

168560607La Haye Moetjens 1685. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum. Light soiling to extremities. Worm-tract in margin of pp. 359-401 not affecting text otherwise a nice copy. 1-14 15-404 5 pp. 3 plates. This third edition of one of the first works to deal with the gastronomic and healing qualities of coffee tea and chocolate and the first work in any language to describe the three new beverages of the seventeenth century. This is the only edition having the appendix consisting of a dialogue about the medical properties between a physician an Indian and a civilist. Vicaire p. 293-94. hardcover

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Dufour, Philippe SylvestreBiblio.com

Traitez Nouveaux & Curieux du Café du Thé et du Chocolat.

16855021242050"Traitez Nouveaux & Curieux du Café du Thé et du Chocolat. Ouvrage Également Nécessaire aux Medecins & à Tous Ceux qui Aiment Leur Santé." by Philippe Sylvestre Dufour Jean Girin & B. Riviere 1685. First Edition. French language. 20 445 5 pp. Added engraved title page with 3 frontispiece engravings one each for treatise: on coffee tea and chocolate. 12mo 16x8.5 cm 6¼x3½" period calf raised bands spine lettered in gilt. Moderate binding wear with cracked joints and some worming; title page with several holes possibly burn marks engraved title with short tear to fore-edge affecting image throughout light foxing some toning overall still Very Good.This book is one of the first comprehensive European treatises on coffee tea and chocolate detailing their origins preparation medicinal properties and cultural importance. It helped introduce and popularize these beverages in Europe during the late 17th century a time when they were still considered novelties. Jean Girin & B. Riviere hardcover

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Dufour, Philippe SylvestreBiblio.com

Traitez Nouveaux & Curieux du Café du Thé et du Chocolat

1685743Lyon: Jean Girin & BarthÃ©lemy RiviÃ¨re 1685. First edition. A landmark in the cultural and scientific history of coffee tea and chocolate â€” the three â€œnew beveragesâ€ of early modern Europe. Written by Philippe Sylvestre Dufour 1622â€“1687 a Lyon apothecary physician and merchant this 1685 first edition is among the earliest treatises devoted to the preparation medicinal properties and social virtues of these drinks. Dufour discusses the origin of coffee in the Ottoman Empire tea in China and cacao in the Americas blending pharmacological observation with moral reflection on their consumption. The work marks an important moment in the spread of global trade and early modern dietary theory illustrating how exotic imports became staples of European life and medicine. Illustrated with three full-page engravings and an engraved frontispiece including a striking depiction of an Ottoman coffee drinker a Chinese tea ceremony and a native American holding a chocolate vessel. These plates helped define the visual iconography of coffee and chocolate in the 17th century. Dufourâ€™s Traitez became the foundational French-language reference on these drinks influencing subsequent European authors. This copy shows early marginal notes and the presence of all plates noted for the true first edition confirming its completeness and authenticity. Condition & Binding:Â Contemporary full mottled calf spine gilt in compartments with floral ornaments and gilt title â€œTRAITÃ‰ DU CAFÃ‰.â€ Light rubbing and edge wear; some cracking along joints but binding remains solid and entirely original. Mild staining and toning to a few leaves; scattered foxing consistent with age. Engravings crisp and well-inked showing excellent impression quality. Early manuscript notes on title and endpaper likely from an 18th-century hand. Overall- good. Jean Girin & Barthélemy Rivière unknown

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DUFOUR, PHILIPPE SYLVESTREBiblio.com

Traitez Nouveau & curieux Du Café Du Thé et du Chocolate. Ouvrage également necessaire aux Medicins & à tous ceux qui aiment leur santé. A quoy on a adjouté dans cette Edition la meilleure de toutes les methodes qui manquoit à ce Livre pour comp.

169328644A la Haye Adrian Moetjens 1693. 12mo. Cont. full calf. Gilt back and gilt titlelabels. Edges worn especially lacking outer part of backcover. Engraved title showing an Arab a Chinese and an Indian drinking their products and printed title. 1-1415-4044 pp. and 3 engraved plates depicting the appropriate plants together with their cultivators. Somewhat brownspotted. Plates shaved traces of use. This third edition is the only edition having the appendix consisting in a dialogue about the medical properties between a physician an Indian and a civilist. - Vicaire p. 293-94. unknown

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DUFOUR Philippe SylvestreABAA

Traite Nouveaux & Curieux du Cafe du The et du Chocolate. Ouvrage egalement necessaire aux Medecins & a tous ceux qui aiment leur sante

1685262811Lyons: Girin 1685. hardcover. very good. 3 full page copperplate engravings and 4 engraved chapter headings. Thick 12mo 22 445 5 pages rubricated title and edges full calf gilt spine chipped and worn. Lyons: Jean Girin & B. Riviere 1685. Scarce. Very good . Sabin 21146; Wellcome II p. 494; Bitting 134. Girin unknown books

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DUFOUR, Philippe SylvestreBiblio.com

Traite Nouveaux & Curieux du Cafe du The et du Chocolate. Ouvrage egalement necessaire aux Medecins & a tous ceux qui aiment leur sante

1685262811Lyons: Girin 1685. hardcover. very good. 3 full page copperplate engravings and 4 engraved chapter headings. Thick 12mo 22 445 5 pages rubricated title and edges full calf gilt spine chipped and worn. Lyons: Jean Girin & B. Riviere 1685. Scarce. Very good . Sabin 21146; Wellcome II p. 494; Bitting 134. Girin unknown

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DUFOUR PHILIPPE SYLVESTRELivre Rare Book

TRAITEZ NOUVEAUX & CURIEUX DU CAFE, DU THE ET DU CHOCOLATE

1688RO40186074Chez Jean Baptiste Deville, Lyon. 1688. In-12. Relié plein cuir. A restaurer, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 432 pages. Pages 305-306 (titre du 'Traité du Chocolate') et 13 dernières pages manquantes. Illustré de quelques gravures en noir et blanc en bandeaux et lettrines. Manques importants (cuir) sur le dos et les plats. Coins frottés. Tranche mouchetée. Légères mouillures sur les bords des 60 premières pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 94.2-Livres anciens XVII ème

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DUFOUR, PHILIPPE SYLVESTRE.Livre Rare Book

Traitez Nouveau & curieux Du Café, Du Thé et du Chocolate. Ouvrage également necessaire aux Medicins, & à tous ceux qui aiment leur santé. A quoy on a adjouté dans cette Edition, la meilleure de toutes les methodes, qui manquoit à ce Livre, pour comp...

169328644A la Haye, Adrian Moetjens, 1693. 12mo. Cont. full calf. Gilt back and gilt titlelabels. Edges worn, especially lacking outer part of backcover. Engraved title (showing an Arab, a Chinese and an Indian drinking their products) and printed title. (1-14)15-404,(4) pp. and 3 engraved plates (depicting the appropriate plants together with their cultivators). Somewhat brownspotted. Plates shaved, traces of use.

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DUFOUR, PHILIPPE SYLVESTRELivre Rare Book

Traitez Nouveaux & curieux du Café, Thé, Chocolat. - [ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORKS ON COFFE]

168560607La Haye, Moetjens, 1685. 12mo. In contemporary full vellum. Light soiling to extremities. Worm-tract in margin of pp. 359-401, not affecting text, otherwise a nice copy. (1-14), 15-404, (5) pp. + 3 plates.

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DUFOUR, Philippe SylvestreLivre Rare Book

Traitez nouveaux & curieux du café, du thé et du chocolate. Ouvrage également nécessaire aux Medecins, & à tous ceux qui aiment leur santé

168597327Lyon, Jean Girin & B. Rivière, 1685, in-12, [20]-445-[5] pp, 3 pl. (dont 1 comprise dans la pagination), Basane havane de l'époque, dos à nerfs, armes centrales sur les plats [de Montchal], Première édition complète de cet ouvrage, dont il a paru la même année une édition "suivant la copie de Lyon" à La Haye (Adrian Moetjens). Sans le titre-frontispice. Bien complet en revanche des trois planches gravées sur cuivre représentant des personnages en costumes : l'Arabe avec son ibrik pour préparer le café, le Chinois avec son pot de thé et l'Américain avec sa chocolatière et son gobelet. Les trois buveurs sont représentés ensemble sur le bandeau gravé par Ogier, répété en tête des trois traités (du café, du thé, du chocolat). L'auteur aborde ici les origines de chacune des substances, leurs usages ainsi que les préparations et traite des effets comme de comme des utilisations thérapeutiques. L'ouvrage fait sans doute suite à un autre, De l'usage du caphé, du thé et du chocolate que Girin et Rivière avaient publié sous l'anonymat en 1671. Philippe Sylvestre Dufour (1622-1687), riche apothicaire lyonnais, faisait commerce des produits d'Orient. Il possédait un cabinet de curiosités que son coreligionnaire et ami Jacob Spon décrit, en 1673, comme contenant des "Raretés du Levant, pièces de Tour, Médailles antiques d'or & d'argent" (Recherche des antiquités et curiosités de la ville de Lyon. Lyon, de l'imprimerie de Jaques Faeton, 1673. p. 205). Reliure aux armes de Charles-Louis de Montchal (mort en 1686) avocat à la cour des aides en 1645 et de Paris en 1680 : de gueules au chef d'or, chargé de trois molettes d'éperon d'azur, avec la devise "Je lay gaignée". Reliure usagée. Réparation ancienne à l'une des planches, petits trous de vers angulaire sur les premiers feuillets, sans toucher le texte, quelques salissures. Oberlé Fastes, n° 733. USTC n° 6154829. Vicaire, 293. OHR pl. 1434. Couverture rigide

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DUFOUR Philippe SylvestreLivre Rare Book

Traitez nouveaux & curieux du café, du thé et du chocolate. Ouvrage également nécessaire aux médecins, & à tous ceux qui aiment leur santé

169394478La Haye, Moetjens 1693 In-12, vélin crème, dos à nerfs, frontispice, 1, 403 pp., 3 ff. n.ch., 3 figures hors-texte. Bel exemplaire.

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DUFOUR, Philippe SylvestreLivre Rare Book

Traitez Nouveaux & curieux du Café, du Thé et du Chocolate. Ouvrage également nécessaire aux Médecins, & à tous ceux qui aiment leur santé [ Traités nouveaux et curieux du Café, du Thé et du Chocolat ]

168859323Seconde édition, 1 vol . in-12 reliure postérieure milieu XIXe dem-chagrin marron, dos à 4 nerfs, Chez Jean Baptiste Deville, Lyon, 1688, 11 ff. (frontispice, titre, Epistre, Avis au Public et Avis nécessaire), 444 pp., 2 ff. n. ch., et 1 f. manuscrit, avec 3 figures gravées dont 2 hors texte (la figure en frontispice du thé étant comprise dans la pagination)