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179717295New York; Philadelphia: T. & J. Swords Volume 1; T. Dobson Volume 2 parts I and II 1797. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Complete with all half-titles and blanks. With 6 colored plates in Volume 1. Contemporary calf spine labels; text toned due to paper stock. Overall an excellent copy. First American editions of Erasmus Darwin’s important hypothesis on evolution which included discussion of how competition and sexual selection could cause change in species an idea on which his grandson Charles must certainly have drawn. Darwin’s focus here is the functioning of the body and he includes significant sections on anatomy and physiology as well as psychology. He was an early advocate of the inheritance of acquired characteristics similar to what Lamarck later developed. “The Zoonomia contains a system of pathology and a treatise on generation. Darwin believed that ‘one and the same kind of living filaments is and has been the cause of life’†Garrison & Morton.<br /> <br /> Darwin 1731-1802 grandfather of Charles Darwin was a remarkable polymath that worked as a physician naturalists medical botanist and inventor. T. & J. Swords (Volume 1); T. Dobson (Volume 2, parts I and II) unknown
1751WRCLIT45949Paris 1751. 6xxiv2222pp. Quarto. Full deep plum straight-grain morocco elaborately stamped in blind lettered and ruled in gilt gilt inner dentelles gilt borders on endsheets a.e.g. Title in red and black. Frontis and fourteen engraved plates engraved head- and tail- pieces. Extremities a bit worn narrow scrapes at fore-tips of lower board armorial bookplate on pastedown slight offset from plates to facing pages; a very good copy. First edition of this translation accompanied by notes by Meunier de Querlon. The frontis plates title-vignette and head- and tail-pieces are engraved by various hands after designs by Charles Eisen. This is a large-paper copy 23.8 x 17.4 cm with the fourteen plates inlaid into larger sheets and with the frontis framed and etched by P.F. Martenasie under the direction of "Mr. Le Bas." SALOMONS pp.98-9. COHEN-DE RICCI VI pp.348-9. unknown books
1790Flo261Very good copy of the Large Paper Copy of the Quarto edition of Erasmus Darwin's masterpiece with the William Blake engravings. <br /><br />With the first edition of <i>Part 1: containing the Economy of Vegetation</i> 1791 and the second edition of<i> Part 2: containing the Love of the Plants</i> 1790 bound in one volume. <br /><br />Large Paper Copy in 29 x 22.5cm Henrey gives 26 x 21cm for all 1791 editions. <br /><br />Part I has 10 plates by Henry Fuseli William Blake Henry Webber and others engraved by William Blake Anker Smith Thomas Holloway. Includes frontispiece "Flora attired by the Elements" by Henry Fuseli engraved by Anker Smith four plates of the Portland Vase attributed to Blake bound next to Note XXII page 53 to 59 fold-out botanical of a Cyprepedium orchid botanical plate of Erythrina and Sections of the Earth. <br /><br />The Directions to the Binder indicates only 8 plates but this copy includes two additional plates: the famous "Fertilization of Egypt" designed by Fuseli and engraved by Blake with the dog-headed god Anubis standing astride the River Nile at page 127 and Henry Webber's design of the Wedgwood cameo of "Hope with Peace Art and Labour" and the famous Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion with an enslaved man in chains and the caption "Am I Not a Man and a Brother" at page 87.<br /><br />Part II is complete with 10 plates by Emma Crewe Thomas Holloway and Frederick Polydore Nodder. The frontispiece "Flora at play with Cupid" by "gifted" amateur artist Emma Crewe 1780-1850 daughter of John Crewe 1st Baron Crewe was criticized by Richard Polwhele: "she has rather overstepped the modesty of nature by giving the portrait an air of voluptuousness too luxuriously melting." Other plates are studies of the Venus flytrap the Aztec lily tape grass etc. by botanical artist Frederick Polydore Nodder. Also includes the engraving of a cupid playing with fire by Thomas Holloway within the text on page xi. <br /><br />With several fascinating newspaper articles and manuscript note from 1845 tipped in behind the Portland Vase plates. The articles relate to the "Destruction of the Portland Vase" in the British Museum by a drunken delinquent on July 9 1845 his subsequent release from prison and the Duke of Portland's decision to commission the artists Doubleday and Baldock to repair the broken vase. <br /><br />In an unsophisticated but solid later half-leather binding of brown leather and tan cloth gilt title and blind-tooling on spine new endpapers slight toning to frontispiece and title pages but interior clean and bright with little foxing. Some offsetting from plates on to text pages and dust to page edges. J. Johnson hardcover
1518curtius<b>Erasmus Finds His Vacation Reading Deficient So He Prepares a New Critical Edition</b><b> <br /></b><br />Folio. 4 LXXXIX leaves; 10 124 pages. Late sixteenth century leather; light scuffing hinges cracked but cords holding tightly; insect damage to text block with loss of text throughout; margins in Orosius trimmed close affecting title image. First printing of Erasmus' critical edition of Quintus Curtius. This first century Roman biography of Alexander the Great was an early Renaissance bestseller with editions from at least a dozen printers throughout Europe by 1517. Erasmus brought it as reading material on a voyage to England in 1517 and finding the text incomplete and corrupt he prepared his own critical edition. This was first published by his friend Strasbourg printer Matthias Schürer in 1518. Erasmus' version proved so popular that five more printers had issued their own editions of his text by 1541; these in turn were reprinted a total of five more times by 1575. This first edition is scarce on the market with Rare Book Hub locating only one sale at auction since 1971 at PBA in 2008 for $2400. <br /><br /><b>Bound with</b>: Paulus Orosius <i>Adversvs paganos historiarvm libri septem</i>. Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus 1526. An attractive copy of this first universal history by a Christian writer Paulus Orosius c 375-c 418 a Hispanic student of St Augustine who traveled widely throughout the Mediterranean. Elaborate title page border depicting the labors of Hercules signed "AW" Anton Woensam 1493-1541 a prolific painter and woodcut artist whose work was favored by the booming publishing industry in Cologne. Other page borders and initials are also by Woensam as described by Merlo 1864.<br /><br /><br /><br /> Schürer hardcover books
2015128153University of Toronto Press. New. 2015. Hardcover. 1487501994 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- -- with a bonus offer-- . University of Toronto Press hardcover
2015119917University of Toronto Press. New. 2015. Hardcover. 1442647493 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- -- with a bonus offer-- . University of Toronto Press hardcover
2015106257University of Toronto Press. New. 2015. Hardcover. 1442647493 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- -- with a bonus offer-- . University of Toronto Press hardcover
196959322Paris France: Institut Neerlandais. As New. 1969. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in French. 50 pp. With 9 ills. 24 x 19 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Institut Neerlandais paperback
196851809Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press. As New. 1968. Hardcover. 025399733X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine clean & unmarked tight to spine - 142 pages. Book description: "In this amusing satire Erasmus uses an imaginary confrontation between Saint Peter and Pope Julius II as a device for launching a scathing attack upon the abuses of Church authority. In a lively and pungent dialogue the spirit of the recently deceased Pope accompanied by his Evil Genius and his slaughtered mercenaries marches to the gates of Heaven and arrogantly demands admittance. Saint Peter rebukes him for his monstrous personal sins and refuses to admit him while Julius' efforts to indicate himself only further expose his greed and cynicism." -- with a bonus offer-- . Indiana University Press hardcover
194213495Walter J. Black. As New. 1942. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Book In fine Condition -- with a bonus offer-- . Walter J. Black hardcover
197455168New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing. As New. 1974. Paperback. 0804461406 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - appears unread - 138 pages -- with a bonus offer-- . Frederick Ungar Publishing paperback
2014111205Uitgeverij Snoeck. New. 2014. Paperback. 9461611404 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Text in French. -- with a bonus offer-- . Uitgeverij Snoeck paperback
200569787Harrisburg Pennsylvania U.S.A.: Continuum Intl Pub Group. New. 2005. Paperback. 0826477941 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED - 120 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Continuum Intl Pub Group paperback
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168260722Nürnberg W.M. Endters 1682 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A very nice copy. 28 1195 5 pp. frontispiece and 51 engraved plates. <br/><br/><em>Rare first edition of Franciscus' extensive work richly illustrated with exotic depictions of the road to hell. A second edition was published in 1686. German Emblem Books 1531-1888: 290. </em> hardcover
168260722Nurnberg, W.M. Endters, 1682 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. A very nice copy. (28), 1195, (5) pp. + frontispiece and 51 engraved plates.
1671Pv5b111a<p>"Prince of Christian Humanists" Desiderius Erasmus 1466 1536 was undoubtedly the most widely read author of the 16th Century. His books were best sellers; his writings accounted for 10-20% of all book sales in Europe by the 1530's. Presented here is the first Printing in the English language of his Colloquies A Work of very great Use to such as desire to attain an exact knowledge of the Latin Tongue. First published in 1518 and expanded by Erasmus over the next fifteen years Erasmus' Colloquies deliver a collection of lively dialogues which delighted readers far beyond the Renaissance schoolroom for whom these were originally intended. They cover a wide range of topics including religion education morality and social issues. The dialogues often satirical and critical address the issues of Erasmus' time and offer sharp commentary on contemporary society. The Colloquies were intended to teach Latin and moral lessons to students but they also serve as a window into the intellectual and cultural landscape of the Renaissance. The English translation of the Erasmus' Colloquies introduced English-speaking audiences to Erasmus' ideas and philosophy creating a profound impact on European intellectual thought during the Renaissance. The Colloquies also played a key role in the development of English prose and language as they were widely read and studied by both students and scholars. This highly enticing very scarce first printing is in excellent condition professionally rebound in full leather with five compartments and four ribs to spine with bright gilt details and title. Binding and hinges are firm new end papers and paste downs no loose or missing pages. Completely free of writings or markings of any kind light scattered foxing some mild damp staining to early and last pages see photos. 555 pages. A desirable example of this most significant Erasmus first appearance in English. Book #Pv5b111. $1895. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand and other legends and landmarks.</p> Brome, Tooke, Sawbridge hardcover
1603114251Witebergae, Impensis Zacharia Schüreri, impr. Typis Cratontanis 1603 In-16 15,5 x 9,5 cm. Reliure de l’époque vélin ivoire, dos lisse, titre manuscrit illisible, [50]-268-[10] pp. Ouvrage d’une relative rareté. Reliure patinée, pages de garde et de titre déchirées, en coin de pied, 50 premières pages sensiblement jaunies, 1 cahier délié, intérieur correct.
1530ABC_49914Basel 1530. 8vo 10.4 x 15.4 cm. Froben Office heirs of Johann Froben 19th-century half brown calf and grey paper sides. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final page and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 293 1 1 blank 1 pp. This volume brings together Erasmus renditions in Latin of two of Euripides most enduring tragedies titled Hecuba and Iphigenia in Aulis presented alongside the original Greek texts beginning on page 169. Euripides ca. 480-ca. 406 BCE was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of only three Greek tragedians whose plays have survived in full the others being Aeschylus and Sophocles.Both plays in the present work explore the devastating costs of war through the eyes of women caught in its aftermath. In Hecuba the former queen of Troy endures unspeakable losses the sacrifice of her daughter Polyxena the murder of her son Polydorus and ultimately a brutal act of revenge that leads to her mythical transformation into a howling dog symbolising her complete descent into grief and rage.Iphigenia in Aulis is set on the eve of the Trojan War focusing on Agamemnons impossible decision to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease the goddess Artemis and allow the Greek fleet to sail. The play confronts themes of duty honour and the personal costs of collective ambition. These themes echo tragically in Hecuba which portrays the wars bitter consequences. Together these tragedies form a poignant narrative arc from the sacrifices made to start a war to the wreckage and human suffering left in its wake.With a partially erased manuscript note on the title page 1822. Some water staining in the margins and a few small holes in the inner margin not affecting the text. Otherwise in good condition.l Adams E 1042; BM STC German p. 289; De Reuck 425; Erasmus Online 4215; Vander Haeghen II 25; VD 16 E 4231; USTC 654881; not in Kossmann. unknown
058044Parisiis ( Paris ) Apud Petrum Regnault 1543 in folio (38x25) 1 fort volume reliure plein veau de l'époque, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches teintées, restaurations anciennes sur les 2 mors supérieurs, 671 pages, suivies de: annotationes et indice Pliniani (pars prima & pars secunda), complet des 2 parties. Le corps du texte est très frais, à grandes marges et exempt de rousseurs, ex-libris illustré et armorié ancien avec la devise: '' Hic et ubique terrarum ''. Cette édition renferme le texte de la lettre d'Erasme à l'évêque d'Olmuz. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1520ABC_49876Basel: Johann Froben 1520. Modern gold-tooled half calf and marbled paper sides with the author title and year of publication lettered in gold on the spine red sprinkled edges. 4to. With the title set within an elaborate woodcut frame a smaller woodcut frame on the verso of the title page and the first page of the first text. Further with 9 woodcut decorated initials woodcut headpieces and a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the last page. This finely printed 1520 Basel edition presents a collection of Erasmus earliest translations from the works of the Greek moral philosopher Plutarch. The volume presents eight of Plutarch's shorter treatises addressing themes such as friendship health and the nature of the human soul.One of the most notable inclusions is De discrimine adulatoris et amici How to tell a flatterer from a friend a treatise Erasmus translated during his time in Cambridge and dedicated to King Henry VIII. The text which explores the subtle art of distinguishing true friendship from sycophancy resonated in an era when rulers were often surrounded by flattering courtiers. With characteristic tact Erasmus hoped the work might serve both as philosophical instruction and as a gentle warning to the young English king particularly in light of those who had encouraged Henrys war with France.Furthermore the present work includes two of Plutarchs important medical treatises in Erasmus translation: De tuenda bona valetudine Advice on keeping well and Utrum graviores sint animi morbi quam corporis Are diseases of the soul more serious than those of the body. The latter contains strikingly early and thoughtful reflections on what we now recognise as mental illness. Other works included in this volume are: Quo pacto quis efficere possit ut capiat utilitatem ab inimico reflections on transforming enmity into wisdom and personal growth. In principe requiri doctrinam on the necessity of wisdom and education in a prince. Cum principibus maxime philosophum debere disputare a meditation on the philosophers role in advising those in power. Num recte dictum sit e ßsa on the meaning of the maxim lathe biosas: to live quietly and modestly. De cupiditate divitiarum a discourse on avarice and the moral corruption born of greed.With a small manuscript note added above the title opuscula and a 17th- or 18th-century owners inscription by an otherwise unidentified Johannes below the colophon on the final page. Slightly foxed and browned throughout the fore-edge and lower margins are cut slightly short barely affecting the printed marginalia. Otherwise in good condition.l Adams p. 654; Ledo pp. 260-66; USTC 655014 6 copies; Vander Haeghen II 46; VD 16 P 3718; not in BM STC German; De Reuck. Johann Froben, unknown
1464London: J. Johnson. THE FIRST OF DARWIN'S FOUR MAJOR WORKS THE BOTANIC GARDEN" IS OFFERED HERE IN TWO HANDSOMELY BOUND VOLUMES Dictionary of Scientific Biography III 578-579. Erasmus Darwin 1732-1802 was a remarkable polymath working as a physician naturalist medical botanist and inventor. He was also Charles Darwin's grandfather. <br /> <br /> The Botanic Garden is an annotated scientific poem in Augustan couplets. It appeared in two parts of which the second The Loves of the Plants 1789 was published before the first The Economy of Vegetation 1791. "Darwin decided to publish the second part of the work first because it was better suited "to entertain and charm." The first part of the work is more ambitious than the second covering all natural philosophy and embodying many of the researches and inventions of Wedgwood Watt Boulton and others. The design of the totality was Darwin wrote 'To enlist Imagination under the banner of Science. to induce the ingenious to cultivate the knowledge of botany. and recommending to their attention the immortal works of the celebrated Swedish naturalist-Linnaeus.' <br /> <br /> "Darwin believed that prose was suited to abstract ideas but chose to write poetry for its ability to conjure up visual images; he drew upon the Rosicrucian doctrine of Gnomes Sylphs Nymphs and Salamanders presiding over the four elements in his personifications of all scientific technological and natural phenomena. Although William Cowper and other early critics greeted The Botanic Garden with praise" ibid. <br /> <br /> We offer Darwin's Zoonomia; or The Laws of Organic Life Volumes I & II 1794 & 1796 separately. CONDITION & DETAILS: J. Johnson London. Complete. Two volumes. 4to. 12 x 9.5 inches; 30 x 24cm. Volume I: xii 214 126 1; Volume II: 2 ix 197 1pp. 20 engraved plates inclusive of five by William Blake and two 2 by John Henry Fuseli. Very handsomely rebound in full calf; blind-stamped on the front and rear boards. The spine is gilt-ruled with decorative devices in the compartments. Also a gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. New endpapers. Minor foxing and offsetting see photos otherwise clean and very bright throughout. J. Johnson hardcover
1688LD6060Nurnberg: Hoffmann c. 1688. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern black morocco gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label gilt detail stamped direct on spine; 4to; pp. 3-52 plus 46 plates 11 of which are folding and heavily restored; 1 of which is laid-in. First title-page printed in red and black and with 3 additional lavishly engraved half-title pages. Binding is very fine indeed but condition of text block varies -- many folding plates restored full-page plates sometimes a bit browned sometimes a bit fragile and tissuey and sometimes remarkably nice and bright. A nice copy overall offering images of ornate columns window frames cornices ceilings and more. Sold as is. <br/><br/> Hoffmann hardcover books
1534372192Basel: Froben 1534. Froben's printer's device on first and last leaf of each work. 415 1; 191 1pp. 8vo. Early half calf and pastepaper boards. Spine ends rubbed front joint cracked but cords holding. Very good. Froben's printer's device on first and last leaf of each work. 415 1; 191 1pp. 8vo. Early Froben edition of a pedagogical work by Erasmus "On the Writing of letters" first published in 1522 with a collection of aphorisms or "Parallels" gathered out of Plutarch's Moralia Seneca Lucian Xenophon Demosthenes Aristotle Pliny and Theophrastus. An edition was published in Cologne in the same year and the work was a standard throughout the sixteenth century. VD16 E2515 E3257. Provenance: Princes of Liechtenstein armorial bookplate; General Theological Seminary bookplate Froben unknown
1688LD6060Nurnberg: Hoffmann c. 1688. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern black morocco gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label gilt detail stamped direct on spine; 4to; pp. 3-52 plus 46 plates 11 of which are folding and heavily restored; 1 of which is laid-in. First title-page printed in red and black and with 3 additional lavishly engraved half-title pages. Binding is very fine indeed but condition of text block varies -- many folding plates restored full-page plates sometimes a bit browned sometimes a bit fragile and tissuey and sometimes remarkably nice and bright. A nice copy overall offering images of ornate columns window frames cornices ceilings and more. Sold as is. <br/><br/> Hoffmann hardcover
