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in-folio (292x212 mm), ff. (26), 360, carattere romano. Legatura coeva piena pergamena flessibile, titolo ms. al dorso. Al verso del foglio di titolo vi è l'indice delle vite descritte nell'opera: ''Clarorum virorum cathalogus''. Pregiata edizione delle Vite descritte da Plutarco ed Emilio Probo, la prima così largamente illustrata, adorna di 78 bellissime silografie, la prima a mezza pag., le altre di cm 10x10 circa. ''The Lives are works of great learning and research...'' (PMM, 48). Le figure sono di particolare importanza in quanto illustrano puntualmente episodi descritti nel testo e sono state espressamente disegnate e incise per questa edizione e quindi stampate per la prima volta (Essling I, 2, pp. 62-68 ne dà un'ampia descrizione). Frontespizio impresso in rosso e nero, con impresa del gatto, numerose grandi iniziali su fondo nero elegantemente ornate con vari motivi decorativi. Plutarco di Cheronea (46-120 d.C.), facendo propria un'idea già attuata da altri scrittori antichi, vi narra le vite di 23 grandi personaggi Greci contrapponendo ognuna a quella di un Romano. La traduzione dal greco, le note e l'ampio indice sono opera dell'umanista francese ed editore Josse Bade. Bell'esempl. (lavoro di tarlo nel margine bianco inferiore di 20 fogli: 5 a 10 nn. preliminari, I a XVI delle Vite).. Essling n.597 e Sander n.5785, descrivono dettagliatementa questa edizione. Br. Library, Italian, p. 528..
8vo. (4), II, 140 pp. With 3 engr. plates by Horace Vernet. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, elaborately gilt on covers and spine; leading edges and inner dentelle gilt. Blue endpapers. All edges gilt. First edition of this manual of riding instruction for ladies. The fine engravings by the young Horace Vernet (1789-1863), later the 19th century's foremost master of equestrian illustration, include the earliest depiction of a lady sitting astride the horse. A second edition was published in 1817. The author, Louis Henri II, marquis de Pons d'Hostun (1750-1820?), was inspired by the works of Newcastle and La Guérinière. Exceedingly rare; a sumptuously bound copy. Schrader 1452. Mennessier de la Lance 336. Huth 75.
4to. ½ p. With address and traces of seal. Letter of recommendation to Girolamo Polcastro: "magn[ifi]co quanto fratelo onorando la presente e per pregar vostra Segnoria che la vol gader contenta per amor mio et voler resolver el presente lator nostro gastaldo [...] che el poveromo resti da far el fato suo non diro altro solon [!] che il continuo a vostra segnoria mi ancho mando et ofero". - In 1901, the Italian historian Cesare Augusto Levi (1856-1927) unveiled a copy from 1542 of slightly earlier letters by Antonio Calgeri, a Venetian living in Candia (Crete), decrying the physical abuse of Palma Querini at the hands of her jealous husband and cousin Nicolò Querini. Unlike Othello, Querini did not murder his wife, who returned to her family, but the similarities between Calgeri's account and Shakespeare's tragedy are striking. In one of the letters, Calgeri even prompted the recipient to bring the case to the attention of the Council of Ten. At some point, Querini sued his wife's family and was ordered to Venice for an investigation, where he was murdered several years later. The nickname "moro" was common in Venice for people with a darker complexion, not necessarily indicating African or Arabian ancestry. Shakespeare's plot is undoubtedly based on Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio's 1565 tale "Un Capitano Moro" that might have been inspired by the story of Nicolò and Palma Querini. The fact that the wealthy and powerful Querini were excluded from the office of the Doges for participation in Bajamonte Tiepolo's conspiracy against the Doge Pietro Gradenigo in 1310 certainly added zest to stories about members of the family. Finally, several family members participated in the Venetian wars against the Ottomans in the Mediterranean. - The letter's recipient is likely a descendant of the physician Sigismondo Polcastro (1384-1473), professor at Padua. This interesting letter documents long-standing ties between the two families, as the politician Girolamo Polcastro (1763-1839) was married to Caterina Querini Stampalia. - With two tears from breaking the seal. Lower right corner clipped. Very light browning. C. A. Levi, "Zur Urgeschichte des historischen Othello und der Desdemona", in: Wiener Fremdenblatt, 4 August 1901.
220 x 173 mm, 227 x 232 mm, 232 x 186 mm, 252 x 209 mm. All mounted on cardboard (480 x 326 mm). Beautiful samples from Raoult's famous series, portraying a group of merchants during tea ceremony and an abacus salesman, both in the governorate of Nizhny Novgorod, a Tartar boy in Kazan, and an Orthodox priest of the Causcasus region. - Jean Xavier Raoult (fl. 1860-90) established a successful photo studio in Odessa around 1860. "Collection de types des Peuples de Russie, Roumanie et Bulgarie" is Raoult's most famous series, documenting the daily life of people predominantly in the southern regions of the Russian Empire and some of its neighboring countries. Raoult was also active as a landscape photographer; he documented the 1877/78 Russian-Turkish War and accompanied the art historian Nikodim Kondakov on an extensive expedition to the Northern Caucasus, Georgia, and Armenia and later to Athos and Palestine from 1879 to 1882. His photographs won prizes at the Paris Geographic Exhibition (1875) and at the World Exhibition in Paris (1878). - All photographs well preserved with minimal staining. The mounting cardboards showl insignificant foxing, browning and minor tears.
10 vols (8vo) and atlas (4to) in 11 vols. With engr. portrait, 9 frontispieces, 50 engr. maps, and 23 folding tables. Contemp. half calf with spine label; atlas bound in contemp. full calf. First ten-volume edition of this famous work on the European trade with the East and America. The atlas includes the well-known map of the Arabian Peninsula by Rigobert Bonne (1725-95). "This map covers from 25'-60' E and 10'-50' N. It shows the north east of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula with its three classic divisions, Arabia Deserta, Arabia Petraea and Arabia Felix. On the part showing the Arabian Peninsula, [... the data] is concentrated in the west" (Al Ankary coll.). - Primarily written by Diderot and the encyclopédists, this the work saw no less than 12 editions until 1821. The text deals with the commercial relations between Europe and their colonies. Raynal’s treatises on the evils of slavery and the moral obligation to aid the underprivileged were ahead of their time, and Raynal was harshly criticised and forced into exile. - Contemporary ownership "Hippolyte Cazenove" to endpapers; atlas volume slightly browned. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Sultan Bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, The Gulf in Historic Maps, p. 198. Khaled Al Ankary Collection p. 388. McMinn 56. Sabin 68081. Feugère 51. Phillips 652. Brunet IV, 1126. Graesse VI, 40. Cf. Kress B 314 & 315.
Folio. 10 vols. Vol. 1 red half cloth with printed boards, vols. 2-10 blue cloth. With altogether 65 maps, of which 59 folding, several plates, portrait and a few text illustrations. An important standard work of Persian topography: H. A. Razmara's monumental gazetteer, or geographical dictionary, of modern Iran, "compiled and published in ten volumes by the Geography Department of Iran's Military Staff during the years 1328-1332 Sh./1949-1953. The [...] work provides an extensive amount of geographical, environmental and rural settlements" (Yeroushalmi, p. 81). In Farsi throughout. - Paper somewhat browned; spine of vol 4 sunned. Some notes in pencil. Collection stamps "ex libris eurasiasticis Dr. Jan von Loon, Herlenii". An uncommon set.
Large folio (450 x 330 mm). 114 ff., illustrated throughout with original photographs, with tissue guards. Original padded cloth with inlaid cast metal coverpiece. Stunning album commemorating the National Socialist exhibition on the history of the horse as represented in art from the stone age to the 20th century, held in Munich's Residenz from July 22 until November 15, 1936. Only 300 copies were produced (this copy is numbered 220). Perfectly preserved. Cf. OCLC 162880518 (4to).
Imperial folio (440 x 605 mm). 2 vols. bound as four. 21, (3), (29) pp. (31) pp. 43, (28) pp. (32) pp. With 120 collotype plates (67 colour and 53 black & white, 7 of the latter double-page) by Max Jaffé, and 14 wood-engraved full-page illustrations on the integral leaves. Later half calf with cloth sides. First and only edition of "the most important recent publication with wonderful reproductions of the best known carpets" (Ettinghausen 1936), here in very good condition, rebound in four high-quality half calf volumes. The project was initiated by the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, which had previously published two other works on carpets: "Orientalische Teppiche" (1892) and "Altorientalische Teppiche" (1908). The present work by Sarre & Trenkwald has far more and better illustrations than the earlier works, with 120 fine collotype plates. The authors were highly regarded authorities in the field of Islamic art, especially Friedrich Sarre (1865-1945), "without doubt one of the most influential figures regarding the scholarly formation of Islamic art" (Kadoi/Szanto). He was the director of the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin and responsible for the formation of the "most comprehensive collection of Islamic art outside the Islamic world". - The work is characterized by an emphasis on the technique of production. The plates that depict carpets in colour and black & white are preceded by a descriptive page that is sometimes illustrated with a schematic explanation of the knotting technique used for making the carpet. The first part, by Hermann Trenkwald, with 60 plates, is entirely devoted to carpets in the world-renowned collection of the Austrian Museum. The second part, by Sarre, also comprising 60 plates, covers the greatest carpets in other collections throughout the world, including private collections such as that of Baron Maurice Rothschild. - Corners slightly bumped, but in very good condition. R. Ettinghausen, Kali (1936), p. 110. Kadoi & Szanto, The Shaping of Persian Art (2014), p. 227.
Large 8vo. VIII, 844 pp. Original buff buckram, leather labels to spine. "The law of Transjordan is Turkish law as it existed on the 23rd of September, 1918, except in so far as it has been superseded or modified since that date. To indicate the extent to which it has been so superseded and modified is the purpose of this volume […]" (from the Compiler's Preface). - Seton was President of the District Court, Jaffa from 1920 to 1926, after which he took on the post of Judicial Adviser Transjordan, in which role he produced this digest. He was subsequently President of the District Court in Haifa, 1931-35, before moving on to become Puisne Judge, Jamaica. This was his sole publication. - This copy is unmarked as such, but is from the Library of Glubb Pasha, and is the Arab Legion Head Quarters copy, with ink stamp to the front pastedown and inscription, "Not to be taken from the Head Quarters of the Arab Legion" in Peake Pasha's hand, signed by him. - Endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise very good in the original buckram, labels a little rubbed and lifting at the corners.
Small folio (210 x 342 mm). 38, (2) pp. With engr. title vignette and 12 engr. plates by J. C. Berndt. Contemp. marbled boards. Only edition of this profusely illustrated collection of human malformations. "Achondroplasia is first described on page 30 and pictured on plate 11" (Garrison/M.). An English translation appeared in 1932 in R. H. Major's "Classic Descriptions of Disease". The versatile German anatomist S. T. von Soemmerring (1755-1830), one of the first members of the Senckenbergian Society, is hailed as the discoverer of the eye's Macula lutea, one of the earliest scholars to describe the Pterodactyl, and inventor of a telescope as well as of an electrical telegraph. He also was an early champion of smallpox vaccination. - Binding bumped at extremeties. Ms. inscription (c. 1820) on flyleaf: "Zum Beweise der reinsten Achtung | Aug. v. Tournier" [?]. Corners of flyleaf clipped; slight worming throughout (insignificant loss to text; more pronounced near beginning and end), otherwise fine. Extremely rare; last recorded on a German auction in 1964. Garrison/Morton 4306. VD 18, 14590689-001. E. Goldschmid, Entwicklung und Bibliographie der path.-anatom. Abbildung 78. OCLC 67960624.
½ S. Folio. Wasserzeichen: Hund mit geöffnetem Maul und Zunge. Seltenes Schreiben des Sohnes von Heinrich IV. an seinen Freund, Oheim und Schwager zur Gesandtschaft seines Sohnes Christoph und seines Landhofmeisters Balthasar von Gültlingen: "Wir haben neben dem hochgebornen Fürsten Herrn Christopheln Hertzogen zu Wirtemberg etc., unseren freundlichen liebenn Sohne, unnsern [...] getreuen Balthassarn vonn Giltlingen abgevertigt, mit bevelch, etwas ann E. L. zu verbringen, wie Sie vonn Ime vernemen werdenn, ist unser freunlich bitt, E. L. wölle Ihn inn solchem seinem anbringenn, gütlich hörenn, Dissen als gleich uns selpst glauben gebenn, und sich inn solchem freuntlich und schwägerlich ertzeygen [...]". - Mit kleinen parallelen Einschnitten durch Briefverschluss und zwei kleinen Randeinrissen; leicht braunfleckig.
Watercolour over traces of pencil. 708 x 490 mm. Signed and dated by the artist. Matted.
8vo. 12 vols. With 72 engr. maps. Contemp. French full calf with giltstamped labels and gilt spines. All edges red; marbled endpapers. A fine copy of the twelve-volume octavo edition of the most detailed and accurate geography of its day (published simultaneously in four quarto volumes). All the maps are taken from the "Atlas Portatif" (1748-49) of Robert de Vaugondy. The fine map of the Arabian Peninsula is derived, via Vaugondy, from Delisle; "it includes the three classic divisions of the Arabian Peninsula and the following regional subdivisions: Tahama in the south west, Bahrain, which extends along the east coast and includes the town of Cathema, Yemen in the south which includes Oman, the States of the Cherif of Mecca which includes Hagiaz and parts of the centre of the Arabian Peninsula. Although the width of the Red Sea is exaggerated, the Sinai peninsula's shape is very close to reality. The topographical features and watercourses are not very different to how they are shown on other maps of the same period. A town named Naged is shown to the north west of the town of Janama" (Al Ankary). - Some bindings slightly bumped at extremeties. Contemporary ms. ownership "Leon. van Berg" to pastedowns; titles bear stamp of the La Valsainte Charterhouse, Switzerland (dissolved in 1825). Slightly browned. Formerly in the collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Streit 17, p. 252, n. 6198. Brunet VI, 19613. OCLC 34221488. For the map of Arabia cf. Tibbetts 278. Sultan Bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, The Gulf in Historic Maps, S. 162. Al Ankary Collection 338 (all referencing Vaugondy's map).
8vo. XVI, 424 pp. Folding map frontispiece and 2 full-page maps to the text, 2 as plates, 23 plates. Original sand buckram, title gilt to spine and upper board, top edge gilt, others uncut. First and only edition. Important regional study of the Arabian Gulf, published in response to the grant of the Baghdad Railway concession by the Ottoman Government to a German-backed consortium. Assesses the economic, military and political implications of rival claims in the various states of the area. - Whigham was a well-connected Scottish author who emigrated to America and worked as drama critic on the Chicago Tribune, and as a war correspondent at the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese Wars. A close friend and correspondent of British Persian Gulf opinion-makers Lord Curzon and Sir Percy Cox, Whigham wrote the book, based on his extensive travels in the region, at the request of Lord Curzon, who had "advised [him] to go to the Gulf [and] instructed his subordinate officials in that part of the world to give me all the assistance in their power." Whigham is probably best remembered as a prominent amateur golfer, winner of the second and third US Amateur Championships, and author of "How to play Golf", the first golf instruction manual illustrated from action photographs. - Ink ownership stamp of Charles C. Sterrett, an American Presbyterian missionary to the Christian population in the region, to the front pastedown. Binding a little rubbed and spotted, endpapers foxed. Small inked library stamp and cancellation to the title page, otherwise very good. Diba Collection 1978, 227. Wilson 243. OCLC 2987283.
4to. 2 pp. on bifolium. Headed paper. An unpublished official document (to Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl of Kabul and Kandahar, 1832-1914) which sheds new light on the assault on Gandhi in Johannesburg on 10 February 1908, the first attempt on Gandhi's life. Earlier that year, Gandhi had been summoned from prison in Pretoria to meet with the Colonial Secretary, General Smuts, to discuss the British treatment of Indian labourers in South Africa. Gandhi eventually convinced Smuts to allow the voluntary registration of all Indians rather than the punitive system of the "Black Act". However, this settlement did not prove popular with all Indians in the colony; as Gandhi was making his way to the Registration Office in Johannesburg, he was brutally beaten by one Mir Alam, a disillusioned Pathan: "I had scarcely finished the last sentence when a heavy cudgel blow descended on my head from behind. I at once fainted with the words 'He Rama' (O God!) on my lips, lay prostrate on the ground and had no notion of what followed. But Mir Alam and his companions gave me more blows and kicks, some of which were warded off by Yusuf Mian and Thambi Naidoo with the result that they too became a target for attack in their turn" (Gandhi, Satygraha in South Africa, p. 140). According to his own account, Gandhi immediately requested that Mir Alam and his companions not be charged or imprisoned for the assault; for, "according to their lights they could not behave otherwise than they did". Gandhi himself was philosophical about his near-fatal encounter, commenting, "As for me, nothing better can happen to a satyagrahi than his meeting death all unsought in the very act of satyagraha, i.e., pursuing Truth" (ibid, p. 157). - The present document, however, sheds new light on the assault. The letter discusses complaints received by one Mahomed Shah, "Pathan Priest", regarding the treatment of Indian prisoners. High Commissioner Selborne is dismissive of Shah, calling him an "illiterate Punjabi" and "of violent character". Most intriguingly, Selborne reveals that Shah himself "instigated the serious assault on Mr. M. K. Gandhi in February, 1908, and although Mr. Gandhi declined to prosecute he requested the government to remove Mahomed Shah from the Transvaal, where he was a source of danger to other Indians, and deport him to India." Gandhi's account of the incident holds that Mir Alam was responsible for the attack, and that although he insisted on not pressing charges, Alam was convicted by the Government of a public offence and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The present official document suggests that the affair was more complicated than this and indeed was "instigated" by an entirely different person, and that while Gandhi did not press charges officially, he nevertheless took action against his aggressor. - Original materials relating to Gandhi's South African years - before his rise to international fame - are decidedly uncommon. It is often forgotten that Gandhi spent no fewer than 22 years of his life (1893-1915) in South Africa, promoting his practice of satyagraha to improve conditions for the large Indian population in that colony. "It is only recently that historians have come to recognise the centrality of his time abroad in Gandhi's life, and in particular, the significance of his southern African years [...] it was in southern Africa that he developed the entire spiritual, philosophical, and political programme that he would implement in India...Gandhi's political and intellectual projects, as they evolved in these years, operated across political boundaries, linking India, South Africa, and Britain itself, as well as points beyond" (Cambridge Companion to Gandhi, p. 30). - Traces of horizontal folds; slight brownstains in the left margin of the first leaf.
Folio (240 x 362 mm). (4), 297, (44) ff. Title page printed in red and black. With woodcut vignette to t. p., printer's device to final page, and woodcut arms of Nidhard Thungen on dedication leaf. Original calf (restored). The first edition of this work to include Turkish material: an early, important collection of sources on Byzantium, Turkey, and the Islamic world, containing writings by Laonikos Chalkokondyles ("Historiarum de origine ac rebus gestis Turcorum libri X"), Nikephoros Gregoras ("Historiae Byzantinae libri XI"), Johannes Zonaras, and Niketas Choniates, as well as additional material by several other writers on Turkey. - Binding professionally repaired. Some brownstaining and waterstaining throughout; a few repaired paper flaws near beginning and end. VD 16, H 3899. Adams H 634. BM-STC German 259. Atabey 582. Blackmer 819. Hoffmann II, 628f.
8vo. 248, (4) ff. With emblematic woodcut device to title (apparently showing Abderus being devoured by the mares of Diomedes) and several woodcut initials. Contemporary full vellum with traces of ties. Uncommon and finely produced edition, by an unidentified Parisian printer, of Mesue's pharmaceutical handbook, translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois, the teacher of Vesalius. The author's frequently reprinted treatises bore an immense influence on the development of pharmacy in early modern Europe. Although the identity of Masawaih (Mesue) remains unclear, he was likely a Persian Christian physician who headed the Baghdad hospital and served as personal physician to several caliphs (though he may also be a collective pseudonym of several Arabic medical writers of the 10th and 11th centuries). Products of the mediaeval Islamic world, the works attached to his name contained many innovations that provided the basis for the theory and practice of pharmacy for centuries and perfectly met the demands of the developing medical marketplace of mediaeval Europe. - Slight brownstaining with some marginal worming near the end of the text. Loss of corner to fol. Aa3 (not affecting the text). Durling 3145. OCLC 14308627. Not in Wellcome, Adams or BM-STC French. Cf. GAL I, 232; S I, 416. Hirsch I, 171f.
Dossier technique sous chemise in-4, 22 octobre 1947, comprenant 22 pièces (sur 25). Bordereau des pièces du dossier : 0 :Bordereau des Pièces du dossier ; 1 : Mémoire descriptif ; 2 : Carte d'ensemble 1/200.000 ; 3 : Profil en long général 1/2000 - 1/200.000 ; 4 : Plan de situation topographique (manque) ; 5 : Profils en travers type 1/500 ; 6 : Profil en long général géologique (manque) ; 7 : Rapport géologique de M. le Professeur Lugeon avec avant-propos ; 8 : Ecluse-type de 22m20 de hauteur de chute. Plan d'ensemble et coupes 1/2000 ; 9 : Ecluse type de 22m20 plan coupe (manque) ; 10 : Ecluse type de 22m20 de hauteur de chute. coupes transversales 1/500 ; 11 : Barrage type de Blagnac sur la Garonne. Elévation côté amot et plan coupe 1/200 ; 12 : Barrage-type de Blagnac sur la Garonne. Coupe transversale 1/200 ; 13 : Pont-Canal de Montech sur la Garonne. Plan d'ensemble en élévation au 1/1000 et 1/1500 ; 14 : Pont-Canal de Montech sur la Garonne coupes 1/200 ; 15 : Ouvrages de garde. Pkan et coupes ; 16 : Pont-Mobile ascenseur. Elévation coupe au 1/500 ; 17 : Pont-mobile basculant à la volée. Elévation et coupe au 1/500 ; 18 : Tunnels. Route. Coupes transversales 1/50 ; 19 : Perspective d'un chantier normal de déblais en terre et en rocher ; 20 : Perspective de grands remblais à l'Est du Pont-Canal de Montech sur la garonne ; 21 : Perspective des chantiers de terrassements de la tranchée de Naurouse ; 22 : Carte d'ensemble des besoins et des ressources en matériaux de construction. Lieu d'utilisation. Moyens et distances de transports 1/200.000 ; 23 : Devis estimatif et récapitulation générale (adapté au prix 1947 par les Entreprises A. Borie et C. Montcocul) ; 24 : Rapport économique Rare exemplaire du dernier dossier d'avant-projet proposé par la Société Technique et économique pour l'aménagement du Canal des Deux-Mers en octobre 1947. Fondée en juillet 1928, la STEAC avait déjà présenté des avant-projets en mars 1931, juin 1932, juin et novembre 1933 et mai 1939. Aux dimensions gigantesques (ouvert aux plus grands paquebots et cuirassés), ce canal devait partir du sud de Bordeaux pour déboucher sur la Méditerranée près de Narbonne. Le présent exemplaire contient 22 sur les 25 pièces indiquées. On s'aperçoit que tous les espoirs de construction du Canal n'avaient pas disparu avec la guerre. Avec toutes ses élévations et ses coupes, ce dossier technique offre une somme de renseignements techniques incomparable. Français
<br/> TITOLO: Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d'Italia. Collezione completa (1 - 111). <br/> EDITORE: Olschki Ed.<br/> DATA ED.: (v.a.),<br/> COLLANA: Coll. Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d'Italia.<br/> EAN: 9788822212665
in-folio, pp. (4), 34, (2), leg. del tempo m. pelle, tit. e fregi oro al dorso (abili restauri alle cuffie). Vignetta inc. e colorata al titolo. Opera illustrata da 33 magnifiche tavole f.t. finem. incise in rame e colorate a mano all'epoca, raffiguranti larve, crisalidi e farfalle, ed altri insetti, nel loro habitat, con ricchi fiori, frutti e piante. Seconda edizione, postuma, ampliata rispetto alla prima del 1740, che conteneva solo 25 tavole. Importante opera in cui l'artista ed entomologo olandese Jacob L'Admiral (Amsterdam 1700-1770) ha illustrato e descritto, tra l'altro, l'ecologia e la biologia di due rari insetti europei (S. ocellatus e L. populi), elencando inoltre le loro piante ospiti. L'Admiral fu per tutta la vita noto naturalista amatoriale; dopo la sua morte, l'editore Sluyter acquisì le lastre originali ed incaricò Martin Houttuyn di preparare una nuova edizione aumentata dell'opera, di notevole valore scientifico e soprattutto di straordinaria bellezza iconografica. "L'Admiral's work originally appeared in 1740 with twenty-five plates (an exact reprint appeared in 1762); this 1774 edition, the first complete, was published with an additional eight plates which had been given to Houttuyn by the artist".. Nissen, ZBI 2358. Anatomie de la Couleur No. 82. Horn-Schenkling 53. Hunt 514. Not in Pritzel..
in-folio (332x215 mm), 4 ff.nn., 468 pp., 6 ff.nn., Elegante legatura coeva in pieno marocchino granata, doppio riquadro di tre filetti sui piatti e grande stemma araldico sovrastato da cimiero, titolo lungo il dorso liscio entro 5 riquadri concentrici. Impresa dello stampatore sul titolo e altra in fine. Larga bordura silogr. al titolo con fiugre allegoriche, molti grandi capilettera istoriati e ornati, due tavole f.t. su doppia pag., una illustrazione a piena pag., e 150 grandi e artistiche silografie nel testo di stemmi araldici dei secoli di Casa Savoia, da Beroaldo a Carlo Emanuele I. Terza edizione assai aumentata (I, 1552; II, 1561), mancante a diverse collezioni e bibliografie, di questa fondamentale opera storica, genealogica e araldica, sulla Savoia e sui personaggi di questo casato dalle origini al 1601. Vari passaggi su Casa Savoia. Esemplare stupendo, con ampi margini, in splendida legatura del tempo.. Manno-Promis, I, n.6. Perret 3286 ''Très rare et recherché''. Saffroy, Bibl. Généalogique, n. 33721. Manca a Spreti, Bibliogr. Araldica..
Cm. 23,5, pp. 91-113 (1). Con un fregio al frontespizio, alcune testate e figure di monete nel testo e tre interessanti tavole ripiegate fuori testo. Affascinante legatura del tempo in piena pergamena semirigida con piatti inquadrati da doppio filetto dorato e fregi agli angoli. Leggermente corto il margine superiore, peraltro bell'esemplare, in ottimo stato di conservazione e senza difetti alle tavole ripiegate (lavato?). Volume che celebra la ricorrenza in cui la città di Vicenza festeggia il Corpus Domini. Le prime due tavole raffigurano il carro allegorico ed il torneo nella splendida cornice di Piazza dei Signori; la terza illustra la "rua" o meglio la "ruota che si suol portare ogni anno in Vicenza nella solenne processione del Corpus Domini come era il 20. Giugno 1680". Tutte le bibliografie ormai concordano nell'affermare che, nonostante la paginazione dell'opera, quest'ultima possiede carattere assolutamente autonomo e fu stampata come estratto delle opere di Patin (prevalentemente di interesse medico). Cfr. Ruggieri 821 che presenta l'intera opera di Patin.
Un vol. in folio (cm. 50,0) Mz. perg. e punta coeva con tit. oro su tassello al dorso. Tomo I: frontespizio + una carta con dedica dell'editore al Nobilissimo Signore il Sig. Francesco Ghisileri Calderini + pp. 44 + 1 carta con grande blasone della famiglia Ghisilieri a piena pagina + 67 carte numerate, ciascuna con 16 blasoni impresse solo al recto + 10 carte numerate ciascuna con 16 blasoni impresse solo al recto costituenti il Supplemento. Tomo I Parte II: frontespizio + 67 carte numerate ciascuna con 16 incisioni impresse solo al recto. Tomo II: frontespizio + 1 carta con dedica dell'editore al chiarissimo ed ornatissimo Sig. Gioseffo Remondini + 1 carta con grande blasone inc. a piena pagina + 6 carte ciascuna con 16 incisioni impresse solo al recto. Strappetto riparato al margine bianco del primo frontespizio; macchiette rossastre al bordo estrerno di poche carte, altrimenti bell'esemplare fresco e nitido a grandi margini. Tutte le immagini sono incise in rame e colorate d'epoca all'acquerello. Mancano i Tomi III, IV e V. Per la collazione confrontare Olschki, Choix, 727 che commenta :"Ouvrage magnifique et d'une rareté extreme".
Oblong folio (255 x 203 mm). Photograph album containing 223 photographs (from 47 x 65 to 178 x 240 mm) mounted on 18 leaves, with 23 loosely inserted photographs, mostly with handwritten annotations in blue ink to versos. Contemporary metal-ring leatherette binding. With a quantity of relevant ephemera. Interesting collection of photographs by a participant in the closing stages of British rule in Palestine. Assembled by Lance Sergeant Ernest Bennet serving in 3rd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards in Palestine, the photographs depict British servicemen on military exercise (Exercise "Bustard"), with Arab inhabitants, riots in Jaffa, military convoys, and troops on patrol. Significant photographs include the British soldiers with a captured Irgun flag and ships docking at Haifa with Jewish Displaced Persons. Bennett often identifies himself with an ink manuscript cross on the photographs. - Extremities of binding lightly rubbed. Includes a small collection of personal papers such as correspondence and payslips.
8vo (165 x 105 mm). Illuminated Arabic ms. on paper. 312 ff., 15 lines, Naskh script. Black ink on polished paper. Double-page 'unwan on first two pages shows elaborate gilt ornamentation; ornamental colophon. Borders in red, black and gold. Gold discs between verses, sura headings written in gold. Blindstamped and gilt calf. Signed by a copyist named Hafez 'Ahmad ibn Ahmad al-ma'ruf, "Ahmad the Hafez" (respect title bestowed on those who have proved to know the entire Quran by heart), son of the renowned ‘Ahmad’, as quoted (underlined) in the colophon: Kataba hada-l mushaf as-sarif adafu ibad-‘Allah al-Kabir al-Mutaal Hafez ‘Ahmad, ibn ‘Ahmad almaruf,ba-yawwab-e (?) halifa-zade Hamidu-llah Taala [...] (literally, ‘he who wrote this noble Qur'an is a very foolish slave of God the Greatest, the Exalted, named Hafez ‘Ahmad, son of the renowned Ahmad, servant (?) of Hamidu-llah Taala, offspring of the Caliph […]’), etc. - Binding partially restored, in good condition.
