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31 pp. Original printed wrappers. 8vo. First edition of the text of a speech held by the father of Russian Marxism, Georgi Plekhanov, in Geneva, on the 25th anniversary of the poet Nikolai Nekrasov's death. Plekhanov here repeats a point made during Nekrasov's funeral in 1878, namely that Nekrasov's literary role dwarfs the achievements of Alexander Pushkin, because it instilled in Russian readers a sense of socio-political responsibility. Initially intended to be published in the journal "Iskra", Plekhanov's text was printed in a separate edition. - Lacking rear wrapper; lower right corner scuffed; else internally very good.
(København), 1709. Folio. 53x35 cm. Contemporary full mottled calf. Boards with a bit of wear and a few scratches. Corners and capitals repaired. 19 leaves, all with engraved text and ornamental frames. The broad frames that all differ from each other ornamentally depict animals and plants as well as the different trades of the country. A few leaves with minor weak dampstaining to upper margin. Upper margin slightly soiled. Otherwise a nice and clean copy on thick heavy paper.
Small 4to. 42 pp., final blank leaf. With an engraving in the text on p. 13 and a woodcut vignette on title-page. Contemporary boards (Italian carta rustica). First edition of this exceedingly rare manual about bread, unrecorded in the standard bibliographies and in splendid condition, written to help bakers make an affordable and good quality bread for the poor. The anonymous author explains how to make different types of loaves by using various flours and how the stone-crushed wheat should be sifted rather than milled and then separated into different grades of flour with the help of a machine called "Il Buratto" (shown in the engraving). - A single copy in Italy (Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Firenze); WorldCat lists one further copy in the USA (University of Iowa). Another edition, similarly rare, appeared at Viterbo in the same year. - A clean and untrimmed, wide-margined copy preserving the deckle edges. Near-contemporary inscription "Pane" on upper cover, with early 20th century armorial bookplate of the marchese Piero Gerini (1874-1938) of Florence. ICCU CFIE\038014. OCLC 953414960. Not in Kress or Goldsmiths', Westbury, Vicaire or Bitting.
8vo. 483, (1), VIII pp., final blank leaf. 1920s temporary wrappers (Portuguese mackle paper) with handwritten cover title. Only edition: one of the great mysteries of Qur'anic literature, and apparently the first translation of the Qur'an into French by a woman - or, as it is glossed in the British Museum catalogue, "a compilation of passages of the Koran, of Traditions, and of ideas peculiar to Fatma Zaida" (Ellis). Following those of Du Ryer (1647), Savary (1783), and Kazimirski-Biberstein (1840), this fourth French version of the holy text is original in many respects: notably, it is the first to retain the untranslatable name "Allah" instead of substituting "Dieu". Also, it does not follow the traditional order of surahs, but tries to arrange them chronologically, by Meccan and Medinan surahs (as, curiously, did Rodwell in his English translation, which appeared in London that same year). Indeed, as Ellis noted, this is not at all a literal translation: instead, it is interpretative, interventionist and even feminist, liberally transposing verses from surah to surah and often offering less of a translation than a new creation, more true perhaps to the spirit of Islam than to the sacred text. As early as 1961, the scholar Abul Muzaffar drew attention to the fact that Fatma-Zaida's name is probably spurious (though conceivably borrowed from a servant at the Turkish Embassy at Lisbon) and that the author was very probably a European convert to Islam, not proficient in Ottoman Turkish and not fully in French, either, who felt spiritually at home in the Muslim Orient and, wishing to defend Islam from its detractors, produced an apologetic version of the Qur'an. If this is so, the translator was still almost certainly a woman: as Rim Hassen has variously pointed out, Fatma-Zaida's text quite clearly endeavors to "project a positive image of Muslim women and their position in society" (p. 226), and even goes so far as to interpolate entirely new material such as verse "209" in the Third Sura, which impresses on the reader to "require the castration of merchants of female slaves"! - Some browning and foxing throughout; untrimmed as issued. Lower original orange wrapper cover preserved but partly pasted to the temporary wrappers, upper cover inscribed "O Alkorao (o Livro Sagrado dos Mahometanos)". An exceptional work, very rare in libraries and never reprinted. Chauvin X, 180. Ellis, Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum I, 891. OCLC 7039046. Abul Muzaffar, Le Coran de "Fatma Zaida". Le Centenaire d'un Mystérieux Ouvrage. In: Pensée Chiite 8 (1961), pp. 19-22. Rim Hassen, "From a Slave to a Translator: Conflicts and Mediation in Fatma-Zaïda’s Translation of the Quran: Customs Officers or Smugglers?", in: Diana Roig-Sanz, Reine Meylaerts (eds.), Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures (Cham, 2018) pp. 211-234. Quaritch, Oriental Languages Cat. (1887), no. 33054 ("Rare and curious").
(København), 1709. Folio. In contemporary full calf Cambridge-style mirror binding with blindstamped borders. Light wear to extremities. Seven leaves with minor repairs to margins, one leaf with a 15 cm long closed tear, and one leaf with an 30 cm long closed tear, all professionally executed and with no loss of imprint. Margins slightly soiled. 19 leaves, -text and frames engraved. The broad frames that all differ from each other ornamentally depict animals and plants as well as the different trades of the country. A nice copy printed on thick, heavy paper. Housed in a cardboard box.Provenance: From the collection of Danish book collector Viggo Lohse. The present copy was exhibited at 'Dansk Bibliofil-Klubs 50 års Jubilæumsudstilling' in 1992 (The 50 year anniversary exhibition for the Danish Society of Bibliophiles), no. 94.
Complete set bar one, (Vol.3,1981). 186 volumes in very good condition. Published in three parts annually to 1990, four parts thereafter. The earliest publications (pre 1995) show more distinct age-related wear; some discolouration of boards and spines, bumped corners and similar. There is a varied selection of attractive library plates to pastedowns and FEP's throughout the collection, and many previous owners, including QC's, have penned prior ownership. Discreet library stamps and bar codes are also present on a number of volumes. Internally, pages are well bound; several of the later volumes in 'as unread' condition. Older volumes have the occasional loose leaf, and there is marginalia within some volumes. Additional photographs on request. CN Used
Folio (235 x 320 mm). (4), 169, (17) pp. With 15 plates. Contemporary cloth with title lable removed from original cloth binding to the uper cover. All edges red. Rare, luxurious 25th anniversary publication for Branobel, one of the largest oil companies of the late 19th century, founded by the brothers Ludvig (1831-88) and Robert Nobel (1829-96) in Baku in 1876. The plates include large portraits of the brothers Ludvig and Robert, their father Immanuel Nobel (1801-72), the co-founder Baron Peter von Bilderling (1844-1900), and Ludvig's son Emanuel Nobel (1859-1932) who led the company at the time of the publication. Emanuel's famous uncle Alfred Nobel was the largest individual investor in the company. About 12% of the money he left for the establishment of the Nobel Prize came from his Branobel shares. - Together with the engineer Vladimir Shukov, Branobel in 1878 pioneered the construction of the first oil pipeline in the Russian Empire, near Baku, one of the first in the world. The final unnumbered 17 pp. of the publication contain tables, charts, as well as a map of the west coast of the Caspian Sea, indicating oil wells. - Slightly duststained. Lower right corner of the final leaf clipped.
2 vols. (Large) 8vo. Altogether 36 pamphlets, bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards or full cloth respectively, the former with giltstamped spine and spine title "Pamphlets". Two edges red. Two miscellanies of extraordinarily rare political pamphlets advocating the British labour movement. Uncommon in its extent, the collection encompasses several brochures prepared by the Communist Party of Great Britain, including articles on the general strike of May 1926 as well as a report on the party's Tenth Congress from 19-22 January 1929. Among other notable publications are the "Select Speeches of Kossuth" in their first edition (London, Trübner, 1853), an anthology of the most important addresses given by the leader of the Hungarian independence movement, Lajos Kossuth, during his visit to the United States between December 1851 and June 1852, edited by Francis William Newman. This takes up nearly the entire second half of volume 2 (376 pp.). The archive is completed by eight issues of the "Political Fly-Sheets" published by E. Tucker, whose contributors included the Scottish politician David Urquhart: vol. I, no. III ("England’s Part in Turkey’s Fall"), no. IV ("The War for Russia, not against Russia"), no. V ("Position of Louis Napoleon in respect to Russia"), no. VII ("The Invasion of the Crimea"), no. VIII ("The Words of Palmerston"), no. IX ("The Spider and the Fly"), vol. II., no. 1 ("The New Hope for Poland"), and no. II ("Letters on the Evidence of the Duke of Newcastle"). The remaining pamphlets address Jewish emancipation as well as British foreign politics, topics including colonialism and the "War on China". - Volume one has a contemporary ownership of "M. Mindel" to first leaf and flyleaf, probably the Socialist bookbinder Morris Mindel, with small binder's label of Mindel & Sirotkin to pastedown. Pamphlets in volume 1 numbered up to no. 11 in pencil. Binding of the half calf volume significantly rubbed. Full cloth volume has modern spine. Provenance: from the collection of Chimen Abramsky (1916-2010), London.
4to. XXXII, 174, (2) pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped spine and spine-title. Marbled endpapers. First and only edition. Signed presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the Russian writer, poet, singer, composer, and salonnière Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792-1862): "Pour Madame la Princesse Zeneide Volkonsky de la part de l'auteur en signe d'amitié / CDB" (signing as Conte de Boutourlin). This political treatise by the Russian general, military historian and bibliophile D. P. Buturlin (1790-1849) was composed in July 1821, during the beginning of the Greek War of Indendence. The book describes acts of Ottoman aggression as well as the indifference with which they appeared to be met throughout Europe: "Les infidèles massacrent en ce moment les chrétiens sur un sol européen, et l'Europe chrétienne et civilisée se tait" (p. 1). It is a personal commentary on the situation in the summer of 1821, reflecting a sense of frustration with European politics as well as an apprehension of Islam encroaching on Europe: "Dans la nécessité inévitable de prononcer et de soutenir la conservation de l'une des deux nations, nous osons croire que toutes les considérations possibles [...] doivent en dernier résultat porter à bannir l'islamisme de l'Europe" (p. 11). - A good copy on large paper. Interior occasionally browned and brownstained; short tear to lower edge of title-page. Never seen at auction, rare. OCLC 457125752.
Folio (302 x 195mm). (10), 51, (1) pp. With additional engraved title-page, 6 folding engraved plates, and 5 engraved illustrations (2 double-page). 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, flat spine with red morocco lettering-piece. Second edition of this early English work on cavalry. The engravings show formations, military armament and diagrams. - A few annotations in ink, some light browning, slight water damage to a few plates, rubbed. Ownership inscription of Thomas Hetherston on flyleaf, dated December 1666 with a price of 7s. Later in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research. ESTC R23795. Wing C7433. Cf. Cockle 124 (first edition).
Engraved broadsheet, ca. 610 x 930 mm. Heightened with red wash and gold, neatly presented in tables with red and yellow wash with gold ruled borders. On laid paper with large armorial watermark and countermark of D. & C. Blauw. An engraved table with detailed statistics on international trade, probably prepared for official use. Such large-scale synoptic tables, representing on a single sheet of paper a substantial amount of economic and fiscal information about the state of the kingdom of France in a given year, were produced at least from 1785 onwards. The last known example dates from 1792, after which - France being drawn into war with most other European nations, the Terror looming large, and French economy in shambles - the production of these useful aids would appear to have been discontinued. - The table provides data about the following 24 countries: France, England, Turkey, Austria, Russia, Spain, Prussia, Portugal, Holland, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Denmark, Sweden, Sardinia, Saxe, Venice, Bavaria, the Papal States, Tuscany, Hanover, Genoa, Poland, Wurttemberg, Hesse-Kassel and Switzerland. The information concerns the surface, population, density, annual revenue, military expenditure, general expenditure, infantry and cavalry, and the naval strengths of each of these polities. Among other information, the "Apperçu" also includes data about the number of ships sent to and returned from India and China by European nations, with details about the value of expected and imported goods, and the balance. A summary calculates the real value of the importations in Europe. Remarkably, the French budget for 1789 is stated to have generated a surplus of 60 millon livres tournois - in spite of the fact that in truth there was a deficit of 126 million livres, crucially precipitating the downfall of the Ancien Regime: it was precisely the chaos of the royal finances that finally resulted in the Estates General being called into session in early 1789, soon leading to the outbreak of the French Revolution with the fall of the Bastille in Paris in July. - While similar examples of such "Apperçus" for the years 1785-88 and 1790-92 are kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris, no copy of this present issue for 1789 has been found in France. - Central vertical fold. Some slight edge flaws restored. Provenance: Her Majesty's State Paper Office (their ink stamp at centre left); latterly in a London private collection. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 13840.2. OCLC 1006406762.
4to. 23-28 pp. (October) and 69-76 pp. (November issue). Bound with 7 issues of "Held's Volksvertreter". Modern red leatherette binding with giltstamped spine-title. Second printing of the first German translation of any work by Fourier, published in one of the earliest periodicals to advocate the Berlin workers' movement. Slightly abridged from the first publication (under the title "Ein Fragment Fouriers über den Handel") in the "Deutsches Bürgerbuch für 1846", here presumably published by the editor Friedrich Wilhelm Held without Engels' knowledge. The inclusion of this article in his periodical provided important support to the working class among the heavily censored Berlin press. - The present volume comprises the complete run for June to December 1846 of Held's short-lived journal "Der Volksvertreter", each issue including a woodcut title-page and several headpieces. - Pencil notes to pastedown mentioning Engels' article as well as 4 lithographs by Theodor Hosemann. However, illustrations by Hosemann could only be verified in the issues of January and February 1846. - Inner hinges damaged. Occasional light foxing; a few pages slightly wormed and waterstained. Fourier's essay is in fine condition. Bernstein, Die Geschichte der Berliner Arbeiterbewegung 2-4. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Arbeiterbewegung VI, 276. Eberlein 1969.
Small 4to. IV, 282 pp. Bound in 19th century half calf on marbled boards with gilt title to spine. Copy presented to Syud Hossain by the Californian Democratic Congressman Edward McGlynn Gaffney, with a full-page presentation inscription commending India's struggle for independence: "Edward McGlynn Gaffney, March 2, 1923, Presented to Syud Hossain with the fond hope that the sterling Americanism expressed by these men of America's past may someday find expression in deeds of service to India in her struggle for freedom." Dr Syud Hossain (1888-1949) was instrumental in forging links between American-based Indian nationalists and the Indian National Congress. A co-founder of the National Committee for Indian Independence (headquartered in Washington, DC), Hossain spearheaded the Indian lobby for self-rule from abroad. "Immaculately dressed, polished in manners, brilliant in oratory, Hossain captivated his audiences from coast to coast", said A. K. Mozumdar, a colleague and fellow activist of Hossain. The Los Angeles Times described him as "the most distinguished Indian visitor in America since Tagore", while according to the New York-based Foreign Policy Association, "of the hundreds of speakers who have addressed our conferences during the past five years, none were more brilliant or authoritative than Mr Hossain". - In September 1945, Hossain suggested to Jawaharlal Nehru that he return to India to work towards Hindu-Muslim harmony and stand for elections. After consulting Asaf Ali and Gandhi, Nehru cabled back: "Gandhiji thinks you can do more important work in America". Hossain briefly served as India's first ambassador to Egypt, where he died in 1949. - The popular California Senator Edward McGlynn Gaffney (Democrat) enjoyed election continuously from 1940 to 1962. - Extremities rubbed; contents clean and crisp. Cf. Chakrabartii, J. N. (ed). Dr Syud Hossain: A Glimpse of his Life, Speeches & Writings (Calcutta, 1960); Gould, Harold. Sikhs, Swamis, Students and Spies: the India Lobby in the United States, 1900-1946 (New Delhi, 2006).
12mo. (8), 303, (1) pp. Contemporary full calf with prettily giltstamped spine and morocco spine label. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. The rare first edition of one of the major works of mercantilism, with many valuable suggestions for improvements to the Austrian economy. First published anonymously, the work soon achieved great popularity and by 1784 had been reprinted some fifteen times. It was, however, never translated (and Carpenter explains that "one need look no further than the title to ascertain one of the reasons"). - Binding rubbed, extremeties bumped. Some browning throughout as common. The lower third of fol. G12 has been torn away; the text has been supplied in the early 20th century on an inserted folding slip of typescript paper. - Provenance: from the library of the noted economist Oskar Morgenstern (1902-77) with his pencil ownership to flyleaf. In collaboration with the mathematician John von Neumann, the German-born Morgenstern, who taught at Princeton University, founded the mathematical field of game theory and its application to economics. Kress 1599. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 02552.1. Humpert 82. Carpenter VI, 14. Holzmann/Bohatta III, 7550. OCLC 20890604. Cf. Higgs 674.
Folio (215 x 345 mm). 2 vols. (10), (10) pp. Contemporary papered spines. Rare documents of political persecution in Germany's "Vormärz" period: two addenda to the 1835 escapee list published by the German police, containing signalments of a total of 63 wanted men. For each they state the occupation, charge, date of flight, probable location, personal description, and the date they were first posted as wanted. Charges include participation in "subversive societies", the 1833 "charge of the Frankfurt guard house", membership in fraternities, and "offences against censorship". - The lists of wanted men include several familiar names, such as the naturalist Ernst Dieffenbach, the theologian Karl Hundeshagen, the politicians Friedrich Ernst Schlutter and August Ludwig von Rochau, the historian Wilhelm Obermüller, and the educator Georg Geilfus, as well as a whole series of men from Georg Büchner's circle, including his friends Christian Kriegk, Hermann Wiener, Wilhelm Braubach, Carl and Gustav Soldan, the printer Carl Preller, the physician Carl Theodor Stamm, and the revolutionary Ludwig Rosenstiel. The persecution extends to Büchner's "Society for Human Rights", the literary group "Junges Deutschland", and participants in the 1832 Hambach Festival. - Büchner, who died in exile in Zurich on 19 February 1837, had already been cited in the original list of 1835. Here, the second addendum states that "according to official reports received, the escapees Büchner and Hahmann have died". Similarly, the deaths of Ludwig Börne in Paris and of the revolutionary Eduard Scriba in Liverpool are recorded. - Both the 1835 list and the present addenda from 1836 and 1838 are exceptionally rare: while KVK and OCLC cite four copies of the 1835 list (two each in the Austrian National Library and in the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg), a single additional copy is known of the 1836 addendum (in the Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen), and none at all of the 1838 addendum. - Traces of vertical folding; insignificant browning.
Large 4to. 4 parts in 2 vols., bound in one. 288 pp. 287, (1) pp. Printed in double columns. Contemporary green half calf over marbled boards with giltstamped title to spine. Third collected edition of a principal journal of the Italian enlightenment, "The Coffeehouse", modelled on the English periodical "The Spectator". It was published by the "Società dei pugni" (Society of Fists), members of which included the Milanese brothers Pietro (1728-97) and Alessandro Verri (1741-1816), the philosopher Cesare Beccaria (1738-94) and the mathematician Paolo Frisi (1728-84). Covering a large range of subjects, the journal's emphasis was on economics and public policy. It did not enjoy a long life: the first issue appeared in June 1764 (at Brescia to avoid censorship), the last in May 1766. The first collected edition appeared as early as 1765-66 in Brescia, and a second one in Venice in 1766. In 1764, the year that "Dei delitti e delle pene" was published, Beccaria contributed to one of the first issues an article on the relationship between tariffs and smuggling ("Tentativo analitico su i contrabbandi", vol. 1, pp. 122f.). This essay has been recognized by various authors as an important early contribution to mathematical economics and is been treated at length by Reghinos Theocharis. Beccaria posed the problem of a smuggler desirous to compute the risks of his profession. He attempts to express in algebraic formulae the relations between the value of goods purchased by the smuggler, the value of goods left after part of the goods have been seized by customs, and the value of the confiscated goods. This article "intended to convey a slight idea of how economic science may be considered analytically". Beccaria reasoned that algebra is "a precise and quick method of reasoning about quantities, which can be applied not only to geometry or mathematics but also to economic problems". While the articles are signed with an initial only, the present edition includes a publisher's note which resolves their identities. Both volumes have also an added leaf with a systematic table of contents. - Occasional foxing. Two old stamps to title of first part, and another to title of the third. Kress B.4775. Einaudi 6161 (the original journal). OCLC locates reprint editions only. Schumpeter p.179. Theocharis pp. 21-24. Bousquet p. 43. New Palgrave I, 218f. (Beccaria).
12mo (105 x 172 mm). XI, (1), 201, (1) pp., final blank leaf. Printed on strong wove paper. Contemporary giltstamped red morocco with gilt fleur-de-lys borders, arms of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre to both covers, and spine-title. Leading edges gilt, inner dentelle gilt. Blue silk endpapers. Leading edges gilt. All edges gilt. Only edition of "considerably rare little work" (cf. Saffroy) in connection with the great project of re-establishing the brotherhood of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. Includes a history of the order as well as its statutes and a list of the knights active between 1740 and 1815. - The history of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre is a complex one, involving several attempts at institutionalization as well as competition in the form of confraternities since the Middle Ages. The order founded by St Louis in 1254 lasted until 1792, and included as ex-officio members several Princes of the Blood. From 1814, the Count Allemand, general administrator of the Order of Malta for France, worked to revive the brotherhood: he obtained an informal approval from Louis XVIII, but saw his efforts foiled by the opposition of Chateaubriand. - The title of general administrator, which Allemand bore at the time of the publication of the work, has been stricken from his name in ink (on the title-page as well as on pp. XI, 1 and 199) by a hand indicating his successor, Count Jacques-Louis-François Delaistre de Tilly, an officer of the Ancien Régime who became a general of the Empire. Tilly's name and title are added by hand at the bottom of the list of knights (p. 201). - Slight foxing to velin stock. A fine copy in a charming, richly gilt luxury binding. Rarely seen at auction. Saffroy 6300. OCLC 1067878144.
8vo. 248 pp. With 58 steel-engraved plates. Splendidly decorated beige satin binding (ca 1855), covers with brocade initials and coloured floral ornaments. Moirée silk endpapers; edges goffered and gilt. Extremely attractive, well-preserved satin binding showing the monogram of the Virgin Mary on the upper cover and the Empress's crowned, elaborately ornamented initial "E" on the lower cover. A lace-bordered leaf (H. Bertou) with a meticulous handwritten dedication in red and brown ink is inserted before the half-title: "Ad Elisabetta Amalia Graziosissima Imperatrice d'Austria [...] Per L'Augusto Consorte pei Figli diletti". - Occasional foxing to interior; the splendid binding is perfectly preserved. OCLC 557055399.
8vo. (6), 504 pp. With engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary full vellum with ornamental gilt tooling (oxydized) to both covers and spine; traces of cloth ties. All edges gilt and sparsely goffered. Rare account of the life of Tamerlane (Timur), the successful and barbaric 14th-century Turkish conqueror, based strongly on Arabic sources. Jean du Bec (1540-1610) was Bishop of St-Malo. He had visited the Middle East sometime before he became Abbé de Mortemer in 1578 and was so introduced to an Arabic history of Timur by an author referred to as "Alhacen", which was translated for him by an Arab who knew Italian. His book was first published at Rouen in 1595, shortly after Timur was once more made famous in the West through Christopher Marlowe's play "Tamburlaine" (1590). - Old ink ownership and small red Chinese collection stamp to title-page. Front pastedown shows armorial bookplate of the Esterházy de Galántha family's library at Nordkirchen castle near Münster, owned by the Esterházys between 1833 and 1903. A good, clean copy. Brunet II, 846. Graesse I, 319. Cf. Cordier III, 1926 (English translation in Purchas His Pilgrimes).
Folio (245 x 328 mm). (2), XXIV, 25-76, 686, (2), XL pp. With an engr. frontispiece and engraved title vignettes, both in contemporary hand colour and raised in gilt, 4 (instead of 6) engraved plates (portrait of Caesar; fortifications; 2 double-page plates showing Germanic tribes and a triumphal procession), 54 engravings and maps in the text, and 38 engraved vignettes and initials. Printed within engraved borders throughout (the Lion of St Mark and the three pillars of St Mark's Square in Venice). Letterpress printed in two columns, with Latin and Italian in parallel text. Later half vellum over marbled boards with giltstamped spine title. Splendidly illustrated large-paper edition, in Latin and Italian parallel text, of Caesar's war commentaries. The Civil War and the Alexandrine War led him to Egypt and the Near East (parts of Palestine, Arabia Petraea and Arabix Felix are shown in one of the maps). The coloured frontispiece shows the triumphant commander at work writing while surveying the conquered provinces. The beautiful illustrations are taken from those in Samuel Clarke's 1712 edition, "engraved by the greatest English artists at the expense of several wealthy Englishmen" (cf. Schweiger). Translated by Fr. Baldinelli with improvements by Palladio. A second part, announced on the title page, was to contain variant readings from a manuscript of Cardinal Bessarion, but was never published. - This is very likely a test print for the dedication copy on vellum that was produced for the Venetian government library, which differs noticeably from the paper version in being larger and more elaborately decorated. Two such vellum copies are known, one in the Bibliotheca Smithiana (cf. Brunet and Bib. Smithiana II, 83), the other in the Marciana: "Esemplare di dedica, in pergamena densa [...] dell'alt. di mill. 328 su 231 di largh., proporzioni superiori, per ampiezza di margine, a quelle del cartaceo. Ma non è questo il solo termine di differenza, dacché nel membranaceo sono miniate l'incisione dell'antiporta rappresentante Cesare [...]; la medaglia incisa nella vignetta del frontispizio ad onore del conte Enrico Collalto [...]; e sono pure adornati due margini del frontispizio col leone alato, con un ruscello, coi tre pili della piazza su cui vedonsi inalberate le tre bandiere col ritratto del doge Pisani. Manca pure agli esemplari cartacei fra le pagine XVI-XVII l'incisione in rame del busto di Cesare [...]. Il fregio a tempera dei margini del frontispizio [...] si ripete inciso in rame su tutte le pagine dell'esemplare membranaceo" (Libri Membranacei a Stampa Della Biblioteca Marciana, p. 129-131). The present copy very much agrees with the Marciania's description, save for the fact that the pagination is not precisely identical: the present copy on paper has an longer Latin index and an additional Italian index at the end. Lacks two plates; pages 41*-44* are not repeated as they are in some copies (though not in that in the Marciana). Rebacked edge flaws to frontispiece and title page; some rather pronounced waterstaining near the beginning, but overall a beautiful, unusually wide-margined copy with charmingly coloured title and frontispiece. Ebert 3298. Brunet I, 1461. Krieg, MNE I, 123. Schweiger II, 47. OCLC 4537995. ICCU UBOE\002198.
Folio (242 x 350 mm). (3), 58 ff. With woodcut illustrations and initials, small woodcut map of the world above colophon. - (Bound after) II: Teti, Carlo. Discorsi delle fortificationi, espugnationi, & difese delle città, & d'altri luoghi. Vicenza, Giacomo de' Franceschi, 1617. (2), 210 pp. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations (some double-page), 3 folding woodcut plates, with blank leaves. Contemporary English calf, blue edges. Capobianco's work on artillery was first published in 1598 and was the first book to recommend the use of cartridges in cannons which would supersede the difficult, tedious and dangerous earlier method of loading with loose powder. Also interesting for the description of a remarkable measuring instrument, consisting of five component parts, invented by the author. Capobianco was captain of artillery for Crema and he demonstrates knowledge of Tartaglia's work on ballistics. The woodcuts show for the most part cannons and their construction, their correct positions for the bombardment of certain targets, and plans of fortifications. - II: Teti's treatise on military engineering was first published in 1569, and again in 1589, with additions. This profusely illustrated issue contains all eight books. Teti served the Emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II; the Hungarian fortifications at Érsekújvár, Nagykanizsa and Komarom were designed by him. Additionally, he served as a tutor to the Saxon Prince Elector Christian I and was employed by the Medici of Florence and the Dukes of Savoy. - Binding professionally repaired. With contemporary ownership of "Francisco Drake" to flyleaf and title-pages. Latterly in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research (purchased from Pickering & Chatto, 14 November 1901, £1-4s). Cockle 673 & 776. USTC 4031756 & 4029522.
8vo. 8 vols. With engraved frontispiece and a total of 130 folding plates (several in the 6th volume loose). Contemporary marbled boards with giltstamped spine labels. All edges sprinkled in red. Final, most extensive edition of this compendium of 18th century science, compiled by the naturalist Gianmaria della Torre (1710-82), a Somascan Father and professor of physics in Naples. The first two volumes treat general physics, the others are dedicated to special fields, including thermometry, geophysics and minerals, metals, magnetism, earthquakes and volcanism, electricity, hydrophysics with rivers and ice, hydraulics as well as navigation; botany, animal life, the human body, anatomy; atmospheric phenomena and the perception of sound, light, colours, optics, etc. Of particular interest are the numerous engraved illustrations, showing not only instruments and experiments, but also maps of the Old and New World (Europe, Africa, Asia, America), the Torne River on Finland's Arctic Circle, the English Channel, crystals, volcanoes (with several views of Vesuvius and its latest eruptions), pumps and pumping stations, diving bells, etc. "Della Torre was a man of wide culture and of wide scientific curiosity. His studies led him into the history of philosophy, optics, and microscopy [...]; in addition, he observed and recorded eruptions of Vesuvius [... His] most important work, however, was as an encyclopedist. His two-volume work, 'Scienza della natura' (Naples, 1748-1749; [...] a considerably enlarged Neapolitan edition appeared in 1767-1780 as 'Elementa physicae'), anticipated the more famous 'Encyclopédie' the publication of which began in 1751. [... Della Torre's 'Elementa'] presents a complete and ordered picture of the state of scientific knowledge in its time. Although Della Torre's work is almost forgotten today, he was strongly influential in establishing the scientific climate of 18th-century Italy" (DSB). - Bindings rubbed and bumped; variously brownstained and waterstained; a few plates loose; unappealing old collector's stamps to title pages. Almost never encountered complete (as thus): no copy in auction records internationally; even libraries rarely hold more than four or six volumes, while the eighth and last volume is almost never present (nine-volume sets - such as those in the libraries of Benevento and Veroli - collect all the illustrations into a single volume of plates). DSB IV, 26. Poggendorff II, 1118 ("9 vols."). OCLC 883699282. Cf. Engelmann (Bibl. hist.-nat.) 198 (first ed.).
Mit 45 Original-Fotos (90:90 mm). Dunkelblauer Buckramband der Zeit. 8vo (140:175 mm). Die Photographien stammen wohl von Draga selbst oder einem Hobby-Photographen ihrer Entourage, was die klar erkennbar ungeübte Hand vermuten lässt. Die Aufnahmen zeigen Draga, einige ihrer Begleitpersonen, ihre Villa, Promenaden, Kutschen, Strände und Buchten sowie Einheimische. Eine der Aufnahmen, die eine kleine Gruppe beim Verlassen eines Hotels oder dergleichen zeigen dürfte, weist eine interessante Doppelbelichtung auf. - Dem serbischen Königspaar sollte noch mehrere unbeschwerte Jahre vergönnt sein; im Juni 1913 fielen beide einer Verschwörung von Offizieren zum Opfer und wurden bestialisch ermordet. - Beiliegend eine vom Hersteller beigefügte Benützungsanleitung des Albums in französischer Sprache. Die Photographien teilweise ausgeblichen; der Einband gering berieben.
2 Teile in einem Band. (8), 268, (28) SS. (20), 287, (25) SS. Mit 4 (2 versch.) Druckermarken. Blind- und goldgepr. Lederband der Zeit über Holzdeckeln mit Resten von 2 Schließen, datiert "1604". Folio (225:354 mm). Erste Ausgabe dieser bedeutenden Sammlung der böhmischen Geschichtsschreiber, besorgt von dem 1565 in Augsburg geborenen, 1614 in Heidelberg verstorbenen Juristen, Historiker und Diplomaten Marquard Freher. Als zweiter Teil beigegeben sind die Kommentare des Olmützer Bischofs Johannes Dubravius (1486-1553), hier erstmals mit dessen "Oratio ad Turcam debellandum exhortatoria" an den polnischen König Sigismund. - Etwas gebräunt und fleckig, sonst wohlerhaltenes Exemplar aus dem Besitz des böhmischen Gelehrten Johann Chorinus (1561-1606), "Magister der Philosophie, Professor an der Karolinischen Universität, und einer der vorzüglichsten lateinischen Dichter Böhmens" (G. J. Dlabacz, Johann Chorinus [Prag 1821], S. 3). Das zweite Vorsatzblatt trägt verso ein zwölfzeiliges Widmungsgedicht von seiner Hand an seinen Kollegen Johannes Tetaurius (Svinczanus), datiert März 1606, nur kurz vor Chorinus' Tod im Mai. Am Titel finden sich der Kaufvermerk Chorinus' sowie vier wenig spätere Besitzvermerke. Auf den Vorsätzen und in den Texträndern weitere, teils ausführliche Notizen bzw. Marginalien, überwiegend von einer einzigen Hand (möglicherweise die des Tetaurius). Der schöne Widmungseinband trägt vorn das Reichswappen, hinten den böhmischen Löwen, vorn zudem den blindgeprägten Aufdruck "Chorinnus / Vendidit / Iohan. Tetaur / Anno 1606". Stärker berieben und bestoßen, kleine Schabstelle im Lederbezug des Hinterdeckels, sonst schön erhaltenes Widmungsexemplar. Dahlmann/W. 1005. Ebert 7897. Graesse II, 632 & 439. VD 17, 23:318613P.
4to. 154 pp. With folding table after p. 130. 19th century blue boards with cloth spine and handwritten label. First and only edition. A project for a loan-office, based upon the principles of probability developed by Leonhard Euler. Published simultaneously in French as "Eclaircissemens sur les etablissements publics en faveur tant des veuves que des morts", for which - according to his present preface - Fuß had done the calculations. Fuß was a Swiss mathematician who, recommended by Daniel Bernoulli, moved to Russia to become Euler's assistant and in 1800 secretary of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. As from page 83: "Analytischer Anhang die Auflösung der in obigem Entwurf einer allgemeinen Leihe-Bank vorkommenden Aufgaben enthaltend". - Removed from the Tbilisi Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory with their cancelled lithographic bookplate to the inside front cover; Georgian stamp to first free endpaper and to page 17. Humpert 6798. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi.