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179122592London: J.W. Tomkins 1791. Very good. Stipple engraved plate image size 19.5 x 25 cm. mounted on board. J.W. Tomkins unknown books
177225506European Origin: Various 1772. These two plates only from the Encyclopedie of Diderot; depicts the public bathing facilities with women's and men's sections. Approx. 15 1/2" x 18 1/2" size overall; double-page plates. Old center-fold lines; light edge tips wear couple of tiny spots; top corner chipped away a little; in very good condition. Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Various paperback books
1785EPL107London 1785. Paperback. Near Fine. Printed scripts of Syriac Armenian Arabic Samaritan Gothic Coptic Ethiopic Etruscan Saxon etc. Variations of English Greek and Hebrew and a leaf of floral devices with music and ship imprints on verso. Interesting specimen for those interested in typographic history. Size: 401 x 255mm. <br/><br/> paperback books
1725358341725. A singing master stands in front of a large open choir book using a pointer to guide a small group of adults and children in song. Image size 50 x 85 mm sheet size 153 x 105 mm. On laid paper.<br/><br/>Extracted from Orbis sensualium picti pars prima secunda der sichtbaren Welt an instructional book for children first published in 1658 with editions extending up to ca. 1730. <br/><br/>Slightly worn; hinged to mat at upper margin of verso. unknown books
1739WRCLIT64483London: Printed for T. Reynolds 1739. 8pp. Folio. Later boards. Some pencil annotations in the text boards a bit soiled otherwise very good. First edition. An anonymous poem on the modern peers identified by Foxon as possibly by the same author as BRITANNIA'S PRECUATION 1741 and THE HIBERNIAN POLITICIANS 1740 someone "possibly named Gardiner." FOXON S354. ROTHSCHILD 221. ESTC T4631. Printed for T. Reynolds hardcover books
1701WRCLIT74727London: Printed by W. Norton for Edw. Pawlett 1701. 2267-3388pp. Small octavo. Contemporary black morocco elaborately decorated in blind with a variety of devices within ruled frames colorful pastepaper endleaves. Text framed in red. Extremities a bit rubbed some browning; a good copy the binding attractive and sound. An extract from Pawlett's edition of THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN with separate title-leaf but with register and pagination contiguous with the larger work. ESTC locates one copy of the complete work at Cornell. The extraction and binding most likely represents a personal choice by the original purchaser for ease of use. ESTC N35761. Printed [by W. Norton] for Edw. Pawlett unknown books
176028380France 1760. 1 vols. ca. 10 1/2 x 16 inches unfolded. Broadside. Folded some discoloration and marginal spotting else very good. 1 vols. ca. 10 1/2 x 16 inches unfolded. An unaccomplished form giving pertinent information including name son of native of jurisdiction of province of age that size is in the area of 5 feet hair eyes and that not and legs are well-made and the salary promised. unknown books
179323161Boston Massachusetts: Belknap and Ball 1793. 12 324 2 pages contents at back; including a portrait of Della Crusca and another of Anna Matilda both engraved by Sam. Hill Boston; 2 title pages one which describes this as the First American Edition from the Fourth London Edition; mostly short poetic pieces originally edited by Edward Topham; credited to Robert Merry Hannah Cowley Miles Peter Andrews Edward Jerningham others; printed at the Apollo Press Boston; approximately 4 1/2" x 6 3/4" size; previous ownership name-stamp of Mary G. Clark; bound in full contemporary polished tree-calf leather; spine with gilt decorations; much edge tips wear rubbing to boards worn binding split in half; lacks title label on spine; no front free blank endpaper; portraits darkened with the tissue guard of Anna Matilda having a tracing of the figure in line; some foxing soil and discoloration of leaves; in good condition. First American Edition. Leather. Good. Belknap and Ball books
175727045Venetiis: Laurentium Basilium 1757. 22 536; 591-621 pagination mis-numbered content consecutive 1 pages Catalogus Laurentium Basilium. Frontispiece portrait illustration of the author; woodcut title chapter & tailpiece ornaments. Latin text with occasional Greek. The works of Hermann Boerhaave 1668 - 1738 Dutch physician associated with the Univ. of Leiden; appointed ".the chair of practical medicine and in this capacity he had the merit of introducing the modern system of clinical instruction. Four years later he was appointed also to the chair of chemistry." see Encyc. Brit. 11th ed. Including: Institutiones medicae; Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis; Libellus de materie medica; De lue aphrodisiaca sive venerea; Atrocis nec descripti prius morbi historia; Atrocis rarissimique morbi historia altera; De fabrica glandularum in corpore humano; De mercurio experimenta; Orationes octo; De utilitate explorandorum in aegris excrementorum ut signorum; Introductio in praxin clinicam; Praelectiones de calculo; De distinctione mentis a corpore; Horti Ludguno-Batavi descriptio. Title page with the owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894 and with his small number-ticket on front endpaper. Approx. 7 1/4" x 9 1/2" size bound in later 19th century marbled-paper covered boards dark brown leather corners & spine gilt fleuron decorations & titles marbled endpapers. A little edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding; frontispiece illustration laid-down; first few leaves with a few tiny wormholes no loss to text; front endpapers with surface paper scrapes at bottom edges; an ink name below the portrait; block strongly bound; in very good condition. . First Edtion Thus. Leather. Very Good. Laurentium Basilium books
172026935Lugduni Batavorum: Samuelem Luchtmans 1720. 64 215 57 pages; title page printed in red & black; a few woodcut initial ornaments & tailpieces; Latin text throughout. Title page with the small previous ownership stamp of collector Dr. George R. Brush U.S. Navy; served as a surgeon and medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 5" x 7 1/2" size; bound in green marbled cover boards dark green morocco leather spine gilt decorated and with gilt spine titles; marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the cover base of spine covering scraped; contents fresh and clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Illustration. Very Good. Samuelem Luchtmans paperback books
179542915Louth 1795. White rag paper bottom and fore-edge deckled. Black printed text. Two fold lines; occasional loss to fold lines minimally affecting text; light general wear and toning. VG. Bifolium. 2 unnumbered pages of printed text; title printed to verso of second leaf else second leaf blank. 9-3/4" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>Auction catalogue from the 1795 sale of 38 lots of the freehold estate owned by the late Charles Chaplin Esq. with manuscript prices and related notes in pencil and ink in a contemporary hand throughout. Occasional pencil notations and markings correct the printed acreage estimates of some lots. The Chaplins were members of the upper gentry and influential landowners in Lincolnshire. When the Louth Navigation -- a canal running from Louth in Lincolnshire to Tetney Haven at the mouth of the Humber -- was completed in 1770 Charles Chaplin managed to secure a 99 year lease of the tolls despite the terms of the canal's Act of Parliament limiting such leases to just seven years. The Louth Navigation Trust per the Louth Canal website notes that control and management of the tolls became "virtually hereditary" and led to considerable commercial opposition to the Chaplins and their political influence by the 1820s. The catalog includes columns for "Names of Plots &c."; "Acres by Estimation"; "State of Land"; and "Occupiers." Anyone wishing to view the premises is encouraged to apply to one Mr. J. Curtis of Saltfleetry. unknown books
1796824001796. SERMONS AMERICAN - 18TH CENTURY A COLLECTION OF FIVE SERMONS INCLUDING A DIRGE AND A MONODY BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. All published in eastern Massachusetts Boston and Salem 1767-1796. Detailed descriptions of the sermons in this volume appear below. Small quarto: 21 cm. 175 pp. in total. Four of five half-titles are present. Early ownership of Charles Lowell in three of the sermons. Text leaves are mostly clean but for the last sermon which is lightly foxed and lightly toned throughout and the paper quality is very good overall. A few leaves in the first sermon show slight wear at the top-edge but nothing serious and one leaf has marginal loss at top fore-corner without loss of text. In a handsome modern binding of marbled boards with a black calf shelfback in fine condition. TUCKER John. Ministers of the Gospel as spiritual Guides to their people to be remembered by them after their Decease; and to their good Instructions and Example to be followed. Two discourses occasioned by the death of the Rev. Mr. John Lowell late pastor of the Congregational Church in Newbury-Port; who departed this life May 15th 1767. In the 64th year of his age. Delivered to the Christian society there on the Lord's Day June 7th after his decease. By John Tucker A. M. Pastor of the First Church in Newbury. Boston New-England: Printed by Thomas & John Fleet for Bulkeley Emerson of Newbury-Port 1767. 36 pp. Ownership of Charles Lowell in pencil on half-title and in ink on title-page. Evans 10791 Sabin 97317. THACHER Peter and Thomas Welsh. A Sermon Preached at Charlestown June 19 1796 and occasioned by the sudden death of the Honourable Nathaniel Gorham Esquire aet. 59. By Peter Thacher D.D. Minister of a Church in Boston. And An Eulogy Delivered June 29 1796 at the Meeting-House in Charlestown in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in memory of the Honourable Nathaniel Gorham Esquire who died June 11 1796. By Doctor Thomas Welsh Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Boston: Printed by Samuel Hall. 1796. 251151 pp. The final page is a "A Dirge to the Memory of the Honourable Nathaniel Gorham Esq. by the Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris set to Music by Mr. Olifer Holden" printing only the lyrics but no. unknown books
179227105A Gand: Chez P.F. De Goesin Imprimeur De Sa Majeste Pour Le Comte De Flandre 1792. 2 1 blank 2 161 1 pages. With two folding charts of temperature measurements and of the length of time of previous ice ages. Text in French; as is also a bound-in manuscript note in ink regarding a meteorological observation made 1798-99; not signed. Contents regarding the historical progression of ice ages and theories of their prediction and periodicity. Title page with the small oval stamp 'Ex Libris de Cayrol': collector Louis Nicolas Jean Joachim de Cayrol 1775-1859 French political & military figure; also with small previous owner stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D. in the U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Volume approx. 5 1/4" x 8 3/4" size. bound in marbled paper covered boards red textured cloth spine; gilt spine titles marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear & rubbing to the binding; couple of tiny chips to the surface of the spine cloth; a few leaves with dampstain in bottom gutter; in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Chez P.F. De Goesin, Imprimeur De Sa Majeste, Pour Le Comte De Flandre hardcover books
180029670Venise: Joseph Remondini & Fils 1800. 285 x 250 mm. wide margins. <br/><br/>A scene inspired by the letters of Lady May Wortley Montague 1689-1762 whose writings "address and challenge the hindering contemporary social attitudes towards women and their intellectual and social growth." Wikipedia. <br/><br/>Minor soiling.<br/><br/>A very good impression on laid paper. Rare. No copies located in the online catalogues of the Austrian National Library the Albertina the British Museum or the Victoria & Albert Museum. Joseph Remondini & Fils unknown books
1781D8826Venice / Naples: Antonio Graziosi / Per Vincenzo Mazzola-Vocola 1788 / 1781. Hardcover. Very Good. Morandis rare treatise on operative midwifery with Rastrellis even rarer work on wisdom and morals. MORANDI Antonio fl. 18th century. Trattato Universale Teorico e Pratico dei Parti necessario alle mammane ai chirurghi ed ai medici. Venice: Antonio Graziosi 1788. 8vo 190 x 120mm. v-xxx 399 pages; lacks 2 blanks at beginning. Bound with: RASTRELLI Giovanni Ranieri. Documenti morali e civili da un padre diretti al suo figlio. Naples: Per Vincenzo Mazzola-Vocola 1781. xii 80 pages. Oval portrait of Rastrelli signed by Joseph Tronus. Woodcut chapter head- and tail-pieces throughout. Near contemporary Italian vellum edges speckled; contents clean only some slight foxing at front and back of volume. Few lines of contents written in Italian script on front free endpaper and signed G. Viparelli on title. <br/><br/>The rise of obstetrics in the early modern period had a mixed effect on midwifery. Some midwives clung to their traditional ways. Others embraced the new science and sought retraining. National policies also shaped the contours of midwifery practice. Overall the art of midwifery could no longer be considered a subdivision of medicine but must be regarded as a branch of surgery requiring a thorough knowledge of surgical principles. The title of this work does not indicate its comprehensiveness; it is more than an operative midwifery for it includes much that belongs to a general treatise on the subject. Rastrellis work and portrait cannot be found elsewhere suggesting it is commonly an addition to texts and the title translated is a moral and civil work directed by a father to his son. Rastrelli was a noted poet in the latter half of the 18th century. While both parts are exceedingly rare the first is only located at the Wellcome Library and the Biblioteca della Fondazione Biblioteca San Bernandino in Italy. Antonio Graziosi / Per Vincenzo Mazzola-Vocola hardcover books
1711216118London: Printed for Eben Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1711. 1 vols. 12mo. Advertisement leaf laid down as backing of terminal leaf p. 191 with some old paper reinforcements obscuring part of the headline and a few letters. Book is bound in half calf worn with numerous contemporary signatures William Bliss Mary Rotten etc. and pen starts on verso of title and frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. Bookseller's Nostrum 'from Chili in America'. Advertisement<br/>There is lately brought from Chili in America a most excellent natural Balsam far exceeding that of Peru and Tokay in curing most Diseases in human Bodies. Tis a Remedy no Man under the Sun can compose as being a most Odoriferous and Natrual Balsam. It cures all Pains proceeding from Cold corroborates the Stomach creates an Appetite and strengthens the whole Body : It is a wonderful Remedy for all internal Sores Bruises Ulcers &c. and mightily helps all Asthmatical Distempers: 'Tis also a great Cephalick helping most Diseases of the Head and strengthening the Brain and Nerves : It kills the Worm provokes Urine and is good against the Stone; helps all Fluxes of the Belly is excellent in all Diseases of the Ears especially Deafness : It also cures all manner of green Wounds.<br/>Not It is only to be had of Eben Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-bridge at 1 S 6 d. the Ounce; the Bottles are Seal'd with the Balsam-tree. Printed for Eben Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge unknown books
1735D6963Venice: ex Typographia Balleoniana 1735. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 375 x 240mm. xxiv 572pp. 4 208pp. Title in red and black with ornamental device of the muses. Diagrams interspersed numerous ornamental initials and head-and tail-pieces. Preface by Jacopo Grando. Contemporary vellum lacking plate joints splitting intermittent foxing. Ownership inscription A. Docinelli A. M. D. 1864 on title and also Di Giorgio Bonelli da Mondovi. P.P. Pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on pastedown. <br/><br/>Complete medical works of Rivière. The complete medical works of Lazare Rivière 1589-1655 professor at Montpellier consists of the Institutiones medicae together with the Praxeos medicae and an additional 17 parts on the head the sense organs the teeth the thorax and abdomen the joints womens illnesses and fevers. Also included are 400 observations by the author approximately 250 communicated to him by fellow physicians and finally the Arcana a collection of secrets giving the chemical formulae for a large number of preparations together with their medicinal properties. At the end separately paginated is added a treatise on the symptoms cause and cure of respiratory problems by Fabrizio Bartoletti 1586-1630. Rivière was the first to introduce the therapy of using metallic compounds internally known as the spagiric or paracelsian-specific method and the first to note aortic constriction. Rivières work was instrumental in the French Renaissance of medicine. ex Typographia Balleoniana hardcover books
177726884London England: Printed for the Company of Stationers 1777. Twenty-two issues of this yearly British almanac bound in one volume; consecutive and inclusive from the 1777 issue to 1797. These are printed in red & black have the tax stamps on the margins of the title pages and are of 32 pages' length with exceptions or notes as below: 1782: On page 31 the section "VI Rebus by Mr. R. Richardson of Frosterly" has been solved with the manuscript letters & names of clues neatly written at the margins. 1786: pgs 1-2 15-32; However another issue is bound after this incomplete issue that is entire in 48 pages. These almanacs are noted on the title pages as printed for the Company of Stationers; and this "extra" issue is noted on the title page as "Printed for T. Carnan in St. Paul's Church Yard; who after an expensive Suit in Law and Equity by the unanimous Opinion of the Judges of the Court of Common Please dispossessed the Stationers' Company of their pretended exclusive Privilege of Printing Almanacks which they had usurped for two Centuries; a convincing Proof that no unjust Monopoly will ever stand the Test of an English Court of Justice." 1788: pgs 1-2 15-32 only. 1793 Misbound pages out of order and complete 32 pages. 1795: A name of "Old Batholomew" has been added in ms. at the 4th Sept. in the monthly almanac pages section. 1797 pgs 1-16 only. "The existence of the Ladies' Diary or the Woman's Almanack an 18th century English magazine devoted largely to problems and puzzles in mathematics indicates that stereotypes about the inability of women to understand and enjoy mathematics were less strongly believed in the 18th century than they are today.The Ladies' Diary became one of the widely read 18th century magazines devoted to the popularization of science and mathematics; these were addressed mainly to readers with no specialized training in the subjectsThe Ladies' Diary differed from these others primarily in the language used in some of the problems--language which reminds the reader that the problems were addressed to women" from the excellent overview of the magazine its influence & impact by Teri Perl San Francisco State Univ. Historia Mathematica 6 1979 article on the 'Diary' Indecipherable by us previous owner name on back endpaper.Approx. 4" x 6 3/8" size; bound in marbled-paper covered boards leather corners edges tinted yellow; spine covering gone; wear to the edges tips of the binding; bottom cord of top board let go; the block still solidly sewn some edges trimmed close; contents generally clean and in good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Printed for the Company of Stationers hardcover books
175929663Paris: Basan 1759. 385 x 260 mm. Printed on laid paper. <br/><br/>The outdoor scene with trees and statuary depicts Caroline and Charlotte daughters of Frédéric Sluyter performing in a production of Pygmalion at the Schouwberg Theatre in Amsterdam. The dancer at left is on her right foot with arms outstretched costumed in a dress with a low rounded neckline pointed waistline and a wide panniered skirt; the dancer at right is on her left foot with arms outstretched wearing male attire including cocked hat frock coat with stiff flared skirt breeches and heeless shoes. <br/><br/>Browned; small stain to lower right corner. Scarce. NYPL: b12155632. BM 1854 0614.342.<br/><br/>Caroline and Charlotte Frédéric were part of a troupe of child performers active in Amsterdam in the 1760s. Basan unknown books
1751D11029Prague: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinand. Societat. Jesu ad S. Clem. 1751. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very rare Czech Jesuit imprint of Gottschlich’s ‘Viator per Fidem’ incorporating his dissertational work on dogma and exercising faith and published by Prague’s Clementinum Jesuit College in 1751. 8vo 165 x 100mm. 2 342 2 index. Title spreading over three pages with the dated Prague imprint below the line on first. Dedicated to Prokop Adalbert Count Czernin of Chudenices 1726-1777 head of one of the oldest and most influential Bohemian noble families. Woodcut initial and frieze at p. 1 vignette at p. 342 of angel holding bannered trumpet inscribed AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM. Contemporary calf spine with five raised bands; light edgewear faint foxing mostly in hinges and margins not severe and otherwise a clean copy. First edition of this extremely rare Czech Jesuit title Viator Per Fidem. which literally translates to “Traveler’s Faith.” One copy located in the National Library of the Czech Republic and digitally available through GoogleBooks. Another copy in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek classified as a theology dissertation. By explanation of the unusually lengthy title the book was written by Carolus Gottschlich as a part of his University research; the dogmatic work examined faith issues and their resolutions. Gottschlich was a Jesuit and university professor of humanities philosophy and theology. Little is known about his connection to the Clementinum although it can be surmised that he spent some part of his teaching career here which gained him access to the Jesuit College press. Gottschlich and his research contributors are almost all but forgotten to history. <br/><br/>Prague University was put under Jesuit administration in 1620 and eventually merged with the Clementinum in 1653 to form the Karl-Ferdinand University. From at least the middle of the 17th century the Jesuits kept a stronghold on higher education and the publishing industry in Prague. University rectors at Karl-Ferdinand University ruthlessly controlled the written word and imposed strict censorship on books which lasted well into the reforms of Joseph II in the 1780s. Gottschlich’s title is a rare survival given the fraught 18th-century publishing arena of Bohemian lands. The Viator per Fidem represents the lasting effects of Catholic patriotism and the significance of Jesuit influence on book publishing a significant part of Czech literary heritage. Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinand. Societat. Jesu ad S. Clem. hardcover books
1755D200Madrid: En la Imprenta del Mercurio 1755. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 318 x 496mm. 23 331pp. Contemporary limp vellum; text block loose from vellum front-free endpaper inscribed with date 1788 and creased spine damaged hinges loose. First Edition. Trincados important history of the popes kings and emperors of Rome Constantinople Germany France England and of many Spanish regions including Aragon Castile León Navarra and Castile. The Compendio historic also includes a significant description of the famous conquistador Cortès 1485-1547. The text is dedicated to entrepreneur Juan Fernandez de Isla y Alvear 1709-1788 and the dedication lists the works of Don Juan. The introduction in the Compendio provides valuable information on the contemporary economic history of the region of Cantabria Included are mention of the foundation of the shipyard Guarnizo and the opening of roads in the province to bring wood to build ships and establish factories in china soap paper flour and brandy. This is the first of seven editions that came out in the second half of the 18th century. <br/><br/> En la Imprenta del Mercurio hardcover books
179429828London: Anthy. Milteno 1794. St. Caecilia is seated at an organ with an open music book above the keyboard; two cherubs sing from a music book to her right. <br/><br/>The model for the painting was the singer/actress Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan née Elizabeth Ann Linley 1754-1792 daughter of the composer and conductor Thomas Linley 1733-1795. <br/><br/>370 x 280 mm. Printed on wove paper.<br/><br/>Some wear; minor chips tears and soiling to edges with remnants of former mount to upper right edge; some creasing; old paper repairs to verso; trimmed to just within plate impression. Anthy. Milteno unknown books
1764KC8048Venice: Remondini 1764. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 315 x 240mm. 38pp. I-XXXVIII. Finely printed with decorative chapter headings and tail-pieces. Engraved printerÂ’s device of Remondini depicting bishop with putti carrying crozier and miter. Engraved vignette of muses on dedication page. Decorative paper covered boards; some minor soiling or staining joint repaired on title verso lacking first and last blanks otherwise complete and in good form with good wide margins. <br/><br/>Collection of poetic essays in song of Sister Maria Theresa Crocefissa 1645-1699 an Augustinian nun from Venice known for her long orations printed by the Remondini press. In the 16th century Venice was the marketplace of the world. Its location on the lagoon and its unique connections with the sea distinguished it as a cosmopolitan center among the great cities of the Renaissance. In this larger context commerce and trade played a central role in the development and achievements of music printing. The subject of this work is poems written as canzones and sonettoes or songs and little songs of Sister Maria Crocefissa. From an early age Maria Crocefissa was devoted to long poetic orations. Soon she was also engaged in self-punitive actions including wearing a hairshirt. At the age of 23 she experienced her first religious ecstasies. During these periods of trance some lasting well over a week she regressed into a childlike state that left her completely paralyzed. The presence of Maria Crocefissa in her Augustinian convent of San Girolamo brought about a series of supernatural episodes and mysterious sightings which interested the public. While she was still alive her papers were widely published. This particular title of her poems addressed to Girolama Gaudio is of utmost rarity not located in a contemporary library collection or market worldwide. From the Remondini press who by the second half of the 18th century were employing more than a thousand people in the Bassano del Grappa with hundreds of others busy in their local paper mills and selling their products in scores of countries making them perhaps the biggest publishers in Europe. Between 1751 and 1790 Remondini were granted more licenses for books than all the other Venice booksellers put together. Printed matter was a luxury and the Remondini press was known to employ refined typographical features to suit the tastes of buyers. In this work attention is paid to the decorative elements initials and layout of each page. Remondini hardcover books
1709JC14459Amsterdam: Ex officina Wetsteniana 1709. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to 200 x 155mm. 32 index 728pp. Signatures: 1star-4star4 A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Zzz4 Aaaa-Yyyy4. Full-page engraved half-title of scene of busy hospital room with patients reclining in beds in background and ailing patient treated by group of physicians with herbs and bottled medicines. Title printed in red and black. Preface by Swiss editor and physician Johann Conrad Amman 1669-1724. Period half vellum blind stamped with arabesque to covers backed in calf of gilt-stamped spine with red morocco lettering label: AURELIANI DE MORBIS; binding slightly rubbed with few spots internally clean and complete. <br/><br/>Though Caelius Aurelius was a Latin translator of ancient Greek medical manuscripts philologists often discuss his work as if he was the original author. He was born in Sicca Numidia now in Algeria with a dubious start but almost certainly flourished as a Greco-Roman physician in the mid-fifth century. Caelius Aurelius is known by his Latin medical writings especially this translation of a now lost Greek medical textbook on diseases written by Soran of Ephesos and titled De Morbis Acutis & Chronicis or On Acute and Chronic Diseases. Both authors are considered to be the primary representatives of the secta methodici or Methodist school a Greek school of medicine whose texts gave access to and crucially reconstructed the rich medical teachings of the ancient world. The work De Morbis Acutis & Chronicis consists of two parts. The first part deals with fourteen acute diseases in three books and the second consists of five books and covers forty-four chronic diseases. This is widely regarded as the best edition of the Caelius Aureliuss work edited by Johann Conrad Amman and published in Amsterdam by Jacob de Wetstein in 1709; it was reprinted in 1722 1755 and 1759. This edition contains valuable annotations and a Lexicon Caelianum by the Dutch physician Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen 1657-1712. Aldus first published it in 1547 in a collection titled Medici Antiqui Omnes. This text is one of the most valuable in the field of pathology not only for describing a grant range of diseases including sections on psychiatry and neurology and their treatments famously prescribing sun-baths for chronic affections but that it also contains the foundation of contemporary Latin medical terminology rooted in the Greek language. Rare first edition far more common is the Amsterdam edition of 1722. Ex officina Wetsteniana hardcover books
1780SAV109Paris: Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné collection d'auteurs français pour Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois 1780. Hardcover. Good. 1780-1781. Sixteen volumes pocket 18mo 133 x 74mm. Printed on fine laid paper. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled French calf ruled in gilt with olive morocco lettering labels marbled endpapers gilt edges. This beautiful miniature set was executed at the solitary expense of the Count d'Artois 1757-1830 later Charles X of France and numbered in full 64 volumes; the aim of which collected various sets of French works in verse and prose. Influential Enlightenment writers were thus compiled here many of them French female authors and limited to an overall printing of 100 copies by the famed printer Didot of Paris. Consisting: 1 DE LA FAYETTE Madame 1634-1693. "Zayde." 1780. 3 vols. 156 135 and 166pp. A classic novel with stories on the political social and cultural communities of early modern Spain. 2 DAUCORT Claude Godard d'Aucour 1768-1826. "Le Berceau de la France." 1780. 2 vols. 175 and 152pp. Rare first published in 1744 as a history of French civilization. 3 RICCOBONI Marie-Jeanne 1714-1792. "l'Histoire d'Aloïse de Livarot." 1780. 77pp. 4RICCOBONI Marie-Jeanne 1714-1792. "Les Amours de Roger et de Gertrude." 1780. 79pp. 5 DUCLOS Charles Pinot 1704-1772. “Ismene and Ismenias. Roman Grec." 1780. 115pp. 6 TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Le Prince Gerard Comte de Nevers et la Belle Euriant sa mie." 1780. 171pp. 7 TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Histoire du petit Jehan de Saint." 1780. 182pp. 8TRESSAN Comte de 1705-1783. "Histoire de Tristan de Léonois." 1781. 212pp.9 DUCLOS Charles Pinot 1704-1772. "Confessions du comte de ." 1781. 2 vols. 129 and 128pp. First published in 1742 a popular "portrait gallery" of the illustrious French. 10 TENCIN Claudine Guérin de 1682-1749. "Le Siege de Calais.” 1781. 2 vols. 122 and 126pp. First published anonymously in 1739. 11ARNAUD François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d' 1718-1805. “Sargines.” 1781. 130pp. Good. Only light edgewear and some bumped corners slightest spots otherwise crisp and clean interior. The Count d'Artois friend to Marie Antoinette and lover of the arts sought to stimulate a renewal in fiction with the printing of this collection of novels in 35 titles. The overall collection of 64 volumes was printed from 1781 to 1784 and edited by the order of Louis XVI. Just two years later the French monarchy would be in crisis; bankrupt and facing various political upheavals in the years leading up to the Revolution. This surviving set dates from the time of relative peace before upheaval and before the Count later reigned as Charles X in the post-Revolution era in 1824. These survive as early relics of the French monarch's cultural interests and endeavors. François-Ambroise Didot printed no more than 100 copies as a whole impression; 60 with the arms of the prince and at least 40 were on common paper without the Count’s heraldry as in these while others were produced on vellum See Ebert 4938. These works are extremely neatly printed on laid paper and stand as a precursor to Didot’s prolific typographic and printing career. Complete copies of the Count d’Artois’s collection are of utmost rarity; these portative sixteen make up an excellent union. Brunet 19413. <br/><br/>The Count d'Artois friend to Marie Antoinette and lover of the arts sought to stimulate a renewal in fiction with the printing of this collection of novels in 35 titles. The overall collection of 64 volumes was printed from 1781 to 1784 and edited by the order of Louis XVI. Just two years later the French monarchy would be in crisis; bankrupt and facing various political upheavals in the years leading up to the Revolution. This surviving set dates from the time of relative peace before upheaval and before the Count later reigned as Charles X in the post-Revolution era in 1824. These survive as early relics of the French monarch's cultural interests and endeavors. François-Ambroise Didot printed no more than 100 copies as a whole impression; 60 with the arms of the prince and at least 40 were on common paper without the Count’s heraldry as in these while others were produced on vellum See Ebert 4938. These works are extremely neatly printed on laid paper and stand as a precursor to Didot’s prolific typographic and printing career. Complete copies of the Count d’Artois’s collection are of utmost rarity; these portative sixteen make up an excellent union. Brunet 19413. Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné (collection d'auteurs français pour Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois) hardcover books
