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1671GSQroPAS57Leyden: Joannis à Gelder 1671. 1671. 8vo. pp. 8 p.l. 730 37index 1errata. additional etched title. woodcut device on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary vellum overlapping fore-edges soiled. Second Edition first: 1610 of this historical treatise on crowns. The author a negotiator and antiquary served Henry IV of France as ambassador to England in 1589. Brunet IV 404. Graesse V 148. Leyden: Joannis à Gelder, 1671. hardcover
1661V75228London: William Lee 6th and last edition. 1661. Hardcover. Good. Full page "brasse" plate with 6 heresies scenes of repentance & destruction 7 half-page engraved portraits of "heretics" or "sectaries". . Octavo handsome tan roan on 5 raised bands with red gilt titled spine label covers re-attached. Facing engraved titlepage is a listing of the Sectaries & some contents of the text. Printed title says "added this year 1661 many new additions not heretofore extant in print together with brasse plates of the most eminent Sectaries" 22pp prelims inc. publisher's account of author's life & material added to this 1661 edition 279pp 18pp Postscript index and publisher's catalogue collated complete. Coat of arms of Andrew Robert Vaughan Daubeney 1873-1971 on pastedown 1 leaf with 2 ink crossings out and 2 marginal ink "corrections". Frontispiece and facing page are a bit squeezed into gutter and the plate is cropped at fore-edge but otherwise all margins are good and side notes are not cropped. A nice copy with some signs of use. Highlights include chapters on Brownists and Quakers. There is a plate of an Adamite on p117. Pagitt or Pagit was a committed Royalist. This 6th posthumous edition is the last publication of his most notable work with many more pages of new material and portrait plates added by the publisher William Lee after his 5th edition. The last section with portrait of James Naylor 1618-1660 notably says "The Quaker is an upstart branch of the Anabaptists lately sprung up but thickest set in the North parts; the body of this Heresie is composed and made up out of the dregs of the common people" Referenced by ESTC R24442 Wing CD-Rom 1996 P181. William Lee, 6th and last edition. hardcover
1626280462Paris: chez Samuel Thiboust au Palais en la Gallerie Iouxte la Coppie Imprimeé pour l'Autheur par les heritiers de langelier 1626. First Edition. Hardcover. Full contemporary veluum with a vellum tie. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; multiple pagings. Subjects; Ovid 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamophoses. Fables. Classic Fables. French Translation. Paris: chez Samuel Thiboust au Palais en la Gallerie Iouxte la Coppie Imprimeé pour l'Autheur par les heritiers de langelier hardcover
1677355680London.: T. Roycroft impensis Richardi Chiswell 1677. 1st Edition. Small 4to. 20th century full brown calf raised bands gilt spine decorations red and black spine labels gilt spine titles blind ruled borders inlaid panels. Very good small scar to spine slight discoloration to spine head small owner’s stamp to endpaper. 20.6x15.5x3.8 cm. Latin text with Hebrew and Greek reference passages. Important 17th century treatise on the theological relevance of the ancient sacrifices to the sacrifice of Christ in a nice later binding. weight: 1.9 lb. T. Roycroft impensis Richardi Chiswell, hardcover
1669B6290London: Printed by John Macock for the Author Ogilby. c.1669. A fine attractive and handsome copy with text and plates clean and crisp. Edition: First or 1669 Edition in English. Binding: Contemporary mottled full calf rebacked expertly saving the original spine spine with seven raised gilt bands; compartments densely gilt ornamentated; with gilt lettered title on brown morocco label on two and three. Blind dentelle pattern tooled on edges of covers; pasted and free endpapers marbled. <br><br><br> Notes: John or Johann Nieuhof 1618 – 1672 is best known for the account of his journey from "Guangzhou"Canton to Peking in 1655-1657 which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. The book was first published in Dutch in 1665 by Johan's brother Hendrik and the Amsterdam based publisher and printer Jacob van Meurs. The publication was successful several edited editions followed geared towards commercial interests also translated into French German Latin and eventually into English. The English version was not published by Van Meurs but by John Ogilby instead. The book consists of the notes and illustrations that Nieuhof made in his position as a steward on Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keizer's embassy to the emperor of China. The work itself is split into two parts. The first part contains the written account of the embassy led by Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keizer to the emperor of China. It details the entire journey from "Guangzhou"Canton to Peking and back again. This part also contains descriptions and depictions of all that the embassy came to pass on its trip. The second part consists of an overview of China describing bridges mountains temples customs and costumes supported by illustrations. Prior to this period the image of the Chinese in Europe was dominated by fantasy illustrations. Many subsequent artists and architects based their work on Nieuhof's pictures. The present copy John Ogilby’s translation and the first Edition in English. Apart from 'An embassy from the East-India Company…’ Nieuhoff’s account of his journey it also includes ‘A Narrative of the Success of an Embassage sent by John Maatzuyker's de Badem General of Batavia…’ and Kircher’s ‘An Appendix or Special Remarks taken at large out of Athanasius Kircher/ His / Antiquities of China.’<br><br> Size: Folio 418 x 270mm. Illustration: engraved frontispiece portrait of John Ogilby by Lilly and engraved by Lombart; engraved illustrated title signed and dated by ‘W.enceslas Hollar 1668.’; printed title in red and black ink; map of China signed by Hollar double page dedication leaf to King Charles; with 17 full-page and 2 double-page plates. 121 in-text illustrations throughout as well as head-piece vignettes and rubricated historiated initials at openings of dedication and sections; one endpiece.<br>Wide margined large paper copy; main text jumps from 184 to 205 without loss of content. References: Cordier Sinica II 2347; Lust 536; Wing N1153 Transation: John Ogilby’s Englis Pages: PP. illustrated title blank printed title blank map; dedication leaf to King Charles; 327 bl.; 1-18; appendix 1-106 19 ill. Category: Book Voyages General; Book Asia Far East Printed by John Macock for the Author [Ogilby],. unknown
1675407229North & West Ridings Long Island New York 1675. Unbound. Good. Manuscript document. A single paragraph possibly removed from a larger document Signed at the conclusion by Matthias Nicolls. Approximately 8" x 3". Old fold some age-toning and small nicks and tears a little fragile but good. The document reads in full: "The above is a computacon made at a meeting of some of ye Councell & ye Justices of ye North & West Ridings in New York. Decembr. ye 30th 1675. Matthias Nicolls. secr." Matthias Nicholls 1626-1687 was the Provincial Secretary of New York. Born in Plymouth England he was selected to serve as secretary by Samuel Maverick who was one of the Royal Commissioners investigating conditions in New England. Accompanying the commission to New England which was headed by appointed Governor Richard Nicolls they were assigned the task of wresting the province of New York from the Dutch. Matthias held the position of provincial secretary continuously until 1680 except for the short period of 1674-75 when the Dutch briefly reoccupied New York. He was the Secretary of the Commission that accepted the Dutch surrender of New York. He served as the sixth Mayor of the city of New York in 1672-73. He is widely known as “the principal author of the legal code known as the 'Duke’s Laws'." He was at least partially responsibility for religious tolerance in New York and founded the town of Plandome around his estate of the same name. unknown
1683M14555Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Petrum vander Aa 1683 -1685. 1683. 12mo. 24 84; 4 44; 24 44 8 39 1; 94 2 pp. 1 figure showing the eyes p. 52 pt. I. Complete with all five parts seldom found together. With added engraved title pages showing a contemporary surgical scene repeated. Modern full brown morocco raised bands gilt-stamped spine edges ruled in blind. Bookseller's ticket: Masson & cie.; rubber stamp: Doctor Mario E. Spada. BOUND WITH: MUYS. Podalirius Redivivus sive Dialogus inter Podalirium & Philiatrum. In quo juxta normam philosophiae Solidioris multa Medico-Chirurgica illustrantur & examinantur. Lugduni Batavorum Apud Petrum vander AA 1686. 12mo. 16 137 1 pp. The complete text with all five parts bound together published from 1683-1685. This is a collection of case reports. Among those are an ophthalmological fungus of gangrene a leg problem erypelate ulcers eye wound tumors swelling tibia fracture dislocation of the humerus puncture of the neck pain in the head tendonitis bleeding ulcer contusion of the arm ganglion of the hand canker sore of the mouth punctured nerve head pain arm wound arm contusion urinary infection scurvy gingivitis bad gums hernia gonorrhea from impure intercourse a child with a raging cold 'but how did it happen that this evil has already returned several times this winter' V: p. 81 tonsillitis the hare-lip etc. The final section contains a dialogue between 'Philiater' one interested in medical science and 'Podalir' meaning in obstetrics in birth where the fetus is turned so that the feet emerge first in delivery. / Joannes Muys was a Dutch medical doctor. Mettler the medical historian called Muys one of the chief early writers on spina bifida and hydroachitis. Muys later became mayor of Leiden. REFERENCES: Krivatsy NLM 8223 Decas prima & secunda only. Apud Petrum vander Aa, 1683 [-1685]. hardcover
163457767London. 1634. 1st. Ed. 1st. Iss. pp.xx 326 iv with woodcuts throughout the text last 4 leaves with woodcut illus. Royal 4to. Hardback. Title page professionally reinforced at gutter lightly chipped to fore-edge. Overall contents in nr. fine condition. Contemporary full-calf boards in thoroughly vg. condition more recent spine in fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. One of three variant imprints Lisney identifies this variant as the first issue given the appearance of 'apud Benjam Allen' on the title page. Lisney 3 British Bee Books 25. A very significant work indeed. A first edition first issue copy of the first book about insects published in Britain. Partly compiled from the writings of Edward Wotton Conrad Gesner and Gesner's assistant Thomas Penny Moffett's copiously illustrated treatise remained the 'standard work' on insects until the early 1700s. London. hardcover
1693H1280Napoli / Naples: Carlo Troyse 1693. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo 8.5 x 6.25 inches bound in late 19th century half vellum and cloth boards red calf label gilt spine 10 211 1 pp with portrait and 18 folding copperplates — this may lack an engraved title page preceding the printed title — text fine binding a little worn and soiled some fading and discoloration to cloth boards. Very Good. Divided into four parts this military treatise discusses the use of trebuchets — machines used to hurl stones or projectiles especially over walls; “petardi†— encased bombs and explosives with remarks on the preparation of gunpowder; the arming of boats and ships; and a section on mines for land and sea and counter-mines. The first part in particular has a long and detailed discussion on various types of artillery mortars and explosive shells. The author was a vaunted artillery-man and military author born in Taranto in 1610. He participated as a miner in various sieges; in 1645 he was master bombardier in the citadel of Turin. He proved to be an expert bombardier in Asti and at the siege of Portolongone. In 1676 he published the first edition of Flagello Militare; a second edition came out in 1687 and this is the third edition. All editions are rare in the trade. Carlo Troyse hardcover
1681001379Amsterdam: Apud Janssonio Waesbergios 1681. Full Calf. Very Good. 330 6 pp. 12mo with copper engraved title page by Giovanni Van Den Avele. Pharsalia is considered a masterpiece and possibly the masterpiece of the Silver Age of Ancient Roman poetry. The epic poem concerns the Roman Civil War at the time of Caesar and most particularly the extended struggle between Caesar and Pompey the Great. Lucanus writing a century later during the reign of Nero far from glamorizing the warfare took a jaundiced view of the fraticidal battle and his portrait of both Caesar and Pompey was far from flattering. His "epic poem" therefore is epic in terms of length scope and ambition not in its portrayal of the principals. Because of the subject matter the popularity of "Pharsalia" has crested at times when a society still steeped in the Classical canon of literature descended into civil strife when the themes and point-of-view of Lucanus really resonated. Never was this more the case than in the seventeenth century when this copy was printed. First there was the final emergence of the Netherlands from under the yoke of Habsburg rule and then there was the English Civil War just to mention two instances both highly germane to the edition at hand. Thus the notes by Grotius and Modern calf with a black spine label and marbled endpapers. The work is incomplete and breaks off during the tenth book which Lucanus was still working on when he was forced to commit suicide. The binding is tight. Some leaves with more toning than others but overall quite clean. There are leaves in which the margins are parlously tight or the header is even close to being partially cut-off -- this is the upshot of the compact size of the copy and was the way the copy was issued over three centuries ago. This particular edition is not mentioned in Brunet. Apud Janssonio Waesbergios unknown
160663TA003RHVIKParis 1606. Small oblong folio 19 x 25.5 cm. Thomas de Leu Gold-tooled blue goatskin morocco ca. 1890 bound by Bernard David or his son Salvador David in Paris on 5 recessed supports each board with elegant double borders title and date reading up the spine with decorations above and below gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges curl-marbled endpapers signed with a stamp - in sans-serif capitals - in the corner of the first free endleaf DAVID. With an engraved allegorical title page including a 2-line quotation from Hebrews 11:37-38 and 29 engraved prints plate size ca. 15 x 19 cm: mostly numbered but a few unnumbered or irregularly numbered illustrating the lives of the early Christian hermits living in the desert 7 signed by Thomas de Leu as printer-publisher in 2 cases accompanied by the monogram NB the engraver Nicolaes de Bruyn. 1 29 engraved ll. Finely engraved title page and prints depicting the lives of hermits living in the desert as described by Hieronymus in his famous Vitae patrum. The engraved title page and prints were printed and published by Thomas de Leu or de Leeuw 1560-1612 a Flemish engraver in Paris who probably engraved many himself. He had begun his career in Antwerp and some of the prints signed by him excudit also bear the NB monogram of the engraver Nicolaes de Bruyn 1571-1656 in Antwerp. The Antwerp painter Maarten de Vos 1531/32-1603 had drawn numerous hermit scenes: four series engraved printed and published by Johannes I Sadeler ca. 1550-ca. 1600 and his brother Raphael I Sadeler 1560-1632 who continued alone with three further series making in total seven series containing 7 engraved title pages and 107 prints all published at Antwerp at least the first series in or before 1584. De Leu and De Bruyn very skillfully copied all seven series including the title pages and captions. The present selection includes the title page of the first series Solitudo which originally contained 29 prints but only 16 of the present 29 prints come from that series the other 13 are taken from series 2 Sylvae 1 3 Trophaeum 1 4 Oraculum 5 Sylvae 2 and 6 Trophaeum 2.Bernard David 1824-1895 studied under Lortic and other leading Paris bookbinders before setting up on his own there. His son Salvador d. 1929 took over the workshop in 1890. The laid endpapers show no watermark. With aa small marginal tear repaired occasional minor marginal spots and a few tiny and insignificant scuff marks on the edges of the binding. Book and binding otherwise in very good condition and with ample margins.l Hollstein XXI pp. 147-155 nos. 377-450 & pp. 240-245 nos. 118-157 the Sadeler eds. but noting the De Leu eds. at the end of each series; www.calcografica.it many of the prints in these De Leu series; USTC 6000645 3 copies; cf. for De Leu also: Benezit 6 p. 623; Thieme-Becker 23 pp. 143-144. unknown
16262256En Madrid: En la Imrenta Real 1626. In later binding using old vellum. Title lettered in ink on the front panel. he engraved title page is not presented. Occasional inkblots and signs in ink and pencil at the margin. Traces of old restoration. 1 I2 restored with minor loss of text 2 G1 h1 “burnt†by ink with minor loss of text A2 “burnt†by ink. Wormholes from C4–F4 at gutter with some loss to the text from H1–I2 at outer margin no effect to the text. In good condition. In later binding using old vellum. Title lettered in ink on the front panel. ff. 2 34. Coll.: 2 A–H4 I2. Scarce first edition of this significant work on the Spanish administration of Peru.<br /> <p><p><br /> Larrinaga’s Memorial is related to the office and the role of the Defensor General of the Indians. In four articles he introduces the institution itself and its history describes its related problems and inconveniences and provides solutions to the problems and a working plan to achieve these proposals. Novoa 2016<br /> The author of the memorial Juan de Larrinaga Salazar 1588–1635 was a procurator for the city of Lima in Spain between 1625 and 1627 served as a regidor of Lima 1611–21 a professor at the San Marcos University in Lima 1618 later oidor in Panama 1628–35. Juan was the eldest son of Leandro de Larrinaga the first Creole lawyer to graduate from the San Marcos and advocate of Indians from 1601 to 1624 and the grandson of the Conquistador Juan de Larrinaga Salazar Ruiz de Urribari 1505–1600. The prominent Larrinaga or la Rynaga Reinaga or Reynaga family was linked to the protectorship institution as advocates of Indians and members of the family authored some of the most important sources of the early history of Peru and the protectorship institution.<br /> <p><p><br /> Extremely scarce. IB/USTC locates only 3 copies worldwide Houghton Library; JCB; Biblioteca Palafoxiana Puebla Mx.<br /> <p><p><br /> Literature:<br /> Novoa Mauricio. The Protectors of Indians in the Royal Audience of Lima: History Careers and Legal Culture 1575-1775. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2015. [En la Imrenta Real] unknown
1630B6616Leiden/Leyden: bij de Elzeviers. Anno 1630. 1630. An important work in near fine condition; some maps watermarked. Brazil map with reinforcement; otherwise text and plates clean and crisp. Binding: Contemporary vellum; heavily tooled with a central medallion of a golden castle at the heart. Spine rebacked saving the original spine. Notes: Joannes or Johannes De Laet Latinized as Ioannes Latius 1581-1649 was a Dutch geographer and director of the Dutch West India Company in 1620 an office he retained for the rest of his life. The city of Leiden sent him as an elder-delegate to the great Synod of Dort 1618–1619. De Laet was the first to use expression derivatives developed later; i.e. ‘Manhattes’ ‘Manhatans’ and ‘Nieuvv-Amsterdam’ in-text; ‘Manbat tes’ and ‘N. Amsterdam’ on his NOVA ANGLIA map to describe the recently founded New York; and ‘Noordt Rivier’ and ‘Zuyd’ ‘Rivier’ for the Hudson and Delaware rivers. The first edition published in Dutch in 1625 as “Nieuwe Wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien uit veelerhande Schriften ende Aen-teekeningen van verscheyden Natien†was followed by the second the present work in 1630 which was greatly improved due to its four additional maps and illustrations depicting animals and plants indigenous to America. <br>In terms of pagination and the maps in our work they are congruent with John Carter Brown Library’s copy. Concerning this work and the following maps in particular Burden states: <br>"Considerable effort went into the text and maps of this work which was the most accurate description of the Americas available at the time. It is arguably the finest published in the seventeenth century. The exhaustive research involved de Laet reading all of the published and manuscript material that he could find. For the cartographic work he had much to call on being a director of the recently formed Dutch West India Company in charge of all Dutch interests in America and Africa. He therefore had access to the latest geographic knowledge. He drew upon the fine talents of Hessel Gerritsz the official cartographer to the Company since 1617. Gerritsz attained this post before Willem Blaeu under whom he was apprenticed and who was his senior by ten years. <br>"The maps were some of the first to depart from the heavier style of the Mercator and Ortelius period. This more open style of engraving was one that both Blaeu and Janssonius would use in their atlases. The first edition of the book contained ten maps which with the exception of this one the NOVA HISPANIA. // NOVA GALICIA. // GVATIMALA. - Leiden 1625 concentrated on South America. There were none of North America until the second edition in 1630. Although many maps had been produced of New Spain few extended north into the area of present-day Texas. The Rio Grande is here still named the R. Palmas. The B. del Spiritu Santo possibly represents the Mississippi River. Some authorities have questioned this usual assumption. On the west coast of Florida we find the landing place of Juan Ponce de Leon. The delineation of the coastlines particularly of the Gulf of Mexico and the north-west coast of Mexico as the most accurate to date. The map appeared in the subsequent editions in Dutch 1630 Latin 1633 and French 1640. In all these there is no text on the reverse."<br>Burden: 215 p.267 <br>Re: De Laet's AMERICAE// sive// INDIAE OCCIDENTALIS// Tabula Generalis: <br>"The first of these maps was a general one of the continent. Its most interesting feature is that although we know de Laet had seen maps of California as an island he relies on the more trustworthy accounts such as Herrera in depicting a peninsular form. The map has the best west coast delineation to date. He also does not get drawn into the debate about the North West Passage preferring to cut his map short of these latitudes. It appeared in the subsequent editions in Latin 1633 and French 1640. In all these there is no text on the reverse." Burden: 229 p.284/5.<br>Reference: General: Alden & Landis 30/88; Borba de Moraes: 384; Sabin 38555; Shirley: 1554 G.LAET-1b. <br>Also for individual maps in this work: Burden The Mapping of North America 1996: 267 284-288; Cumming 1962: 35; Delanglez 1945; Keuning 1949: 61-2; O'Dea 1971: fig.18; Phillips 1909: 1147-1150; Stokes 1915 II: 86-88 141; Stokes 1915 VI: 261/2; Wagner1937: 309 p.94.<br><br> Size: Folio 281x183mm Illustration: Illustrated with engraved frontispiece title signed by Cornelius Claessen Dusent sculpsit with portraits by Pieter Heyn and Hendrick Lonck; fourteen 14 maps with accompanying text and in-text woodblocks depicting plants and animals; ornamental initials head- and tailpieces. <br>Tweede druck second edition with 14 maps and illustrations after the first of 1625 with 10 maps<br>Text in Dutch. Captions added in Latin.<br> Provenance: plate mark of a Czar with two accompany angles Fading manuscript ink note in contemporary hand on verso of final free endpaper. Pages: Bl.4 644 14 maps bl.4; signatures: bl. printed title illustrated title 3-4 1-6 1-4 2 maps. A1-C6 D1-4 map E1-G6 H1-4 map I1-O6 P1-4 2 maps Q1-S6 T1-8 U1-Z6 Aa1-Bb6 Cc1-4 map Dd1-Ee6 Ff1-4 Gg1-Hh6 map Ii1-Nn6 Oo1-4 map Pp1-Qq6 map Rr1-6 Ss1-8 map Tt1-Uu6 map Xx1-6 Yy1-4 2 Zz31-34 2 Aaa1-8 map Bbb1-Ddd6 Eee1-4 map Fff1-Hhh6 Iii1-4 bl. Category: Book Voyages General; Book Americas West Indies; Book Europe Benelux; bij de Elzeviers. A[nn]o 1630. hardcover
16869790261Jeremiam Schrey 1686. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. In Greek and Latin. Non-standard size 9.5 x 15 ins. Quarter-bound in green cloth boards with black leather on spine. Some general shelf wear lightly bumped corners untrimmed page edges. Binding firm. Pages age-toned with moderate foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item3350grams ISBN: Jeremiam Schrey hardcover
1691Alibris.0035927Louvain Belgium: Aegidium Denique. 1691. 8th ed. Full leather. Fair. Ex-library. Vol. 1 hinges are splitting large chips at top of spines small label at bottom of vol. 1 call number at bottom of vol. 2 covers worn & slightly bowed labels inside front covers vol. 2 front hinge is partly-separated inscription. 2 volume set. 1243 p. Includes index. 2 volume set. Volume 1: 226081633 pp. 769 pp. Volume 2: 64983624 pp. 564 pp. Index appears towards the end of each volume. . Subtitle of first volume Tomus Primus: Solidam & orthodoxam continens explicationem symboli apostolici orationis Dominicæ salutationis angelicæ præceptorum Decalogi & priorum trium sacramentorum. / Subnexa est ejusdem Censura super legenda sanctorum cum notis Joannis Molani Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris. Subtitle of second volume Tomus Seecundus: Soli dam & Orthodoxam continens Explicationem quatuor postremorum Sacramentorum Paenitentiae Extreme Unctionis & Matrimonii. Accedit ejusdem Authoris Responsio ad Quaestionem propositam ab Abbate Aquicinctino Ad quid teneatur Religiosus vi Voti sui Aegidium Denique hardcover
16403044<p>Amsterdam. Very Good. C.1640. Map. Verso text in Latin. Orginal 17th century hand color. Foxing to lower edges. Image size 19 1/3"- 15 1/2". Paper size 20 1/2"- 15 1/2" ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .</p>
16403045<p>Amstedam. Very Good. 1640. Map. Image size 19"x 15 1/2". Paper size 17"x23". Orginal 17th century hand coloring. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .</p>
1631026131Lugduni Batavorum Leiden Holland: Apud Franciscum Hegerum 1631. Book. Very Good. Vellum. ffep title page 26 preliminary pages 384 plus 2 misnumbered pages between pp. 244 and 245 numberd 245 and 244 respectively and 2 blank pp. between pp. 266 and 267 colophon blank rfep. Engraved title page with portrait medallion "vatis amatoris iulia sculpta manu"; author's portrait on verso of tenth preliminary leaf. Page 353 mis-number 353 and p. 361 misnumbered 369 but page sequence is correct. Vellum overlapping fore-edges Vellum is soiled spine darkened with chip in red leather label. Front hinge is split between ffep and title page but binding stitching is secure and tight. Owner's name and pencil markings on ffep. Text block is very tight pages are very clean throughout with only a corner off of leaf five and a tiny closed tear in the margin of pp. 105-106 neither of which affects the text. Two lines underscored on p. 151. Latin. Iohannis Secundi Johannes Secundus Janus Secundus Jan Everaerts 1511-1536 was a New Latin poet of Dutch nationality. He wrote elegies epigrams odes epistles epithalimia itineraries and other prose. His most famous work was Liber Basiorum Book of Kisses which is among the works in this volume. The compiler Peter Schrijver 1576-1660 was was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium. A remarkably tight and clean copy of this very scarce book. Size: 12mo. Apud Franciscum Hegerum Hardcover
1634107041634. Several woodcut illus. in the text. 25 vols. Folio 346 x 230 mm. orig. wrappers rubbed & several with some wear three vols. with some staining occasional minor foxing orig. stitching. HansÅng: colophon in Vol. 2 dated 1634.<br /> <BR> <BR> Second edition 1st ed.: 1613 of a very great rarity “the greatest of all Korean medical treatises which devotes its last chapters to acupuncture and moxibustion.â€â€“Lu & Needham Celestial Lancets p. 263n. It is considered to have one of the finest classification systems in traditional East Asian medicine.<br /> <BR> <BR> HÅ Chun 1539/46-1615 was a court physician of the Yangcheon HÅ clan during the reign of King Seonjo 1568-1608 of the Joseon dynasty in Korea. During the Japanese invasion of Korea 1592-98 HÅ faithfully accompanied the king through numerous difficult campaigns. Following the conflict the king commissioned HÅ to write a medical book for his citizens who suffered from post-war famines and epidemics. In 1610 HÅ completed his masterwork which was first published in 1613 an even rarer book.<br /> <BR> <BR> The TongÅi pogam is divided into five broad sections: internal medicine four vols. external medicine four vols. miscellaneous diseases 11 vols. herbal remedies three vols. and acupuncture one vol. all preceded by a most useful two-volume Table of Contents. In the first section on internal medicine HÅ describes the interdependence of the liver lung kidney heart and spleen. The section on external medicine explains how the skin muscles blood vessels tendons and bones allow for movement and maintenance of posture. The part on miscellaneous diseases describes the symptoms diagnoses and treatment methods of various diseases. HÅ’s remedies rely on readily found medicinal herbs and plants and he provides impressively detailed instructions on how to extract maintain and consume the herbs. The last section explains acupuncture strategies.<br /> <BR> <BR> The work spread to other East Asian countries like China Japan and Vietnam and is still regarded as one of the classics of Asian medicine. “The Treasured mirror of eastern medicine was in fact one of the very few non-Buddhist works written outside China that achieved a wide circulation within China. It was written by HÅ Chun 1539-1615 as a summation of Korean medical knowledge and was printed in Korea in 1613. Copies were sent directly to China in 1721 and 1728 and a copy reached Japan in 1681. A revised edition was printed in Japan with glosses in 1724 and again in 1799; copies of the 1799 edition were sent to China via Nagasaki in 1811 and 1837. The Treasured mirror of eastern medicine was reprinted in China in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries either from the Korean edition or from one of the Japanese editions with the glosses removed. This was a rare sign of high esteem for a book written outside China.â€â€“Peter Kornicki Languages Scripts and Chinese Texts in East Asia Oxford: 2018 p. 144.<br /> <BR> <BR> HÅ Chun remains famous in Korea today: there are several recently created television series and films about him and his achievements; a best-selling novel about him was published in 1990; and a museum in Seoul is devoted to his life and works.<br /> <BR> <BR> A very good “married†set with the first volume of miscellaneous diseases coming from another set. One volume has a hole to about ten leaves touching a few characters.<br /> <BR> <BR> â§ For an extended and excellent discussion of the contents and importance of this work see Yeonseok Kang “History and Characteristics of Korean Medicine†in Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine 2022 pp. 507-08. unknown