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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
1668V70198Antwerp: Andreae Frisi 1668. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates 45 numbered of cruel tortures including the engraved pictorial titlepage by Antonio Tempesta large copperplate printer's device of man consulting books in a library optimi Consultores Mortui. Duodecimo contemporary calf blind rules with corner floral ornaments spine with gilt label top cover nearly detached tips worn chipped to head/foot of spine All edges red sprinkled. Engraved Titlepage of the stoning of a martyr Titlepage 19pp dedication & preface 1p blank 576pp 47pp index 1p blank A-Cc12. Page 456 with small adhesion obscuring 2 or 3 letters and initial. Inscription E.lib R.S. on blank back of engraved Title. Endpapers bit browned else a clean tight neat copy needing repair to front hinge. All copperplates are present shewing gruesomely detailed plates of all the possible torture methods being administered to the martyrs which also are in crisp V.G. condition.The early editionshad fewer plates from 25 with later additions Andreae Frisi hardcover
1672025969Helmestadii: Henning Mulleri Muller 1672. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. pp. 16 504 48. Printer's device to title page engraved head and tail pieces. Later Victorian attractive half speckled calf to style with 4 raised bands and gilt decoration to the spine red title label gilt; marbled paper covered boards. All edges dyed red. Binding very good with a little general wear only corners rubbed. Contents clean and tight a few pages lightly tanned with a few spots but generally very clean. A very good copy. Henning Mulleri [Muller] Hardcover
166216811Graz, Widmannstetter, 1662. 2 Bll., 16 S. Kl.-4°. Mod. Pp. (leicht bestoßen). [7 Warenabbildungen]
166258118Graz, Widmannstetter, 9. August 1662. 4°. Titel m. Holzschn.-Bordüre u. großem Wappenholzschnitt (Doppeladler). Mit einigen Holzschn.-Bordüren bzw. -Initialen. 2 Bll., 16 S., Geheftet.
1688WRCLIT56757London: Impensis B. Griffin & Sam keble 1688. 82pp. Small quarto. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Small loss at blank corner of title at gutter else very good and crisp. First London printing of this work by the Bishop of Winchester first printed in Strasburg in 1557. Lowndes alludes to this printing but describes it as a translation into English which of course it is not. WING P2804A. ESTC R10516. Impensis B. Griffin & Sam keble unknown books
162819730<p><strong>Precious diploma in canon and civil law from the University of Rome calligraphed on vellum with the letterhead and the names of the protagonists written in gold ink.</strong><br /><strong>The document is also entirely underlined and framed in this ink.</strong><br />It was awarded to a certain Guillaume Drouaillet from Dole in Burgundy.</p><p>"<em>IN NOMINE DOMINI AMEN. GLORIOSA STUDIORUM MATER URBS ROMA Quae inter omnes mundi Ciuitates celeberrima Scientiarum omnium studio decorata existit . Dominus Guglielmus Drouaillet. Dolanus in Burgundia . Actum Romae in Gymnasio publico in regione S. Eustachii Anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo uiges. octavo .</em>"</p><p>At the end of the document are signatures most likely of members of the University of Rome and two additional paragraphs handwritten by two different hands.</p><p>From the library of Bruno Monnier Franc-Comtois bibliophile and owner of the Château de Mantry with iron bookplate on the front flyleaf.</p><p><strong>An interesting testimony to the history of diplomas and writing.</strong></p>
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>
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
16433362Couverture rigide Chez Nicolas Gay 1643 Lyon 17x10,5 cm
163769657Lugd. Batavorum Leiden: Elzevirios 1637. Hardcover. Very good. Presumed to be the first edition thus: Elzevier produced two editions in 1637; in this example pages 207 and 209 are erroneously numbered 107 and 109 which according to Willems #452 and others indicates the earliest printing. "Barclay's Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon 1603-7 - a severe satire on the Jesuits the medical profession and contemporary scholarship education and literature - is modeled on the style of the Roman satirist Gaius Petronius Arbiter; it is an urbane and facile mixture of prose and verse. Filled with villians and rogues it contributed to the later development of the picaresque novel" EB. 717 p. with an engraved title page. 12mo. Period full vellum binding with holographic titles on the spine. Some minor soiling to the vellum; else very good. Elzevirios hardcover books
165926670Parisiis Paris: Excudebat Antonius Vitre 1659. First edition thus. Vellum blind stamped with device and rules raised bands. Spine curled and partially detached at the bottom boards soiled and worn front board endpaper first blank and half-title loose a few notations to title page and occasionally in text some light scattered foxing small chips to the lower corners of three leaves not affecting text otherwise quite clean. 4 48 14 665 12 320 7 pp. Engraved device on title page engraved initial letters and head pieces. Folio 33 cm. Title also in Greek: Eysebioy toy Pamfiloy Ekklesiastike istoria. Collation: a'4 e'4 i'4 o'4 u'4 aa4 ee2 4 4 A-Pppp4 Qqqq2 a-rr4 ss2 t1 Rrrr1. Folio. 14 3/8 x 9 inches. Double columns in Greek and Latin. Eusebius bishop of Caesarea b.260-70 and contemporary with Constantine the Great is rightly called the Father of Church History. "The position of Eusebius at the close of the period of persecution and in the opening of the period of the imperial establishment of Christianity and his employment of many ancient documents some of which have since been lost give these works a peculiar value" CE. The work was later added to by others including Socrates Sozomen Theodoret and Evagrius. The best and most important edition is that of Henri de Valois Valesius who published his first edition of the Greek text with a new Latin translation and with copious critical and explanatory notes at Paris in 1659 which also included Eusebius' Vita Constantini the remainder of the collection of the early Greek historians of the Church was published in two subsequent folio volumes ending in 1673. "For the elucidation of Eusebius' History we owe more to Valesius than to any other man. His edition of the text was an immense advance upon that of Stephanus and has formed the basis of all subsequent editions while his notes are a perfect storehouse of information from which all annotators of Eusebius have extensively drawn. Migne's edition Opera II 45-906 is a reprint of Valesius' edition of 1659" Schaff Post-Nicene Fathers 98. ABPC shows only one copy has come up at auction in the last 40 years at Quaritch in 1984. Institutional bookplate on the free front endpaper noting the book was a gift of Michael J. O'Farrell the first Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton with his bookplate on the half title. Brunet 1110. Excudebat Antonius Vitre hardcover books
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
1694V67948London: Rhodes Meredith Harris & Newborough 1st edition in English 1694. Hardcover. Good. Folio calf but lacking spine leather damage to cover leather also/corners v.worn Licence leaf precedes TP TP in red & black 6pp of Subscribers 4p=Preface over 1165pp which is A-Z with Finis in mid page of last leaf. TP & License leaf with tears but no loss verso's sl.soiled and re-inserted.Newer EPS. Good wide margins no writing no worming a neat complete copy of the best edition of this first Historical Dictionary in English. Later editions were edited by Collier and appear under his name while this has no translator or editor given although the work is a compilation of the major classical dictionaries in Latin and French WING M-2725. Rhodes, Meredith, Harris & Newborough (1st edition in English) hardcover
1640000034London: Londini Excus. per assignat. I. More armigeri. 1640. 1640. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. Description: Sm. 8vo 5¾ × 3¾ in: 12 579 1 p. Early calf; "Edward Coke" lettered in gilt on spine. · Register: 8º: ¶6 B-2O8 2P2. · Condition: Spine chipped at bottom. Initial blank signed with a fleuron present in this copy. Margin of leaf O2 torn with loss not affecting text. · Comments: Sole edition. Although the title is in Latin the text is in Law French. This copy contains numerous manuscript references to the first edition of Hobart's Reports printed in quarto in 1641. The references must be to the first edition because in some of the citations the page number is higher than 350 which is the last page of the 1650 folio second edition and all subsequent editions. · References: S&M 1:29723; STC 5527; ESTC S108467. <br/> <br/> Londini Excus. per assignat. I. More armigeri. 1640. hardcover
163155459Amsterdam: printed by Menasseh ben Israel for Henricus Laurentius 1631. First edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Octavo 16.8 by 11.4 cm. Collation: aleph-lamed-zayin8 = 296 leaves. 612 i.e. 592 pp: p. 464 erroneously numbered 484 465 as 485 and so on throughout. Two column text in unvocalized Hebrew; every fifth verse numbered in the margin. Title within architectural border; half titles with letterpress ornamentation for the Former and Latter Prophets. Contemporary vellumwith exposed thongs edges stained blue; yapp fore-edges; front joint cracked but holding strong. Intermittent light toning to text outmost leaves a bit more darkened; very occasional small stains. Title-page slighltly trimmed 4 mm at bottom edge; expert marginal repairs at bottom corners of 2 leaves; 1 leaf re-margined at fore-edge with no loss of text else a very good copy with crisp clean text.<br /> <br /> First Hebrew Bible published in Amsterdam printed by the rabbi diplomat publisher and religious thinker Menasseh ben Israel 1604-1657 one of the most distinguished members of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam and the first Jewish printer in the Northern Netherlands. The Amsterdam printer and publisher Hendrick Laurensz Lauretius provided the financing for this edition along with two other Bible editions and two editions of the Hebrew Psalms printed by Menasseh between 1631 and 1646. "These publications were not only made for the local market but mainly for international trade. Thanks to this financial help Menasseh was able to organize his printing office in a more professional way" Fuks hiring a Jewish compositor Judah Leb ben Mordecai Gimple from Posen and a gentile compositor Bartholomeus Laurensz. <br /> <br /> The printing activity of Menasseh was especially important in the steadily growing productions of the Hebrew press in the Northern Netherlands. Fulfilling the needs of the Sephardic community for Jewish ritual texts eliminated the need for expensive imports from Venice and Poland. Menasseh undersood that the relatively cheap paper and tools available in Amsterdam made it possible to compete in quality and prices with the Hebrew presses of Poland Italy and Basel. "Gentile publishers and booksellers in Amsterdam such as Jansonius and Laurentius were quick to see the opportunity of the opening Eastern European market and financed several of Menasseh's publications" Fuks. Menasseh was the first to introduce in the Netherlands waybertaytsch types for Yiddish publications along with illustrated Hebrew books. He was also the first Jewish printer to adopt the Dutch pocket-book format made famous by the Elzeviers.<br /> <br /> Notes on publication date and issue: The title is dated 1630 in Arabic numerals; the colophon notes the date of completion in Hebrew characters as 5 Adar 5391 = 7 February 1631 along with the printer's apology for being unable to provide the index of pericopes promised on the title-page due to lack of printing material. Darlow and Moule describe this issue as Variant A with a Latin imprint appearing in the cartouche beneath the Hebrew title.<br /> <br /> Provenance and annotations: early entry in brown ink at front paste-down with short Greek inscription Theos. dated 1700; old Latin inscription in black ink at top margin title in reference to Hebrew roots; date of 1812 beside Yiddish entry penned in black ink within imprint cartouche at title; old entry in German penned in black ink at verso title beneath which is an oval cartouche in imitation of the one at the title in which an owner has penned in black ink the Hebrew imprint information regarding Hendrick Laurensz as it would appear in the Varient B issue; old library shelf marks at rear paste-down; recent owner entry in blue ink in Hebrew at front paste-down. References: Darlow and Moule 5123a; Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld no. 152; pp. 105; 111f.; Steinschneider no. 453; Vinograd Amsterdam 22.<br /> <br /> Full title and imprint: חמשה חומשי תורה פרשיותיו פתוחות וסתומות ×¢"פ ×”×¨×ž×‘× ×–"ל ומדוייק בחסירו' ויתרות להעתק ס"ת ×¢× ×œ×•×— בסופו מועיל לסופרי' ×•× ×‘×™××™× ×¨××©×•× ×™× ×•××—×¨×•× ×™× ×•×›×ª×•×‘×™×: × ×“×¤×¡ בבית ×ž× ×©×” בן ישר×ל ז׳׳צל והוגה בעיון × ×ž×¨×¥ על ידו ×©× ×ª ישמחו השמי×<br /> Amstelodami sumptibus Henrici Laurentii 1630. printed by Menasseh ben Israel for Henricus Laurentius 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
160922968Brussels: Rutger Velpius 1609. Contemporary brown calf sewn on 4 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine gold-tooled spine with the title lettered in gold in the second compartment red sprinkled edges. 8vo. With a small woodcut vignette on both title-pages some woodcut head- and tail-pieces and woodcut decorated initials. Ad 1 with an engraved illustration depicting a Biblical scene mounted as a frontispiece on the verso of the second free flyleaf. 2 works in 1 volume the 2nd in 2 parts. With:2 GLEN Jean Baptise de and Aleixo de MENEZES. La messe des anciens Chrestiens dicts de S. Thomas en l' évesché d' Angamal és Indes Orientales . Brussels Rutger Velpius 1609. Ad 1: First French edition of António de Gouvea's account Jornada do Arcebispo de Goa Dom Frey Aleixo de Menezes first published in Portuguese in Coimbra 1606. It details the Jesuit-Portuguese success in aligning the St. Thomas Christians of Malabar with the Latin Church which was related to the trade struggles in the 16th and early 17th century between the Portuguese and their European and Indian rivals. The original Portuguese text was translated into French by Jean Baptiste de Glen 1552-1613 an Augustinian theologian. There are two issues of this edition with two different imprints: one published by J. Verdussen in Antwerp and one our copy published in Brussels by R. Velpius. The text was also translated into Spanish by Francois Munoz but remained in manuscript. Ad 2: Published under a separate title these two texts do in fact belong together. The Historie orientale and the two texts in La messe des anciens Chrestiens form a single book. Following the dedication to Abbot Gilles de Sprimont is the Remonstrance Catholique by Jean Baptise Glen. He expands on the Histoire Orientale and presents the edifying lessons the inhabitants of the Southern Netherlands can draw from it including interesting remarks on the Christian Syro-Malabar ritual and liturgy purified from the influence of Nestorianism a Christian heresy that held Jesus to be two distinct persons.The subsequent part is by Aleixo de Menezes on the Mass of the first Christians La messe des anciens Chrestiens on pp. 77-123 in which he deals with the content of the Mass and in which he gives the full Latin text. These two parts together published as one book are considered as a major contribution to the history of Christianity in India in general and the St. Thomas Christians on the Malabar Coast in particular.With a contemporary manuscript inscription on the recto of the second free flyleaf and a contemporary manuscript inscription on the title-page of ad 1. The binding shows some signs of wear second free flyleaf the title-page and the the first page of the dedication to ad 1 are restored in the upper outer corner the top margin is cut rather close to the text without affecting it. Otherwise in good condition.l Bibl. Belg. III G3; Cioranescu 33232 33233; Lach Asia in the Making of Europe III I pp. 320-1 395; USTC 6167300 7 copies; cf. STCV 6689348 1 copy other issue Rutger Velpius, hardcover
16634120<p>Oxford: H.Hall. Impensis Ric: Davis 1663. First edition thus in the Arabic edition and Latin translation by Edward Pococke. 4to. 203x155mm. pp. 12 368 90 66 5bl 565 2. The final part 565 2 in Arabic paginates from the rear of the book. The two blanks are present. Three parts in one volume i.e. the Latin translation the Supplementum and the Arabic edition each with its own title page. Bound in twentieth century brown full calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe lettered in gilt to spine. Contemporary manuscript title to fore-edge. Some light fading to the spine slight toning to edges of first and last leaves and a small hole to foot of the final leaf not affecting the text but overall in very good condition throughout. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the Middle East scholar R.M.Burrell. His important library of books on the Middle East was sold by Sotheby's in 1999 this was lot 319. On 17th October 1630 Edward Pococke 1604-1691 arrived in Aleppo as Chaplain of the Levant Company. While there he deepened his study of the languages and culture of the region and began to collect Arabic manuscripts. In 1636 Pococke returned to England at the request of Archbishop Laud who had recently established a Chair of Arabic at Oxford and wanted Pococke to be the first holder of it. One of the manuscripts brought back by Pococke was the al-Mukhtasar fî'l-Duwal 'History of the Dynasties' of Abu'l-Faraj Bar Hebraeus 1226-1286. The lack of material in England on Islamic history and geography meant that Pococke felt unable to prepare his edition and translation and so he secured a sabbatical from Oxford and sailed for Constantinople where he spent the next three years collecting manuscripts. He returned to England shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War and it was only in 1650 that he published extracts from the "History" in his Specimen historiae Arabum which included other material culled from his now extensive collection of manuscripts. Pococke was a Royalist and the years of the Protectorate were hard: he almost lost his professorship and his priestly living. At the Restoration he returned to Oxford and began work on the complete Historia Compendiosa Dynastiarum. Finally in 1663 almost thirty years after Pococke had returned from Aleppo with the manuscript of al-Mukhtasar fî'l-Duwal his far-reaching Historia which opened up Arab history to Western was published and "remained the standard edition until the twentieth century" ODNB.</p> Oxford: H.Hall. Impensis Ric: Davis.
1606SZEPEBKS007590IVenetiis: Andreae Muschij or Muschius 1606. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: " . Patauium ac finitimos attinentia opportune interseruntur". - Venetiis M. DC. VI. / Ex Typographia Andreae Muschij. - 8vo. - 24306 pp. - With a 2-page dedication to the Archbishop of Milan: "Illustrissimo et Amplissimo D. Federico Borromeo S.R.E. Cardinali Archiepiscopo Mediol."; and with an "Errata sic corrigito" at the end of the Index. - Disbound old waterspot on lower left corner of the first 24 pages small closed tear on upper right corner of p. 33; else fine. - Splendid engraved coat-of-arms on title-page; engraved initials head- and tail-pieces. - Contemporary ownership inscription in ink on title-page. - First edition a second edition was published with identical number of pages by the Typographia Seminarii in Padua in 1696. - History of the Benedictine monastery of Santa Giustina di Padova as well as of the city of Padua. - Quite rare: OCLC locates only 5 copies all in Germany. - Shelf No.: c 159. <br/> <br/> Andreae Muschij (or Muschius) hardcover
162926858Coloniæ Agrippinæ: Bernardi Gvalteri 1629. Later green marbled vellum boards with green cloth ties & title hand-inked to spine. Overall VG minor rubs to extremities. 4 504 66 pp. Printer's device to t.p. 12mo: 2 A - Z12 2A9. <br/><br/> Bernardi Gvalteri hardcover books
16024955Venice: Giovanni Battista Ciotti 1602. First edition. Leather. Very Good/The first methodical Italian dictionary based on literary examples il Memoriale della lingua appeared ten years before the Accademia della Crusca issued its famous dictionary. Gamba points out that Pergamino who was a friend of Tasso utilized examples that the Crusca missed such as Tasso's dialogues Guido Cavalcanti Ludovico Dolce and Gian Giorgio Trissino. The first edition is quite scarce absent from recent auction records with copies scattered in a few important libraries. Gamba himself saw only the second edition of 1617. A third edition appeared in 1656. Folio 31 cm; 12 524 395 i.e. 375 lacks two unnumbered leaves errata at end. Title page in red and black. Printer's device on title page and colophon. Text printed in two columns. Woodcut head pieces; initials. Rebacked in period style retaining eighteenth-century boards in flecked calf gilt with double fillets. Title page and colophon a little worn but contents generally clean and bright. Few marginal worm trails. Discrete 19th-century library blindstamp on title page colophon and few other leaves. Reference: Bruni & Evans 4042; Michel VI 97; Fontanini I80 "il primo Vocabolario pieno e metodico"; Gamba 2757 1617 ed.; Vinciana 3839 1656 ed. "uno dei migliori vocabolari italiani pubblicati prima della Crusca." Giovanni Battista Ciotti hardcover books
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
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> ⧠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
