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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
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
1670FREP[BRE75Amsterdam: np c1670. 1670. 12mo. pp. 15 p.l. 179 lacking 1 presumably blank. sphere device on title. woodcut headpiece & initials. contemporary mottled calf very worn joints split library bookplate & number on lower spine. First Edition. Barbier III 813. Brunet Imprimeurs Imaginaires et Libraires Supposés p. 58. Goldsmith BM STC French 1742. Cioranescu 16388. Baldner p. 97. cfWilliams p. 18. F. [Amsterdam?: np, c1670]. unknown
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
16709851London: Henry Brome 1670. Fictionalised and satirical life of the supposedly chivalric highwayman Claude Du Vall who inspired a number of biographers and playwrights to add to his legend with claims of alchemy gambling and much womanising. Duval 1643-1670 was born in France worked for exiled Royalists before coming to England at the Restoration where he robbed stagecoaches on the roads to London being found guilty of six such robberies in January 1670. DESCRIPTION: Loose modern card wrappers; old flyleaf inscribed: 'John Sumner/ Sharston/ 1760' - perhaps the Provost of King's College Cambridge d.1772. Browned paper-stock: 2 pp22; old stab-sewing; wrinkling and several short marginal closed tears to foreedge of final leaf. This is one of four versions of Duval's life to appear following his execution: OCLC 27091282 Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1670 Henry Brome unknown
162134518Lisbon and Hangzhou China: Manuscripts ca.1623 and 1621. Very Rare A Similar Manuscript Exists in Brussels. We know of no others. The Latin text of both letters is written in a neat uniform cursive hand in brown. Folio leaves 33 x 20.5 cm The transcripts bound in 18th Century stiff blue wrappers the blank paste-downs and endpapers are late 18th century most likely the third quarter between 1745/1753 and 1776 since they contain a clear "lion/vryheit/pro patria" watermark with a crowned GR countermark which resembles Heawood 3148 3149 and 3154. The paper used for the manuscript contains a faint double-headed eagle watermark and it has been reinforced in the gutters. A very pleasing survival very well preserved edges slightly mellowed the wrappers show some signs of wear. VERY RARE MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTS. Chrysostomus Johann Gall 1586-1643 was a German Jesuit and scholar. He left Ingolstadt Germany to teach astronomy mathematics and navigation in Lisbon fro 1620to 1627 before leaving to work in the Jesuit missions in India. The Colégio de Santo Antŕo benefitted from the arrival of many foreign mathematicians and other scholars as Lisbon serves as a gateway for all missionaries departing for Asia. The original letter by Gall was written in Lisbon September 1623 and concerns a newspaper style description of various events including details of the perseution of Christians in Japan particularly the execution of large numbers of the Christian community in Nagasaki in 1622.<br> The second letter in the present work is especially interesting as the original was written by Johannes Terentius also known as Johannes Schreck an Deng Yuhan Hanpo 1576-1630. Terentius was a prominent Jesuit scholar specialized in natural science and mathematics. Before joining the Jesuits as a novice1611 he already enjoyed a grea reputation in Germany as a scholar. In 1621 Terentius left for China to join the Jesuit mission. The original letter by Terentius was written in Hangzhou China on 30 August 1621 to the rector of teh Jesuit College in Munich Jakob Keller 1568-1631. He discusses his journey to China which he started in 1618 his intentions to participate in the planned calendar reform in China and his impressions of the city of Hangzhou which he reached in 1621 Terentius wrote several works on european medicine mathematics and technology in Chinese and together with Johann Adam Schall von Bell and G. Roho introduced European tigonometry and European astronomical instruments to China. In 1629 he began to reform the calendar which J.A. Schall von Bell ocmpleted after Terentius' early death a year later.<br><br>Backer & Sommervogel VII col. 1929-F<br> Manuscripts 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
1655QQ0521No publisher 1655. Early or original speckled sheep boards. Rebacked in brown leather printed label to spine. Mild wear to boards; faint cupmark and two abrasions to rear board. Small 8vo 9.4 x 14.1cm. Endpapers reinforced at gutters. Recent bookplate of P. R. Glazebrook legal scholar to inside front board. Heythrop Library stamp and label to front free endpaper. Annot. in old hand to inside front board: '2.8 Campbell'. Numerical annots in old hand to blank front endpage and pen trials to t.p. Loss to t.p. bottom outer corner has been professionally repaired: some loss to t.p. text with lost imprint date handwritten in. Typographic headpiece and decorated initial. Scattered foxing. Variously attributed: pencil annot to blank front endpage has 'by H. Whitfield SJ'. De Backer and Sommervogel attribute to Thomas Whitfield SJ 1615-1686 born in Durham and active in Northampton and Devon. Clancy has 'Henry Wilkinson 1594-1673 alias Whitfield was an English Jesuit'. Scarce. De Backer and Sommervogel VIII 1098; ESTC R208388; Clancy 1099. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. Binding sound text unmarked. Good. xvi 266 2pp. No publisher Hardcover
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
1692V70980Utrecht: Francis Halman Halman & William vande Water BOTH 1st First editions 1692 1700. Hardcover. Good. Frontis of Hebrews with background of sea monsters and emblematic Christ spouting fire with 7 candles by G. Hoet/J. Mulder. Woodcut printers mark to 1st TP & copperplate of a different printer's mark to 2nd TP 5 folding plates one with flap to be lifted. Two Volumes quarto laced through full vellum not quite uniform bindings spine darkened to second volume/tips worn. All edges sprinkled red and both stamped Ambrose Swasey Library to lower fore-edge. Frontis Titlepage with emblematic woodcut printer's mark 24pp Dedication & to Reader 859pp 49pp index Volume 2 titlepage in red and black with copperplate printer's mark 14pp dedication & contents folding portrait if Wits 951pp 56pp indices. There are 11 blindstamps of the Crozier Theological Seminary to each volume none on printed area except that on frontispiece which encroaches on the imprint below illustration. Plates are of building of the Tabernacle includes a neat flap engraved as a curtain that can be lifted to see the inner sactum. Entirely clean though a few pages are minimally more tanned as paper quality varied. Deals with various more esoteric theology such as prophesy revelations ecstacies Beasts of Daniel IV Jewish rites and customs some 60 pages about America etc by this noted Dutch theologian. Text in Latin with Greek and Hebrew. Shoulder notes printed through out and a few large floriated head- and tailpieces. Clean and crisp. Francis Halman + Halman & William vande Water BOTH 1st First editions hardcover
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
1647006302Amsterdam: N.P. 1647. Hard to find hand colored map included only in Blaeu's Atlas Major centering in the towns of Ipres and Rouselare near Bruges and Belgium with smaller engravings of towns surrounding the main map. Measures 18" tall by 21.75" wide mounted on paper board. Some foxing to margins no chips or tears colors bright. Behind glass in old black painted wooden frame with many paint chips. An attractive map. Good. N.P. unknown
1604H16669London: Printed for Mathew Lownes 1604. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Quarto 10.75 x 8 inches 18th century vellum over boards good copy light restoration to outer joint and inner hinges front endpapers somewhat soiled and stained two modern bookplates on pastedown and on flyleaf; with rarely seen portrait frontispiece of Caesar engraved title page 3 double-page plates 2 full page plates -- lacking one double page plate. Contents otherwise very good and clean minor occasional wear and soil occasional very short tear to edges. 7 199 1 138 pp. A copy in a contemporary binding and with all plates sold at Christie's in 2008 for a total of over $7300. STC 7490. Edmondes ca. 1568-1622 was an English government official likely in the employ of the Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere often mentioned as a possible author of Shakespeare plays. In 1600 he published a commentary on the first five books of Caesar's Commentaries dedicated to Sir Francis Vere Born about 1560 Francis was the second son of Geoffrey Vere of Crepping Hall Essex a younger son of John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford. In this 1604 edition Edmondes augmented the previous edition with commentaries on books VI and VII and a short dissertation on the modern art of war. There is a further slight familial connection with Shakespeare. John Bernard 1604-1674 married firstly Elizabeth daughter of Sir Clement Edmondes; they had four sons who all predeceased him and four daughters. His second wife Elizabeth was the granddaughter and only surviving descendant of William Shakespeare. It is unlikely however that Shakespeare consulted Edmondes regarding the play Julius Caesar; the play was first performed in 1599 a year before Edmondes' commentary appeared. Good. Printed for Mathew Lownes hardcover
160433228-471Leiden Henricus Hondius 1604-1605. Two printed titles with elaborate engr. architectural borders woodcut initials 1 of 2 engr. portrait in the text and 49 engr. plates in vol. 1 33 34 on 1 leaf and 24 engr. plates in vol. 2. Text printed in 2 cols. 9 of 10 unn. leaves; 3 unn. leaves. Oblong folio 280 x 350 mm. 17th cent. marbled boards new endpapers. Leiden Henricus Hondius 1604-1605. First edition of Vredeman's "Perspective" issued by Hondius and printed simultaneously also in French Dutch and German. Present here is the valuable Latin version "the classical language in which Vredeman's architecture is clad and thus becomes timeless in its character" Millard p. 20f. This is one of the most celebrated works on such a subject and was issued by the Flemish born Hendrik Hondius the Elder 1573-1650. The plates for the most part are engraved and a few signed by him after Hans Vredeman. Plate 14 in part 2 is after Paul Vredeman and 4 plates in this part are signed with the monogram DB probably Theodore de Bry or Bartholomaeus Dolendo. The painter and architect Hans or Jan Vredeman de Vries was born 1527 to a German soldier in Leeuwarden Netherlands and probably died in Antwerp 1604. "The King of Architects" Fowler together with Hans van Schille worked at the fortification of the city of Antwerp and also at the triumphal arches built for the entry of the future Philip II into Antwerp in 1549. As a consequence of the religious upheavals of the period Vredeman worked in Hamburg Danzig and Prague before returning to Holland. He wrote and illustrated the present guidebook on perspective for designers painters and architects. It became one of the major books on this subject and through Vredeman de Vries' various publications he is recognised as the "foremost among sixteenth century Netherlandish architectural authors" Millard p. 19. The two volumes illustrate stage perspective interiors furniture palace and garden architecture. Vredeman de Vries was capable of truly artistic landscaping in the Northern Renaissance and served as a model for some patrician gardens in Germany cf. E. Haupt Baukunst der Renaissance in Frankreich und Deutschland 1916. The book includes a number of scenes and projections employ one-and-multi-point perspective. These were essential demonstrations for artists of those days. This work on perspective summarizes Vredeman's knowledge of art science and geometry. This copy has the same collation as the Fowler copy at Johns Hopkins University library which also lacks at the beginning of vol. 1 the leaf A1v with an engraved portrait on left half and a printed poem on right half of this leaf. There are complete copies known but in fact there is no copy of this Latin edition in the holdings of the BL London the Royal Library The Hague Utrecht Dresden Heidelberg Beinecke or Centre d'Architecture at Montreal. The only two but incomplete copies in Austria are in the holdings of the University of Technology Library at Vienna and in the Univ. Libr. Salzburg. The only copy in Switzerland in the holdings of the ETH- Library in Zurich is also incomplete and a mixed-up one 1st part in Latin 2nd part in French. Other incomplete copies are known in the holdings of the Bavarian State Library Munich the V & A Mus. London the Pierpont Morgan Library New York.- Engr. titles slightly frayed at lower margin some foxing otherwise a neat and rare copy. - Cf. Cicognara 867 French ed.; Millard Northern European Books 139 lacking engr. title to part II; Berlin Cat. 4704; Fowler 432 same collation; cf. Nagler I 1757; Borggrefe Heiner. Hans Vredeman 2002. ART - GENERAL & APPLIED ; SCIENCE: ARCHITECTURE ; SCIENCE: GENERAL ; Leiden, Henricus Hondius 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
1691H3758Frankfurt and Leipzig: Apud Christophorum Davidem Fleischerum 1691. Hardcover. Very Good. Published 1691 small quarto 8.75 inches 22 cm old full vellum very good light splitting along front outer joint signs of a label removal to spine probably not institutional but private contents moderately tanned throughout. An impressive looking tome 80 1495 137 pp. This is the author's principal work published first in 1623 and considered a turning point in Biblical studies and criticism moving the entire field in the direction of Lutheran theologian Phillip Spener the Father of Pietism the principal arguments of which is to place individual faith and piety as central to Christian theology and pedagogy. Glassius also was a linguist and did much work on Hebrew especially its variations and various cognates. Apud Christophorum Davidem Fleischerum hardcover
1610299331610. Three texts bound as one with continuous pagination. 1282 pages with unpaginated complete index to all three books. Bound in the original vellum with soiling to the covers. Age browning and some minor old damping to the text top corner of blank flyleaf clipped evidently to remove a prior owner name. A firmly bound very good copy of these scarce books. See pictures. . Full-Leather. Very Good. Hardcover
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
1678H7589Amberes: Iuan Bautista Verdussen 1678. Hardcover. Good. Folio 12.5 inches 32 cm tall old but probably not original vellum hand lettered on spine 18 34 6 398 Empresa Politica 2 pp Sumario; lacking at least one more page of the Sumario at end with woodcut emblems throughout. Good text with dampstaining the Table page of Republica Literaria and last page of text have wear pp. 370-378 have some lining to the outer margins and flipping through the book there are probably a handful of other pages similarly lined. Rare edition of this Anti-Machiavellian emblem book. Iuan Bautista Verdussen hardcover
