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169316118Very large engraved seechart measuring 61 x 875 cm. in original outline colouring with large inset view of the harbour of Kinsal and Kinsal River. The chart showing the Westcoast of Ireland from Bay of Roonstahound to Kiriec in lower left corner C. Berey scr. A fine impression on good thick paper with the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. fOLDED DOWN THE CENTER. <br/><br/><em>The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693 and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. The chart is without year place and "par Ordre du Roi" pointing to a later issue but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV425:11. </em> unknown
160548560Mogvntiae Mainz Andreas Wechsel 1605. 4to. Contemp. full vellum raised bands blindstamped covers. Printers wood-cut device on titlepage. 16619;63836 pp. A bit of browning to the first few leaves. A few scattered brownspots. Printed in double columns. <br/><br/><em>This is the first edition containing all 30 books. The first 20 books were published in Spanish in 1601. Marianas's importent history of Spain deals with the country from the first settlements to the death of King Ferdinand who united the Crowns of Castile and Aragon."Among his Maraina's literary labours the most important is undoubtedly his great work on the history of Spain which is still remembered today. There was published as late as 1854 in Madrid an improved and richly illustrated edition continued up to that year. The work first appeared as "Historiæ de rebus Hispaniæ libri XX. Toleti typis P. Roderici 1592". A later edition of the compiler himself carried on still further is "De rebus Hispaniæ libri XXX" published at Mainz in 160 the item offered. This edition bears the imprimatur of the order for the thirty books given by Stephan Hojeda visitor from Dec. 1598 and of the provincial from 1604. The author had in the mean time converted a Latin edition into Spanish and this appeared complete containing the thirty books of the Latin edition at Toledo in 1601. This went through a number of editions during the lifetime of the author and through others after his death" The Catholic Encyclopedia. </em> hardcover
1689B6906Oxford: Peter Parker. 1689. A very good example. Some rubbing to extremities abrasion running through first and second compartments of spine onto lower board. Main title torn at top and bottom of gutter. Some pages worn at bottom margins unaffecting text. 2y1with approx. 5 cm tear at bottom corner affecting text. 3c2 with loss to fore edge approx. 4 cm in length 1 cm into margin affecting marginal text. 4c1 torn away at bottom corner approx. 5 cm loss to text. Interior otherwise largely clean and crisp. Binding: Original full calf boards. Upper and lower with gilt frame and cornerpieces. Spine with 5 slightly-raised bands gilt-tooled compartments. Marbled pasted and free endpapers. Lower board edges with gilt fillet. All edges gilt rubbed. Notes: Thick 8vo.180 x 110mm. <br>Title. Blank. A-4d4. “Whole Book of Psalms in Metreâ€: A1 pp. 1-82. “Humble Suit of a Sinner†F2-4 last signature unmarked.<br><br>Ex-Libris: “Eliz. Davis†ownership on verso of front free endpaper dating 1755; “Anna Wyatt;†ownerships on recto of lower free endpaper dating December 27th 1805 1806 1807. Plus other inscriptions.<br><br>New Testament title verso inscribed with records of births and baptisms of previous owners and family predominantly or exclusively of Davis family dates ranging from 1730-1803. <br> Size: Thick 8vo.180 x 110mm Category: Book Religious Christianity; Peter Parker. hardcover
1672ABC_45824Rouen 1672. 12mo. David Berthelin et Jacques Lucas Contemporary calf red title shield red sprinkled edges. With a woodcut frontispiece numerous tables and geometrical figures in the text. 240 pp. Very rare edition in French of Frans van Schooten the elder's influential mathematical work on triangulation highly important for the development of cartography in the 17th century amongst other things. The present edition has only 4 recorded copies in libraries worldwide according to WorldCat and Hoogendoorn's Bibliography of the exact sciences in the Low Countries. The frontispiece of the present Rouen edition was copied in woodcut after the engraved frontispiece of the first French edition that was publish by Willem Jansz Blaeu in 1627.Frans van Schooten the elder 1581-1645 was a professor in the engineering school in Leiden. He made a significant improvement on the tables published by Albert Girard which were based on a radius of 100000. Schootens tables were reprinted without acknowledgment by Jan Jansz.Stampioen a mathematics teacher in The Hague who had William II and the sons of Huygens among his pupils in 1632.Owner's inscription in ink on front paste-down: "Auvé Duabigny". Otherwise in very good condition.l Hoogendoorn SchootFS02F 4. unknown
1692017056London: F. Leake for Henry Rhodes 1692. 1st Edition. Full-Leather. Good. Three Volumes 12mo. 233591pp; 23359pp; 233571pp. Solid First Editions 1692-1694. Translated from the original Arabic into Italian and then into English. Bound in full contemporary brown calf. Four raised bands with title and volume number in gilt in the second and third compartments respectively and gilt decorative crosses in all others. Frontispiece of Mahmut the Spy in each volume. Each volume is square and generally quite clean throughout with no noticeable foxing. A few page corners gently dog-eared in vol. 8. Vol. 8 also has a neatly detached front board and first blank. The other volume's bindings are rubbed but sturdy and holding firm. Some scuffing and rubbing to edges and tips. Spine gilt particularly for the titles are largely worn off. Small neat name Thayer written at the top of the Frontispiece and at the top of the title page in vol 4. Not perfect and incomplete of course but still a presentable grouping of an scarce First. F. Leake for Henry Rhodes unknown
1650130R86Rome . 1650 248 leaves. Manuscript in Italian on the History of Germany and virtually all of Europe in the momentous era of the 1620's prepared for Pope Urban VIII Maffeo Barberini by the Papal Nuncio to the Holy Roman Emperor. Written in a graceful Italian hand. Folio. 340 mm. Text generally clean but with scattered mold stains. Remains of old vellum binding. Interesting colorful paste paper end sheets. With the bookplate of Elkin Mathews = Charles Elkin Mathews 1851-1921 London publisher bookseller and collector who played an important role in the literary life the English speaking world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also with a circular Sneyd family book plate probably Ralph Sneyd 1793-1870 but perhaps earlier. This work is often attributed to Carlo Carafa an incompetent and criminal administrator who was executed for treason at Castel San Angelo on Mar 4 1561 by Pius IV. but it is certainly by a later Carlo Carafa born in Naples in 1611 who was bishop of Aversa and Papal Nuncio to Switzerland the Republic of Venice and to the Holy Roman Emperor. The Holy Roman Emperor at this time was Ferdinand II 1578-1637 a member of the House of Habsburg. He was also King of Bohemia and King of Hungary. His rule coincided with the Thirty Years' War. Ferdinand's aim as a zealous Catholic was to restore Catholicism as the only religion in the Empire and suppress Protestantism. The Neapolitan Carafa family produced a large number of bishops cardinals and some saints. Cardinals in the Carafa family include with dates of their elevation to Cardinal: Filippo Carafa 1378; Oliviero Carafa 1467; Gianvincenzo Carafa 1527; Carlo Carafa 1555; Diomede Carafa 1555; Alfonso Carafa 1557; Antonio Carafa 1568; Decio Carafa 1611; Pier Luigi Carafa seniore 1645; Carlo Carafa della Spina 1664; Fortunato Ilario Carafa della Spina 1686; Carafa di Belvedere 1764-1830; Francesco Carafa della Spina 1773; and Domenico Carafa della Spina 1844. Biographical and bibliographic confusion among them is rampant. UNIQUE. A wonderful item for further scholarly study. Chest 2/4. (Rome? ?). hardcover
169745644Leipzig Grosse & Gleditsch 1697. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCXCVII" No V May-issue. Pp. 193-240 entire issue offered. With titlepage to the volume 1697. Leibniz: pp. 201-205. Johann Bernoulli: pp. 206-211. Jacob Bernoulli: pp. 211-214. Newton: pp. 223-224. As usual some leaves with browning. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of the famous issue of Acta Eruditorum in which the 4 solutions by the 4 most eminent mathematicians at the time were printed together. There were in all 5 solutions to the posed problem and Newton's solution was first printed in the Philosophical Transactions January 1697 and reprinted here. The solution proposed by L'Hopital not printed here was not published until 1988.The brachistochrone problem was posed by Johann Bernoulli in Acta Eruditorum in June 1696. He introduced the problem as follows: "I Johann Bernoulli address the most brilliant mathematicians in the world. Nothing is more attractive to intelligent people than an honest challenging problem whose possible solution will bestow fame and remain as a lasting monument. Following the example set by Pascal Fermat etc. I hope to gain the gratitude of the whole scientific community by placing before the finest mathematicians of our time a problem which will test their methods and the strength of their intellect. If someone communicates to me the solution of the proposed problem I shall publicly declare him worthy of praise." Johann Bernoulli and Leibniz deliberately tempted Newton with this problem. It is not surprising given the dispute over the calculus that Johann Bernoulli had included these words in his challenge:- ."there are fewer who are likely to solve our excellent problems aye fewer even among the very mathematicians who boast that they. have wonderfully extended its bounds by means of the golden theorems which they thought were known to no one but which in fact had long previously been published by others."According to Newton's biographer Conduitt he solved the problem in an evening after returning home from the Royal Mint. Newton: . "in the midst of the hurry of the great recoinage did not come home till four in the afternoon from the Tower very much tired but did not sleep till he had solved it which was by four in the morning."Newton send his solution to his friend Charles Montague and Montague published anonymously in the Transactions. Newton's solution presented here in the Acta is also anonymous. The episode did not please Newton as he later wrote: "I do not love to be dunned pestered and teased by foreigners about mathematical things ." After the competition Johann Bernoulli said ". my elder brother made up the fourth of these after Leibniz himself and Newton that the three great nations Germany England and France each one of their own to unite with myself in such a beautiful search all finding the same truth."Struik Edt. "A Source Book in Mathematics 1200-1800 pp. 391 ff. </em> unknown
169441704Leipzig Grosse & Gleditsch 1694. 4to. Contemp. full vellum. Faint handwritten title on spine. a small stamp on titlepage. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCXCIV". 2518 pp. and 11 folded engraved plates. As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. The entire volume offered. Leibniz's papers: pp. 311-316 pp. 364-375. - Johann Bernoulli's papers: pp. 200-206 pp. 394-99 pp. 435-437 pp. 437-441. - Huygen's papers: pp. 338 pp. 339-41. - Jakob Bernoulli's papers: pp. 262-276 pp. 276-280 pp. 336-338 pp. 391-400. Some mispaginations. <br/><br/><em>All papers first appearance dealing with and clarifying the problems and the new applications of Leibniz' inventions of the differential- and integral calculus.In the papers Leibniz shows how to reduce linear first order ordinary differential equations to quadratures. I the other paper he gives a general method of finding the envelope of a family of curves which helped to spread the theory of plane curves.In the groundbreaking paper offered here Jakob Bernoulli introduces THE LEMNISCATE a symmetric self-intersecting curve resembling a figure eight and defined by the condition that the product of the distance of anay point on the curve from two fixed points is d/22 where d is the distance between the fixed points."Jacob Bernoulli was fascinated by curves and the calculus and one curve bears his name - the "lemniscate of Bernoulli" given by the polar equation r2=a cos 2"0". The curve was described in the Acta Eruditorum of 1694 as resembling a figure eight or a knotted ribbon lemniscus. However the curve that most caught his fancy was the logarithmic spiral.he swowed that it had several strioking properties not noted before.it is easy to appreciate the feeling that led Bernoulli to request that the "spira mirabils" be engraved on his tombstone together with the inscription "Eadem mutata resurgo" Though changed I arise again the same." Boyer in his History of Mathematics. </em> hardcover
169316116No place no date1693. Very large engraved seechart measuring 60 x 865 cm. in original outline colouring. The chart showing the Northern part of England from Lancaster to Banf of Ireland from Blackrock to Carlingford and all the Islands to the north: Shetland Orkney Faroe etc. etc. A fine impression on good thick paper with the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. Folded down the center. <br/><br/><em>The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693 and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. The chart is without year place and "par Ordre du Roi" pointing to a later impression but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV425:9. </em> unknown
163651722A Paris Avec Priuilege de Roy 1636. Four original etchings by Callot published by Henriet who added a frontispiece title etched by Abrahem Bosse. Comprising frontispiece and 3 etchings ca. 59 x 120 mm. numbered 12 a. 3 in the plate. All 4 mounted and framed in two 29 x 20 cm. Mildly brownspotted. <br/><br/><em>The "Small miseries of the War" was unfinished - there was only published 7 etchings the 4 first offered here.Callot was one of the first great artists to practise the graphic art exclusively. His innovative series of prints documenting the horrors of War of which his series "Les Miseres et les Mal-Heurs De la Guerre" Great Miseries of War is the most famous greatly influenced the socially conscious artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. For instance its themes and imagery were used as a source by Goya and he is acknowledged as equal to the three great: Dürer Rembrandt Goya. It is said that no one ever to such an extent possessed the talent of grouping a large number of figures in a small space and of representing with two or three bold strokes the expression action and peculiar features of each individual. Brunet I 1488 17. </em> unknown
160355280Sleswig Flensburg no printer 1603. Small 4to. Old full marbled calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Some repairs to spine ends. Spine a bit rubbed. Front free endpaper gone. Title-page printed in red and black. 136 96 leaves. With the engraved danish Coat of Arms on verso of title-page and f 2 with the engraved portrait of King Christian IV. Old name on title-page. A few quires with browning. A few brownspots and marginal dampstains. <br/><br/><em>Scarce second edition of the Low-German translation of Jydske Lov. It has the same text as the edition from 1593-94 only with the 2 first leaves reprinted. It contains the "Repertorium" which did not follow all copies of the 1593-edition.Bibl. Danica I632. </em> hardcover
1635MS0022<p>A2-4 lacking A1 blank B4 C2 Aa-Ff4 Gg2 Hh-Kk4 Ll2 A-H4 A-S4 pages with tables and illustrations. Quarto 9" x 6 1/2" bound in old limp parchment with title to spine. From the library of professor Astronomer Historian and Bibliophile Owen Gingerich. Fist edition.</p><p>Noël Duret also known as Natalis Durret was a prominent 17th-century French mathematician astronomer and astrologer. He actively advanced both the theoretical and applied scientific practices of his era. He served as the official Royal Cosmographer to King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu. : He worked as a professor of mathematics in Paris teaching both pure theory and applied branches like cartography. Duret acted as a vital publisher and promoter for the famous mathematician François Viète. He helped popularize Viète's revolutionary system of symbolic algebra across France. : In 1635 he published <em>Nouvelle Théorie des Planètes</em>. He followed this up in 1641 by publishing detailed astronomical ephemerides and tables. These tools provided essential calculation methods for determining celestial positioning at sea and on land.</p><p>Owen Jay Gingerich 1930-2023 was an American astronomer who had been professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In addition to his research and teaching he had written many books on the history of astronomy.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong>Edge wear some endemic browning from the original paper stock occasional old ink marginalia else about very good.</p> Chez Gervais Allio
1618214886London.: No pubisher. 1618. 6 xxii 12 491 5 pages title page printed in red and black dedication preface contents references errata 18.4 x 14.8 cms endpapers renewed with the original front endpapers laid down aged-toned and chipped title-page toned and a little faded upper corner chipped with the inked owners' inscription of Thos. Bryan Richards 1798 and Wm. Cooke early inked marginalia and underlining; contemporary hollow-backed vellum manuscript author and title on the spine tidemark to the lower corner of the text leaves affecting the margin only a good sound copy. First edition of an antiquarian classic by John Selden 1584-1654 eminent jurist polymath prolific scholar and in recent times celebrated for his ownership of the earliest surviving Chinese merchant map of East Asia re-discovered with justifiable fanfare as a treasure of the Bodleian Library by Robert Batchelor in 2008. <br> <br>At the time of its release Selden's "The History of Tithes": "gave great offense to the clergy and was vigorously refuted in a number of volumes to which Selden was forbidden the right to print replies" Pforzheimer. It has been noted that the absence of the printer's name and the place of publication showed that Selden anticipated an unfavourable reaction to his denial of divine right of tithes. He was not disappointed. The work was suppressed and Selden was forced to apologize for having given offense-- and the book was withdrawn from circulation. His work was much studied: this copy with early marginalia: "by this Historie the Right of tithing belong not to ye profession of ye Canonist Civilian or Divine but with Lawyers." the last three words hastily crossed out. <br> <br>Early owners include London Antiquary Thomas Bryan Richards whose extensive Library was sold by King & Lochée in 1812. . [No pubisher, hardcover
1635JC14671Amsterdam: Broer Jansz 1635. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 218 x 162 mm. Pagination: 38 1-400 pp. Signatures: -4; A-Z4; Aa-Zz4; Aaa-Ddd4. Engraved pictorial title of Heraclitus and Democritus and 2 illustrations and 19 circular emblematic engravings partly by Crispijn van de Passe the Younger. Contemporary stamped vellum with central arabesque ornament; some light browning some margins sliced in final quire but present few corners chipped. Rear pastedown with inscription from the library of Van Isaac le Long and dated 1744. Modern armorial bookplate of Bibliotheque I.G. Schorsch on the front pastedown. Dawsons Bookshop label also affixed on rear pastedown. <br/><br/>First edition and scarce variant copy of this classic Dutch poetry and emblem work by Zierikzee native Adriaan Hoffer which Benesch described as .adorned with etchings which in themselves are perfect little works of art although only slightly connected with the text Benesch Rubens to Daumier p. 39. Hoffers work contains poems comprising the authors self-commentary Biblical quotes and notably mentioned the victory of the Spanish silverfleet by Pieter Heyn in 1628 all in verse. Largely written in the vernacular Hoffer supplemented Latin notes to his poetry through ample marginal references. Hoffer was a wealthy man and book collector with many connections in the Zierikzee community. The Nederduytsche Poëmata was his most important work which sought to restrict the interest of natural inquiry to its edifying potential. This edition is notable for its engravings by Crispijn van de Passe the Younger a talented engraver who inherited his fathers style and repertoire and who remains inextricably linked to seventeenth-century Dutch printmaking. Not much else is known about the influence of Hoffers Nederduytsche Poëmata or Dutch Poems but an earlier work of the same title was written by Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655 and published in Amsterdam by Willem Jansson in 1618. Landwehr Dutch Emblem Books 92; Landwehr Low Countries 217; De Vries 161; Praz p. 370 Broer Jansz hardcover
1634R202304Printed Adam Islip London: . 1634 Two Volumes. 614 42; 632 86 pp. Large printer's device on the title pages. First title page age stained and chipped at fore edge and detached. Large 4to sewn in sixes. 330 x 220 mm. Disbound. Pliny the Elder was born 23 CE at Novum Comum Transpadane Gaul now in Italy. He died August 24 79 Stabiae near Mount Vesuvius. He was a great Roman savant and famed author of this celebrated Natural History an encyclopaedic work that was an authority on scientific matters up to the Middle Ages even though it is today known to be of uneven accuracy. The translator - Philemon Holland 1552-1637 was an English schoolmaster physician and translator. He is best known for the first English translations of several works by Livy Pliny the Elder and Plutarch and also for translating William Camden's Britannia. PRICE JUST REDUCED! W150. No Binding. Good. Printed Adam Islip, London: . unknown
1625001315Cologne: De L'imprimerie Jacob Stoer 1625. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo super. Two volumes in one. Place of publication stamped out with "Geneue" stamped below printer. On second title page no placeof publication but "Geneue" stamped in place. Bound in full vellum with red leather spine label slightly raised bands. Text in French. Vol. I: 56 533 p.p. plus table 219 p.p. unpaginated; Vol. II: 22 624 p.p. plus table 142 p.p. unpaginated. Early doodles to front and rear boards. Vellum chipped to bottom corners with bruising to corners and spine ends. Doodles also to f.f.e. and fly leaves with early ownership signature on title page of Vol. I. Light sporadic stains and smudges to pages. Some pages trimmed with sporadic tears to edges and margins throughout. Noticeably on p. 103 partially affecting text and bottom corner of p. 441 in Vol. I and in Vol. II small tear to p. 83 partially affecting text head of 167 and p. 361. Otherwise in very good condition. These two books on Pliny's Natural History encompasses a wide variety of subjects including physical geography place names throughout Europe and the world natural history of flowers herbs the medicinal properties of animals as well as a chapter on the origin of the magical arts. Antoine Pinet 1510-1584 was a renaissance writer who translated many works from Latin into French. De L'imprimerie Jacob Stoer hardcover
1665053762No Place Given: Printed in the Yeere 1665 1665. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Small Octavo. JULY SALE 40% OFF! FIRST EDITION No place of printing given; assumed to be in Holland : 1665. Hardback. Nineteenth century full calf-leather; simple blind-tooled panels to covers. All edges red. Board-edges decorated in gilt. Later re-spine in matching calf. Gilt-letter dark-green leather-label. Dated 1665 to spine foot; simple blind-tooled. No owner name or internal markings. The author's name and place of publication written to title-page in small neat contemporary hand. Tight bright and clean. Text complete. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. xxxii 424 vii pages. VERY SCARCE. Referenced by: Wing B5026. This book was deemed to be dangerous and was banned by proclamation of the Privy Council of Scotland in 1666 which also ordered that a copy be publicly burnt on the high Street of Edinburgh near to the Mercat-Cross by the hand of the Hang-man and was re-banned again in August 1688. JOHN BROWN OF WAMPHRAY was a Church of Scotland theologian who served as the minister of the parish of Wamphray in Annandale during the mid-17th century. He removed to Wamphray to begin serving the parish at an unknown date estimates vary from 1637 until 1655 and remained in residence until 1662 when he was imprisoned and later exiled to the Netherlands for his public opposition to the royal imposition of bishops on the Church. Sm.8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . FULL-TITLE: An Apologeticall relation of the particular sufferings of the faithfull ministers & professours of the Church of Scotland since August 1660. PRINTED IN THE YEERE 1665. <br/> <br/> Printed in the Yeere 1665 hardcover
168835592Hafniæ København uden angivelse af trykker 1688. 4to. Nyere helpergamentsbd. i gl. stil et af bindebåndene mangler. Kalligraferet rygtitel. 1617424 pp. Tilføjelses-og rettelsesbladet med stor træskåren slutvignet 2 pp. Dette blad findes ikke i første del af oplaget iflg. Carl Christensen ligesom den træskårne slutvignet mangler der. 4 blade løst indsat fra et andet eksemplar fol 5-8. 4 sidste blade med tab af øverste højre hjørner repareret med teksttab. De 2 sidste har større tab af hjørnet men er repareret. Første blade lidt tæt beskåret i højre margin. Ellers et ganske godt rent eksemplar. <br/><br/><em>Den yderst sjældne originaludgave. "Danske Lysthaver" Viridarium er det klassiske værk i dansk floristisk litteratur den første danske flora og i 100 år den eneste. Heri opregnes 1103 arter ordnet efter de latinske navne og tilføjede danske og tyske navne samt blomsternes lokalitet. Værket blev til efter Kyllings udnævnelse til kongelig botaniker med en årsløn på 300 Rdl og med den hensigt at skulle udfærdige et katalog over alle Danmarks og Norges planter for siden at udarbejde en virkelig Flora Danica indeholdende alle planter der voksede vildt i Kongens to riger. Projektet lykkedes ved egne rejser men også med vægtige bidrag fra botanikere læger præster etc. boende rundt omkring i rigerne. - Bibl. Danica II:189. - Thesaurus II:527. </em> unknown
167751424Madrid Imprenta real.Iuan Garcia Infancon 1677. Small folio. Later hcalf. Spine gilt titlelabel with giltlettering. Corners bumped. Some wear to edges. Spine a bit rubbed. Bits of marbled coverpapers gone at edges. Engraved frontispiece title-page in red/black. 2281715 pp. Some engravings in the text. Small nicks to margins of frontispiece no loss of image. A faint dampstain to upper right corners on the first ab. 50 leaves and on a few leaves at end. Otherwise clean. Printed in double columns. In Spanish. A small stamp on foot of title-page frontispiece and front free-endpaper. <br/><br/><em>Scarce first edition of this important chronicle of the events which took place in Seville from 1246 to 1671.Brunet IV 244. </em> unknown
1698026809London / London: Samuel Keble and Richard Sare / Jacob Tonson 1698. With the griffin bookplate of publisher Thomas Bird Mosher for more about him see below. SEE PHOTOS. 2 volumes bound together. They are: Jeremy Collier. A SHORT VIEW OF THE IMMORALITY AND PROFANENESS OF THE ENGLISH STAGE. Fourth Edition. 1699 the first was 1698. London: Samuel Keble and Richard Sare. 288pp. British Museum General Catalogue 906. Ashley Catalogue X 80 with title page facsimile. Hoe Catalogue I 1903 302. Hazlitt II 134. Langland to Wither #171 Grolier Club. Wing 5266. According to Pforzheimer #189 of the 1698 first edition: "The publication of this book marks a new era in English dramatic literature. Few literary protests have been so completely successful in altering or at least in giving expression to an impending change in public taste. It was absurdly praised by Johnson and Macaulay." The second volume is: William Congreve. AMENDMENTS OF MR. COLLIER'S FALSE AND IMPERFECT CITATIONS. 1698. London: Jacob. Tonson. 109pp. First edition second issue pp. 43-44 D6 is a cancel. No half title in this copy. Errata on verso of title page as called for. Pforzheimer Library #192 See also #191 for more detail on this issue. Langland to Wither #193 Grolier Club. British Museum General Catalogue 980. Ashley Catalogue IX p.64 with title reproduced. Wing 5844. From the Pforzheimer catalogue: " Though a witty and clever defense even justified from an impartial view this book failed in its purpose. Congreve was on the whole on the wrong side of the argument." Congreve's AMENDMENTS was written in answer to Collier's SHORT VIEW. This copy has Thomas B. Mosher's griffin bookplate MDCCCXCVII. Also the armorial bookplate of James Heywood. Very Good condition. Only lightly rubbed. A pretty copy clean with minimal foxing. Bound in marbled boards with a brown leather spine and corners. 5 raised spine bands. Spine is gilt ruled. SEE PHOTOS. "Thomas Bird Mosher 1852 - 1923 was an American publisher out of Portland Maine. He is notable for his contributions to the private press movement in the United States and as a major exponent of the British Pre-Raphaelites and Aesthetes as well as other British Victorians. His book styles reflected those of William Pickering publisher and the Whittinghams the books of the Bodley Head the Daniel Press the Eragny Press and Charles Ricketts of the Vale Press among others. By the end of Moshers publishing program in 1923 there would be 384 titles 338 reprints of those editions and 61 privately printed books for a total of 783 books grouped into fourteen different series all limited editions covering his favorite authors including William Morris Oscar Wilde Fiona Macleod William Sharp Robert Louis Stevenson Algernon Charles Swinburne Walter Pater Dante Gabriel Rossetti Richard Jeffries Vernon Lee Violet Paget Edward FitzGerald Walt Whitman Andrew Lang George Meredith John Addington Symons Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Matthew Arnold Maurice Hewlett Francis Thompson Marcel Schwob J. W. Mackail Ernest Dowson John Ruskin George Gissing William Butler Yeats Richard Burton and others." -- quote from Wikipedia. 4th Edition & 1st Edition respectively. Hardcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 4.5" wide by 7.5" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. S[amuel] Keble and R[ichard] Sare / J[acob] Tonson Hardcover
163948827Basel: Ludwig König 1639. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio in fours: asterisk in parens6 A-8N4 8O6 = 708 leaves; 12pp. 2680 columns 1391-1392 omitted; 1997-1998 repeated 64 = index and emendandapp. Engraved portrait; extra engraved title page. Woodcut printer's device at letterpress title; woodcut head- and tail-pieces initials; letterpress ornamentation. Contemporary tawed pigskin over wooden boards elaborately tooled in blind with central cartouches at both covers portrait of August I at front; Electors of Saxony arms at back spine with raised bands. Pair of mounted leather straps and brass catches intact along with a single brass clasp second clasp replaced with a simple modern brass replica. Edges stained green. Two old cellotape repairs along top edge verso of the portrait not affecting image. Bottom outer corner section 2 in. by 4 in. of the main title margin excised and expertly replaced. Faintly toned text crisp and fine throughout. A very attractive copy in a handsome armorial binding complete with both the author's portrait and the engraved title.<br /> <br /> First edition of this lexicon of Aramaic and post-biblical Hebrew comprising the vocabulary of the Aramaic paraphrases targum of the Old Testament the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds as well as later midrashic and and rabbinic literature all copiously illustrated with extracts and examples. This present issue is dated M.DC.XXXIX. 1639 at the engraved title and M.DC. XXXX. 1640 at the main title the latter likely in error according to Prijs. The numeral "2" in the 1629 date of death on the portrait is reversed in some copies it has been erroneously replaced with a "3". The dedication Basel February 1639 is addressed to the Ordines of Groningen and Holland in recognition of the establishment in 1614 of the University of Groningen. Two faculty members Franciscus Gomarus and Heinrich Alting had specifically requested that Buxtorf publish a dictionary for use in the study of Jewish rabbinic literature. Prijs <br /> <br /> Begun in 1610 the work would occupy the elder Buxtorf for the next twenty years in the midst of his copious academic schedule and other scholarly projects. "By 1617 he had reached the letter Ayin. Between 1617 and 1619 he worked on the rabbinical Bible and probably had no time to devote to the lexicon. Finally in 1628 he completed the first draft. His manuscript work was in no shape to be published however" Burnett. "In the course of the work the material grew more and more so that after completing the whole thing up to the letter Tav he had to set about bringing the earlier letters up to date by using other sources" Prijs. Buxtorf died in 1629 before completing the revisions of the letter Bet. His son Johann would complete the revisions and finally publish the lexicon after ten more years of labor. While the younger Buxtorf states in the preface "maneat parenti gloria authoris" may the glory of the Author remain with the Parent "in his hands it became almost a new work" Smitskamp.<br /> <br /> Burnett notes that "Buxtorf's fame as a lexicographer. was not a result of his work in biblical Hebrew but in post-biblical Hebrew and talmudic Aramaic." Two centuries later bibliographers and scholars were still singing the praises of the Lexicon Chaldaicum: "All the Chaldaic Talmudical and Rabbincal words which occur in the paraphrases of the Old Testament in the Babylonish and Jerusalem Targums in the common or more private writings of the Hebrew commentarors philosophers theologians cabbalists and lawyers are fully explained. Numerous extracts and examples are given; proverbs apophthegms opinions rites and other things relating to sacred philology and antiquities are illustrated. All subsequent writers have been greatly indebted to this Lexicon of Buxtorf.†Orme. "The World is more beholden to him for his learned and judicious Labours than to any other that lived in his time and his name ought ever to be preserved with Honour in Acknowledgment of it†Prideaux.<br /> <br /> Provenance and annotations: Binding embossed at the front cover with the portrait of Augustus I 1526-1586 Elector of Saxony; the Elector's arms appear at the rear cover. Occasional old underlinings and marginal annotations throughout. References: S. Burnett From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies Leiden 1996 no. 75; pp. 128-133. Orme Bibl. Biblica p. 71. H. Prideaux The Old and New Testament Connected 1725 2:784-785. Prijs no. 237. Smitskamp Phil. Orientalis no. 172. Steinschneider BH 329b. Wolf Historia 121.<br /> <br /> Full title and imprint: Johannis Buxtorfii P. Lexicon Chaldaicum Talmudicum et Rabbinicum: in quo omnes voces Chaldaicae Talmudicae et Rabbinicae quotquot in universis Vet. Test. Paraphrasibus Chaldaicis; in utroque; Talmud Babylonico & Hierosolymitano in vulgaribus et secretioribus Hebraeorum Scriptoribus Commentatoribus Philosophis Theologis Cabalistis et Jureconsultis extant fideliter explicantur Et copia ac delectu exemplorum Targumicorum Talmudicorum et Rabbinicorum eleganter declarantur; passim etiam suis locis Hebraeorum et Chaldaeorum Proverbia Apophthegmata Sententiae Ritus aliaque ad Sacram hanc Philologiam pertinentia ex propriis ipsorum libris produnctur et explanantur; Quamplurima denique Vet. et Nov. Test loca ex Antiquitate et Historia Hebraica nove exponuntur et illustrantur; Ut non solum vulgaris Lexici sed amplissimi et instructissimi Thesauri Philologici loco esse possit ; opus XXX. annorum nunc demum post Patris obitum ex ipsius Autographo fideliter descriptum in ordinem aequabilem digestum et multis propriis observationibus passim locupletatum Reipublicaeque Christanae bono in lucem editum à Johanne Buxtorfio filio. Cum indice vocum Latinarum et locorum N.T. illustratorum. Cum privilegio. Basiliae Sumptibus et typis Ludovici Konig M.DC.XXXX. Ludwig König hardcover
1681508Sam. Heryivk at Grayes-Inn-Gate in Holborn and Matthew Gilliflower in Westminster-Hall 1681. First Edition. Rebound in Quasi-Marbled Boards. Very Good. A Very Good Book Rebound in Early 20th Century Quasi-Marbled Boards. Moderately shelf worn and sunned to extremities and spine. Pastedown and endpapers have a toning shadow from laid-in material. Pastedown bears the name of Arthur Cole of Lincoln's Inn 1949. Cole was a Barrister at Lincoln's Inn the same firm of which Holbourne was once a Bencher. Front hinge is starting and pastedown has a small searation near crown. Margins are a bit narrow near gutter. Text is unmarked. Some leaves have soiling and thumbing along top edge. Hardcover. 12mo. iv including errata 2 3-141pp. 142143 contents. Sam. Heryivk, at Grayes-Inn-Gate in Holborn, and Matthew Gilliflower, in Westminster-Hall unknown
168252208<p>London printed by Samuel Roycroft and are to be sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross 1682. TITLE CONTINUED:As by their several gracious Commissions here recited may appear. With a brief Relation of the Manner of the Archers marching on several days of Solemnity. FIRST EDITION 1682. Small slim 8vo approximately 170 x 110 mm 7 x 4½ inches pages: xvi 1-78 lacking last leaf "Post Script" many copies are lacking this leaf pages 1-31 mostly printed in black letter then a new title page "A Remembrance of the Worthy Show and Shooting by the Duke of Shoreditch" followed by roman text bound in 19th century in maroon half roan over marbled boards marbled endpapers with bookplate of Fox Pointe Manor Library on first pastedown. Slight rubbing to binding pale stain affecting the lower inner margins of first 7 leaves including title page tiny repair to blank side of lower edge of title page slight shelf wear to edges and corners 3 corner tips neatly repaired not affecting text small closed tear to 1 margin and top margin of last page both neatly repaired not affecting text some very light soiling and staining to margins a very good copy. See Sotheby's Library of the Earls of Maccclesfield Part 10 page 364 No 3850; Catalogue of The Famous Library of Henry Huth Volume 9 page 2254 No. 8182; ESTC R22583. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, printed by S[amuel] R[oycroft] and are to be sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross, 1682. hardcover
16754783London: Arthur Tooker at the Globe in the Strand over against lvie-Bridge; and William Battersby at Thavie's Inne Gate in Holborn near S. Andrew's Church 1675. 2nd. Good. <p>Front and back cover appear original. Spine has been replaced well done and in leather with 6 raised bands. Front and back corners also replaced at same time and with same material. In solid condition but worn. All pages and images are present including final engraving. Text is clear and easy to read with some wear to the edges of pages especially towards the rear - no impact to images. Age color to pages with some spotting. Inscriptions from previous owners on front pastedown and subsequent blanks. Some ink in pages and pencil doodling on blanks or margins.</p> <br /> <p>Provenance: On the blank side of the Frontispiece is a large signature from Abel Hold 1815-1891 with biographical details including bithdate marriage and date of his wife's passing. Abel was a landscape and game artist who did some portraiture. Never a welthy man Abel would often send a painting of a starving man to his patron who would promptly pay. He had many shows in London including at The Royal Academy and other salons of the time. Rather romantically and solely from my opinion the book has the look and feel of an artist's book and while heavily used shows care and repair to ensure longevity. Additional family and earlier owner details on front pastedown.<br /> <br /> Pages: 229 Dimensions: 8¼ x 12½ x 1</p> . Arthur Tooker, at the Globe in the Strand, over against lvie-Bridge; and William Battersby, at Thavie's Inne Gate in Holborn, ne unknown
1615Biblio748<p><em>Svmptibvs Samvelis Crispini. Samuel Crispin. Coloniae Allobrogvm. Geneva 1615. Folio. Title page in red and black. Engraved device depicting Fama to title page. 34 746 160 8 116 3-29pp. Pages 2 and 27 incorrectly numbered 116 and 23 pagination complying with the Kew copy. Main body of text printed in double columns with marginal printed notation. Head and tail pieces historiated initials. Imprint date uses turned Cs. Running title: C. Plinii Secvndi Natvral Hist. Half calf spine in seven compartments with leather label renewed at a later date retaining earlier marbled boards. Reinforced to hinges with linen. Some spotting foxing offsetting etc. A few minor dog-ears. Historic annotation in a neat hand to Lib. VI p.102 "These numbers are doubtless transposed" & to Lib. XXXIII p.653 "Ante de diminuum". A notably significant volume. </em></p><p><strong><em>PROVENANCE</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> Early Inscriptions to Title Page:</em></strong></p><p><em> D. Laurentius Strange</em></p><p><em> Further indecipherable inscription written at an angle</em></p><p><strong><em> Bookplates of note to front pastedown:</em></strong></p><p><em> 'Lady Rodd / 1840' Armorial Bookplate with ribboned collar and badge of Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.</em></p><p><em> 'Sir J. Rennell Rodd. Recte Omnia Duce Deo'. Armorial Bookplate in indigo.</em></p><p><strong><em> Jane Rennell Lady Rodd</em></strong><em> the daughter of Major James Rennell see below was born in 1777 on St Helena. Jane Rennell married Admiral Sir John Tremayne Rodd KCB in 1809. Jane Lady Rodd devoted many years publishing her father's current charts and revising new editions of his principal works. She died in December 1863.</em></p><p><strong><em> Vice-Admiral Sir John Tremayne Rodd KCB</em></strong><em> c. 1769-1838 Royal Navy. During the Napoleonic Wars Rodd served in a number of ships including HMS San Josef under Admiral Sir Charles Cotton and HMS Indefatigable during the Battle of the Basque Roads. In 1825 he was promoted to rear-admiral later advancing to vice-admiral and knighted. He died in 1838. </em></p><p><em> Their son <strong>James Rennell Rodd</strong> 1812–1892 father of:</em></p><p><strong><em> James Rennell Rodd 1st Baron Rennell GCB GCMG GCVO PC</em></strong><em> 1858-1941 British diplomat poet and politician. Friend of Oscar Wilde. British Ambassador to Italy during the First World War.</em></p><p><strong><em> Major James Rennell FRS FRSE FRGS</em></strong><em> 1742-1830 Geographer cartographer oceanographer. Rennell produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as accurate outlines of India. Surveyor General of Bengal. Rennell has been called the Father of Oceanography. In 1830 he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London. He is buried in the centre of the nave of Westminster Abbey.</em></p><p><em> The Royal Geographical Society holds The Rennell Collection a selection of books from the extensive library at <strong>The Rodd Presteigne Radnorshire</strong> left to the Royal Geographical Society by the late Lord Rennell a past President. Johnson Alison M. "The Rennell Collection." The Geographical Journal vol. 148 no. 1 1982 pp. 38–42.</em></p><p><strong><em> Gaius Plinius Secundus AD 23/24 – 79 Pliny the Elder.</em></strong><em> Roman author naturalist natural philosopher and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire. Known commonly as The Natural History this is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. Probably the first encyclopaedia to have been written and certainly the earliest to survive. "An astonishing compilation of 20000 "things worth knowing" was avowedly intended to be a repository of ancient Mediterranean knowledge". Richard Saller. Pliny's Roman Economy: Natural History Innovation and Growth. Princeton University Press. 2022.</em></p><p><em> Historiae mundi libri XXXVII : Opus omni quidem commendatione maius sed nullis ad hunc diem editionibus nulla cuiusquam singulari vel opera vel industria à mendis quæ aut temporum iniquitate aut superiorum ætatum negligentia inter Latinos primæ notæ scriptorem hactenus occuparunt satis vnquam emaculatum fuerit. Nunc denuo quanta praestari potuit fide cura & diligentia tam ex vetustissimorum & aliorum hactenus excusorum quam plurium etiam manuscriptorum codicum attentissima collatione; idque post vltimam defuncti doctissimi D. Iacobi Dalecampii præstantissimi medici manum ita fliciter repurgatum: variis quoque Sigism. Gelenii Fredenandi sic Pintiani & aliorum lectionibus castigationibus & adnotationibus eruditissimis ornatum; vt nihil posthac huic operi desiderari posse videatur. Accessere itidem indices vtiles & necessarij.<br /></em></p><p><em> Dalecampius Jacobus edit.</em></p><p><em> Gelenius Sigismundus edit.</em></p><p><em> Pintianus Ferdinandus edit.</em></p><p><em> Rhenanus Beatus edit.</em></p> Samvelis Crispini. [Samuel Crispin]. hardcover
