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MERIAN, Matthaeus, the Elder, engraver (1593-1650) GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig (1584-1633)Biblio.com

1630SAV156Strassburg: In Verlegung Lazari Zetzners Seligen Erben 1630. Hardcover. Good. 1625-1630. Four parts in one volume separately titled two with engraved borders. Oblong 8vo 133x175mm. Pagination: Part 1: 3-111 1pp. lacking title; Part II: 135 1pp. pp. 19-20 misbound but present ; Part III: 87 1pp.; Part IV: 159 1pp lacking 5 engravings at pp. 69-70 89-90 141-144 157-158. Sold as is. 228 oblong copperplate engravings of Old and New Testament compositions covering biblical books of Genesis to Apocalypse with Latin German and French text from a chronicle by Johann Ludwig Gottfried. Old German Type. This copy opening with the dedication by Merian to the austere and noble Frankfurt town mayor Johann Martin Bawer von Eiseneck Baur von Eysseneck and followed by the Favorable Reader pages. Part I of the Icones Biblicae covers the books of Genesis to end of Deuteronomy. Part II is dedicated to Anna Maria Königin and Jacob Sandrarts a burger and tradesman of Frankfurt respectively and covers the books of Joshua to second book of Kings. Part III the shortest and dated 1630 covers books of Chronicles to II Maccabees. Part IV dated 1629 with engraved title with Christ as Humilitas and astounded St. Paul in Glory covers New Testament chronicles and scenes including all four Gospel writers Acts of the Apostles and the Apocalypse. Later half calf over speckled boards; front cover loose some minor excisions as noted above preliminary leaves and some corners and margins repaired some margins shaved close with loss scattered stains overall a good compact copy rich in engravings. Merians engravings and Gottfrieds trilingual chronicle together an iconographic compendium to the Bible the Icones Biblicae published between 1625 and 1630 by Zetzners in Strassburg. The printers De Bry in Frankfurt produced another edition of the same title from 1625 to 1627. After 1631 other editions of the "Icones Biblicae" appeared in Amsterdam and Cologne. The initial work was conceived as a monumental collection of great scenes from the Bible designed by Merian and accompanied with short descriptive texts in German Latin and French by German theologian and historian Johann Ludwig Gottfried. Swiss-born engraver Matthaeus Merian the Elder lived in Frankfurt most his life where he produced several religious historical and topographical publications for the European market. Perhaps best known for his detailed prints of European cities Merians biblical imagery both of Old and New Testament compositions were also well integrated into the vernacular culture of his time. Merians superb engravings are reminiscent of seventeenth century European landscapes plentiful in period details and notable for Baroque-ized exaggerations consisting of raucous figures in high drama situations. It is purported Rembrandt van Rijn consulted a copy of the "Icones Biblicae" for ideas for his compositions. OCLC locates only one copy but that of De Bry in a US institution. This Zetzners edition is uncommon outside Europe. Altogether a scarce work and commonly lacking a few engravings which were probably pulled for artistic reference. In Verlegung Lazari Zetzners Seligen Erben hardcover

Montaigne, Michel de; John Florio, translator from the French; Martin Droeshout, engraverBiblio.com

The Essayes or Morall Politike and Militarie Discourses of Lord Michael de Montaigne Knight of the Noble Order of Saint Michael and One of the Gentlemen in Ordinary of the French Kings Chamber

163238184London: Printed by M. Flesher for Rich: Royston in Ivie-lane next the exchequer Office London 1632. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. This is the third edition of Montaigne's influential and famous essays and on the title page it says that whereunto this edition is now more newly added an index of the principal matters and personages mentioned in the book. The celebrated architectural illustration that is engraved on the title page is by Martin Droeshout responsible for the iconic portrait of Shakespeare in the First Folio also appeared in this edition for the first time Montaigne is credited with pioneering the modern essay form. His Essays are a collection of personal reflections exploring a wide range of topics from human nature to philosophy literature and personal experiences. Published in three books they were written and revised over several decades with the first edition appearing in 1580. The remarkable modernity of thought apparent in Montaigne's essays coupled with their sustained popularity made them arguably the most prominent work in French philosophy until the Enlightenment. Their influence over French education and culture is still strong. Wikipedia They were originally written in Middle French and published in the Kingdom of France. Montaigne's stated design in writing publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record "some traits of my character and of my humours." Montaigne's Essays went through several stages of publication evolving from a two-book work in 1580 to a final posthumous edition in 1595. The first English translation of Montaigne's Essays was published in 1603 by John Florio. This translation titled The Essayes or Morall politike and millitarie discourses was a significant event in English literature introducing the French philosopher's work to an English-speaking audience. Bound in full brown leather; the spine has raised bands with titling and ornaments in gilt. There are small chips on the right side of each band. A small piece of leather at the bottom of spine edge is torn away and their is a slight crack to the top of spine along the front cover. The covers have some bumping and rubbing and a few small spots. It appears that the formal endpapers are missing and there is just rough paper covering the inside covers. It is torn and revels glue remnants The front inside cover has a bookplate with a coronet and the Latin motto "Vernon Semper Viret" meaning in English "Vernon Always Flourishes". This appears to belong to George John Warren Venables-Vernon 5th Baron Vernon 1803-1866 who was a British politician and member of parliament. He was also a devotee of Dante and The Inferno. The text pages have bright white margins but the printed text sections are somewhat browned. There small brown spots along the margins of pages 55-60 with one having become a hole. There are three books of essays with the second and third books having title pages dated 1631. The first book: pages 1 - 177; the second book: pages 183-440; the third book: pages 443-631. It is followed by the "Index or Table of subjects that is unpaginated. Despite the noted condition issue this is still a very good copy of this important book. LIT/073125. Printed by M. Flesher, for Rich: Royston, in Ivie-lane next the exchequer Office, London hardcover

The Kelmscott Bookshop · États-Unis4 500,00 $US≈ 3 807,45 €

WELPER, Eberhard the elderBiblio.com

Gnomonica oder gründlicher Unterricht und Beschreibung Wie man allerhand Sonnen-Uhren auf ebenen Orten künstlich aufreissen und leichlich verfertigen soll &c. Zum andermal aufgeleget und mit nutzlichen Anmerkungen wie auch dem andern Theil vermehret durch einen Liebhaber der Mathematischen Wissenschaften = Johann Christoph Sturm.

16723992Nuremberg 1672. 4to. Paulus Fürstens printed by Christoph Gerhard Contemporary parchment sewn on 3 supports with a hollow back each board with a frame of blind double fillets green cloth ties. With a finely engraved frontispiece an architectural gate with a wide variety of sundials and other astronomical instruments 2 title-pages each in a decorative frame built up from typographic ornaments 16 engraved plates 1 folding in the first part that for p. 48 repeated - at the end of vol. 2 - in accordance with the instructions to the binder and numerous mathematical illustrations and figures on 13 folding engraved plates lettered A-N in the second part. Further with letterpress tables on the integral leaves woodcut tailpieces and decorative gothic initials and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Set in fraktur types with incidental roman and Schwabacher. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12 88; 74 2 pp. Rare second edition 1st issue in 2 volumes extensively revised and enlarged of a mathematical study of the construction of sundials by Eberhard Welper the elder 1590-1664 first published in 1625 and here with useful additional observations and enlarged with a second part by Johann Christoph Sturm. Welper was born in Lohr near Marburg but studied in Strasbourg where he worked as a bookseller printer mathematician astrologer and astronomer. The first edition of the present work was one of his earliest publications. Sturm greatly expanded Welpers Gnomonica for the 1672 edition which was originally complete in the present two volumes. In 1681 Sturm added a third volume so the present two volumes were reissued with the third. Doppelmayer added a fourth volume in 1708.Occasionally browned but still in good condition. A rare 17th-centry work on sundials.l BMC STC 17th cen. W815 vols. 1-2; VD17 39:119761M & 39:119760D vols. 1-2 6 copies; Zimmer Astronomische Instrumente pp. 546 & 583; cf. Zimmer Astronomischen Literatur 5023 1625 ed.; not in Honeyman; Poggendorff; Wheeler gift. hardcover

Asher Rare Books · Pays-Bas4 250,00 €

[Bede]; Venerabilis Bedae [= The Venerable Bede, Saint Bede]Biblio.com

Opera Theologica Moralia Historica Philosophica Mathematica & Rhetorica quotquot hucusque haberi pouterunt omnia in Vetus et Novum Testamentum . in Tomos VIII = Works . in Eight Volumes

1688000011508Coloniae Agrippinae = Cologne: Ioannem Wilhelmum Friessem 1688. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 vol. 8 vol. bound in 4. Folio. 8 2-452 2; 1-238 with a section of these leaves mispaginated; 4 2-499 2; 4 2-916 1; 2 2-815; 2 2-851; 4 2-486 1; 4 2-967 a lengthy unpaginated index of words and subjects at the end of the volume plus a blank before the rear endpaper pp. Contemporary full blind-tooled pigskin contemporary ink titling on the spines with the volumes numbers; all edges decoratively stained black. Volume one with an engraved title page and its title page printed in red and black also with several in-text woodcuts and charts. The later volumes each have their own title page all volumes with woodcut initials head and tailpieces. Brunet 276. Graesse 321. NCBEL 346. Oxford DNB J. Campbell "Bede St Bede Bæda known as the Venerable Bede 673/4–735". This edition was first published in Cologne in 1612 these volumes are the second edition printed there. Saint Bede is remembered for his contributions to ecclesiastical and British historical writings. Bede wrote analytically and was fascinated by time and the creation of life as they were written about in early Christian sources. The sources available to him included Eusebius of Caesarea Orosius Eutropius and the earlier British historian Gildas. Historians label his Historia Ecclesiastica Anglis Gentorum as the greatest culmination of his writings and some point out that it helped to create the sense of a national English identity at a time when the Angles and the Saxons were still forging intertribal unity. His history of Christianity in Britain largely focuses on the years 597-731 after a brief explanation of Christianity in Roman-controlled Britain. Bede wrote in his own autobiography that his life was devoted to "learning and letters" and he was well-beloved in his own time and long after including by Britain's first king Alfred which is largely why most of his work survives today. His translations of various religious histories and lives of the Saints into Latin made these works accessible to his fellow monks and Bede even did an Old English translation of St. John's Gospel which had it survived would be the earliest lengthy work of prose in English. Bede was an author who was influenced greatly by the writers of Late Antiquity and his career is one of the most significant among those who wrote during the early Middle Ages. With a small later bookplate and an 18th century ownership mark Signet Library on each front pastedown. No other institutional markings. Boards with a few small spots of wear and yellowing overall a lovely set. Ioannem Wilhelmum Friessem hardcover

Evening Star Books · États-Unis5 500,00 $US≈ 4 653,55 €

BEDE, THE VENERABLE - BEDABiblio.com

Opera qoutquot reperiri potuerunt omnia: Hac ultima impressione ornatus in lucem edita. 8 Tomi. - THE FIRST COMPLETE BEDE

161228124Coloniae Agrippinae KÃ¶ln Sumptibus Anton. Hierati et Ioan. Gymnici 1612. Folio. Bound in two contemporary uniform full vellum bindings with remains of silk-ties on boards. Some traces of use to extremities. Some pages evenly browned some brownspotted. First two volumes richly illustrated with woodcut diagrams musical notes earth- and heaven-maps etc. in the text numerous woodcut initials throughout engraved title-page. 10 pp columns 1-168 84 pp. pp. 169 - 322 columns 323 - 452 65 pp. 1 f. 238 pp. 2 ff. columns 1 - 500 250 pp. 2 ff. columns 1 - 916 458 pp. 1 f. columns 1 - 816 408 pp 1 f. columns 1 - 852 426 pp. 2 ff. columns 1 - 485 243 pp. 2 ff. columns 1 - 968 484 pp. 55 ff. Index. Very rare early and apparently first complete edition of the seminal works by the "Father of English History" the venrable Bede. Bedeâ€™s most famous work his "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People" Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum begins with the invasion of the British Isles by Roman forces and is considered one of the most important historical records documenting Roman rule Anglo-Saxon settlement and the evolution of the Church on the island. With its focus on Anglo-Saxon history the work is considered a key foundational text in the forming of a national English identity. The "Ecclesiastical History" contains stories that serve as the only source documenting the conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon tribes. It tells the story of Britons from Julius Caesarâ€™s invasion to the time of Bede himself . He tells the story of battles conversions and miracles performed by monks and bishops and details Britainâ€™s early history from the Roman invasion. He furthermore describes the organization and establishment of Christianity in the English church and covers the personal history of Holy Ethelwald and miracles of growth within the English church such as the development of the bishopric. "Bedeâ€™s works fall into three groups: grammatical and â€œscientificâ€ scriptural commentary and historical and biographical. His earliest works included treatises on spelling hymns figures of speech verse and epigrams. His first treatise on chronology De temporibus â€œOn Timesâ€ with a brief chronicle attached was written in 703. In 725 he completed a greatly amplified version De temporum ratione â€œOn the Reckoning of Timeâ€ with a much longer chronicle. Both these books were mainly concerned with the reckoning of Easter. His earliest biblical commentary was probably that on the Revelation to John 703â€“709; in this and many similar works his aim was to transmit and explain relevant passages from the Fathers of the Church. Although his interpretations were mainly allegorical treating much of the biblical text as symbolic of deeper meanings he used some critical judgment and attempted to rationalize discrepancies. Among his most notable are his verse 705â€“716 and prose before 721 lives of St. Cuthbert bishop of Lindisfarne. These works are uncritical and abound with accounts of miracles; a more exclusively historical work is Historia abbatum c. 725; â€œLives of the Abbotsâ€. In 731/732 Bede completed his Historia ecclesiastica. Divided into five books it recorded events in Britain from the raids by Julius Caesar 55â€“54 BCE to the arrival in Kent 597 CE of St. Augustine of Canterbury. For his sources he claimed the authority of ancient letters the â€œtraditions of our forefathersâ€ and his own knowledge of contemporary events. Bedeâ€™s Historia ecclesiastica leaves gaps tantalizing to secular historians. Although overloaded with the miraculous it is the work of a scholar anxious to assess the accuracy of his sources and to record only what he regarded as trustworthy evidence. It remains an indispensable source for some of the facts and much of the feel of early Anglo-Saxon history." Encycl. Britt. Only three editions of Bede's Opera Omnia are known before Dr. Giles' edition from 1843 - 44. The first was printed in 1563 and the third in 1688. The 1688-edition constitutes the second edition of the present 1612-edition which is "According to Dr. Henry the only complete edition" Lowndes I:143. These three editions are also the only ones known to have been printed in folio though Lowndes mentions the 1688-edition as 4to. The 1612-edition is the rarest. Some of the works contained in this edition are said not to be Bede's own as some of the many scientific richly illustrated works on geography the heavens the universe music etc. bear small resemblance to his other works. Lowndes I:143 Brunet 1:731. hardcover

Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn A/S · Danemark35 000,00 DKK≈ 4 700,50 €

TAYLOR, JOHN, "THE WATER POETBiblio.com

All the Workes of John Taylor The Water Poet Being Sixty and Three in Number. Collected into One Volume by the Author With Sundry New Additions Corrected Revised and Newly Imprinted

163029102London: Printed by J. B. for James Boler 1630 1630. First edition. ESTC S117734; STC 23725; Pforzheimer 1006. A lightly washed copy with the following repairs: engraved title-page and one leaf Mmm5 pages 139-40 skillfully remargined with slight loss of a few letters on the final two lines on page 140; fore-edges occasionally trimmed close without loss; binding a little rubbed at the hinges and edges; remains of a bookseller's description on the front free endpaper; overall a fine copy. Folio late 19th century full olive morocco by Riviere gilt rules decorations spine lettering and gilt ornamental wreath on the boards a.e.g. Engraved title-page by Thomas Cockson and numerous woodcuts in the text. The collected works of a colorful member of the London literary scene in the late 16th and early 17th centuries - not a major figure but an extraordinary one. John Taylor 1578-1653 moved in the circles of Ben Jonson John Fletcher Thomas Coryate George Wither Thomas Dekker and Samuel Daniel among others. His background was modest and by trade he was a waterman on the Thames ferrying passengers across the river from the city to the Bankside but he was also a poet satirist pamphleteer self-promoter adventurer and traveller. He published over 150 titles usually in the ephemeral format of a broadside or pamphlet in prose and verse and on an array of subjects: comic narratives about London characters rhyming squibs on the travails of everyday life mock eulogies panegyrics upon himself anagrams sonnets narratives of real and imaginary travels invectives at rival poets and writers politics and low-life etc. In 1630 Taylor proudly arranged to have his works collected in the handsome folio format that previously had been used only for three other English authors - Daniel Jonson and Shakespeare - thus placing himself in select company. Whether or not All the Workes collected all of Taylor's works to 1630 is in question and he continued to publish almost until his death in 1653 little of which has been collected in any format. All the Workes itself was not reprinted until almost 250 years after this first edition. Robert Southey in his Lives of Uneducated Poets London 1836 wrote that the first poet to overcome the unfavorable obstacles of a poor education and humble beginnings "was John Taylor the Water-Poet a man who has long been more known by name than by his writings." ¶ Copies of Taylor's All the Workes are difficult to find in the marketplace in an unsophisticated state and this copy bears some evidence of repairs. See below. But it is also has very good provenance. On the front paste-down is the bookplate of collector Kenneth Rapoport with his catalogue slip laid in which states "Purchased from Seven Gables 9/22/77 @ $1040." A note on the verso updates it value as of 2004 to "$3-4000.". London: Printed by J. B. for James Boler, 1630 unknown

The Brick Row Book Shop · États-Unis6 500,00 $US≈ 5 499,65 €

[ALASKA -- ANCHORAGE & THE ALASKA RAILROAD ARCHIVE]. [EDES, William C (Chairman), MEARS, Frederick (Engineer), & RIGGS, Jr, ThomBiblio.com

An exceptional archive of 86 original silver print photographs chronicling the transformation of Anchorage Alaska Territory from the village of Ship Creek and the construction of the Seward-Anchorage railroad line by the Alaska Engineering Commission AEC. These striking images capture steamships landing dynamiting of obstructions camp construction unloading of railroad car trucks from Panama and railroad lines under construction with many featuring the sweeping Alaskan vistas in the background.

161959078Anchorage & Seward A.T.: Alaska Engineering Commission AEC Phinney S. Hunt ca. 1916-1917. 4to. 86 silver print photographs sized 6.25 x 8.25 in. nearly all w/ photographerâ€™s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge as well as caption negative number and AEC some w/ occasional pencil annotations on verso all preserved in mylar sleeves occasional creasing at corners a couple w/ slight loss at corners in the small blank margin. Recent 3-ring clamshell binder an excellent set of photos with all retaining bright strong contrast. This outstanding photo archive provides not only some of the earliest photographs of Anchorage Alaska Territory but also this immense railroad project first authorized by the US Congress in 1912. The few existing privately-run railroads operating in Alaska at the time including the Alaska Northern Railway and the Tanana Valley Railroad primarily fulfilled the needs of the mining companies carrying resources to sea ports and very little allowance was made for passenger traffic and it was impossible to travel by rail from Shipâ€™s Creek at the Cook Inlet north to Fairbanks. Through an April 1915 executive order President Wilson directed that the newly created Alaska Engineering Commission construct a railroad along the surveyed â€œWestern Routeâ€ from Seward or Portage Bay along the Turnagain & Knik Arms of Cook Inlet North through the Suitna Valley and then follow the Nenana River until it joined the Tanana with the intent it would connect eventually to Fairbanks. Employing discarded surplus railroad equipment from the Panama Canal Railroad project and under the direction of engineer Mears who had worked on both the Panama Canal and Great Northern Railroads the tiny tent city of Shipâ€™s Creek swelled to 5500 people within two years and was officially labeled by the Post Office as â€œAnchorage.â€ Photos included here reveal the barren original landscape of Shipâ€™s Creek with one of the photos showing the steam launches â€œAlaskaâ€ & â€œSeagullâ€ who carried cargo and passengers from ships offshore. In addition there are views of the construction of the immense AEC Railway machine shop by Sept. 1916 as well as the newly completed first Railroad Depot in Anchorage with the progression of buildings erected beyond. These early views of the fast developing project portray the Commissary Hospital Bunkhouses finished machine shop interiors of the powder house for blasting along with a view of the AECâ€™s photo studio and the completed electrical power house. Early street views of the nascent city are quite scarce and one of particular interest shows Fourth Ave. looking East with newly built stores and homes built along both sides of the roadway stretching into the distance. Brutal working conditions continually interfered with the pace of the project with one of the images showing the AECâ€™s â€œElectric Thawing Machineâ€ on a sled whie others depict piles of snow work camps in snow and even sternwheeler and docks trapped in an ice flow in March 1917. A couple of the photographs feature the sternwheeler SS Omineca underway which had been originally constructed in 1909 for the Grand Trunk Railway running the Skeena River from 1909-1912 and powered by the original SS Caledoniaâ€™s engines. By the end of 1916 60 miles of track had been laid 100 miles were graded and right-of-way cleared for 230 miles with photos in this archive showing AEC Construction camps at various mile markers blasting activity and track laying. At the same time they rehabilitated the bankrupt Alaska Northern Railroad tracks and by Oct. 24 1917 the first AEC Railway train reached the Chickaloon coal mines 74 miles North of Anchorage. The railroad would actually not be finished until 1923 when the Tanana River Bridge was completed and last 57 miles of track to Fairbank converted to standard gauge. Photos also show the Anchorage Baseball Field which featured games for the Cook Inlet Baseball League composed at the time of Matanuska Anchorage and Turnagain Arm teams. Thereâ€™s also a very fine series of the Decoration Day parade held May 30 1917 depicting many of the main streets and businesses in the background. In addition several photographs show the ocean docks completed which allowed ships to directly dock at Anchorage rather than lightering passengers and cargo to shore prior to 1917. Hunt 1866-1917 originally worked as a California optician before trekking to Valdez Alaska as a gold rush prospector but quickly established himself as a photographer opening his studio and documenting Valdez and development of the region. He would bring his wife and children to Alaska by 1907. He later secured work as one of the AECâ€™s official photographers shooting some of the early survey work by 1914 and through the project until suffering a heart attack Oct. 14 1917 in Seward AK. Huntâ€™s son A.O. Hunt also worked as an assistant photographer for the AEC. A few of these images appear as negatives in the Alaska State Library Historical Collections with a couple shown in their Digital Archives and some appear in the Alaska Engineering Commission archive at the U of W Collect. No. PH0495 but the bulk of that collection features photographs by James McPherson H.G. Kaiser and A.J. Johnson who were the other official photographers on the project; See: Phinney S. Hunt Photographs of Alaska 1902-1909 Photographs in and around Valdez and Sitka Alaska University of Washington Special Collections; Phinney S. Hunt Obituary Alaska Railroad Record Vol. I No. 49 Oct. 16 1917 p. 389. Alaska Engineering Commission, AEC, Phinney S. Hunt, unknown

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis8 500,00 $US≈ 7 191,85 €

[Gibson, Thomas] By a Fellow of the College of PhysiciansBiblio.com

ANATOMY OF HUMAN BODIES EPITOMIZED! Medical Surgery Leather FIRST EDITION THE ANATOMY OF HUMANE BODIES EPITOMIZED. First Edition. Printed in 1682. Complete with all 13 plates. The Anatomy Of Humane Bodies Epitomized. Wherein All The Parts Of Man's Body With Their Actions And Uses Are Succinctly Described. Printed in 1682.

1682261Gibson1THE ANATOMY OF HUMANE BODIES EPITOMIZED. First Edition. Printed in 1682.Complete with all 13 plates. The Anatomy Of Humane Bodies Epitomized. Wherein All The Parts Of Man's Body With Their Actions And Uses Are Succinctly Described. Printed in 1682. This is the rare First Edition.This book is extremely difficult to find. First published anonymously in 1682 The Anatomy of Human Bodies Epitomiz'd was probably the most successful English anatomical textbook published to date – it was ultimately issued in eight editions. Illustrated with plates.ALL 13 PLATES ARE PRESENT.This book is complete.Title page imprimatur leaf containing all of the correct number of 13 engraved plates. The covers are original.The spine was rebacked in the mid 1800's.Original title page is exceptionally well preserved.Imprimatur leaf opposite the title page is still present. The first edition was printed in 1682 and is unobtainable. In very good condition. Binding with a lot of general wear.Heavy generalized abrasion wear to the original binding. Spine rebacked in the 1800's. Title page has the date handwritten. Internally exceptionally well preserved. Minor signs of use stains an underlining. In exceptional condition despite the age. Printed on quality rag paper. Paper is supple and well preserved despite the age. Printed on quality rag paper that can still be read without damaging the paper. This was one of the most important anatomical works of this era. Anatomy of Humane Bodies Printed in 1682 The Anatomy Of Humane Bodies Epitomized : Wherein All The Parts Of Man's Body With Their Actions And Uses Are Succinctly Described By Gibson ThomasLondon: Thomas Fletcher. Good. Full-Leather. Small 8voFirst published anonymously in 1682 The Anatomy of Human Bodies Epitomiz'd was probably the most successful English anatomical textbook published to date – it was ultimately issued in eight editions. Gibson the Physician-General to the English army based his comprehensive text on Alexander Read's Manual of Anatomy. However the content was so extensively revised and supplemented Gibson claimed authorship. Gibson listed his principal sources some 33 titles by 27 authors which was an uncommon practice at the time. The Anatomy Of Humane Bodies EpitomizedOriginal leather boards; nineteenth century re backed leather spine -Printed in 1682 by Gibson Thomas By a Fellow of the College of Physicians London Small octavo 7 3/4 by 4 3/4 inches 8 510 pages containing all of the correct number of 13 engraved plates; hardcover leather binding in original boards neatly re-backed in mid 19th century with raised bands title in gilt on spine inked name cleanly written on first fly leaf very good condition minor scuffing to base of spine minor wear to hinges hinges very strong. ESTC Nos. R 8370 & R188113 Wing 5672.Divided into six separate sections each with their own chapters: Complete in 6 books bound as one:I. "On the lowest Cavity called Abdomen"II. "Of the Breast"III. "Of the Head"IV. "Containing a description of the Veins Arteries and Nerves of the Limbs"V. "Containing a Treatise of all the Musceles of the Body"VI. "Of the Bones." This book measures 7 3/4 inches tall. This book will be well protected for shipping.Your signature will be required for delivery. 26.1 Thomas Fletcher

Merchants Rare Books · États-Unis10 000,00 $US≈ 8 461,00 €

Vega Garcilasso de la, the IncaBiblio.com

THE ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF PERU IN TWO PARTS. The First Part: Treating of the Original of their Incas or Kings; the Second Part: Describing the manner by which that new World was conquered by the Spaniards. Translated by Sir Paul Rycaut.

168831913London: by Miles Flesher for Richard Tonson 1688. First Edition in English. This copy has two title pages one with the Tonson imprint rubricated black and red the other with the Heyrick imprint in black only. Sabin states: â€œAs some copies have only the black titles and some only the rubricated ones while others have both it seems possible that all the issues were originally published with two titles.â€ Engraved portrait frontispiece of translator Paul Rycaut the rubricated title page in red and black and 10 copperplate engravings. Folio an especially handsome copy bound in its original contemporary speckled English calf the spine with raised bands the compartments with floriated panels decorated in gilt red morocco lettering piece gilt the covers with a border decorations rolled in blind and double-filleted rules at the borders. 1019. A superb copy of this rare and early work. The book remains in its original binding. The text-block is crisp clean and unpressed The engraved illustrations are all in excellent condition. A truly wonderful copy and especially fine survival of a book rarely if ever found in such condition. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT EARLY HISTORY OF THE INCAN CIVILIZATION AND OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU BY THE SPANISH. De la Vega was a prince of Incan royalty by virtue of his mother who was descended from the last Incan King of Peru. He took great pride in his Incan ancestry styling himself â€œGarcilasso Incaâ€ and becoming a dedicated student of the Peruvian language and traditions. However the translator also tells us that â€œthe Spanish humour was most prevalent in him so that he delighted much to tell us as in diverse places that he was also the son of Garcilasso de la Vega one of the first Conquerours of the new World.â€ Such an illustrious ancestry provides for a rendering of the history of the Incan civilization from a unique point of view. The first section of the text details the early history of the Incas before the Spanish conquest including their laws and government and other â€œparticulars relating to their Empire and Policies.â€ The second part details the Spanish conquest and the various civil wars and rebellions that came along with them and after them. The first part was published in Lisbon in 1609 and the second part in 1617. This edition is the first English translation by Sir Paul Rycaut. This is a classic work comprehensive and painstakingly researched and remains today one of the chief authorities on the subject of ancient Peru. by Miles Flesher for Richard Tonson hardcover

Buddenbrooks, Inc. · États-Unis10 450,00 $US≈ 8 841,74 €

[Pliny]; Plinius Secundus (Caius); [Pliny the Elder; Holland, Phillemon (Translator]]Biblio.com

THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD: COMMONLY CALLED THE NATURALL HISTORIE OF C. PLINUS SECUNDUS Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke

163434275London: Printed by Adam Islip and to be sold by John Grismond in Ivy-lane and to be sold at the Signe of the Gun 1635 1634 1634. The first Tome. The second Tome. The second printing with numerous corrections of the first English translation. Printed by Adam Islip in 1634 the first volume contains the title-page dated 1635 which was offered for sale by John Grismond the second volume retains the 1634 title-page. Elaborate woodcut printer's device to title engraved floriated initials and fine head and tail pieces throughout. Folio in 6s 2 vols. bound in one an excellent copy bound in full contemporary polished calf in original state the back with raised bands over cords covers with double fillet rules in blind. 56 614 42; 12 632 86. Advertisement leaf at end of vol. II pp. Collated complete. An especially desirable copy of this highly important book. In its rare original state this book is seldom encountered. The textblock is crisp and unpressed and remains in a very pleasing state of preservation some minor evidence of damp in a few places as to be expected the spine with expert restoration at the head and tail of the panel a beautiful copy. IMPORTANT EARLY ISSUE OF THE GREAT TRANSLATION OF PLINY INTO ENGLISH BY PHILEMON HOLLAND. The second printing of the first full English translation of this important book. First published in Venice in 1469 â€œThe â€˜Natural Historyâ€ of Pliny the Elder is more than a natural history: it is an encyclopaedia of all the knowledge of the ancient world. .He was a compiler rather than an original thinker and the importance of this book depends more on his exhaustive reading he quotes over four hundred authorities Greek and Latin than on his original work. All the spare time allowed him by a busy administrative career was devoted to reading; he began long before daybreak his nephew the younger Pliny recorded and grudged every minute not spent in study; no book was so bad he used to say as not to contain something of value. When he died the 'Natural History' the sole extant work out of one hundred and two volumes from his pen was still incomplete. It comprises thirty-seven books dealing with mathematics and physics geography and astronomy medicine and zoology anthropology and physiology philosophy and history agriculture and mineralogy the arts and letters. He is scrupulous in his acknowledgment of his sources you must he wrote with honest humility declare those from whom you have profited and the whole of the first book is devoted to the tables of contents and authorities which bear witness to his method. The HISTORIE soon became a standard book of reference: abstracts and abridgments appeared by the third century. Bede owned a copy Alcuin sent the early books to Charlemagne and Dicuil the Irish geographer quotes him in the ninth century. It was the basis of Isidorets Etymologiae and such medieval encyclopedias as the Speculum Majus of Vincent of Beauvais and the Catholicon of Balbus. One of the earliest books to be printed at Venice the center from which so much of classical literature was first dispensed it was later translated into English by Philemon Holland in 1601 and twice reprinted a notable achievement for so vast a text. . More recently scholars as various as Humboldt and Grimm have praised and acknowledged their debt to it. Over and over again it will be found that the source of some ancient piece of knowledge is Pliny. PMM The standard of reference for scholars since the 15th century Hollandâ€™s translation made it available to the English speaking world for the first time. Although not strictly scientific itself mingling a good deal of the author's fancy with fact Pliny's NATURALL HISTORIE was important in stimulating scientific thought in succeeding generations. "It is an encyclopedia of all the knowledge of the ancient world set out in an orderly fashion. It was the source of much medieval knowldege--and legend--and the model for such works as the SPECULUM MAJUS of Vincent of Beauvais. The high regard in which it was held in the world of the Renaissance can be seen by its early appearance in print 1472" PMM. The HISTORIE divided into 37 libri or "books" was completed except for finishing touches in 77 CE. In the preface dedicated to Titus who became emperor shortly before Pliny's death Pliny justified the title and explained his purpose on utilitarian grounds as the study of "the nature of things that is life" "Preface" 13. Heretofore he continued no one had attempted to bring together the older scattered material that belonged to "encyclic culture" egkyklios paideia the origin of the word encyclopaedia. Disdaining high literary style and political mythology Pliny adopted a plain style--but one with an unusually rich vocabulary--as best suited to his purpose. A novel feature of the NATURALL HISTORIE is the care taken by Pliny in naming his sources more than 100 of which ae authors and sometimes the titles of the books many of which are now lost from which Pliny derived his material. The HISTORIE properly begins with Book II which is devoted to cosmology and astronomy. Here as elsewhere Pliny demonstrated the extent of his reading especially of Greek texts. Books VII through XI treat zoology beginning with humans VII then mammals and reptiles VIII fishes and other marine aninmals IX birds X and insects XI. In Books XII throuogh XIX on botany Pliny came closest to making great contributions to science. He drew heavily upon Theophrastus and still made important independent observations particularly those made during his travels in Germany. Pliny is one of the chief sources of modern lknowledge of Roman gardens early botanical writings and the introduction into Italy of new horticultural and agricultural discoveries. Born at Como in 23 Pliny died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. His NATURALIS HISTORIA is a scientific encyclopedia often uncritical but very elaborate and of great value. Pliny attached to each book the list of his authorities 146 Roman and 327 Greek being quoted. He explained that people may be living at the antipodes and stated that the speed of light is greater than that of sound. His work includes the oldest account of ancient art. In addition it contains a remarkable amount of early information on Asia and Africa. Its influence throughout the Middle Ages was very great. This is an especially nice copy of the second offering of the work in English. This issue corrected the many errors of the first English edition. As with the copy listed in the British Museum the first tome has a new title page dated 1635. Further this is a variant issue with â€œand are to be sold by John Grismondâ€ after Adam Islip on the imprint. Dedicated to Sir Robert Cecil. Printed by Adam Islip and to be sold by John Grismond, in Ivy-lane and to be sold at the Signe of the Gun hardcover

Buddenbrooks, Inc. · États-Unis10 725,00 $US≈ 9 074,42 €

BIBLIA DANICA - THE CHRISTIAN IV BIBLEBiblio.com

Biblia Det er Den gantske Hellige Scrifft paa Danske igien offuerseet oc Prentet effter vor allernaadigste Herris oc Kongis K. Christian den IV. Befaling. Mett Register/ alle D. Lutheri Fortaler ghans Udledning i Brædden oc Viti Theodori Summarier. Cu. - THE MAGNIFICENT CHRISTIAN IV FOLIO BIBLE

163360241Kiøbenhaffn Melchior Martzan og Salomon Sartor 1632- 1633. Folio binding: 37 x 25 cm. Bound in a spledid contemporary full calf binding over wooden boards. Rich elaborate gilding to both boards and spine. The gilding is vague especially on the front board but the tooling is very sharp and the binding overall is magnificent. With four beautiful ornamented brass edges to each board and two large ornamented brass clasps. All edges are gilt and beautifully blindtooled. Wear to capitals where the cords are loosening a bit and with a bit of loss of leather. A bit of wear to hinges at the cords which are showing. But overall the binding is in splendid condition. Also internally extremely well preserved. The title-page has a tiny restored hole to lower right corner and the first four leaves might have been inserted. They are slightly smaller at the outer margin than the other leaves. But that might also be due to restoration as the binding has not been tampered with at any point and is completely unrestored. The text is unusually nice clean and fresh by far the nicest copy we have ever come across. Pasted-down front end-paper with the ownership signature and lacquered coat-of-arms seal of Severin Svanenhielm Severin Seehusen 1664-1726 as well as the ownership signatures of Søren Schiøtz 1796-1863 with names of members of his family C. Th. Zahle and Erik Zahle. With the book plate of William Davignon d. 1924. The brass corners carry the initials HL and are depicted in Johannes Rudbeck's Svenska Bokband I fig. 26 p.53. The binding there is dated 1622 whereas our binding is from 1633 or right after. The brass fittings were a commercial merchandise for sale in Germany and probably also in both Sweden and Denmark. Engraved title-page as well as the engraved portrait of Christian IV all by the royal engraver Simon the Pas. Without the half-title which merely contains the printed words "BIBLIA / Paa Danske" which is almost never present. 21 - not counting the engraved title-page and the portrait 353 i.e. 354 due to the erroneous double pagination 353 226 159 ff. A magnificent copy of the scarce first edition of the last i.e. the third of the Danish folio-bibles known as "Christian IV's Bible" being a slightly revised edition of the Bible of 1589. Christian IV is the most famous Danish king ever to have lived and the Christian IV bible is extremely sought-after. An unusually fresh and complete apart from the always lacking half-title copy of this splendid bible printed by the first royal printer Melchior Martzan and Salomon Sartor part 2. The numerous woodcut illustrations are the same that were used for the Frederik II Bibel from 1589. The four engraved leaves - the portrait and the three title-pages - are by Simon de Pas.Bibl. Dan.I9 - Thesaurus II 378. - Birkelund 41. - Darlow and Moule 3160. Provenance: Svanenhielm was a family of Danish and Norwegian nobility. Morten Hansen Seehuusen 1629-1694 was a merchant from Bredstedt in Schleswig-Holstein who re-located to Stavanger Norway. His son Severin Seehusen 1664-1726 was an official in Bergen as well as in Stavanger and Northern Norway. He owned among other properties Damsgård Manor outside Bergen Svanøy in Sunnfjord and Arnegård in Stavanger. In 1720 Severin Seehausen was ennobled under the name Svanenhielm. Søren Daniel Schiøtz 1796-1863 was a Norwegian bailiff and judge who was also very much engaged in religious matters and came to play an important role in the history of theology in Norway. He was one of the founders of the Norwegian Mission Society and the Norwegian Israeli Mission. He translated several important upbuilding pieces from German among them a comprehensive bible history. Carl Theodor Zahle 1866 – 1946 was a highly important Danish lawyer and politician. He was prime minister of Denmark from 1909 to 1910 and again from 1913 to 1920. In 1895 he was elected member of the lower chamber of the Danish parliament for the Liberal Party. A campaigner for peace in 1905 he co-founded the Social Liberal Party Det Radikale Venstre. He stayed on as a member of Parliament for Det Radikale Venstre until 1928 when he became a member of the upper chamber of Parliament Landstinget. In 1929 he became Minister of Justice a post which he held until 1935. Zahle was instrumental in starting negotiations for a new Danish–Icelandic Act of Union in 1917 which resulted in Iceland being recognized as a sovereign nation in a personal union with the king of Denmark the following year. Erik Zahle 1898-1969 was a famous Danish art historian author and museum director. hardcover

Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn A/S · Danemark95 000,00 DKK≈ 12 758,50 €

The Author W P [Penn, William]Biblio.com

The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience Once More Briefly Debated & Defended by the Authority of Reason Scripture and Antiquity.

1670149562London 1670 i.e. 1671. Rare second edition of one of the most persuasive defences of liberty and “the free and uninterrupted exercise of our consciences"William Penn. Quarto bound in full modern morocco gilt titles and ruling to the spine inner dentelles elaborately stamped in blind. A powerful argument for toleration and against the intrusion of civil authority into religious matters this second edition was revised and enlarged from the first edition during Penn's imprisonment at Newgate in 1670 a defining episode in his lifelong defense of religious liberty. This is evidently a 2nd edition being much enlarged from the 1st which may be seen on comparison; and "J." for Junior is here omitted in the Title page and also the Dedication to the King which the first contains -- and an address "to the Supream Authority of England" dated "Newgate the 7th of the 12th monteth called February 1670." -- and a Preface added; also new matter in the work" Smith Friends' Books II p.286-7. In very good condition. Bookplate of William Tarun Fehsenfeld to the pastedown. The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience Once More Briefly Debated & Defended by the Authority of Reason Scripture and Antiquity constitutes one of William Penn’s earliest and most systematic expositions of the principle of religious toleration. This second edition revised and enlarged during his imprisonment in Newgate Prison in 1670 following his arrest for preaching at an unlawful Quaker meeting develops and refines arguments first articulated in the initial printing. Drawing on reason Scripture and early Christian authority Penn maintains that civil government possesses no jurisdiction over matters of faith and that coercion in religion violates both divine and natural law. Produced during a formative period of persecution the text articulates a mature defense of liberty of conscience that would later inform Penn’s political philosophy and the legal and religious framework of his American colony. unknown

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis16 000,00 $US≈ 13 537,60 €

CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY CROSS, SPAINBiblio.com

Regla de la Pasion: Manuscript rules for the Confraternity of the Holy Cross of La Horcajada Spain

16154007Ãvila and La Horcajada 1615. Manuscript on parchment 380 x 270 mm. 18. Complete. Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Regla in Spanish in 30 numbered sections inconsistent numbering on ff. 3v-4v in a rounded script in brown ink the first page slightly larger up to 27 lines. F. 1r:Â incipit first four lines in large lettering with very large calligraphic initial: En el nombre de dios todo poderoso padre y hijo y espiritu sancto tres personas y una esencia. Section 30 f. 4v added in a slightly later hand. The word Cruz symbolized by a red Maltese cross. Text on ff. 2r-2v underlined in red. Calligraphic initials some with marginal extensions in brown purple or red. Marginal drawings of prickly foliage some in the shapes of fantastic animals. Later marginal notes opposite many sections. Ff. 5r-5v: Heading: Este es traslado de un testimonio followed by two notarial subscriptions on f. 5v one partially in cursive signed and dated Ãvila 11 May 1527 the other in italic partly faded including the date 1615. F. 6r: A cerca de la procession de la Resurrection. After an introductory portion in a small round early 16th-century hand in brown ink the text continues from f. 4v with sections 32-37 of the Regla of which sections 33-37 are in a later sixteenth-century hand; these sections ruled through with light diagonal lines. Signatures or notes in lower margin. F. 6v: blank except for five lines heavily cancelled in red. Ff. 7r-7v: five paragraphs in a fine upright italic hand the first andÂ third with headings in red La orden que han de tener en la procession de la Resurxection sic en la faded and illegibleâ€¦; La orden que sea de tener en la procession de la Resurretion sic en el domingo de pascua es la siguente. Followed on f. 7v by a note in a different hand dated from La Horcajada 21 May 1550. Ff. 7v-8v and back inner cover: later additions some quite faded. A few later marginal annotations throughout. Rubrication and decoration: headings and line fillers in red a few ornamented line fillers or borders some passages underlined in red or light purple else ruled in dry point numerous calligraphic initials in red or brown ink opening initial with purple filigree extension filling left margin numerous foliate vegetable and zoomorphic ornamental designs in the margins in red purple and brown ink. Binding: stitched into the original parchment cover with title â€œRegla de la Pasionâ€ in large letters the R with decorative extensions above a large cross in green ink entwined with the snake and in the margins apparently the instruments of the Passion. Condition: rubbing and staining vertical crease from folding causing occasional erasure of text outer edge of first page somewhat rubbed affecting legibility of text some words at line ends helpfully written over in a later hand the inks used in the last two leaves quite faded; wrapper worn and darkened with tears at top and 3 small holes in lower cover. Provenance: Confraternity of the Holy Cross of Horcajada; purchased in France with export license.Â Â An early Spanish confraternity manuscript containing the rules and statutes that governed the Confraternity of the Holy Cross referred to as the CofradÃa or Hermandad de la Cruz the word Cruz being supplied by a Maltese cross in red of La Horcajada a town located in Castile y LeÃ³n in the province of Ãvila. As in other Roman Catholic countries confraternities or lay brotherhoods played a vital role in community life in Spain functioning as mutual aid societies and venues for laypeople to express their piety and perform charitable acts. Vernacular manuscript confraternity statutes from the Iberian peninsula surface much more rarely than for example their Italian counterparts although it appears that Spain had a larger number of confraternities proportional to the population especially in Castile y Leon than the other Catholic lands. Virtually every community including small villages had at least one confraternity. While exact numbers of confraternities in sixteenth-century Spain are unknown â€œstudies carried out for a number of cities suggest that the number of confraternities and brotherhoods in the Hispanic kingdoms was larger than elsewhere in Catholic Europe. The reasons behind the extraordinary popularity of confraternities and brotherhoods in the Hispanic kingdoms cannot yet be established however in view of the current state of research on the topic. There has been a tendency for scholars to emphasize the confraternity as a primarily urban phenomenon a reflection perhaps of their early development in Italy where they formed an essential part of civic and urban life. In the Hispanic kingdoms however these institutions were equally important in the religious and social life of the small village. Pastoral visitations carried out by the bishops of Cuenca during the sixteenth century found that `nearly every community had at least one brotherhoodâ€™ even small villages of 500 inhabitants. A similar pattern prevailed in villages around Toledo during the late sixteenth centuryâ€ Callahan pp. 18-19. In his article on Spanish confraternities William Callahan further points out their popular natureÂ which â€œarose from the initiative of the laity rather than the clergy prime examples of the lay piety that began to flourish in late medieval Europe. This piety developed largely on its own uncontrolled by either local bishops or the pope both of whom regarded its manifestations with some suspicion. The resiliency of traditional confraternities and brotherhoods developed from their connection to local religious cultures. It also reflected a fact noted by scholars who have studied specific cities and regions the strongly popular character of membership. There were of course some associations that limited membership to the nobility or clergy but in most cases members were recruited from the popular classes. This was obviously true in the case of peasant villages where only one or two confraternities existed.â€ pp. 22-23. In spite of the centrality of confraternities to early modern religious life in Spain there is comparatively little modern scholarly literature especially on the rural confraternities. Note the absence for example of any articles on Spain or Portugal in Brillâ€™s recently published Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities edited by Konrad Eisenbichler. This working manuscript bears witness to this central but understudied aspect of Spanish popular religious culture before the restrictions placed on confraternities by the Council of Trent and succeeding Popes. Consulted frequently and contributed to by members of the confraternity the manuscript includes abundant interlinear and marginal additions and corrections and half- or full-page later additions. The town of La Horcajada is identified in the opening page. Ff. 1r to 5v contain the introduction the first 30 statutes and a notarized testimony with heading â€œEste es traslado de un testimonioâ€ which relates to the apparently recent establishment of the confraternity. The statutes cover admission of new members general rules of comportment requirements of prayer and confession for feast days and for the canonical hours charity for poorer members of the confraternity chants etc. Several paragraphs relate to processions including required habits and admission of non-members into the processions. On f. 6r a paragraph on the procession de la Resurrection is followed by six entries numbered 32 to 37 of which paragraphs 33 to 37 are in a later 16th-century hand. Several light diagonal lines through these five paragraphs may indicate that they were cancelled. The verso f.6v contains only five lines heavily cancelled in red ink and f. 7r continues discussion of the procession of the Resurrection on a feast day the name of the saint is smudged and on Easter Sunday in a different 16th-century upright cursive. This second section of which portions are difficult to read because of fading ends on f. 7v and is followed by a note in a larger hand dated from La Horcajada 21 May 1550. The final leaf and inner back cover contain later additions some quite faded. One late addition in the lower margin of f. 5v is dated 1615. The manuscript is decorated in a popular style. Some of the leafy plant designs have a thorny look that may reflect local vegetation. Animals and grotesques include a scorpion-like creature birds and possibly imaginary mammals. A witness to the central role played by religious confraternities in early modern Spain bearing the marks of its use and in original condition it is a rare survival and would repay further study. Cf. William Callahan â€œConfraternities and Brotherhoods in Spain 1500-1800â€ Confraternitas: The Newsletter of the Society for Confraternity Studies 12:1 2001 17-25. See also William A. Christian Local Religion in Sixteenth Century Spain Princeton 1981; Maureen Flynn Sacred Charity: Confraternities and Social Welfare in Spain 1400-1800 Basingstoke 1989. unknown

Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis17 250,00 $US≈ 14 595,22 €

PLINIUS Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the Elder)Biblio.com

The Historie of the World commonly called the Naturall Historie.

1634I44FL3PUPRNNLondon: Adam Islip 1634. Contemporary calf spine in six compartments tooled and lettered in gilt. Folio 23.5 x 32 cm. Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials head- and tailpieces. 2 parts in one volume. Pliny's renowned Natural History in its second publication in English repeating with corrections the 1601 first publication translated by Philemon Holland the greatest translator of the Elizabethan age. The "Naturalis Historia" is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge based on the best authorities available to the author. Pliny claims to be the only Roman ever to have undertaken such a work. It comprised 37 books in 10 volumes and covered over 20000 facts on topics including the fields of botany zoology astronomy geology and mineralogy as well as the exploitation of those resources. It remains a standard work for the Roman period and the advances in technology and understanding of natural phenomena at the time. Some technical advances he discusses are the only sources for those inventions such as hushing in mining technology or the use of water mills for crushing or grinding corn. Much of what he wrote about has been confirmed by archaeology. ''We know from Pliny that there were important pearl fisheries in the Gulf . Pliny identifies Tylos Bahrain as a place famous for its pearls . He attests that pearls were the most highly rated valuable in Roman society and that those from the Gulf were specially praised . The pearl related finds at the site of El-Dur indicate the site was integrated into the maritime trade routes linking the Roman Empire the Persian Empire India and South Arabia'' Carter. Book 6 holds a chapter that gives the first detailed account of the regions around the Gulf including what are now Qatar the Emirates and Oman. Binding rubbed; front hinge splitting. Includes the final printed leaf in vol. 2 containing the publisher's advertisement to the reader that all errors have been corrected in the present edition and the errata leaf included in the same position in 1601 has become unnecessary rather than having been mistakenly omitted. Some slight browning and brownstaining but an excellent copy removed in 1973 from the Royal Meteorological Society Symons Bequest 1900 with their bookplate on the front pastedown.l STC 20030. Cf. Pforzheimer 496 1601 ed. Adam Islip, unknown

Antiquariaat FORUM BV · Pays-Bas15 000,00 €

Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)Biblio.com

The Historie of the World; Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus .

16011169London: Adam Islip 1601. First Edition. Good. Folio. 2 vols. in 1. 60 614 42 12 632 86. First edition in English of Plinyâ€™s important encyclopedic work which was for centuries considered the highest authority on subjects relating to the natural and physical world including botany zoology geography pharmacology and more. Lowndes referred to this translation as a "work of immense labour and what few men of his time could have executed in a superior manner to Dr. Holland." Near contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards black gilt morocco lettering labels spine lettered and ruled in gilt wear to binding and joints ink notations throughout especially to front blank and title-page ownership signatures on title page 9 of vol. I and page 4 of vol. II as well as some ink markings to the woodcut devices on the first few leaves of vol. I and the final leaf in vol. II. This is a huge book for 1601 and copies with missing or duplicated or misbound leaves are seen with more frequency than slimmer books or later ones. This one has the complete text and prelims and it has the often missing errata after the Preface in vol. I and at the end of vol. II though it is not without its faults. B iii and B iv in vol. II are chipped at the margins just touching the marginal citations these two leaves may be supplied imissing Ppp index vol/ 2 there is creasing to the first few and last few leaves and minor insect damage near the end of volume II but withal it is a good textually complete copy. Pliny's encyclopedic work functioned for centuries as the highest authority on subjects relating to the natural and physical world including botany zoology geography pharmacology and numerous other disciplines. Completed around 77-79 CE theÂ â€œNatural Historyâ€Â synthesized Greek and Roman knowledge within a single comprehensive framework drawing from nearly 500 sources to create what became arguably the most influential scientific text of the pre-modern period. Philemon Holland's 1601 translation brought Pliny's comprehensive compilation to English readers for the first time. Lowndes characterized this as a "work of immense labour and what few men of his time could have executed in a superior manner." Holland's scholarly approach preserved the technical vocabulary while rendering complex concepts accessible to readers lacking classical training. Pliny himself embodied the Roman aristocratic ideal of combining administrative service with intellectual pursuit. Gaius Plinius Secundus served as Vespasian's admiral while compiling his vast encyclopedia demonstrating the integration of practical governance and scholarly endeavor characteristic of the Roman elite. His death during the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE killed by ash inhalation while investigating the catastrophe exemplifies the empirical curiosity that drove his encyclopedic project. Adam Islip unknown

Biblioctopus · États-Unis18 500,00 $US≈ 15 652,85 €

[Council of the Indies / Consejo de Indias]; [Philip IV of Spain] [Pinelo, Antonio de Leon]Biblio.com

Ordenanzas del Consejo Real de las Indias. Nuevamente recopiladas Y por el Rey Don Felipe Quarto N. S. para su govierno establecidas Año de M.D.CXXXVI. Autos acuerdos y decretos de gouierno del Conseio Real y supremo de las Indias.

16812474Madrid: Por Julian de Paredes 1681. Second revised and enlarged edition. In contemporary limp vellum. Engraved device on title page. Woodcut initials throughout and a tailpiece at end of each part. Tinted edges. Stains on binding string missing panels with small damage at the outer edge. Tinted title on spine rubbed. 19th-century shelfmark on the inner front panel in ink. Contemporary notes and sings to the margins throughout the first part. Old restoration with paper tape to a few pages in the first part. Otherwise in very good condition. Second revised and enlarged edition. In contemporary limp vellum. 206 14 p. Revised and enlarged second edition of these substantial bodies of law relating to the New World and the treatment of Native Americans an important volume on the Administrative History of the Indies. One of the most important volumes of the administrative history of the Indies a fundamental collection of laws and ordinances decreed by the Council of the Indies the supreme governing body of Spain’s colonies in America during the reign of Philip IV. The first part Ordenanzas del Consejo Real de las Indias contains 245 ordinances of the Council of the Indies pp. 3–112; first published in 1636 the second part Autos acuerdos y decretos de govierno del Conseio Real y supremo de las Indias embodies an additional 190 ordinances concerning for the most part the administration of Spanish America pp. 113–206 plus 14 p. of index; first published in 1658. Any editions of these bodies of law are extremely scarce on the market RHB lists only 2 copies of the present edition within the last 70 years. Sabin 57477. Por Julian de Paredes unknown

Foldvaribooks · Hongrie19 501,20 $US≈ 16 499,97 €

(Bible: Bilderbibel; Illustration). Merian, Matthaeus, the Elder (engr)Biblio.com

Icones Biblicae praecipuas Sacrae Scripturae historias eleganter et graphicè repraesentantes AND: Noui Testamenti D.N. Iesu Christi praecipuae historiae et visiones picturis elegantissimis in aes incisis repraesentatae RARE SUITE "BEFORE LETTER" OF MERIAN'S BILDERBIBEL THE MOST CELEBRATED ENGRAVED BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 17th CENTURY

162718927Frankfurt: Matthaeus Merian 1627. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Matthaeus Merian. Oblong folio leaves: 20.6 by 31.2 cm; plates: 10 to 11.5 by 14.5 to 15.5 cm. Engraved titlepage borders without letterpress; 231 of 233 engraved plates printed on the rectos with no printed text depicting biblical scenes from the Old and New Testaments lacks Gen. XIX: Lot and his daughters after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; Exod. VIII & IX: The plague of frogs. Recent marbled calf lightly rubbed at extremities bordered in blind; gilt-tooled spine with raised bands gilt lettering pieces. Occasional light stains and smudges especially at the outermost leaves and almost entirely restricted to the blank margins; old mostly marginal repairs and reinforcement of tears to about 30 leaves Matt. IV plate with loss of about 10 words of manuscript text. Protected by wide margins the plates are clean fresh and bright with relatively few minor blemishes. Housed and protected in a custom luxurious modern leather clamshell box. Rare suite of biblical illustrations printed before letter perhaps as proofs comprising 231 of 233 engraved plates from the Icones Biblicae of Matthaeus Merian the elder 1593-1650. The engravings are printed on large paper and lack any printed text. They are preceded by a leaf of the engraved title borders to the first part in which the central cartouche which would have contained a letterpress title and imprint is here blank. Neat manuscript annotations appear throughout: atop each engraving is a brief title along with a notation of the biblical book and chapters; beneath each engraving are six-lines of rhyming verse in German; at the top corners are leaf numbers in Arabic numerals. All are penned in black ink in the same old cursive German hand. The engraved title leaf is not included in the manuscript foliation. The first three leaf numbers and several others among the first 23 leaves are obscured by wear or later marginal repairs. The foliation ends at leaf 233 and is discontinuous where one would expect to find numbers 15 and 38 corresponding to the missing plates noted above. As noted by Wütrich only four of the 233 plates are signed by Merian all in the New Testament series. Each of these signed plates appears in our suite: Matthaei I. - page 7; Johannis VIII. - page 65; Matthaei XXVII. - page 101; Apocalyps. IX. - page 145 header titles and page numbers from the first edition. The first editions were published at Frankfurt in four parts between 1625 and 1627. The Pentateuch series was published in 1625. The second part illustrating the Old Testament books from Joshua to Kings appeared in 1626. These first two series were published under the name of Merian's father-in-law the printer and bookseller Johann Theodor de Bry 1561-1623 whose heirs retained title to the business. The third part illustrates the remainder of the Old Testament and Apocrypha; the fourth the New Testament. These last two parts were published in 1627 under the engravers's own name. Verses in Latin German and French accompany each plate in the three Old Testament series the French verses being omitted in the 1627 New Testament series. While the eminent Swiss draughtsman and engraver Matthaeus Merian is best known for his topographical depictions of the German speaking lands which appeared in the Theatrum Europaeum his novel selection of biblical stories and innovative stylistic approach revealed in the present series of plates proved highly influential ushering in a new age of copperplate engraving in Bible illustration. Merian broke with the century-long tradition of woodcuts which had accompanied countless editions of Luther's German Bible. Even as he drew on the Bible illustrations of Jost Amman Hans Holbein Virgil Solis and Tobias Stimmer Merian greatly expanded the traditional iconographic and compositional repertoire. The Old Testament alone contains 23 prints depicting stories that had never before been the subject of an engraver. While earlier New Testament woodcuts focused on the Book of Revelation Merian now provided a rich series of plates to illustrate the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles as well. Merian had an obvious preference for crowd scenes and battles along with some of the novelistic features of the Old Testament such as Jacob's lentil dish Solomon and Shulamit in the Song of Songs or the apocryphal story of the Dragon in Babylon. Merian sometimes provides local color from his home town of Basel as in his depiction of Solomon's Temple Consecration in which despite the baroque redesign the Basel Cathedral with the old choir is easily recognizable. The costumes and gestures of Merian's biblical characters display a baroque fantasy of the ancient Near East as reflected in the theater of his day; in depicting cities and buildings however Merian generally prefers to follow contemporary models. In individual cases such as Bathsheba's Bath he succumbed to the temptation as an engraver and artist to show off his skills in a magnificent fashionable palace and garden complex. All-in-all Merian's engravings initiated a development in Bible illustration "that led further and further away from the didactic Reformation purpose of Bible pictures to purely artistic-representational purposes and finally ended in the well-known pathos of the German Romantic Nazarenes" Schmidt. In the first few decades after their appearance these Bible plates were widely copied throughout Europe especially in the Netherlands and France Poortman. The first folio Bible to use Merian's copper plates to illustrate the text was published by the heirs of Lazarus Zetzner at Strasbourg in 1630. Subsequent editions of the "Merian Bible" were published at Frankfurt where Merian had taken over his father-in-law Johann de Bry's business. For over a century as Merian's heirs continued to publish new editions this would become "the most widespread German illustrated Bible in southern Germany Basel and Alsace primarily in wealthy households" Schmidt. After the demise of the Merian publishing house in 1727 the bookseller Philip Heinrich Hütter acquired the copper plates which he used to illustrate a Catholic Bible edition published at Frankfurt in 1740 Poortman. A very notable instance of transposing Merian's biblical engravings into another context occurs in the famous and oft-reprinted Amsterdam Haggadah the ritual for the Jewish Passover meal first published in 1695. The engravings were made by Abraham ben Jacob a former Protestant preacher who converted to Judaism. Introducing skills he had earlier acquired when working outside the Jewish community Abraham ben Jacob "widened the scope of Jewish book illustration" Rosenau and introduced new elements into the traditional iconography of the Haggadah. "He chose many of the same incidental scenes as had appeared in the Venice Haggadot 1599-1604 but he drew them afresh basing his work on the biblical pictures in the Icones Biblicae by Matthew Merian" EJ. Among them was the image of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. As Merian used a wide variety of prototypes Rosenau suggests that the two free-standing columns Jachin and Boaz depicted at the front porch of the Temple in Merian's engraving and Abraham ben Jacob's adaptation may have ultimately been derived from the woodcuts which accompany Estienne's Bible Paris 1540 based upon the scholarship of Franciscus Vatablus. In Das druckgraphische Werk von Matthaeus Merian d. Ae. 1993 L. H. Wüthrich describes a "Spezialausgabe ohne Drucktext" complete with 233 biblical engravings located in Darmstadt at the Hessische Landesbibliothek 31/643. This "separate edition without text or a series of proofs" which he describes has three notable features: 1 an undated first edition title page of the second part Pars II of the Old Testament which has been "corrected. by crossing out or shaving" to read "Pars I"; 2 the first edition title page of the New Testament series dated 1627; 3 an engraving of the The Fall of Man probably after Johann Theodor de Bry which later appears in Gottfried's Chronicle part 1 1629/1630 but which differs from that found in most copies of the first edition Wütrich 1a. The copies containing this plate after de Bry Wütrich 1aa. were likely printed in 1626. Further research perhaps locates only one other suite of Merian plates without text at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel catalogued under two call numbers: the Old Testament series dated 1626-1627 comprising 157 leaves including an engraved title A: 30.1 Geom. 2 "Ausg. ohne Text von Ps. 1 und 2." = VD17 23:289608V and the New Testament series dated 1627 comprising 78 leaves including an engraved title A: 30.1 Geom. 3 "Ausg. ohne Text" = VD17 23:655618H. The catalogue entry for the Old Testament series references Wütrich's "Spezialausgabe ohne Drucktext." Surprisingly the key images provided for this entry illustrate the same three notable features of the "Spezialiausgabe" which Wütrich located at Darmstadt !. Our suite of plates is provided with a single blank engraved title leaf the one used for the first series of the Old Testament plates which lacks any letterpress. The third plate which depicts the Fall of Man is here in Merian's style and is the image more commonly found in the first printings Wütrich 1a. In the first edition of the Icones Biblicae the title page notes "Mit Versen und Reymen in dreien Sprachen geziert und erkläret Durch Johann Ludwig Gottfried" decorated and described with verses and rhymes in three languages by Johann Ludwig Gottfried. In the first three parts of Icones Biblicae Gottfried's German verses are in four lines with a rhyme scheme of ABBA. In the fourth part the New Testament the German verses are modified to six lines with a rhyme scheme of AABCCB. The manuscript verses in German which accompany each of the 231 plates in our suite differ from both of these formats being composed in six lines of iambic hexameter with a rhyme scheme of ABABCC. To give a sense of how these versions differ the four lines of the German printed verses which accompany the first plate The Creation may be compared with the following transcript of the written verses which describe this scene in our set. in the first edition of Merian's Bilderbibel Im Anfang Gott Erschuff den Himmel und die Erden Die Wasser und das Meer das Liecht der Sternenschein Die Vögel Fisch Gewürm alle Thier groß und klein Warauß sein Gütigkeit und Kraft erkant mag werden. the hand of anonymous versifier Im Anfang schuff der Herr den Himmel und die Erden Das Licht die Sonn den Mond die Sternen und das Meer Gras Bäume Laub und Kraut und was genannt mag werden Von Thieren Vögel Fisch in ihrem grosen Heer Nur durch ein einig Wort: Ich kan hieraus erkennen O Gott! dein ew'ge Krafft und dich den Schöpffer nennen. Watermark: flambeau surrounded by garland Provenance: laid-in typed description on a half-sheet bearing the early twentieth-century letterhead of Harry A. Levinson Rare Books: "There appears to be no record of another such copy of proofs before letter." References: L. H. Wüthrich Das druckgraphische Werk von Mattaeus Merian d. Ae. Basel: Bärenreiter 1993 vol. 3 p.16: "Spezialausgabe ohne Drucktext;" Enc. Jud. 2nd ed. 8:215; W. C. Poortman Bijbel en Prent 's-Gravenhage 1986 2:56-59; H. Rosenau Vision of the Temple London: Oresko 1979 pp. 135; 146f. Ph. Schmidt Die Illustration der Lutherbibel Birsfelden/Basel 1977 pp. 304-329; VD17 23:289608V and 23:655618H. [Matthaeus Merian] hardcover

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PASSE the Younger, Crispijn van deBiblio.com

Den blom-hof inhoudende de rare oft ongemeene blommen die op den tegenwoordighen tijdt by de lief-hebbers in estimatie ghehouden werden. Ghedeelt naer de vier deelen des jaers . Noch hier by ghevoecht de manier soomen dese bloemen naer haer eyghen coleuren ofte verven sal illumineren ofte afsetten .

1614ABC_48468Utrecht 1614. Oblong folio ca. 18.5 x 26.5 cm. for Crispijn van de Passe Later half calf decorated paper sides gold-tooled spine and red sprinkled edges. With a full-page plate of Flora embracing the cornucopia in a landscape with an epigram by Arnoldus Buchelius in a cartouche in the left hand corner engraved by Simon van de Passe after Crispijn van de Passe 2 different frontispieces both appearing twice of ideal gardens full of flowers and 174 full-page engraved plates of flowers fruits fruit trees and medicinal plants mainly by Crispijn van de Passe the Younger 3 by his brother Willem van de Passe. 2 parts in 1 volume the first in 4 sections. 26 pp. 118 engraved ll.; 1 1 blank pp. 61 engraved ll. Very rare first Dutch edition of this famous book on horticulture including beautifully engraved plates of flowers organised according to the season in which they bloom and frontispieces showing the ideal garden. The work was first published in Latin under the following title: Hortus floridus in quo rariorum & minus vulgarium florum icones . without text published in Arnhem by Jan Jansz. in 1614. The expertly engraved plates were also sold separately and were constantly updated and amended by adding various details insects other animals or simply different numbers to meet demand. While the present first Dutch edition contains short explanations of the plates on separate typographical leaves the same information was only added to the Latin version of the work in its second edition 1616 - the corresponding text then appearing on the verso of each engraved plate. The text was written by Arnoldus Buchelius or Aernout van Buchel 1565-1641 a Dutch scholar and humanist from Utrecht who is now most known for specialising in genealogy and heraldry.This Dutch edition was soon followed by English and French editions. The Hortus floridus including translations was considered without question the most popular florilegium ever published An Oak Spring Flora and "Blunt calls this the most celebrated and influential of the early florilegia and one of the finest Hunt.The emphasis of the plates is on the common garden flowers with a preponderance of spring bulbs. The book was intended to provide inspiration for garden lovers who were invited to colour the black and white copperplate engravings themselves according to the colours they found in their own gardens. The introduction is enlarged with details on how to colour the plates. Many of the flowers shown are tulips hyacinths crocuses and other bulb plants mirroring the new enthusiasm and passion for bulbs which eventually led to the tulip mania of the years 1636-37 when contract prices for some bulbs reached extraordinarily high levels leading to the first recorded speculative bubble in history.As the plates were printed then modified and assembled at different times between 1614 and 1617 almost no two copies are the same - consisting of various numbers of plates with different title pages and prefaces. Our copy seems to be a practically complete copy of the Dutch edition containing an unmatched number of plates the only plate not present in this copy which is sometimes included in others is the engraved plate frontispiece of the Latin quotation from Matthew 6 Cognoscite lilia in part 2. The four sections of part 1 include 113 plates of flowers including the 99 that are called for in the preface organised per season: spring: 41; summer: 20; autumn: 26; winter: 12. The extra plates are as follows: 1: an addition to spring with plate 42 = second copy of plate 2 of summer 2: 12 plates depicting tulips numbered 43-54 and 3: an addition to autumn: a plate depicting two metal cylinders for growing flowers 1 with a tulip not found in any other copy consulted but possibly called for by Nissen "Garten Instruments".The second part includes 61 plates depicting 120 numbered depictions of fruits fruit trees and medical plants. This part included in most copies of the Latin edition and in some of the Dutch edition had been published already by Crispijn van de Passe the Elder around 1600-1604 when he was in Cologne in association with the publisher Hans Woutneel.The quality of the engravings is exceptionally fine and delicate representing real masterpieces of horticultural art executed by a leading family of engravers and publishers in the first half of the Dutch Golden Age.With a 19th-century round stamp with double eagle and the initials "H.C.P.S.G." and a red stamp "Ex libris J. Visser Rotterdam" on the title page with the red ex libris stamp also on the divisional title page of the second part. Lacking the engraved plate frontispiece of the Latin quotation from Matthew 6 Cognoscite lilia in part 2. The binding is very slightly rubbed the bottom outer corner of the back board is slightly damaged the typographical leaves are slightly soiled the head margin of the title page is cut short and restored with paper lightly foxed some very slight foxing and/or soiling throughout mainly to the outer edges of the margins some small marginal tears some restored in several leaves plate 44 spring with a repaired tear plate 43/44 in part 2 is repaired in the head margin. The verso of 45 plates show minute pricked holes in the leaf following the outlines of the depicted flowers and plants as a way of tracing the images on another leaf of paper or possibly another copperplate. Otherwise in good condition.l Franken 1881 no. 1346; Hunt no. 199; Nissen BBI no. 1494; Oak Spring Flora 12; Saunders Picturing Plants pp. 36-37; Savage The Hortus Floridus in: Transactions Bibiogr. Society Second series IV 1923 pp.181-206; Segal Flowers and Nature 1990 pp. 165-166; Soultrait 17th century 226; STCN 308020359 3 copies incl. 1 incomplete; USTC 1022789 4 copies incl. 1 incomplete; 3 the same as STCN; cf. Veldman Crispijn de Passe and his Progeny 1564-1670: a century of print production 2001 pp. 205-212. ABE CAT Art History unknown

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The Americas|WALL MAPBiblio.com

One of the most influential maps of America ever made.

167312722Bologna Guiseppe Longihi Pietro Todeschi 1673. Nova et accurata totius Americae tabula auct. G. I. Blaeu America quarta pars orbis quam plerunq nuvum orbem apellitant primo detecta est anno 1492 a Christophoro Columbo . A hand-coloured engraved wall map printed on 4 joined sheets. Size: 86 x 110 cm. / 33.9 x 433 inch. Large very rare hand coloured copy of Willem Blaeu's famous wall map of the Americas which is considered ""one of the most influential maps of America ever made"" Burden. The map is based on the latest explorations and shows everything known at the time about the American continent as well as the north and south poles which are included on two inset maps. As the wall map was in great demand but expensive and difficult to transport it was also printed by various French and Italian publishers for the local market. Like Blaeu's edition the French and Italian editions are very scarce as it is highly unusual for wall maps from this period to survive. We have only been able to trace 4 other copies of the present edition in sales records of the past hundred years of which only 1 is also hand coloured. Willem Janszoon Blaeu 1571-1638 first published the wall map in 1608 together with similar maps of Asia Africa and Europe. He spared no expenses for this project and hired Hessel Gerritsz 1580-1632 a great cartographer in his own right to both design the maps and research the latest sources exhaustively to create the most accurate depiction of the continents possible. Although the Americas were drawn too wide due to the inadequate methods of determining longitude at the time the shapes and most of the coastline are already very well defined. Central and South America were drawn according to Portuguese and Spanish sources and ""Nova Scotia"" on the Atlantic coast was based on the voyages of Samuel de Champlain and Pierre Gua de Monts from 1604. After the first edition in 1608 the four continents were subsequently published in 1612 and in 1624 they were reissued by Hendrik Hondius and in 1655 by Nicholas Visscher. The third state included changes to the Strait of Magellan based on Le Maire's findings from his expedition in 1615-1617. The map has been beautifully decorated with cartouches and small engravings. The cartouche in the lower right tells how the New World was discovered and is flanked by the figures of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. Below are four roundels containing the portraits of the four circumnavigators: Ferdinand Magellan Sir Francis Drake Sir Thomas Cavendish and Olivier Van Noort. The Atlantic features a beautiful depiction of King Philip III of Spain riding a sea chariot supposedly on a figurative visit to his New World possessions and in the Pacific Poseidon with his wife Amphitrite and son Triton can be found amidst battle ships and sea monsters. Elephants rhinoceroses camels and ostriches roam the continent. Some copies of the present map include a decorative border with illustrations of native people and sometimes also a textual border with descriptions which are not present here. It appears that these borders were engraved on separate copper plates and were not always included. Blaeu's wall maps were first printed in Italy in 1646 probably by Stefano Mozzi Scolari 1598-1650 in Venice which were based on the third state from 1624. The present copy was engraved by Pietro Todeschi dates unknown around 1670 and published in Bologna in 1673 probably by Giuseppe Longhi who had worked on similar projects with Todeschi before. It closely resembles the Venetian edition which was most likely used as the model. Todeschi's edition is however clearly recognizable because of the misspelling of Mar del Norte as Mar del Noi and the fact that California has been drawn as an island. It is the only edition known to do so. The map has been reinforced on the back and is somewhat browned and stained; the surface has faded the work has been professionally restored: the colouring has been retouched some of the losses have been filled in. Otherwise in good condition. Burden II 433; Schilder Monumenta cartographica Neerlandica V p. 195; cf. Burden I 156 Blaeu map. Bologna, Guiseppe Longihi, Pietro Todeschi unknown

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The Essayes or Morall Politike and Militarie Discourses of Lord Michael de Montaigne Knight of the Noble Order of Saint Michael and One of the Gentlemen in Ordinary of the French Kings Chamber

Idealis Umbra Sapientiae Generalis 1687

Opera Theologica Moralia Historica Philosophica Mathematica & Rhetorica quotquot hucusque haberi pouterunt omnia in Vetus et Novum Testamentum . in Tomos VIII = Works . in Eight Volumes

Opera qoutquot reperiri potuerunt omnia: Hac ultima impressione ornatus in lucem edita. 8 Tomi. - THE FIRST COMPLETE BEDE

A pair of telescopes made in Japan during the Ego period. Diameter 52mm. Ikkanbari red lacquer gold arabesque design.

All the Workes of John Taylor The Water Poet Being Sixty and Three in Number. Collected into One Volume by the Author With Sundry New Additions Corrected Revised and Newly Imprinted

PSY-MANTIA THE MAG-ASTRO-MANCER or the Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner Posed and Puzzled.

THE ROYAL COMMENTARIES OF PERU IN TWO PARTS. The First Part: Treating of the Original of their Incas or Kings; the Second Part: Describing the manner by which that new World was conquered by the Spaniards. Translated by Sir Paul Rycaut.

THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD: COMMONLY CALLED THE NATURALL HISTORIE OF C. PLINUS SECUNDUS Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke

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Verklaringe van verscheyden kunst-rijcke wercken en hare beweginghe door orlogie-werck ghedreven Alles te sien in 't Oude Doolhof tot Amsterdam op de hoeck van de Loyers-gracht.

Biblia Det er Den gantske Hellige Scrifft paa Danske igien offuerseet oc Prentet effter vor allernaadigste Herris oc Kongis K. Christian den IV. Befaling. Mett Register/ alle D. Lutheri Fortaler ghans Udledning i Brædden oc Viti Theodori Summarier. Cu. - THE MAGNIFICENT CHRISTIAN IV FOLIO BIBLE

The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience Once More Briefly Debated & Defended by the Authority of Reason Scripture and Antiquity.

Regla de la Pasion: Manuscript rules for the Confraternity of the Holy Cross of La Horcajada Spain

The Historie of the World commonly called the Naturall Historie.

The Historie of the World; Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus .

Ordenanzas del Consejo Real de las Indias. Nuevamente recopiladas Y por el Rey Don Felipe Quarto N. S. para su govierno establecidas Año de M.D.CXXXVI. Autos acuerdos y decretos de gouierno del Conseio Real y supremo de las Indias.

Den blom-hof inhoudende de rare oft ongemeene blommen die op den tegenwoordighen tijdt by de lief-hebbers in estimatie ghehouden werden. Ghedeelt naer de vier deelen des jaers . Noch hier by ghevoecht de manier soomen dese bloemen naer haer eyghen coleuren ofte verven sal illumineren ofte afsetten .

One of the most influential maps of America ever made.

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