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16321006Y5Amsterdami: Apud Guiljelmum & Joannem Blaeu 1632 . First edition. Leather. Good. 5" by 3". None. The first Blaeu edition of Seneca's Tragedies with notes by English schoolmaster and scholar Thomas Farnaby. The very scarce first Willem & Johannes Blaeu edition of Seneca's Tragedies. In a full speckled calf binding. Bound with the original blanks and endpapers. Willem Janszoon Blaeu 1571 - 1638 was the founder of a large publishing firm that became famous in the field of cartography under the name Blaeu. Along with his son Johannes Blaeu Willem is considered one of the notable figures of the Netherlandish or Dutch school of cartography during its golden age in the 16th and 17th centuries.Accompanied by scholarly notes by Thomas Farnaby c. 1575 12 June 1647 who operated a successful school in the Cripplegate ward of London and enjoyed great success with his annotations of classic Latin authors.Duodecimo.Register; A-P12 Q6. Collated against a copy held by Hathi Trust complete. In a full speckled calf binding. Externally with a couple minor losses to the front board leather and two short splits to the head of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with toning to the endpapers. Worming to the upper half of the leaves. Good Apud Guiljelmum & Joannem Blaeu hardcover
1639BBS-2006467Ex Officina Elzeviriana Lugdun. Batavor. Leiden 1639. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Standalone second volume from a three-volume series of the works of Seneca the Younger BCE 4 - 65 CE & Seneca the Elder BCE 54 - c. 39 CE completed 1640. This volume includes 1 'Ad Lucilium Epistulae' or 'moral letters to Lucilius'; 2 the seven-book 'Naturalium Quaestionum' an encyclopedia of the natural world and 3 the 'Claudii Caesaris Apokolokyntosis' - this last word transliterated from the Greek - literally the 'gourdification' of Emperor Claudius a political satire often attributed to the younger Seneca. 718 pages. Leather scuffed with moderate rubbing to edges and points of fraying at fore-edge corners; leather dry and cracked over the spine. Inner hinges split but binding sound and else intact. Pages age-toned. Fire damage to fore-edge margin of pages 331-336 with no impact on text. Bookplate belonging to 'Richard Cox' adhered to front paste-down another to verso of FFEP interior else clean and free of markings. Engraved vignette at title page and engraved header and initial at text. 3in x 5in. BP-023 Ex Officina Elzeviriana, Lugdun. Batavor. (Leiden) hardcover
1658105307ABParis:, Pierre le Petit;, 1658. 448 S. Ldr. mit 5 künstlichen Bünden und Goldschmuck. Kanten etwas berieben und bestossen. Leder am Rücken teils ausgebessert. Gold minimal abgeplatzt und mit minimalen Wurmlöchern. Im Ganzen jedoch sehr ordentliches Exemplar.
1691D14221La Haye: Barent Beek 1691. Hardcover. Very Good. Early 18th century calf gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label gilt-stamped ornament in spine compartments 5 raised bands; 16mo 146x93mm; pp. 20 98 plus engraved frontispiece and 62 engraved plates 4 folding. Some light chipping along joints; light scuffing at spine tips and along edges of boards; front joint tender. Frontispiece and one folding plate with discreetly repaired tears; otherwise internally nice and clean. An excellent copy with an interesting provenance -- Bibliothèque Deprins bookplate; Hippolyte Destailleur 1822-1893 French architect bookplate and mss note tipped-in. <br/><br/>William III of Orange 1650-1702 King of England Scotland and Ireland entered The Hague on 5 February 1691 to spectacular celebration decoration and pomp. Numerous triumphal arches and pyramids were erected throughout the city illuminations of the city's public buildings were designed and a fireworks display was arranged for the evening of the King's arrival. The plates illustrate the arches pyramids emblems and the the fireworks show and several represent scenes of victory from the King's life including sea battles sieges and treaties. Although the plates are unsigned some have been attributed by Vinet to Adriaan Schoonebeck and Romeyn de Hooghe but 16 plates are by Jan Luyken; an English edition was published in London in 1692. Watanabe attributes the text to Bidloo but all other bibliographers leave it anonymous. It is most likely that these descriptions of the plates were supplied by the print publisher Barent Beek himself. Berlin 2954 Dutch edition; Landwehr Splendid Ceremonies 156; Vinet 750; Watanabe 2736. Barent Beek hardcover
1691CA0706<p><br />8 sheets written on recto and verso. Folio 12 1/2" x 8 3/4" unbound leaves. 1 page written in Nahuatl currently housed in a custom made enclosure by Octavaye Studios. <br /><br />The Cabildo Justice and Aldermen of the Village of Tehuacán testify that Don Gabriel Santiago cacique of Tehuacán has in his possession documents that belong to the City starting with the Royal Decree that ordered the founding of Tehuacán over the village of Calcahualco in times of Viceroy Peralta 1566 – 1567 as well as deeds for grants of land and water made by the Viceroys to the City of Tehuacán. He has this papers that he inherited from his father Agustin de Santiago deceased. He also has other documents: deeds formalities sales and possessions. They ask all these papers be returned to the City to be stored by the Royal Notary in a box with 5 keys. They deem these papers necessary to the city to be able to solve land disputes and land invasions and to be able to give deeds to the landowners. The case is presented to a judge who orders all papers belonging to the city be turned over to the Notary in possession of Don Gabriel Santiago or any other cacique. He complies but requests papers of a water dispute in the village of Santa Maria be included in this box.<br /><br />Don Gabriel Santiago testifies he needs those papers in order to collect tributes from the Indians and to solve problems that arise in the community. On the back of his testimony there is one page in Nahuatl signed by the members of the Cabildo.<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br />Edge wear with tears and chips heal corner damaged else very good in a fine enclosure.</p> Manuscript
1668174741668 un volume, reliure de l'époque plein veau brun raciné in-quarto (binding full calfskin) (19,3 x 25,6 cm), reliure d'époque, dos 4 nerfs (spine with raised bands) décoré or (gilt decoration) filets or (gilt line) et filets à froid (blind-stamping line decoration) - entre-nerfs - compartiments à fleuron au fer plein en losange et rinceaux aux angles avec des petits fers en remplissage (between the raised bands double gilt lines - floweret with hollowed out blocking stamp - with foliages executed in the curved lines in angles - with small blocking stamp in filling), titre frappé or (gilt title), important manque de cuir en bas du dos (lack of leather at the bottom on the spine) sur une surface de 3 cm2, coiffes supérieure et inférieure manquantes (is missing head and and tail of the spine), important manque de cuir en bas du premier plat, en longueur sur 3 cm2, coins fortement écornés, toutes tranches lisses jaspées rouges (all red marbled edges), cahiers légèrement déboités, La vignette de titre aux armes du Duc de Guise, Henri II de Lorraine MANQUE, sans illustrations (no illustrations), texte bien Complet (collationné), 795 pages, 1668 Paris Chez Edme Martin et Sébastien Larbre-Cramoisy Editeur,
1680621609Lüttich, G. Grison, 1680. Kl.-8vo. 80 Bl. Mit kl. Wappenholzschnitt Titel verso. Marmorierte Interimskartonage d. Zeit (etwas berieben u. gelockert, Rücken mit kl. Fehlstellen). [2 Warenabbildungen]
1612WRCLIT35327Frankfurt: Cura ac sumtibus Zachariae Palthenii 1612. 4 471 i.e. 487 due to many errors in numbering in the late portion of the text1 blankpp. Small quarto. Slightly later plain full calf visible waste sheets from an English astronomical gazette used in the binding are for the year 1635. Alchemical device on title two marginal woodcuts several tables leaf M1 folded at fore-edge to accommodate the over extension of the table on that leaf. Crown of spine has shallow loss bookplate scar on front pastedown front inner hinge cracking and binder's free endsheet detached text block considerably browned as usual for this title 3N4 has a short clean tear in from the margin some occasional marginal discoloration occasional spotting; still a good copy. First edition of this very substantial lexicon compiled by the physician to Emperor Rudolph II and lecturer at the gymnasium at Lauingen in Swabia. "He was in favor of Parcelsus' reforms but he dealt greatly in secret remedies especially in emetics." - Ferguson. "This lexicon is very full less mystical and more practical than some later ones. Useful in explaining early terminology" - Bolton. DUVEEN p. 520. FERGUSON II:302. BOLTON I:1041. Cura ac sumtibus Zachariae Palthenii unknown books
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
165514114Basleae Basel: Johannes König 1655. Hardcover. fair. 12mo. 22 976 76 pp. Paper covered boards with title plate. 17th century Hebrew-Latin dictionary. Text in Hebrew and Latin. Half of spine and title plate missing. Scuffing abrasions and wear to boards. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to edges. Yellow page edges. Water stain to top page edge and upper part of fore page edge. Hinges starting. Sporadic foxing to pages and water staining to last half of book on top area of pages not affecting text. Cover in poor interior in good condition. Johannes Buxtorf the Elder was a 17th century Hebraist who served as professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and known by the title "Master of the Rabbis." He was one of the most important Christian Hebraists of his day and was largely responsible for transforming Hebrew studies from an amateur hobby into an established academic discipline in the early seventeenth century. He was succeeded by his son Johannes Buxtorf the Younger who also became a renowned professor. Johannes König hardcover
1651CA1001<p>1651 Mexico City Imprenta de Juan Ruyz. From the library of Luis Garcia Pimentel<br /><br />2 of 7136 leaves of 141. Octavo 8 1/2" x 6" bound in original period vellum with title hand written to spine. Last 36 leaves are headed "Lib. II" Libros 3 and 4 were issued separately the following year. From the library of Luis Garcia Pimentel. Medina Mexico 724; Palau 72254 First edition.<br /><br />Juan DÃaz de Arce born in Mexico towards the end of the 16th century he graduated as a bachelor from the Royal and Pontifical University on October 23 1603 he entered the College of Santa MarÃa de Todos Santos where he obtained the chair of theology which he taught for 30 years. Among other positions he was an archdeacon in charge of administering a diocese or part of it under the orders of the bishop he was appointed vicar general; He was also appointed as the schoolmaster which means that he was in charge of teaching the ecclesiastical scenes as well as archbishop of Santo Domingo but whether or not he took office is unknown. the pope appointed him delegate of the Augustinian cause over the alternative he died on June 1 1653.<br /><br />Bernardino Alvarez 1514–1584 promoted the formation of a congregation to take care of the ill founding the hospital in 1569. This congregation was given all the privileges of which the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God enjoyed. The Brothers remained as a congregation until 1700 when the petition of Hipolitos and Pope Innocence XII gave them the possibility of making chastity votes poorness obedience and hospitality under the rule of San AgustÃn. The San Hipólito Brothers' order was important for New Spain because seven hospitals were under their charge six of which were founded by money obtained from alms. One of those was San Hipólito hospital also founded by Bernardino Ãvarez. He was a priest born on Rosales León Spain. He studied humanities and Latin on a preceptorship located on Vegarienza León. He did his training prior making his vows before being a member of the religious institute on El Escorial Monastery where he finalized his novitiate in September 22 1531. He worked in Rome in the Real Monastery in the Ucles Monastery and in Santiago Monastery. He became a priest in 1538. He went back to Spain where he worked as a teacher in El Escorial Monastery. Bernardino Ãlvarez was imprisoned on August 6 1547. When he was released he went to Mexico after the fall of Tenochtitlan. When he arrived he started the religious order of the Hipólitos. He founded San Hipolito Hospital and "Santa Cruz" hospital in Oaxtepec Morelos Mexico. This hospital was also dedicated for patients with mental diseases. During the next years he opened other hospitals one in Puebla that was named "San Roque" which was for female psychiatric patients another one in Jalapa Veracruz called "La Concepción" and one in Acapulco Guerrero. Ãlvarez decided the foundation of five hospitals in Mexico was not enough so he traveled to Mesoamerica and founded more hospitals than he expected all the way from La Habana Cuba to Mexico. The information about his death is nonexistent but it is known that today there is a tribute to the priest on the Hospital de Jesús.<br /><br />Luis GarcÃa Pimentel 1835-1930 He was the son of and the also bibliographer and historian JoaquÃn GarcÃa Icazbalceta. He continued the compilation that his father started and carried out photolithographic essays on the work <em>Bibliography of the 16th century</em>.<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br />Ownership tag of Luis Garcia Pimente to front vellum verso. .Moderate wear with stains to vellum lacking frontispiece plate lacking 5 preliminary leaves lacking the 6 final leaves table of contents lacking rear pastedown minor worming to inner margin; early ownership inscription on title page unidentified Carmelite marca de fuego on top edge. Spine lettering faded defective but only 7 in OCLC.</p> Imprenta de Juan Ruyz
1663017133Paris Circa 1663 1663. Original Antique Engraving . Single Sheet. Very Good . Very Attractive Original Engraving Of Louis Xiv As A Young Man In Armor Perhaps At The Age Of 20 Or 25 Which Would Date This Engraving Circa 1658 To 1663. Fine Detail In Background Of Heavenly Figures Above Casting Light Upon Louis And His Court Below. Four Lines Of Printed Text Below Portrait In Oval; Signed "P. Aubry Excud."; One Line Of Finely Hand Written Latin Beneath That. 5" X 6 1/4". Part Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. <br/> <br/> unknown
1649BBS-2006291Ex Officina Elseviriana Lugdun. Batavor. Leiden 1649. Hardcover. Very Good. 1649. 442 pages with unpaginated indexes following. Standalone third volume from a three-volume series of the works of Seneca the Younger BCE 4 - 65 CE & Seneca the Elder BCE 54 - c. 39 CE. This recension of the elder's works was prepared by Andre Schott 1552-1629 a Renaissance Jesuit priest and scholar of the Duchy of Brabant and first appeared in 1607. This is the second Elzevier edition of this recension reprinted nearly line for line from the earlier Elzevier of 1640; although less sought than the 1940 edition Willems no. 672 calls this edition very beautiful 'fort belle.' Leather binding with four raised bands and a leather title plate on the spine gilt titling and decoration. Leather scuffed with moderate rubbing to edges and points of fraying at fore-edge corners; leather dry and cracked over the spine with minor chipping to spine head and some loss of the title plate. Front outer hinge beginning to split but binding else intact and sound. Pages age-toned and lightly foxed. Bookplate belonging to 'Richard Cox Esq' adhered to front paste-down interior else clean and free of markings. Engraved vignette at title page. 3in x 5in. BP-028. Ex Officina Elseviriana, Lugdun. Batavor. (Leiden) hardcover
169027724Bouillon: Au Camp Près Bouillon 1690. In French. 1 1/4 pages. 1 vols. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Paper. Some light marginal wear else very good. In French. 1 1/4 pages. 1 vols. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. As Colonel of the Regiment of Touraine and Brigadier des Armés du Roy he certifies that Destoriers Goldar de la Compagnie de Miramone had served in the military and asks for his admittance to Hôtel des Invalides. In 1701 he was made the Commander in Chief . He received the Grand Croix of St. Louis. <br/><br/> Au Camp Près Bouillon unknown
168649367Venezia, (1686). 8vo. (16,5x11 cm.). Contemp. full vellum. Halftitle-page. Engraved Title-page (the Lion of St. Mark). (8),237,1 blank,(2- Indice) pp. and 41 (of 42 ?) double-page folded engraved maps and plans (bird's-eye views or plans of fortified towns and places etc.). Internally fine and clean. Printed on good paper. A fine copy.
168649367Venezia 1686. 8vo. 165x11 cm. Contemp. full vellum. Halftitle-page. Engraved Title-page the Lion of St. Mark. 82371 blank2- Indice pp. and 41 of 42 double-page folded engraved maps and plans bird's-eye views or plans of fortified towns and places etc. Internally fine and clean. Printed on good paper. A fine copy. <br/><br/><em>Second edition the first 8vo-edition issued the same year as the first in folio describing the Venetian campaign for the reconquest of the Peloponnese or Morea from which Venice had been almost completely excluded since the Turkish conquest of the Greek island in 1458."As is often the case with Coronelli's work the contents may vary with each example as plates were added subtracted or changed as the editor saw fit" Rodney Shirley "Maps in the Atlases of the british Library" T.Coro-1a - listing only 39 maps and views for this copy.Coronelli Vincenzo Maria an Italian geographer and draughtsman was born at Venice about 1650. From 1681-1683 he worked in Paris on a pair of 3.85 meter diameter globes for Louis XIV which are now in the National Library in Paris. On his return to Venice he was made cosmographer of the Republic and founded the Academy of Argonauts the first Geographical Society. In 1702 he became general of his order. </em> hardcover
1608251209006CD Baby 2016-08-04. audioCD. Used: Very Good. 5x5x0. Very good condition. From a private collection. Comes from non smoking home. CD Baby unknown
16607272Padua: Typis Pauli Frambotti Bibliopolae 1660. First edition. Boards. Very Good . Folio. 8124pp. Woodcut printer's device on title. Illustrated with 2 armorial woodcuts and numerous letterpress genealogical tables. 20th c. marbled boards. Rare. Typis Pauli Frambotti Bibliopolae hardcover books
168345599Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1683. 4to. Without wrappers. In: ""Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIII"", No.III + X (March and October issues). Pp. 81-128 + pp. 417-464 a. 2 engraved plates. (Entire issues offered). Tschirnhaus's papers: pp. 122-124 + pp. 433-437. Some browning as usual.
168346399Leipzig, Grosse & Gleditsch, 1683. 4to. Contemporary full vellum. Handwritten title on spine. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper and a small stamps on titlepage. In: ""Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIII"". As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. Tschirnhaus' paper: pp. 122-124" Pp. 204-207" Pp. 433-437. [Entire volume: (8), 561, (7) pp + 13 plates].
168345599Leipzig Grosse & Gleditsch 1683. 4to. Without wrappers. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIII" No.III X March and October issues. Pp. 81-128 pp. 417-464 a. 2 engraved plates. Entire issues offered. Tschirnhaus's papers: pp. 122-124 pp. 433-437. Some browning as usual. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Tschirnhaus's two papers in which he used infinitisimal methods which were very close to Leibniz's method and where he tried to lay down criteria for rational quadratures in the case of conic cubic and quadratic curves papers that led Leibniz to publish his first paper on the differential calculus the "Nova Methoda" in the Acta for 1684 in order to secure his priority over Tschirnhaus concerning the calculus. Leibniz discovered when he read Tschirnhaus' papers that Tschirnhaus had here published results showing similarity with Leibniz's invention of the calculus as he had confided to Tschirnhaus earlier during their Parisian stay and this without references to Leibniz.The second issue contains an original paper by LEIBNIZ: "Meditatio Juridico-Mathematica de Interusurio simplice". Pp. 425-32. </em> unknown
168346399Leipzig Grosse & Gleditsch 1683. 4to. Contemporary full vellum. Handwritten title on spine. Library label to pasted down front free end-paper and a small stamps on titlepage. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIII". As usual with various browning to leaves and plates. Tschirnhaus' paper: pp. 122-124; Pp. 204-207; Pp. 433-437. Entire volume: 8 561 7 pp 13 plates. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Tschirnhaus's three exceedingly important papers which were to to initiate one of the most famous mathematical discoveries. In the papers he used infinitisimal methods which were very close to Leibniz's method and where he tried to lay down criteria for rational quadratures in the case of conic cubic and quadratic curves papers that led Leibniz to publish his first paper on the differential calculus the "Nova Methoda" in the Acta for 1684 in order to secure his priority over Tschirnhaus concerning the calculus. Leibniz discovered when he read Tschirnhaus' papers that Tschirnhaus had here published results showing similarity with Leibniz's invention of the calculus as he had confided to Tschirnhaus earlier during their Parisian stay and this without references to Leibniz.The present volume of Acta also contain the first edition of Tschirnhaus' "Tschirnhaus Tranformation". Tschirnhaus work intensively on finding a general method for solving equations of higher of higher degree. "His transformations constituted the most promising contribution to the solution of equations during the seventeenth century; but his elimination of the second and third coefficients by means of such transformation was far from adequate for the solution of the quintic.Boyer. A History of Mathematics 1968 472 p.Tschirnhaus 1651-1708 a Saxon nobleman had as wide interest as acquaintances: He studied in Leyden served in the Dutch army visited England and Paris several times. He set up a glassworks in Italy and is said to have introduced Porcelain to Europe. He wrote about philosophy and mathematics and was a close friend of Leibniz. </em> hardcover
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 1,2 a. 3 in the plate. All 4 mounted and framed in two (29 x 20 cm.). Mildly brownspotted.
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
16351316802Amsterdam: Broer Jansz 1635. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto 40 382 pages. In Good condition. Bound in contemporary worn calf rebacked with brown calf black label with gilt lettering. Lacking pages 383-400. With 18 out of 19 emblems and 2 other plates of symbolic character. With engraved title page. First 6 pages with repair to gutter. Names written to front pastedown. Scarce. Follows the work itself consisting of a collection of poems containing emblemata on pages 47 52 65 85 97 104 110 114 116 140 179 185 189 200 283 328 333 337. Lacking plate on page 389. Those on pages 116 283 and 337 are from Cr. de Passe Jr. They are bordered in squares. Moreover the work also contains 2 plates on pages 17 and 19 also from Cr. de Passe Jr. The rest of the preliminary work contains praise from: Abr. van der Meer J. Cats and Ludov. à Kinschoot Lat. Num Zelus init damna I.V. D.M. D. Herm. the Hubert &c <br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Volgt het werk zelf bestaande uit een bundel gedichten waarin emblemata voorkomen op blz. 47 52 65 85 97 104 110 114 116 140 179 185 189 200 283 328 333 337 389. Die op blz. 116 283 en 337 zijn van Cr. de Passe Jr. Ze zijn rond in vierkanten geärceerden rand. Bovendien bevat het werk nog 2 platen op blz. 17 en 19 eveneens van Cr. de Passe Jr.<br /> Anne Gerard Christiaan de Vries 1899. 1316802. Special Collections - Downstairs. Broer Jansz hardcover
