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1677000192bAmsterdam: Jacob van Meurs 1677. First Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Olfert Dapper - . Beautiful depiction of the complex of the CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY IN BETHLEHEM one of the most important Christian sites in the Holy Land. Original antique etching copper plate by the Dutch topographer OLFERT DAPPER. DATED 1677. First edition Dutch . Size of image: 142 x 113 inch 36 x 29cm legend and margins. Some occasional light age toning. Untrimmed full margins. Crisp and strong paper clear imprint. <br/> <br/> Jacob van Meurs unknown
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. <br/><br/><em>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. </em> hardcover
161948847Basel: Ludwig König 1619. First editions. Hardcover. Good. Seven parts in two volumes folio biblical texts and commentary in four parts continuously foliated; two supplemental sections each with separate foliation; Tiberias 1620 with separate pagination here bound after the second part - Vol. 1: 6 title and prelims 1-228 1 sect. title 234-441 1 blankff.; 6 sect. title and prelims 2 blank 114 2 blankpp. Vol. 2: 442-946; 8 Targum Yerushalmi; last leaf unfoliated; 67 Masora 1 blankff. Largely arranged in two columns of biblical texts in square font surrounded by commentaries in rabbinic Rashi font; text reads from right to left. This copy with collective Latin title surrounded by biblical quotations in Hebrew set within elaborate woodcut architectural borders. Hebrew sectional titles set within the same woodcut borders for the second and fourth parts with a plain letterpress half-title for the Five Megillot. The third sectional title for the Latter Prophets is lacking as are the Ashkenazi Haftarot readings not found in all copies. Apart from these lacks the Rabbinic Bible collates complete despite numerous errors in foliation throughout as per the detailed notes in Prijs Die Basler hebräischen Drucke. Opening word of each biblical book set in large one-third to one-half page cartouche vignettes with elaborate woodcut borders and surrounding letterpress Hebrew text. Main Latin title dated 1619 with the editor's Latin preface to the reader appearing at the verso. Jewish date chronogram for the second section Former Prophets dated 5378 1618/1619. Early twentieth-century black cloth boards worn at extremities gilt-lettered spine. Title moderately soiled re-inforced at gutter; neat old repairs to corners and fore-edge of title and next three leaves; old Russian stamp at bottom margin title manuscript entry in Russian along fore-edge dated 1837; intermittent mild to moderate marginal dampstains largely confined to corners and embrowning throughout both volumes somewhat more heavily in the first especially throughout Tiberias; top right corner of the opening leaf in vol. 2 repaired with loss of about 12 words surrounding title cartouche recto and some text in 9 lines of the commentary at the verso. Overall a good set with a notable chain of provenance. <br /> <br /> Sixth Rabbinic Bible in Hebrew: Mikra'ot Gedolot edited by Johann Buxtorf I 1565-1629 professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel and the foremost Christian Hebraist of his era with the assistance of the Jewish scholars Abraham Braunschweig who served as the principal corrector and Mordechai Gumplin of Posen. This was "a truly audacious undertaking for his time" Burnett From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies as no Christian scholar had yet attempted to edit the entire biblical corpus including the Aramaic versions Targumim and masoretic notes. Based mainly on the third Rabbinic Bible published by Daniel Bomberg at Venice in 1546-1548 the editor has carefully incorporated elements from two other Venetian editions. At the verso of the Latin title Buxtorf provides a detailed bibliographical excursus on the earlier Venetian editions and offers a tribute to Bomberg's industry by reprinting the colophon of the second Venetian Rabbinic Bible 1524-1525 at the conclusion of the masoretic appendix with text by the Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer Elijah Levita 1468 or 1469-1549 and a new introduction by Abraham Braunschweig. The design of the sectional titles and separate book title vignettes closely model those of the Venetian editions. "Buxtorf did not plan simply to reprint one of the existing Venice editions but rather to assemble the best features of them all into one work" and "to provide theologians with what he considered the most important tools for interpreting the Old Testament" Burnett. Buxtorf served in an official capacity as Basel's Hebrew censor charged with the oversight of all Jewish printing in the city and insuring that "no 'blasphemies' or slurs against Christians or Christianity appear in any book printed in Basel" Burnett. He carefully edited the Jewish commentaries in the Rabbinic Bible in accordance with this mandate "and removed many words and phrases which had escaped the attention of earlier censors" Burnett. <br /> <br /> The Rabbinic Bible contains the vocalized Masoretic text of the Hebrew Scriptures with accents and a vocalized Targum an Aramaic paraphrase of the biblical text: Onkelos for the Pentateuch; Jonathan b. Uzziel for the Prophets; and Targum Hagiographa for the Writings. The Hebrew and Aramaic versions are printed in square characters and presented in facing columns at the center of each page. The Jerusalem Targum of the Pentateuch appears as an appendix. In addition to the Aramaic paraphrases the Rabbinic Bible includes a massive scholarly apparatus of biblical commentaries by Rashi Ibn Ezra Baal ha-Turim Jacob b. Asher R. David Kimchi Radak R. Levi b. Gershon Ralbag Saadia Gaon and R. Isaiah along with the Masora a corpus of critical notes on the external form of the Biblical text compiled by Jewish scholars from late antiquity through the medieval era. As frequently occurs a copy of Buxtorf's work on the textual history of the Hebrew Bible Tiberias the 1620 first edition is bound-in. This work was made possible by the publication in 1538 of Elijah Levita's Masoret ha-Masoret a commentary on the Masora which Buxtorf translated into Latin for his own private use in 1593. "Buxtorf was concerned with the integrity of the consonantal text and the origin and integrity of the vowel points and accents of the Hebrew Bible from the very beginning of his scholarly career" and while he had earlier published a long excursus on the age of the vowel points and accents in his 1609 Thesaurus Grammaticus "Tiberias is Buxtorf's fullest and most impressive work on the history of the biblical text" Burnett. Intended as a reference work for Christian students and scholars interested in studying the Masora Buxtorf was also keen to refute the view advanced by Levita that the Hebrew vowel points were early medieval innovations. Our folio version of Tiberias was intended to accompany the Rabbinic Bible and has the same architectural borders at the title. König also published a quarto edition in the same year but only the folio version includes a critical commentary on the Masora in which Buxtorf proposes various corrections to the Masoretic notes. <br /> <br /> As noted at the title Buxtorf's faithful study and tireless labor studio fido et labore indefesso yielded notably long-lasting results: "The Basel rabbinical Bible became a standard tool for research among Christian scholars and would remain so. until the end of the nineteenth century" Burnett. A vast array of early modern scholars including Protestants like Johannes Drusius and John Selden as well as Roman Catholics like Robert Bellarmine and Andreas Masius owned a copy or two of the Rabbinic Bible. "Johannes Buxtorf's thoroughly censored "Christian" version of the Rabbinic Bible Basel 1618-19 only made it easier for Hebraists to own copies of their own" Burnett Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era p.163.<br /> <br /> A note on the date of publication: "The actual printing began between the mid-August and mid-September of 1618. According to the colophon production ended on the 24 of Ab 5379 = August 4 1619 but since this date also appeared on the colophon of the Bomberg Biblia rabbinica edition of 1524-25 reprinted unchanged in the 1546-48 and 1568 editions it is suspect. Prijs suggested that the probable completion date was sometime during Ab of 5379 between July 12 and August 10 of 1619" Burnett. <br /> <br /> Provenance: from the library of acclaimed theologian and biblical scholar Brevard Childs with his entry at the free endpaper in the second volume. The earlier bookplate of judge Samuel Heller with his motto in Hebrew: Mi-kol melamdai hiskalti from all my teachers I have learned appears at the front paste-down. An old blue ink-stamp in Hebrew characters makes occasional appearances the text: Bet ha-Midrash ha-Gadol Minsk The Great Synagogue of Minsk. A Russian entry dated 1837 appears at the fore-margin of the main title along with an old ink stamp in Russian at the bottom margin the last word of which reads "Rabbina" References: Biblia Sacra: Burnett 7. Cowley 87. Darlow & Moule 5120 bound with the 1665 second edition of Tiberias cf. 5093. Davidson Otsar ha-shirah vol.1 p.406 no.8954. Prijs 219. Steinschneider 423 423b. VD17 23:675325G. S. Burnett Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era Leiden: Brill 2012 p.163. Tiberias: Burnett 111. Prijs 222a. For detailed analyses of both works see: S. Burnett From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies Leiden: Brill 1996 pp.169-239 chaps. 6 & 7.<br /> <br /> Full Latin title: Biblia Sacra Hebraica & Chaldaica cum Masora quae critica Hebraeorum sacra est Magna & Parva ac selectissimis Hebraeorum interpretum commentariis Rabbi Salomonis Jarchi R. Abrahami Aben Esrae R. Davidis Kimchi R. Levi Gerson R. Saadie Gaon R. Jeschajae & Notis ex authore quem Baal Turim vocant collectis quibus textus grammaticè & historicè illustratur. In his nunc primum post quatuor editiones Venetas textus Chaldaicus qui Targum dicitur à deformitate punctationis & pravitate vocum innumeratum vindicatus; loca in Masora transposita deficientia pugnantia numeris depravata subsidio diversorum exemplarium & Concordantiarum Hebraicarum quantum fieri potuit reposita restituta & conciliata sunt ut in praefatione amplius declarabitur. Studio fido & labore indefesso Johannis BuxtofI linguae sanctae in Academia Basileensi Professoris Ord. Basileae: Sumptibus & typis Ludovici König 1619.<br /> <br /> Collation vol. 1 Rabbinic Bible: ital.a6 a-z8 A-E8 F4 G-Z8 Aa-Hh8 Ii9 Ii10 blank; 1 blank :3 1 blank A-N4 O5.<br /> <br /> Collation vol. 2 Rabbinic Bible: Kk-Rr8 Kk1 lacks Ss6 Tt10 Vv-Zz8 AA-PP8 QQ-TT6 VV9 VV10 blank XX-ZZ8 Aaa-Nnn8 Ooo3 Ooo4 blank PppTtt8 Vuu3 Vuu4 blank Xxx-Zzz8 AAaa-EEee8 8 A-G8 H6 I5 I6 blank. Ludwig König hardcover
1682500020180Leyden: Lugduni in Batavis 1682. Hardcover. Poor. 12mo. Title missing nothing before Page 1pp1-374 & 1-286 . With prices of the books written by hand <br/> <br/> Lugduni in Batavis hardcover
1608A86AMHKI23W2Amsterdam 1608. Small 4to. Disbound. With a woodcut device on the title-page. 8 pp. A letter from the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to the Dutch States General dated 19 October 1607 concerning the peace negotiations with Spain with the States General's undated answer in fact from 7 January 1608 and longer than the Emperor's letter. The Emperor notes that King Philip of Spain and his governor in the Netherlands Archduke Albert have already recognized the United Provinces as a "Free Republic" regrets that the negotiations for peace have stalled and implies that the States could do more to facilitate progress. The States General's reply to the Emperor says that King Philip and Archduke Albert have not fully informed him and that the Spanish have continued to attempt to undermine the United Provinces by violence on land and at sea contrary to the agreements reached in Cologne.The pamphlet went through two editions which were issued with all three editions of the Nederlandtsche Bye-Korf between April and August 1608.With minor tears on or near the fold of the outer bifolium not approaching the text and slightly browned otherwise a very good copy.l Asher 26 27 or 28/33; Knuttel 1513; Simoni G 43; Tiele 716; OCLC WorldCat 5 copies. unknown
1652310102Trajecti ad Rhenum Typis Gisberti à Zijll & Theodori ab Akersdijck 1652. 263pp. 16mo 5 x 2-3/4 inches. Bound in near contemporary speckled calf. Fine. 263pp. 16mo 5 x 2-3/4 inches. Trajecti ad Rhenum Typis Gisberti à Zijll, & Theodori ab Akersdijck unknown
167520227<p><b>1675 Pliny the Younger Panegyricus Emperors Trajan & Domitian ROME Military </b></p><p>Pliny the Younger one of the most notable 1st-century historians is best remembered for his written works and orations. His best-known and still widely popular work is his '<i>Epistles'</i> which was a series of personal letters to other Roman figures. They give an important view of Roman everyday life as well as an interesting perspective on Pliny's views against Christianity.</p><p>In addition to his letters Pliny is remembered by his only known oration – '<i>Panegyricus'</i>. '<i>Panegyricus'</i> was a speech given to the Senate describing Emperor Trajan his administrative actions views on justice military discipline and commerce. He compares Trajan to other figures most notably Emperor Domitian. This 1675 edition was published in Lugduni Batavorum by Hackiana and includes notes and annotations by Dominique Baudius.</p><p>Item number: #20227</p><p>Price: $499</p><p>PLINY the Younger</p><p><b><i>C. PlinI Panegyricus liber Trajano dictus : cum annotationibus antehac ineditis Dominici Baudii</i></b></p><p>Lugduni Batavorum Leiden: Ex officina Hackiana 1675.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>o 38 427 43</p><p>o Includes engraved frontispiece</p><p>· Armorial bookplate – The Right Hon.ble the Earl of Berkshire Lord Marshall of England anno 1720</p><p>o Henry Bowes Howard 11th Earl of Suffolk 4th Earl of Berkshire 1686–1757 was an English peer. After the death of Henry Howard 6th Earl of Suffolk in 1718 he was appointed Deputy Earl Marshal an office he held until 1725. He also became Recorder of Lichfield in 1755. Motto: NOUS MAINTIENDRONS</p><p>· Language: Latin </p><p>· Binding: Leather; tight and secure</p><p>· Size: ~8in X 5in 20.5cm x 12.5cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>20227</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> officina Hackiana hardcover
1659310832Amsterdam: Elzevir 1659. 24 404 28 pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. Very good. 24 404 28 pp. 12mo. Provenance: royal stamp on title; various early ownership signatures; Siebold ownership signature dated 1825 stamp on verso of title; Kirby Flower Smith bookplate Elzevir unknown
1640109T2Ex Officina Elseviriorum Elzevier Lvgd. Batavorvm Leiden: 1640. 1640 pp. 12 414 i.e.404 28. Printer's device the Hermit on title page. 24mo. 13 cm. Latin text. Worn original full leather binding boards detached. The Dutch family of Elzevier Elzevir; Elsevier were the foremost printers of their time. They produced a vast variety of well printed scholarly and popular books; many in a very small handy format. Louis Elzevier the founder of the firm produced his first book in Leiden in 1583. The 'golden age' of Elzevier printing was between 1620 and 1680. The Elzevier dynasty probably produced their last publication in 1770. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo 61 c. 113 better known as Pliny the Younger was a lawyer author and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle Pliny the Elder helped raise and educate him. Pliny the Younger wrote hundreds of letters of which 247 survive and are of great historical value. Some are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian Tacitus. Pliny served as an imperial magistrate under Trajan and his letters to Trajan provide one of the few surviving records of the relationship between the imperial office and provincial governors. Willems 506; Copinger 3646. PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 4 Language: eng. Hardcover. Fair. Ex Officina Elseviriorum [Elzevier], Lvgd. Batavorvm [Leiden]: 1640. hardcover
1633306616Paris: Societatis Typographic Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici . 1633. Engraved title numerous small and large engraved vignettes head-and tail-pieces one full-page engraving; text printed in black running headlines and chapter headings in red numerous large decorated initial capitals. 1 vols. Folio. Full red crushed morocco covers decorated with single black and gilt fillets including a central diamond in black and gilt with a gilt-rolled frame spine in six compartments with raised bands gilt lettered in two others with simple frame of black and gilt fillets wide gilt turn-ins with large gilt cornerpieces a.e.g. gilt-stamped on the turn-in of the inside front cover "French Binders Garden City NY" and on that of the rear cover "H. Hardy Relieur 1934 G. Pilon Doreur." Very slight rubbing to extremities still near fine with some toning to text. In a quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Engraved title numerous small and large engraved vignettes head-and tail-pieces one full-page engraving; text printed in black running headlines and chapter headings in red numerous large decorated initial capitals. 1 vols. Folio. Beautifully bound in full red morocco by The French Binders successors to The Club Bindery and signed on the rear turn in by two of the firm's most distinguished binders Henry Hardy and Gaston Pilon. <br /> The French Binders traces its lineage back to The Club Bindery founded in 1895 by members of the Grolier Club to provide exceptionally fine bindings for American collectors. The Club Bindery moved to Cleveland where it was successively renamed the Rowfant Bindery 1909-1913 the Booklover's Shop 1914-1917 and finally The French Binders 1918-1920s as in-house bindery to Doubelday in Garden City New York. Henry Hardy worked for all incarnations of the bindery starting with The Club Bindery; his brother-in-law Gaston Pilon worked with Chambolle-Duru in Paris and came over to America to join the Rowfant Bindery. Both Hardy and Pilon were named Officers of the French Academy in 1933 the highest recognition given by the French government to naturalized Americans see Martin Antonetti's essay in Bound to Be the Best: The Club Bindery. Provenance: Estelle Doheny red morocco booklabel; Carl C. Kalbfleisch brown morocco booklabel Societatis Typographic Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici .. unknown
169316116No place no date1693. Very large engraved seechart measuring 60 x 865 cm. in original outline colouring. The chart showing the Northern part of England from Lancaster to Banf of Ireland from Blackrock to Carlingford and all the Islands to the north: Shetland Orkney Faroe etc. etc. A fine impression on good thick paper with the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. Folded down the center. <br/><br/><em>The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693 and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. The chart is without year place and "par Ordre du Roi" pointing to a later impression but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV425:9. </em> unknown
169316120Large engraved seechart measuring 46 x 89 cm. in original outline colouring. The chart showing the South-east coast of England from Sandwich to Clay. With inset view of The Thames between London and Greane Island. A fine impression on good thick paper with watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. Folded down the center. <br/><br/><em>The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693 and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. This chart is without year place and "par Ordre du Roi" pointing to a later issue but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV425:8. </em> unknown
169316118Very large engraved seechart measuring 61 x 875 cm. in original outline colouring with large inset view of the harbour of Kinsal and Kinsal River. The chart showing the Westcoast of Ireland from Bay of Roonstahound to Kiriec in lower left corner C. Berey scr. A fine impression on good thick paper with the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. fOLDED DOWN THE CENTER. <br/><br/><em>The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693 and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. The chart is without year place and "par Ordre du Roi" pointing to a later issue but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV425:11. </em> unknown
1647011659London: Printed for John Rothwell at the Sun and Fountaine in Pauls Churchyard 1647 Book. Good. Disbound. iv 22 2 pages. The final two pages are blank. ESTC R5046. Damp stained throughout. Disbound. Original binding stabholes visible to the inner margins. Printed for John Rothwell at the Sun and Fountaine in Pauls Churchyard unknown
16732111902160201422Hayashi Izumi Kambei Murakami Jinshiro Yao Kanni Murakami 1673. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Hayashi Izumi Kambei Murakami Jinshiro Yao Kanni Murakami paperback
16567101656. Engraving with hand coloring and heightening in watercolor on two leaves of expertly conjoined handmade laid paper one leaf with a large watermark a feathered dragon 7 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches 183 x 285 mm. In excellent condition with superb coloring and heightening. The pigments and ink are extremely fresh and vibrant as originally presented. unknown
169745644Leipzig Grosse & Gleditsch 1697. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCXCVII" No V May-issue. Pp. 193-240 entire issue offered. With titlepage to the volume 1697. Leibniz: pp. 201-205. Johann Bernoulli: pp. 206-211. Jacob Bernoulli: pp. 211-214. Newton: pp. 223-224. As usual some leaves with browning. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of the famous issue of Acta Eruditorum in which the 4 solutions by the 4 most eminent mathematicians at the time were printed together. There were in all 5 solutions to the posed problem and Newton's solution was first printed in the Philosophical Transactions January 1697 and reprinted here. The solution proposed by L'Hopital not printed here was not published until 1988.The brachistochrone problem was posed by Johann Bernoulli in Acta Eruditorum in June 1696. He introduced the problem as follows: "I Johann Bernoulli address the most brilliant mathematicians in the world. Nothing is more attractive to intelligent people than an honest challenging problem whose possible solution will bestow fame and remain as a lasting monument. Following the example set by Pascal Fermat etc. I hope to gain the gratitude of the whole scientific community by placing before the finest mathematicians of our time a problem which will test their methods and the strength of their intellect. If someone communicates to me the solution of the proposed problem I shall publicly declare him worthy of praise." Johann Bernoulli and Leibniz deliberately tempted Newton with this problem. It is not surprising given the dispute over the calculus that Johann Bernoulli had included these words in his challenge:- ."there are fewer who are likely to solve our excellent problems aye fewer even among the very mathematicians who boast that they. have wonderfully extended its bounds by means of the golden theorems which they thought were known to no one but which in fact had long previously been published by others."According to Newton's biographer Conduitt he solved the problem in an evening after returning home from the Royal Mint. Newton: . "in the midst of the hurry of the great recoinage did not come home till four in the afternoon from the Tower very much tired but did not sleep till he had solved it which was by four in the morning."Newton send his solution to his friend Charles Montague and Montague published anonymously in the Transactions. Newton's solution presented here in the Acta is also anonymous. The episode did not please Newton as he later wrote: "I do not love to be dunned pestered and teased by foreigners about mathematical things ." After the competition Johann Bernoulli said ". my elder brother made up the fourth of these after Leibniz himself and Newton that the three great nations Germany England and France each one of their own to unite with myself in such a beautiful search all finding the same truth."Struik Edt. "A Source Book in Mathematics 1200-1800 pp. 391 ff. </em> unknown
16742083002116205703Copy from the Tokushima Prefectural Library 1674. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Copy from the Tokushima Prefectural Library paperback
165849004Amstelodami: ex officina Elseviriana 1658. 12mo pp. 24 643 1; engraved title page printer's woodcut device on printed title several woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1; spine worn but generally good and sound. This is the third Elzevier edition. Copinger 2552; Willems 1231. ex officina Elseviriana unknown
1643621201Utrecht, J. van Doorn, 1642 (-1643). Folio. 2 Bl., 191 (recte 173, 3), 12 S., 6 Bl.; 2 Bl., 331 S., 16 Bl.; 4 Bl., 180 S., 16 Bl. Mit 1 doppelblattgroßen Kupferkarte u. 2 Textkupfern. Pergament d. Zeit (angestaubt, Rücken mit Einriß u. kleiner Fehlstelle, hinterer Innendeckel mit Wurmspuren). [4 Warenabbildungen]
