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17351013F2London: I. Ware 1735 . First edition. Paperback. Fair. 22" by 16.5". Isaac Ware; Fourdrinier . Illustrated with engraved plates present here is the very scarce first edition of the first monograph dedicated to the architecture of a single British country house in this case Robert Walpole's Houghton Hall. The very scarce first edition of this work. In the oriignal publishers' wraps. This was the first monograph devoted to the architecture of a single British country house. Houghton Hall was built between 1720 and 1735 for Sir Robert Walpole from the proceeds from his sale of South Sea Company shares. Houghton Hall is widely regarded as the greatest extant example of Palladian domestic architecture in England. Illustrated with an engraved title page and twenty-eight engraved architectural plates. Collated complete. ESTC T42438 Engraved by Fourdrinier from drawings by Isaac Ware. A second edition was published in 1760. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Lacking rear wrap with major losses to perimeters of front wrap. Ink markings to front wrap. Internally binding lightly strained. Significant losses to perimeters of title page with edgewear and chipping to plate perimeters throughout. Lightly age toned due to paper type with the odd spot or handling mark. Major losses to perimeters of final four leaves. One double pages plates detached and loosely inserted. Major closed tears and losses to final plate. Fair I. Ware paperback
1752B4844London : Samuel Peterson c.1752. . A near fine copy. Plates and text are clean and crisp. . Edition: Second Edition. Binding: Contemporary calf boards with gilt decorative borderings. Rebacked skillfully. Spine in six compartments of raised bands with gilt decorative devices and rulings. Gilt title on green calf label on 2. Notes: This is one of the most important works introducing Newtonian physics to continental Europe. Wilhelm Jacob Gravesande 1688-1742 was a Dutch lawyer and natural philosopher chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics. As professor of mathematics astronomy and philosophy at Leiden University he helped to propagate Isaac Newton’s ideas in Continental Europe. Size: 8vo. 184x127mm. Illustration: Illustrated with a multitude of in text equations as well as 4 fold out plates depicting mathematical relationships. Pages: P. Title Blank Preface iii-iv 1-187 Category: Book Science & Technology; Samuel Peterson hardcover
17269030959London: John Clark and Richard Hett et al. 1726. 2nd. Hardcover. Very good. Signed on front free endpaper by previous owner Ronald Salmon Crane former member of University of Chicago faculty and the "Chicago School of Literary Criticism." Rebound in half black leather and pebbled cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt. Minor wear to extremities one corner through cloth head and heel of spine chipped. Text block is in remarkable fine condition; tight clean and bright. Each page is separated from the next by a page of tissue. A few small neat notes on front endpapers. 4 1/2 x 7 inches. 326 pages plus tissue-pages. <br/><br/> John Clark and Richard Hett, et al. hardcover
1793List2998Charlestown Ohio County Virginia now Brooke County West Virginia 1793. Single two-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 12 ½ inches. Folded with small tears at folds some holes intersecting with text; overall excellent. A letter from Isaac Prince Robbins 1770–1846 in what is now West Virginia to his parents Rev. Chandler Robbins 1738–1799 and Jane Prince 1740–1800 in Plymouth Massachusetts. Isaac Robbins was likely teaching in the area as he mentions the “price of my school†and that the oncoming spring had “call’d the larger scholars away†to farm. He also notes that smallpox had been running through the area and inquires about the family’s health as they had contracted the disease the previous October.<br /> <br /> Robbins also informs his family that there is “No prospect of peace while the Indians commit depredations as frequent as they do. Kill’d and took seven families at a station 30 miles this side Lymestone Kentucky Landingâ€. It is not clear whether he is referring to “Hartshorne’s defeat†part of the Northwest Indian War where the Northwestern Confederacy attacked Euro-American settlers near Limestone now Maysville—this attack occurred in 1790 though it is possible that Robbins had not contacted his family since prior to this event.<br /> <br /> He closes by ruminating on his own sin telling his parents “I have erred and gone astray point out to me the way that I shall ask forgiveness whereby I can be saved.†This letter probably predates Isaac Robbins’ following in his father’s footsteps and becoming a minister.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of the settlement of West Virginia and related conflicts with Indigenous tribes. unknown
177810698Philadelphia: Printed by R. Bell 1778. 8vo disbound pamphlet 2 36 pp Lacking four leaves at the end including pages 37 to 42 of the appendix. A rare pamphlet calling for Quakers to support the Continental Congress and pay war taxes. Evans 15843 which notes that "This edition was bought up and suppressed by the Quakers and only a few copies escaped destruction." Toning to pages foxing to first and last leaf some tearing along spine bit of chipping to lower margin of title page inscriptions to upper margin of title page. Printed by R. Bell unknown
175537868Salzburg: Meshulam Zalman b. Aaron 1755. Revised. Hardcover. g. Folio. 15 leaves. Contemporary brown leather with gold tooling on the spine. Red edges and decorated floral endpapers. Illustrated title page with Moses and Aaron on the sides with depictions of the scenes from Genesis of Jacob stealing the blessing the binding of Isaac and Jacob's ladder on the bottom. Revised edition of the 1695 Amsterdam Haggadah illustrated by the convert to Judaism Abraham b. Jacob. These woodcut illustrations are largely based on the work of the early 17th century Swiss Christian biblical artist Matthaeus Merian. Of particular note are the illustrations of Abraham smashing his father's idols the four sons and the drowning of the Egyptians. Includes the "Zevach Pesach" commentary of Isaac Abarbanel as well as a mystical commentary. The songs Adir Hu Ahad mi Yodaya and Had Gadya are translated into Judeo-German. Revised edition offers a larger and clearer print. This edition should not be confused with the Furth Haggadah printed in the same year also with the Abarbanel commentary. Text in Hebrew and Judeo-German. Inscription on front free endpaper. Name of previous owner on title page. Boards bowed chipped and scratched. Hole in center of title page. Staining chipping and creasing to leaves. Numerous leaves are strengthened. Overall in good condition. Yaari 138; Yudlov 216. Meshulam Zalman b. Aaron hardcover
176569380Cambridge: J. Bentham 1765. Full Description:<br> <br> NEWTON Sir Isaac. Excerpta Quaedam. e Newtoni Principiis Philosophiae Naturalis Cum Notis Variorum. Cambridge: J. Bentham 1765.<br> <br> First edition of a selection of excerpts from Newton's "Principia." Subscriber's copy. Quarto 9 3/4 x 8 inches; 248 x 200 mm. ix list of subscribers 1 corrigenda 180 pp. With twelve engraved folding plates and commentary on Newton's text by three Cambridge scholars.<br> <br> Modern full red morocco. Newer marbled endpapers. Binding with some mild rubbing. Some dampstaining along outer lower and fore-edge margins. Title-page and leaf a4 Subscribers have been remargined at inner margin. Leaf Y4 and Plate XI remargined at fore-edge not affecting text. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> Excerpts for subscribers from "the greatest work in the history of science" PMM.<br> <br> PMM 161. Babson 15.<br> <br> HBS 69380.<br> <br> $1500. J. Bentham unknown
1760009993C. Fourdrinier 1760. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oversized folio 15 1/4" x 20 1/2" now bound in blue paper covered boards with brown leather gilt decorated spine and matching corner tips. 10 page text with 31 of 35 plates missing 12 15and 16 . One plate has both margins cut 2 plates have very small spot in outer margin; the remaining plates have intact wide margins and are fine. <br/> <br/> C. Fourdrinier hardcover
1800100585<p>2 vols. 8vo modern half morocco & marbled boards spine ruled in gilt raised bands morocco lettering pieces new endpapers. Illustrated with 16 folding views plans and maps; xix 1 427; viii 376 pp. Minor aging and some darkening to a few pages and some foxing to one plate. Near fine condition. Weld an Irishman came to America in 1795 when he was nineteen. This work narrates his travels through the former colonies along the eastern seaboard and the Canadian provinces. Very popular at the time it was published Weld comments on the population and social habits and customs of the people he saw. According to Howes Weld seemed to prefer Canada to the States. Compared to the similar works of this period Weld seems to be fairly objective on most things. However whether or not his observation that Americans lose their teeth prematurely is accurate would be hard to substantiate. Contains several interesting views of Niagara Falls Mt. Vernon Bethlehem PA and a large map of the northern portion of the United States with inset of the southern States.</p> John Stockdale hardcover
179371714à Paris: Imprimerie Nationale exécutive du Louvre 1793. Fine. Imprimerie Nationale exécutive du Louvre à Paris 1793 20.50 x 25.50 cm relié First edition illustrated with 9 plates medals inscriptions. Full jasper paper binding smooth spine black shagreen title-label binding signed Goy & Vilaine. Trace of dampstain to upper margin of 3 folding plates and to left margin of the first otherwise fresh throughout. Faint trace of dampstain to right margin of first leaves. Several leaves show traces of dampstain to upper margin over a few millimeters. Archaeological studies composed of 4 memoirs that were read at sessions of the Académie des Inscriptions et de Belles-Lettres in the years 1787 1788 1790 and 1791: Memoir on the inscriptions and monuments of Nakschi-Roustam; Memoir on the Arabic and Persian inscriptions of Tchéhel-Minar; Memoir on the medals of the kings of Persia of the Sassanid dynasty; Memoir on the monuments and inscriptions of Kirmanschah or Bi-Sutoun in Kurdistan. This publication concludes with the Persian translation of the work on the history of Persia by Mirkhond author from the end of the 9th century which signifies: The garden of purity or history of the prophets kings and caliphs. The studies by the orientalist and linguist Silvestre de Sacy attest to as much erudition as sagacity; he would be named in 1806 professor of Persian at the Collège de France and administrator of the École spéciale des langues orientales also at the Collège de France. He powerfully contributed to the development of studies and knowledge of oriental languages and civilizations particularly Persian. Imprimerie Nationale exécutive du Louvre unknown
1728177<b>4to 288 x 218 mms. pp. 50 407 408 blank engraved vignette on title-page other engraved vignettes and illustrations in text by John Pine after John Grison 12 folding engraved plates. FIRST EDITION. The subscriber s list is also present. Full contemporary calf boards are slightly worn which has been professionally rebacked by the Heritage Bindery. Henry Pemberton was tasked with bringing Newtonian philosophy to the layman with this work which was completed and published a year after Newton s death. Small blind- stamp from the Meadville theological school library on the title page. </b> S. Palmer hardcover
1799525891799. WELD Isaac. Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada During the Years 1795 1796 and 1797. London: Printed for John Stockdale 1799. 2 vols. 2nd ed. xxiii 427; xii 376pp. 16 folding plates. Orig. boards with paper spine labels. An excellent uncut set. "According to the Travels Weld landed at Philadelphia in November 1795 from which he made excurisions in all directions. On one of these he visited Baltimore Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon. On another he moved west to York and Lancaster the northern neck of Virginia and Williamsburg and Norfolk apparently going as far south as the Dismal Swamp. At Williamsburg he noted that the captial was crumbling to pieces that William and Mary was a grammar school rather that a college that the church was out of repair and that the hospital for the insane was not well regulated. On his return he journeyed to Richmond and west to the mountains and as was usual with travelers he described Rock Bridge. After coming back to Philadelphia he went to Canada. His departure for home took place at New York."--Clark II 132. HOWES W-235. Sabin 102541. Haynes 20950. unknown
1720523641720. Amsterdam Chez Pierre Humbert 1720 12° 15 1 328 pp.; 1 pp.331-583; 17 pp. Catalgoue des Livres Impres Chez Pierre Humbert . 12 gefalt. Kupferstichtafeln; Ledereinband d.Zt.; Rücken erneuert; feines Exemplar. PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ! Pierre Coste 1668-1747 "the translator spent many years in England where he fled on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and where he became intimate with Locke. His translations were of durable service and helped to introduce english thought to the French of the XVIIIth century" Babson Babson 139; Wallis 186; Dibner 148; PMM 172; Horblit N° 79b all 1st engl. Ed. unknown
172849631728. Complete with 5 folding maps 2 folding plates 67 portraits 2 frontispieces. Contains 4 different engraved title-vignettes. Some letters decorated. Part 1: 6 Blank pages / Half Title / Title Page / 20 NNP / 396-400 Fout genummerd bladen missen niet / 802 Pages / 6 Blank pages / 4 Folding maps / 1 Folding Plates / 1 Portret Part 2: 6 Blank pages / Title Page / 6 NNP / 496 Pages / 1 Blank pages / 332 Pages / 6 Blank pages / 32 Portret Part 3: 6 Blank pages / Title Page / 2 NNP / 665 Pages / 1 NNP / 6 Blank pages / 17 Portret / 1 Folding maps Part 4: 6 Blank pages / Title Page / 4 NNP / 684 Pages / 88 NNP / 6 Blank pages / 17 Portret / 1 Folding Plates This book can only be viewed by appointment. Binding: Contemporary Full Vellum Elephant Folio Height cm: 404 CM Width cm: 283 CM Thickness cm: 225 CM hardcover
1799elala340London: Printed For John Stockdale 1799. 1799. 4to. pp. xxiv 464. 5 engraved maps & plans 1 folding & partially coloured in outline & 11 engraved plates incl. frontis. complete with the rare erratum slip relating to one of the plates mounted at foot of plate list. contemporary mottled calf rebacked some foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves. First Edition of one of the most popular American travel narratives. Weld came to North America with the hope of finding more cheerful prospects than those offered by war-torn Europe but after two years he left "without a sigh and without entertaining the slightest wish to revisit it." Story notes that "his account of Canada letters 21-25 is a clear and sustained description of an area and a way of life that pleased him more than had the United States." The plates are engraved after original sketches by the author. Clark II 132. Gagnon I 3701. Howes W-235. Lande 890. JCB II 4062. Sabin 192541. TPL 708. Vlach 754. Story p. 103. Winsor V p. 284 & VIII pp. 174 & 491. 1st Edition. London: Printed For John Stockdale, 1799. unknown
1728000772London: James and John Knapton 1728. 2nd Edition Corrected . Hardcover. Good/N/A. Full leather darkened and some cracking to spine. 5 bands to spine. Vol 2 part 2. Illustrated with Dr. Samuel Clark's notes taken mostly out of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy in olde English. Rubricated title page. Hinges cracked. Also fold out tables numbered XII to XXVII laid in the back all in good shape. ex lib from the Hartford Seminary. First belonging to Aaron Day dated May 3 1737. Then belonging to H A Gleason Jr. A very rare book. photos on request. <br/> <br/> James and John Knapton hardcover
1768191607London: Printed for J. Rivington L. Davis and C. Reymers R. Baldwin W. Owen H. Woodfall W. Strahan and B. Collins 1768. Leather bound. Fair front and rear covers detached heavy shelfwear to covers with taped repairs dampstaining to bottom of most pages last 8 pages have a small section missing from the corner expected age toning with some foxing spots bookplate inside front cover. Oversized full brown leather covers with blind stamped design burgundy title block with gilt lettering on spine bw frontispiece 17 748 pp 4 pp 122 pages of engraved plates with several being fold-out. Reprint of the 1756 edition with a different title page. Includes a table of the plates errata and a table of contents. Isaac Ware's important comprehensive overview of Georgian architectural theory and practice. This work covers nearly every imaginable element of architectural design. 17x11x3" Printed for J. Rivington, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, W. Owen, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, and B. Collins hardcover
179941787London: Printed for John Stockdale 1799. Quarto. 10 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches. xxiv 464 pp. 11 engraved plates including the frontispiece 2 plans and 3 maps one of which is hand colored in outline. Complete with the rare erratum slip mounted at the foot of the plate list. Contemporary full calf. Spine gilt with black morocco lettering piece. Neat repairs to joints<br/> <br/> First edition of the travel narrative that influenced a generation of British emigrants to the Canadian provinces.<br/> <br/> Isaac Weld traveled through North America in the late 18th century and recorded his adventures in this wry series of letters. He arrived in America in 1795 at the age of 19 accompanied by a servant and traveled the continent on horseback on foot and by canoe. His distaste for American frontiersmen and the coarseness of manners in the United States would prove typical of English travelers for decades to come. Between July and November 1796 he travelled from Lake Champlain to Montréal and Québec returning through Montréal and continuing his journey to Kingston Newark Niagara-on-the-Lake Malden Amherstburg Detroit and Fort Erie. He declared the scenery from the Upper Town of Québec to surpass 'all that I have hitherto seen in America or indeed in any other part of the globe' and felt that travelling conditions between Québec and Montréal were the best in North America. Based on these observations he concluded that 'a man of moderate property could provide for his family with much more ease in Canada than in the United States' because of the abundance of affordable land. Like many other British travellers then and later Weld felt most at home in the Canadian provinces. Weld's narrative was reprinted more than that of any other European traveler to North America in the later 18th-century. The engraved plates are after sketches by the author. 'A New Map of Upper & Lower Canada' dated 1798 extends from James's Bay to the north Lake Winnipeg to the west and New Brunswick to the east with the territory of the United States below the Candian border left undefined by blank space.<br/> <br/> Cox 176; Stanton and Tremaine 708; Lowndes 2868; Gagnon I: 3701; Lande 890; JCB II: 4062; Clark II: 132; Rich 1799; Allibone 2636; Sabin 102541; ESTC T110539; Howes W-235; Story p. 103; Vlach 754; Winsor V p.284 & VIII 174 191. Printed for John Stockdale unknown
1713Flo315<p>Suite of 2 frontispieces and 61 portraits from Isaac de Larrey's <i>History of England Scotland and Ireland</i> 1713-1730.</p><p>All portraits by Dutch Baroque master Adriaen van der Werff.</p><p>Copperplates engraved by Pieter Stevens van Gunst and others including Gerard Valck Cornelis Vermeulen Nicholas Pitaut Benedict Audran Jean Audran Charles Simonneau Pierre Drevet Etienne Desrochers and Willem van der Gouwen.</p><p>Allegorical frontispiece by Bernard Picart and 28 portraits from Isaac de Larrey's <i>Histoire d'Angleterre d'Ecosse et d'Irlande</i> Reinier Leers Amsterdam 1713. </p><p>Allegorical frontispiece and 33 portraits from Isaac de Larrey's <i>Histoire d'Angleterre d'Ecosse et d'Irlande</i> Johann Covens and Cornelis Mortier Amsterdam 1730.</p><p>Plates mostly by Pieter Stevens van Gunst and others including Gerard Valck Cornelis Vermeulen Nicholas Pitaut Benedict Audran Jean Audran Charles Simonneau Pierre Drevet and Etienne Desrochers.</p><p>A sumptuous collection of oval portraits in decorative Baroque frames surrounded with allegorical figures putti crowns coats of arms garlands and other paraphernalia.</p> <p>Portraits of English royalty aristocrats and clergy from the 16th and 17th centuries including Henry VII Henry VIII Edward VI James I Charles I Oliver Cromwell Charles II James II William III and Mary II James IV and V of Scotland etc.</p><p>Many queens and ladies including four wives of Henry VIII Catherine of Aragon Jane Seymour Catherine Parr and Catherine Howard Elizabeth of York Mary Queen of Scots Lady Jane Grey the Nine Day Queen Bloody Mary Anne Hyde Margaret Tudor Mary of Guise and more.</p><p>Also includes European royalty Holy Roman Emperor Charles V Philip II of Spain Frederick V of the Palatinate William I Prince of Orange Ferdinand 3rd Duke of Alba Francis Duke of Anjou Alexander Duke of Parma etc.</p><p>Adriaen van der Werff 1659-1722 was a Dutch painter of religious and mythological scenes and portraits active mainly in Rotterdam. He combined the precise finish of the Leiden tradition learned from his master Eglon van der Neer with the classical standards of the French Académie Royale. From 1697 he was Kabinettsmaler court painter to Johann Wilhelm Elector of Palatine in Dusseldorf. </p><p>Brown leather spine worn and chipped paper title label illegible marble paper boards scuffed and stained torn stubs of two plates removed at front some plates coming loose from binding. All plates with wide margins good solid impressions of the engravings with even age-toning to the paper. A few scattered spots of foxing slight curling of a few corners and dust to page edges but generally very good.</p> Reinier Leers, Johann Covens and Cornelis Mortier paperback
179916287London: John Stockdale 1799. First Edition First Issue. Full leather. Near fine. The first edition first issue of Travels Through The States Of North America by Isaac Weld published in London in 1799 and complete with 16 maps and plates. Quarto 2 xxiv 464pp 8pp catalogue. Full calf raised bands six compartments title in gilt over red morocco label on spine. Includes the publisher's catalogue but lacking the errata slip. Even toning to leaves throughout a few leaves of text with transference. Contemporary gray endpapers. From the library of noted abolitionist and antiquarian collector George Head Head of Rickerby with his bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. The first issue with the index incorrectly identifying the fourth plate as: "The Patowmac River from Mount Vernon." This work is complete with 12 copper engraved plates including a frontispiece a large fold-out map of the eastern United States hand-colored map of Upper and Lower Canada and two plans for Quebec and Washington D.C. A few plates with light toning and scatter foxing. All plates and maps with solid hinges tissue covers and vibrant imagery. Sabin 102541 Howes W235 Lowndes 2868 Clark II 132 Includes a handwritten note from Arthur H. Masten to the recipient of this copy. An attractive work. Isaac Weld 1774-1856 conducted a survey of the United States from 1795 to 1797 covering the Eastern Seaboard and parts of the American frontier including Virginia Pennsylvania New York and the Carolinas. Weld traveled by horseback boat and on foot observing the social political and economic conditions of the newly formed nation. In "Travels" he commented on the vast natural beauty of the American landscape the state of infrastructure and the way of life of settlers and Native American tribes he encountered. Weld was critical of the rough manners and egalitarianism he witnessed contrasting it with European refinement yet he admired the industrious spirit of Americans. His narrative of the nascent United States helped to shape European opinions of the new nation during the Revolutionary period. John Stockdale unknown
17941252491794. First Edition. EATON Daniel Isaac. The Trial of Daniel Isaac Eaton for Publishing a Supposed Libel Comparing the King of England to a Game Cock In a Pamphlet Intitled Politics for the People; or Hog Wash at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey February Twenty-Fourth 1794. New York: L. Wayland 1794. Octavo modern half calf marbled boards pp. 48. $2400.First American edition of this account of the prosecution of radical printer Daniel Isaac Eaton for sedition with a wood engraving on the title page of the King of England next to a gamecock.In 1793 ""having acquired his own press Eaton launched Hog's Wash or A Salmagundy for Swine a weekly designed to spread political enlightenment among the masses. Partly original items partly excerpts enlivened by satire irony humour and verse it was immediately successful. Renamed Politics for the People it ran for sixty numbers September 1793 to March 1795. Through its pagesas through his pamphletsEaton consistently advocated universal manhood suffrage annual parliaments peace among nations education of the poor and unfettered discussion of politics and religion. When in the eighth number 16 November 1793 he published two items attacking monarchy one comparing the king to a cruel tyrannical gamecock Eaton was prosecuted for seditious libel but acquitted on both counts. He triumphantly adopted the imprint: 'Printed by D. I. Eaton at the Cock and Swine No. 74 Newgate Street.' The London Corresponding Society caused silver medals to be struck commemorating his acquittal. His shop became a gathering place for reformers and radicals"" DNB. Eaton is perhaps best remembered today for being arrested and convicted for publishing Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason serving 18 months in prison. Published earlier that same year in London. Scattered foxing extremely good condition. hardcover
1756191111London: Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton in the Gray's Inn J. Hodges near London Bridge L. Davis in Fleetstreet J. Ward in Cornhill and R. Baldwin in Pater-Noster-Row 1756. Hardcover. Fair missing coversmissing frontispiece and title page missing pages prior to page 9 expected age toning throughout spine is split plate 1 is loose appears all plates are here but many are wrongly numbered or double numbered pages 13-22 are torn appx 4 inches down from the top. Oversized missing front and rear covers brown leather spine with 6 raised bands 9-748 pp 20 pp 122 pages of engraved plates with several being fold-out. Includes a table of the plates errata and a table of contents. Isaac Ware's important comprehensive overview of Georgian architectural theory and practice. This work covers nearly every imaginable element of architectural design. 16x10x3" Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, in the Gray's Inn, J. Hodges, near London Bridge, L. Davis, in Fleetstreet, J. Ward, in C hardcover
1732D427Amsterdam: R. en J. Wetstein en W. Smith 1732. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes Elephant folio 445 x 296mm. 16 524pp. 4. Title-page in black and red with engraved vignettes. Text in Dutch and Latin parallel. Contemporary vellum with central medallion stamped in blind. Slight bowing to vellum as typical overall a superb two volume set of the Metamorphoses illustrated with in-text copper-engravings by Bernard Picart Charles le Brun and several other artists. Internally there are scattered stains but an excellent copy overall. The translator of this edition Isaac Verburg was born in Leiden around the year 1684. He was Rector of the Latin schools in Amsterdam and author and translator of several books; he died in 1745 in Amsterdam. Rare copy of the popular Dutch translation of Ovids masterpiece in prose Metamorphoses with clean bright and large illustrations. <br/><br/> R. en J. Wetstein, en W. Smith hardcover
178248885Berlin and Dessau: Hevrat Hinukh Ne‘arim Berlin Freischule/n.p. 1782. First editions 2 of 4. Hardcover. Nearly Fine. Sammelband of four opuscules published between 1782 and 1819 octavo. Contemporary half calf top inch perished over pastepaper boards; spine lettered and tooled in gilt. Edges speckled blue. Covers lightly worn else fine clean copies the fourth work lightly foxed throughout. The first three works issued from the Hevrat Hinukh Ne'arim Berlin Freischule under the supervision of Isaac Satanow 1732-1804 the most prolific Hebrew writer of the Berlin Haskalah. As director of the publishing house Satanow was assigned the task of reissuing old Hebrew classics by the Marpeh ha-Nefesh a philanthropic group headed by the banker Daniel Itzig his son-in-law David Friedländer and the famous physican and philosopher Marcus Herz. A number of these editions however were in fact original works by Satanow which he presented as the work of earlier writers. The first item in the sammelband is an outstanding example of this latter type.<br /> <br /> I. Kuntres mi-Sefer ha-Zohar Hibura Tinyana Berlin: Hevrat Hinukh Ne‘arim 1783. aleph-gimel8 dalet1; 25ff. Vinograd Berlin 313. First edition of this polemic styled in imitation of the Zohar as a response to the Mitpahat Sefarim 1768 of Jacob Emden 1697-1776 in which the latter calls into question the antiquity and textual integrity of that chief work of the Jewish mystical tradition. Emden's critique may be understood as an attempt to undermine the doctrinal foundation of the Frankists who based their beliefs on the Zohar. "Emden had suspected the authenticity of the Zohar for a long time and he hoped some time 'to reveal the strange things found in the book.' But these intentions were secretly nursed within him for many years until the time was propitious for his exposé" Cohen. Perhaps surprisingly for a maskil Satanow held a very different view: "While advocating secular knowledge and the study of science Satanow also expressed great admiration for Kabbalah. In contrast to Emden he claims that the whole Zohar was written by Bar Yohai and Moses De Leon had nothing to do with its writing. He also rejects Emden's claim that in the Zohar there are words against the Talmud and promises to 'consult the Zohar and prove that all its words are right and truthful none of them is crooked Kuntres mi-Sefer ha-Zohar pp. 25 26" N. Rezler-Bersohn. Born in the Polish now Ukrainian town of Satanov Isaac Satanow settled in Berlin around 1771. "Among the most prolific of the early Haskalah writers. Satanow demonstrated a wealth of knowledge of the Hebrew language ranking as a model stylest throughout the Haskalah period" EJ 14: 905-906. As a leading representive of the eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightement Satanow boldly displayed a "conglomeration of contrasts" Jewish Enc. XI: 71: “Though Orthodox in his beliefs he nevertheless favored Reform in practice. He was one of the greatest authorities on Jewish tradition and lore yet he was one of the most free-thinking of philosophers.†For a more detailed discussion of this and other works by Satanow see N. Rezler-Bersohn "Isaac Satanow - An Epitome of an Era" in: Year Book XXV Leo Baeck Institute 1980. For Emden in the present context see M. L. Cohen Jacob Emden A Man of Controversy Philadelphia: The Dropsie College 1937 pp. 254ff.<br /> <br /> II. Sefer Igeret ha-Kodesh Berlin 553 1793. 7ff. Vinograd Berlin 415. Later edition of this well-known work. The celebrated talmudist and exegete Nachmanides the Ramban Moses ben Nachman ca. 1195-ca. 1270 acted as a conciliator between the parties in the early 13th-century controversies surrounding the philosophical and secular direction of Maimonides' growing influence. "After having given the earlier part of his life to his Talmudical works Moses Nachmanides devoted himself to writing of a homiletic-exegetic and devotional character. To these belong the "Iggeret ha-Kodesh" and the "Torat ha-Adam." In the former which deals with the holiness and significance of marriage Moses criticizes Maimonides for stigmatizing as a disgrace to man certain of the desires implanted in the human body. In Moses' opinion the body with all its functions being the work of God none of its impulses can be regarded as intrinsically objectionable" Jewish Enc. IX:88. The rare editio princeps appeared at Rome in 1546; the editor of the present edition Isaac Satanow notes at the title that the letter was “printed in Basel in the year 5340†referring to the 1580 edition of Ambrosius Froben Prijs 127.<br /> <br /> III. Nevu’at ha-Yeled Berlin: Hevrat Hinukh Ne‘arim 549 1789. asterisk8 2asterisk2. 10 unnumbered leaves. Vinograd Berlin 384. Later edition of a medieval Hebrew short story with commentary first printed at the end of Jacob Zemah's Sefer Nagid u-Metzaveh Constantinople 1726. "The body of the tale is followed by a number of occult prophecies in Aramaic. it was known already as early as the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th when some kabbalists among them R. Abraham b. Eliezer ha-Levi wrote commentaries on the prophecies. The story tells of a wonder child Nahman born in the fifth century to a kabbalist; the child died very young but immediately upon birth began to tell his mother secrets of the heavenly worlds. His father cautioned him not to reveal mysteries forbidden to man and from then the child spoke only obscurely and enigmatically. Modern scholars have attempted to date the story and the prophecies therein by tracing known historical events hinted at and relating them to the text. The obscurity of the text makes this very difficult but it seems probable that historical events in the 15th century especially in the East are referred to in the prophecies. However the purpose of the story and its prophecies was to anticipate the coming of the Messiah and to describe the major political and historical events and catastrophes bringing about his final revelation. The kabbalists interpreted the prophecies as hinting at the coming of the Messiah in the early 16th century" JE XII:1020. Here the commentary on the Aramaic "prophecies" is likely attributable to Satanow.<br /> <br /> IV. Herev Nokemet Nekam Berit Dessau 5579 1819. 16pp. Vinograd Dessau 77. First edition of this famous polemical letter. A leader of the Reform movement Meyer Israel Bresselau d. 1839 together with I. S. Fraenkel edited and adapted in 1818 a prayer book for the Hamburg Reform Temple under the title Seder ha-Avodah. He anonymously published the present work in response to Eleh Divrei ha-Berit Altona 1819 "a pamphlet which collated the views of the greatest Orthodox rabbis of Western Europe against Reform Judaism and its innovations." A rhymed work written in a satirical biblical style Herev Nokemet is "remarkable in its witty take-off on the Orthodox rabbis who opposed the reforms in the Hamburg Reform synagogue. It ranks among the best Hebrew polemic literature written at the time of the Haskalah" EJ 4:1358 In response Meir Leib Reinitz published his Lahat ha-Herev ha-Mithappekhet in 1820. Bresselau's polemic was reprinted as an appendix to Bernfelds's Toledot ha-Reformazyon ha-Datit be-Yisrael in 1900. ×§×•× ×˜×¨×¡ מספר הזהר ×—×™×‘×•×¨× ×ª× ×™×™× ×<br /> ספר ×גרת הקדש<br /> × ×‘×•×ת הילד<br /> חרב × ×§×ž×ª × ×§× ×‘×¨×™×ª. Hevrat Hinukh Ne‘arim (Berlin Freischule)/[n.p.] hardcover
1740S13116Lausannae & Geneva: Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum 1740. 1740. 4to. iv xxxii 363 1 pp. Half-title engraved frontispiece portrait of Newton engr. Jean-Louis Daudet after Vanderbank title printed in red & black 12 engraved folding plates title vignette of 4 cherubs and a female figure each using an optical instrument representing learning optics/perspective drawn by Delamoncein and engraved by Daudet head & tail pieces and woodcut initial letters drawn by Papillon index; first 11 leaves browned. Contemporary full vellum green leather gilt-stamped spine label edges with decorative red freckling as designed by the binder; foot of spine with faint ink marking "11-". Paper unevenly browned. Verso of title with small ink annotation "=1135="; rear pastedown with another notation "a 20.Luglio 1801." Very good. Third Latin edition edited by Bousquet with a dedication to Joannes Bernoulli. This edition contains the full array of 31 querries. / "Newton's contributions to the science of optics :: his discovery of the unequal refractions of rays of different color his theory of color and his investigations of 'Newton's rings' to mention only a few of the most noteworthy :: place him among the premier contributors to that science. . . . Today we recognize that his work on optics offers unique rewards in its exciting innovative conjunction of physical theory experimental investigation and mathematics and in the revealing glimpse that it provides of a crucial period in the evolution of experimental science." :: Alan E. Shapiro The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 1 1984 p. xi. / Jean-Louis Daudet 1695-1756 who made the frontispiece and title vignette was an engraver and print publisher active in Lyon inherited business from his father Etienne Joseph Daudet. He flourished from 1722 till his death in 1756. Thereafter the business continued by his widow in association with his son-in-law Louis Martin Roch Joubert until 1773. / "Newton famously declared that it is not the business of science to make hypotheses. However it's well to remember that this position was formulated in the midst of a bitter dispute with Robert Hooke who had criticized Newton's writings on optics when they were first communicated to the Royal Society in the early 1670's. The essence of Newton's thesis was that white light is composed of a mixture of light of different elementary colors ranging across the visible spectrum which he had demonstrated by decomposing white light into its separate colors and then reassembling those components to produce white light again. However in his description of the phenomena of color Newton originally included some remarks about his corpuscular conception of light perhaps akin to the cogs and flywheels in terms of which James Maxwell was later to conceive of the phenomena of electromagnetism. Hooke interpreted the whole of Newton's optical work as an attempt to legitimize this corpuscular hypothesis and countered with various objections." / "Newton quickly realized his mistake in attaching his theory of colors to any particular hypothesis on the fundamental nature of light and immediately back-tracked arguing that his intent had been only to describe the observable phenomena without regard to any hypotheses as to the cause of the phenomena. Hooke and others continued to criticize Newton's theory of colors by arguing against the corpuscular hypothesis causing Newton to respond more and more angrily that he was making no hypothesis he was describing the way things are and not claiming to explain why they are. This was a bitter lesson for Newton and in addition to initiating a life-long feud with Hooke went a long way toward shaping Newton's rhetoric about what science should be. . ." / "The first edition of The Opticks 1704 contained only 16 queries but when the Latin edition was published in 1706 Newton was emboldened to add seven more which ultimately became Queries 25 through 31 when in the second English edition he added Queries 17 through 24. Of all these one of the most intriguing is Query 28 which begins with the rhetorical question "Are not all Hypotheses erroneous in which Light is supposed to consist of Pression or Motion propagated through a fluid medium" In this query Newton rejects the Cartesian idea of a material substance filling in and comprising the space between particles. Newton preferred an atomistic view believing that all substances were comprised of hard impenetrable particles moving and interacting via innate forces in an empty space as described further in Query 31." :: Newton's Cosmological Queries :: MathPages. / Grace K. Babson Sir Isaac Newton 1950 141; George J. Gray A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton 182; Wallis 182. See: Printing and the Mind of Man 172. Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum, 1740. hardcover
