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172255261Offenbach Germany: Israel Ken 1722. Second edition. This is the copy of the Rabbi David Paul-Bernard Drach 1791-1868 who converted to Catholicism in 1823 and managed the library of the Propaganda Fide in Rome. The front endpaper has a note that is signed and dated by Drach: "Etudie et annote ce volume; supplee lets mots ronges par les vers et corrige les fautes typographiques." Notes to margins. Introductory note by Drach lauding the book: "Le calendrier juif dont les calculs sont d'une exactitude admirable etait deja en usage du temps de Rabbie Gamliel pas consequents a l'epoque ou le Verbe eternel caro factum est et habitavit in nobis." <br /> <br /> 8vo. 40 in Hebrew letters numbered leaves i.e. 80pp. re-cased in later vellum with leather strips. Engraved title page. Fascinating work on the Jewish calendar its estimation calculation of the New Moon methods of chronology et.al. Also contains a few pages on the Christian calendar. This work is one of the most profusely illustrated works of Hebraica and Judaica with charts ephemerides sketches and illustrations throughout. One volvell attached. In Hebrew. First ten leaves with one inch holes from bookworms. The rest of the volome with minor circular bookworm hole. Some loss of text on first ten leaves. "The volvelles as well as hand diagrams and tables were some of the tools used not just for calculating and identifying pivotal dates and worshipping times for Jews but also for ascertaining Christan holidays. This knowledge was a critical aid for protecting Jews from the danger posed by their having different worshipping times and habits from the dominant culture. The headings on the wheel denote the arrival of the new moon which marks the start of the Jewish month and the cycle of the sun. Whereas calendars appear in general to be a “convenient way to coordinate human movements with natural time†as Elisheva Carlebach points out the Sefer ‘Evronot demonstrates that the methods for doing so are culturally and historically shaped. The wheel computing information with each push of a finger demands interaction from the reader in order to yield knowledge not just to use but to live by." Ref: brevigrapher.interactive book. <br /> <br /> Furst I 99 & 360 Steinschneider 4988.4. Israel Ken unknown
1730H8R9L0YQ8MW6Delft: Reinier Boitet part 1; The Hague Johannes de Cros part 2 1730. Contemporary red half sheepskin. Folio. With engraved frontispiece engraved dedication in volume 1 and 3 and a total of 57 engraved plates mostly folding. 2 parts in 3 volumes. First and only edition of an extensive thorough and lavishly illustrated work on the history and topography of the city of The Hague. The beautiful frontispiece is explained in an allegorical poem by Hendrik Schim on the verso of the half-title. More laudatory poems on The Hague and the author Jacob de Riemer 1676-1762 follow in the preliminaries of the first part by Caspar Barlaeus Joannes Van Dam Constantijn Huygens and Hendrik Schim. The main text starts with the foundation of the city followed by descriptions of different buildings including several churches and monasteries the orphanage schools and much more most of them are shown in the engraved folding plates as well. The second part volume 3 of 1739 contains the description of the government of The Hague and its organization.Binding worn corners bumped and lacking the paper on the front side of volume three but the bindings are structually sound. Text and plates with some occasional spots and a few wormholes and some of the folding plates are reinforced with tape at the back; a good copy wholly untrimmed.l Nijhoff & V. Hattum 267. Reinier Boitet (part 1); The Hague, Johannes de Cros (part 2), unknown
175618865Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale 1756. 12mo pp. viii 275. Second edition after the quarto edition of the same year. Bound in contemporary French calf with gilt spine and with the exception of some insignificant marginal worming in a couple of signatures a very fine copy. Sabin 47511; Wroth American Bookshelf p. 22; Lande 657; TPL 250; Streeter II 1013; Echeverria & Wilkie 756/29. Writing in The John Carter Brown Library Report 1946 pp. 48-49 Lawrence Wroth notes that this is "one of the most important diplomatic documents in American colonial history . in which the French government is justifying its position as a contestant in the French and Indian War. Printed amongst other pertinent documents is Washington's captured journal of the Fort Necessity campaign and spread upon the record the articles of surrender in which the young provincal leader accepted the enemy's designation of the killing of Jumonville as an assassination." Sabin notes "From the evidence drawn from these documents they charge Washington with the murder of Jumonville. The memoirs prove that Jumonville was approaching Washington on an embassy of peace but that Washington unwilling to trust him ordered his advance to be fired upon." The Dictionary of Amercian History in discussing this same battle at Great Meadows near Unionville PA in April of 1754 asserts that Washington learned of the small force of French camped a few miles north of Fort Necessity and after a night march attacked them soon after sunrise killing ten including their commander Jumonville. This was Washington's first battle and the first engagement of the French and Indian War. After Washington's return to Fort Necessity he was attacked by 500 French and 400 Indians eventually capitulating and marching back to Virginia on foot. L'Imprimerie Royale unknown books
1737143528Amsterdam: Petrus Schenk 1757 part II dated 1737. Dutch waterways delineated in contemporary quarter sheep A handsome publication illustrating the technology behind the Dutch waterways their canals windmills bridges and boats. The first part was first issued in 1736 the second in 1737 here a secondary issue with a title page of 1757 the second part keeping a date of 1737 presented in the original trade binding of quarter sheep. 2 parts folio 555 x 347 mm. Titles printed in red and black with engraved printer's device double-page engraved dedication leaves in part I. Complete with all 47 double-page plates 20 in part I 27 in part II many folding with the consecutive numbering I-XXV in part I I-XXV and I-VI in part II but with some folding plates numbered as two. Contemporary red quarter sheep marbled paper sides. Rubbed worn around extremities but binding holding well and unrestored contents generally clean. A very good copy. Bierens de Haan 4836; Brunet IV 568 note; Graesse VII 258. unknown
1731620531731. Genevae : Perachon & Cramer 1731 Folio 1 587 1; 2 790; 2 570; 2 699 2 pp. 16 gestochene Portraits 4 Lederbände der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung; minimnal fleckig; feienes Exemplar. Sehr selten - Erste Ausgabe! Die Bibliotheca scriptorum medicorum enthält ca. 4000 Bio-Bibliographien von medizinischen Autoren. Der vollständige Titel lautet: Bibliotheca scriptorum medicorum veterum et recentiorum Joannis Jacobi Mangeti Medicinae Doctoris . Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medicorum Veterum Et Recentiorum : In Qua Sub Eorum Omnium Qui A Mundi Primordiis ad hunc usque Annum vixerunt Nominibus Ordine Alphabetico adscriptis Vitae compendio enarrantur . Sicque Historia Medica Vere Universalis Exhibetur ; Opus Doctis Omnibus Maximeque Medicis Utile . Jean-Jacques Manget latinisiert Joh. Jac. Mangetus 19. Juni 1652 in Genf/Republik Genf; 15. August 1742 ebenda war ein Genfer Arzt der für die Herausgabe verschiedener Sammelwerke. Garrison & Morton No. 11172 unknown
17381210121738. First Edition. CHARLES I HOOPER Jacob. An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England During the Reign of King Charles the First London: Printed and Sold by all the Booksellers in Town and Country 1738. Folio 7-1/2 by 12 inches period-style full speckled sheep gilt raised bands red morocco spine label. $3400.First edition of Hooper's ""impartial"" history profusely illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait depicting Charles I on horseback and 26 full-page engraved plates many depicting naval and land battles.Hooper drew on Clarendon Kennet Echard and Rushworth to compile his history. ""Everybody that shall duly consider the whole account of these transactions will be able to impute mistakes miscarriages and faults enough to both sides But we cannot omit making this one observation that where any King by ill judgment or ill fortune of his own or those entrusted by him in the chief administration of his government happen to fall into an interest contrary to that of his people and will pursue that mistake that Prince must have terrible conflicts in the course of his reign On the other hand that people who though invaded and oppressed in their just rights and liberties shall not rest satisfied with reasonable reparations and securities but having got power into their hands will make unjustifiable use of it to the utter subversion of that government they are bound in duty and allegiance to support do but at last make rods for their own backs and very often bring upon themselves from other hands a more severe bondage than that they had shook off"" Preface. Plates bound in at rear. Lowndes 1109. Discreet library markings on verso of title page only.Text and plates generally clean corners rounded contemporary calf covers rubbed. A very good copy of this illustrated history. hardcover
1784ABC_47839Altona 1784. 8vo. Johann David Adam Eckhardt Early 19th-century blue marbled paper wrappers. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and typographical ornaments at the head of every page. The text is set in Roman and Syriac type. 64 1 1 blank pp. First edition of a Syriac grammar for beginners written by Jakob Georg Christian Adler 1756-1834. It starts with a short introduction to Syriac grammar and is followed by excerpts from works by two important Syrian Christian authors: Gregory Bar Hebraeus 1226-1286 a prominent writer and church figure and Jacob of Edessa 640-708 the bishop of Edessa and one of the most important scholars of the Christian-Aramean tradition.Adler was an Orientalist and Syriac language professor at the University of Copenhagen. He was also a Lutheran theologian and became the head of the Bible society in Schleswig-Holstein. He has written multiple works on Syriac and Arabic. With a paper label mounted at the head of the front wrapper and an annotation at the foot of page 17. The edges and corners of the wrapper show some signs of wear with some loss of material at the foot of the spine. With a tear in the lower margin of page 43 without affecting the text. Overall in good condition.l VD18 1437708X. unknown
1719ABC_48566Leiden: ex officina Boutesteiniana 1719. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine red and blue sprinkled edges. 4to. With a general title page printed in red and black 7 engravings 1 folding 5 full-page 1 in the text divisional titles for each part with an engraved vignette 18 decorated woodcut initials 13 woodcut headpieces and 12 woodcut tailpieces. 4 parts in 1 volume. Including: 2 ALPINUS Prosper. De balsamo dialogus.Leiden Cornelis Boutesteyn 1718.3 BONTIUS Jacobus. De medicina Indorum.Leiden Cornelis Boutesteyn 1718.4 ALPINUS Prosper. De rhapontico.Leiden ex officina Boutesteiniana 1718. Early Leiden edition of an important work on Egyptian medicine written by the Venetian physician and botanist Prosper Alpinus 1553-1617. The present work includes a work on tropical medicine by Dutch physician Jacob de Bondt or Jacobus Bontius 1592-1631 which can only be found in the Dutch editions of Medicine Aegyptiorum and a text by Alpinus De rhapontico which can only be found in the present edition.Medicine Aegyptiorum was first published in Venice in 1591 then three times in Paris in 1645-1646 and then in Leiden in 1718 where it was combined with De Bondt's work for the first time. The present edition is a re-issue of the 1718 edition but with a new title page and an extra part. This extra part De rhapontico had been published separately in 1612 but was not published again until it was included in the present work. It discusses the therapeutic properties of rhubarb and is written in the form of a dialogue between Alpinus an Egyptian physician and a Jew. The other work by Alpinus included here De balsamo dialogus discusses the source of balsam and raises questions concerning its identity ancient names and medical uses. It is written in the same format as De rhapontico.The final text included here is De medicina Indorum libri IV by De Bondt which had been separately published in 1642. De Bondt who regarded tropical medicine as an independent branch of medical science spend several years in the Dutch East Indies where he studied the local medical practices. The work includes the first European description of beriberi and cholera.The head of the spine is somewhat worn with a horizontal tear in the vellum obscuring the manuscript title a brown stain on the back board. The pastedowns are detached from the boards but the structural integrity of the binding is still intact the edges of the leaves are slightly browned the last few leaves are stained at the bottom margin from the brown stain on the back board. Otherwise in good condition.l Blake p. 12; STCN 227919599 3 copies Wellcome II p. 36; cf. DSB I pp. 124-125; Garrison & Morton 6468 other ed.; STCN separate entries for ad 2: 227919971 6 copies ad 3: 227920112 6 copies ad 4: 181937085 5 copies. ex officina Boutesteiniana, hardcover
17124343Rome: Francesco Gonzaga 1712. Extremely rare first edition of this luxuriously illustrated anthology of extracts from papal sermons delivered between 1703-09 in Latin prose and facing Italian verse: an unusual example of Baroque ecclesiastical culture from the pontificate of Clement XI. On the basis of extreme rarity and contents the volume numbers among those commemorative and honorific volumes which were never sold in the trade but offered as a ceremonial gift to cardinals ambassadors and other important personagescorroborated by the ownership inscription in the present volume by a monsignor during Clements papacy. The volume is singular in our experience for its contents. Latin extracts of Clements sermons generally rather brief are printed on the left side of the page then freely and somewhat copiously versified in Italian by the poet Guidi. The sparsity of the elegantly printed text leaves positively wasteful margins! Each sermon is preceded by a full-page engraving on the subject of the sermon the Holy Family adoring the Christ Child for Christmas the Resurrection for Easter etc. designed by Pietro Leone Ghezzi one of the principal artists in Clements retinue and engraved by Roman engravers generally also associated with Clementine projects Frey van Westerhout etc. The designs were made expressly for the present volume and are echoed as it were in a series of initials and vignettes devoted to the same theme; as such they must have been engraved for the present volume and not simply taken from the printers stock. If somewhat overshadowed by Maratti in his lifetime and by his epoch-making role as the first professional caricaturist Ghezzi 1674-1755 was nonetheless an important painter of religious subjects who worked on Albanis most prestigious public projects. The surfaces of Ghezzis paintings were considerably less finished than those of Maratti and he seems more receptive to Venetian color and unfinishednessthus showing a different aspect of Albani taste. Ghezzi was commissioned in 1712 the year this book was published to paint The Election of St. Fabian for the Albani Chapel in S. Sebastiano fuori le Mura. Within the next decade he helped paint the frescos the ancient basilica of S. Clemente and the nave decoration of St. John Lateran. His portraits including one of Clement XI are unusually informal and realistic possibly due to Ghezzis experience at caricature. Alessandro Guidi 1650-1712 who translated the sermons was a prolific Arcadian poet. OCLC records a single copy Berkeley and we locate no additional American copies. Large 4to. 28 x 20.5 cm engraved portrait of Clement XI xvi pp. full-page engraving 213 pp. including 5 full-page engravings paginated with text. 18th-c. vellum over boards spine with 5 raised bands and red morocco label gilt-stamped; covers with large blind-tooled central ornament blind-tooled filets and ornaments. Short tears at head and foot of spine and a few nicks there. Early inscription on front pastedown mentions Monsignor Bianchini Prelato Domestico e Camerario segreto di S. Santita Papa Clem. XI. Mild finger-soiling in margins of title and a little foxing on some text leaves but overall a very fine attractive copy. Francesco Gonzaga hardcover
17124343Rome: Francesco Gonzaga 1712. Extremely rare first edition of this luxuriously illustrated anthology of extracts from papal sermons delivered between 1703-09 in Latin prose and facing Italian verse: an unusual example of Baroque ecclesiastical culture from the pontificate of Clement XI. On the basis of extreme rarity and contents the volume numbers among those commemorative and honorific volumes which were never sold in the trade but offered as a ceremonial gift to cardinals ambassadors and other important personagescorroborated by the ownership inscription in the present volume by a monsignor during Clements papacy. The volume is singular in our experience for its contents. Latin extracts of Clements sermons generally rather brief are printed on the left side of the page then freely and somewhat copiously versified in Italian by the poet Guidi. The sparsity of the elegantly printed text leaves positively wasteful margins! Each sermon is preceded by a full-page engraving on the subject of the sermon the Holy Family adoring the Christ Child for Christmas the Resurrection for Easter etc. designed by Pietro Leone Ghezzi one of the principal artists in Clements retinue and engraved by Roman engravers generally also associated with Clementine projects Frey van Westerhout etc. The designs were made expressly for the present volume and are echoed as it were in a series of initials and vignettes devoted to the same theme; as such they must have been engraved for the present volume and not simply taken from the printers stock. If somewhat overshadowed by Maratti in his lifetime and by his epoch-making role as the first professional caricaturist Ghezzi 1674-1755 was nonetheless an important painter of religious subjects who worked on Albanis most prestigious public projects. The surfaces of Ghezzis paintings were considerably less finished than those of Maratti and he seems more receptive to Venetian color and unfinishednessthus showing a different aspect of Albani taste. Ghezzi was commissioned in 1712 the year this book was published to paint The Election of St. Fabian for the Albani Chapel in S. Sebastiano fuori le Mura. Within the next decade he helped paint the frescos the ancient basilica of S. Clemente and the nave decoration of St. John Lateran. His portraits including one of Clement XI are unusually informal and realistic possibly due to Ghezzis experience at caricature. Alessandro Guidi 1650-1712 who translated the sermons was a prolific Arcadian poet. OCLC records a single copy Berkeley and we locate no additional American copies. Large 4to. 28 x 20.5 cm engraved portrait of Clement XI xvi pp. full-page engraving 213 pp. including 5 full-page engravings paginated with text. 18th-c. vellum over boards spine with 5 raised bands and red morocco label gilt-stamped; covers with large blind-tooled central ornament blind-tooled filets and ornaments. Short tears at head and foot of spine and a few nicks there. Early inscription on front pastedown mentions Monsignor Bianchini Prelato Domestico e Camerario segreto di S. Santita Papa Clem. XI. Mild finger-soiling in margins of title and a little foxing on some text leaves but overall a very fine attractive copy. Francesco Gonzaga hardcover books
1756elala1110Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale 1756. 1756. 12mo. pp. viii 275. full modern mottled calf a few scattered stains. First Duodecimo Edition. Published the same year as the first edition in quarto. This is the French reply to an English memorial addressed to the courts of Europe stating their position on the war on the Ohio justifying their actions and setting forth their claims to the region west of the Alleghenies. Accusing the English of unprovoked aggression and foul play the French sought to demonstrate that it was Washington's 'assassination' of Jumonville in the Fort Necessity campaign among other offensive actions which had sparked the war. Most of the text is composed of 'pièces justificatives' comprising documents and letters written between 1749 and 1755 by La Jonquière Governor of New France Albemarle Rouillé General Braddock Contrecoeur Villiers Sir William Johnson George Washington and Robert Stobo an engineer with Washington who had planned Fort Necessity. Among the more important papers are translations of the instructions given to Braddock by the British Crown letters to and from Braddock and Sir William Johnson and various officials two of Johnson's 'harangues' to the Indians and the first printing although in French translation of extracts from the journal kept by George Washington in the 1754 expedition to fortify the forks of the Ohio that ended with the British surrender to the French at Fort Necessity in July 1754 pp. 109-146. This is quite distinct from Washington's first journal of his mission for Governor Dinwiddie late in 1753 printed at Williamsburg in 1754. Most of these British papers were seized by the French following the capitulation at Fort Necessity. An early work on the French and Indian War described by Lawrence Wroth in his John Carter Brown Library report for 1945-46' as "one of the most important documents in American colonial history." Dionne II 548. JCB I 1123. Lande 657. Sabin 47511. TPL 250. Vlach 549. cfHowes M-787 different pag. cfGagnon II 1369 & cfStreeter II 1013 first in 4to. Wroth American Bookshelf p. 22. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, 1756. Paperback
17740000222Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopfs und Sohn 1774. Second edition. Contemporary calf. Very Good. 2nd edition. Folio Contemporary full calf with some ware and loss to ends of spine . Collation: 12 1-184 4p. with 51 copper-engraved plates. Internally this is a clean and bright copy with only minor spotting. <br/><br/>Leupold unlike his contemporary Newton was a designerand builder of instruments. In this work Leupold provides information and illustration of numerous devices that he built that were useful in handling water. This is a posthumous reprinting of his earlier edition in 1724which was the 2nd volume of his larger work Theatrum machinarum. Bernhard Christoph Breitkopfs und Sohn unknown books
1757A2DFNA01U79OAmsterdam: Petrus Schenk II & son vol. II: Petrus Schenk III 1757. Red half sheepskin blue-grey paper sides ca. 1800. Imperial folio 50 x 34 cm. With 2 title pages in red and black each with the same engraved allegorical device a double-page engraved dedication plate with 2 large cartouches showing the arms of the Beemster polder and of the 9 members of its water authority and 41 double-page and 7 larger folding engraved illustration plates the folding plates numbered as 2 to give plates I-XXV vol. I I-XXIV and I-VI vol. II. Further with 1 woodcut tailpiece and bands of cast fleurons. Second edition of both volumes of a remarkably detailed set of scale construction drawings plans sections elevations perspective views etc. including many detail drawings of individual parts of 18th-century Dutch waterworks with the accompanying letterpress descriptions and notes. It includes locks sluices bridges pumps pile drivers an ice-breaker an elaborate water-bailing mill and more. Most of the plates measure about 45 x 54 cm with the folding ones about 52 x 76 cm. At least most of the plates depict existing works and the text occasionally gives some historical information. The drawings are so detailed and give such a clear picture of how the mechanisms functioned that one could use them to reconstruct the works shown.A fine copy nearly untrimmed with only some false folds in the half-title and an occasional minor defect in the paper. Plate 23 in volume 1 has no number but it may have been trimmed off at the head. The inside front hinge has partly separated from the book-block but the binding is otherwise good. A fine copy of a magnificent display of Dutch hydraulic engineering.l Bierens de Haan 3818.5 & 4839.5 vol. II only with later ed. of vol. I; STCN 2 & 4 copies of the 2 volumes; not in Berlin Kat.; Roberts & Trent Bibl. Mechanica. Petrus Schenk [II] & son (vol. II: Petrus Schenk [III]), unknown
175751848Amsterdam Petrus Schenk 1757-74. Large folio. 55 x 345 cm. A large uncut copy in contemp. marbled boards spine gone and later backed with buckram original corners in leather a bit bumped. Stamps on foot of first title-page. Halftitel title-pages in red/black with engraved vignettes. 22 engraved leafs with dedications 14;28 pp. and 25 24 large double-page or triple-page folded engraved plates 6 additional plates only sometimes present. With a total of 55 plates. On thick heavy paper wide-margined and internally fine and clean. <br/><br/><em>Second edition. "Tileman van der Horst and Jan Schenk produced the Theatrum Machinarium Univesale one of the most celebrated works on the construction of all those elements so necessary to keeping life dry in Amsterdam the place of the book’s publication. It was perhaps the most important work then produced on dikes sluices dams weirs canals and swing-bridges the very elements of existence in Holland. Jan Schenck was the engraver of this work which may also be the most accurate and the most sumptuously illustrated book of its type in Holland in the 18th century - the technical aspects of the rendering was just superb." - Brunet V1082 - Graesse VII 258. </em> hardcover
175751848Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1757-74. Large folio. (55 x 34,5 cm.). A large uncut copy in contemp. marbled boards, spine gone and later backed with buckram, original corners in leather a bit bumped. Stamps on foot of first title-page. Halftitel, title-pages in red/black with engraved vignettes. (2),2 engraved leafs with dedications, 14"(2),8 pp. and 25 + 24 large double-page or triple-page folded engraved plates + 6 additional plates (only sometimes present). With a total of 55 plates. On thick, heavy paper, wide-margined and internally fine and clean.
1758801511758. LEAMING Aaron and SPICER Jacob. The Grants Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New-Jersey: The Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments and Other Material Transactions before the Surrender thereof to Queen Anne the Instrument of Surrender and Her Formal Acceptance thereof Lord Cornbury's Commission and Instructions Consequent Thereon. Collected by Some Gentlemen Employed by the General Assembly and Afterwards Published by Virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the Said Province with Proper Tables Alphabetically Digested Containing the Principal Matters in the Book. Phila.: Printed by W. Bradford 1758. 4763pp. Folio. Period-style 3/4 calf and marbled boards gilt-ruled raised spine bands red morocco spine label. Internally clean a very good copy. Evans 8205. Hildeburn A Century of Printing 1596. The Charlemagne Tower Collection of American Colonial Laws 561. Sabin 39527. Benedict Acts and Laws of the Thirteen Original Colonies and States 270. Felcone New Jersey Books 156. An important volume of colonial American laws the third and scarcest official compilation fundamental laws constitutions and documents for New Jersey covering from 1663-64 to 1702 with the session laws from 1668 to 1701. "Prior to the middle of the 18th century all of New Jersey's fundamental documents remained in manuscript form only" -- Felcone. "This handsome volume generally known as Leaming and Spicer's Laws was prepared under the authority of an act of Assembly passed in 1752 and is the largest work issued from the press of Wm. Bradford."--The Charlemagne Tower Collection. Subscribers were solicited beginning in February 1755; the compilers chiefly by Samuel Nevill and Samuel Smith spent almost two years preparing the text. The printing under the supervision of Leaming and Spicer took three more years until it was ready for delivery in May 1758. The subscribers had taken 170 copies and the editors say in the Pennsylvania Journal 11 May 1758 "a number of copies yet remain not subscribed for" and "any person may be supplied" until "the 17th of July next after which we will not further extend the sale." See Felcone for a detailed ten-page study of this highly important colonial New Jersey book. unknown
1716100847<p>Leiden Petrus van der Aa; Luchtmans & Haak 1716 - 1741. x 500pp; 60 unnumbered ff; titlepage of supplement; pages 501-534. 2 parts in one. Folio. Title in red and black with engraved vignette.With finely engraved frontispiece representing the library interior and heads of celebrated Dutch scholars full page plate of benefactors and plate of the Copernican Globe preserved in the library. Preface and index. Full contemporary mottled sheep rubbed corners lightly bumped head & foot of spine chipped lower back joint cracked. Red morocco title shield. The present catalogue was first published in 1716. When the supplement was completed in 1741 a newer and fuller titlepage was substituted in the copies then unsold but still dated 1716. The supplement has a separate titlepage: Supplementum Catalogus librorum tam impressum quam manuscriptum Bibliothecae publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden Samuel Lugtmans & Cornelius Haak 1741 but the pagination is continuous the supplement occupies pages 501-534. Incidentally there is a substantial unpaginated index placed between them of 60ff. The Catalogue of the University Library at Leyden has a certain air of modernity in its carefully listed holdings in theology jurisprudence medicine philosophy philology political economy history belles-lettres classics numismatics etc. A single chapter enumerates the celebrated collection of 1993 Oriental manuscripts in Persian Turkish Hebrew Armenian Coptic etc. Separate chapters list the special collections donated by Huygens Vossius Perizonius De Smet and others. Rare Brunet 31496 says that this is one of the most representative sources of Oriental manuscript holdings.</p>
17967271<b>Jacob Bryant. <i>A Dissertation concerning the War of Troy and the Expedition of the Grecians as Described by Homer; Shewing that No Such Expedition was ever Undertaken and that No Such City of Phrygia Existed.</i> <br /></b><br />Illustrated with folding map. 4to. Late 18th or early 19th century half-calf over marbled boards leather label on spine. London N.D. 1796 per ESTC.<b> First Edition</b> of Bryant's controversial dissertation in which he ignited one of the longer scholarly controversies of the 18th century asserting that there never was a war at Troy.<br /><br /> Bound with: <br /><b><br />John Bacon Sawrey Morritt </b>'Troy Morritt'.<b><i> A Vindication of Homer and of the Ancient Poets and Historians Who Have Recorded the Siege and Fall of Troy. In Answer to Two Late Publications of Mr. Bryant. <br /></i></b><br />Illustrated with a folding map of the plain of Troy and 5 folding plates. York 1798. <b>First Edition </b>of Morritt's very critical and beautifully illustrated response to Bryant. The 5 folding pictorial views include the plain of troy; the tombs of Ajax; Achilles; Patroculus and Hector; and of Troy from the Scamander. <br /><br />Binding is scuffed and worn with the boards just holding by the cords; text is in very good condition with moderate toning; the plates and the maps being on finer paper are excellent examples. From the library at Ditton Park. Rare.
178010913Leiden: for H. Mostert 1780. Contemporary Dutch red-dyed pigskin backed marbled paper boards rubbed front panel with paper loss UNCUT. Schultens' collection contained over twelve thousand titles and rivaled the University library in size. Three quarters of his books dealt with the Abrahamic religions systematic theology biblical commentary church history philology and ancient history including INCUNABLES ILLUMINATED VELLUM COPIES AND ONE HUNDRED ARABIC HEBREW PERSIAN AND TURKISH MANUSCRIPTS. Leiden University acquired eighty of the manuscripts its largest single manuscript purchase in more than a century.     THIS COPY IS PRICED THROUGHOUT by Leiden printer and bookseller Dirk II Haak 1754-18-- who signed the title. In good condition foxed two quires heavily last leaves dampstained in the lower margin.¶Vrolijk & Leeuwen Arabic Studies in the Netherlands 79-82; Blogie Répertoire des catalogues de ventes IV: 30; STCN 241214483. for H. Mostert unknown books
1758016251Philadelphia: William Bradford 1758. First Edition. Hardcover. Title page with a few repaired tears hinged with following Preface page; two adjoining leaves pages 441-444 of text lacking and supplied with facsimiles. Contents Very Good binding about Fine. Folio 7-1/4" x 11-1/2" bound in contemporary calf leather with a decorative blindstamped border recently rebacked with a new gilt-lettered and decorated spine preserving original paste-downs and free endpapers; 4 763 pages. Title within rule border decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. An important compilation of the fundamental New Jersey charters and session laws of the proprietary period 1664 to 1702 up to Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions as Royal Governor when New Jersey became a crown colony under Queen Anne. Publication was ordered by the New Jersey Assembly in 1752 but two years were required to collect the documents to be included while the typesetting and printing took Bradford an additional three. By the date of publication some 170 copies had been subscribed. This title was the largest volume issued from Bradford's press and one of the largest from any eighteenth-century American press. Evans 8205; Sabin 39527. Early owner name on the title page and early twentieth century names on the front pastedown. <br/><br/> W[illiam] Bradford hardcover
1727ABC_49435Nuremberg 1727. Oblong 4to ca. 16.7 x 21.2 cm. Bey Wolfg. Moritz Endters seel. Erben und Jul. Arn. Engelbrecht. Gedruckt bey Joh. Ernst Adelbulner Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers. With a full-page engraved plate with 6 figures an additional engraved folding plate by Busch 2 decorated woodcut initials a woodcut headpiece and a woodcut tailpiece. 36 1 1 blank pp. First and only edition of a treatise on the American Aloe Agave Americana with a very rare additional plate not present in any other copies of the work. This plate drawn by Busch who we have not been able to identify shows the spectacular blooming American aloe from the gardens of Köpenick Palace which was the largest American aloe in any royal garden at the time. It caused a sensation when it finally bloomed in 1712 after 44 years; even Tsar Peter the Great paid a visit to admire it. The present plate is not only one of the few contemporary images of the so-called "wunderaloe" miracle aloe but also one of the very few illustrations of any part of the Köpenick Palace gardens of the time.The present work is a comprehensive study of the American aloe. It was written by the German physician and botanist Christoph Jacob Trew 1695-1769 after observing a blooming aloe in Nuremberg in 1726. His treatise offers explanations for the plant's unusual growth as well as descriptions of its medicinal use. It is partly based on his own observations but also compiles the findings of other studies on the plant. The work contains meteorological tables in which Trew attempts to forecast the natural conditions for growing ripe Aloe seeds and an engraved plate with detailed illustrations of the flowers and seeds. The present copy also includes the final leaf with a note to page 8 which is not mentioned in the reference works.Trew studied medicine at the University of Altdorf graduating in 1717. He wrote his dissertation under the supervision of the surgeon and botanist Lorenz Heister 1683-1758. He became a physician in Nuremberg and also supervised the Hortus Medicus the medical university garden. After thorougkly studying the plants with the help of students he published several richly illustrated botanical works including Hortus nitidissimis omnem per annuum superbiens floribus 1750-1786 Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria Londini 1750-1773 and Plantae rariores quas maximam partem ipse in horte domestico colui 1763. He also had his own garden in which he was able to successfully cultivate many exotic plants including 32 species of aloe.The wrappers are scuffed the spine shows traces of use with two small tears that extend into the front and back wrapper. The work is slightly browned throughout with an additional plate not present in other copies. Otherwise in good condition.l Pritzel 9497 does not record the final leaf or additional plate; Stafleu & Cowan 15.129 does not record the final leaf or additional plate; VD18 11388935; WorldCat 889555595 311430074 24 copies of which none with the additional plate. unknown
1775919London: T. Payne 1775. Second Edition. Fine Leather Large Quarto 11.75"x10" Bindings Bound by A.B. Buck. Near Fine. A New System or An Analysis of Ancient Mythology by Jacob Bryant – 3 Volume Set Second Edition 1775<br /> Author: Jacob Bryant<br /> Publisher: London: Printed for T. Payne P. Elmsly B. White and J. Walter<br /> Publication Date: 1775 MDCCLXXV<br /> Edition: Second Edition<br /> Format: 3 Volumes Quarto 11.75"x10".<br /> Description:<br /> Presenting a striking and complete three-volume set of Jacob Bryant’s magnum opus A New System or An Analysis of Ancient Mythology. In this highly influential 18th-century work Bryant attempted to trace the mythologies and traditions of ancient civilizations—including the Greeks Romans Egyptians and Babylonians—back to a common origin heavily linking them to the events of Genesis and the dispersal of nations following the Tower of Babel.<br /> This set is profusely illustrated with 32 striking copperplate engravings including detailed folding maps ancient coins architectural ruins and intricate depictions of mythological figures and symbols such as serpents and temple rites. Notably the renowned artist and poet William Blake was an apprentice to James Basire the principal engraver for this work and scholars frequently attribute several of the engravings in this edition to a young Blake.<br /> The set is masterfully bound in pristine full tan leather. The spines feature classic raised bands with contrasting dual black morocco labels elegantly tooled with gilt lettering indicating the title "BRYANT'S MYTHOLOGY" and volume numbers. The text blocks are solid and the pages remain wonderfully crisp pages with some light sporadic foxing pages overall are bright and clean showcasing the impressive typography and detailed plates that make this work so desirable.<br /> The immaculate condition of the binding makes this a stunning presentation piece perfect for an advanced collector of mythology early anthropology or 18th-century antiquarian works. T. Payne unknown
171652920<p>London printed by J. N. Assignee of Edw. Sayer for D. Brown et al. 1716. FIFTH EDITION OF PLEAS OF THE CROWN 1716 INCLUDING THE SECOND ISSUE OF THE TRYAL OF WITCHES AT THE ASSIZES HELD AT BURY ST. EDMUNDS 1716. 3 title pages at front and each part has a separate title page; 1 Pleas of the Crown 2 A Short Treatise touching Sheriffs Accompts 3 A Tryal of Witches at the Assizes held at Bury St Edmunds for the Country of SUFFOLK on the Tenth Day of March 1664 pages 5 78-104; 4 A Discourse touching Provision for the Poor 5 Pleas of the Crown The Second Part by Giles Jacob. 8vo approximately 190 x 115 mm 7½ x 4½ inches pages: 22 1-272 8; 4 5-143 1; 2 1-121. Bound in full contemporary calf gilt lettered label to spine. Age-browning to margins of first General title page heavy age-browning to pastedowns and endpapers occasional pale age-browning to text a very good tight copy. "The publication A Tryal of Witches related to the 1662 Bury St. Edmunds witch trial first published in 1682 and was used by the magistrates at Salem when looking for a precedent in allowing spectral evidence. Since the jurist Sir Matthew Hale had permitted this evidence supported by the eminent philosopher physician and author Thomas Browne to be used in the Bury St Edmunds witch trial and the accusations against two Lowestoft women the colonial magistrates also accepted its validity and their trials proceeded." Wikipedia under the headings "Salem witch trials Spectral Evidence". See: Geoffrey Keynes A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne pages 197-99: "The sheets of the Tryal of Witches whole volume were reissued in 1716 pages 5 78-104 and were added to Hale's Pleas of the Crown"; Diana and Jeremy Norman The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine Volume 1 page 352 No. 966 listing the first edition of 1683; Leslie F. Maxwell A Bibliography of English Law 1651-1800 Volume 2 page 54 No. 4. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, printed by J. N. Assignee of Edw. Sayer for D. Brown et al., 1716. hardcover
1729ABC_45605The Hague widow of E. Boucquet H. Scheurleer F. Boucquet J. de Jongh 1729 vols. 1-3; 1729. 4to. Dordrecht Ab Blussé & son 1769 vol. 4. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with manuscript titles on spines. Sprinkled edges. With an engraved frontispiece title pages in red and black and with engraved vignettes a folding portrait of Willem Karel Hendrik Friso 1711-1751 Prince of Orange and from 1747 hereditary Stadtholder Willem IV a portrait of the author 40 engraved plates by Houbraken with multiple portraits of artists on each plate 1 plate with a night scene 1 mezzotint and 118 engraved vignettes. 4 volumes. 16 412 6; 4 412 6 4 446 4. First edition of richly illustrated biographies of more than 100 Dutch painters male and female still of interest for the history of Dutch art. The author Jacob Campo Weyerman 1677-1747 was one of the foremost Dutch authors of the Enlightenment and was known for his merry style. For this history of Dutch art he leans on Houbraken's De groote schouburgh der Neder-lantsche konstschilders en schilderessen 1718-1721.The first three parts were all published in 1729; the fourth - 40 years later - is mainly devoted to the painters from the Art Academy at The Hague. All 40 plates with artists' portraits the frontispiece 2 other portraits and the night scene are in the first 3 volumes the later volume 4 has no plates. The lavish vignettes throughout the volumes are worth mentioning as well mostly executed by Picart and apparently made for the present publication.The plates seem to be from a rare early state avant la lettre: all other copies we have seen have lettering on the plates but the present copy has the information written on the plates in ink. The title-page lettering seems to be very slightly moved compared to other copies but positions of the quire signatures all match. Perhaps this was a first impression or proof.From the library of Belgian artist/curator Philippe Jacques van Brée 1786-1871 with his owner's inscription on the front paste-down of each volume: "P.J. van Bréé". He was curator of the Royal Museum of Fine Art in Brussels from 1831-1861.With a few neat annotations in pencil in the margins of the plates and a small tear in the foot margin of a text page. Vellum slightly thumbed. Otherwise in very good condition.l Kunst op schrift 243-245; Arntzen/ Rainwater H129. ABE CAT Art History hardcover
1741WRCAM37910Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Andrew Bradford 1741. 32pp. 12mo. Printed self-wrappers stitched. Contemporary ink inscription "Jacob Taylor" in upper margin of titlepage; contemporary ink correction on p.27. Cellophane tape joining signature at spine occasional minor foxing. Else bright clean and very good. In a half morocco and cloth box. An almanac by Jacob Taylor who published his important Pennsylvania almanac for the years 1700 to 1746. It is a distinct possibility that the present copy was owned and signed by Taylor as his inscribed name on the titlepage is accompanied later in the volume by a manuscript correction to a poem "manumated" becomes "manumitted". Taylor took the poetry in his almanacs seriously printing excerpts of PARADISE LOST in 1741 and composing well-received verse of his own. In addition to the calendar this 1746 almanac contains a substantial amount of poetry; lists of courts fairs and Quaker meetings; and a discussion of Hannibal's oath before the gods. This he concludes with a quote from the 1739 almanac of "R. Saunders" Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard on the dangers of false wit and pride in the present age commenting favorably on Saunders "By wicked Wit the Truth is often drown'd; Here certain Truth adorn'd with Wit is found" p.23. <br> <br> Taylor's almanac was printed by different Philadelphia printers over time. Some were printed by Franklin but this one was issued by Andrew Bradford one of Franklin's rivals and the son of William Bradford the first printer in Philadelphia. DRAKE 9634. EVANS 4818. ESTC W22747. Printed and Sold by Andrew Bradford hardcover books
