CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (Jacob Campo WEYERMAN translator; Antoine COYPEL illustrator).Biblio.com
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1746M2HB4ES5PXB4The Hague: Pieter de Hondt 1746. Contemporary richly gold-tooled dark red morocco by the so-called Van Damme bindery in Amsterdam sewn on 7 supports each board with Van Dammes typical hourglass- or vase- or flask-shaped central cartouche with a starry sky on a black ground here showing a short-stemmed chalice or goblet with fire or flame-like leaves like a snake plant Dracaena trifasciata in the cartouche and a basket of flowers topping the cartouche the whole in an elaborate frame built up from hundreds of impressions of numerous small tools the spine-title in gold on a black ground in the 2nd of 8 compartments each of the other 7 with flowers other decorations and a small flower in a pot gilt edges. With a tissue guard-leaf before each plate. Large folio 42 x 27 cm. Title in red and black with an engraved vignette Quixote and the windmill and 31 engraved illustration plates all coloured by a contemporary hand heightened with gold and set in in a gilt frame. Further with large woodcut initials and tailpieces and each text page in an ornamental frame built up from typographic ornaments the frames not in the 4to issue. Very rare large-paper copy of the first and only edition of a "free and joyous" Dutch translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote with 31 rococo style plates in spectacular contemporary hand colouring and with gold highlights. The plates have been engraved by leading Dutch artists Bernard Picart 12 Jacob van der Schley 13 Pierre Tanjé 5 and Simon Fokke 1 after paintings by leading French artists Antoine Coypel 25 Charles-Nicolas Cochin 2 Pierre-Charles Trémolières 2 François Boucher 1 and Jacques-Philippe le Bas 1. The impressions are crisp and the hand colouring is bright and of the highest quality with subtly graded tones and highlights in gold. Antoine Coypel 1694-1752 responsible for the design of most of the illustrations was one of the most important French history painters of the early 18th century. His Don Quixote paintings are highlights in his oeuvre and can be found in several museum collections.The Dutch edition was translated by Jacob Campo Weyerman 1677-1747 one of the foremost Dutch authors of the Enlightenment who was known for his merry style. He added to this edition a Dutch translation of the biography of Cervantes by Gregorio Mayans 1737 and explanatory texts to the plates. De Hondt issued the present edition in at least three formats: 4to folio on ordinary paper and folio on large paper. The present copy is the large-paper folio issue which is indeed very rare: several libraries have folio editions on ordinary paper usually about 35 cm tall but we have not located a copy of the large folio issue in any library. The only other large-paper copy we have been able to trace is slightly smaller.Cervantes's Don Quixote first published in Spanish 1605-1615 was first translated into Dutch in the early 17th century and went through several editions until 1732. Engraved prints after Coypel's famous Don Quixote paintings started circulating in 1734. De Hondt took this opportunity to publish a new Dutch translation with the Coypel illustrations and some others. He asked Weyerman who was already a famous writer but was imprisoned for slander to translate the text. He also commissioned new plates after Coypels paintings from the leading Dutch engravers. This came together in what became a masterpiece of rococo book production and the present hand-coloured copy of the large folio issue is the outstanding result.The Van Damme bindery was the "most important Amsterdam workshop of the 18th century" and is praised for the "high quality of its work" Storm van Leeuwen: 89 bindings are attributed to it. Although its earliest dated binding is from 1747 the present work and two others in similar Van Damme bindings in the British Library were printed in 1746 so these bindings may be among Van Dammes earliest work made in or soon after that year. Three of the six Van Damme bindings in the British Library as well as several examples in Storm van Leeuwen have a similar cartouche with a black interior but none includes the present vase or goblet of flames or flame-like leaves: we have not identified the patron.The boards are very slightly rubbed the corners and head and foot of the spine have been reinforced. A few small spots in the foot margin of the title page and slight browning of the paper of 2 quires. Otherwise in very good condition.l Arents Cervantes in het Nederlands 27: "Kneppelhout nr. 2587 gr. fol. rood verg. marok. verg. op sn. Zeer fraai ex. op gr. papier. Het titelvignet en de 30 prtn. allen alleruitmuntendst uit de hand gekl. en met goud afgezet. In oud-Holl. prachtbd. van rood marokyn. De rug verg. in afdeel. De platten met een zeer breed verguldsel randwerk en verg. middenfig. op zwart leder. Verg. op sn. Gekocht door Hr. Elte voor fl. 420."; Cohen & De Ricci 216 "superbes illustrations; livre tres recherche"; Van Gorp pp. 161-162; Mededelingen van de Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman 18 1995 passim; Rius I 806; STCN 197115810 8 copies; Marleen de Vries Aanzet tot een bibliografie van Jacob Campo Weyerman 1990; cf. for the binding: Storm van Leeuwen I pp. 460-499. Pieter de Hondt, unknown
17134063Basel: Impensis Thurnisiorum Fratum 1713. First edition. First edition of the most significant early book on probability theory: it set forth the fundamental principles of the calculus of probabilities and contained the first suggestion that the theory could extend beyond the boundaries of mathematics to apply to civic moral and economic affairs. It also contained the first statement but not the proof of the law of large numbers. Hardcover. EVANS 8 - ESTABLISHED THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES. <p>First edition an exceptionally fine copy rare in this condition. "Jakob 1 Bernoulli's posthumous treatise edited by his nephew Nicholas I Bernoulli the title literally means "the art of dice throwing" was the first significant book on probability theory: it set forth the fundamental principles of the calculus of probabilities and contained the first suggestion that the theory could extend beyond the boundaries of mathematics to apply to civic moral and economic affairs. The work is divided into four parts the first a commentary on Huygens's De ratiociniis in ludo aleae 1657 the second a treatise on permutations a term Bernoulli invented and combinations containing the Bernoulli numbers and the third an application of the theory of combinations to various games of chance. The fourth and most important part contains Bernoulli's philosophical thoughts on probability: probability as a measurable degree of certainty necessity and chance moral versus mathematical expectation a priori and a posteriori probability etc. It also contains his attempt to prove what is still called Bernoulli's Theorem: that if the number of trials is made large enough then the probability that the result will lie between certain limits will be as great as desired" Norman. This was the first statement of the law of large numbers.</p> <br /> <p>"In the first Part pp. 2-71 Jakob Bernoulli complemented his reprint of Huygens's tract by extensive annotations which contained important modifications and generalisations. Bernoulli's additions to Huygens's tract are about four times as long as the original text. The central concept in Huygens's tract is expectation. The expectation of a player A engaged in a game of chance in a certain situation is identified by Huygens with his share of the stakes if the game is not played or not continued in a 'just' game. For the determination of expectation Huygens had given three propositions which constitute the 'theory' of his calculus of games of chance. Huygens's central proposition III maintains:</p> <br /> <p>"If the number of cases I have for gaining a is p and if the number of cases I have for gaining b is q then assuming that all cases can happen equally easily my expectation is worth pa qb/p q."</p> <br /> <p>"Bernoulli not only gives a new proof for this proposition but also generalizes it in several ways .</p> <br /> <p>"Huygens's propositions IV to VII treat the problem of points also called the problem of the division of stakes for two players; propositions VIII and IX treat three and more players. Bernoulli returns to these problems in Part II of the Ars Conjectandi. In his annotations to Huygens's proposition IV he generalised Huygens's concept of expectation . This is the only instance in the annotations and commentaries to Huygens's tract where Bernoulli uses the word 'probabilitas' or probability as understood in everyday life. Later in Part IV of the Ars Conjectandi Bernoulli replaced Huygens's main concept expectation by the concept of probability for which he introduced the classical measure of favourable to all possible cases. The remaining propositions X to XIV of Huygens's tract deal with dicing problems of the kind: What are the odds to throw a given number of points with two or three dice or: With how many throws of a die can one undertake it to throw a six or a double six . The meaning of Huygens's result of proposition X that the expectation of a player who contends to throw a six with four throws of a die is greater than that of his adversary is explained by Bernoulli in a way which relates to the law of large numbers proved in Part IV of the Ars Conjectandi .</p> <br /> <p>"In the second Part pp. 72-137 Bernoulli deals with combinatorial analysis based on contributions of van Schooten Leibniz Wallis and Jean Prestet . It consists of nine chapters dealing with permutations the number of combinations of all classes the number of combinations of a particular class figurate numbers and their properties especially the multiplicative property sums of powers of integers the hypergeometric distribution the problem of points for two players with equal chances to win a single game combinations with repetitions and with restricted repetitions and variations with repetitions and with restricted repetitions.</p> <br /> <p>"Evidently Bernoulli did not know Blaise Pascal's Triangle arithmétique published posthumously in 1665 though Leibniz had alluded to it in his last letter to him in 1705. Not only does Bernoulli not mention Pascal in the list of authors that he had consulted concerning combinatorial analysis except for Pascal's letter to Fermat of 24 July 1654; it would also be difficult to explain why he repeated results already published by Pascal in the Triangle arithmétique such as the multiplicative property for binomial coefficients for which Bernoulli claims the first proof for himself. His arrangement differs completely from that of Pascal whose proof for the multiplicative property of the binomial coefficients has been judged to be clearer than Bernoulli's. It is fair to add that in the Ars Conjectandi which Bernoulli left as an unpublished manuscript he was much more honest concerning the achievements of his predecessors than Pascal in the Triangle arithmétique. It is also true that Bernoulli was concerned with combinatorial analysis in the Ars Conjectandi first of all because it constituted for him a most useful and indispensable universal instrument for dealing numerically with conjectures since 'every conjecture is founded upon combinations of the effective causes' p. 73 .</p> <br /> <p>"In the third Part pp. 138-209 Bernoulli gives 24 problems concerning the determination of the modified Huygenian concept of expectation in various games. Here he uses extensively conditional expectations without however distinguishing them from unconditional expectations. All the games are games of chance with dice and cards including games en vogue at the French court of the time like Cinque et neuf Trijaques or Basette. He solves these problems mainly by combinatorial methods as introduced in Part II and by recursion .</p> <br /> <p>"The fourth Part pp. 210-239 is the most interesting and original Part; but it is the one that Bernoulli was not able to complete. In the first three of its five chapters it deals with the new central concept of the art of conjecturing probability its relation to certainty necessity and chance and ways of estimating and measuring probability" Schneider pp. 92-100. "The relevant point for our analysis is his introduction in the fourth part of Ars Conjectandi of what has come to be regarded as the first law of large numbers. Bernoulli began the discussion leading up to his theorem by noting that in games employing homogeneous dice with similar faces or urns with equally accessible tickets of different colors the a priori determination of chances was straightforward. One would simply enumerate the possible cases and take the ratio of the number of 'fertile' cases to the total number of cases whether 'fertile' or 'sterile.' But Bernoulli asked what about problems such as those involving disease weather or games of skill where the causes are hidden and the enumeration of equally likely cases impossible In such situations Bernoulli wrote "It would be a sign of insanity to attempt to learn anything in this manner." Instead Bernoulli proposed to determine the probability of a fertile case a posteriori: "For it should be presumed that a particular thing will occur or not occur in the future as many times as it has been observed in similar circumstances to have occurred or not occurred in the past" p. 224. The proportion of favorable or fertile cases could thus be determined empirically. Now this empirical approach to the determination of chances was not new with Bernoulli nor did he consider it to be new. What was new was Bernoulli's attempt to give formal treatment to the vague notion that the greater the accumulation of evidence about the unknown proportion of cases the closer we are to certain knowledge about that proportion.</p> <br /> <p>"Bernoulli took it as commonly known that uncertainty decreased as the number of observations increased: "For even the most stupid of men by some instinct of nature by himself and without any instruction which is a remarkable thing is convinced that the more observations have been made the less danger there is of wandering from one's goal" p. 225. Bernoulli sought both to provide a proof of this principle and to show that there was no natural lower bound to the residual uncertainty: By multiplying the observations 'moral certainty' about the unknown proportion could be approached arbitrarily closely" Stigler pp. 64-5.</p> <br /> <p>The main work concludes with Tractatus de seriebus infinitis earumque summa finite et usu in quadraturis spatiorum & rectificationibus curvarum pp. 241-306 which had first appeared as a series of five extremely rare pamphlets entitled Positiones arithmeticae de seriebus infinitis earumque summa finita. "The five dissertations in the Theory of Series 1682-1704 contain sixty consecutively numbered propositions. These dissertations show how Bernoulli at first in close cooperation with his brother had thoroughly familiarized himself with the appropriate formulations of questions to which he had been led by the conclusions of Leibniz in 1682 series for pi/4 and log 2 and 1683 questions dealing with compound interest. Out of this there also came the treatise in which Bernoulli took into account short-term compound interest and was thus led to the exponential series. He thought that there had been nothing printed concerning the theory of series up until that time but he was mistaken: most conclusions of the first two dissertations 1689 1692 were already to be found in Pietro Mengoli Novae quadraturae arithmeticae seu de additione fractionum 1650 as were the divergence of the harmonic series Prop. 16 and the sum of the reciprocals of infinitely many figurate numbers Props. 17-20 . At the end of the first dissertation Bernoulli acknowledged that he could not yet sum the inverse squares of the integers in closed form Euler succeeded in doing so first in 1737 . Informative theses based on Bernoulli's earlier studies were added to the dissertations: and theses 2 and 3 of the second dissertation are based on the still incomplete classification of curves of the third degree according to their shapes into thirty-three different types.</p> <br /> <p>"The third dissertation was defended by Jakob Hermann who wrote Bernoulli's obituary notice in Acta eruditorum 1706. In the introduction L'Hospital's Analyse is praised. After some introductory propositions there appear the logarithmic series for the hyperbola quadrature Prop. 42 the exponential series as the inverse of the logarithmic series Prop. 43 . and the series for the arc of the circle and the sector of conic sections Props. 45 46. All of these are carefully and completely presented with reference to the pertinent results of Leibniz 1682; 1691. In 1698 previous work was supplemented by Bernoulli's reflections on the catenary Prop. 49 and related problems on the rectification of the parabola Prop. 41 and on the rectification of the logarithmic curve Prop. 52.</p> <br /> <p>"The last dissertation 1704 was defended by Bernoulli's nephew Nikolaus I who helped in the publication of the Ars conjectandi 1713 and the reprint of the dissertation on series 1713 and became a prominent authority in the theory of series. In the dissertation Bernoulli first Prop. 53 praises Wallis' interpolation through incomplete induction. In Proposition 54 the binomial theorem is presented with examples of fractional exponents as an already generally known theorem. Probably for this reason there is no reference to Newton's presentation in his letters to Leibniz of 23 June and 3 November 1676 which were made accessible to Bernoulli when they were published in Wallis' Opera Vol. III 1699" DSB.</p> <br /> <p>The volume concludes with a separately-paginated 35-page Lettre à un Amy sur les Parties du Jeu de Paume in French. "In his Letter to a Friend on the Game of Tennis Bernoulli begins with a summary of his considerations in the Ars Conjectandi on the difference between games of chance and games that depend on the skill of the players on the corresponding determination of probabilities a priori and a posteriori and on the law of large numbers which justifies the use of the relative frequency of winning as a measure of the probability of winning. Apart from this short introduction the letter is really an exercise in probability theory and could well have been included in Part 3 of the Ars Conjectand. "Bernoulli writes that he will not explain the rules of the game because they are well known. The game is more complicated than tennis but with the same scoring rules . Bernoulli analyzes many problems of tennis. There are however no new methods used in his analysis; he keeps strictly to the methods used by Huygens solving most of the problems by recursion between expectations. The letter is an imposing work demonstrating Bernoulli's pedagogical qualities his ability to systematize and his thoroughness" Hald p. 241.</p> <br /> <p>"Important sections of the Ars Conjectandi were sketched out in Jakob Bernoulli's scientific diary the 'Meditationes' from the mid 1680s onwards. When he died in 1705 the Ars Conjectandi was not finished especially lacking good examples for the applications of his 'art of conjecturing' to what he described as civil and moral affairs. Concerning the time that it would have needed to complete it opinions differ from a few weeks to quite a few years depending on assumptions about his own understanding of completeness. His heirs did not want his brother Johann the leading mathematician in Europe at this time to complete and edit the manuscript fearing that Johann would exploit his brother's work. Only after Pierre Rémond de Montmort 1678-1719 himself a pioneer of the theory of probability had sent an offer via Johann to print the manuscript at his own expense in 1710 and after some admonitions that the Ars conjectandi soon would become obsolete if not published Jakob's son a painter agreed to have the unaltered manuscript printed. It appeared in August 1713 . A short preface was contributed by Nikolaus Bernoulli 1687-1759 Jakob's nephew. He had read the manuscript when his uncle was still alive and had made considerable use of it in his thesis of 1709 De usu artis conjectandi in jure and in his correspondence with Montmort. He was asked twice to complete and edit the manuscript. The first time he excused himself by his absence when he travelled in 1712 to Holland England and France. After his return Nikolaus Bernoulli declared himself as too inexperienced to do the job and in his preface he asked Montmort the anonymous author of the Essay sur les jeux de hazard and Abraham de Moivre 1667-1754 to complete his uncle's work" Schneider p. 90.</p> <br /> <p>PMM 179; Dibner 110; Evans 8; Grolier/Horblit 12; Sparrow 21; Norman 216.</p> <br /> <p>Hald History of Probability and Statistics and their Applications before 1750 2003. Schneider 'Jakob Bernoulli Ars Conjectandi 1713' pp. 88-104 in Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940 I. Grattan-Guinness ed. 2005. Stigler The History of Statistics 1986. </p> <br/> <br/> 4to 202 x 155 mm contemporary vellum red spine label with gilt lettering 4 1-306 1-35 1 printed folding tables between pp. 24-25 and 172-173 folding woodcut diagram after p. 306. An outstanding copy in entirely unrestored binding very fresh and crisp internally. Very rare in such fine condition. / Hardcover. Impensis Thurnisiorum Fratum unknown
1713180566Basel: Johann Rudolph & Emanuel Thurneysen 1713. The subject of the first published computer programme First edition of the first systematic treatment of probability theory the source of the law of large numbers binomial distribution and Bernoulli numbers. The Ars Conjectandi was the first work to suggest that probability could be applied in civil moral and economic matters and it remains the foundation of much modern practice in such fields as insurance and statistics. Jacob Bernoulli 1655-1705 was the first of the famed Bernoulli family to study mathematics: Johann 1667-1748 was his brother while Nicolaus 1687-1759 and Daniel 1700-1782 were his nephews. Nicolaus revised his uncle's manuscripts for this publication and provided his own two-page preface. The Bernoulli numbers in the Ars Conjectandi inspired the first published computer programme as devised by Ada Lovelace in 1843. Looking to demonstrate the potential of Babbage's analytical engine Lovelace wrote an algorithm with which the machine could calculate the Bernoulli sequence each generated recursively from previous values. The algorithm was published in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs in August 1843. Amusingly the final section includes several comments on jeu de paume - a ball game having much in common with modern tennis and very little in common with the rest of the work. Quarto 215 x 170 mm pp. iv 35 1; 306. Folding engraved plate 2 folding engraved tables woodcut vignette to title page head- and tailpieces and initials tables in the text. Nineteenth-century marbled boards outer and lower edges uncut. Front free endpaper and initial two leaves remounted on stub. Late 19th-century "Wirtz" signature. Recent pencil annotation to N3. Light rubbing faint sunning to spine minor browning and foxing to content extremities closed tear to outer margin of D1 professionally repaired plates crisp: a very good copy. Dibner 110; Horblit 12; Norman 216; Printing and the Mind of Man 179; Tomash & Williams B143. hardcover
170932891709. Woodcut device on title two folding printed tables & one folding woodcut plate. Diagrams in the text. 2 p.l. 306 35 1 pp. 4to cont. speckled sheep upper joint with short crack bookplate on blank portion of title patched minor foxing spine gilt red leather lettering piece on spine. Basel: impensis Thurnisiorum Fratrum 1713. <br/> <br/> bound with:<br/> <br/> BERNOULLI Nicolaus I. Dissertatio Inauguralis Mathematico-Juridica. De Usu Artis Conjectandi in Jure. 56 pp. 4to. Basel: J.C. Mechel 1709.<br/> <br/> A most attractive sammelband. <br/> <br/> I. First edition of “the first systematic attempt to place the theory of probability on a firm basis and is still the foundation of much modern practice in all fields where probability is concerned — insurance statistics and mathematical heredity tables.â€â€“Printing & the Mind of Man 179. <br/> <br/> II. First edition. Nicolaus I 1687-1759 nephew of Jacob I and Johann I and editor of the Ars Conjectandi obtained the degree of doctor of jurisprudence with this dissertation on the application of the calculus of probability to questions of law. I believe this to be an important contribution to probability. <br/> <br/> Very good copies. <br/> <br/> ⧠I. Dibner Heralds of Science 110. D.S.B. II pp. 46-51. Evans Epochal Achievements 8. Horblit 12. Sparrow Milestones of Science 21. II. D.S.B. II pp. 56-57. Keynes “Bibliography†in A Treatise on Probability p. 435. unknown
17616853Copenhagen: Johan Jacob Bruun 1761. Contemporary Danish mottled sheepskin richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco title-label marbled pastedowns red sprinkled edges. Oblong folio 26.5 x 40 cm preliminaries upright folio bound with foot folded in. With 60 engraved views including one folding plate with a view of the Royal Castle near Copenhagen engraved by Jonas Haas and Hans Quist after designs by Johan Jacob Bruun. Enlarged issue of a very rare series of engraved views of Danish castles mansions houses gardens and city views by the Danish landscape painter Johan Jacob Bruun 1715-1789. It was first published in 1761 containing 50 views of buildings on the Danish island Zealand as the first volume of a planned series covering whole Denmark. The other volumes never appeared but 10 additional views were already engraved dated 1760-1762 and included in the present issue with all plates on the same French paperstocks.With plate numbers in manuscript on the back of the plates and some occasional faint thumbing in the margins. Binding rubbed. Very good copy of a very rare series of views of Denmark.l WorldCat 4 copies of all issues; cf. Thieme & Becker V p. 152; Weilbach Dansk Kustnerlex. I 1896; not in BAL; Fowler. Johan Jacob Bruun, unknown
1734170795London: for T. Cox; and sold by J. Wilford 1734. The first scientific study of the question of distribution First edition of "the first scientific study of the question of distribution" Foxwell anticipating the Physiocratic positions on single tax land rents and free trade. "Stewart compared Vanderlint also with David Hume. McCulloch used Stewart's opinions on several occasions and may have provided the basis for Marx's charge that 'Hume follows step by step and often even in his personal idiosyncracies' Vanderlint's work" New Palgrave. "Like Barbon and North Vanderlint had a global vision of international trade and pleaded for free trade. He recognized the mutual benefits that flowed from free trading referring to 'an invincible argument for free and unrestrained trade'" Murphy. Octavo 196 x 121 mm pp. iv ii 170. Contemporary sprinkled calf rebacked spine ruled in gilt in compartments red morocco label. Engraved armorial bookplate of Maurice Fitzgerlad Knight of Kerry Corners. Spine and board edges lightly rubbed light surface wear to sides. Pale dampmark to fore-edge upper outer corner of title page chipped; a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 7227; Kress 4201; McCulloch p. 162; Sraffa 6080. Antoin Murphy Monetary Theory 1601-1758 1996 pp. 46-7. unknown
174456102Halle Johann Justinus Gebauer. 1744-1793 4to. Bound in 65 Theil 48 in 3 volumes nice contemporary full calf with raised bands and richly gilt spines. A few volumes have some wear to upper spines. With 58 frontispices 124 engraved plates and 103 engraved folded maps. Internally nice and clean. <br/><br/><em>Brunet III: p. 233 - Graesse III: 309 Both bibliographies erroneously state that the first part was printed in 1746. </em> hardcover
172910151Leipzig Johann Heinrich Zedler/Register: Leipzig Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf 1729-1733/1740. 12 bindings containing 22 volumes and a register 10 16 588 8 834 8 4 674 14 608 10 16 640 8 674 10 4 548 8 636 14 744 12 576 10 32 664 6 8 651 8 16 742 8 680 6 8 620 6 621 10 720 6 534 6 708 2 380 8 736 2 592 4 224 26 144 882 280 p. Contemporary Vellum Folio H. 345 x L. 225 x W. 7-85 cm. -the complete set is ca. 90 cm. wide- A single wormhole in the bottom margin of volume 13 top of the back covers of volume 19/20 21/22 and the register lack a small piece of vellum the text blocks are slightly browned at some places but not nearly as browned as usual page 451/452 of volume 9 is present a second time in volume 8 all 22 volumes are illustrated with a large engraved head-piece depicting Luther at the beginning of the main text. Firm and complete set of the works of Martin Luther 1484-1546. Included is a useful register which was specially made for this edition by Johann Jacob Greiff 1699-1767. The set is uniformly bound in firm vellum bindings which are in very good condition and surprisingly clean. Altogether a beautiful set of the life's work of the renowned Martin Luther. Leipzig Johann Heinrich Zedler/Register: Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf hardcover
1780ABC_48891The Netherlands 1780. Late 18th-century gold-tooled brown mottled calf sewn on 5 supports bound by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery in Amsterdam Storm van Leeuwen. Both boards show the large gold-tooled monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC as a centre piece sandwiched between the gold-tooled date Anno 1780 all within a gold-tooled floral frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners spine gold-tooled in six compartments red sprinkled edges. 4to ca. 19 x 15 cm. Manuscript in French written in black ink on paper in a neat cursive script by one hand. With chapter divisions numbered 39-75 and headings. The text is written upside down in relation to the binding. Most leaves show an identical watermark depicting a lion rampant on a pedestal with Vryheyt in a crowned ring with Pro Patria Eiusque Libertate and the letters CR below which is very close to Heawood 3149 date: 1753. Late 18th-century manuscript copy of a French childrens catechism by the Swiss theologian Jacob Vernet 1698-1789 bound in a remarkable late 18th-century binding originally produced for the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company VOC by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery which was active between ca. 1760 and ca. 1784 Storm van Leeuwen.It shows the large monogram of the Amsterdam Chamber of the VOC sandwiched between the date "Anno 1780" on both boards. These bindings were usually commissioned as gifts to persons important to the VOC often containing an almanac for the relevant year but possibly also produced as blank notebooks. The present work comprises chapters 39-49 and 58-75 of Vernet's work which form almost the second half of printed editions. The chapters included in the present work are complete and exactly follow the order of the printed text in the Geneva 1742 edition pp. 75-140 checked using a digital copy with a slightly different spelling and replacing some words. For unclear reasons chapters 50-57 dealing with the fourth through tenth commandment have not been copied and several leaves between the end of chapter 49 and the beginning of chapter 58 have been left blank.Vernets religious text was first published in 1741 under the title Instruction chrétienne ou catechisme familier; avec quelques prières a lusage des petits enfans . In 1742 a revised edition appeared with a slightly different title Instruction crhetienne ! ou catechisme familier. Avec quelques passages de lEcriture Sainte & quelques prières à lusage des petits enfans. Nouvelle edition. Revuë corrigée & augmentée. Both works were printed in Geneva for the Swiss bookseller Emanuel Du Villard Emmanuel Duvillard 1693-1776 and subsequently reprinted several more times until 1769. With the book block showing the remnants of 12 removed leaves probably already removed before the manuscript was finished. Both pastedowns partly detached an old annotation Ao. 44305 in black ink on the lower pastedown some foxing. Otherwise in good condition.l For the binding: Landwehr/Van der Krogt VOC pp. XXVII-XXVIII; Storm van Leeuwen I p. 175 p. 196 VOC A-stamp and pp. 612-616 the bindery; for Vernet's work: Google Books digital copy of the 1742 ed. title: Instruction crhetienne ! ou Catechisme familier; physical copy at the Biblioteca Universitaria di Torino; WorldCat 951908419 1 copy 1767 ed.; WorldCat 1040828976 1 copy 1769 ed. no author noted; for the watermark: Heawood 3149. hardcover
1729041022Leipzig Johann Heinrich Zedler/Register: Leipzig Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf 1729-1733/1740 1729. Hardcover. Very Good. Des Theuren Mannes Gottes D. Martin Luthers Sämtliche Theils von Ihm selbst Deutsch verfertigte theils aus dessen Lateinischen ins Deutsche übersetzte Schriften und Werke Welche aus allen vorhin Ausgegangenen Sammlungen zusammen getragen Und Anietzo in eine bequemere und nach denen Materien eingerichtete Ordnung gebracht nach denen ältesten und besten Exemplarien mit Fleisz übersehen und verbessert mit verschiedenen in denen Altenburgischen und andern Tomis ermangelnden Schrifften vermehret und mit nöthigen Vorberichten versehen. WITH in Volume XXII: M. Johann Jacob Greiffs Pastoris in Mölbis Vollständige Register über die XXII Leipziger Theile der gesammten Schriften Des seligen D. Martin Luthers Nebst einem auf die Wittenbergischen Jenischen 1740. 22 volumes in 22 bound vellum bindings. Marble endpapers. Interior very good pages evenly browned. Leipzig Johann Heinrich Zedler/Register: Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf 1729-1733/1740 hardcover
175232978-1197Zurich Heidegger and Comp. 1752. With engr. frontispiece in part 1 woodcut title-vignette repeated and 32 engravings of which 25 are foldings 1 with a over-slip including views town plans and maps by Joh. Meyer Joh. Melchior Füssli and J. G. Seiller. 4 268 pp. 4 leaves; 16 480 6 pp.; 16 336 pp. 4to. Contemp. half calf gilt lettering on spine. Engraved bookplate Joh. Kaspar Weyss owner's entry Hermann Werdmüller Elgg on inner from cover. Title-pages printed in red and black. Zurich Heidegger and Comp. 1752. The first edition was published in 1716-18. This present second edition of J. J. Scheuchzer's 1672-1733 scientific description of Switzerland is greatly enlarged and much rarer. The plates are mainly views and maps although there are also plates of geological profiles and samples scientific equipment and regional flora and fauna. From 1702 until 1711 Scheuchzer undertook yearly expeditions accompanied by friends and pupils. He was the first to systematically explore the Alps and became a pioneer in the fields of geology palaeontology and glaziology. The work offers historical details and together with Tschudi's chronicle it became one of the main sources for Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell". - A few tears in the folds of some maps and plates repaired. Otherwise a fine and clean copy. - Nissen ZBI 3655; Haller I 1047; Barth 17218. SCIENCE: GEOLOGY / MINERALOGY ; HELVETICA ; Zurich, Heidegger and Comp. unknown
1773822371773. BAEGERT JACOB. Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien. Mannheim: Churfurstl Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey 1773. 2nd issue. 12mo. 16 358pp. 2 engraved folding plates and 1 engraved folding map. Three-quarter tan morocco over contemporary paper-covered boards rebacked and recornered in period-style leather morocco spine label stamped in gilt. One leather tab in margin marking the folding map; stain marking where a tab once was at the folding plates. Very good or better. Howes B-29; Hill p. 12; Cowan p. 27; Sabin 4363; Bell B5; Streeter Sale 2442; Barrett 129; Wagner Spanish Southwest 157; Meadows Baja California 1; Graff 137; Pilling Proof Sheets 203. Second printing with some corrections after the first printing of the previous year of an early account of Lower California by the Jesuit Jacob Baegert. Baegert lived in Baja California from 1751 to 1768 and spent most of his time at the Mission of San Luis Gonzaga leaving after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. He provides important details on the culture of the Native Americans of the region including the Pericues Guiacuras and Cochiemes. Wagner states that the German Jesuits were especially dissatisfied toward the end of the Jesuit regime in California and Baegert's bitterness is evident in his book: ".it was a land full of ferocious beasts and even more ferocious Indians the soil was poor the water undrinkable and there was no fuel to be had." The fine and important map was made by a fellow Jesuit Ferdinand Consak and is described by Streeter as "most helpful in giving the location of the many Jesuit missions in Lower California. It also shows the route along the west coast of Mexico followed by Baegert in going to California in 1751 and his route out in 1768 after the expulsion of the Jesuits." The two plates apparently not issued with all copies depict male and female Californian Native Americans. Rare. The National Union Catalogue locates only three copies of the second issue. unknown
1789247021Paris: Chez Barrois 1789. First edition in French. Avec trente-quatre planches. 34 finely etched plates by Copia EXQUISITELY COLORED by a contemporary hand. 4 324; 4 295 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tan polished calf triple gilt-filet borders smooth spines richly gilt with 2 black leather spine label by Bozerien jeune. First edition in French. Avec trente-quatre planches. 34 finely etched plates by Copia EXQUISITELY COLORED by a contemporary hand. 4 324; 4 295 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. An extremely rare if not unique copy of Engel's classic treatise on acting with the plates colored by hand. This is the very scarce first French edition of Engel's famous Ideen Zu Einer Mimik first printed in German in 1785-86 and one of the most important works on the theory and psycho-physiology of acting. Engel 1741-1802 was a German philosopher who was professor of moral philosophy in the Joachimstal Gymnasium in Berlin and following that tutor to the crown prince of Prussia the future Frederik William III. In 1787 he became director of the Royal Theater in Berlin where he wrote many plays which enjoyed considerable success as well as many essays on aesthetic subjects<br /> <br /> ONE OF A VERY FEW COPIES WITH HAND-COLORED PLATES. Cohen-De Ricci 346-347; Brunet III 982; Magriel p. 179 Chez Barrois unknown
172735955Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel and Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf 1727-1739. Folio. 372x239mm. Two parts in one volume. Contemporary vellum two cuts in spine modern slip case. Provenance: Book plates of Arnaud de Vitry and Andras Gedeon. Stamps to half-title and title-page from Stadtbibliothek Augsburg - sold as duplicate. First part: 14 200 4 pp. and 45 plates numbered I-XLIII plate III with volvelle. Second part: 12 100 94 pp. and 40 plates on 36 sheets numbered I-XL. All plates intact. An exceptionally fine copy. <br/><br/><em>The scarce first edition of the of the eighth and tenth volumes each volume being a complete work in itself of Leupold's magnificent ten-volume "Theatrum Machinarum" - one of the first encyclopedias of technology being the most complete and the most extensively illustrated work on mechanical engineering published hitherto. Complete sets of Leupold's Theatrum are virtually never found and Ferguson stated in his bibliography of technology that he had never seen a complete set. Each volume is complete in itself. The eighth volume is of particular interest in the history of computers as it deals mainly with calculating machines. This volume contains detailed descriptions of the calculating machines of Schott 1668 Grillet 1673 Leibniz 1674 Poleni 1709 and Leupold himself. The tenth volume is a supplement to the series published after Leupold's death by Ernst Scheffler. It deals with odometers gyrometers step counters and other devices for the measurement of distances. This volume is furthermore of importance because it contains the 90 page general index to the entire series. Hook & Norman: Origins of Cyberspace no. 6 volume 8 only.Honeyman Sale lot 1997 volume 7 and 8.Macclesfield Sale lot 1242 volume 8 only.Ferguson: Bibliography of the History of Technology pp.45-46.Wolf: A History of Science Technology & Philosophy in the 18th Century pp.657-8. </em> hardcover
171752850Frankfurt and Leipzig: Samuel Tobias Hocker 1717. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. Bound in full vellum with handwritten lettering on spines. Octavo. Vol. I.: 24 incl. frontispiece 580pp. 8 432 383 1pp. Franckfurter Juden Ehverlöbniß und Hochzeit. Vol. II.: 8 358 1pp. 30 320pp. 447 1 192pp. plus two registers and a supplement 1717 38 48 1 60pp. Frontispiece and ten copper plate engravings some folding. Part two and three published in 1714 part four in three parts published in 1717 with two chapters published in 1716 see below. Speckled edges. Decorative initials head- and endpiece woodcuts.<br /> <br /> Jewish oddities introducing curiosities and memorable events of Jews in "all four parts" of the world in the last few centuries particularly of Jews scattered in Germany. Contains a complete Frankfurt Jewish Chronicle with memorable events relating to Jews living in Frankfurt for centuries including several elucidating engravings. Part two includes the chapter XXV "about Jews in Frankfurt regarding marriage vows and wedding" on six pages. Part four in three chapters of which the last includes the apparel regiment for Frankfurt Jews and a chapter on the celebration on the occasion of the birth of the Crown Prince of Jews in Frankfurt and Prague both 1716 both with separate title pages and frontispieces but continuous pagination.<br /> <br /> Though not addressed to a particular Jewish community most of the information was gathered in Frankfurt with several texts copied by Schudt in Hebrew and Yiddish that are not recorded in elsewhere e.g. a Selicha authored by Rabbi Shmuel Schotten Katz after the great fire in the Jewish Quarter of Frankfurt in 1711 the Purim play "Ahasuerus-Spiel" most copies of the play were burnt following a rabbinical decree; thanks to Schudt the text was preserved two versions of women's incantations for childbirth regulations of the Jewish community forbidden luxuries among others. <br /> <br /> Schudt's writings are considered a landmark in the history of modern anti-Semitism mainly due to a chapter dedicated entirely to describing the Jewish body its shape colors and smells promulgating racist anti-Semitism in Europe. <br /> <br /> Schudt's book features several copperplate engravings. The most prominent of these is an image of the Judensau Jews' Sow which first appeared in medieval sculptures found in churches throughout Germany starting in the 14th century and then was subsequently depicted in woodblock and copperplate engravings. Schudt's version of this notorious anti-Semitic image is an elaborate construction taking motifs from three or more predecessors presenting a panoply of negative anti-Semitic tropes including: the blood libel ritual murder the devil's association with the Jewish people Jews "sucking and eating the wealth" from the allegorical pig and their belief in the absolution of sin through the sacrifice of the Azazel during the holiday of Yom Kippur. He includes descriptive text to elucidate the images.<br /> <br /> The main part of this folk art image shows three Jewish figures one sitting backwards atop the sow holding its tail facing the devil while another Jew kneels behind the pig eating its excrement encouraged by the devil. A third Jew is lying on his back suckling the sow's milk. On the other side of the sow a high priest stands with the Azazel goat.<br /> <br /> Additional engravings depict Jacob blessing Joseph's sons another two festive processions held in Jewish communities in Germany in 1716 for the birth of Leopold Johann son of the Holy Roman Emperor Carl VI and a portrait of Johann Jacob Schudt among others. Some of the engravings are placed into the text.<br /> <br /> With elaborate inscription inked to verso of front free endpaper. Text in German Gothic script. Some wear with light staining of lower edge of back cover of Vol. I more extensive on back cover of Vol. II here with some light staining of spine and rubbing of bindings. Some water staining in lower edges of last 200 pages of volume one not affecting text. Volume one with light erosion at bottom foredge corner of some 200 pages not affecting text. Volume two with some light fraying of lower foredge corner of Vol. II. Johann Jacob Schudt studied theology Wittenberg and then orientalism Hamburg under Ezra Edzardi. Devoted to Jewish history he published several works but is best known for his "Jüdische Merckwürdigkeiten" in three parts first published in 1714 with part IV a supplement volume published in 1717 containg the fourth part in three chapters.<br /> <br /> Schudt's standing in the Jewish community of Frankfurt he taught here at the gymnasium he had been educated at deteriorated with the publication of the "Oddities." Though he had published "Judaeus Christicida" on his own in 1703 suggesting corporal as well as spiritual punishment for the crucifixion the writings in "Jewish Oddities" repeats many of the anti-Semitic tropes found in Johann Andreas Eisenmenger two volumes under the title "Entdecktes Judentum" Judaism Unmasked first published in 1711. Eisenmenger's then was banned after several complaints by the Jewish bankers Oppenheimer and Wertheim only to be republished three years later.<br /> <br /> Schudt's "Jewish Oddities" however is still considered a fundamental source for Jewish history especially in Frankfurt documenting details of Jewish life their language prayers holidays dress and customs not found in other sources. Samuel Tobias Hocker hardcover
178625988Ephrata: The Cloister 1786. First edition 4to pp. 6 250 2; printed in black letter throughout; engraved vignette pasted on title page; prelims and terminals waterstained small tear in the lower margin of title not touching letterpress old ownership signature at the top of the title page of Christian Stauffer 1736-1808 and a 30-line poem also presumably by him on the final blank leaf as well as a few marginal annotations; contemporary full calf front cover detached but present; the whole in a new cloth clamshell box. An abstract of the diary of the Brotherhood which had been kept by Brother Lamech and continued and edited by Brother Jaebez Agrippa i.e. Johan Peter Miller. Brother Lamech has been identified as Jacob Gass by Seidensticker First Century of German Printing in America p. 117. Evans 19558: "This biography of Johann Conrad Beissel the founder of the Ephrata Community is the principal source of information regarding that remarkable institution. Brother Agrippa is Johann Peter Miller; and Brother Lamech's secular name is said to be Jacob Gass. An English translation was printed in Lancaster Pennsylvania in 1890." Howes G76 identifying this as the second issue of three with the title page seal pasted on. [The Cloister] unknown
1780K6QE3E6Q77WKAmsterdam 1780. Large folio 49.5 x 30 cm. Johannes Covens Cornelis Mortier and Johannes Covens junior Contemporary half red roan sheepskin brown sprinkled paper sides. With the title page printed in red and black with J. Covens & C. Mortiers engraved device by Bernard Picart JCCM cypher monogram in a laurel wreath carried by 6 putti dated 1730; 2 preliminary plates containing portraits of Jacob van Campen by Lutma and Arthus Quellinus by Henricus Quellinus; CIX 109 numbered engraved and etched architectural plates 7 folding 30 double-page and 72 single-page a few printed from 2 or 3 copper plates distinguished by arabic numerals showing plans elevations tympana ceilings floors statues festoons and other ornamentation mostly engraved by Hubertus Quellinus after Arthus Quellinus but some after R.V.H. Rombout Verhulst. All plates have French captions some with laudatory verses below and are described in Dutch in the letterpress text pp. 3-15. 15 pp. A comprehensive collection of plates showing all architectural features and sculpture of the Amsterdam City Hall since 1808 the Royal Palace here in the Covens & Mortier firm's rare ca. 1780 issue with the engravings newly printed from the original copper plates from the years 1655 to 1664 and the text reissued from Leonardus Schenk's 1747 Dutch language edition the whole with a new title-page. ''This version has not been seen'' BAL. At least most of the plates were engraved for and first published in Jacob van Campen's masterpiece Afbeelding van 't stadt huys van Amsterdam Amsterdam Frederick de Wit 1664 Hubert Quiellinus's Prima et secunda pars praecipuarum . curiae Amstelrodamenis Amsterdam Frederick de Wit 1655-1663 and Afbeelding van 't stadt huys van Amsterdam in dartigh coopere plaaten . geteeckent door Jacob Vennekool Amsterdam Dancker Danckerts 1661.It includes the famous plate showing the extraordinary cartographic mosaic floor of the Burgerzaal of the Amsterdam City Hall designed by Jacob van Campen with a celestial map in the centre and the magnificent map of the world in 2 hemispheres on either side. The engraving was first published in 1661 and the map shows Tasman's recent discoveries in Australia and Tasmania and depicts California as an island. Many discoveries from his second voyage remained otherwise unpublished until the end of the 17th century. The drawing of the floor was made by Jacob Vennekool who worked closely with Van Campen and since his drawings were first published even before the building was completed they may reflect Van Campen's plan more closely than the finished building itself. They also of course show it before the alterations made at various times in later years.Binding a little worn untrimmed otherwise in good condition. The Amsterdam city hall in full glory with all its architectural features and sculpture.l BAL 132 note description of 1719 French language ed. but citing Berlin Kat. & Kuyper for unseen "1730" Dutch ed.; Berlin Kat. 2236; Kuyper Dutch Classicist architecture Delft 1980 pp. 212- 215 and note 25 p. 318; STCN 3 copies; cf. for dating the impressum: Van Egmond Covens & Mortier 2005 pp. 66 83-88. ABE CAT Architecture ABE CAT Art History unknown
17261595Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel 1726. First Edition. Near fine. 4 parts in one volume; Folio13 1/3 x 8 7/8 inches 337 x 228 mm; half title title printed in back and red 57 copperplate engravings thus divided:<br /> Theatrum Staticum Universalis 1726 half title blank title blank dedication to Charles VI 3 Foreword 3 Contents 2 92 pp 19 plates; <br /> Theatrum Hydrostaticum pp. title blank 2 197 - 236 7 plates <br /> Theatrum Aërostaticum: title blank contents 2 241 - 308 23 plates<br /> Theatrum Horizontostaticum: title blank Contents 1 blank pp. 313 - 332 Index 3 Errata 8 plates. <br /> Contemporary half-binding in brown leather with speckled boards spine with gilt decorations in compartments and gilt title; contemporary leather binding with gilt decorations in compartments on spine and gilt title; edges red; corners bumped and some scratches on boards; binding tight and square with a surface split at title page. Pages clean and supple with very light and even toning. Stamps of the Royal Engineering Artillery Library of Hanover on half title and title pages.<br /> <br /> Poggendorf I 1438; Ferguson p. 45-46. The Theatrum Staticum Universalis is the 6th volume of the 10-volume magnum opus of Jacob Leupold 1674 - 1727. It is extensively illustrated with copper plate engravings that fold out so that they can be viewed while consulting the text. What is particularly striking is the strong systematization that is lacking in most works of this period. The technical devices are always described in such a way that the isolated basic elements are first explained and then placed in their functional context. The illustrations show among other things draw wells water wheels pumping stations excavators pumps valves and fountains.<br /> <br /> Leupold was a German physicist mathematician instrument maker engineer and was director of mines to the Elector of Saxony. His seminal work Theatrum Machinarum Generale "The General Theory of Machines" was published in Leipzig between 1724 and 1739 with the last volumes issued after his death. The Theatrum was the first systematic analysis of mechanical engineering the most complete and the most extensively illustrated work on mechanical engineering hitherto published. It included ahead of its time a design for a high-pressure non-condensing steam engine the likes of which were not built until the early 19th century. Christoph Zunkel unknown
17241596Leipzig: Ch. Zunkel 1724 1724. First Edition. Very Good . Folio; 14 1/16 x 9 1/4 inches 360 x 234 mm; 11 240 pp. 2 II; title printed in back and red with 71 copperplate engraving by Krügner Böcklin Uhlich and others after Leupold. Most of the plates are folding and attached to a blank so that they may be consulted while reading the accompanying text. The plate at page 71 has a revolving volvelle. Contemporary speckled calf rebacked but retaining its original spine with gilt floral decorations in compartments and gilt title on tan calf label. Pages supple and evenly toned with scattered foxing some dampstain and occasional ink marks; first leaf with wormholes in the lower margin without loss of text or image plate LXVII with expertly supplemented corner tear; corners bumped and some scratches on boards; stamped on front endpaper illegible. All conditions consistent with the nature and age of the volume.<br /> Poggendorf I 1438; Ferguson p. 45-46. The Theatrum Machinarum Generale is the first volume of the 10-volume magnum opus of Jacob Leupold 1674 - 1727. It is extensively illustrated with copper plate engravings that fold out so that they can be viewed while consulting the text. What is particularly striking is the strong systematization that is lacking in most works of this period. The technical devices are always described in such a way that the isolated basic elements are first explained and then placed in their functional context. The illustrations show among other things draw wells water wheels pumping stations excavators pumps valves and fountains. Leupold was a German physicist mathematician instrument maker engineer and was director of mines to the Elector of Saxony. His seminal work Theatrum Machinarum Generale "The General Theory of Machines" was published in Leipzig between 1724 and 1739 with the last volumes issued after his death. The Theatrum was the first systematic analysis of mechanical engineering the most complete and the most extensively illustrated work on mechanical engineering hitherto published. It included ahead of its time a design for a high-pressure non-condensing steam engine the likes of which were not built until the early 19th century. Ch. Zunkel, 1724 unknown
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
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
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
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
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
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.
