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16851311685 Couverture rigide A Paris, chez Guillaume Desprez, 1685. In-8, reliure pleine basane, dos à cinq nerfs orné. Reliure frottée, coins émoussés, coiffes usagées. 8 pages non chiffrées, 527 pages, 1 page non chiffrée d'errata. Mouillures légères sur quelques feuillets sans affecter le texte. Le Deutéronome contient les trois derniers discours de Moïse, prononcés dans les plaines de Moab juste avant son enlèvement. Le premier discours (chapitres 1 à 4) sert d'introduction. Le deuxième discours (chapitres 5 à 26) se compose de deux parties : (1) chapitres 5 à 11 : les dix commandements et leur explication pratique ; (2) chapitres 12 à 26 : code de lois constituant le noyau du livre. Le troisième discours (chapitres 27 à 30) contient le renouvellement solennel de l'alliance entre Israël et Dieu, l'annonce des bénédictions qui suivent l'obéissance et celle des malédictions qui suivent la désobéissance. Les chapitres 31 à 34 décrivent la transmission de la loi aux Lévites, le cantique de Moïse, sa dernière bénédiction et son départ. Vulgate et traduction d'Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, avec commentaire de Pierre Thomas Du Fossé. Imprimé par Lambert Roulland d'après le matériel typographique. Marque à la Foi au titre. Bon état général pour cette édition rare.
168115254London: 1681. 27 x 40.5cm. Single leaf. Engraved title page to volume two trimmed just outside borders. Minor tape remnants on left border. Mounted on larger plain leaf. Suitable for framing. Fine engraved title page to volume 2 with German Emperor and his courtiers surmounted by German double-headed eagle and coat of arms. unknown
1629248951629 Une Eau-Forte Originale, technique pointe sèche imprimée en noir, Format de la gravure : 11,8 cm de haut par 23 cm de large, signature deJacques Callot en bas à gauche dans la gravure : Jacob Callot Fecit, encadrée avec une marie-louise à biseaux dans un encadrement d'une baguette de bois ancienne en pichepin foncé avec rayures noires, format : 43 x 31 cm, sans date (1629),
16815585London 1681. Copper engraved title-page 40.5 x 26.5 cms black and white as issued blank verso. Four volumes only of Pitts projected eleven volume world atlas were published 1680-83 all dealing with northern Europe. Pitt worked in partnership with Janssonius heir Joannes van Waesbergen and this title-page for the German volume is a reworking of one engraved for Janssonius forty years earlier. The Holy Roman Emperor is now Leopold I the faces of the other Electors have also been updated and a there is a considerable amount of additional background detail. Shirley Courtiers and Cannibals 48A. Map unknown
167539208Rome c. 1675. A large manuscript Torah scroll fragment on very fine vellum beginning with Leviticus 23:39 and ending with Leviticus 25:32. The text begins by explaining the Feast of the Tabernacles and ends with a discussion of the Jubilee Year. It includes Leviticus 24:20 one of the most dramatic and best-known verses in the Bible which the King James Version gives as: "Breach for breach eye for eye tooth for tooth: as he hath caused blemish in a man so shall it be done to him again." Beautifully written in Hebrew calligraphy with numerous crowns ketarim by a sofer professional scribe . From Rome. Measures 51 x 44 cm. From about 1670. In excellent condition. A RARE AND IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT. <br/><br/> hardcover
1695045340Amsterdam: Chaim ben Rabbi Judah Lieb 1695. Hardcover. Good Condition. Early marbled paper covered wooden boards backed in vellum. Spine perished and vellum largely lacking paper chipped and torn from boards corners cracked with some loss of wood. Binding structure still more or less intact browning to page edges old stamp to title and final leaf. 1 33ff. Scarce Cabalistic commentary on Ecclesiastes. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 045340. Chaim ben Rabbi Judah Lieb hardcover
168015210Oxford:: for J Jansonius a Waesberge Moses Pitt and Steven Swart 1680. From the first edition. 46 x 29.5cm. Stunning large allegorical title page by J. van Munnikhuysen after Zacharias Webbers. Trimmed at borders. Few minor edge tears repaired top one just barely touching cherub no true affect to the illustration overall it is a beautiful piece from a very rare and important. Most suitable for framing. Mounted on larger plain leaf. Based on the concept of Atlas Major by Joan Blaeu PittÕs atlas was to be made of twelve volumes but only four were completed when Pitt was imprisoned for debt. The title page illustrates mythical figures Neptune at the left of a large globe and Cybele Mother Godess of Earth at the right with lion at her feet in the background Atlas is shown holding a celestial globe on his shoulders a seated muse is in front representing history. Wing P2306. NMM 410. [for J, Jansonius a Waesberge, Moses Pitt and Steven Swart,] unknown
169018526A Paris, chez Audran, s.d. [circa 1690]. Dimensions (à vue) : 653 x 562 mm.
168027407Oxford: Moses Pitt 1680-83. Other. In ausgezeichnetem Zustand. 415 by 530mm 16 by 20 inches. Hand-Colored Original Copperplate Engraving by Janssonio Waesbergios & Moses. Pitt depicting Ducatus Sleswicensis Nova Descriptio. Published Oxford Moses Pitt 1680. Sheet: 415 by 530mm 16 by 20 inches. A fine and original hand-colored example of Waesbergios's celebrated cartographic work documenting this region of Germany with the precision and decorative artistry characteristic of the 16800s. Janssonio Waesbergios & Moses. Pitt was a cartographer active in the 1600s working in the tradition of European copper-engraved cartography. Their maps are valued by collectors for their historical accuracy and decorative quality.This original copperplate engraving with original hand coloring depicts the region of Ducatus Sleswicensis Nova Descriptio. published in Oxford Moses Pitt 1680-83. The map records the political and geographic boundaries of the region as understood in 1680-83 offering a fascinating window into the history of German territorial organization. Sheet measures 415 by 530mm 16 by 20 inches. In good condition overall with minor signs of age appropriate for a 17th-century engraving. Ready to frame. Koeman I 1600:1.2 Moses Pitt unknown
168648545Utrecht: Francisci Halma Francis Halma 1686. First edition. Softcover. vg-. Octavo. 3. 56pp. Title page illustrated with decorative and deatiled woodlock printer's device. The work is a detailed list of the 613 Jewish laws codified in the Hebrew bible as presented according to Maimonides in his work Sefer Mitzvot The Book of Commandments. Here the laws are presented side by side in Hebrew and Latin in a two-column format and translated by Calvinist orrientalist and scholar Johannes Leusden 1624-1699. The laws are divide into two groups the first consisting of the 248 obligatory commandments and the second group containing the final 365 prohibitive commandments. The front includes two pages of introductory text from translator Johannes Leusden with decorative woodblock initials. Although the work is complete in itself the work was originally bound with a collection of dissertations on the Hebrew bible by Leusden titled "Philologus Hebraeus" issued in Utrecht by printer Francis Halma the same year.<br /> <br /> Text throughout in Latin and Hebrew.<br /> <br /> Disbound book block with some sporadic minor to light water stains to the title page and the rest of the text mostly in the margins. In very good- condition overall. Francisci Halma (Francis Halma) unknown
1695045340Amsterdam: Chaim ben Rabbi Judah Lieb 1695. Hardcover. Good Condition. Early marbled paper covered wooden boards backed in vellum. Spine perished and vellum largely lacking paper chipped and torn from boards corners cracked with some loss of wood. Binding structure still more or less intact browning to page edges old stamp to title and final leaf. 1 33ff. Scarce Cabalistic commentary in Ecclesiastes. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 045340. <br/><br/> Chaim ben Rabbi Judah Lieb hardcover books
169933169Frankfurt an der Oder: Mikhal Gotshalk 1699. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 48 leaves. Modern black cloth library binding. Title page contains an image of Jacob being reunited with Joseph in Egypt. This image is also used by the contemporary Amsterdam printer Joseph Athias in his Bible. This is a cabalistic commentary on the Five Books of Moses. sic. The Pentateuch. The author Samuel b. Moses was the head of the rabbinical court in Savislovitz in Lithuania. He had previously written a commentary on Psalms called "Yad Shemu'el." A second edition of “Shem Shemu'el†was printed in Podgorza in 1896. This is a cabalistic commentary on the Five Books of Moses. Text in Hebrew. Minor water staining on top edge. Pages slightly browned. Overall in good condition. Bet Eked pg. 1016. Winograd p.570 # 133. Mikhal Gotshalk hardcover
1678M7052London: Moses Pitt 1678. Very Good;. Size : 437x520 mm 17.20x20.47 Inches Coloring: Black & White Category: Maps Europe United Kingdom Scotland; Moses Pitt unknown
1688M6135Amsterdam 1688. Some discolouration of the green otherwise in very good condition. Notes: The map depicts the greater area of Tielt Ghent Hulst and Grimberge. Size : 410x520 mm 16.125x20.5 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: ; Maps Europe Benelux unknown
168338984Londini: Milonis Flesher pr. for the author sold by Pitt & Aylmer 1683. 4to 23 cm 9.1". 16 450 2 blank pp. Pp. 223/24 Ff3 lacking. <br><br>First edition: erudite translations of eight treatises. Born Jewish the French scholar Louis de Compiègne de Veil studied theology at the Sorbonne after converting to Christianity and set out to translate the whole of Maimonides' Yad ha-Chazakah from Hebrew into Latin. The present work encompasses the Sefer ha-Korbanot the section on sacrifices along with the portion on consecration of new moons and intercalations and Isaac Abravanel's preface to his commentary on Leviticus; the latter gives the => Hebrew and Latin texts on facing pages. Each section has a divisional title-page with continuous pagination. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC R25499; Wing rev. ed. M2854. Contemporary mottled calf framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons; refurbished and nicely rebacked with speckled calf spine with blind-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label original leather pitted and worn. All page edges speckled red. Front fly-leaf title-page and one other institutionally rubber-stamped; Ff3 either a sectional title or a blank leaf lacking. Pages gently age-toned and cockled with a few corners bumped; small ink smudge in upper outer portions of two facing pages. "Exordium" with intermittent pencilled underlining and two marginal annotations pencilled in English. => Interesting 17th-century Judaica in a strong and decent copy. Milonis Flesher (pr. for the author, sold by Pitt & Aylmer) hardcover books
167852858Paris: G. Caillou 1678. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. 16 384pp; 3 unnumbered double-suite engraved plates with legends in the margins. Engraved printer's device at title. Woodcut head- and tailpieces lettrines. Text in Latin with some key terms in Hebrew; printed marginalia. Contemporary calf rubbed and lightly worn at extremities; spine with raised bands gilt-tooled compartments old manuscript title on paper in upper compartment. Text lightly toned throughout else clean and crisp. A good or better copy.<br /> <br /> Collation: atilde6 etilde2 e2 signed e3 A-3B4 = 200 leaves<br /> <br /> First edition of this Latin version of Sefer Avodah The Book of Divine Service being the eighth book of the Mishneh Torah Moses Maimonides' systemic treatment of Talmudic and post-Talmudic Jewish law halakhah. The nine chapters of Sefer Avodah comprise a legal digest of Israelite cult practices at the Jerusalem Temple: The Chosen Temple; Vessels of the Sanctuary and Those Who Serve Therein; Admission into the Sanctuary; Things Forbidden on the Altar; Sacrificial Procedure; Daily Offerings and Additional Offerings; Sacrifices Rendered Unfit; Service on the Day of Atonement; Trespass. "Whereas Christian interest in Maimonides' thought was focused on his philosophic work the Guide of the Perplexed during the Middle Ages -- the so-called Age of Faith -- this interest shifted during the Renaissance the Reformation and the Enlightenment to his Halakic work the Mishneh Torah. It was through the Mishneh Torah that Christian thinkers and theologians viewed normative Judaism" Dienstag.<br /> <br /> Born Daniel de Weil in the Jewish quarter of Metz Louis-Compiègne de Veil d. c.1710 was the son of the town's rabbi David Weil d. 1645 and a descendant of the Nürnberg rabbi Jacob Weil. Both he and his brother Charles Marie de Veil converted to Catholicism under the influence of the new Catholic archdeacon Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet who arrived at Metz in 1652. The archdeacon "shared in the current apocalyptic excitement of both Christians and Jewish cabbalists and the conviction of the former of an imminent large-scale conversion of the Jews" ODNB. He was sponsored at his baptism by Louis XIV as reflected in his new Christian name and went on to study theology at the Sorbonne. Both Louis and his brother subsequently converted to Calvinism and immigrated to England. "Designated sub-keeper of the Royal Library in 1678 de Veil was licensed ‘ad docendum litteras in et per totam urbem Londinensem' in 1685" Massil. As noted by Dienstag de Veil "devoted himself to the interpretation of Maimonides' code Mishneh Torah."<br /> <br /> The present work was dedicated to the son of Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert the churchman Jacques Nicolas Colbert 1655-1707 who later become Archbishop of Rouen in 1691 and was one of the first members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. <br /> <br /> Provenance and annotations: With the 19th-century bookplate of "Mr. F. Theremin Ministre du S. Evangile" at the front paste-down and his stamp at the bottom margin of the title-page. The opening blank end-leaf contains detailed bibliographical lists in French. The first notes thirteen authors and their works which discuss de Veil including Richard Simon Pierre Daniel Huet and Job Ludolf; the second notes seven bibliographies which include the present work followed by a list of later printings. References: J. I. Dienstag "Christian Translators of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah into Latin" in: Salo Wittmayer Baron Jubilee Volume NY: Columbia Univ. 1974 pp.288; 303 no. 4; S.W. Massil “Immigrant Librarians to Britain: Huguenots and Some Others†69th IFLA General Conference and Council and Council 1-9 August 2003 Berlin; S. Wright "Charles Marie de Veil" in: ODNB.<br /> <br /> Full title and imprint: De cultu divino ex R. Mosis Majemonidae Secunda lege seu Manu forti liber VIII. Dividitur in IX. tractatus quorum seriem pagina è regione Elenchi posita declarabit. Accesserunt tabulae aere incisae in quibus exprimitur Hierosolymitanti templi forma accuratissimè & eleganter descripta. Hunc librum ex hebraeo latinum fecit & notis illustravit Ludovicus de Compiegne de Veïl D.A. Parisiis apud Guidonem Caillou Bibliopolam viâ Jocabaeâ sub Constantia. M.DC.LXXVIII. G. Caillou hardcover
164248836Amsterdam: Joan and Cornelis Blaeu 1642. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sammelband of two works jointly issued the latter in two parts quarto. 12 174 1 errata 1 blank; 12 732 pp. 353-360 repeated xvii addenda 19 index x addenda 28 index 1 emendanda 1 blankpp. All four addenda and indices to the De theologia gentili bound following the second part. Each work with woodcut printer’s device at title; occasional woodcut lettrines; printed marginalia. De idololatria with Hebrew text and Latin translation in parallel columns interspersed with Latin notes. Contemporary vellum lightly soiled manuscript title at spine intermittant light dampstain largely confined to first work else crisp clean and amply margined.<br /> <br /> Collation: I. asterisk4 2asterisk2 A-Y4 = 94 leaves; II. asterisk4 2asterisk2 A-2P4 2Q-4Y4 4Z2 asterisk-4asterisk4 5asterisk2 cross-5cross4 = 414 leaves 2Y-2Y4 repeated. <br /> <br /> Re-issue of the first edition 1641 of the first two books of four of G. J. Vossius' De theologia gentili with new preliminaries including an Elegy written by Caspar Barlaeus on the occasion of the death of Gerhard's son Dionysius dated IV Kal. Novembris MDCXXXIII 1633 and a preface by another of Vossius' sons Isaac; along with an edition of the Hebrew text of Maimonides' treatment of the laws of idolotry in the first book of the Mishneh Torah with accompanying Latin translation by Dionysius Vossius.<br /> <br /> "The work has a two-fold aim. In the first place it is a Theologia gentilis. Of this the subtitle says that the work treats. the origin and history of heathen mythologies and cult forms. But at the same time the book is a Physiologia christiana a study 'de naturae mirandis quibus homo adducitur ad Deum' an account as complete as possible of the rich diversity of all creation that in the inention of the creator must serve to reveal to man the greatness of God. It is simultaneously an ambitiously arranged textbook of mythology a summary of what was written about nature in all its manifestations up until Vossius' time and finally also a first specimen of what would be done profusely in the eighteenth century a book on the natural knowledge of God" Rademaker. <br /> <br /> Provenance: The manuscript entry “Jan de Wind. 17 april An. 1697.â€. References: J. I. Dienstag “Christian Translators of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah into Latin†in: Salo Wittmayer Baron Jubilee Volume 31 De idololatria. Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld 202 De idololatria ed. 1641 noting that there exist copies without the Hebrew text. The 1641 ed. contains no preliminaries after the title. Katchen Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis esp. pp.24-25. Rademaker Life and Work of G.J. Vossius Assen 1981 no. 24: “In his last large work the Theologia gentilis. he dared to make full use of Scaliger’s chronological innovations†185. For more detailed commentary see: pp. 306-310. For Dionysius see 163f. Joan and Cornelis Blaeu hardcover
1642254936Amsterdam: Jioh & Corneium Blaeu 1642. Second edition of each title. Publisher's device on title pages; woodcut tailpieces ornamental initials. Maimonides text in Hebrew with facing Latin translation by Vossius. 12 1-174. 2; 12 304; xvii 19 305-732 x 30. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary vellum with ms. spine title covers slightly soiled upper joint cracked. Institutional shelfmark in ink on title-page ; bookplae of HENRY FERGUSON of Stamford Connecticut "Henry Ferguson from the Library of Rev. FREDERIC GARDINER" and signed by Gardiner on the front pastedown "Leipzig 1854. Second edition of each title. Publisher's device on title pages; woodcut tailpieces ornamental initials. Maimonides text in Hebrew with facing Latin translation by Vossius. 12 1-174. 2; 12 304; xvii 19 305-732 x 30. 1 vols. 4to. Scarce second edition of Maimonides' tract on idolatry with an important new foreword "to the Reader" by Isaac Vossius brother of the recently deceased translator Dionysius Vossius 1612-1642 as well as a new dedicatory poem by Caspar Barlaeus. Maimonides' text is usually accompanied as it is here by the massive commentary by Gerardus Vossius father of Isaac and Dionysius DE THEOLOGIA GENTILI . a book said to have been an iinfluence on Isaac Newton; his library contained an "extensively dog-eared" copy of the book John Harrison THE LIBRARY OF ISAAC NEWTON Cambridge University Press p. 258.<br /> <br /> This particular copy has a very distinguished provenance. Dr. Frederic Gardiner was an Episcopal clergyman Biblican scholar founder of the American Exegetical Society and author of several books including a Harmony of the Gospels. Henry Ferguson of Stamford Ct. "studied theology in the Berkeley Divinity School. In 1872 he was made rector of Christ Church in Exeter N. H. and in 1878 rector of Trinity Church Claremont in the same state. In 1883 he became professor of history and political economy in Trinity College a position he filled with distinguished credit until commencement in 1906 when he resigned to become rector of St. Paul's School Concord N. H. In 1873 he married Emma J. Gardiner daughter of Professor Gardiner of the Berkeley Divinity School . His original specialty was Hebrew." Norris Galpin Osborn ed. MEN OF MARK IN CONNECTICUT Vol I p. 132. OCLC: 37317703 one copy in US; Vossius: Brunet V col. 1373 for editions of 1641 and 1668 Jioh, & Corneium Blaeu unknown
168314061London: Typis Milonis Flesher sumptibus auctoris prostat apud Mosem Pitt & apud Brabazonum Aylmer 1683. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 10 450pp. 3/4 Vellum over marbled boards with brown lettering and library plate to spine. Age wearing throughout binding.Some tears discoloration scuffing and rubbing to boards and spine. Some browning and foxing to pages not affecting the script. Welling to pages. Ex library. Library card pocket pasted to inside of front board. Perforation to title page: Philadelphia Divinity school. Inscribed by owner with pencil: "to Paullus Reinhardus." This first Latin translation contains texts from Moshe ben Maimon aka Rambam aka Maimonides 1135-1204 and Yitzchak ben Yehuda aka Abravanel Isaac Abrabanel1437-1508. In Latin with some writing in Hebrew. Cover in fair book in good condition. freely translated: Rabbi Moses Maimonides' volountary sacrifice: An approach to Abarbanel's introduction and commentary on Leviticus and Maimonides' Tractate on the consecrated calendar and the rational calendar change R. Moses Maimonides Rambam was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure both during his lifetime and after his death but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah his only work not in Arabic still carries canonical authority particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj Kitab al-Fara'I a book on precepts and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages. Typis Milonis Flesher, sumptibus auctoris, prostat apud Mosem Pitt, & apud Brabazonum Aylmer hardcover
1642254936Amsterdam: Jioh & Corneium Blaeu 1642. Second edition of each title. Publisher's device on title pages; woodcut tailpieces ornamental initials. Maimonides text in Hebrew with facing Latin translation by Vossius. 12 1-174. 2; 12 304; xvii 19 305-732 x 30. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary vellum with ms. spine title covers slightly soiled upper joint cracked. Institutional shelfmark in ink on title-page ; bookplae of HENRY FERGUSON of Stamford Connecticut "Henry Ferguson from the Library of Rev. FREDERIC GARDINER" and signed by Gardiner on the front pastedown "Leipzig 1854. Second edition of each title. Publisher's device on title pages; woodcut tailpieces ornamental initials. Maimonides text in Hebrew with facing Latin translation by Vossius. 12 1-174. 2; 12 304; xvii 19 305-732 x 30. 1 vols. 4to. Scarce second edition of Maimonides' tract on idolatry with an important new foreword "to the Reader" by Isaac Vossius brother of the recently deceased translator Dionysius Vossius 1612-1642 as well as a new dedicatory poem by Caspar Barlaeus. Maimonides' text is usually accompanied as it is here by the massive commentary by Gerardus Vossius father of Isaac and Dionysius DE THEOLOGIA GENTILI . a book said to have been an iinfluence on Isaac Newton; his library contained an "extensively dog-eared" copy of the book John Harrison THE LIBRARY OF ISAAC NEWTON Cambridge University Press p. 258.<br/><br/>This particular copy has a very distinguished provenance. Dr. Frederic Gardiner was an Episcopal clergyman Biblican scholar founder of the American Exegetical Society and author of several books including a Harmony of the Gospels. Henry Ferguson of Stamford Ct. "studied theology in the Berkeley Divinity School. In 1872 he was made rector of Christ Church in Exeter N. H. and in 1878 rector of Trinity Church Claremont in the same state. In 1883 he became professor of history and political economy in Trinity College a position he filled with distinguished credit until commencement in 1906 when he resigned to become rector of St. Paul's School Concord N. H. In 1873 he married Emma J. Gardiner daughter of Professor Gardiner of the Berkeley Divinity School . His original specialty was Hebrew." Norris Galpin Osborn ed. MEN OF MARK IN CONNECTICUT Vol I p. 132. OCLC: 37317703 one copy in US; Vossius: Brunet V col. 1373 for editions of 1641 and 1668 Jioh, & Corneium Blaeu unknown books
169548869Amsterdam: Hendrick Boom and the Widow of Dirk Boom 1695. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two parts quarto. 8 154 2 errata; 171 2 variantes lectiones 1 corrigenda 2 blankpp. Title in red and black with woodcut vignette; half-title for the second part; woodcut lettrines. A dedication to the Burgemeisters of Amsterdam appears following the title. In the second part the Hebrew text is printed on the left side of the rectos and the right side of the versos so as to appear in the center with the Latin translation against the margins when the book is fully opened. Contemporary vellum letterpress title in black at spine. Hebrew square unvocalized and Latin text in facing columns; full-page Latin commentary in first part. Covers lightly soiled. Clean corner tear at q2 just extending into catchword. A very good copy with clean crisp text. <br /> <br /> Collation: dagger4 A-T4 V2; a-y4 = 170 leaves; blank y4.<br /> <br /> Hebrew texts of the Babylonian Talmud mishnah treatise Rosh Hashanah The New Year; accompanied by Maimonides’ treatise Hilkhot Sanhedrin The Rules of the Sanhedrin from his Mishneh Torah with Latin translation and notes by Hendrik Houting fl. 1695 who often includes copious quotations from the gemara; Maimonides; Obadiah Bertinoro; the Tzemah David of David Ganz and other Jewish sources. Little is known of the editor's life apart from his association with the better-known Dutch Hebraist Willem Surenhuys 1666-1729 now chiefly remembered for his monumental Latin translation of the Mishnah 1698-1703. It is worth noting in this context that Surenhuys "was able to make use of earlier published versions for twenty-five of the sixty-one tractates" van Rooden "Hendrik Boom 1644-1709 was an important Amsterdam bookseller and publisher. He worked together with the widow of his brother Dirk since 1680. It is uncertain whether he had a printing-house of his own" Fuks.<br /> <br /> References: Dienstag “Christian Translators of the Mishneh Torah†16. Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld 609. Heller 17th Century pp.1286-1287. P. T. van Rooden Theology Biblical Scholarhsip and Rabbinical Studies in the Sevententh Century Leiden: Brill 1989 p. 110. Steinschneider 5252.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Presentation bookplate of Edward Hayes Plumptre Dean of Wells Theological College 1881-1891. מסכת ר×ש ×”×©× ×”<br /> ×ž×©× ×” תורה<br /> הלכות ×¡× ×”×“×¨×™×Ÿ. Hendrick Boom and the Widow of Dirk Boom hardcover
167942560London: Peter Parker 1679. 4to. 7 1/2 x 6 inches. Reissue of the 1676 first edition with cancel title. xvi 204 4 pp. Illustrated with 4 engraved plates. Bound with: Gabriel PLATTES c.1600-1644. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure: viz. Of all manner of Mines and Minerals at end. London: Peter Parker 1679. iv 24 pp. Period quarter calf and marbled paper boards<br/> <br/> An important early English treatise on forestry and designed woodland here in the 1679 issue with the rare addition of Plattes's tract on mines and minerals.<br/> <br/> Cook was gardener to the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury Park near Watford and laid out many woodland walks and avenues including reputedly an avenue of 296 lime trees. Cook wrote from practical experience as gardener to Arthur Capell first Earl of Essex at Cassiobury Park near Watford one of the notable Restoration landscapes outside London. His treatise treats trees both as productive estate assets and as elements of design giving directions for raising transplanting pruning grafting and ordering forest and fruit trees as well as for planting. The engraved plates and accompanying rules for measuring land and timber show the book's practical range joining arboriculture surveying estate management and landscape design. The work reflects a moment when English country-house landscapes were increasingly shaped through ordered planting axial walks avenues and managed woodland. Cook's association with Cassiobury gives the book particular interest: he is traditionally credited with laying out woodland walks and avenues there including a celebrated avenue of lime trees. His manual preserves the working knowledge behind such improvements before the broader eighteenth-century shift toward more naturalistic landscape gardening. The appended Plattes tract broadens the volume from woodland and estate improvement to the useful exploitation of natural resources. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure gives practical directions for locating mines and minerals and for melting refining and assaying ores from gold to coal. Plattes an experimental writer on agriculture and practical science wrote for readers interested in applicable knowledge rather than scholastic theory. Bound with Cook's forestry manual the two works form a compact volume on improvement above and below ground: the ordering of trees woods and avenues followed by the discovery and testing of mineral wealth.<br/> <br/> Fussell pp.39-40; Henrey 39; Kress 1483; Wing C6033; Hoover 232. Peter Parker unknown
1661116711Leiden: Jean Elsevier 1661. Iron Arm First edition of the first significant - and conspicuously scarce - biography of the "Huguenot paladin" François de La Noue 1531-1591 one of the great Protestant captains of the 16th-century Wars of Religion; an attractive copy with an appealing naval provenance. The distinguished American historian John Lothrop Motley described La Noue as "not only one of the most experienced soldiers but one of the most accomplished writers of his age" Motley p. 480. At the siege of Fontenay in 1570 his left arm was shattered by a bullet and a mechanic fitted an iron limb that earned him the sobriquet of "Bras-de-fer" - "Iron Arm". He was a correspondent of Sir Philip Sidney and acknowledged by Montaigne in the Essais "for his goodness gentleness of manner and scrupulous courtesy. He is an important figure with regard to his political and religious affiliations as well as with regard to his Discours politiques et militaires 1587" Heitsch p. 134. The author Moïse Amyraut 1596-1664 was one of the leading French Protestant theologians of his day who numbered William Penn among his many students. The book is decidedly uncommon commercially and thinly represented institutionally: Library Hub cites 10 copies in British and Irish institutional libraries we have also located a copy at the Royal Collection; WorldCat locates no copies outside of European libraries. Provenance: armorial Elden Hall bookplate of Augustus Viscount Keppel 1725-1786 naval officer and politician: "a sailor from the age of 10 Keppel served actively throughout the Seven Years War 1756-63. In 1762 he served under Admiral Sir George Pocock in the British expedition that took Havana and he received £25000 in prize money as a result. He became a rear admiral in 1762 and vice admiral in 1770" Encyclopaedia Britannica online. ODNB describes him as an "outstanding" naval officer "especially in combined operations". Also with the 20th-century bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst Lancashire retail chemist and bibliophile whose main library of naval history was complemented by a subsidiary collection of 18th-century literature in well-preserved contemporary bindings. Small quarto 190 x 144 mm. With 2 folding genealogical tables; Elsevir's device on title page. Early 18th-century English speckled calf decorative gilt spine with red morocco label red speckled edges. Head of spine chipped front joint split but sound corners a little worn one or two slight scrapes or abrasions. A very good copy. STC French A426. Dorothea B. Heitsch Practising Reform in Montaigne's Essais 2000; John Lothrop Motley The Rise of the Dutch Republic vol. III 1855. unknown
167952434<p>London printed for the author and are to be sold at his house next the sign of the Kings Arms in the Bowling-Alley near the Abby in Westminster: and by Henry Million bookseller at the Bible in the Old-Bayley 1679. TITLE CONTINUED: Also proper directions to all such as keep bees as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives as their killing in the colonies. By Moses Rusden an apothecary; bee-master to the Kings most excellent Majesty. Published by His Majesties especial command and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll. FIRST EDITION 1679. Small 8vo approximately 170 x 95 mm 6½ x 4 inches engraved frontispiece by Henry Million 3 folding plates pages: 24 1-144 last page blank rebound in full modern calf gilt lettered green label author's gilt name and gilt rules to spine between raised bands new brown endpapers. Neat vertical repair to inner margin on blank side of frontispiece with pale browning to foot title page and frontispiece lightly dusty old ink name to top of title page 2 outer margins neatly replaced 1 outer margin slightly trimmed varying pale brown staining some with tide mark to lower part of pages 81-100 all text legible see attached images 1 corner neatly repaired pale age-browning to margins a few margins lightly soiled not affecting text old ink stain to first pastedown and small ink splash to last free endpaper 2 leaves lightly dusty. A good copy with some minor repairs and staining. Moses Rusden was appointed Beemaster to the King at the instigation of John Evelyn who had a copy of this title in his library. Rusden firmly believed that a hive was led by a King and not a Queen. In 1679 Rusden improved Geddie's hive and put a frame in it for the bees to fasten their combs upon. See: British Bee Books A Bibliography 1500-1976 page 61 No. 55; Walker Catalogue of Bee Books page 61; Geoffrey Keynes John Evelyn A Study in Bibliophily page 300 No. 83; ESTC R11920. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, printed for the author, and are to be sold at his house next the sign of the Kings Arms in the Bowling-Alley, near the hardcover
16801393299Oxford 1680. Engraved and vibrantly hand-colored map measures 23 in. x 18 in. Frame measures ~2625 in. x 24.75 in. Map in Good condition overall with mild age toning thin bands of discoloration down the midline and at the map's upper right corner. Mild soiling visible in margins. Small closed tear repaired along midline see final photograph. Remnants of adhesive along top edge. Map not examined out of frame. EL Consignment. Shelved at Rockville PS 1101 #25. Moses Pitt initially set out to produce an expanded edition of Jansson's Atlas Maior with his partner Jacob Van Waesberg. Unfortunately after production of several volumes the project failed and Pitt landed in debtor's prison. While most of the maps produced for the atlas are re-issues of earlier Dutch maps Pitt's map of the North Pole dedicated to the Right Honorable Charles FitzCharles Earle of Plymouth is an original production. The two vignettes show Inuit spear fishing and a European Whaling expedition. An inset map with annotations shows the most recent knowledge concerning Nova Zembla based upon Russian German and Dutch sources. The map's nomenclature is in English and clearly shows both a Northwest Pasage and a Northeast Passage. 1393299. Special Collections - Upstairs. unknown
