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Condition: GOOD. Bumped at edges, slight scuffs, some splits at spine, but solid in binding, slight discolouration and a few small spots throughout.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: This is a curious volume in that its humble contents do not on first impression sit easily with the grandeur of its royal binding. The main contents of this volume are those of a late seventeenth-century scholar (excerpts from Cicero, Coriolanus, with sections on the Roman wars with Carthage, the ancient kings of Prussia and Bithnia, Theodoric the Ostrogoth, Attila the Hun, Nero’s crushing of a revolt in Roman Britain, as well as the animal fables Cicada et Formica, Vulpes et Felis, Vespersilio et Mustella, Vulpes et Hircus, Felis et Simia, and Canis cum Lepore). There is also topical material on the Duc de Chaulnes and the public display of the corpse of St. Francis Borgia (1510-72, canonised 1670). Some material on St. Genevieve, including an account of the procession of her relics in 1694, points towards Paris, and verses on King Louis XIV’s attacks on heresy, perhaps point towards the royal court. The final part, which contains a lengthy Geographia ascribed to the Jesuit Joseph de Jouvancy (1643-1719), adds that the geographic text was written in 1694 in Paris in the royal college or lycée of Louis XIV. This book may have come from the royal library, alternatively it may once been part of the library of the royal lycée. 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Maycock; COLEY, Henry: Nuncius Sydereus or the Starry Messenger, [R15440], A.G.; ANON: The City and Countrey Chapmans Almanack; DAVIS, William: A New Ephemeris Made in Wiltshire, R.R.; GADBURY, John: Ephemeris or a Diary Astrological, Astrological, Meteorological, J.D.; PARTRIDGE, J.: Annus Mirabilis, R.R.; ROBIN, Poor: An Almanack of Old and New Fashion, Company of Stationers; ROBIN, Poor: A Prognostication, Company of Stationers; SAUNDERS, Richard: Apollo Anglicanus [R25239], M. Clark; Saunder; TANNER, John: Anglicus Britannicus an Ephemeris [R170248], W. Horton; STRUT, Thomas: The Weavers Almanack [part I], R. Holt; STRUT, Thomas: The Weavers Almanack [part II], Company of Stationers; WOODWARD, Daniel: Vox Uraniae An Almanack Astrological, Astrological, Meteorological, J.D.; PERKINS, F.: A New Almanack [parts I \u0026amp; II], R. Everingham for the Company of Stationers, titles mostly in red and black, portrait illustration, diagrams, tables and charts, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, contemporary red morocco, covers gilt panelled with corner tools, spine similarly gilt in compartments, a.e.g., thick 12mo, unpaginated, 1687-88. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, covers somewhat stained, very slight wear to rear joint, tears to blank endpapers, lightly toned, lacking some leaves. A scarce collection.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes on sections: (1.) Merlinus Anglicanus, A-E8, [80] pp, complete; (2.) Nuncius Sydereus, A-C8, [48] pp, complete; (3.) Chapmans, A-C8, [48] pp, lacking A2 \u0026amp; A3, ends on C4; (4.) News out of the West, A-C8, [48] pp, ends on C3; (5.) Ephemeris (Gadbury), A-C8, [48] pp, complete; (6.) Annus mirabilus, A-C8, [48] pp, complete; (7.) 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Together with The Life of Chaucer, Shewing His Countrey, Parentage, Education, Marriage, Children, Revenues, Service, Reward, Friends, Books, Death. Also a Table, Wherein the Old and Obscure Words in Chaucer are Explained, and Such Words (which are many) that Either are, by Nature or Derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, Mark'd With Particular Notes for the Better Understanding Their Original.\u003c\/strong\u003e London : Printed in the Year MDCLXXXVII. [1687].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. The third Thomas Speght edition [editor]. Leather-bound. Folio, 2⁰, (320 x 200mm.), pp. [36], 660, [24]. Signatures: pi² A⁴ a-c⁴ B-4R⁴ 4S². Leaf c1 mis-signed \"d\". English text in black letter in double columns. Sympathetically re-backed and retaining the original calf boards. Spine with six raised bands, title-label gilt in second compartment. Original initial and terminal blanks present. With the famous engraved portrait and genealogical frontispiece after John Speed by Gower. Two engraved coat of arms at the beginning of the work. Woodcut initials throughout. Decorated by headpiece vignette. Glossary at end in triple column. Final textual leaf with adds to verso. Condition: Fair to good. Collated complete. Binding secure. Rubbing to extremities. Contents generally sound with some browning and intermittent wear in the form of crude paper repairs, mostly confined to the bottom of the pages but worse to the introductory pages; title and frontispiece laid on paper. Without inking or previous ownership markings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: The last black letter edition of Chaucer and the eighth edition of his works overall. Edited by Thomas Speght and substantially reprinted from the editions of 1598 and 1602, with the addition of the rediscovered endings to the Cook's and Squire's tales given in the advertisement on the final page. The dedication to Sir Robert Cecil, Principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth, is signed Tho. Speght and the text of a letter to Speght from Francis Beaumont and verses by Francis Thynne, an additional editor of the 1602 edition, are added. The Life of Chaucer is followed by an earlier dedication to Henry VIII. The Works include The Canterbury Tales, The Romaunt of the Rose, Troilus and Cresseide, The Legend of Good Women, The House of Fame, The Testament of Love, etc. and various miscellaneous works, to include: \"The Court of Love,\" added to the Chaucer canon by Stow in 1561, as well as four new pieces: The Flower and the Leaf; Chaucer's Dream; Jacke Upland (spuriously attributed to Chaucer); and Chaucer's A B C. 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N.p.\u003c\/strong\u003e [Londini: printed by John Beale, Bernard Alsop, Thomas Fawcett, and Augustine Mathewes, impensis Richardi Meighen], 1631 [i.e. 1632].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Reprint (second edition of the Howes amendation). Leather-bound. Thick folio (320 x 220mm), pp. [20], 537, 540-819, 819-891, 891-897, 890, 900-901, 991-1014, 1003-1050, [2], 1057-1062, [4], 1063-1087, [29] (with pagination mis-numbered throughout, this volume collates closely with ESTC S117586). Signatures: *² [par.]⁸ A-4I⁶ 4K⁴ 4L-4M⁶ 4N² 4n⁴ 4O-4P⁶ 4Q⁴ 4R⁶ 4S⁸ (4S8 terminal blank lacking). Contemporary calf covers neatly rebacked with a new spine; gilt armorial crest to upper cover; red-dyed page edges; marbled pastedowns and endpapers. English text printed in black letter. Lines of sixty-seven printed in double columns. Illustrated title-page set within architectural woodcut border. Historiated initials; head- and tail-pieces; printed marginal\/shoulder notes; includes indexes - alphabetical table. Printed by John Beale, Bernard Alsop, Thomas Fawcett, and Augustine Mathewes. Beale printed the preliminaries, quires A-G, and 2A-3C; Alsop and Fawcett printed H-Z; Mathewes printed 3D-4S, cf. STC. Includes an appendix or corollary of the foundations and descriptions of the three most famous universities of England: viz. Cambridge, Oxford, and London. The matters whereof concerning the former two universities, were gathered by John Stow and supplied and continued by Edmond Howes. The third was collected and written by Sir George Buck, London, Printed by A. Matthewes, for R. Meighen, 1632: pages 1055-1087. The contribution of Sir George Buck has title: 'The third universitie of England: or, A treatise of the foundations of all the colledges, ancient schooles of priviledge, and of houses of learning, and liberall arts, within and about the most famous citie of London ... By G.B. Knight. At London, Printed by Augustine Mathewes for Richard Meighen, 1631'. Colophon at rear: 'London, Printed by A. M. for Richard Meighen, and are to sold at his shop at the Middle Temple Gate, neere Templebarre in Fleetstreet, 1632'.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe printed page numbering in this work is quite erratic. This copy has been carefully collated and compared with the description provided by the British Library and is textually complete but lacks an initial and terminal blank. The binding is very secure with the original boards having been retained - these show some scuffing and abrasions. The contents are remarkably fresh and clean with a touch of browning and a little light staining in the gutter to a small section towards the rear. Some side-notes have been shaved. There are a couple of small holes in the margins and some minor tears. Extensive inking to blank endpaper. Small armorial bookplate of F. A. Marshall to front pastedown. Overall this is an excellent copy. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: A tailor by trade, renowned early historian John Stow abandoned his occupation in 1560 to devote all his time to “the collection of printed books, legal and literary documents, and charters, in the transcription of ancient manuscripts, inscriptions, and the like, all dealing with English history, archeology, and literature… Some time after the death of Reginald Wolfe (the projector of Holinshed’s Chronicles) in 1573, Stow purchased Wolfe’s collections… It was not until 1565 that he produced his first Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles. The work was well received, and this monument of British history was continually updated and re-issued until 1631.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1631 edition is the second issue after Stow’s death: edited, continued and considerably expanded by Edmond Howes. Following the Annales, which cover the history of Britain from legendary times until the year 1631, there is an Appendix, with separate title pages, that deals with the foundations and descriptions of the three most famous universities of England: viz: Cambridge, Oxford and London. The Appendix includes an interesting list of all the ‘Arts and Sciences Read and Taught’ in the University of London, including: Law of Conscience, Calligraphie, Art Gladiatorie, Hippice – or the Art of Riding, Polemice or Art Military, Pyrotechnie, Art of Swimming, Orchectrice – or Art of Dancing, and the Art of Revels. Aside from the handsome title pages, and decorative headpieces and tailpieces, this book features a number of large decorated initials; with the exception of a few sections and passaged which are printed in italic or roman type, the book is printed throughout in black letter (gothic) type. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe work is considered as well to be European Americana, for it contains references to the voyages of Frobisher’s (1576, 1577 and 1578), Francis Drake (1580), and Thomas Cavendish (1586). It also includes a description of the English settlements in North America (1615), including Roanoke. This edition is of particular interest to Shakespeare scholars as it recounts the burning of the famous Globe Theatre in 1613, noted for its performances by Shakespeare and his associates. Additionally, it provides important Shakespearean literary references and background information - Shakespeare scholars have determined that Stow’s Annales clearly furnished ideas and imagery for Henry IV, Part II and may have been a source for a number of key passages in Henry V (see Whitaker, 144-5; Bullough IV:155ff). “Hal’s pranks have been splendidly elaborated on hints mainly supplied by Stow” (Bullough IV:177). [STC 23340. ESTC S117586. 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Signatures: A-Z⁶ Aa-Zz⁶ Aaa-Zzz⁶ Aaaa-Tttt⁶ Vuuu⁴ A-I⁶ K⁸. Latin text with some words and paragraphs in Greek and Arabic. Roman letter in lines of 43. Beautifully bound in contemporary blind-stamped vellum. Title-page printed in red and black and with woodcut device. Handsome engraved portrait of Grotius by Willem Delff after Michiel van Miereveld. Large decorative initials. Head- and tail-pieces. Initial and terminal blanks present. Index to rear in double columns. Corrigenda: [5] p. at end. Errata slip pasted to final page. Contains: - Annotationes in Libros Evangel (Matth, Marci, Lucae, Ioan) - Epistola Thessalon - Epistola Iohannis - Ad Apocalypseos - Ad Ephesios - Ad Iacobi - Explicatio Iohannes - Explicatio Decalogi - Appendix (...) de Antichristo - Elenchus Loc. Script. \u0026amp; Index - Corrigenda.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Covers with some marks and stains. 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Within his 'Annotations,' he applies philological criticism to the text of the Bible whilst contemporaneously moderating them with the assertion that (as in law) convention plays an enormously important role in theology, such that correct interpretation of the scriptures requires respect for the Church's traditions. [(Rogge, 168); USTC: 1013480].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hugo Grotius","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37700892754091,"sku":"HUGOGROTI1641","price":1400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/z_c6432adc-97db-42c5-b54c-fca71efdaf2e.jpg?v=1606983103"},{"product_id":"the-siege-of-breda-by-herman-hugo-1627","title":"THE SIEGE OF BREDA BY HERMAN HUGO 1627","description":"\u003cp\u003e[HUGO, Herman (1588-1629)]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Siege of Breda, Written in Latin by the R. F. Herman Hugo of the S. of I., Translated into English by C. H. 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R⁴ with small corner piece torn away. Illustrations very good. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Hugo (1588-1629) was a Jesuit and military chaplain, Gage (1597-1645) served with distinction during the siege. The plates are copied from the Latin edition printed at Antwerp, 1626. \"This is the best of the histories of the siege of Breda under Spinola... 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Antehac ineditae: Ut Et Tabulae Geographicae Et Indices, longe quam antea luculentiores \u0026amp; locupletiores.\u003c\/strong\u003e Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Cornelium Boutesteyn et Jordanum Luchtmans ; Trajecti ad Rhenum : Apud Guilielmum vande Water, Ann. M. DCC. VII. [1707-1712].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Fourth edition. Vellum-bound. Folio 2°(400 x 250 x 60mm). Pagination: pp. [10], 44, [4] p., columns 318, [3] p., columns 323-332, columns 345-790, [2] p., columns 793-1139, [1] p., columns 1141-1224, [60 indexes] p., [13] leaves of plates in the form of geographical maps. Errors in pagination: columns 779-788, 877, 1072 omitted, columns 1076 repeated. Signatures: [ ]³ [a] - [g] ⁴ A-V⁴ X-Z² 2A-3F⁴ 3G² 3H-4I⁴ a-g⁴ h². With error: [g3] marked by mistake [G3]. Bound in contemporary full vellum, decorated in blind. Spine with seven raised bands and morocco lettering-piece. Initial and terminal blanks present. Texts in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Samaritan and Ethiopian and arranged in two columns. Index in four columns. Intaglio engraved portrait frontis. With Added engraved title-page printed in intaglio, signed \"J. Mulder fecit\" and reading: \"Samuelis Bocharti opera omnia. Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Cornelium Boutestyn, et Jordanum Luchtmans ; Trajecti ad Rhenum : Apud Guilielmum vande Water, 1712.\" Title-page printed in red and black. 13 maps (some printed on double leaves). Head- and tail-pieces. Decorative initials. Shoulder notes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Slight grubbiness to covers. Textblock excellent with faintest touch of browning, the maps beautifully preserved. Very good. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Scarce early edition of this monument of Biblical, geographical, historical and linguistic scholarship. A complete copy of this important book including many maps, by the Renowned Samuelis Bocharti [Samuel Bochart]. A composition on the geography of Canaan and nations mentioned in Genesis. Primary text in Latin. Includes 13 maps printed on special paper, among them large folded maps. Maps of various countries are written partially in Hebrew, which is very rare for the time. The book had a profound influence on biblical interpretation. Bocharti traces the biblical roots using Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and other Semitic languages, and used Hebrew letters to write words in Arabic. Includes a comparison table between letters in Latin, Hebrew, Greek and Sumerian. An edition of Bochart's Geographia sacra was owned by Isaac Newton (now in Trinity College, Cambridge, NQ.8.27). Bochart's history of nations and languages Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan (first printed in 1646) was widely known and exerted a profound influence on Biblical exegesis. It was a notable attempt to construct a single historical narrative from the available Semitic and classical sources. Samuel Bochart (1599 - 1667) was a French Protestant biblical scholar, a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet. Bochart was one of the several generations of antiquaries who expanded upon the foundation laid down by Renaissance humanists, complementing their revolutionary hermeneutics by setting classical texts more firmly within the cultural contexts of Greek and Roman societies. 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First edition. In two parts. Leather-bound. In-12°(140 x 85 mm), pp. [21], 202. Signatures: A¹²(-A1) B-I¹². Bound with 'A confession of our faith according to the order of the Gospel': p. 187-202, with caption title on I5 recto. English text. Contemporary quarter leather, smooth spine, gilt bands and lettering, marbled paper covered boards, terminal blank present, framed title-page, head-pieces, decorative capitals. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Fair to good. Binding secure, rubbing to extremities, tears to title leaf, lacking blank A1, leaves A9 and A10 mutilated with portions absent, otherwise complete, light browning and toning, pencil annotations to blanks, old inking to front pastedown. Extremely scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First and only edition. Extremely rare. See: Wing B1146. 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Bentley, in Covent-Garden; H. Bonwick, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; J. Tonson, W. Freeman, T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, in Fleet-street; J. Walthoe, in the Temple; S. Manship, and R. Parker, in Cornhill, MDCXCVI. [1696].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition in English, London issue. Two parts and supplement in one volume. Coeval leather-bound. Thick folio, 2º, (295 x 180 x 55mm). pp. vol. I: [36], 261, [1], [16], [4], 86, [1]; pp. vol. II: (18), 300. Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt bands to smooth spine. English text. Added engraved title-page for part-one and part two. Special undated title-page: \"A supplement of horsemanship, to the first part of The parfait mareschal ... by Sir William Hope ... Printed at Edinburgh.\" Illustrated by 5 additional folding copperplate engraved plates. Initial and terminal blanks present. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Textually complete, this copy lacks the portrait of Solleysell and plate 5. The binding is secure with slight cracking beginning at the hinges and some light wear to extremities. Spine lacking title label. The plates are generally crisp, with usual sporadic light toning but no foxing worthy of mention. Some leaves with marginal nonintrusive chipping to fore edge. Occasional ink markings. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition in English, London issue, of this classic handbook on the management of horses, covering everything from improving teeth to choosing a proper bit, with additional engraved title pages, and folding engraved plates of tack and instruments. The Parfait Mareschal (Compleat Farrier) was first published in France in 1644. This First Edition in English, Translated by Sir William Hope, was adapted from the Eighth French Edition. After studying at Lyon, Solleysell, a celebrated \"Master of Horse\", moved to Paris, there to practice his trade in the most celebrated riding schools of the day. He accompanied the Comte d'Avaux to Germany on a diplomatic mission in 1645, where he absorbed the superlative German advances in Veterinary science and Equitation. Upon his return to France, Solleysell established his own riding Academy, assisted Bernardi (his pupil), in founding another as well as embarking into the King's Service. Solleysell was an artist of some merit and it is likely that he executed the engravings which illustrate this work. 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Signatures: a⁸ A-2X¹² Yy⁸. French text. Contemporary full vellum binding. Initial and terminal blanks present. Title-page woodcut vignette. Woodcut illustration. Decorative initials. Head- and tail-pieces. Shoulder notes. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: FAIR to GOOD. Binding secure. Covers with some marks and wrinkles. Title-page with slight edge erosion, leaf following title partially missing, remaining textual leaves clean and well preserved. Initial and terminal blanks with ragged fore edges. Some inked annotations to front blank. Extremely rare - not in Copac; USTC (number 6002827 - incorrect publication date recorded) registers only one copy, at Bibliothèque Municipal, Bordeaux.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Nicolas Coeffeteau (1574 – 21 April 1623) was a French theologian, poet and historian born at Saint-Calais. He entered the Dominican order and lectured on philosophy at Paris, being also ordinary preacher to Henry IV, and afterwards ambassador at Rome. In 1606 he was vicar-general of the congregation of France, and received from Marie de' Medici the revenues of the sees of Lombez and Saintes. He also administered the diocese of Metz, and was nominated to the diocese of Marseille in 1621, but ill health obliged him here to take a coadjutor. Coeffeteau won considerable distinction in the controversy against the Protestant reformers and also wrote a History of Rome from Augustus to Constantine. Many of his theological writings were collected in one volume (Paris, 1622), and at the time of his death he was engaged on a translation of the New Testament which is still in manuscript. He was buried in the now demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins in Paris. He was acclaimed for his command of the French language. Claude Favre de Vaugelas cited him as one of the two masters of the language at the time -\"Nicolas Coeffeteau, dominicain, évêque de Marseille, un des fondateurs de la prose française, 1574-1623\". The present work, written towards the end of his life, is extremely rare. It is not registered in Copac, while USTC (6002827) registers only one copy, at Bibliothèque Municipal, Bordeaux, France.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nicolas Coeffeteau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37703952433323,"sku":"TABLUNICCOF1621","price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/z_ecf0d247-b461-40ee-88af-35b3100a3fa5.jpg?v=1607018451"},{"product_id":"the-fables-of-aesop-phaedrus-in-latin-greek-1667-first-edition-illustrated","title":"THE FABLES OF AESOP \u0026 PHAEDRUS IN LATIN \u0026 GREEK 1667 First Edition, Illustrated","description":"\u003cp\u003e[PHAEDRUS, (ed. 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Capital initials. Indices. Errata at end. Includes section \"Libellus variarum lectionem ex observationibus eorum quorum notae ad Phaedri Fabulas accesserunt collectus\": pages [401]-462. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Some marking to covers. There are cancellation plates to pages 133, 196 and 205. Lacking pages 275-286, removed due to censorship - Landwehr records that the ‘brothel scene’ on page 276 has often been defaced or removed, as is the case with this copy. Contents remarkably clean. Contemporary inked annotations to front endpaper. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First Illustrated edition of Phaedrus to be published in the Netherlands. Phaedrus is recognized as the first writer to retell entire books of Aesop's Greek prose fables in Latin iambic meter. The work contains the text of the 92 Phaedrus fables (the first edition of 1596 had only 64 fables), with extensive notes added in small type in two columns at the end of each fable. With extensive indices and several laudatory poems, as well as a letter by Conrad von Rittershausen, the first to provide the Phaedrus fables with scholarly commentary. Beautifully illustrated with plates from original designs by an unknown artist. The frontispiece by Christian Hagen shows a Roman emperor in a classical architectural setting, offering a cap to Phaedrus who stands with an open book while Aesop stands aside, his book under his arm. The cancellation plates and censoring of the brothel scene are quite normal as recorded by a number of sources. 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Instructiones classium, navigationes, praelia maritima, arma, stratagemata, trophaea, triumphi, naumachiae. Urbes \u0026amp; coloniae maritimae, periplus orbis antiqui, \u0026amp; novi. Magistratus, praefecturae \u0026amp; officia classica apud omnes gentes. Leges navales, lustrationes classium, causae \u0026amp; genera ventorum, usus pixidis nauticae, histiodromice, marium diversi motus, aestúque, atque exundationes, aliáque omnia ad rem maritimam pertinentia. Opus unicâ centuriâ contentum, quae in duos libros divisa \u0026amp; partita est : Primus : res in mari, aut circa mare gestas continet, ab initio navigationum ad Constantini magni obitum, cum descriptione littorum antiquis cosmographis cognitorum. Secundus : a Constantino magno ad hanc usque diem res pelago, \u0026amp; in oris gestas complectitur, cum descriptione littorum antiquis incognitorum. Authore Claudio Bartholomaeo Morisoto Divionensi.\u003c\/strong\u003e Diuione [Dijon]: Apud Petrum Palliot [Pierre Palliot], typographum Regis, bibliopolam \u0026amp; calcographum, sub signo Reginæ Pacis ante Palatium., M. DC. XLIII. [1643].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition. In two parts. Folio (350 x 220mm.), [26], 725, [19] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates: illustrations (maps). Signatures: *⁴ **² ***⁶ A-5A⁴. Additional engraved title, title printed in red and black, additional printed dedication to Pierre Séguier (leaf â) inserted at end of preliminaries, folding engraved plate, 44 engravings in the text from De Bry, with maps. Initials, head- and tail-pieces. Includes indexes. Pages 592-612 contain a description of America. Colophon at leaf 5A4v. Old vellum with fore-edge cover extensions, spine title in later manuscript. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Title with minor repair to top left corner, occasional dampstaining, vellum slightly soiled. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: THE FIRST NAVAL HISTORY. \"Claude Barthélemy Morisot (1592-1661) was one of the great intellectuals of his time, and his works enjoyed great success. Orbis maritimi is his best book... It is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to ancient times, and the second is concerned with \"modern\" times, and the deeds of the British, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese\" (Borba de Moraes). The folding plate depicts a staged naval battle in a Roman arena, and the illustrations show coins, maps and types of native vessel. The work was dedicated to Louis XIII, with the preface dated January 1643. This copy also has a printed dedication to Chancelier Séguier, dated April 1643, inserted before the start of the text (and interrupting the catchwords), indicating that this is the second issue. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferences: Borba de Moraes II, pp. 597-598; Sabin 50723; USTC 6810141.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claude Morisot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37745992138923,"sku":"MORISOT1643","price":6000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zxzxz.png?v=1608757354"},{"product_id":"la-maniere-universelle-de-mr-desargues-lyonnois-1643-abraham-bosse","title":"LA MANIERE UNIVERSELLE DE MR. 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These consisted of treatises devoted to -- manières universelles -- for the cutting of stones in architectures according to the principles of projective geometry and the making of sundials, etc. These attracted new assaults, this time from an expert in stonecutting, Curabelle, who devoted three pamphlets to the criticism of Desargues's works. 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Title-page printer's device\/ vignettes, with motto 'Ne extra oleas'. Decorative initials. Head- and tail-pieces. Footnotes - bibliographical references. Indexes. Bookplate of John Thornton to front pastedown of vol.1 only. Title variations. Vol. 2 title-page: L. Annaei Senecae Operum tomus secundus. In quo Epistolae, et Quaestiones naturales, ... Vol. 3 title-page: M. Annaei Senecae Rhetoris opera, quae exstant, integris Nicolai Fabri, Andr. Schotti, Joh. Fred. Gronovii, \u0026amp; selectis variorum commentariis illustrata, ... Accedunt Johannis Schultingii in eundem notae \u0026amp; emendationes, hactenus ineditae. Vol. 3 includes commentaries by N. Faber, A. Schott \u0026amp; J.F. Gronovius, and notes by J. Schulting. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings secure. Mild markings to covers. Contents largely clean with light tanning and a few ink spots.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Ebert writes: \"This neat edition contains the last and most complete Gronov edition of Seneca and is at the same time one of the rarest and most sought after cum notis varior\". Joh. Schulting's notes to Seneca's rhetorical writings first appear in this rather rare edition. It contains the younger Seneca's prose works: Dialogi, De clementia, De beneficiis, Naturales quaestiones, and Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. [Ebert 20862; Rahir, E. Elzevier 1581; Willems, A. Elzevier 1477; Brunet, J.-C. 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Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with four raised bands, paper title label, blind ruled border to boards, page edges speckled, separate pagination, text in double columns, Latin language interspersed with occasional words and paragraphs in Greek and Arabic, roman letter, title vignettes, capitals initials, some diagrams in the text, chapter tail-pieces, terminal blank present. Binding secure with slight splits to joints, rubbing to extremities, chipping to spine ends, lacking engraved plate by Romeyn de Hooghe to first book and initial blank, corner repair to first title and *3, contents largely clean with only occasional minor marks, signed Alexander Hamilton to title page. A sound copy of this rare and important edition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: The edition of the Tragurian fragment as well as the Apologia are by Giovanni Lucio, who here assumes the name of Marino Statileo, the original discoverer of the ms. 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Worming affecting first 13 leaves, this touching text; some lesser worming in margins at end. Ink stamp to title penetrating through to following leaf. Withdrawn library stamp to front blank - from the Royal Society of Medicine Library. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition of an early work on hermaphroditism and monstrous births drawing uncritically on a wide range of medical and non-medical sources, also including discussions of satyrs, incubi and succubi, lycanthropes, etc. Caspar Bauhin (1560-1624) was an acclaimed Swiss botanist and anatomist, born of parents who had fled to Switzerland from France after converting to Protestantism. His extensive work on botany was later developed by Linnaeus. The current book, ‘On the Nature of Unnatural Born Hermaphrodites’, claims to be the first extensive publication on a subject now receiving renewed interest in connection with the question of ‘gender fluidity’. 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Example 2. Prop. 2. Forbearance of Money at Simple Interest. Example. Prop. 3. Rebate, or the Present worth of Money due hereafter. Example. Prop. 4. Equation of Payments. Of Compound Interest. Prop. 1. To continue the said Table. Example. Another Example. For Example such a Question may be put; Prop. 2. A Sum forborn for any time, to find to what it shall amount to at 6 l. per Cent. Compound Interest. Example. Prop. 3. A Sum of Money due here∣after, to find what it is worth in ready Money. Example first, for making the Table of Discount. Example second. Prop. 4. Of Forbearance of Annuities. To find the Arrearages of an Annuity. Example. Second Example. Third Example. Prop. 5. To find the present worth of an Annuity. Example. First for making the Tables. Example. Secondly for half-year∣ly Payments. Prop. 6. To find what Annuity any Sum of ready Money shall purchase. Corollary. Example the first. Example Second. Prop. 7. Any number of years in a Lease or Annuity being propounded to find the present Worth of any greater or lesser Number of years therein. Example: Example. Prop. 8. A Table for the forbearance of Money at any Rate of Interest being in store to extend it to serve to all other Rates. Example first. Example. Advertisement. A Table of Decimals of Days, which may serve for any Rate of Simple Interest, and a Table of Forbearance, or Amount of 1 l. Compound Inte∣rest at 6 l. per Cent. per Annum, for 365 Days and 11 Months. A Table of Forbearance, or Amount of 1 l. at Compound Interest, at 6 l. per Cent. per Annum for 50 years, and from thence continued to 100. title page treatise Simple Interest. Prop. 1. To compute the Interest of 1 l. for a Day. Prop. 2. Forbearance of Money at Sim∣ple Interest. Prop. 3. Rebate, or the present worth of Money due hereafter. Prop. 4. Equation of Payments. Prop. 1. To continue the said Table, or to find the Amount of 1 l. for∣born for any time proposed. Prop. 2. 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Folio (350 x 230 x 70 mm.). Pp. [34], 826, [22]. With one initial blank and three terminal blanks present. English text. Handsomely bound in contemporary full calf, spine with six raised bands, red dyed page edges. Portrait frontispiece of the author. Letterpress title-page within double-ruled borders and with woodcut device. Woodcut devices, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Index to rear in double columns. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure, with mild wear to spine ends and points. Lacking the additional engraved title, but otherwise collates complete. Initial few leaves with some creasing at the edges, the interior largely well-preserved, although leaves Lll and Lll2 have some tears and losses affecting some text, old inking to endleaves.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition of the first folio collection of Donne's sermons - a famous work published posthumously. 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Interior largely very well-preserved, with just a few brown spots.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: A renown edition of the satires of Roman poets Juvenal and Persius - regarded as more beautiful and complete than the Elzevier edition (Brunet loc.cit.) Dibdin II. The Roman satirists Juvenal (c. 60-140) and Persius (34-64) are often published together. Of the stoic Persius is only a small collection of 6 satires preserved and he is considered difficult to read. Published here is also the so called ”Sulpiciae fabella”, a satire of uncertain date, ascribed to the poetess Sulpiciae who wrote erotic verses in the Flavian period. 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The \"Naturalis Historia\" is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge, based on the best authorities available to Pliny. He claims to be the only Roman ever to have undertaken such a work. It comprised 37 books in 10 volumes and covered over 20.000 facts on topics including the fields of botany, zoology, astronomy, geology and mineralogy as well as the exploitation of those resources. It remains a standard work for the Roman period and the advances in technology and understanding of natural phenomena at the time. Some technical advances he discusses are the only sources for those inventions, such as hushing in mining technology or the use of water mills for crushing or grinding corn. 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Error in pagination. Signatures: (A)⁴ (a)⁴ B-3F⁴ 3G-3H⁶; A-B⁴ C⁵. English text in Roman letter, printed side-notes, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces; innumerable heraldic shields, nine full page woodcut armorial achievements described in considerable detail. Bound in contemporary full calf, spine with five raised bands; initial and terminal blanks present. Condition: FAIR. Collated complete, upper board held by one string, lower board detached, covers somewhat rubbed to extremities, interior lightly browned with some marking in the margins but largely well-preserved, leaf X⁴ with a small corner piece torn away, some old inking to front endpaper, armorial bookplate to front pastedown.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Third edition of Guillum s monumental work - A Display of Heraldrie was first written and published around 1610; and then was reprinted as early as 1611. There were six or seven further editions of the book following Guillim's death, with the last one being printed in 1724. Guillim was born in Gloucestershire and entered the College of Arms in London after finishing studies at Oxford. At the College he became a junior officer of arms, a Rouge Croix pursuivant, in 1618. Guillim was devoted to heraldic studies and to writing the Display which proved to be the best organized and most encyclopedic work of English heraldry of its time. In it, Guillim deals with the social history and beginnings of heraldry, the different images appearing on arms, the various kinds of escutcheons and the families to whom they belonged, all divided into six parts and then into subchapters which were each closely analyzed. The alphabetical table comprises the names of those families whose arms are contains in the Display so one could look people up with ease. Although a small addition to the volume it makes the work much more usable. In his dedication to the King, Guillim rightly claims the merit of his originality, writing, \"I am the first who brought a method unto this heroic art.\" ESTC S120342.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"John Guillim","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42448549150891,"sku":"GUILLIM1638","price":550.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_0546_d44a4daf-c424-4414-a8f8-8b5085f066c4.jpg?v=1674065641"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-hart-or-the-life-of-the-glorious-saint-teresa-1662-leather-binding","title":"THE FLAMING HART OR THE LIFE OF THE GLORIOUS SAINT TERESA 1662 LEATHER BINDING","description":"[TERESA, SAINT, OF AVILA (1515-1582)]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Flaming Hart or the Life of the Glorious S. Teresa, Foundresse of the Reformation, of the Order of the All-Immaculate Virgin-Mother, our B. Lady, of Mount-Carmel. This History of her Life, was Written by the Saint her Selfe, in Spanish; and is Newly, now, Translated into English, in the Yeare of our Lord God, 1642.\u003c\/strong\u003e Antwerpe: printed by Iohannes Meursius, anno M.DC.XLII. [1642].\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst English edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (155 x 100 x 40mm.). Pp. [72], 660, [10]. English text, the translation by Tobie Matthew, of \"La Vida de Santa Teresa de Jesus.\" Imprimatur on leaf 2T7v: Approbatio. Hæc vita S. Teresæ, ... imprimatur. Antuerpiæ 5. Augusti M.DC.XLII. Richardus Wake I.V.L. Bound in later full calf. Printers device to title-page. Decorative initials. Printed sidenotes. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Joints starting, the extremities a little rubbed. Lacking the frontispiece portrait but otherwise complete. Textblock slightly trimmed. The interior lightly toned with a little inking in the margins. Scarce. 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By Mr. JVC. a friend to men of all religions.\u003c\/strong\u003e [s.n.], 1661.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Small octavo (140 x 90 x 20mm.). Pp. [8], 368. English text. Bound in contemporary full calf with blind ruling and tooling. Four raised spine bands. Marbled page edges. Initial and terminal blanks present. Condition: FAIR. Joints cracked but holding. The covers somewhat rubbed, particularly to the extremities. Collates complete, with the interior showing some light brown marks and minor corner creases. Without previous ownership markings. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Rare first edition of this religious text. Place of publication conjectured by Wing. 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DC. LXXXVI. [1686].\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eReprint, leather-bound, hardcover, duodecimo (16.5cm x 10cm x 2cm), pp. 172, [6]; French text. Bound in contemporary full vellum, initial and terminal blanks present, engraved frontispiece, 18 engraved medical plates, 2 in-text illustrations of surgical instruments on p.93 and p.144, decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces, table to rear. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete, binding tight and secure, light soiling to covers, interior largely very well-preserved with some marking to endpapers. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: A remarkable and important early medical treatise on the removal of kidney stones. In the 17th century (this work first appeared in 1682) as described and illustrated in this book, there were two methods of removing stones--by the use of an instrument inserted through the penis or by way of small incisions beneath the scrotum. Of particular interest are the full page engravings; one shows several sizes and shapes of stones, two show the array of surgical instruments available to the 17th century physician tasked with performing the procedure; the holding of the patient by an assistant; the exact places and sizes of the incisions. [Ref. Cp. Wellcome IV:283. - Cp. 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Shewing the names, signs, causes, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of diseases from head to foot, happening to humane bodies. Galenically and chimically performed. The like never published before in any language whatsoever. The third edition. Wherein, besides the addition of nearly the whole first book, there are several hundreds of other additions, alterations and amendments, throughout the whole work.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: printed by J. Dawks, in Great Carter Lane: and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1695.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThird edition, leather-bound, hardcover, thick octavo (18cm x 11cm x 6cm), pp. [32], 1064; English text in double columns. Bound in contemporary full calf, spine with four bands and morocco lettering-piece. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Binding a little shaky with the upper joint starting, the spine creased with the ends slightly eroded. Varying degrees of foxing and toning throughout becoming more prominent towards the end. A scarce medical treatise in the original binding. ESTC R34579.\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"William Salmon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42517540569259,"sku":"SALMON1695","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_2071_2058aadf-f828-4018-80ad-9e24494cf2a4.jpg?v=1676185352"},{"product_id":"annotations-upon-all-the-new-testament-philologicall-theologicall-1650-edward-leigh","title":"ANNOTATIONS UPON ALL THE NEW TESTAMENT PHILOLOGICALL \u0026 THEOLOGICALL 1650 EDWARD LEIGH","description":"[LEIGH, Edward (1602-1671)]. \u003cstrong\u003eAnnotations Upon all the New Testament Philologicall and Theologicall: wherein the emphasis and elegancie of the Greeke is observed. Some imperfections in our translation are discovered. Divers Jewish rites and customes tending to illustrate the text are mentioned. Many antilogies and seeming contradictions reconciled. Severall darke and obscure places opened. Sundry passages vindicated from the false glosses of papists and hereticks.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: printed by W[illiam]. W[ilson]. and E[dward] G[riffith]. for William Lee, and are to be sold at his shop at the Turks-Head in Fleetstreet next to the Miter and Phoenix, Anno Dom. 1650.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst edition, leather-bound, hardcover, folio (28cm x 18cm x 4cm), pp. [10], 628, [12]; some misnumbering. English text; bound in later full panelled calf; initial and terminal blanks present; title-page in red and black; head-pieces; decorative initials; printed side-notes; alphabetical table and errata at rear. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the covers very well-preserved. Collates complete, some light toning and spotting throughout, a few ink spots and marginal annotations, the final blank leaf heavily annotated. Scarce. [ESTC R20337].\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Edward Leigh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42532606804139,"sku":"LEIGH1650","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_2639_764ebd72-2e35-4145-9d53-50c18d894c89.jpg?v=1676685760"},{"product_id":"catalogue-of-curiosities-note-overo-memorie-del-museo-di-lodovico-moscardo-1672-rare-second-edition","title":"[CATALOGUE OF CURIOSITIES] NOTE OVERO MEMORIE DEL MUSEO DI LODOVICO MOSCARDO 1672 RARE SECOND EDITION","description":"[MOSCARDO, Lodovico]. \u003cstrong\u003eNote Overo Memorie del Museo di Lodovico Moscardo [...] Descritte in tre Libri... (-Parte Seconda).\u003c\/strong\u003e In Verona: Per Andrea Rossi, 1672.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSecond edition; two parts in one volume; leather-bound; folio (29.5cm x 20cm x 3.5cm); pp. [4], 307, [1]; [2], 311-488; pagination continuous with some errors; Italian text; bound in contemporary limp vellum, smooth spine with title hand-inked in black; allegorical frontispiece engraved in copper by Alberto Pasio, second part with separate title-page in red and black; woodcut capitals, head- and tail-pieces; hundreds of illustrations in the text engraved both in wood and in copper; indexes to rear in double columns. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Binding secure, the covers somewhat soiled and cockled. Lacking 6 preliminary leaves including letterpress title, plus a further 6 leaves (pages 169-170, 175-176,195-198,235-238)​. Contents with varying degrees of toning, spotting, browning, with some off-setting in parts. Small worm tracts to engraved title and to the gutter\/margins of the first 60 leaves or so. A few corner creases. Remains of bookplate to front pastedown and with a couple of old biblioteca stamps throughout. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Rare second edition, much enlarged from the first, to include many more illustrations and descriptions of the catalogue of the collection of drawings, paintings, antiquities, fossils, minerals, shells, corals, etc. of the Veronese count Ludovico Moscardo. The collection was assembled over some 30 years in the tradition of the humanist's \"studiolo\", it contained a wide variety of objects and incorporated the collection of Francesco Calzolari of Verona, which Moscardo acquired in its entirety in 1673, at this time it was one of the earliest private museums in Italy. The work is in three sections: the first section (cose antiche) describes and illustrates the antiquities, the second section (pietre, minerali e terre) lists over 100 minerals as well as petrified objects and fossils, and the third section (corali, conchiglie, animali, frutti ed altere cose) comprises corals, shells, preserved aquatic creatures, animals, vegetables and 'other things'. The wonderful illustrations are by Alberto Pasi. [Cicognara 3412; Graesse II, 613; Nissen, ZBI 2898].\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Ludovico Moscardo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42634044670123,"sku":"","price":1995.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_7096_9b44add6-5f3d-4be7-8437-acfe7ecd83d3.jpg?v=1681394715"},{"product_id":"studio-di-curiosita-nel-quale-si-tratta-di-fisonomia-chiromantiai-metoposcopia-by-nicola-spadon-1667","title":"STUDIO DI CURIOSITA NEL QUALE SI TRATTA DI FISONOMIA, CHIROMANTIA, METOPOSCOPIA BY NICOLA SPADON 1667","description":"[SPADON, Nicola].\u003cstrong\u003e Studio di curiosità nel quale si tratta di fisonomia, chiromantia, metoposcopia. Di Nicola Spadon dedicato all'illustrissimo sign. Iseppo Cassetti nobile veneto.\u003c\/strong\u003e In Venetia [Venice]: Appresso Alessandro Zatta, M DC LXVII. 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There are several illustrations of this in the text. Part 2 begins at p.151 with a separate and rather different title. This book met with some success - and went through several editions in 17th century. Not in Caillet or Dorbon.\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Nicola Spadon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644512866475,"sku":"","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_7624_54c36827-8f3d-4c75-8b01-1faf4c67da45.jpg?v=1681954743"},{"product_id":"pantheon-suculum-by-francesco-carrera-1679-rare-sicilian-history","title":"PANTHEON SUCULUM BY FRANCESCO CARRERA 1679 RARE SICILIAN HISTORY","description":"[CARRERA, Francesco]. \u003cstrong\u003ePantheon Siculum. Sive, Sanctorum Siculorum elogia. 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Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Rare first edition of Francesco Carrera's Sicilian history.\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Francesco Carrera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42649096978603,"sku":"","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_7766-Copy.jpg?v=1682188038"},{"product_id":"theatrum-botanicum-the-theater-of-plants-by-john-parkinson-1640-first-edition","title":"THEATRUM BOTANICUM: THE THEATER OF PLANTS BY JOHN PARKINSON 1640 FIRST EDITION","description":"[PARKINSON, JOHN]. \u003cstrong\u003eTheatrum botanicum: The theater of plants. Or, An herball of a large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange plants from all the parts of the world, with sundry gummes, and other physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before; and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues. Shevving vvithall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry authors that have formerly written of them; and a certaine confidence, or most probable conjecture of the true and genuine herbes and plants. Distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property, with the chiefe notes of Dr. Lobel, Dr. Bonham, and others inserted therein. Collected by the many yeares travaile, industry, and experience in this subject, by Iohn Parkinson apothecary of London, and the Kings herbarist. And published by the Kings Majestyes especiall priviledge.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Thomas Cotes, 1640.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst edition; leather-bound; hardcover; folio (35cm x 23cm x 10cm); pp. [20], 1755, [1] errata (some irregular pagination); English text in Roman letter, with some Italic; handsomely bound by Gilmour of Sarum in 19th century full reverse calf, spine with five raised bands and morocco lettering-piece in second compartment; with over 2700 woodcut illustrations in the text; decorative capitals; head-pieces; rear index in double columns. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the hinges and joints intact. Covers largely well-preserved with some wear to the head of the spine. Lacking engraved title, but otherwise complete. Some water staining and folding mainly to index section. Several marginal tears and repairs, plus some worm tracts. Some corner pieces missing. Old ink splatters on pages 640, 641 and 642.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: A handsome copy of this famous and beautiful English herbal, 'one of the two main pillars of botany in England till the time of Ray' (James Edward Smith). The largest herbal in English, this was also the last great medicinally-based plant study. John Parkinson (1567-1650), a London pharmacist, received the title of Royal Apothecary from James I. Later, Charles I appointed him as his chief botanist (\"Botanicus Regius Primarius\"). Parkinson had a private garden in Long Acre 'well stored with rarities' (Theatrum, p. 609). Work on his herbal was helped by notes and unpublished material by the French botanist Matthias de l'Obel who had lived in north London in the last years of his life. Parkinson had given notice of his intention to compile a herbal in his Paradisus terrestris of 1629, but was delayed by the publication of the second Johnson edition of Gerarde's Herball, in 1636. This delay meant that Parkinson's work had time to grow much larger than originally planned, and on publication it included about a thousand more plants than Gerarde could, and describes many species not previously recorded. Natural history collecting in exotic lands was actively pursued from the earliest period of botanical study, and the earliest exploring ships were fitted out with special compartments for the transportation of animals and plants. Parkinson noted in his Paradisi in sole of 1629 that he had obtained a specimen of the \"Scilla alba\" in the manner of the day - which meant gathering with other collectors at the quay to meet the returning ships, and to purchase rare specimens directly from the sailors. Early botanical works were frequently illustrated with original woodcuts, and this book is a marvellous example of the impressive beauty that the relatively naïve method of woodcut illustration conveys in a botanical work, with a flower portrayed in line in singular contrast to the accompanying botanical description: altogether two thousand seven hundred woodblocks were individually cut for this massive herbal, which describes more than four thousand plants, most of them with medicinal properties. 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Antonio Magino Pat. Inclyti Bon. Gymnasij publico mathematico.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bononiae [Bologna] : Impensis ipsius auctoris Anno MDCIX. [1609].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThree parts in one; leather-bound; softcover; folio (37cm x 25cm x 6cm); pp. [8], 104, [1], 105-107, 109, 109, 109-290, 182, 15 [i.e. 22]. Signatures: [a]2 b4 c2 A-4B4 4C6; A-K4 L6 M-2Y4 2A-B4 C2 D-F4. Latin text in Roman and Italic letter. Coeval full limp vellum binding with handwritten title on the spine; engraved title, woodcut diagrams, decorative capitals, head- and tail-pieces, tables and charts, colophon leaf at end. Condition: GOOD. Covers somewhat soiled, marked and cockled, with a small split to the upper joint. Perhaps lacking an initial blank but otherwise collates complete, first few leaves with staining and slight marginal wear, remaining contents largely very well-preserved, some minor creasing, remains of bookplate to pastedown and with a number of old biblioteca stamps throughout. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617) was a prominent Italian astronomer, cartographer, and professor of mathematics in Bologna, a chair for which he was preferred over Galileo in 1579. An admirer of Copernicus and a long-time correspondent of Brahe and Kepler, he proposed his own geocentric theory in 1589. His ephemerides, tables providing the position of celestial bodies in the sky at regular time intervals in the future, were first published in 1580, then periodically updated with new volumes. These works gained him international fame as an astrologer; during his life and well after his death, English and German almanacs were published under his name, and he was known as \"The Italian prophecier\".​ This work was originally published in 1604 under the title \"Tabulae primi mobilis quas directionum vulgo dicunt\". In 1607 he published in Venice the De astrologica ratione, ac usu dierum criticirum, seu decreeriorum; ac praeterea de cognoscendis et medendis morbis ex corporum coelestium cognitione (rest. Frankfurt 1608), a synthesis of \"medical astrology\". The present volume - a more demanding work - followed in Bologna in 1609. It was a development of the 'Tabulae Primi Mobilis' (Venice 1604), dedicated to Rudolph II, who had expounded the elements of plane and spherical trigonometry and given tables of the relative functions (but only for astrological use and with less accuracy). The tabular section has special title-page, with title: Io. Antonii Magini ... 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I. Their divine service in an unknown tongue. II. Their taking away the cup from the people. III. Their witholding the Scriptures from the laicks. IV. The adoration of images. V. The invocation of saints and angels. VI. The doctrine of merit. VII. Purgatory. VIII. Their seven sacraments. IX. Their priests intention in baptism. X. The limbo of unbaptized infants. XI. Transubstantiation. XII. The propitiatory sacrifice of the mass. XIII. Private masses. XIV. The sacrament of penance. XV. The sacrament of marriage, with the clergies restraint therefrom. XVI. Their sacrament of extream unction. XVII. Tradition. XVIII. That thred-bare question, where was your Church before Luther? XIX. The infallibility of the Pope with his councils. XX. Tho [sic] Pope’s supremacy. XXI. The Pope’s deposing power. XXII. Their uncharitableness to all other Christians. By a moderate son of the Church of England.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: printed for Brab. 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