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Opere di Galileo Galilei ... In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell'...

Opere di Galileo Galilei ... In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell' istesso autore non piu stampati accresciute.

Bologna: per gli heredi del Dozza, [1655]-, 1656.

Price: $35,000.00

Two volumes bound in matching contemporary vellum, lightly soiled. Internally, a fine, broad-margined set with the usual variable light paper toning associated with this edition and scattered light foxing. Minor faults as follows: a paper repair to the blank margin of one leaf and two short marginal tears, far from...

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Cours complet d’anatomie, peint et gravé en couleurs naturelles. Arnaud-Éloi GAUTIER...

Cours complet d’anatomie, peint et gravé en couleurs naturelles.

Nancy: Jean-Baptiste-Hyacinthe LeClerc, 1773.

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A fine copy of this magnificent book, bound in contemporary green vellum, somewhat rubbed and spotted, re-backed. Some marginal spotting and thumbing, waterstaining to lower inner blank margin and upper, outer corner of 3 plates, slight crease in image on final plate, a few marginal tears. Illustrated with 15 very...

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The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in...

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirvrgerie. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apothecarye of London.

London: A. Islip, Joice Norton, and R. Whitaker, 1633.

Price: $10,500.00

With an engraved title by John Payne and over 2,000 woodcuts of plants throughout the text. This is a fine copy, very clean, with the engraved title page in very good condition (only a little marginal soiling.) Bound in 17th c. English mottled calfskin with discreet repairs. With the original...

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Discorsi... intorno al comporre de i Romanzi, delle Comedie, e delle Tragedie, e di altre maniere...

Discorsi... intorno al comporre de i Romanzi, delle Comedie, e delle Tragedie, e di altre maniere di Poesie. Con la tavola delle cose piu notabili in tutti essi discorsi contenute.

Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari e fratelli, 1554.

Price: $3,600.00

Contemporary limp vellum, colored edges, some light marginal foxing, v. light stain on p. 80. A very nice copy with the 18th-c. engraved bookplate of Felice Durando Count of Villa (1729-1791), famous for his erudition and his famous library. With the printer's device on the title page and at the...

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The art of glass. Shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel. Likewise the...

The art of glass. Shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel. Likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses. To which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling. Also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers. A work containing many secrets and curiosities never before discovered. Illustrated with proper sculptures. Written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English. With an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours.

London: printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon, D. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh at the Rose and Crown, and R. Wilkin at the King’s-Head in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1699.

Price: $6,850.00

Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, rebacked. Very fine condition. Two plates lightly browned, marginal foxing to a few leaves. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates of glass-making furnaces, tools, crucibles, and other apparatus.The core of Blancourt's text is Christopher Merret's annotated Latin edition (1668) of Antonio Neri's "L'Arte Vetraria"(1612). Merret...

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Vida de la Venerable Madre Antonia de San Jacinto: Monja Professa de Velo Negro. José...

Vida de la Venerable Madre Antonia de San Jacinto: Monja Professa de Velo Negro.

Mexico: Herederos de la Viuda de Bernardo Calderón, 1689.

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Contemporary limp parchment, silk loop closures braided in colored thread and red glass bead catches (one loop broken, both beads present), remnants of a Dutch gilt embossed paper cover pasted under a later plain end-leaf inside both boards, pattern No. 61 by Munck; Overall a pleasing copy, some worming to...

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Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum : in quo primu[m] continetur Concilium Basiliense...

Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum : in quo primu[m] continetur Concilium Basiliense non illud, quod in magno Concilior[um] volumine vulgo circumfertur, sed quod Aeneas Syluius (qui postea Pius II. est appelatus) & eidem Concilio praesens interfuit, fideliter, & eleganter conscripsit. Insunt praeterea huic operi nobilissimo

Cologne: Ex aedibus nostris [Peter Quentel], 1535.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in 19th-century quarter calf, rebacked with spine preserved, some wear to extremities. A very good copy with occ. light foxing and scattered pencil notes in the margins. Light stain to one leaf (X4), last leaf verso lightly soiled. With numerous fine woodcut historiated initials. Elaborate woodcut title border by...

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Ein trostliche ermanung den angefocht(e)n gewissen vo(n) wegen gethoner sünd, wye un(d) wamitt...

Ein trostliche ermanung den angefocht(e)n gewissen vo(n) wegen gethoner sünd, wye un(d) wamitt Sye getröst werdenn, den Sathan, sich nit erschrecken lassenn.

Augsburg: M. Ramminger, 1524.

Price: $4,500.00

A crisp, bright copy in a modern guard. With a very fine four-part woodcut border with a gentleman and a lady. Excellent.Hans Greiffenberger was a Nuremberg painter who ran afoul of the authorities for both his art and for his subversive religious activism. In October 1524 he was investigated on...

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The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And several other...

The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And several other Lectures, Read before the Royal Society.

London: printed by W. Rawlins, for the Author, 1682.

Price: $15,000.00

A VERY FINE, LARGE PAPER COPY. Illustrated with eighty-three engraved plates, five of which are double-paged. This copy is bound in contemporary, mottled calf (some abrasions to boards, joints rubbed, small losses at head and foot of spine), spine ornately tooled in gold. Internally, this copy is in fine condition...

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Musaeum Regalis Societatis or a Catalogue & Description Of the Natural and Artificial Rarities...

Musaeum Regalis Societatis or a Catalogue & Description Of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge. Made By Nehemiah Grew M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Colledge of Physitians. Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. By the same Author.

London: Hugh Newman, 1681.

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Including thirty-one full-paged engraved plates (one folding) of the marvelous and exotic subjects of the collections of the Royal Society. This copy is bound in contemporary English mottled calf, discreet repairs to hinges and corners, light wear to extremities. Internally a very fine, crisp, tall copy, in excellent condition. Small...

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The description and vse of the sector, crosse-staffe, and other instruments: vvith a canon of...

The description and vse of the sector, crosse-staffe, and other instruments: vvith a canon of artificiall sines and tangents, to a radius of 10000.0000. parts, and the vse thereof in astronomie, navigation, dialling, and fortification, &c. The second edition much augmented. By Edm. Gunter sometime professor of astronomie in Gresham Colledge in London.

London: Printed by William Iones, for Iames Bowler, and are to be sold at the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, 1636.

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Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf, nicely rebacked and re-sewn. Light wear to edges. A clean copy, complete with the inserted slips. Small, light ink spot on engraved title. One leaf dusty. 2 sm. holes in leaf G4. Numerous woodcut diagrams and instruments in the text. The engraved instrument bound after...

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Observations in surgery: being a collection of one hundred and twenty eight different cases. With...

Observations in surgery: being a collection of one hundred and twenty eight different cases. With Particular Remarks on Each, For the Improvement of young Students. Wherein not only the Method of Practice in difficult Labours, but other Distempers incident to the Female Sex are copiously enlarged on: Among others, that of the Descent of the Womb; clearly proving the Reality of such a Disease, in Opposition to Mr. Verduc. To which are added, The particular Receipts of such Remedies as were used by the Author in each Case. Written originally in French, by Mr. Saviard, Chief Surgeon, and Operator in Midwifry, at the Hospital Hotel Dieu in Paris. The Candid Reception of Mr. Le Dran’s Observations by the Gentlemen of the Faculty, encouraged me to prosecute this translation, that the Whole may make a compleat Body of Practical Surgery. By J[ohn] S[parrow]. Surgeon

London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1740.

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Bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt, later gold tooled label, discreet repairs to foot of spine and corners. Internally a very nice, fresh copy. Unidentified 18th c. armorial bookplate on front paste-down.The sole English edition of “Nouveau recueil d'observations chirurgicales”(1702), by the Parisian obstetrician and surgeon Barthélemy Saviard, who practiced...

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Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam De Partu : de Membranis ac...

Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam De Partu : de Membranis ac humoribus Uteri : & de Conceptione.

Amsterdam: Lowjis Elzevier, 1651.

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Bound in contemporary vellum with later citron label, gilt, white and gold silk end-bands, original green silk book marker. Text crisp, bright and attractive, complete with the engraved title page.The London first edition was followed by three Amsterdam editions; "It is usually assumed that the Elzevir edition was the first...

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Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei. Henricus de Herpf, c

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474.

Price: $40,000.00

A fine copy, in an impressive binding, of the first edition, printed by Gutenberg’s apprentice, Peter Schoeffer. Bound in contemporary Bamberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 006, EBDB w000078, Bamberg Minoritenkloster], with flyleaves from vellum manuscript antiphonal, brass catch-plates with sphinxes, straps and clasps intact. Wormholes to both boards...

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Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei. Henricus de Herpf, c

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 12 March, 1481.

Price: $12,000.00

Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin, dyed red, over wooden boards, from an unidentified workshop [EBDB w003054], chain staple hole on lower board with hasp fragment, defects and small losses to spine. Early vellum spine label. Metal bosses and clasps renewed, lacking 1 catch. A crisp, fine copy internally. Rubricated, some deckled...

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The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood. John...

The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood

London: in Flete Streete By Thomas Povvell, 1556.

Price: $52,000.00

Bound in fine in 19th-century red morocco tooled in a cottage style, richly gilt, with red silk doublures. This is a fine, clean, and complete copy of a book rarely encountered in such condition. A small section of the upper part of the title page has been restored in pen...

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Ain treüe Ermanung an die strengen, Edlen, Festen, From(m)en und weyßen Eidgnossen, das sy nit...

Ain treüe Ermanung an die strengen, Edlen, Festen, From(m)en und weyßen Eidgnossen, das sy nit durch ire falsche(n) propheten verfürt sich wyder die lere Christi setzent.

Augsburg: Ramminger, 1523.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in modern wrappers. With a four-part woodcut “Wildman” border. Marginal foxing, light soiling.A very rare work by Sebastian Hofmeister, an early compatriot of Zwingli and an admirer and correspondent of Luther, considered one of the most learned and rhetorically skilled of the Swiss reformers. A Franciscan friar and humanist...

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La Salud. Manual de homeopatia para uso de las familias. Jaime HOMEOPATHY. MEDICINE. Pizá...

La Salud. Manual de homeopatia para uso de las familias.

Madrid: Se vende en la Farmacia Homeopática…. De la Señora Viuda del doctor Somolinos Real Academia Nacional de Medicina, 1887.

Price: $3,900.00

Bound in a contemporary wallet binding, modified to hold medicine. A rare, complete set comprising a Spanish homeopathy handbook for families together with homeopathic remedies prepared by the Solominos pharmacy of Madrid, the first homeopathic pharmacy in Spain.A fascinating witness to the diffusion and implementation of Hahnemann's theories. Inside the...

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ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ. Βατραχομυομαχια....

ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ. Βατραχομυομαχια. Υμνοι. ϕβ. VLYSSEA. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII.

Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524.

Price: $24,500.00

Two octavo volumes bound in 19th c. blue calf, gilt. With the Aldine anchor and dolphin device (A6) on the title page and the verso of the final leaf in each volume. Fine copies. A few marginal wormholes.This edition reprints Aldus’ letter to Girolamo Aleandro from the first Aldine edition.

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Poemata cum commentarijs eruditissimorum grammaticorum reconditissimis Antonii Mancinelli Iodoci...

Poemata cum commentarijs eruditissimorum grammaticorum reconditissimis Antonii Mancinelli Iodoci Badij Ascensii & Ioannis Britannici.

Milan: Giovanni Angelo Schinzenzeler per Giovanni Giacomo Da Legnano & fratelli, 1518.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in 18th c. cat’s-paw sheepskin, spine ruled in gold and with small gilt ornaments, gilt label (corners bumped, light wear to extremities.) A very good, crisp copy with minor defects as follows: scattered light spotting or staining, a few marginal tears, title page and final few leaves lightly browned...

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De sacramentis Christianae fidei. Hugo de Sancto Victore

De sacramentis Christianae fidei.

[Augsburg: Günther Zainer,] c., 1477.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, the brass clasp with catch-plate preserved. An original title on label on upper board is preserved, with slight loss. The binding has been rebacked and has some other minor restorations; the lower boards is a bit wormed, the upper hinge is cracked...

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Auslegung uber Sankt Augustins Regel. Humbertus de Romanis

Auslegung uber Sankt Augustins Regel

[Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut,] c., 1488.

Price: $19,000.00

A large copy bound in contemporary Augsburg blindstamped calf over wooden boards [Kyriss 81, EBDB w002144], title tooled on upper board, author’s name inscribed on fore-edge, label on upper board. The binding is a little worn, with a few wormholes, some leather missing from spine, lacking clasps. An early printed...

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De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus. Ulrich von Hutten

De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus.

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...

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Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae, cum Imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis. Libellus auctus cum...

Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae, cum Imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis. Libellus auctus cum elencho & Iconiis Consulum ab Authore. M.D. XXXIIII.

Strasbourg: Vuolphgangus Caephalaeus, 1534.

Price: $6,500.00

This volume is profusely illustrated with several hundred woodcut images, most of which are by Hans Weiditz. "The medallions of the emperors [and their families] are 268 in number, commencing with Julius Caesar and ending with Frederick III, Maximilian I and his son Philip the Fair, Charles V and Ferdinand...

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Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae, cum Imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis. Libellus auctus cum...

Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae, cum Imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis. Libellus auctus cum elencho & Iconiis Consulum ab Authore. M.D. XXXIIII

Strasbourg: Vuolphgangus Caephalaeus, 1534.

Price: $4,500.00

A nice copy with only the occasional minor stain or dust-soiling. Wide margins. Contemporary stiff vellum, a bit soiled, head and tail of spine nicely repaired. This volume is profusely illustrated with several hundred woodcut images, most of which are by Hans Weiditz. "The medallions of the emperors [and their families]...

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