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Item #4556 Musaeum Franc. CalceolarI iun. Veronensis a Benedicto Ceruto medico incaeptum: et ab...

Musaeum Franc. CalceolarI iun. Veronensis a Benedicto Ceruto medico incaeptum: et ab Andrea Chiocco med. physico excellentiss. collegii luculenter descriptum, & perfectum, in quo multa ad naturalem, moralemq[ue] philosophia[m] spectantia, non pauca ad rem medicam pertinentia erudité proponuntur, & explicantur; non sine magna rerum exoticarum supellectile, quæ artifici plane manu in æs incisæ, studiosis exhibentur.

Verona: Apud Angelum Tamum, 1622.

Price: $40,000.00

With a printed half-title: “Musaeum Calceolarianum Veronense”, a fine, historiated, engraved title page, and a folding engraving showing the interior of Calzolari’s museum. The text is illustrated with 43 engravings of animals, plants, minerals, and ethnographic objects. There is also a profusion of woodcut initials throughout the text. The plates...

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Item #4587 The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of...

The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of England. By Robert Plot, LL.D.

Oxford: And are to be had there: And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard. 1677.

Price: $8,500.00

An excellent, very tall copy on heavy paper. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, (nicely rebacked and with repairs to the corners, some mild surface wear. The boards are framed by a double gilt rule, the central compartment with a roll-tooled border and ornate floral tools at the corners, gilt.The...

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Item #4560 Raguaglio dell'origine et giornali successi della gran peste contagiosa, venefica, &...

Raguaglio dell'origine et giornali successi della gran peste contagiosa, venefica, & malefica seguita nella Città di Milano.

Milan: Filippo Ghisolfi ad instanza di Giovan Battista Bidelli, 1648.

Price: $6,500.00

Bound in 19th c. quarter green morocco and mottled boards, gilt (wear to extremities and hinges). The contents are in fine condition with just a small mark in the blank margin of C4 and a small marginal ink stain on four leaves (S4-T2), far from the text. Printer’s device (cat...

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Item #3078 The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius...

The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor in Physicke. The first [& Second] tome.

London: Impensis G. Bishop, 1601.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in contemporary English calfskin, ruled in blind, rebacked and recornered in morocco. An excellent, crisp, bright copy with very minor faults: repaired clean tear with no loss, leaf P4. A few signatures with very light marginal dampstains. Occasional rust spots, marginal tears, or marginal natural paper flaws, no loss...

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Item #2885 Sphaera mundi [with] Johannes Regiomontanus: Disputationes contra Cremonensia...

Sphaera mundi [with] Johannes Regiomontanus: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta [and] Georg von Peurbach: Theoricae novae planetarum.

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 6 July, 1482.

Price: $38,000.00

Bound in fine 20th c. dark green crushed morocco with the gilt monogram and armorial device of the noted collector George Abrams. Leaf a2 is printed in red and black and has two very fine decorative initials on black ground. There is a full-page woodcut of an armillary sphere on...

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