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Lumen Animae. Incipit: Liber moralitatum elegantissimus magnarum reru[m] naturalium lumen anime...

Lumen Animae. Incipit: Liber moralitatum elegantissimus magnarum reru[m] naturalium lumen anime dict[us]: cu[m] septe[m] apparitorib[us] necno[n] sanctoru[m] doctoru[m] orthodoxe fidei p[ro]fessorum Poetaru[m] etia[m] ac oratoru[m] auctoritatib[us] p[er] modum pharatre s[e]c[un]d[u]m ordine[m] alphabeti collectis feliciter incipit.

Strasbourg: Printer of the 1481 Legenda aurea, 22 March, 1482.

Price: $35,000.00

Bound in contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards from the bindery of the Augustinian monastery of St Zeno in Reichenhall (Upper Bavaria, active c. 1475-1528, EDBD w002516). The binding has been rebacked; the metal corner-pieces and perhaps a central boss have been removed. An original vellum label and shelf-mark are...

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Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II....

Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II. imperatoris Medicus. Postea Adrianus Tollius, Lugd.-Bat., M. D., recensuit; figuris melioribus, & commentariis pluribus illustravit, & indice auxit multo locupletiore. Tertia editio longe purgatissima. Cui accedunt Ioannis De Laet, Antvverpiani, De Gemmis & Lapidibus libri II. Et Theophrasti liber De Lapidibus, Gr. & Lat. cum brevibus notis.

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647.

Price: $4,900.00

Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum. Contents in excellent condition (light stain in outer margin of two leaves), complete with both folding tables (both with small tears without loss.) Illustrated with eighty-seven (87) woodcuts of gems and minerals, including geodes, hematite, crystals, corral, and fossils.Third and best edition (1st 1609, 2nd...

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De subtilitate libri XXI. nunc demum recogniti atque perfecti. Girolamo Cardano

De subtilitate libri XXI. nunc demum recogniti atque perfecti.

Basel: L. Lucius, 1554.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in early 19th c. mottled calf, rubbed and worn at extremities, expertly re-backed by Sean Richards. Gold-tooled border to boards, spine gilt and with labels. Internally a very fine copy with a little bit of foxing to scattered leaves. Title a little dusty. Large woodcut portrait of the author...

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Die Mißgeburt eines Schweins. Albrecht Dürer

Die Mißgeburt eines Schweins.

Germany: ca. 1496.

Price: $12,000.00

A fine impression, with good clarity and strong contrasts. Slight breakdown in the delicate cuts. Trimmed within the platemark, inconspicuous paper repair to edge. Provenance: From the renowned collection of Richard Holtkott (1890-1950) (Lugt 4265). Bartsch 95, High Crown watermark (Meder 20).“The pig represented here refers to 'The Monstrous Pig...

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Aula Subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, das ist, Untererdische Hofhaltung: ohne...

Aula Subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, das ist, Untererdische Hofhaltung: ohne welche weder die Herren regiren, noch die Unterthanen gehorchen können : oder, Grundliche Beschreibung derjenigen Sachen so in der Tieffe der Erden wachsen, als aller Ertzen der königlichen und gemeinen Metallen…

Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684.

Price: $6,800.00

Complete with the engraved title page, which has been folded at the bottom to avoid trimming by the binder. Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and marbled boards with some minor wear. The contents are in very fine condition. Small adhesion scar to title. Illustrated with 41 large woodcuts."Ercker's treatise...

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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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Historia Naturale di Ferrante Imperato Napolitano: nella quale ordinatamente si tratta Della...

Historia Naturale di Ferrante Imperato Napolitano: nella quale ordinatamente si tratta Della diversa condition di Minere, Pietre pretiose, & altre curiosità: Con varie Historie di Piante, & Animali, sin'hora non date in luce. In questa Seconda Impressione aggiontovi da Gio. Maria Ferro Spetiale alla Sanità, alcune Annotationi alle Piante nel Libro vigesimo ottavo. Dedicata all’Altezza Ser.[enissi]ma Di Giovan Federico Duca di Brunswick, et Lunenburg.

Venice: Presso Combi, & La Noù. 1672.

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The text is illustrated with 127 woodcuts of gems and minerals, plants, animals, and a folding, double-paged scene of the museum’s interior. Mortimer (Harvard Italian 240) notes that Manzi (Stigliola, p. xiv) suggests Mario Cartaro as the artist of these blocks. This copy is bound in contemporary calf, re-backed and...

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Etymologiae. Isidore of Seville, Isidorus Hispalensis

Etymologiae.

[Cologne: Conrad Winters de Homborch], not after, 1476.

Price: $180,000.00

An impressive, rubricated and illuminated copy with broad margins. Illuminated with 27 acanthus initials in gold, red, green, and blue with scrolling tendrils extending into the margins; numerous red and blue Lombard initials, and 6 hand-colored woodcut illustrations including the T-O map, and a full-page type-set tree of consanguinity.Bound in...

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Muséum Regium Seu Catalogus Rerum tam naturalium, quàm artificialium, Quæ In Baslilica...

Muséum Regium Seu Catalogus Rerum tam naturalium, quàm artificialium, Quæ In Baslilica Bibliothecæ Augustissimi Daniæ Norvegiæq; Monarchæ Christiani Qvinti Hafniæ asservantur, Descriptus Ab Oligero Jacobæo, Me. & Phil. Prof. Regio.

Copenhagen: Joachim Schmetgen, 1696.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the spine tooled in blind, with light wear. The contents are in excellent condition with the faintest amount of staining. The plates are in fine condition.The Royal Danish Kunstkammer was founded by King Frederick III in 1650 and was continued by his son, Christian V....

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Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum Celeberrimum, Cujus magnum Antiquariae rei, statuarum,...

Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum Celeberrimum, Cujus magnum Antiquariae rei, statuarum, imaginum, picturarumque partem Ex Legato Alphonsi Donini, S.P.Q.R. A Secretis, munifica Liberalitate relictum. P. Athanasius Kircherus Soc. Jesu, novis & raris inventis locupletatum, compluriumque Principum curiosis donariis magno rerum apparatu instruxit; Innumeris insuper rebus ditatum, ad plurimorum, maxime exterorum, curiositatisque doctrinae avidorum instantiam urgentesque preces novis compluribusque machinis, tum peregrinis ex Indiis allatis rebus publicae luci votisque exponit Georgius de Sepibus Valesius, Authoris in Machinis concinnandis Executor .

Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1678.

Price: $22,000.00

Bound in attractive 17th c. calfskin. A fine sammelband. The "Sphinx" exhibits the usual browning. The "Musaeum" is in very fine condition with just some closed tears (no loss whatsoever) to some of the folding plates, a small rust blemish on I1, small spot on H4, and light spotting to...

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Mvseo Cospiano Annesso A Qvello Del Famoso Vlisse Aldrovandi E donato alla sua Patria dall'...

Mvseo Cospiano Annesso A Qvello Del Famoso Vlisse Aldrovandi E donato alla sua Patria dall' Illustrissimo Signor Ferdinando Cospi Patrizio Di Bologna E Senatore Cavaliere Commendatore di S. Stefano, Balì d’Arezzo, e March. Di Petriolo, fra Gli Accademici Gelati Il Fedele, e principe al presente de' medesimi. Descrizione Di Lorenzo Legati Cremonese Dottor Filosofo, Medico, e Pubblico Professore delle Lettere Greche in Bologna, Accademica Apatista, e Ansioso. Al Serenissimo Ferdinando III Principe di Toscana

Bologna: Per Giacomo Monti, 1677.

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An unusually large copy on thick paper, bound in contemporary speckled calfskin over boards, the spine richly tooled in gold (light wear, corners bumped, small tear to the leather at the head of the spine, upper endband missing, lower endband partially loose.) A wide-margined copy, contents in very good condition...

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Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l’art, qui composent le...

Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l’art, qui composent le cabinet de M. Davila, avec figures en taille-douce.

Paris: M. Lambert for Briasson, 1767.

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Bound in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with morocco labels, light wear, small imperfections. Internally, all three volumes are in excellent condition. All 30 plates are crisp and in fine impressions.First and sole edition of this comprehensive catalogue of the collection of Pedro Francisco Dávila. The Dávila catalog (as it...

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The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus....

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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A restitvtion of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renovvmed...

A restitvtion of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renovvmed English nation. By the studie and trauaile of R.V. Dedicated vnto the Kings most excellent Maiestie

Antwerp: by Robert Bruney, 1605. And to be sold at London in Paules-Churchyeard, by Iohn Norton and Iohn Bill, 1605.

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A fine, broad-margined copy of the first edition, bound in early re-purposed vellum (soiled), original endpapers preserved. Text fresh with some deckled edges, minor cosmetic faults as follows: title a little soiled at head and very slightly frayed at fore-edge, light dampstain to upper corner of lvs. A1 and B2-4...

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Voyages aux côtes de Guinée & en Amerique. Par Mr. N***. SLAVERY. VOYAGES. NATURAL HISTORY

Voyages aux côtes de Guinée & en Amerique. Par Mr. N***.

Amsterdam: aux depens d’Etienne Roger, 1719.

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Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 38 partly folding engraved plates. Bound in contemporary tanned sheep (lightly rubbed and with tiny losses to the leather), the spine richly tooled in gold with attractive ornaments. Both boards have an armorial blind-stamp with a crowned monogram “CM” and a lion rampant. The...

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Museum Museorum, oder vollständige Schau-Bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, nebst deren...

Museum Museorum, oder vollständige Schau-Bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung. Aus andern Material-Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost- und West-Indischen Reiss-Beschreibungen.

Frankfurt: heirs of Johann David Zunner and Johann Adam Jungen, 1714.

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A very good set in contemporary vellum, backed in calf, tooled in gold, the transition from leather to vellum a little crude aesthetically. The text and plates are in very fine condition.The first complete edition of Valentini’s “Museum of museums”, a comprehensive survey of European Wunder- kunst- und Schatzkammern. “Valentini...

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Museum Wormianum. Seu historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam...

Museum Wormianum. Seu historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur. Adornata ab Olao Worm, Med. Doct. E, in Regia Hasniensi Academia, olim Professore publico. Variis & accuratis Iconibus illustrata.

Leiden: Ex Officina Elseviriorum, Acad. Typograph. 1655.

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Bound in contemporary vellum. An exceptionally broad-margined copy, complete with the added engraved portrait of the author (by Carel van Mander), and the iconic folding engraving of Worm’s museum, both engraved by G. Wingendorp. The text, portrait, and folding plate in excellent, fresh condition. Short worm-trail in lower margin of...

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