1762Best.-Nr. 80904Frankfort: Officina Fleischeriana 1762. hardcover. near fine. Folding frontispiece. 2 volumes in one. 134 37 pages. 18mo modern 1/2 tan letter; tiny dampstain on margins throughout. Francofurti: In Officina Fleischeriana 1762. Near fine. This is evidently the London Pharmacopeia of 1746 the most excellebt produced to that time and in most respects an improvement over previous ones. STC. See Monk vol III Appendix for a description. Cf. Osler 6089. Waller 7386. Blake p. 349. Officina Fleischeriana unknown

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The Codex Perez: An Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphic Book. A photographic facsimile reproduced from the original in the Bibliotheque Nationale Paris.

1933Best.-Nr. 75426Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company 1933. First edition. One of 250 copies printed for private distribution. Tall octavo. 10 pp. of text plus the 22-panel accordion fold facsimile of the Codex. Publisher's printed gray wrappers. Small split along top inch of spine not affecting integrity and hard to discern. A very good copy.The Paris Codex also known as the Codex Peresianus and Codex Perez is one of four surviving generally accepted pre-Columbian Maya books dating to the Postclassic Period of Mesoamerican chronology c. 900–1521 AD although recent scholarship points to it being of far greater antiquity. The content of the codex is mainly ritual in nature and one side of the codex contains the patron deities and associated rituals for a cycle of thirteen k atuns a 20-year Maya calendrical cycle. The reverse of the codex is more varied in nature and includes a section dedicated to a calendrical cycle ruled by Chaac the god of rain. It also includes information about the prognostication of rainfall and maize crop yields as well as information about spiritual forces. It was purchased by the Bibliotheque Royale of Paris in 1832 and remains there to today. Arthur H. Clark Company unknown

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(DA VINCI - CODEX LEICESTER). LONDON CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS LTDBiblio.com