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1993ref. 26369Madison: Ghost Pony Press 1993. Paperback. 167p. preface illustrations very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The Native American poet teaches Chicano studies and literature. Ghost Pony Press paperback books
2000ref. 32809New York: Dutton. As New in As New dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525945326 . A stunning first edition/first printing in As New condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Ann Prospero directly on the title page; Almost Night is the story of a love that transcends time and space. It is the story of a forbidden love that was meant to be. It is the story of a love that was never meant to be.; 8vo; Signed by Author . Dutton hardcover books
2000ref. 32805New York: Dutton. As New in As New dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525945326 . A bright first edition/first printing in As New condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Ann Prospero directly on the title page; Prospero is a magician who has been banished from the kingdom of Naples. He finds himself in the company of a group of misfits and outcasts who have been banished from their own kingdoms. They set out on an adventure to find new homes and protect the people they meet along the way.; 8vo; Signed by Author . Dutton hardcover books
ref. 27334hardcover. Cum praefatione Hermanni Boerhaave. Editio altera Leidensis cujus textum recensuit passim emendavit supplevit; citata Hippocratis loca accuravit Hieron. Dav. Gaubius. Rubricated title with an engraved vignette. Fine large folding copperplate portrait of the author. 558 i.e. 564pp. index. Sm. 4to modern leather. Lugduni Batavorum 1733. Excellent Leiden edition of the Italian physician's "classical work on prognosis". G-M 2194 1st ed. Venice 1601. De praesagienda is "a detailed study of prognostics in which attention is devoted to the patient's mental state and its bearing on health as well as to the usual physical and diagnostic signs". DSB I 125. In addition to being a notable diagnostician Alpini was an accomplished botanist one of the first in the 16th century to examine plants outside the context of their therapeutic uses helping to advance the frontiers of botanical science. He is also well known for his books on Egyptian medicine and plants. Hirsch I 101. Waller 371. Blake 12. Wellcome II 36. "C'est.bel ouvrage". Biog. med. I 160. unknown books
1733ref. 379773Leyden: Isaac Severini 1733. Second Leyden edition whose text has been revised amended suplplemented and the cited places of Hippocrates have bee revised amended.by Hieron. Dav. Gaubius. With engraved folding portrait of Alpini. 20 568 46pp. Small 4to. Contemporary vellum. Second Leyden edition whose text has been revised amended suplplemented and the cited places of Hippocrates have bee revised amended.by Hieron. Dav. Gaubius. With engraved folding portrait of Alpini. 20 568 46pp. Small 4to. Seven books on predicting the life and deayj of patients. In which the entire Hippocratic art of predicting the various outcomes of diseases in poatients both the dogmas of the ancient physicians and from long and accurate observation shines forth by a new method. With a prefacew by Herman Boerhaave. GM 2194; Heirs of Hippocrates 386 for the First Edition 1601 Isaac Severini unknown books
1912ref. 84830London: William Rider & Son 1912. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's deep blue embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 299pp. 16pp publisher's ads to rear. Minor scuffing and bumping to spine ends and corners a little discoloration of the cloth in places very slight lean; internally clean with some marginal foxing to the prelims and page edges. A very good strong copy. A bizarre and often rather unwieldy time travel romp involving the discover of a modern revolver and a handful of sovereigns in an ancient Armenian tomb during an archaeological dig. It transpires that the tomb of the Biblical King Balthazar contains papyri suggesting that he was a time travelling student of the occult who also summoned a number of Egyptian gods witnessed the birth of Christ and took part in the Trojan War oh and he also rescues Helen of Troy from Hades and then marries her. One can only assume that those early 20th century British chaps were made of sterner stuff. A typically eccentric piece of rompery from Frederick Rolfe who laid claim to writing 95% of it with Pirie-Gordon adding flavor who never saw a convention literary or otherwise that he didn't want to overturn. William Rider & Son unknown books
1719ref. 2305474Lugduni Batavorum Leyden: Boutesteiniana 1719. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Minor loss from corners small paper remnant on spine head. 1719 Full-Leather. xxiv 765 37 pp. Full calf red morocco spine label gilt titles gilt tooled compartments marbled endpapers. Latin text. A medical work by the Venetian physician and botanist whose descriptions of coffee and banana plants are the earliest written records in European literature. Prospero Alpinus oversaw the botanical garden at Padua and wrote the first significant history of Egyptian medicine see Garrison-Morton 6468. This work advocates the Methodic School of medicine of ancient Greece and Rome which focused on treatment based on generalities of disease rather than history of individual patients. Boutesteiniana hardcover books
1645ref. 48771Paris: Nicolaum Redelichuysen 1645. First edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Octavo. 11 150 25 39 1 leaves. Rebound in modern brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Red edges. First title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. Historiated and decorative headpieces tailpieces and initials. Both titles second editions Alpini's title first published in 1591 Bondt's in 1642. Alpini was a physician and botanist Bondt a Dutch physician and pioneer of tropical medicine. Alpini's work is illustrated with four in-text and two full page woodcuts. Alpini traveled in Egypt and became the fourth prefect of the Botanical Garden in Padua. "One of the earliest European studies of nonwestern medicine. Alpini's work dealt primarily with contemporary i.e. Turkish practices observed during a three-year sojourn in Egypt. These included moxibustion - the production of counter-irritation by placing burning or heated material on the skin - which Alpini introduced into European medicine. Alpini also mentioned coffee for the first time in this work" Norman. With extensive index at rear. De Bondt was a pioneer of tropical medicine. His work on East Indian medicine included here is based on experiences during four years he spent in Djakarta. It was the first important treatise on diseases in East India and includes the first modern description of Cholera and other tropical diseases. First published posthumously in 1642. Index at rear. Text in Latin. Binding with light wear along edges and rubbed spine lightly sunned. Ex-Libris of German-born British professor of chemistry Franz Sondheimer on inside front cover. The first four leaves frayed with small chips at lower foredge no loss of text a few small inked entries and a small stamp of the Royal Medical Society Edinburgh on front cover. Title page with paper reinforcement on back. First in-text woodcut with stamp in center second woodcut with stamp grazing image third and fourth with stamp outside imagery. The two full page woodcuts with stamps grazing the border of image. Some light sporadic foxing of block and last page with chipping along edges some loss of the printed word Index and foxing and browning along edges. Small dealer sticker on inside back cover. Nicolaum Redelichuysen hardcover books
1801ref. ST20887Parma: Giambattista Bodoni 1801. 165 x 113 mm. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2". 3 p.l. 100 pp. 1 leaf blank; 8 p.l. 132 pp. 1 leaf blank; 1 p.l. VIII 2 86 pp. 1 leaf blank; 2 p.l. first blank VII 1 135 1 pp. Four parts bound in one volume. Virgil's "Bucolics" and "Georgics" translated into Italian verse by Prospero Manara. Handsome contemporary scarlet straight-grain morocco gilt in the style of Bozerian covers framed by annular dots gilt fillet and cresting loop and dagger roll smooth spine divided into panels by gilt rule and annular dots four panels with lattice-work design two with gilt lettering one with Neoclassical ornament gilt-rolled turn-ins blue paste-paper endpapers fore- and tail edges untrimmed. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Comte Dmitry Boutourlin and ex-libris of Dr. Tibulle Desbarreaux-Bernard. Brooks 808. A couple of faint scratches to rear board extremities lightly rubbed otherwise QUITE A FINE COPY--remarkably clean fresh and bright internally the smooth untrimmed paper with enormous margins and the binding lustrous and altogether pleasing. With distinguished provenance this is a very appealing copy of a collection of a Parma poet's works and an excellent specimen of Bodoni printing. Giambattista Bodoni 1740-1813 worked for more than 20 years at the Royal press in Parma before obtaining permission to set up his own private press in 1791. Brooks says "He took his printing in all its branches very seriously laboured incessantly to perfect his type had a fine artistic sense . . . and produced books not only of a very high standard but also showing a remarkably distinct individuality." Bodoni used the finest quality paper available and his clear beautiful types have been envied and copied for many generations. "The result of his labours is a long list of books which . . . reach a very high many of them the highest level of technical excellence." That technical expertise is much on display here. Bodoni has clearly laid out text here as for a duodecimo but printed it on especially fine octavo-sized paper giving the book the luxurious feel of an especially Large Paper Copy. In addition a range of his roman and italic types appears here with some pages displaying up to 10 different type sizes. The text comprises the poems of Marchese Prospero Valeriano Manara 1714-1800 a Parma statesman who through his career served as Minister of State and was a close correspondent of the duke. Assembled by Manara's sons following his death the present work is composed of four parts. The first is made up of Manara's original eclogues and sonnets; this is followed by Italian translations of Virgil's "Bucolics" and "Georgics" the latter appearing here for the first time; and the fourth section contains an elegy written in Manara's honor by Count Antonio Cerati pen name Filandro Cretense 1738-1816. The present copy in attractive contemporary morocco comes with the provenance of two major 19th century collections. Previous owner Count Dmitry Boutourlin 1763-1829 was a general politician historian librarian and one of Russia's most famous bibliophiles whose impressive library included 244 early manuscripts and about 1000 incunables in addition to a complete collection of Bodoni imprints and a nearly complete assemblage of Aldine editions. After his retirement from the military Boutourlin served as director of the Russian Imperial Library. Our copy later resided in the collection of Toulouse physician and bibliophile Tibulle Desbarreaux-Bernard 1798-1880 who published widely on print history. Giambattista Bodoni unknown books
1620ref. 50700Firenze Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli 1620. Second state. Very good. First edition of this landmark neoclassical tragedy - the first documented performance using moveable scenes - with exquisite double-page etchings of the stage by an influential innovator of the form. First performed in Florence in 1619 IL SOLIMANO was a turning point in modern European theater. Bonarelli not only rejected the chorus format of the long-established ancient Greek model but made use of extravagant set design to tell his political-historical drama. Bonarelli based the tragedy loosely on Suleiman the Magnificent the famed Turkish sultan of the 16th century under whose rule the Ottoman Empire experienced a Golden Age of the arts. The story of a tyrant who puts to death his eldest son IL SOLIMANO culminates in the awe-inspiring destruction of the city by fire. Otto Benesch calls the moveable scenes created for the performance "the first in the history of theatre" 17 and notes that despite the ostensibly Turkish setting these sets depict early modern Florence. A mixture of neoclassicism and orientalism IL SOLIMANO captured the imagination of Europe going through multiple editions over the century and inspiring further plays and operas. This first edition remains highly sought for its Callot plates that not only depict the innovative set but show many of the subtleties of style and technique that Callot pioneered under the patronage of the Medicis. His well-known mastery of stoppings out for example is evident in the final plate of the city in flames where tendrils of smoke and individual bursts of fire cross the scene in a variety of depth light and shade. An important work in both the history of theater and of the graphic arts. Quarto 8.75'' x 6.45''. Later half parchment with marbled boards gilt-ruled spine red goatskin spine label. Complete with six plates by Callot engraved title page and 5 double-page etchings. Engraved title with Callot's name in bottom left. 10 162 2 pages. Repairs in gutters of a number of leaves including reinforcements or new stubs to engraved spreads. Light scattered foxing spot of browning to title page gutter. Engravings crisp. Pietro Cecconcelli unknown books
1936ref. 200120Lima: Antonio Lulli 1936. Paperback. Good Wraps are toned/edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; bookplate of former owner ifc; interior is toned with occasional smudging and foxing; binding is solid. Grey stapled wraps with black lettering and design; 24 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in Spanish. [Antonio Lulli] paperback books
