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1771ref. 35615in Venezia Venice: Presso Antonio Zatta 1771. Fine. Presso Antonio Zatta in Venezia Venice 1771 19.50 x 26 cm 2 volumes brochés New edition the first edition appears to have been published in 1733. Illustrated with two large engraved title head-pieces by Zatta. Miniature printing in double columns. Contemporary grey temporary boards. Tear at foot of volume II. Prospero Lambertini was elected Pope in 1740 under the name Benedict XIV. He died in 1758. He was a learned Pope nourished by science and open to the Enlightenment and attempted to soften the rigour of the church and dogma. Presso Antonio Zatta hardcover
ref. 15548Original Art. Original art for the syndicated strip Can You Beat It! from May 9 1930. Ink on illustration board measuring 34 x 42 cm. Upper right corner is torn but without affecting the art three pin sized holes on the edges. Italian born Ketten was a comic artist and illustrator who was particularly successful in the first half of the 20th century with features such as Can You Beat It The "Hurry Up" New Yorker and Poor Little Income! Signed and inscribed by Ketten on the lower right corner. unknown
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
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
ref. 34175, ss lieu, Ferrariæ 1753, in-4, pl. veau raciné fauve, tit. doré sur pc. brune, dos à 5 nerfs ornés de fleurons, dentelles et filets dorés encadrant les caissons et dentelles dorées sur les nerfs, tr. rouges, cul-de-lampe, bandeaux et lettrines, (1er plat lég. taché, 2ème plat lég. épidermuré, ptt accrocs au dos, coupes et coins émoussés avec mq. au coin inf. du 1er plat, mouillures marginales sur les premiers ff.), bon état malgré les défauts, [12ff.]-648p.
1754ref. 40299DB1754. Frankfurt Fleischer 1754. Kl.-4°. 8 Bl. 559 recte 558 S. 21 Bl. Index. Mit gestochenem Porträt als Frontispiz. Lederband aus der Zeit mit blindgeprägtem rotem Rückenschild. Hirsch-H. I 101. Blake 12. Frankfurter Nachdruckausgabe nach der zweiten in Leiden erschienenen von Gaub herausgegebenen und mit einem Vorwort von Boerhaaven versehenen Ausgabe. Ein klassisches Werk zur Prognostik das erstmals 1601 erschienen war. Papier stellenweise leicht gebräunt. Einband berieben und bestossen. unknown
1754ref. 40299DBFrankfurt, Fleischer, 1754. Kl.-4°. (8) Bl., 559 (recte 558) S., (21) Bl. Index. Mit gestochenem Porträt als Frontispiz. Lederband aus der Zeit mit blindgeprägtem, rotem Rückenschild.
1754ref. 40299BBFrankfurt, Fleischer, 1754. Klein-4°. 8 n.n. Bl., 559 (recte 558) S., 21 n.n. Bl. Index. Mit gestochenem Porträt als Frontispiz. Lederband der Zeit mit blindgeprägtem, rotem Rückenschild.
1601ref. 6467IB1601. Frankfurt Jonas Rhodius 1601. 8 Bl. 806 S. 17 Bl. Späterer Pergamentband mit grünen Stoffschließen Frontdeckel geringfügig gewölbt. Innengelenke mit geringfügigem Wurmfraß. Titel mit Namenszug von alter Hand. In äußerst schöner Erhaltung. unknown
1745ref. 64629Editio nova, 1 vol. in-8 cartonnage ancien, Apud Gerardum Potuliet, Lugduni Batavorum [ Leyde ], 1745, 12 ff., 325 pp., 23 ff. n. ch., pp. 73-258 et 1 f. n. ch., avec 7 planches hors texte (dont une planche dépliante)
ref. 241015 pamphlets bound in three volumes. Gathered together by a collector bound in tan cloth with morocco labels. Vol 1: 1 Collom e Ignez Pires Dois Communicados Aos Archeologos 1928; 2 Los Restos de Colon Informe de la Real Academia de la Historia 1879; 3 Relaciones Y Cartas de Cristobal Colon 1892; 4 Giornale di Bordo di Cristoforo Colombo 1492 - 1493 1939; Vol 2: 5 Cristobal Colon Natural de Pontevedra 1913; 6 Carta de la Santidad de Nuestro Senor Leon por la Divina Providencia Papa XIII a los Arzobispos y Obispos de Espana Italia Y Ambas Americas 1892; 7 Os Descobrimentos Portuguezes e Os de Colombo Tentativa de Coordenacao Historica 1892; 8 A Nacionalidade Portuguesa de Cristovam Colombo. The Portuguese Nationality of Christopher Columbus 1927; 9 Curiosidades Bibliograficas Y Documentos Ineditos Homenaje del Archivo Hispalense al Cuarto Centenario del Descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo 1892; 10 Disquisizioni Colombine No.1 La Nuova Scuola Spagnuola Anticolombina 1893; 11 Disquisizioni Colombine. No.2 & 3 Epoca Dell' Arrivo di Colombo in Portogallo La Sfera di Dante de Rinaldi e Il Sig. Harrisse. 1894; 12 La Firma Oficial de Colon por El P. Angel Ortega O.F.M. 1928; 13 Salvador Gonsalves Zarco Cristobal Colon Os Livros de Dom Tivisco por G.L. Santos Ferreira 1930; 14 Viajes Y Descubrimientos de los Companeros de Colon 1854; 15 Memoria Sobre A Residencia de Christovam Colombo na Ilha da Madeira 1892 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . hardcover
1745ref. 20421Lugduni Batavorum, apud Gerardum Potvliet, 1745. In-4 de [24]-324-[45]; [2]-de 73 à 258-[2] pages, vélin souple du temps, attache (il en manque une).
1836ref. 20911PRIMERA EDICION ORIGINAL.- Barcelona: Imp. de J. Oliveres y Monmany 1836.- 2 Vols. vol. I: 4 h. 12 p. 29 p. XII p. 254 p.; vol. II: 2 h. 381 p.: el vol. I con una tabla cronológica un grabado al cobre de Wifredo I y un grabado al cobre plegado del Mirhab de la mezquita de la ciudad de Tarragona el vol. II con un cuadro genealógico; 4º 23 cm.; Magnífica impresión sobre excelente papel de hilo blanco y terso; Enc. en Tela de color rojo.- IMPECABLE ESTADO. GENEALOGÃA HERÃLDICA NOBILIARIA ÓRDENES MILITARES MEDALLAS BANDERAS. Libro en español Imp. de J. Oliveres y Monmany hardcover
1712ref. 69148In Bologna : per li successori del Benacci 1712. Cm. 285 pp. 55 1 11 1. Con quattro grandi tavole incise in rame e più volte ripiegate f.t. Legatura coeva in cartoncino alla rustica ricoperto in carta marmorizzata. Esemplare genuino e ben conservato. Raro ed interessante. per li successori del Benacci unknown
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
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
1751ref. 44574Venetiis: Ex Typographia Remondiniana Superiorum Permissu ac Privilegio MDCCLI 1751.- 1 h. 314 p. 1 h. 16 p 10 h.: Ante la portada retrato de P. Alpini de medio cuerpo grabado al cobre un escudo emblemático en la portada grabado en madera y una viñeta grabada en madera en la cabeza de la pag. 1.; 4º 23 x 172 cm; Portada a dos tintas; Enc. de la época en Plena Piel marbreada valenciana lomo liso dorado con 4 grecas y el título en tejuelo. Mínimas rozaduras en los bordes que han sido restauradas. El grabado de Alpini tiene un pequeño defecto de impresión en su esquina inferior izquierda debido a una doblez del papel. Por lo demás en EXCELENTE ESTADO. Importante libro de este sabio médico y botánico veneciano del siglo XVI con prefacio y notas del prestigioso médico botánico y humanista neerlandés Herman Boerhaave con enmiendas y suplementos del importantísimo médico alemán Hieronymus David Gaubius y unas adiciones del propio autor sobre el famoso médico y erudito italiano Girolamo Fracastoro. HISTORIA Y LITERATURA MÉDICAS CRUZ ROJA BENEFICIENCIA HOSPITALES DEONTOLOGÃA HIGIENE EPIDEMIAS Libro en latín Ex Typographia Remondiniana hardcover
1683ref. 50221Printed in 1683 Rariora Magnæ Græciæ Numismata by Prospero Parisio edited by Johann Georg Volckamer records coinage from southern Italy including Calabria Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples. The text includes thirteen engraved plates illustrating coins from various cities along with lists of saints associated with these regions reflecting early methods of linking material culture with historical chronology. A facsimile map is also present. Good; leather binding tight and secure with rubbing to boards and corners pages generally clean with occasional light staining to corners text remains legible. Octavo 8vo single volume. Collation: 4 5–56 pp. Illustrations: 13 engraved plates and one facsimile map. Edition: 1683 2nd edition. #50221. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Johann Georg Volckamer (Editor) hardcover
1839ref. 757154Prati: Aldina 1839-1847 1839. Half leather. Missing the third and fourth volumes of De Servorum Dei Beatificatione . otherwise complete. Volume one the front board is detached. All other volumes have sound binding and clean contents aside from foxing and oxidizing to the paper. Boards are in acceptable condition. The leather spines are all distressed worn and chipped. Good reading copy photos available on request. Contents: t. 1-7. De servorum Dei beatificatione et beatorum canonizatione -- t. 8. De sacrosancto missæ sacrificio -- t. 9. De festis domini nostri Jesu Christi et Beatae Mariae Virginis -- t. 10. Institutionesecclesiasticas -- t. 11. De synodo dioecesana -- t. 12. Quaestiones canonicas et morales -- t. 13-14.Quaestiones canonicas et morales. Opuscula miscellanea. 1 v. -- t. 15-18. Bullarium. Prati: Aldina, 1839-1847 hardcover
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
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
1745ref. 357481745. Lugduni Batavorum apud Gerardum Potvliet 1745 4° 11 Bl. 325 45 pp. 2 pp.73-258 2 8 Kupferstichtafeln Kalbsledereinband der Zeit mit reichlicher Rückenvergoldung; Gelenke angeborchen aber fest ein feines Exemplar. Alpini 1553-1617 was an Italian physician and botanist who graduated from Padua and traveled through Greece Crete and Egypt from 1580 to 1583.First printed in 1591 this work on Egyptian medicine gives the first European recognition of the medicinal value of coffee. The second work by Jacob de Bondt is an important work on diseases of the East Indies. It includes the first modern descriptions of cholera tropical dysentery yaws and beri-beri. unknown
1687ref. ABE-1756044683371Paris: Paris: Daniel Horthemels 1687 1687 Original engraving 1687 from "Confucius Sinarum Philosophus sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita" Paris: Daniel Horthemels 1687. Plate Size: 37.424.2cm; Image Size: 28.320.9cm. 37.400x24.200x0.000 CENTIMETERS. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Paris: Daniel Horthemels, 1687 unknown
1735ref. 942P55Batavorum: Gerardum Potuliet 1735. Leather. Good Only. 8.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. A scarce copy of Prospero Alpini's pioneering work on the botany and Egypt a brilliant work this edition lavishly illustrated with detailed plates. Prospero Alpini's important and scarce work discussing the botanical life of Egypt.Illustrated with seventy-six plates. Collated bound without one plate being plate LVI. Also bound without leaf I4 a division title and T3.Register runs as 1 4 A-H4 I3 S4 T1-2 T4 V-2S4 2T2. First published in 1592 this was an influential works introducing many different botanical species to the Western world including the first known description of the coffee plant published in Europe. A pioneering work written from Alpini's notes of plants that he had personally examined which had been either cultivated in gardens or grew wild.Alpini wrote this work based on his observations made during a three year sojourn in Egypt. He was a physician and botanist from Venice and set off on his travels to Egypt in 1580. In a quarter morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally worn with rubbing to the boards and spine. Loss to the tail of the front board. Spine is faded. Light bumping to the extremities. Small damp stain to the head of the rear board. Front hinge is tender. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with a tide mark to the text block heavier to the first and last few pages. Good Only Gerardum Potuliet hardcover
1601ref. 699231601. Venetiis : Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessae 1601 4° 8 163 1 17 leafs contemporary vellum inked titles on spine; small chip to fore-edge of upper cover fine copy. Rare First Edition! With "H.F. Norman M.D." bookplate on front paste-down. A classical work on prognosis. Prosper Alpini 1553-1617 was well acquainted with the works of both Hippocrates and Galen and could have easily written full length studies of each physician. However he chose instead to write this classic treatise on prognosis based on Hippocrates' writings. A comprehensive study of prognostics Alpini placed special emphasis on the patient's mental well being and its relationship to health and included the usual physical and diagnostic signs. In addition to its appearance at Venice the book was also published the same year at Frankfurt by Jonas Rhodius. Garrison-Morton 2194; Osler 1801 1735 ed.; Waller 371 1733 ed. hardcover