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1815ref. 50802Paris: Chez l'auteur. 1815. Luna Calderon Nicolas. Démonstration pratique de la prophylaxis siphylitique authentiquement constatée. 52pp. Paris: Chez l'auteur . . . 1815. 197 x 127 mm. Bound with nine other works on venereal disease plus a manuscript table of contents in 19th-century sheep marbled boards spine worn and rubbed front hinge cracking. Spine title reads: "Recueil des Mémoires sur les Maladies Vénériennes." Foxing and toning but very good. From the library of Philippe Ricord. First Edition. Luna Calderon a Spanish physician claimed to have discovered an unfailing remedy for venereal disease the nature of which he declined to reveal. As described in the present pamphlet he demonstrated his remedy's effectiveness by injecting himself several times with infected material in the presence of a committee at the Venereal Hospital in Paris. Luna Calderon's Démonstration pratique is contained in a volume of 10 short works on venereal disease published between 1796 and 1815-some of them quite scarce-as noted in the list below. a. Vassal Pierre Gérard 1769-1840. Mémoire sur la transmission du virus vénérien de la mère à l'enfant. 78pp. Paris: Imprimerie de Valade 1807. First Edition. b. Société de Médecine. Instruction sommaire sur le traitement de la maladie vénérienne dans les campagnes. 4 3-48pp. Leaf A1 original 1786 title canceled. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de la République an 5 1796. Verso of the second leaf signed by Michel-Augustin Thouret 1749-1810 director of the École de Santé de Paris. Reissue of the 1786 edition with a new title and "Avertissement." Scarce with only two print copies Wellcome Library and another unidentified library cited in OCLC. c. Doueil J. F. Dissertation sur le bubon pestilential. 39pp. Paris: Devilleneuve junior 1803. First Edition. Dissertation presented at the École de Médecine de Paris by a former army surgeon. d. Cotton César-Victor. Dissertation sur les bubons siphilitiques ou vénériennes considerés dans leur simplicité et dans leurs diverses complications. 4 69 2pp. Paris: Imprimerie de Feugueray 1802. Marginal notes possibly by Ricord on pp. 36-37. First Edition. OCLC also cites a version with the imprint of Brochot père. Both versions are scarce with OCLC citing only 6 copies of the print edition all in European libraries. e. Deguerre J. J. S. Essai sur l'inoculation syphilitique. 43pp. Paris: Imprimerie de Feugueray 1803. First Edition. f. Mignard Jacques. Remarques sur les virus vénérien scorbutique et goutteux. Nouvelle édition revue corrigée et augmentee. 48pp. Paris: Chez l'auteur An 9 1800-1801. Marginal notes on the first three text pages. Later edition first published in 1795. g. Trappe. A. Dissertation sur les excroissances et les pustules vénériennes présentée et soutenue à l'École de Médecine de Paris . . . viii 69pp. Paris: Chez Gabon et Cie. An X 1801-2. First Edition. h. Tainturier. Observation médicale sur les suites très-extraordinaires d'une maladie vénérienne traitée par le mercure. 38pp. Paris: Chez Blanchon 1803. First Edition. Rare with no copies cited in OCLC. i. Leblanc R. F. Dissertation sur les maladies vénériennes des enfans nouveaux-nés et exposé des moyens curatifs. 48pp. Paris: Valade 1803. First Edition. . Chez l'auteur.. unknown books
1602ref. 21369I. Hondius sculp. - I Leclerc excu. 1602, 32,9 x 51 cm ; 41 x 53,4 cm avec les marges.
1660In-4, [12] ll. (incl. frontispiece), 689 pp., [9] ll., engraved title-page, full-page coat of arms of the dedicatee on the verso of the title, 12 copper-engraved plates; contemporary vellum, ms. title stamp, one clasp remaining, blue edges (tiny stain touching some margins, very rare sporadic browning, small cover defects). Genuine beautiful copy.
2019ref. 2081502111907756National Library Publishing Company 2019. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. National Library Publishing Company paperback
ref. 51-3047St. Albans London: F. Sander and J. French for Henry Sothern 1886-1888-1894. Folio 522 x 392. Housed in 4 elegant and massive slipcases of embossed lambskin over linen by the celebrated binder Sasha Mosalov.viii of x 110; viii 106; 8 iii 1 104; viii 24 27-114 pp. 2 Series in 4 volumes; with 192 chromolithograph plates after Henry George Moon W.H. Fitch & A.H. Loch wood-engravings throughout the text. Lacks first volume title page pp. 25/26 in final volume; plates with fresh tissue guards; some toning and edgewear occasional spots more so to verso dampstain in margins of some plates text with occasional foxing and toning some chips and damp staining wrappers with chips around extremities of the text pages which are on brittle pages.OCLC Number: 221762250FIRST EDITION of what Sitwell considers an "important and authoritative work for orchid growers." German-born Sander settled in St. Albans Hertfordshire where he ran a successful nursery specializing in orchids. The above work which was a collaboration with landscape painter Henry G. Moon was named in honor of the renowned German orchidologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. The chromolithographs are among the best of its day with hand-cut blocks and use of up to 20 colors. Great Flower Books p 135.Very Heavy will cost extra for shipping. St. Albans, London: F. Sander and J. French for Henry Sothern, [1886]-1888-1894. unknown
1596ref. 39771Romae Rome: Apud Iacobum Lunam. Impensis Leonardi Parasoli & Sociorum 1596. First edition. Hardcover. poor to vg. Folio 15 1/4 x 10 3/4". 8 705 1pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped calf with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Striking floral design painting to paper edges with head of Christ on fore-edge. Engraved title by Francesco Villamena. Title page in red and black lettering and highlighted in gold. Decorative initials and tailpiece. Dedication to Pope Clement VIII by M. Vestrius Barbianus the Papal secretary. Printer's device on last page. Illustrated with no less than 156 magnificent hand-colored in-text engravings this monumental work is the official and complete liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. It contains the offices for sacramental and other sacred acts and ceremonies such as baptism communion confirmation ordination matrimony dedication of churches altars bells benediction of crosses sacred vestures burials coronations etc. Also includes numerous liturgical motets in Latin for Masses Te Deum and other religious ceremonies. All the engravings as well as the decorative initials and the printer's device at rear have been splendidly handcolored by a contemporary previous owner. Binding rubbed along edges. Covers detached but present. Title page repaired and re-laid. The first 24 leaves are disbound. Pages 15 to 30 heavily sunned with sporadic holes thus partly affecting text and some illustrations. Minor to moderate age-toning along paper margin for the remaining pages. Text in Latin. Binding in overall poor pages 15-30 in poor to fair the remaining pages in good to very good condition. Apud Iacobum Lunam. Impensis Leonardi Parasoli & Sociorum hardcover
1596ref. 39771Romae Rome: Apud Iacobum Lunam. Impensis Leonardi Parasoli & Sociorum 1596. First edition. Hardcover. poor to vg. Folio 15 1/4 x 10 3/4". 8 705 1pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped calf with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Striking floral design painting to paper edges with head of Christ on fore-edge. Engraved title by Francesco Villamena. Title page in red and black lettering and highlighted in gold. Decorative initials and tailpiece. Dedication to Pope Clement VIII by M. Vestrius Barbianus the Papal secretary. Printer's device on last page. Illustrated with no less than 156 magnificent hand-colored in-text engravings this monumental work is the official and complete liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. It contains the offices for sacramental and other sacred acts and ceremonies such as baptism communion confirmation ordination matrimony dedication of churches altars bells benediction of crosses sacred vestures burials coronations etc. Also includes numerous liturgical motets in Latin for Masses Te Deum and other religious ceremonies. All the engravings as well as the decorative initials and the printer's device at rear have been splendidly handcolored by a contemporary previous owner. Binding rubbed along edges. Covers detached but present. Title page repaired and re-laid. The first 24 leaves are disbound. Pages 15 to 30 heavily sunned with sporadic holes thus partly affecting text and some illustrations. Minor to moderate age-toning along paper margin for the remaining pages. Text in Latin. Binding in overall poor pages 15-30 in poor to fair the remaining pages in good to very good condition. Apud Iacobum Lunam. Impensis Leonardi Parasoli & Sociorum hardcover books
