TOLLEN (not TORREN), Gerrit van der, author & MOTOKI Masahide (or Shōei or Shōzaemon) 本木正栄, transABAA
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réf. 10340Many fine woodcuts throughout. Four parts & appendices in five vols. 8vo orig. semi-stiff wrappers a little frayed old stitching orig. title slips on covers. Tokyo: Yamasakiya Seishichi 山崎屋清七 et al. 1852. First printed edition of this artillery manual from the bakumatsu period. In the early 19th century Japan came under increased pressure from Western nations that wanted access to Japanese ports. “The Shogunate government issued the Order to Drive Away Foreign Ships in 1825 and commanded that foreign ships appearing along the coast of Japan be fired upon so the domains along the coast began building gun batteries and installing cannons. This is when the gun batteries and emplacements were built at Odaiba in Edo Bay and at Uraga Nakaminato Tahara Maiko Dannoura Uwajima Kagoshima and elsewhere. Dutch coastal artillery books were referred to when building these gun batteries” NDL Japan-Netherlands Exchange in the Edo Period online. Our book was published in this historical context. The book had already been translated by Motoki Masahide 1767-1822 who had left it unpublished at his death manuscript copies exist. Nunokawa Tsūboku 布å·é€šç’ž who edited Motoki’s translation and brought it to print in his Preface referenced the order that the domains build coastal defenses as one justification for publication. Motoki had studied not only Dutch but also French Russian and English. He published an English-language primer in 1811 and an English-Japanese dictionary in 1814. The Dutch original from which the book was translated was titled Het Nieuwe Licht Der Bosschieterye 1699 and was written by Gerrit van der Tollen fl. 1721-23 who worked for the Dutch East India Company. Our book is richly illustrated with a series of fine single- and double-page woodcuts of many kinds of cannons and mortars cannonballs and Western warships along with diagrams of problems in ballistics. Sections include illustrations and explanations of the structure and dimensions of cannons the measurement of gunpowder and lists of Dutch terms translated into Japanese. Some sections are written in a question-and-answer format “Which countries produce cannons Is there a difference in the making of light and heavy cannonballs”. The book begins with a history of artillery a topic that is treated further in the appendices which were not written by Motoki. The appendices treat the history of artillery both in Europe and in China. Note that Google Books presents the copy at the Bavarian State Library as being published in 1825 but the digitized title page says Kaei mizunoene which corresponds to 1852 and is the same date as seen in our book. Very fine set. ⧠Motoki: Christopher Joby The Dutch Language in Japan 1600-1900 Leiden & Boston: 2021 pp. 74 121 186 191 196-97 276 285 & 320. unknown books
1875réf. 93724Boston: Published for the Author 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis portrait 320p. Original black cloth. Simple gilt oval portrait on front cover. 19 cm. Four separate sizeable cloth pieces adding up to almost half of the total area were missing from backstrip which did still have the original gilt title at the top. Vintage black cloth added under partial backstrip. Wear at cover corners stiffened and some black paper added. Internally sound and clean with almost no foxing. We have also had this 1875 edition in publisher's cloth that was rust brown and perhaps in other colors. Published for the Author hardcover
1875réf. 93724Boston: Published for the Author 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis portrait 320p. Original black cloth. Simple gilt oval portrait on front cover. 19 cm. Four separate sizeable cloth pieces adding up to almost half of the total area were missing from backstrip which did still have the original gilt title at the top. Vintage black cloth added under partial backstrip. Wear at cover corners stiffened and some black paper added. Internally sound and clean with almost no foxing. We have also had this 1875 edition in publisher's cloth that was rust brown and perhaps in other colors. Published for the Author hardcover books
réf. FRE55Oblong small folio ca. 177x277 cm 7 x 11 in. Ca. 180 pp. including ca. 99 pages of text. Pencil on yellowish paper. Period original illustrated wrappers fastened with a string. Amateur restoration with brown paper tape over the original spine and ca. two pages reinforced on the verso with paper. Occasional pencil corrections by the author. Wrappers fragile and rubbed with small losses to the front wrapper about ten pages with tears several leaves loose but otherwise a good copy. Historically significant manuscript diary of a forty-one-year-old railroad employee from Canton Ohio offering a first-hand account of an American gold-prospecting expedition into Venezuelan Guiana present-day Guayana in the fall of 1897. Gold discoveries in southeastern Venezuela during the mid-nineteenth century followed by the rapid development of the El Callao mining district in the 1860s attracted foreign prospectors to the remote interior of Venezuelan Guiana. The discoveries also intensified Venezuela’s long-running boundary dispute with Britain whose claims on behalf of British Guiana extended into gold-bearing territory and at their broadest approached the mouth of the Orinoco River. By the time our party arrived in 1897 the dispute was under international arbitration while Venezuela remained politically unstable with recurrent revolutions and fears of renewed armed conflict. Against this background the travellers pursued reports of a rich placer deposit supposedly discovered by an Ohio prospector named Bundy although no contemporary American newspaper account of this particular discovery has yet been located. According to the diary the author had “much experience handling earthwork and some knowledge of general prospecting.” The core party consisted of the author and fellow Canton residents J. H. Alexander and H. C. Knoblock. They left Canton on September 1 1897 travelling to New York by Fort Wayne and Erie Railroads then sailed aboard the S.S. Caracas transferring at Curaçao to the S.S. Philadelphia before reaching La Guaira Venezuela. After visiting Caracas they continued along the Venezuelan coast aboard the Dutch steamer Prins Maurits to Trinidad then re-entered Venezuela through the Orinoco Delta aboard the City of Bolívar and reached Ciudad Bolívar. From there they made a fifteen-day roughly 250-mile trek south to Paragua and later established a prospecting camp near Caño Wanaca and Mount El Rotundo. The diary ends in November and appears incomplete covering three of the four months indicated by its title. The diary features ninety-nine pages of manuscript text with the first thirteen pages describing the expedition's journey from their departure in Canton through their voyage to New York and Curaçao. About fourteen pages of the Venezuelan section trace the more urban stage of the journey through La Guaira Caracas and the coastal ports of Guanta Cumaná and Carúpano prior to the main prospecting expedition from Ciudad Bolívar. The author records stays at early hotels in La Guaira Hotel Sfatoro Grand Hotel and Hotel Italia as well as visits to cafés parks and public events La Guaira — Café Italia; Caracas — El Calvario and a military-band concert in Plaza Bolívar. Interestingly he describes La Guaira as a “filthy town” and criticizes Caracas’s open-gutter sewage poor gas and electric lighting. In the capital the compiler also records meeting General Jacinto Fabricio Lara the Venezuelan Minister of Development who oversaw mining interests and supplied the party with regional mining maps. He further notes Carúpano’s reconstruction after a destructive tidal wave active rum smuggling and the excessive customs formalities at Venezuelan ports. The central sixty pages cover the interior expedition south of Ciudad Bolívar with six burros and a hired “West Indian Negro” later dismissed for drunkenness. In these passages the author records numerous encounters with local residents including a woman preparing chicken soup with yuca & cassava cassava-bread production at La Tigre his treatment of a bleeding young man and the manufacture of papelón at a sugar plantation. He also recounts crossing the rock-strewn Río Grande Claro severe mosquito bites getting lost on the trail to Paragua and trading medicine for food. Interestingly at Paragua the author harshly criticizes the minimal use of dairy sparse furnishings repetitive music played on cuatros and widespread child cigar smoking and describes a local funeral that descended into a drunken brawl. In the same part of the diary the author details the party’s principal prospecting activities. He writes about their first field tests along the road to Paragua where he and a local guide examined a mountain stream using a pick shovel and gold pan; although they found no gold he records promising formations and notes a nearby mountain composed largely of iron ore. Near Paragua the author describes accompanying Señor Morales on a twenty-five-mile journey across the savanna to inspect a quartz vein at the foot of a large mountain though he notes that careful examination revealed no trace of gold. Finally he talks about their most systematic work at a base camp near Caño Wanaca and Mount El Rotundo where he recounts how they cleared brush blazed trails dug test pits in alluvial ravines washed stream gravels for “colors” of gold and examined the mountain’s iron-rich rock and unusual cave formations. Especially interesting are the author’s observations on Venezuela’s unstable political situation including the seizure at Carúpano of a vessel carrying arms for an impending revolution and the hurried transfer of cattle across the Paragua River following a disputed election. He also records a Venezuelan passenger’s fervent gratitude to the United States for resisting British territorial claims while another episode describes customs officials in Ciudad Bolívar mistaking the party’s food supplies for gunpowder and threatening them with imprisonment. Among the prominent officials who assisted the party at different stages of the journey were U.S. Minister Francis B. Loomis ca. 1861-1948 Legation Secretary William W. Russell ca. 1858-1944 and Consular Agent Robert Henderson in Ciudad Bolívar. The diary also contains a detailed account of the travellers’ stopover in Port of Spain Trinidad an important transit point on their journey. The author praises the colony’s infrastructure electric streetcars well-maintained botanical gardens and bustling commercial district stocked largely with imported English goods. Overall historically significant manuscript diary of a forty-one-year-old railroad employee from Canton Ohio offering a first-hand account of an American gold-prospecting expedition into Venezuelan Guiana in the fall of 1897. unknown
2015réf. 5126DBohne Ortsangabe, Oris Mediaevalis, Editoria Internacional de Facsimiles. 2015. 8° (130 x 95 mm). 150 Blatt. Alles Seiten mit Miniaturen von Jean Colombe. Roter Lederband mit reicher Goldverzierung in Acryl-Box.
1759réf. 137120Paris: J. Barbou 1759. Full period French binding in Calf five raised bands gilt ornamentation on spine author and title in gilt on red leather spine label in second compartment. 8vo. Full period French binding in Calf five raised bands gilt ornamentation on spine author and title in gilt on red leather spine label in second compartment. 263 pages. First edition Bigmore and Wyman p.228. Minor soiling to the text block else a fine copy. In this volume Fournier sets out to prove that Gutenberg was not the inventor of the printing press by examining the history of printing. He believes that the technology Gutenberg made popular existed long before the German printer's work. "Peter Simon Fournier a French engraver and letter-founder was born at Paris 1712 and died 1768. He studied under Colson painter of the Academy of Saint Luc and devoted himself first to the art of wood-engraving; he afterwards as an engraver on steel rendered himself famous in all countries. In some of his works he seeks to prove that Gutenberg is not the inventor of printing and maintains that long before Gutenberg engraving on wood had been employed for printing images and inscriptions; that during his residence in Strasburg Gutenberg attempted the application of this art to the printing of books and that on his return to Mayence he first printed the Donatus and the Catholicon of Johannes de Janua with engraved and solid blocks. Fournier's ingenious theories were ably refuted by Baron Heinecken in his "Idée Générale d'une Collection complette d'Estamples" Leipsic: 1771" Bigmore & Wyman p 229. J. Barbou unknown
1759réf. 137120Paris: J. Barbou 1759. Full period French binding in Calf five raised bands gilt ornamentation on spine author and title in gilt on red leather spine label in second compartment. 8vo. Full period French binding in Calf five raised bands gilt ornamentation on spine author and title in gilt on red leather spine label in second compartment. 263 pages. First edition Bigmore and Wyman p.228. Minor soiling to the text block else a fine copy. In this volume Fournier sets out to prove that Gutenberg was not the inventor of the printing press by examining the history of printing. He believes that the technology Gutenberg made popular existed long before the German printer's work. "Peter Simon Fournier a French engraver and letter-founder was born at Paris 1712 and died 1768. He studied under Colson painter of the Academy of Saint Luc and devoted himself first to the art of wood-engraving; he afterwards as an engraver on steel rendered himself famous in all countries. In some of his works he seeks to prove that Gutenberg is not the inventor of printing and maintains that long before Gutenberg engraving on wood had been employed for printing images and inscriptions; that during his residence in Strasburg Gutenberg attempted the application of this art to the printing of books and that on his return to Mayence he first printed the Donatus and the Catholicon of Johannes de Janua with engraved and solid blocks. Fournier's ingenious theories were ably refuted by Baron Heinecken in his "Idée Générale d'une Collection complette d'Estamples" Leipsic: 1771" Bigmore & Wyman p 229. J. Barbou unknown books
1961réf. 014593Alès PAB 1961 In-8 carré Pleine reliure d'époque Signé par l'auteur et l'illustrateur
1716réf. 1469Haarlem: Weduwe van Hermanus van Hulkenroy 1716. Early 19th-century marbled boards with a paper title label on the spine. 4to. With an etched frontispiece an etching of a mermaid on the title 2 folding etchings 2 full-page etchings and 21 etchings in the text all after Adriaen van Ostade. Further with musical annotation to all songs. First edition of a rare Dutch songbook with songs for farmer's festivals all with musical annotation. The work has been beautifully illustrated with etchings after the famous Dutch painter of country life Adriaen van Ostade 1610-1685. The fine etchings newly made and in reverse present an exemplary survey of Van Ostade's work showing busts of peasants women on their way to the market carrying baskets farmers smoking merry parties dancing in front of the farm a knife-grinder a schoolmaster etc. Together they give a lively impression of country life.The work was published anonymously but has been attributed to either Jan van Gijsen 1668-1722 or Aäron van Hulkenroy 1687-1733. Van Gijsen was a popular author who wrote a large number of occasional poems. His collected works were published at Amsterdam in three volumes in 1707-1711 but the present selection was probably published only once partly with the address of the Widow of Van Hulkenroy and partly with the address of J. van Egmont who had also published the collected works. Aäron van Hulkenroy was the son of publisher Hermanus van Hulkenroy and took over the publishing company after both his parents had passed. He was also a poet who wrote various poetry collections which were always published by his mother or later himself. The present work has been attributed to him because the very first poem on the verso of the half title is signed with his initials.The boards and spine are rubbed with some loss of material at the lower outer corner of the front board. The leaves and plates are somewhat foxed a small tear in the margin of first folding plate has been repaired on the back. Otherwise in good condition.l Goovaerts 1011; Cat. Muziekhist. Museum Scheurleer II p. 92; Scheepers I 284 "Hoogst zeldzaam"; Scheurleer Liedboeken 199 lists both 1716-issues; STCN 154032301; cf. Hollstein XV pp. 1-70 for the etchings; NNBW 8 col. 648 Gijsen and NNBW 4 col. 790 Hulkenroy; not in Arents Tobacco. Weduwe van Hermanus van Hulkenroy, hardcover
1928pp. xv, [i] 245. Index. First printing. "Aims to show how unstable in buying power are all monetary units, including the dollar; what hidden causes produce that instability; what harm results, although ascribed to other causes; and what are the various remedies which have been tried or proposed. The purpose is not to propose any one remedy as the best but to put the problem to the reader, especially to the business reader." - Preface. Very light wear to original olive cloth. Dust soiling to top edge. Binding sound. Several faint pencil erasures to contents. Dust jacket not included. A remarkably well-preserved copy. Fisher M-1344, Masui p.1410, Batson p.137, Pressman p.142, Hutchinson 682. Book
1541réf. 6509Luguduni sic: Lyon: Seb. Gryphium Sebastian Gryphius 1541. Early reprint. Leatherbound. Good. 12mo. Pp. 314 13. Early 18th-C. tree calf five raised bands with gilt tooled decorations and lettering piece edges trimmed and dyed red. Decorative initial caps italic text with roman titles table of Latin and Greek chapter titles marginal notes index following text followed by a tail-piece that of a gryffin in reference to printer Gryphius. Includes Appendicula de condituris varijs ex Ioanne Damasceno a section of fourteen recipes for "condimenta" and "condituræ" between De Re Culinaria and Facultatibus alimentorum. Spine ends chipped edges rubbed endpapers stained marginal annotations in ink tight binding. Presents four culinary and health texts as called for appearing together with Torinus' introduction the same year as a nearly identical Basel edition but in smaller format for a different market. The collection of Roman recipes De Re Culinaria attributed to Apicius first appeared in this form in the fifth century AD. Torinus' sources were "codexes" found in Maguelone and Transylvania. Bartolomeo Sacchi Platina's De Honesta Voluptate given an alternate title by Torinus was the first movable-type cookbook based on Maestro Martino da Como's recipes. Paul of Aegina was a Byzantine Greek physician. Gryphius learned printing from his father in Germany then in Venice moving to Lyon around 1520. By the 1540s he had the city's largest printing establishment and reputation for a high standard of editing and impression specializing in Humanist works in small format modeled on Aldus Manutius. DURLING Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine 232. . Seb. Gryphium [Sebastian Gryphius] unknown
1541réf. 6509Luguduni sic: Lyon: Seb. Gryphium Sebastian Gryphius 1541. Early reprint. Leatherbound. Good. 12mo. Pp. 314 13. Early 18th-C. tree calf five raised bands with gilt tooled decorations and lettering piece edges trimmed and dyed red. Decorative initial caps italic text with roman titles table of Latin and Greek chapter titles marginal notes index following text followed by a tail-piece that of a gryffin in reference to printer Gryphius. Includes Appendicula de condituris varijs ex Ioanne Damasceno a section of fourteen recipes for "condimenta" and "condituræ" between De Re Culinaria and Facultatibus alimentorum. Spine ends chipped edges rubbed endpapers stained marginal annotations in ink tight binding. Presents four culinary and health texts as called for appearing together with Torinus' introduction the same year as a nearly identical Basel edition but in smaller format for a different market. The collection of Roman recipes De Re Culinaria attributed to Apicius first appeared in this form in the fifth century AD. Torinus' sources were "codexes" found in Maguelone and Transylvania. Bartolomeo Sacchi Platina's De Honesta Voluptate given an alternate title by Torinus was the first movable-type cookbook based on Maestro Martino da Como's recipes. Paul of Aegina was a Byzantine Greek physician. Gryphius learned printing from his father in Germany then in Venice moving to Lyon around 1520. By the 1540s he had the city's largest printing establishment and reputation for a high standard of editing and impression specializing in Humanist works in small format modeled on Aldus Manutius. DURLING Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine 232. . Seb. Gryphium [Sebastian Gryphius] unknown books
1543réf. 888° mm 151x104; cc. 32. Marca tipografica al frontespizio. Margine superiore un poco rifilato. Pergamena posteriore. Seconda edizione del dialogo albertiano - meglio conosciuto sotto il titolo di Theogenius - dopo quella che priva di dati tipografici ISTC cataloga come: "Florence 1500" cfr. L.B. Alberti Opere volgari II Rime e trattati morali a cura di C. Grayson Bari 1966 p. 409. Il Theogenius rappresenta un capitolo poco noto della fortuna e dell'influsso dell'epicureismo nel Quattrocento. In questo dialogo infatti l'Alberti illustra diversi temi dell'etica epicurea e traduce alcuni versi del De rerum natura di Lucrezio S. Gambino Alberti lettore di Lucrezio: motivi lucreziani nel "Theogenius" "Albertiana" IV 2001 pp. 69-84. Leon Battista Alberti's Theogenius revived and revised the ancient view developed in the Hellenistic age according to which philosophy aims to form rather than inform people showing them how to cultivate a specific attitude towards existence through a rational comprehension of the nature of humanity and its place in the cosmos. This view of philosophy as a way of life was challenged by the development of scholastic philosophy seen as a body of speculative doctrines and professional skills ancillary to the superior wisdom of theology. Nevertheless it survived thanks to Renaissance humanists like Petrarch Alberti Erasmus and Montaigne. On the influence of Lucretius on Italian Humanism after Poggio Bracciolini's discovery of the only surviving manuscript of De rerum natura 1417 cf. A. Brown The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence Harvard University Press 2010 and S. Greenblatt The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began London 2011. Appresso Paulo Girardo, [colophon:] per Venturino Rosinello
réf. 92759Berlin Paul Cassirer 1914-16. 2° 48 x 32 cm je 2 Bl zahlreiche Abb. davon teilweise blattgrosse Orig.-Lithogr. Lose Hefte in Original-Flügelmappe Mappe etwas fleckig u. eingerissen. Hefte sauber 3 Hefte min. wasserrändig am Fuss. Die ersten Hefte auf sehr holzhaltigem sprödem Papier darum gebräunt u. kleine Fehlstellen am Rande - insgesamt gute Exemplare. Alle Lithographien im Stein signiert.Mit Beiträgen in Form von Originallithographien von Ernst Barlach Max Beckmann Hans Baluschek Erich Büttner August Gaul Rudolph Grossmann Franz Heckendorf Otto Hettner Dora Hitz Ferdinand Hodler Heinrich Hübner Willy Jaeckel Georg Kolbe Max Liebermann Hans Meid Oskar Nerlinger Max Oppenheimer Max Slevogt Ottomar Starke Max Unold Wilhelm Wagner E.R. Weiss und vielen anderen.Die überwiegend nationalistisch kriegsbejahenden Lithographien etwa Max Liebermanns erscheinen neben Arbeiten von Ernst Barlach Max Beckmann August Gaul Willy Jaeckel Käthe Kollwitz oder Wilhelm Trübner mit teilweise sogar chauvinistischem Unterton die speziell für diese Zeitschrift angefertigt wurden. Künstler die gemeinhin eher für eine oppositionelle Haltung zum politischen Establishment des Deutschen Kaiserreichs bekannt sind fügten sich nach Kriegsausbruch zunächst dem politischen „Burgfrieden“ und stellten sich freiwillig in den Dienst einer nationalen Begeisterung für den Krieg. Dieser Grundströmung folgte aber schon bald die Ernüchterung die ihren Niederschlag in veränderten Themen fand. Statt hurra-patriotisch stürmender Soldaten in Kampfszenen erschienen zunehmend eskapistische mit kritischen Untertönen versehene Bildwerke mit teils sogar auch verstohlen pazifistischen Ansätzen.Schon Mitte 1915 begann der Verleger die zunächst wöchentliche Erscheinungsweise des Periodikums auf einen zweiwöchigen Publikationsrhythmus zu strecken ehe es vor seiner Einstellung 1916 nurmehr unregelmäßig veröffentlicht wurde. Ihm folgte „Der Bildermann“ das neue Zeitschriften-Projekt Paul Cassirers das in gleichem Umfang und mit gleicher Ausstattung wie die „Kriegszeit“ aber mit anderer inhaltlicher Ausrichtung ab 1916 erschien. 010 Berlin, Paul Cassirer, 1914-16 unknown
1936réf. 015728Paris EDITION ORIGINALE. Tirage à 1012 exemplaires numérotés. Un des 35 sur Hollande van Gelder mis dans le commerce, second papier après vingt-cinq Japon . Bel exemplaire relié à l'époque : demi-maroquin noir à coins et filets or, dos à nerfs et pièce de titre rouge et lettre or, tête dorée, couverture et dos conservés. 1936 fort in-8 Broché Edition originale
1802réf. 0009162BETHEL TOWNSHIP LEBANON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. Good. 1802. On offer is an interesting document of early 19th century education an original handwritten note book covering a myriad of subjects related to mathematics. The owner and creator of this book was a man named Henry Snevely also written as Snavely and the book dates from 1802 - 1803. It seems Snevely was born in the United States and lived his whole life in Southeastern Pennsylvania. At the time of the creation of the book Snevely was almost 50 years old an established land owner in Bethel Township Lebanon County. Why he had a book of mathematics is unknown however I have found records of a Henry Snavely who taught at a school in Bethel Township from 1797 onwards. It may be likely that this book is actual not for Henry himself but for the instruction of his students. Either way the book presents a fantastic overview of early 18th century knowledge. The book covers a very large range of topics however Math pertaining to financial matters is dominant throughout. As well there are conversions of Irish and British currency. The primary immigrants to the area at the time of the book were indeed Scotch-Irish so teaching Irish and British currency conversions wouldnt be too far off. Currency exchange in particular is a primary focus owing to the large amount of immigrants to the area. Individual page headings in the book include Exchange many pages Exchange of Arbitrations Barter Profit and Loss Fellowship Fellowship with Time Allegation Media Alternate Partial and Total Square Root Cube Root Arithmetical and Geometric Progression Compound Interest Single and Double Position Reduction Addition Subtraction Multiplication and Division of Fractions and Vulgar Fractions Rule of Three in Fractions and Questions for Exercise. There is a later manuscript memorandum on rear endpaper dated 1829 bearing the names of additional members of the Pennsylvania Snavely clan Molly George and John. The name Martin Rupp also appears in memorandum and our research confirms various Martin Rupps residing in southeastern Pennsylvania during this time. The book is in fair to good condition. The volume is bound in the original stiff paper wraps. The cover is very worn and the spine is torn and partially detached. There is mild age-toning and occasional staining but the internal pages are generally clean. The black ink is still bold and easily legible throughout. The book contains about 85 pages of manuscript entries and the book itself is approximately 90 pages. It measures 12.5 x 8 inches. Biography: Henry Snavely was born on August 2 1755 in Bethel Township Lebanon County Pennsylvania. .Henry Snavely was a Lutheran. At that time he was considered a good scholar and is said to have been a hard student obtaining his knowledge principally by his own exertion. He taught the school from 1797 to 1807.; A report from 1773 shows his farm had 150 acres 5 horses 4 cattle and no servants. OVERALL: G; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF HENRY SNEVELY HENRY SNAVELY EARLY 19TH CENTURY KNOWLEDGE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION MATHEMATICS GEOMETRY TRIGONOMETRY FINANCIAL CALCULATIONS BARTERING INTEREST TEACHER'S BOOK BETHEL TOWNSHIP LEBANON COUNTY SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COMPLEX MATHEMATICS ALGEBRA MARTIN RUPP PRACTICAL MATH FOR FARMERS 19TH CENTURY AMERICA EARLY 1800S IN THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES CYPHER BOOK AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . paperback
1551réf. 33109-74Augsburg Philip Ulhard October 1551. Diagrams showing eclipses and celestial positions in the format of astrological squares. 346 leaves author's name crossed out on title. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Augsburg Philip Ulhard October 1551. First edition of a little known work by Cyprian Leowitz 1524-1574. The celebrated Bohemian astronomer was professor of astronomy and appointed mathematician to Elector Palatine Otho Henry German: Ottheinrich 1502-1559 and acquired a high reputation at the time of the reception of the Copernican theory. It is well known that the cosmological elements of the Copernican theory i.e. the "centrality" of the Sun and the Earth's revolution about it were not widely accepted for nearly a century after the publication of the "De Revolutionibus". Leowitz played a central role in facilitating conjunctionist theory and the actual contents of the "Tabulae" are in line with those by Stöffler. From the end of the 15th century onwards many editions of the tables of Regiomontanus were produced with commentaries and additions i.e. by Erasmsus Reinhold Luca Gaurico Leowitz with participation of Melanchthon etc. The present huge work by Leowitz appeared without introduction and without explanation. It contains so-called position plates for the places from the 33rd to the 60th latitude the pole height of the places gradus latitudinis. A final short "secundes pars" with plates up to the 66th latitude appeared in November 1551 and is not present here as in a microfiche copy stored in the Herzogin Anna Amanlia Bibliothek Weimar. . "Position" is not be taken here in the sense of modern astronomy. It is well known that the cosmological elements of the Copernican theory was not widely accepted for a long time after the publication of the "De Revolutionibus" see Burmeister Magister Rhecicus 2015. A current subject of investigation is the variety in response to the theory in the various countries of Europe. Tycho Brahe 1546-1601 visited Cyprian Leowitz in 1569. According to Tycho Leowitz told him that in his opinion the predictions of Copernicus agreed better with observations of the superior planets and solar eclipses while Ptolemy's predictions were more accurate for lunar eclipses and the positions of the inferior planets. Leowitz was correct about the relative superiority of the two theories in predicting the longitudes of the planets.- Good copy. _ _ - Adams L-520; Zinner 2018; NBG 30 814; not in Houzeau & Lancaster; cf. VD 16 L 1276. SCIENCE:ASTRONOMY & ASTROLOGY ; Augsburg, Philip Ulhard hardcover
réf. 20219London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and J. Pemberton. 1720. First edition. First edition. Octavo. Twentieth-century half calf in period style over marbled boards. The spine with five raised bands and morocco title label lettered in gilt. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. A very good copy the binding square and firm. The contents with some occasional scholarly annotations in pencil to page margins the odd minor crease to the top corner of a handful of pages a pinprick hole to the title page light scattered foxing and a little browning to the margins of the preliminary pages are otherwise in very good order. The first edition of this collection of stories and essays most notable for its inclusion of an important early Australian imaginary voyage - "The Fortunate Shipwreck or a Description of New Athens" - a castaway narrative detailing the discovery of a utopian society on the southern coast of the Terra Australis published just one year after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Taking the form of a series of letters the work traces the experiences of the fictional English adventurer Maurice Williams after his chance arrival on the Australian continent following a shipwreck. Once ashore he discovers a utopian society founded by ancient Greeks who had themselves travelled for three years across desert and ocean in order to realise their "New Athens" in "Terra Australis incognita" Country of the South. As Williams explains after their arrival the Greeks had peacefully integrated with the original inhabitants those who "may properly be call'd the Aborigines of the place" and established a new society free from the manifold follies of contemporary Europe. In the tradition of utopian literature as established by Thomas More's seminal 1516 work Williams describes in detail the architecture and administration of the great Greek-Australian city its politics and laws and the customs and manners of its inhabitants. He then goes on to discuss the way in which he and his companions introduce the New Athenians to English poetry the art of printing the manufacture of gunpowder and the construction of war ships apparently to the great benefit of the latter. In addition to its early Australian setting the narrative also notably contains the first reference to the American territory of "Carolina" in fiction as Williams after having been caught in yet another violent storm on his return from New Athens finds himself "very well pleas'd" to be able to get ashore on Carolina's cost knowing that he was "pretty secure of finding a passage to Old England". The main contributor to the collection was the dramatist Thomas Killigrew the younger 1657-1719 although Charles Gildon recorded by CBEL as the editor may be the author of the second imaginary voyage. Chief amongst the work's other contents are: "A Voyage to the Mountains of the Moon under the Æquator" "Mahomet no Imposter written in Arabick by Abdulla Mahumed Omar" a defence of Islam purportedly written by a Muslim "Alberoni or a Vindication of that Cardinal" "The Secret History of the Amours of Don Alonzo" "The Garden of Adonis" and "An Account of Bad and Good Women Ancient and Modern". Scarce in commerce. Grove Imaginary Voyages p.234; ESTC T117537. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and J. Pemberton. 1720 hardcover
réf. 53954Lugduni apud Joan. Tornaesium 1552. TITLE CONTINUED: Accesserunt Gulielmi Philandri Castilionii civis Romani annotationes castigatiores & plus tertia parte locupletiores. Adiecta est Epitome in omnes Georgii Agricolae de mensuris & ponderibus libros eodem autoter cum Graeco pariter & Latino indice lucupletissimo. FIRST JEAN DE TOURNES EDITION OF VITRUVIUS 1552 Latin text. 4to approximately 235 x 155 mm 9¼ x 6¼ inches printer's device of vipers on title page a different De Tournes device on verso final page 83 woodcut illustrations 1 folding plate of an inscription portrait of Philandrier the editor on final page of prelims arabesque headpieces to the 10 books and historiated initials throughout pages: 16 447 57 - including index errata and Extrait du Privilege with last line: Achevé d'imprimer le huitieme février 1552 the last leaf with printer's device on verso bound in modern full blind panelled calf raised bands blind rules and gilt lettered morocco label to spine all edges red new endpapers. Small repair to inner edge of title page plus 2 ink names pages lightly age-browned tiny chip to fore-edge of 1 prelim page small closed tear to 1 margin repaired neatly some early mostly neat ink marginal notes some small corrections to text and a little neat underlining a couple of small ink stains and smudges text still easily legible very light foxing to a few margins. A good tight copy. This edition published in Lyon by Jean de Tournes was the second edited by Guillaume Philandrier the first was published in Strasbourg in 1550 as a 16mo. As the secretary to the bishop of Rodez the French humanist Philandrier friend of Rabelais had spent 10 years in Italy in Venice and Rome many of them studying Vitruvius and in 1544 he published his illustrated annotations separately in Rome. See: Laurence Hall Fowler The Fowler Architectural Collection of the Johns Hopkins University pages 318-319; Adams Books Printed in Europe 1501-1600 Volume II V908; Harvard French 16th Century Books Volume II No. 550. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. Postage at cost and all parcels sent fully tracked and fully insured. . Lugduni, apud Joan. Tornaesium, 1552. hardcover
réf. elala6170London: Atchley And Co. c1850. Including views of Southampton Isle of Wight Bay of Biscay Berlingas Cintra the Tagus Trafalgar Tarifa Gibraltar Algiers Panteleria Malta Alexandria Mahmoudie Canal Boulac Cairo Cemetery of the Mussulmans Dead Camel Central Station Arabs on Horseback Encampment by Night Women Drawing Water Joseph's Well Red Sea Suez Jeddah Mocha Aden Point de Galle in Ceylon Madras and Calcutta. oblong folio. 32 wood-engraved plates incl. engraved title by W.Measom H.Sears & others after drawings by the aforementioned artists. with tissue guards. 4-page folio prospectus with plate descriptions loosely inserted. original pictorial bds joints cracked & chipped spine ends damaged light foxing to few plates. inscription dated 1851 on front flyleaf. elala6170 London: Atchley And Co., [c1850] unknown
réf. 51-5496Francofurti : Impensis Lucae Jennisii MDCXXVII 1627 Frankfurt: Luca Jennis 1627. A Collection of 88 of 160 engravings with related text mounted on 9 sheets. The text to each image is numbered in Roman numerals between L and CLX. Each sheet is signed and dated 1759 on the verso. Engravings 41 x 32mm.The engravings of famous thinkers from first edition of this important alchemical emblem book. The allegorical engravings in this work first appeared two years prior at the end of a German alchemical miscellany by the same publisher with no explanatory text. The present offering combines the images with explanatory prose and poetic captions to express the secrets of transmutation on the model of Michael Maier’s 1617 Atalanta fugiens and Stoltzius’s own 1624 Viridarium Chymicum. Caillet 10386; Duveen p. 566; Ferguson II p. 410-411; Landwehr 561.NOTE: It is possible that the engravings are from Johann Daniel Mylius' "Opus medico-chymicum: Continens tres Tractatus sive Basilicas: Quorum prior inscribitur Basilica Medica. Secundus Basilica Chymica. Tertius Basilica Philosophica" Frankfurt : Lucam Jennis 1618. Francofurti : Impensis Lucae Jennisii, MDCXXVII [1627] (Frankfurt: Luca Jennis, 1627) unknown
1817réf. 26835London: Printed by McMillan Sold By T. Egerton / John Murray Albemarle Street 1817. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition / Revised and Enlarged. Octavo. 2 Volumes bound in one: 1 A NARRATIVE OF OCCURRENCES IN THE INDIAN COUNTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA SINCE THE CONNEXION OF THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SELKIRK WITH THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY AND HIS ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A COLONY ON THE RED RIVER; WITH A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HIS LORDSHIP'S MILITARY EXPEDITION TO AND SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS AT FORT WILLIAM IN UPPER CANADA. London: Printed by B. McMillan Sold by T. Egerton 1817. First Edition. Attributed to Samuel Hill Wilcocke - The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography / W. Stewart Wallace. Attributed also to Simon McGillivray or to Edward Ellice the elder - National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. Pp. xiv 152 iv 87 - Appendix. Volume 2 STATEMENT RESPECTING THE EARL OF SELKIRK'S SETTLEMENT UPON THE RED RIVER IN NORTH AMERICA; ITS DESTRUCTION IN 1815 AND 1816; AND THE MASSACRE OF GOVERNOR SEMPLE AND HIS PARTY. WITH OBSERVATIONS UPON A RECENT PUBLICATION ENTITLED "A Narrative of Occurrencies in the Indian Countries" &c. London: John Murray 1817. A new revised and enlarged edition with the added "Observations Upon a Recent Publication ." published the same year. Pp. viii 194 ii i - xcx - Appendix 4 - publ. adverts dated July 1817. With a frontispiece map of Part of Hudsons Bay Company's Territory. Drawn and engraved by A. Arrowsmith London 12th February 1817. Bound together in half red morocco and comb-marbled boards gilt titles direct to spine top edge gilt others deckled matching marbled endpapers with binders' ticket T.W. Taylor Winnipeg. Covers scuffed front free endpaper splitting near gutter some offsetting to text and map else very good copy. Printed by McMillan, Sold By T. Egerton / John Murray, Albemarle Street Hardcover
1953réf. 237j0879London: Britons Publishing Society. Good in Good dust jacket. 1953. Fourth Edition - Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. "On the surface it would seem madness for millionaires to strive for Communism but there is irrefutable evidence that they do so strive and in Russia have in fact created a dictatorship which masquerades under the name of Communism while its only real achievement has been the liquidation of the gentile aristocracy and every Christian institution. The facts revealed in this book including the detailed plan for world revolution and world government discovered long before the first world war are so damning that no newspaper would dare to offend British readers by denying the truth. Hence the discreet silence in the Press and the slowness with which vital knowledge is spread. Their aim is a World State and a Slave State in which the masters will be of one tribe and one religious persuasion. There may be only a short time in which to learn the truth and act upon it." - dust jacket. 8-267 p. Index. Rubber stamp upon back free endpaper otherwise tanned contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Singerman 882. ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Waters Flowing Eastward: The War Against the Kingship of Christ Unemployment World Wars Revolution Slumps Depression Antichrist . Britons Publishing Society hardcover
réf. 7548151 folding leaves. Three parts in one vol. Thickish 8vo orig. patterned wrappers upper wrapper a little worn orig. block-printed title label on upper cover label somewhat defective new stitching. From the colophon: Kyoto: Nakamura Magobei 1710. First edition of this important and useful bibliography. In 1710 “the Kyoto publisher Nakamura Magobei compiled a catalogue known as Bengi shomokuroku. The aim of this catalogue was to help the reader disentangle book titles which could be easily confused because they were read in the same way because they used the same characters but different readings or because they were known by several titles…Nakamura Magobei included manuscripts kakihon and explained that he had ‘given the majority of the many titles of manuscripts that have been circulating since past times’.”–Laura Moretti “The Japanese Early-Modern Publishing Market Unveiled: A Survey of Edo-Period Booksellers’ Catalogues” in East Asian Publishing and Society Vol. 2 2012 pp. 206n & 245. Nice copy preserved in a chitsu. Some minor worming carefully repaired. ⧠Peter Kornicki The Book in Japan pp. 441-42–”The publication of Bengisho mokuroku in 1710 went considerably further. The author was Nakamura Magobee a Kyoto publisher and bookseller and it was written for fellow members of the book trade. He considered books printed with movable type as a separate category and was the first to draw up a catalogue of them. He directed some attention to the book trade which also explains his attention to the titles of books not yet published and to books with homophonic titles that could easily be confused. At the same time the compilation of catalogues for commercial and for private purposes was becoming commonplace and bespeaks a growing concern with the identification of books by their distinguishing characteristics.”. unknown
réf. 7548151 folding leaves. Three parts in one vol. Thickish 8vo orig. patterned wrappers upper wrapper a little worn orig. block-printed title label on upper cover label somewhat defective new stitching. From the colophon: Kyoto: Nakamura Magobei 1710. First edition of this important and useful bibliography. In 1710 “the Kyoto publisher Nakamura Magobei compiled a catalogue known as Bengi shomokuroku. The aim of this catalogue was to help the reader disentangle book titles which could be easily confused because they were read in the same way because they used the same characters but different readings or because they were known by several titles…Nakamura Magobei included manuscripts kakihon and explained that he had ‘given the majority of the many titles of manuscripts that have been circulating since past times’.”–Laura Moretti “The Japanese Early-Modern Publishing Market Unveiled: A Survey of Edo-Period Booksellers’ Catalogues” in East Asian Publishing and Society Vol. 2 2012 pp. 206n & 245. Nice copy preserved in a chitsu. Some minor worming carefully repaired. ⧠Peter Kornicki The Book in Japan pp. 441-42–”The publication of Bengisho mokuroku in 1710 went considerably further. The author was Nakamura Magobee a Kyoto publisher and bookseller and it was written for fellow members of the book trade. He considered books printed with movable type as a separate category and was the first to draw up a catalogue of them. He directed some attention to the book trade which also explains his attention to the titles of books not yet published and to books with homophonic titles that could easily be confused. At the same time the compilation of catalogues for commercial and for private purposes was becoming commonplace and bespeaks a growing concern with the identification of books by their distinguishing characteristics.”. unknown books
