BOSSE, AbrahamLivre Rare Book
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Best.-Nr. LCS-18326Rare réédition des trois principaux ouvrages théoriques d'architecture d'Abraham Bosse, entièrement dessinés et gravés en taille-douce par lui-même, et imprimés d'un seul côté. Paris, Pierre Aubouin, Pierre Emery et Charles Clousier, s.d. [1688]. In-folio de 1 titre, 1 frontispice, 44 planches. - [Suivi de] : Des Ordres de colones en l’Architecture… [Paris, 1688]. 1 frontispice, 1 planche sur double-page, (20) feuillets gravés. - [Et de] : Représentations Géométrales De plusieurs parties de Bastiments faites par les Reigles de l’Architecture antique Et de qui les mesures sont reduites en Piedz poulces & lignes, Afin de saccomoder a la manière de mesurer la plus en usage parmy le commun des Ouvriers. Paris, 1688. 1 frontispice et 22 feuillets gravés. Soit 3 ouvrages en 1 volume in-folio, veau moucheté, encadrement de filets à la Duseuil sur les plats, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées rouges, qq. usures aux mors sans gravité. Reliure du XVIIIe siècle. 420 x 263 mm.
1718Best.-Nr. ST16605bWashington D.C.: U. S. Government 17 July 1862. 445 x 565 mm. 17 3/4 x 22 1/2". 17 lines of engraved text in copperplate script with names and dates completed in a fine secretarial hand. Loose as issued in an archival mylar sleeve. ◆Neatly mended two-and-three-quarters-inch tear to one edge well away from text half inch slit to end of one fold three very short separations along two folds only one touching text otherwise A FINE FRESH SPECIMEN clean and bright the signature dark and clear the wax-and-white-paper seal intact. This is an excellent example of a presidential document with Lincoln's full signature and with that of his Secretary of State William Henry Seward 1801-72 remembered for negotiating the purchase of Alaska from Russia. The consul appointed in this document Jay Haziel Sherman of Vermont served in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island from 1861 to 1865. It is likely this appointee was Jahaziel Blossom Sherman 1801-65 son of pioneering steamship captain Jahaziel Sherman 1770-1844 and that his unusual Old Testament name was misspelled by the scribe who filled in the appointment form. The younger Sherman died in Nova Scotia in 1865. U. S. Government unknown
1718Best.-Nr. ST16605bWashington D.C.: U. S. Government 17 July 1862. 445 x 565 mm. 17 3/4 x 22 1/2". 17 lines of engraved text in copperplate script with names and dates completed in a fine secretarial hand. Loose as issued in an archival mylar sleeve. ◆Neatly mended two-and-three-quarters-inch tear to one edge well away from text half inch slit to end of one fold three very short separations along two folds only one touching text otherwise A FINE FRESH SPECIMEN clean and bright the signature dark and clear the wax-and-white-paper seal intact. This is an excellent example of a presidential document with Lincoln's full signature and with that of his Secretary of State William Henry Seward 1801-72 remembered for negotiating the purchase of Alaska from Russia. The consul appointed in this document Jay Haziel Sherman of Vermont served in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island from 1861 to 1865. It is likely this appointee was Jahaziel Blossom Sherman 1801-65 son of pioneering steamship captain Jahaziel Sherman 1770-1844 and that his unusual Old Testament name was misspelled by the scribe who filled in the appointment form. The younger Sherman died in Nova Scotia in 1865. U. S. Government unknown books
1588Best.-Nr. 7526At London Imprinted by William How for Thomas Gubbin and T. Newman 1588. 1588 4to. 10 85 2 87-151 leaves. Folding table 'A generall Table of the whole Booke'. Later calf panelled in blind with a two line roll and small corner tools. The spine with four raised bands and blind lines. Evidence of a lost label. The spine darkened and minor rubs on the edges and corners. Internally clean and tight with pinholes of worm to the final three leaves mostly marginal but affecting three letters of text on Rrii. Later signature E. Dawson on the front pastedown. Fraunce was a member of Philip Sidney's circle and all his writings were dedicated to members of that group. His writings were commended both by Thomas Nashe and by Francis Meres. In this work he follows the Ramist principles he also employed in other works providing literary examples to demonstrate principles of logic. Here however he expands the approach by using common law cases from Plowden and others. ESTC S102621 . At London, Imprinted by William How, for Thomas Gubbin, and T. Newman, hardcover
Best.-Nr. 131044Patinated bronze cast of Abraham Lincoln by George Bissell one of only three commissioned by Ralph Newman for THE USS AL. Boldly signed by the artist in the back Geo. E. Bissell Sc. George Bissell was an important American sculptor working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He produced two full length statues of Lincoln: one in Edinburgh and one in Clermont Iowa. According to the letter from Lincoln College Curator Paul Beaver the present item is one of three copies made from the school's original Bissell bronze bust of Lincoln by the Van Dyke Galleries of Chicago in the summer of 1989. One copy was presented to the USS Abraham Lincoln commissioned in 1989 one copy was sold to Mel Smith and the third to Barry and Louise Taper. In fine condition. The piece measures 25.5 inches in height. An exceptional piece. unknown
1868Best.-Nr. 019219Chicago: Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. 1868. First Edition. Document. Recently backed with thin paper with several professional repairs of chips and tears. Very Good . Large folio 16-1/4" x 21-3/4" finely engraved and printed on good quality paper with elaborate decorative borders with a "US" monogram to upper corners a bold calligraphic heading with "ABOLISHING SLAVERY" in prominent decorated letters; at top center is a small vignette of the pyramid and all-seeing eye above an oval vignette of a slave family with child mourning over a cameo portrait of Lincoln. This is followed by the engraved signatures of President Lincoln Vice President Hamlin Schuyler Colfax and J. W. Forney Speaker and Secretary of the Senate and 164 Senators and Congressmen. An exceedingly rare and beautiful printing of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . Shall exist within the United States." This elaborately engraved Reconstruction-era broadside is based on the special "souvenir" copies on parchment signed by Lincoln and the others of which only a handful are known to have been made. The Thirteenth Amendment represents the first substantive change to how America interpreted those liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights since its ratification in 1791. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the openly rebellious states. The Amendment effectively put an end to slavery once and for all upon its passage on 1 February 1865. Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. unknown books
1863Best.-Nr. 1272681863. Washington D.C. March 12 1863 effective September 9 1862. Engraved document on vellum 352 x 450 mm completed in manuscript signed by Abraham Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and with blue War Department seal intact. Docketed by Lorenzo Thomas "L Thomas" in top right corner. Lightly age-toned folding creases some extra toning in lower margin. Very good. § A well-preserved Lincoln-signed commission for William Rufus Terrill 1834-1862 a Virginia-born West Pointer who stayed with the Union and his Northerner wife while his family went with the Confederacy. Terrill won notice commanding artillery at Shiloh and was appointed brigadier general of volunteers on September 9 1862 taking command of the 33rd Brigade Army of the Ohio. A month later on October 8 1862 at the Battle of Perryville he was mortally wounded by an artillery shell while trying to hold his brigade's line. He was 28. This commission is dated more than five months after his death suggesting it was issued as a formality with the appointment dated back to his original date of promotion. His younger brother James a colonel in the 13th Virginia Infantry was killed at the Battle of Bethesda Church on May 30 1864 serving the Confederacy. He too had been nominated for brigadier general; the Confederate Senate confirmed the appointment the day after his death. Another brother Philip also died in Confederate service. Civil War folklore long maintained that their grieving father William Henry Terrill erected a memorial stone for his sons bearing the inscription: "This monument erected by their father. God alone knows which was right." In God Alone Knows Which Was Right: The Blue and Gray Terrill Family of Virginia in the Civil War McFarland 2010 historian Richard Armstrong disproves the folklore but records a fitting chronicle of the tragically divided Virginia family and the high cost of their Civil War service. unknown
1863Best.-Nr. 1272681863. Washington D.C. March 12 1863 effective September 9 1862. Engraved document on vellum 352 x 450 mm completed in manuscript signed by Abraham Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and with blue War Department seal intact. Docketed by Lorenzo Thomas "L Thomas" in top right corner. Lightly age-toned folding creases some extra toning in lower margin. Very good. § A well-preserved Lincoln-signed commission for William Rufus Terrill 1834-1862 a Virginia-born West Pointer who stayed with the Union and his Northerner wife while his family went with the Confederacy. Terrill won notice commanding artillery at Shiloh and was appointed brigadier general of volunteers on September 9 1862 taking command of the 33rd Brigade Army of the Ohio. A month later on October 8 1862 at the Battle of Perryville he was mortally wounded by an artillery shell while trying to hold his brigade's line. He was 28. This commission is dated more than five months after his death suggesting it was issued as a formality with the appointment dated back to his original date of promotion. His younger brother James a colonel in the 13th Virginia Infantry was killed at the Battle of Bethesda Church on May 30 1864 serving the Confederacy. He too had been nominated for brigadier general; the Confederate Senate confirmed the appointment the day after his death. Another brother Philip also died in Confederate service. Civil War folklore long maintained that their grieving father William Henry Terrill erected a memorial stone for his sons bearing the inscription: "This monument erected by their father. God alone knows which was right." In God Alone Knows Which Was Right: The Blue and Gray Terrill Family of Virginia in the Civil War McFarland 2010 historian Richard Armstrong disproves the folklore but records a fitting chronicle of the tragically divided Virginia family and the high cost of their Civil War service. unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 5180Washington: National Defense Research Committee 1944. First edition. First edition very rare of Wald's seminal invention of 'Sequential analysis' the "notion that in some sense it is economical to observe and analyze data sequentially rather than to observe and analyze a single sample of predetermined fixed size" DSB. It is here offered in the original 'restricted' reports; it was published four years later in his well-known book Sequential Analysis. "It was Wald in 1943 who first formulated mathematically and solved quite generally the problem of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. He introduced the particular method of the sequential probability ratio test and with Wolfowitz 1948 showed its optimal properties" ibid. . THE INVENTION OF SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS - THE ORIGINAL RESTRICTED REPORTS. First edition very rare of Wald's seminal invention of 'Sequential analysis' developed while he was in charge of Columbia University's Statistical Research Group in response to the demand for more efficient methods of industrial quality control during World War II. It is here offered in the original 'restricted' reports; it was published four years later in his well-known book of the same title. "Wald's second major achievement in mathematical statistics is sequential analysis. The notion that in some sense it is economical to observe and analyze data sequentially rather than to observe and analyze a single sample of predetermined fixed size was not a new one. Intuitive support for this notion is immediate; if the evidence shown in sequentially unfolding data is sharply one-sided it seems reasonable to believe that the inquiry can be terminated early with lengthier inquiries reserved for those situations in which the issue at hand appears via the sequentially unfolding data to be in greater doubt. This notion and the partial mathematical formulation of it were to be found in the statistical literature; among those who dealt with it before Wald was Walter Bartky of Chicago and among Wald's contemporaries George Barnard working in England. But again it was Wald in 1943 who first formulated mathematically and solved quite generally the problem of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. He introduced the particular method of the sequential probability ratio test and with Wolfowitz 1948 showed its optimal properties. He found operating characteristic and average sample number functions; he introduced if he did not completely solve the problem of sequential tests of composite hypotheses utilizing weight functions; and he began vital discussions of such basic topics as multivalued decisions and optimal sequential estimation. All this plus many special problems were gathered together in Sequential Analysis 1947 a book surprisingly easy to read less formal and more elementary in structure than his work on decision functions" DSB. No copies listed on ABPC/RBH. "Sequential analysis is the branch of statistics concerned with investigations in which the decision whether or not to stop at any stage depends on the observations previously made. The motivation for most sequential investigations is that when the ends achieved are measured against the costs incurred including the cost of making observations sequential designs are typically more efficient than non-sequential designs . "The term 'sequential' is occasionally extended to cover also investigations in which various aspects of the design may be changed according to the observations made. For example preliminary experience in an experiment may suggest changes in the treatments being compared; in a social survey a small pilot survey may lead to modifications in the design of the main investigation . In a sequential investigation observations must be examined either one by one as they are collected or at certain stages during collection. A sequential procedure might be desirable for various reasons. The investigator might wish to have an up-to-date record at any stage either for general information or because the appropriate sample size depends on quantities that he can estimate only from the data themselves. Alternatively he may have no intrinsic interest in the intermediate results but may be able to achieve economy in sample size by taking them into account. Three examples will illustrate these points: 1 An investigator may wish to estimate to within 10 per cent the mean weekly expenditure on tobacco per household. In order to determine the sample size he would need an estimate of the variability of the expenditure from household to household and this might be obtainable only from the survey itself. 2 A physician wishing to compare the effects of two drugs in the treatment of some disease may wish to stop the investigation if at some stage a convincing difference can already be demonstrated using the available data. 3 A manufacturer carrying out inspection of batches of some product may be able to pass most of his batches with little inspection but may carryout further inspection of batches of doubtful quality. A given degree of discrimination between good and bad batches could be achieved in various ways but a sequential scheme will often be more economical than one in which a sample of constant size is taken from each batch "The most appropriate design and method of analysis of a sequential investigation depend on the purpose of the investigation. The statistical formulation of that purpose may take one of a number of forms usually either estimation of some quantity to a given degree of precision or testing a hypothesis with given size and given power against a given alternative hypothesis. Economy in number of observations is typically important for sequential design" International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. "The problem of sequential analysis arose in the Statistical Research Group of Columbia University in connection with some comments made by Captain G. L. Schuyler of the Bureau of Ordnance Navy Department. Milton Friedman and W. Allen Wallis recognized the great potentialities and the far-reaching consequences that sequential analysis might have for the further development of theoretical statistics. In particular they conjectured that a sequential test procedure might be constructed which would control the possible errors committed by wrong decisions exactly to the same extent as the best current procedure based on a predetermined number of observations and at the same time would require on the average a substantially smaller number of observations than the fixed number of observations needed for the current procedure. Friedman and Wallis also exhibited a few examples of sequential modifications of current test procedures resulting in some cases in an increase of efficiency. It was at this stage that they proposed the problem of sequential analysis to the author i.e. Wald. This gave the incentive for the author's investigations which then led to the development of the sequential probability ratio test. "Because of the usefulness of the sequential probability ratio test in development work on military and naval equipment it was classified Restricted within the meaning of the Espionage Act. The author was requested to submit his findings in a restricted report dated September 1943. In this report the sequential probability ratio test and the basic theory is given. To facilitate the use of this new technique by the Army and the Navy the Statistical Research Group issued a second report in July 1944 which gives an elementary non-mathematical exposition of the applications of the sequential probability ratio test and contains a considerable number of tables charts and computational simplifications to facilitate applications" Wald pp. 2-3. The 10 parts are as follows: Sequential analysis of statistical data: Theory September 1943. Sequential tests of statistical significance April 1944. Applications 15 July 1944: Sequential analysis in inspection and experimentation Introduction Section 1; Sequential analysis when the result of a single observation is a classification as good or bad and when the result of the test is acceptance or rejection Section 2; Sequential analysis when the result of a single observation is a classification as good or bad and when the result of the test is a decision between two methods or products Section 3; First report: Small 4to 230 x 180 mm original printed wrappers. Upper right corner with a slight bump. Previous owners initials to front wrapper W.L.D. Stamped RESTRICTED. IX 1179 3: blank pp. Second report: 8vo 244 x 153 mm. Original printed wrappers fine. 10 2: blank pp. Third report: Large 4to 285 x 220 mm. Original ring binder containing the six sections in original printed wrappers together with the two appendicies aslo in wrappers: S1:VIII16; S2:II22; S3:II22; S4:II22; S5:II18; S6:II18; A1:II14; A2:II22 pp. In very good condition. Also included is the mimiographed distribution list of the third report: 1 sheet typescript printed on both sides. All three reports are in the rare original issue with the text: "This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Act 50 U.S.C. 31 and 32 as amended. Its transmission or the revelation of its contents in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law". OCLC lists 8 copies of the first report 1 of the second National Institute of Standards and Technology and the third report is not located in any library. National Defense Research Committee unknown
1737Best.-Nr. 41768London: Chez Jean Brindley Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles dans New Bond-street 1737. Folio. 20 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Second edition deluxe large paper issue with wide margins. 43 double-page engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeke including 42 numbered 1-42 and the unnumbered 1658 title with Anvers imprint. Engraved head-piece to first dedication. Numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text and woodcut historiated and inhabited initials head- and tail-pieces and printer's ornaments. 12 1-236. 248 pp. Letterpress title with London imprint and four dedications to Henriette Cavendishe-Holles the King of Grande-Bretagne Charles Vicomte de Mansfield and to Cavaliers. Avertissement avant-propos four livres plus an Abbrege de la Cavalerie conclusion additions table des chapitres. With incisive manuscript commentary pencilled in the margins in both French and English. Text in French. Bound to style in eighteenth-century half leather over eighteenth-century comb marbled paper-covered boards and marbled endpapers Deluxe large paper issue of Cavendish's classic 1737 treatise on equestrianism with 43 splendid double-page engravings: "The illustrations are among the most beautiful to ever grace equestrian literature." Ramsay Though considered a country of horse lovers England only produced one early master of classical riding: William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle who was a Royalist living in exile until the restoration of King Charles II. During his exile Cavendish opened a riding school in Belgium and wrote the present work La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux. This text was the first of Cavendish's two important books on breeding and training horses and was translated into French from his English manuscript and published in Antwerp in two issues: 1657 and 1658 though many of the 1657 title-pages have been altered by hand to read 1658. The first printing was largely incinerated by a fire in the bookseller's shop and is all but impossible to acquire. Brunet Offered here is the deluxe large paper issue of the second edition of Cavendish's first book a work long cherished by bibliophiles for its typographical excellence and the masterful quality of its illustrations. It is a work that has been esteemed by countless generations of horsemen and revered by such master riders as La Guérinière Comte d'Aure and Steinbrecht. It is a landmark of equestrianism. Steinkraus Cavendish's book has been called the only really outstanding work on the subject written by an Englishman. Toole-Stott In it Cavendish discusses a wide variety of equine subjects including the recognition of the age and disposition of a horse; the characteristics of various types of horses such as the Spanish the Barb the English horse and the Arabian; methods of maintenance; and instructions on proper riding: "You must in all Airs follow the strength spirit and disposition of the horse and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order and nothing else." Of the 43 wonderful double-page engraved plates after Abraham van Diepenbeke 24 depict the multiple stages Cavendish and his assistant Captain Mazin employed in training horses in complicated maneuvers. The quality of the impressions in the present 1737 edition surpasses even those of the original edition. Steinkraus This was the first edition of La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux to be published in England with engravings pulled from the original 1658 copperplates which were acquired by the publisher Jean Brindley. Brunet I 1700. Graesse II 93. Huth 23. Lowndes 1663. Mennessier de la Lance II p. 250. Nissen ZBI 848. Podeschi Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship pp. 26 49. Ramsay "Early Dressage Literature to 1800" IOBA 6.9.03. Steinkraus Introduction to A General System of Horsemanship 2000. Toole-Stott Circus and the Allied Arts: A World Bibliography 84. Wing N884-87. Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles, dans New Bond-street unknown
1737Best.-Nr. 41768London: Chez Jean Brindley Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles dans New Bond-street 1737. Folio. 20 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Second edition deluxe large paper issue with wide margins. 43 double-page engravings after Abraham van Diepenbeke including 42 numbered 1-42 and the unnumbered 1658 title with Anvers imprint. Engraved head-piece to first dedication. Numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text and woodcut historiated and inhabited initials head- and tail-pieces and printer's ornaments. 12 1-236. 248 pp. Letterpress title with London imprint and four dedications to Henriette Cavendishe-Holles the King of Grande-Bretagne Charles Vicomte de Mansfield and to Cavaliers. Avertissement avant-propos four livres plus an Abbrege de la Cavalerie conclusion additions table des chapitres. With incisive manuscript commentary pencilled in the margins in both French and English. Text in French. Bound to style in eighteenth-century half leather over eighteenth-century comb marbled paper-covered boards and marbled endpapers Deluxe large paper issue of Cavendish's classic 1737 treatise on equestrianism with 43 splendid double-page engravings: "The illustrations are among the most beautiful to ever grace equestrian literature." Ramsay Though considered a country of horse lovers England only produced one early master of classical riding: William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle who was a Royalist living in exile until the restoration of King Charles II. During his exile Cavendish opened a riding school in Belgium and wrote the present work La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux. This text was the first of Cavendish's two important books on breeding and training horses and was translated into French from his English manuscript and published in Antwerp in two issues: 1657 and 1658 though many of the 1657 title-pages have been altered by hand to read 1658. The first printing was largely incinerated by a fire in the bookseller's shop and is all but impossible to acquire. Brunet Offered here is the deluxe large paper issue of the second edition of Cavendish's first book a work long cherished by bibliophiles for its typographical excellence and the masterful quality of its illustrations. It is a work that has been esteemed by countless generations of horsemen and revered by such master riders as La Guérinière Comte d'Aure and Steinbrecht. It is a landmark of equestrianism. Steinkraus Cavendish's book has been called the only really outstanding work on the subject written by an Englishman. Toole-Stott In it Cavendish discusses a wide variety of equine subjects including the recognition of the age and disposition of a horse; the characteristics of various types of horses such as the Spanish the Barb the English horse and the Arabian; methods of maintenance; and instructions on proper riding: "You must in all Airs follow the strength spirit and disposition of the horse and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order and nothing else." Of the 43 wonderful double-page engraved plates after Abraham van Diepenbeke 24 depict the multiple stages Cavendish and his assistant Captain Mazin employed in training horses in complicated maneuvers. The quality of the impressions in the present 1737 edition surpasses even those of the original edition. Steinkraus This was the first edition of La Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux to be published in England with engravings pulled from the original 1658 copperplates which were acquired by the publisher Jean Brindley. Brunet I 1700. Graesse II 93. Huth 23. Lowndes 1663. Mennessier de la Lance II p. 250. Nissen ZBI 848. Podeschi Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship pp. 26 49. Ramsay "Early Dressage Literature to 1800" IOBA 6.9.03. Steinkraus Introduction to A General System of Horsemanship 2000. Toole-Stott Circus and the Allied Arts: A World Bibliography 84. Wing N884-87. Chez Jean Brindley, Libraire de S. A. R. Monseigeur le Prince de Galles, dans New Bond-street unknown books
1619Best.-Nr. 18555Very Good HC. Text in Dutch blackletter; tekst in het Nederlands gotisch. Full contemporary vellum; untitled; raised bands on spine; red edges; 50 numbered full page copperplate engravings of Christian eremite saints 25 male 25 female printed recto with text pages verso; full page frontispiece for work as well as full page frontispiece for female section. Vellum in very good condition with some handling discoloration remains supple; ties at cover fore edges lacking; tightly bound; few pencil notes on front pastedown; without free end papers; lacking frontispiece for male section leaf A!; facsimile laid in; few leaves with light damp stains or soiling mostly in margins otherwise light and clean interior; one leaf B3 with large chip at top fore corner not affecting portrait but with some text missing from marginal notation on verso see photo; all leaves remain supple. 25 x 18 cm; 51 text pages; 50 numbered plates 2 frontispiece plates; in 4s. Ref OCLC #901301549. Hantvverpen (Antwerp): Hieronymus Verdussen hardcover
Best.-Nr. LCS-1863L’Atlas de poche d’Ortelius en italien, complet de ses 108 cartes à pleine page, conservé dans sa reliure de l’époque. Venetia, Per Scipion Banca, 1667. In-16 de (4) ff., 232 pp., (8) ff. 108 cartes gravées à pleine page. Relié en vélin rigide de l’époque. Ex libris manuscrit sur le faux titre : « Bibliotheca Neorelli ». 133 x 93 mm.
Best.-Nr. BB17Venetia Per Scipion Banca 1667. 16mo 133 x 93 mm of 4 ll. 232 pp. 8 ll. 108 full-page engraved maps. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum. Handwritten exlibris on the half-title: " Bibliotheca Neorelli ". Italian pocket-edition of Ortelius' atlas illustrated with 108 full-page engraved maps. Philips 478 ; Tooley 31. " The commercial success of the pocket-atlas was considerable. It was translated into French and Latin now in prose and was reprinted several times long after Pieter Heyns had moved into the Netherlands together with his son Zacharias in 1588. In the year of Pieter Heyn's death 1598 his son Zacharias then living in Amsterdam repeated the successful best-seller of his father by publishing another Miroir du Monde using woodcut". Koeman. The illustration contains a world map and the continents' maps: Europe Asia Africa and America. The 103 other maps represent each country for which a note has been written on the opposite page. The first edition in Italian was printed in 1608. A charming copy preserved in its contemporary vellum binding. French Venetia Per Scipion Banca 1667. In-16 de 4 ff. 232 pp. 8 ff. 108 cartes gravées à pleine page. Relié en vélin rigide de l'époque. Ex libris manuscrit sur le faux titre : " Bibliotheca Neorelli ". 133 x 93 mm. Edition de poche italienne de l'atlas d'Ortelius ornée de 108 cartes gravées à pleine page. Philips 478 ; Tooley 31. " The commercial success of the pocket-atlas was considerable. It was translated into French and Latin now in prose and was reprinted several times long after Pieter Heyns had moved into the Netherlands together with his son Zacharias in 1588. In the year of Pieter Heyn's death 1598 his son Zacharias then living in Amsterdam repeated the successful best-seller of his father by publishing another Miroir du Monde using woodcut". Koeman. L'illustration s'ouvre sur une carte du monde et se poursuit avec les cartes des continents : l'Europe l'Asie l'Afrique et l'Amérique. Les 103 autres cartes représentent chacun des pays pour lesquels une notice a été rédigée en regard. La première édition en italien fut imprimée en 1608. Seduisant exemplaire conservé dans sa reliure en vélin de l'époque. hardcover
1954Best.-Nr. 250317003New York: Harper & Brothers 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Motivation and Personality by Abraham Maslow. Finding signed documentation of any kind by Maslow is quite rare. Only a few signed copies of his publications are known. There are no other signed copies of this book Maslow's most important work listed for sale anywhere in the world and no record of a signed copy being sold in the auction record. OVERALL condition: VERY GOOD IMPORTANCE Motivation and Personality is one of the most influential and important psychology books ever written. It is a seminal work on the subject of the nature of human fulfillment and the significance of personal relationships implementing a conceptualization of self-actualization. Underachievers have a need for social love and affection but a self-actualized person has these "lower" needs to be gratified and is able to pursue his or her own path towards self-actualization. THE AUTHOR & HIS WORK Maslow's book is perhaps the best-known contemporary work on human needs. Maslow postulated a hierarchy of human needs stretching from basic physical needs at the bottom to spiritual or transcendental needs at the top. In Motivation and Personality Maslow argues that in order for individuals to thrive and excel a health-fostering culture must be created. Maslow is among the psychological theorists who believe that when parents fail to provide a safe nurturing environment their children will develop deep feelings of insecurity. Maslow believes that well-being causes people to freely express their inherent potentials. Maslow is most known for his belief that humans possess a hierarchy of needs. While he had been working on this theory and other ideas explored in this book since the late 1930s he first proposed his hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in the journal Psychological Review. The theory is a classification system intended to reflect the universal needs of society as its base then proceeding to more acquired emotions. The hierarchy is split between deficiency needs and growth needs with two key themes involved within the theory being individualism and the prioritization of needs. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often portrayed in the shape of a pyramid with the largest most fundamental needs at the bottom and the need for self-actualization and transcendence at the top. However Maslow himself never created a pyramid to represent the hierarchy of needs. BOOK INFO Published in 1954 by Harper & Brothers in New York City. First edition early printing. Inscribed by the author in graphite on the FFEP "To the Fanciest Taxi-driver/ A H Maslow." In original brown cloth covered boards with black lettering and design work on the spine. xiv 411 pp including Appendix and Bibliography. The book is in GOOD to VERY GOOD vintage condition. Partially erased pencil writing on a few pages and about half a dozen pages with areas of ink underlining. The cloth is unfaded with a few spots of soiling on back cover. Firm binding. Former owner name in ink on FFEP. Rubbing to extremities and one bumped corner. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1727Best.-Nr. 5737The Hague 1727. Folio. Rutgert Christoffel Alberts vols. 1-3 and Isaac van der Kloot vols. 3-4; Amsterdam Hermannus Uytwerf; Rotterdam Jan Daniel Beman Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf with red and black morocco title and volume labels lettered in gold each volume with a central lozenge-shaped ornament on both boards surrounded by two decorative borders gold tooled board edges marbled edges. With an engraved frontispiece 8 title-pages 6 in red and black each with one of 3 different engraved vignettes plus 3 part-titles with a woodcut decoration 224 full-page engraved plates including 1 folding and 38 double-page plates an engraving on the dedication leaf in vol. 1 and a few engravings in the text. Further with several engraved headpieces woodcut tailpieces and a few woodcut decorated initials. 6 volumes vols. 3 4 & 6 in 2 parts each bound as 7. First Dutch edition of Picart's famous and richly illustrated work on religious customs ceremonies and costumes from all over the world. With its six volumes it is the most sumptuous publication ever on the religions of the world richly and beautifully illustrated with large and sometimes double-page or even folding engraved plates by the French engraver Bernard Picart 1673-1733 who lived in Amsterdam from 1708. The text was compiled from a wide range of sources including R. Simon J. Abbadie Dupin Thiers P. le Brun Boulainvilliers and Reland and edited by the Amsterdam publisher Jean Frederic Bernard for a French edition titled Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous le peuples du monde first published in 1723. It was translated into Dutch for the present edition by Abraham Moubach.The first two volumes discuss the religion of the Jews and Roman Catholics including a double-page engraving of the interior of the Portuguese synagoge in Amsterdam. The third and fourth volume deal with the religions of the "heathens" in the Americas including Mexico India Ceylon the Brahmans in India China Japan Africa and the Persians in Iran. The fifth volume concerns the Greek orthodox church and the several groups of Protestants. The last volume describes the Anglicans and smaller groups such as Quakers Mennonites Adamites Freemasons and finally Islam. Altogether the most important 18th-century survey work on the world's religions and their customs lavishly illustrated with very finely executed plates.From the library of Frederick H. Rindge 1859-1905. The boards are somewhat rubbed. The works are slightly browned and foxed throughout with the final leaves of volume 3 affected more than the others. Otherwise in good condition.l Alt-Japan-Katalog 1149; STCN 191420778; cf. Cordier Japonica col. 435; Lipperheide 1808; Sabin 62600 all French ed. hardcover
1877Best.-Nr. 1812Grand-Saconnex Schweiz: Selbstverlag 1877. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers. Collection stamp and shelfmarks written in ink and pencil on the cover and the title-page. Distributor’s stamp on the cover. With traces of folding. Cover slightly dusted. Pages yellowed due to ageing. First five leaves with minor damage to the lower corners. Overall in fine condition. First edition. In publisher’s wrappers. 24 p. Scarce pamphlet reflecting on the debate on early Marxist communism countering Engels for Anti-Dühring. First and only edition of the socialist theorist Abraham Enss’ pamphlet in which he criticises Marx and his followers for “doing humbug with socialism” and virulently defending Dühring from Engels’ “pseudoscientific” diatribes on him. Since the editors of Berliner Freie Presse refused to accept his writing Enss self-published his open letter dated to February 4 1877 and supplemented by two postscripts dated to March 1 and March 18 respectively in the present pamphlet in Switzerland. In response to the appearance of his writings Engels called Enss the “Sancho Panza” of Dühring who he referred to as “modern Don Quixote” while Liebknecht wrote in his letters to Engels that “Enß is stupid and will soon go to the madhouse” and that he is “generally regarded as a donkey even an idiot”. Abraham Enss was a follower and friend of Eugen Dühring. From 1887 he edited Der Antikrat a Dühringian paper with anti-Semitic tendencies which appeared with the subtitle Gegen Parteigewalt und Hebräer-Einfluß. Für selbständige Geistesführung und sociale Gerechtigkeit. Against Party Violence and Hebrew Influence. For Independent Spiritual Leadership and Social Justice. Scarce WorldCat locates only one copy in institutional holding in the US in the Columbia University Library in New York. Literature: Engels F.; Marx K.: Marx & Engels Collected Works. Volume 25. London: Lawrence & Wishart 1987. p. 298.; Firedlaender B.: Der freiheitliche Sozialismus: im Gegensatz zum Staatsknechtsthum der Marxisten. Mit besonderere Berücksichtigung der Werke und Schicksale Eugen Dühring’s. Berlin: Freie Verlagsanschaft 1892. p. 71; Gay J.: The Blind Prometheus of German Social Science. Eugen Dühring as Philosopher Economist and Controversial Social Critic. Universität Erfurt 2012.; Liebknecht W.: Briefwechsel mit Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2020. pp. 212–214.; Nettlau M.: Bibliographie de l’anarchie. Année 1897. — N° 8. Bruxelles: Bibliothèque des Temps Nouveaux 1897. p. 41. . Selbstverlag unknown
1708Best.-Nr. 116863Amsterdam, les Frères Chatelain, 1708-1714, 4 vol. in-folio, (18)-8-(4)82, (16)-(10)-162 (pagination continue) et (12)-98 pp, lettrines, culs-de-lampes, reliures plein veau raciné, dos à 6 nerfs guillochés et caissons très ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison basane naturelle, coupes guillochées, tranches rouges (rel. de l'époque), pet. travail de ver au tome 1 sans perte de texte, coiffes abîmées, qqs épidermures, 1 mors fendu sur 8 cm au tome 3, intérieurs propres, bon état
1730Best.-Nr. 153282London: J. Tonson and J. Watts 1730. Binomial expansion First edition containing Moivre's first published attempt at approximating the terms of a binomial expansion. "Moivre's discovery greatly clarified the concept of probability in his own time and became the most fruitful single instrument of discovery used in probability theory and statistics for the next two centuries" Norman. Quarto 243 x 191 mm. Contemporary calf red morocco label red speckled edges. 18th-century armorial bookplate of Thomas Turton to front pastedown. Neat restoration to joints and extremities some scratches to covers light running staining in gutter and at head contents otherwise unmarked. A very good copy. ESTC T96683; Norman 1531. unknown
1863Best.-Nr. 55254N.p. perhaps Virginia. Late 1863 or early 1864. Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation: A Most Uncommon and Interesting Printing An exceedingly rare separate printing - perhaps by a military field press - of President Abraham Lincoln's December 1863 presidential proclamation offering amnesty to citizens of the Confederacy providing they take an oath that they "will abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves" i.e. the Emancipation Proclamation. When the number of persons in any state taking the oath reached ten percent of the number of voters in 1860 this group of loyal voters could form a state government that could be recognized by the President. The Amnesty Proclamation was issued with President Lincoln's third Annual Message to Congress i.e. State of the Union Address on December 8 1863. It was appended per the language in the title here to the official printing of that address but also printed separately. The present printing almost certainly executed in the weeks after Lincoln's State of the Union was likely hastily composed from the text of the official printing of the proclamation. The work carries no imprint information of any kind and bears the hallmarks of a military field press printing. Toward the close of 1863 with the Confederate Army in full retreat discussions in Congress centered on how to restore the Southern states to the Union. "The crisis which threatened to divide the friends of the Union is past" announced Lincoln. Now it was the duty of Congress to ensure that all citizens in the South regardless of race were guaranteed the equal protection of the law. A number of competing proposals emerged from deliberations but in the end during his message to Congress on December 8 1863 Lincoln declared reconstruction of the South a wholly executive responsibility and "offered 'full pardon.with restoration of all rights of property except as to slaves' to all rebels who would take an oath of future loyalty to the Constitution and pledge to obey acts of Congress and presidential proclamations relating to slavery" Donald p.471. Those excluded from taking the oath were the highest ranking members of the Confederacy - government officials judges military and naval officers above the rank of army colonel or navy lieutenant former congressmen and "all who have engaged in treating colored persons or white persons otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war." Lincoln further encouraged the Southern states to make provisions "in relation to the freed people of such State which shall recognize and declare their permanent freedom provide for their education and which may yet be consistent as a temporary arrangement with their present condition as a laboring landless and homeless class." "Lincoln indicated that this was only one plan for reconstructing the rebel South and while it was the best he could think of for now he would gladly consider others and possibly adopt them. He might even modify his own classes of pardons if that seemed warrantable.Afterward almost everybody but die-hard Democrats seemed happy with the plan" Oates p.371. The proclamation is accompanied by a partially-printed Oath of Allegiance dated 1864 and datelined Harper's Ferry Virginia. The oath requires the taker to "solemnly swear that I will support protect and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States against all enemies." It is signed in type by Henry A. Urban Lieutenant and A.D.C. Aide-de-Camp. The oath is printed with a blank space for the name of the person taking the oath and the date. There is also a space for people who know the oath-taker and "certify on honor that we know Mr. blank to be a true and loyal man to the Federal Government." The Oath is affixed to a partial manuscript ledger report recording lost military stores for an unidentified unit in 1863 This printing of the Amnesty Proclamation is just as interesting as the government broadside printing or the first pamphlet printing as this edition would have also been used in the field by Union troops encountering Confederate rebels. The composition of the beginning of the seventh paragraph is consistent with the first pamphlet printing of the Amnesty Proclamation Monaghan 191 and not the broadside printing. The text here begins "Therefore I Abraham Lincoln."; in the broadside printing "Therefore" is present at the end of the preceding paragraph. The simple and somewhat loose execution of the composition seen here is consistent with field press printings as is the lack of an imprint of any kind. Perhaps this simple production was intended for Union troops to literally hand to Confederate soldiers to read. The presence of the portion of the ledger and the Oath of Allegiance lends credence to the notion that this edition of the Amnesty Proclamation was produced for use by the military. This printing of the Amnesty Proclamation is not in Monaghan OCLC or in any reference work we could find. In fact we could find no other three-page editions of the Amnesty Proclamation at all. Surely printed in small numbers to begin with it is perhaps a unique surviving example. The OATH affixed to a partial manuscript ledger report recording lost military stores for an unidentified unit in 1863 which is itself glued to the verso of the last blank page of the Amnesty Proclamation. Minor toning light foxing some wrinkling. Overall very good. In a cloth chemise and green half morocco and cloth slipcase spine gilt. MONAGHAN 191 ref. SABIN 41162 note. David Herbert Donald Lincoln New York 1995 p.471. Stephen B. Oates With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln New York 1977 p.371. hardcover
1863Best.-Nr. 55254N.p. perhaps Virginia. Late 1863 or early 1864. Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation: A Most Uncommon and Interesting Printing An exceedingly rare separate printing - perhaps by a military field press - of President Abraham Lincoln's December 1863 presidential proclamation offering amnesty to citizens of the Confederacy providing they take an oath that they "will abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves" i.e. the Emancipation Proclamation. When the number of persons in any state taking the oath reached ten percent of the number of voters in 1860 this group of loyal voters could form a state government that could be recognized by the President. The Amnesty Proclamation was issued with President Lincoln's third Annual Message to Congress i.e. State of the Union Address on December 8 1863. It was appended per the language in the title here to the official printing of that address but also printed separately. The present printing almost certainly executed in the weeks after Lincoln's State of the Union was likely hastily composed from the text of the official printing of the proclamation. The work carries no imprint information of any kind and bears the hallmarks of a military field press printing. Toward the close of 1863 with the Confederate Army in full retreat discussions in Congress centered on how to restore the Southern states to the Union. "The crisis which threatened to divide the friends of the Union is past" announced Lincoln. Now it was the duty of Congress to ensure that all citizens in the South regardless of race were guaranteed the equal protection of the law. A number of competing proposals emerged from deliberations but in the end during his message to Congress on December 8 1863 Lincoln declared reconstruction of the South a wholly executive responsibility and "offered 'full pardon.with restoration of all rights of property except as to slaves' to all rebels who would take an oath of future loyalty to the Constitution and pledge to obey acts of Congress and presidential proclamations relating to slavery" Donald p.471. Those excluded from taking the oath were the highest ranking members of the Confederacy - government officials judges military and naval officers above the rank of army colonel or navy lieutenant former congressmen and "all who have engaged in treating colored persons or white persons otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war." Lincoln further encouraged the Southern states to make provisions "in relation to the freed people of such State which shall recognize and declare their permanent freedom provide for their education and which may yet be consistent as a temporary arrangement with their present condition as a laboring landless and homeless class." "Lincoln indicated that this was only one plan for reconstructing the rebel South and while it was the best he could think of for now he would gladly consider others and possibly adopt them. He might even modify his own classes of pardons if that seemed warrantable.Afterward almost everybody but die-hard Democrats seemed happy with the plan" Oates p.371. The proclamation is accompanied by a partially-printed Oath of Allegiance dated 1864 and datelined Harper's Ferry Virginia. The oath requires the taker to "solemnly swear that I will support protect and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States against all enemies." It is signed in type by Henry A. Urban Lieutenant and A.D.C. Aide-de-Camp. The oath is printed with a blank space for the name of the person taking the oath and the date. There is also a space for people who know the oath-taker and "certify on honor that we know Mr. blank to be a true and loyal man to the Federal Government." The Oath is affixed to a partial manuscript ledger report recording lost military stores for an unidentified unit in 1863 This printing of the Amnesty Proclamation is just as interesting as the government broadside printing or the first pamphlet printing as this edition would have also been used in the field by Union troops encountering Confederate rebels. The composition of the beginning of the seventh paragraph is consistent with the first pamphlet printing of the Amnesty Proclamation Monaghan 191 and not the broadside printing. The text here begins "Therefore I Abraham Lincoln."; in the broadside printing "Therefore" is present at the end of the preceding paragraph. The simple and somewhat loose execution of the composition seen here is consistent with field press printings as is the lack of an imprint of any kind. Perhaps this simple production was intended for Union troops to literally hand to Confederate soldiers to read. The presence of the portion of the ledger and the Oath of Allegiance lends credence to the notion that this edition of the Amnesty Proclamation was produced for use by the military. This printing of the Amnesty Proclamation is not in Monaghan OCLC or in any reference work we could find. In fact we could find no other three-page editions of the Amnesty Proclamation at all. Surely printed in small numbers to begin with it is perhaps a unique surviving example. The OATH affixed to a partial manuscript ledger report recording lost military stores for an unidentified unit in 1863 which is itself glued to the verso of the last blank page of the Amnesty Proclamation. Minor toning light foxing some wrinkling. Overall very good. In a cloth chemise and green half morocco and cloth slipcase spine gilt. MONAGHAN 191 ref. SABIN 41162 note. David Herbert Donald Lincoln New York 1995 p.471. Stephen B. Oates With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln New York 1977 p.371. hardcover books
1730Best.-Nr. 14402Amsterdam c1730. 565 by 935mm. 22.25 by 36.75 inches. Engraving with etching on two sheets joined. View of the Plantage Muidergracht and the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein. The view shown from the present day Mr. Visserplien the busy intersecti.on in central Amsterdam depicts the Portuguese Synagogue on the left and the High German or Great Synagogue. These momumental buildings now house the Jewish Historical Museum. The first Jews to settle in Amsterdam were the Sephardim who had been expelled from Portugal and Spain in 1493. They were joined in the following decades by the Ashkenazi from Central and Eastern Europe the first of whom had come from Germany in 1600. In those years the only available land for them was at the outskirts of the eastern side of the Centrum the island of Vlooienburg surrounded by the Amstel River and the canals so they settled along the island's main street Breestraat which quickly became known as Jodenbreestraat. The Great Synagogue now the Jewish Historical Museum and the Portuguese-Israelite Synagogue were opened in 1671 and 1675 respectively. The Portuguese Synagogue was the place where Spinoza was placed under the ban by the Sephardic Jewish community in 1656. Pieter Stevensz. van Gunst 1659-1732 also known as Pieter Stevens van Gunst or Petrus Stephani was a Dutch draughtsman copperplate engraver and printmaker active in Amsterdam London 1704 and the Dutch town of Nederhorst 1730-1731. Abraham Rademaker 1677 21 January 1735 was an 18th-century painter and printmaker from the Northern Netherlands. Rademaker was born in Lisse. According to the RKD he was a versatile artist who painted Italianate landscapes but is known mostly for his many cityscapes and drawings of buildings that were made into print. R.W.P. de Vries auction 1925: 295. unknown
1718Best.-Nr. 140950005London: Printed by W. Pearson for the Author 1718. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of the first comprehensive textbook on probability theory. Folio in quarto format π2 A2 a-b2 c1 B-Z2 Aa-Yy2. 4 xiv 175 pp. printed on laid paper and decorated with engraved head- and tail-pieces. Skillfully rebound in period-style calf original paneled calf laid on elaborate gilt tooling and morocco title label to spine all edges speckled red. Original endpapers preserved. Near Fine with light spotting to textblock edges; binding tight. Light soiling to endpapers and widely scattered foxing and occasional smudging to contents. Bookplate to front pastedown effaced gift inscription in old hand to title page ownership signature of O. G. Gregory at upper right infill to upper right corner from removal of third ownership inscription. Dedication leaf creased and edgeworn errata list neatly crossed out in old ink. ESTC T33065. Abraham Moivre added the aristocratic de to his name when he moved from France to England as a young man one of thousands of Huguenot refugees seeking religious freedom. He taught math and within a few years met Isaac Newton who promoted his career and to whom this book is dedicated. De Moivre published several books and papers but it is The Doctrine of Chances which appealed to denizens of ivory towers and gambling dens alike for which the mathematician is most remembered. This copy was owned by the writer mathematician and astronomer Olinthus Gilbert Gregory a protege of Charles Hutton whose own major work was A Treatise of Mechanics 1806. Printed by W. Pearson, for the Author unknown
1718Best.-Nr. 140950005London: Printed by W. Pearson for the Author 1718. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of the first comprehensive textbook on probability theory. Folio in quarto format π2 A2 a-b2 c1 B-Z2 Aa-Yy2. 4 xiv 175 pp. printed on laid paper and decorated with engraved head- and tail-pieces. Skillfully rebound in period-style calf original paneled calf laid on elaborate gilt tooling and morocco title label to spine all edges speckled red. Original endpapers preserved. Near Fine with light spotting to textblock edges; binding tight. Light soiling to endpapers and widely scattered foxing and occasional smudging to contents. Bookplate to front pastedown effaced gift inscription in old hand to title page ownership signature of O. G. Gregory at upper right infill to upper right corner from removal of third ownership inscription. Dedication leaf creased and edgeworn errata list neatly crossed out in old ink. ESTC T33065. Abraham Moivre added the aristocratic de to his name when he moved from France to England as a young man one of thousands of Huguenot refugees seeking religious freedom. He taught math and within a few years met Isaac Newton who promoted his career and to whom this book is dedicated. De Moivre published several books and papers but it is The Doctrine of Chances which appealed to denizens of ivory towers and gambling dens alike for which the mathematician is most remembered. This copy was owned by the writer mathematician and astronomer Olinthus Gilbert Gregory a protege of Charles Hutton whose own major work was A Treatise of Mechanics 1806. Printed by W. Pearson, for the Author unknown books
1727Best.-Nr. 1510220001Amsterdam: Michel Charles Le Cene 1727-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. 2 12 439 pp.; 2 pp. 445-808p pagination continuous 43 of 44 plates. 2 Volumes in One Bound in contemporary vellum. 7 raised bands. Leather spine label. Good binding and cover. Spine and hinges restored. Faint soiling to vellum. Pages tanned with a several pages with some offsetting and foxing. Lacks frontis and added title. All 27 plates & 16 maps are present. Brunet IV 178; Cordier Japonica 367-68; Cordier Sinaca 2077; Lust 342 Jean Albert Mandeslo set out in 1636 with the Embassy that the Duke of Holstein sent to Russia and Persia. He visited India Ceylon Madagascar West Africa Congo and returned four years later. His story gives a very vivid picture of luxury vices curiosity and absolute disregard for life under the despotic tyranny of the Moghul Empire under Shah Jahan. In the port of Surat he arrived in April 1638 after he went to Ahmedabad and Agra. Although his observations of life in the capital are useful he apparently did not hear anything about the Taj Mahal which at that time was in the sixth year of building. Amsterdam: Michel Charles Le Cene hardcover
