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1863Best.-Nr. 69520Washington D.C.: War Department 1863. CIVIL WAR. War Department General Orders 1863. Washington D.C.: War Department 1863. Full Description: LINCOLN Abraham. CIVIL WAR. Emancipation Proclamation War Department General Orders 1863. Washington D.C.: War Department 1863. The first War Department printing General Orders #1 Jan 2 1863 and fifth overall printing of the final Emancipation Proclamation. The 4 page pamphlet bound together with a nearly complete run of War Department general orders for the year 1863. Two octavo volumes 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 174 x 119 mm. Volume I comprising General Orders of the War Department Adjutant General's Office Numbers 1-221 2 January 1863 to 16 July 1863 and Volume II comprising Numbers 222-400 16 July 1863 to 28 December 1863. Nearly complete only lacking numbers 55 63 116-119 148 in volume I and 274 352 and 381 in volume II. With 5 copies of number 149 and and 3 copies of number 240. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges speckled brown. Hinges repaired. Some rubbing to board edges. Previous owner's contemporary ink signature Bvt. Col. E.J. Wells on front paste down of each volume. Numerous annotations in the same old ink throughout generally noting when the order was received and dated 1863. Some glue marks to the General Order #1 not affecting text. A small tear to last leaf of text in volume I with no loss. Overall a very good copy. In addition to the very important first War department printing of the Emancipation Proclamation these volumes contain several other very important and interesting General Orders from the War Department as well as President Abraham Lincoln in relation to the military during this year in the Civil War. Notably: No. 100 April 24 "Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field." "commonly known as the 'Lieber Code' after its main author Francis Franz Lieber. The Lieber Code set out rules of conduct during hostilities for Union soldiers throughout the U.S. Civil War. Even today it remains the basis of most regulations of the laws of war for the United States. The Lieber Code consists of 157 provisions that deal with a wide range of legal issues that must be considered in armed conflict. It contains general principles but also very detailed rules. Among the issues addressed are whether armed force is justified by military necessity the principle of humanity the distinction between combatants and civilians POW status retaliation and permissible methods and means of warfare." LOC" No. 143 May 22 the establishment of the United States Colored Troops. This authorized the establishment of a bureau regulating the recruitment training and organization of the U.S. Army's first regiments composed entirely of African-American soldiers. Numerous court cases are documented including #17- The sentenced hanging death of a "colored man" for "attempted rape". #346- The trial of George Woolfolk for "Being secretly within lines of the US forces as the same time belonging to the so-called Confederate Army." He was sentenced to be shot to death. And #396- The trial brought by Colonel John Gault against Dr. Aaron James for "Being the captain of a band of guerillas or marauders and shooting at US soldiers." He was sentenced to death but the President disapproved the sentence and directed him to be released. A number of orders of Military discharges both honorable and dishonorable as well as military promotions. #337 announces "Major General U.S. Grant U.S. Army is placed in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi Headquarters in the field." #349 announces "Major General William T. Sherman is appointed to the command of the Department and Army of the Tennessee Headquarters in the field." #194 is the appointment of Major General George Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac who would defeat General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg only days later. And #398 honors Ulysses S. Grant for his Mississippi River campaign and presents him a gold medal. Numerous obituaries including #71 which announces the death of Major General E.V. Sumner who fell ill and died on his way to take command of the Department of the Missouri and directs the ways that Department should give him military honors. Important presidential proclamations including #58- Calling to all soldiers who were "absent without leave" urging them to return to their regiments and would not face punishment beside loss of wages for time missed. #252- Orders regarding the treatment of prisoners of war stating that 'if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color the offence shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession'. "President Abraham Lincoln issued an 'eye-for-eye' order warning the Confederacy that Union soldiers would shoot a rebel prisoner for every Black prisoner shot. It also would condemn a rebel prisoner to a life of hard labor for every Black prisoner sold into slavery. AA Registry. #315- Lincoln's suspension of the "writ of habeas corpus." "The doctrine of habeas corpus is the right of any person under arrest to appear in person before the court to ensure that they have not been falsely accused. Lincoln's suspension of the "writ of habeas corpus" was one of the most controversial acts of his administrations. Lincoln defended himself against charges that his administration had subverted the Constitution however arguing that acts that might be illegal in peacetime might be necessary "in cases of rebellion" when the nation's survival was at stake." The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. #340- Proclamation by the President calling for three hundred thousand volunteers. "Whereas the term of service of a part of the volunteer forces of the United States will expire during the coming year; and Whereas in addition to the men raised by the present draft it is deemed expedient to call out 300000 volunteers to serve for three years or the war not however. exceeding three years." And numerous other General Orders pertaining to soldiers and the war effort including #35- A list of items that could be sold to soliders by sutlers. #40- The establishment of a Volunteer force for Kentucky. #163- "A resolution to encourage the enlistments in the Regular Army and Volunteer forces." #323- which authorized each enlisted cook "two under-cooks of African descent who shall receive for their full compensation ten dollars per month and one ration per day." #351- This discusses the governance of "The Employment of women nurses in the U.S. General Hospitals." and #364 which discusses the cos of clothing and camp for the U.S. Army and includes a folding chart. Eberstadt 12. Grolier 100 American 71. Streeter 1751. HBS 69520. $7500. War Department unknown books

[WICQUEFORT, Abraham de].Biblio.com

Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandois. Touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam & les cruautés inoüies que les François y ont exercées. Avec un memoire de la derniere marche de l'armée du Roy de France en Brabant & en Flandre.

1673Best.-Nr. 76SED10JGA06The Hague 1673. 4to. Jan and Daniel Steucker Contemporary vellum with the gold-stamped and crowned initials "E.F.V.D" on the front board. With 10 scenes on the horrors of war on 8 folding engraved plates ca. 31 x 20 cm by Romeyn de Hooghe. 1 1 blank 202 pp. First edition of a famous Dutch history book vividly describing as well as depicting the cruelties of war committed by the French army of Louis XVI in The Netherlands in the years 1672 and 1673. The illustrations also rank among the best masterpieces of Baroque book-illustration. By their passionate denunciation of the horrors of war Romeyn de Hooghe's illustrations stand comparison with Goya's Desastres de la Guerra. Thieme & Becker calls the artist "the most important and fertile master of the second half of the 17th century in Holland". And Furstenberg judged the present print-series "One of the few and too-little known masterpieces of the period The Book Collector 1960 p. 432.''The text includes a detailed account of the cruelties committed by the French army of Louis XIV in the Dutch villages of Bodegraven and Swammerdam. The work was published anonymously because the author Abraham de Wicqefort 1598-1682 a diplomat and politician was well-known at Paris and the French court. He also wrote an excellent manual for ambassadors: "L'Ambassadeur ses fonctions" published at The Hague in 1682. The present work became popular in The Netherlands and was several times republished in Dutch with the plates reduced.Back hinge loosening. Fine large paper copy with contemporary manuscript owner's entry on the title page. Otherwise in good condition.l Hofer Baroque Book Ill. plate 140; Hollstein Dutch & Flemish IX pp. 90-96 only 7 plates; Landwehr De Hooghe Book Illustrator 30; Nierop Grabowsky etc. Romeyn de Hooghe 1673.19 p. 263; STCN 851219519; Thieme & Becker XVII p. 458; Willems 1874. hardcover

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BARONIUS, CAESAR & ABRAHAM BZOVIUSBiblio.com

Annales Ecclesiastici. Editio novissima ab ipsomet ante obitum aucta & iam denuo recognita. Tomi Duodecim 12 Tomi Continuation: Annalium Ecclesiasticorum post Caesarem Baronium. Authore Abrahamo Bzovio. Tomus XIII-XX. = Vols. 1-20. - THE GREATEST HISTORY OF THE CHURCH EVER WRITTEN

1624Best.-Nr. 51428Köln Ioannis Gymnici Antonius Boetzer 1624 a. 1621-1640. Folio. 40 x 26 cm. Bound in 8 thick uniform contemporary full pigskin bindings over wooden boards. Raised bands and richly blind-tooled boards. Title labels with gilt lettering. Clasps missing. Spines a bit rubbed. Wear to some spine-ends. Some upper compartments with nicks one volume having a tear in leather at upper compartment. One volume with a small loss of leather to upper compartement. With engraved title-page engraved portrait of Baronius engraved portrait of pope Urban VII. More than 10.000 pp. Printed in double-columns. In general internally fine. Baronius's monumental work with its continuation by Bzovius up to the year 1565 hailed by Roman Catholic writers as the greatest history of the church ever written and Baronius hailed as the "father of ecclestical history" 1-12 dealt with Anno 1-1198 and volume13 -20 Anno 1198-1565."The Annales were first published between 1588 and 1607. This work functioned as an official response to the Lutheran Historia Ecclesiae Christi History of the Church of Christ. In that work the Magdeburg theologians surveyed the history of the Christian church in order to demonstrate how the Catholic Church represented the Antichrist and had deviated from the beliefs and practices of the early church. In turn the Annales fully supported the claims of the papacy to lead the unique true church."Before Baronius was appointed Librarian of the Vatican in 1597 he had access to material and sources in its archives that were previously unpublished or unused. He used these in the development of his work. Accordingly the documentation in Annales Ecclesiastici is considered by most as extremely useful and complete. Lord Acton called it "the greatest history of the Church ever written"."Graesse I 296. - Brunet I 662-631. hardcover

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Annuities upon Lives: or the Valuation of Annuities upon any Number of Lives; as also of Reversions.

1725Best.-Nr. 153270London: Printed by W. P. and sold by Francis Fayram Benj. Motte W. Pearson 1725. Life expectancy as probability First edition of a founding work of actuarial science de Moivre's influential study of annuities based upon the mortality statistics gathered in the 1690s by Edmund Halley. De Moivre was perhaps the first to develop probability theory extensively and the first to use probability theory to write a comprehensive work on life contingencies. In Annuities upon Lives de Moivre formulated that among a body of persons over a certain age the successive annual decreases by death are nearly equal. He applied the theory of probability to the systematic investigation of problems concerning annuities upon lives. "De Moivre's contribution to annuities lies not in his evaluation of the demographic facts then known but on his derivation of formulas for annuities based on a postulated law of mortality and constant rates on money. Here one finds the treatment of joint annuities on several lives the inheritance of annuities problems about the fair division of the costs of a tontine and other contracts in which both age and interest on capital are relevant. This mathematics became a standard part of all subsequent commercial applications in England" Ian Hacking in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography. The work is bound with five others: i YORKE Charles. Some considerations on the law of forfeiture for high treason. The third edition further corrected and enlarged. London: J. and J. Rivington 1748. Yorke's principal legal work first published in 1745 when his father was Lord Chancellor and is a defence of one of his father's judgments against the Young Pretender. ii STORY Joseph. An essay concerning the nature of the priesthood. Dublin: George Faulkner 1749. First edition. iii ROBINSON Christopher. Considerations on the late bill for payment of the remainder of the national debt in which the occasion of inserting the clause relative to His Majesty's consent and The Arguments in Support of such Right in the Crown are impartially stated. Dublin: n.p 1754. First Dublin edition published in London the same year. iv ROBINSON Christopher. A short essay on the publick judgments of the Romans. Dublin: n.p 1739. First edition. v Anonymous. Considerations on the case of the bakers in Dublin. Dublin: Printed for George and Alexander Ewing 1757. Later edition first published 1752. Six works bound in a single vol. octavo 197 x 120 mm. Contemporary half calf spine lettered in gilt paper sides. Contemporary manuscript contents list to front pastedown early bookplate of Wolfe De Forenaughts to same crossed out early ownership inscription to title page of the first pamphlet. Slight rubbing superficial splits along joints contents fresh. A very good copy. ESTC T33056; Garrison & Morton 1690; Hanson 3492; Institute of Actuaries p. 39; Kress 3595; Norman 1530; McCulloch p. 250; not in Goldsmiths'. unknown

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[ABRAHAM LINCOLN]. [RACISM]Biblio.com

Miscegenation or the Millennium of Abolitionism - Stirring Fear of Interracial Marriage Before 1864 Presidential Election

1864Best.-Nr. 25614The second in a series of four racist political cartoons published in 1864 by Bromley & Company which was closely affiliated with the Copperhead New York World newspaper. These prints sought to undermine Abraham Lincoln's chances for reelection by branding him as a "miscegenationist" and playing on white fears of "race-mixing." The cartoon scene pictures several interracial couples enjoying a day at the park eating ice cream discussing wedding plans and a woman's upcoming lecture. Two African American families have white employees a carriage driver and footmen and a babysitter. The only other example traced at auction brought $7800 in 2010. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. RACISM.Print. "Miscegenation or the Millennium of Abolitionism." Political Cartoon. New York: Bromley & Co. 1864. 1 p. 20¾ x 13â… in. American politics had long played on fears of sexual relationships between races. A powerful new word for "race-mixing" was coined in an anonymous December 1863 pamphlet entitled Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races Applied to the American White Man and Negro published in New York. Purporting to advocate the virtues of the "blending of the white and black races on this continent" it was a literary forgery prepared by The World managing editor David Goodman Croly and reporter George Wakeman. The authors were unsuccessful in their attempt to trick President Lincoln into endorsing the work. At the far left of the image Abraham Lincoln declares "I shall be proud to number among my intimate friends any member of the Squash family especially the little Squashes." The African American woman to whom he is speaking replies "I'se 'quainted wid Missus Linkum I is washed far her 'fore de hebenly Miscegenation times was cum. Dont do nuffin now but gallevant 'round wid de white gem'men! he-ah! he-ah! he-ah!" Senator Charles Sumner says "Mr. President! Allow me the honor of introducing my very dear friend Miss Dinah Arabella Aramintha Squash." A white carriage driver complains in the background "Gla-a-ang there 240t! White driver white footmen niggers inside my heys! I wanted a situation when I took this one" while a black man in the carriage tells his companion "Phillis de_ah dars Sumner. We must not cut him if he is walking." A black woman at a table tells a white man with her "Ah! Horace its-its-its-bully 'specially de cream" and he replies "Ah! my dear Miss Snowball we have at last reached our political and social Paradise. Isn't it extatic" To the right are two couples embracing each a white woman and an African American man. The first white women tells her partner "Oh! You dear creature. I am so agitated! Go and ask Pa" to which he replies "Lubly Julia Anna name de day when Brodder Beecher shall make us one!" The second white woman says "Adolphus now you'll be sure to come to my lecture to morrow night won't you" to which he answers "I'll be there Honey on de front seat sure!" In the background are various immigrant minorities viewing the scene. One exclaims "Most hextwadinary! Aw neva witnessed the like in all me life if I did dem me!" and another adds "Mine Got vat a guntry vat a beebles!" An Irish girl complains "And is it to drag nagur babies that I left old Ireland Bad luck to me." Manton Marble the editor of The World collaborated with printmaker Bromley & Company to issue a series of four anti-Lincoln "Political Caricatures." The present example was the No. 2 in that series. No. 1 was "The Grave of the Union or Major Jack Downing's Dream"; No. 3 "The Abolition Catastrophe Or the November Smash-up"; and No. 4 "The Miscegenation Ball." Republicans responded by trying to turn the "miscegenation" charge against the Democrats. A Republican print "The Political "Siamese" Twins: The Offspring of Chicago Miscegenation" pictures McClellan and Pendleton joined together despite their very different ideas on ending the war. Although Abraham Lincoln won New York states' electoral votes in 1860 Stephen Douglas had carried New York City and its environs. Financial elites fearing that civil war would ruin business and recent immigrants fearing competition with free black labor supported Douglas. Lincoln's unpopularity in New York City during the Civil War was a factor in the deadly 1863 Draft Riots. In 1864 Lincoln again won the states' electoral votes while New York City favored his Democratic opponent McClellan. In fact Lincoln's majority dropped from 50136 votes in 1860 to only 7373 votes in 1864 with approximately 50000 more total votes cast than in 1860. Bromley and Company continued to sell the caricatures after the election as this January 1865 advertisement from an Ohio newspaper makes clear. Another advertisement assured purchasers that the set of four prints available for $1 were "sent on wooden rollers to insure safe carriage." The World 1860-1931 a daily independent newspaper was published in New York City. Alexander Cummings founded it as a religious Republican outlet in 1860. August Belmont and others purchased it in 1862 changing the editorial focus. With editor Manton Marble 1834-1917 The World soon became the country's leading Democratic newspaper. In 1864 Union authorities shut down The Worldand another paper for three days after they published forged documents purportedly written by Lincoln that were really part of a hoax to manipulate the price of gold. The paper actively supported George B. McClellan against Lincoln in 1864. Condition Fine for exhibit despite flaws. Cropped with loss of "Political Caricature No. 2" from top edge and part of printed pricing information from bottom edge publisher's name rubbed out from the copyright statement lacking ½" from lower left corners a few short tape repairs by the edges a 2" closed tear through the second dialogue bubble along the top edge and a 3" closed tear parallel to the right edge. Mount remnants on verso.

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[ABRAHAM LINCOLN]. [RACISM]ABAA

Miscegenation or the Millennium of Abolitionism - Stirring Fear of Interracial Marriage Before 1864 Presidential Election

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Seder Haggadah Shel Pesah ke-Minhag Ashkenaz u-Sefarad Passover Haggadah According to the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Traditions THE AMSTERDAM HAGGADAH

1695Best.-Nr. 55262Amsterdam: Be-veit ha-meshutafim Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer/ Moses Wiesel 1695. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Small folio 29 by 18.5 cm. Collation: aleph-vav4 zayin2 = 26 numbered leaves. Additional engraved title page engraved folding map at rear; main title with woodcut vignette; 14 half-page engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary quarter calf over dark brown pastepaper boards skilfully rebacked. Images of Moses and Aaron at engraved title excised the seven small engraved vignettes along with letterpress text of engraved title and imprint mounted on old paper. Old marginal repairs at main title resulting in slight loss of initial letters along right margin and several leaves; slight strictly marginal worming and occasional tears. Stained throughout sometimes heavily though not impairing legibility. Map mounted to reinforce tears with virtually no loss of text or engraved imagery apart from printed border at right side. A fair copy at best; despite all defects the half-page engraved illustrations have survived intact with minimal staining. Housed in new maroon buckram slipcase. First edition of this gorgeously illustrated work now referred to simply as the Amsterdam Haggadah. The first such work to be illustrated with copperplate engravings it ranks among the most imitated of the Jewish manuals for the Passover seder. The popularity of these illustrations can be attested by the huge number of reprint editions over the centuries. Fourteen finely printed half-page engravings appear throughout the text. Some of these images illustrate the traditional content of the Passover seder or the Exodus story while others reference other biblical tales. Images include: the Rabbis of Bene Brak discussing the Passover story the four sons Abraham smashing the idols of his father Abraham welcoming the three angels Moses slaying the Egyptian overseer the rescuing Moses from the river Moses and Aaron coming to Pharaoh w/ staves turning to snakes the ten plagues the Egyptian army drowning in the Red Sea the Exodus the receiving of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai the eating of the Pascal Lamb King David composing his psalms and finally an exterior view of the Jewish Temple with the cityscape of Jerusalem in the background. All images are captioned with relevant passages in Hebrew. The engravings were all created by Abraham ben Jacob a German convert to Judaism who had moved to Amsterdam although some sources over the years misattributed them to financier Moses Wiesel 6 of which were adaptations and/or modifications of previous images by Swiss artist Matthäus Merian 1593-1650 from his original work "Icones Biblicae" 1625-30. In addition to the in text engravings there is famously fold-out engraved biblical map of the Holy Land in a notable format. Measuring a total of 19.5 by 11.5" the map shows the land of Israel the Wilderness of Sinai and Egypt in landscape orientation looking eastward towards the top of the map. It traces the journey of the Israelites starting with the Exodus from Egypt through the Sinai and into the Land of Israel. The map is detailed showing the areas of the twelve tribes important locations and cities as well as geographic features including the Red Sea Mount Sinai the Dead Sea the Sea of Galilee and many others. Additional illustrations appear near the bottom along with a legend. This beautiful work also by Abraham ben Jacob is considered among the earliest if not the first map of its kind to be printed within a Hebrew publication. It is now known to have been heavily based on the previously printed 1620 map in Hebrew by Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq and Abraham Goos 1590 - ca. 1643 which itself was based on the map of 1590 by Christian Kruik van Adrichom Adrichem printed in Latin. Text throughout is printed in Hebrew with smaller text in Rashi script underneath containing famous commentary on the Passover Haggadah by acclaimed Portuguese Rabbi and scholar Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel 1437-1508. The verso of the title page contains the order of the Passover seder with brief instructions in both Ladino Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish Judeo-German a nod to the subtitle which references both the Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions. Provenance and annotations: Full page of text appx. 1500 words in neat Hebrew cursive at front endleaf which discusses aspects of the Haggadah text; inscription in German at front endleaf by Isidor Adler who mentions his friend Hermann Mechlenburg dated March 1906; old annotations throughout in at least two hands. In one notable instance the Hebrew phrase l'shana ha-ba'ah be-hamburg next year in Hamburg! has been added in fine block characters above the traditional phrase l'shana ha-ba'ah bi-yerushalayim next year in Jerusalem. Hebrew title: סדר הגדה של פסח כמנהג ××©×›× ×– וספרד Alternate transliterations: Seder Hagadah shel Pesah Seder Hagadah sel Pesah References: Friedberg 278 Fuks HTN II 521; Yudlov Haggadah 93; Vinograd Amsterdam 627; Ya'ari no. 59; Laor 876 Map; Nebenzahl pp.138-1389 Map; Yerushalmi plate 59-62; Rosenau "Vision of the Temple" p.135 146-7. Be-veit ha-meshutafim [Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer]/ Moses Wiesel hardcover

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ben Jacob, Abraham (illus); Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (commentary by)ABAA

Seder Haggadah Shel Pesah ke-Minhag Ashkenaz u-Sefarad Passover Haggadah According to the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Traditions THE AMSTERDAM HAGGADAH

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BLOEMAERT'S LEISURE PRINTS A MILESTONE OF DUTCH GENRE ART ICONOGRAPHY

1625Best.-Nr. 0095316 leaves Bound suite of prints 200 x 281 mm ---- A rare suite of etchings with some burin work portraying pastoral leisure scenes an important contribution to the vast repertoire of Dutch genre art—a "remarkable group of images" for their positive portrayal of idleness Gibson "an important testament to genre iconology" Raupp and "unique in the 17th century in that it promotes a 'new qualified approach to work and to rest'" Sheehan. Abraham's designs were likely finished by 1625 and published not long after so scholars typically date these between 1625 and 1630 sometimes more precisely ca. 1626-1627. This would be prior to Cornelis's move to Paris in 1630 so we imagine they would have been printed in his hometown of Utrecht or perhaps nearby in Amsterdam. Marcus Sadeler copied this series sometime later his images reversed and with distichs on a single line. ¶ At a glance these might come across as yet another critique of idle leisure. But the title poem instead offers a refreshing take on the subject: "the scenes are not about idleness which weakens the body and bores the spirit but reflect the well-deserved rest necessary to reinvigorate tired limbs motivating people to resume their work" Lis and Soly. The distichs beneath these images offer a similarly optimistic interpretation. The series belongs to a tradition of extolling the virtue of the hard-working farmer—often at the expense of the layabout aristocrat—that became fairly common in the sixteenth century. Why would such depictions of workers at rest not undermine the nobility of their work "Humanists idealized both work and rest following work. They were inspired by Roman authors who had emphasized their great exertions and their equally great enjoyment of their occasional rest precisely because they were so busy." Flemish painters Pieter Bruegel the Young among them participated in this tradition too. ¶ Art historian Walter S. Gibson suggests this series of etchings "has about it a strong air of improvisation as if Cornelis Bloemaert had assembled a disparate group of figure studies.of the kind that his father produced in great numbers all his life and then hit on a somewhat contrived theme that would help him in marketing them to the print-buying public." Perhaps so though that should hardly diminish their quality. Abraham was easily one of Utrecht's best artists at the time. He early on worked in the Mannerist style "then in a Caravaggesque manner finally adopting a distinctive synthesis of both approaches" Wansink. There's clear Caravaggio influence here—not only in Abraham's use of ordinary people but equally in his compositional style as if taking candid snapshots of everyday life. It feels like the kind of series that only the Dutch Golden Age could have produced after Calvinist abandonment of lucrative religious commissions pushed Holland's artists to experiment for the open market with all manner of secular subjects. "Whereas countries like France sought to monopolise production and trade under the auspices of the state market conditions in the Dutch Republic allowed for unprecedented freedom.Seventeenth-century visual culture proliferated in all directions like so many branches on a shared Renaissance trunk" Jonckheere. And the Dutch people bought heavily—"what was absent in churches and in the streets was amply compensated for in the living rooms of the well-to-do middle class who collected on an unprecedented scale in the Dutch Republic massively stimulating artistic production." Not just prints like these but even small paintings were commonly found in homes. ¶ A significant series of prints and rare. We find just a single complete copy in auction records. ---- CONDITION: Recent patterned paper boards the prints—each roughly 117 x 152 mm—hinged to a heavy high-quality Arches paper. The etchings on laid paper watermarked with a fleur-de-lis on a shield surmounted by a crown with initials PR beneath. This is very similar to Churchill 378 which he found in use in 1636. ¶ The prints trimmed to the plate line but never quite touching the borders; a few prints lightly toned and a few with faint old creases. Really a nice set and handsomely bound. ---- REFERENCES: Fr.-J. Olivier Catalogue d'une grande et belle vente de livres 1872 p. 37 #337 "suite of 16 pieces including the title" ¶ Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe 2012 p. 188 cited above; "In addition to images that—indirectly—contrasted the active and useful existence of rustics with the parasitic and hedonistic lives of the aristocracy paintings and engravings were produced depicting inactive farmers. Both types of representations are known to have been purchased by citizens."; Walter S. Gibson Pleasant Places: The Rustic Landscape from Bruegel to Ruisdael 2000 p. 133 "A more positive interpretation of idleness can be found in a series of sixteen etchings made after the designs of Abraham Bloemaert by his son Cornelis who published them probably sometime between 1620 and 1625.They are not really landscapes but figure studies often in the sketchiest of outdoor settings; however their protagonists do much the same thing as the idlers in the Dutch landscapes that is they do very little: they sit recline even sleep." 134 cited above and identifying Hendrik de Roij as probable author "city physician of Utrecht and a nephew of Abraham Bloemaert's second wife"; Kelly Sheehan Printmakers of the Baroque: 17th-century Explorations of Space and Light 2014 p. 63 cited above; dating the Hunter Resting by a Tree print ca. 1626; "Abraham Bloemaert conceived the series around 1620-25 and most of the prints were engraved by his son Cornelis soon thereafter.Here rest is not a vice but rather it is something to be enjoyed by those who work earnestly honestly and piously"; Annette de Vries Ingelijst werk: de verbeelding van arbeid en beroep in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden 2004 p. 45 dating the series ca. 1627-1630; Hans-Joachim Raupp Review of Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 57.4 1994 p. 714 cited above; Alison McNeil Kettering "Rembrandt's 'Flute Player': A Unique Treatment of Pastoral" Simiolus 9.1 1977 p. 40n82 speaking of this Rembrandt painting: "There are few such scenes in earlier Dutch art which can be compared to this outdoor concert. One example however is Cornelis Bloemaert's series of prints after designs by his father executed ca. 1620-25 Otia delectant"; C.J.A. Wansink "Bloemaert Abraham" Grove Art Online 2003 accessed online "Country life was to remain a favourite subject which he depicted with increasing naturalism.Still under the influence of the Utrecht Caravaggisti he also painted several small pastoral landscapes with peasants and shepherds"; "Bloemaert Cornelis II the Younger" Benezit Dictionary of Artists 2011 accessed online brief bio of Cornelis; Koenraad Jonckheere A New History of Western Art 2022 p. 81 cited above 315 cited above 424 "An infinite variety of genres and themes typified the thriving Dutch art market with dozens of talented artists painting history pieces portraits genre scenes landscapes still lifes and more in the Republic's main cities"; W.A. Churchill Watermarks in Paper in Holland England France etc. in the XVII and XVIII centuries and their interconnection 1935 #378 hardcover

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'De Mensura Sortis seu de Probabilitate Eventuum in Ludis a Casu Fortuito Pendentibus' pp. 213-264 in Philosophical Transactions Vol. XXVII. For the Years 1710 1711 and 1712

1712Best.-Nr. 6431London: Printed for H. Clements . and W. Innys . and D. Brown 1712. First edition. First edition published in the Philosophical Transactions and de Moivre's first published work on probability-the earliest original contribution to the subject to appear in Britain. This pioneering paper laid the groundwork for his later masterpiece The Doctrine of Chances 1718 the definitive English-language textbook on probability theory for over a century. As Hald notes "Nearly all of De Mensura Sortis was later incorporated into The Doctrine of Chances . the most important textbook on probability theory until the publication of Laplace's Théorie Analytique des Probabilités 1812." . THE FOUNDATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF CHANCES . First edition contained in a complete volume of the Phil. Trans. of de Moivre's first published work on probability and the first original work on the subject published in Britain a precursor to his Doctrine of Chances which appeared seven years later. "De Moivre's work on the theory of probability surpasses anything done by any other mathematician except Laplace. His principal contributions are his investigations respecting the Duration of Play his Theory of Recurring Series and his extension of the value of Daniel Bernoulli's theorem by the aid of Stirling's theorem" Cajori p. 245. "The only systematic treatises on probability printed before 1711 were Huygens' De ratiociniis in ludo aleae 1657 and Pierre Rémond de Montmort's Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard 1708. Problems which had been posed in these two books prompted de Moivre's earliest work and incidentally caused a feud between Montmort and de Moivre on the subject of originality and priority" DSB. "Nearly all of De Mensura Sortis was later incorporated into de Moivre's book The Doctrine of Chances 1718 1738 1756 which was the most important textbook on probability theory until the publication of Laplace's Théorie Analytique des Probabilités 1812. In the preface de Moivre states that he began his work on probability theory at the exhortation of Francis Robartes who asked him to solve the division problem for two gamesters playing bowls and also to find the probability of getting certain given faces as the outcome of a given number of throws with a die. He also states that he had previously read the books by Huygens and Montmort 'but these distinguished gentlemen do not seem to have employed that simplicity and generality which the nature of the matter demands.' Furthermore he writes that 'while they suppose that the skill of the gamesters is always equal they confine this doctrine of games within limits too narrow.' Finally his remarks about Montmort may be read as if Montmort had used only the method of Huygens on some new examples. These rash remarks naturally provoked a dispute with Montmort" Hald 1984 pp. 230-1. "The most remarkable of de Moivre's contributions in De mensura sortis are his derivation of the ruin probability in Huygens' fifth problem; his use of the Poisson approximation to solve the binomial equation Bc n p = ½ with respect to n; his solution of the occupancy problem by means of the method of inclusion and exclusion and the algorithm for the continuation probability in the duration of play for the ruin problem. Furthermore he gives without proof the probability of getting a given number of points by throwing any given number of dice and the probability of ruin when one of the players has infinitely many counters. The only contemporary evaluation of these impressive results is the critical review given by Montmort in a letter of 5 September 1712 to Nicholas Bernoulli about a month after Montmort had received a copy of the paper from de Moivre . Montmort recognizes de Moivre's priority to the Poisson approximation to Robartes' problem and to the algorithm for finding the continuation probability in the problem of the duration of play" Hald 2003 pp. 403-4. No copies in auction records. Provenance: Toft Hall in Cheshire England seat of the Leycester family since the 14th century bookplate on front paste-down. De Moivre's interest in probability was awakened by Francis Robartes 1649-1718 Member of Parliament and scion of an aristocratic family. In 1692 Robartes wrote a manuscript on two probability problems that he presented to the Royal Society but never published and in the following year he succeeded in publishing another paper on probability. In 1710 Robartes helped John Harris with his article entitled "Play" in Harris's scientific dictionary Lexicon Technicum. Robartes devised an algorithm that Harris used to extract the appropriate terms in a binomial expansion in order to solve the problem of the division of stakes. At some point over the years 1708 to 1710 Robartes received a copy of Montmort's Essay which he showed to de Moivre. He also gave de Moivre three challenge problems of his own devising to work on. "Once de Moivre had solved the first problem within a day of Robartes posing it Robartes gave de Moivre the other two problems to work on while at the same time encouraging him to write on probability. The encouragement proved fruitful. De Moivre finished his manuscript on probability during a holiday that he spent at a country house possibly Robartes's. On June 11 1711 de Moivre submitted his manuscript to the Royal Society. The Society's Journal Book quietly marked the beginning of a new era for probability in England with the note 'Mr. De Moivre presented a Treatise Intituled de Probabilitate Eventum in Ludo Alea This Treatise was Ordered to be printed in the Transactions.' The treatise with the title De Mensura Sortis or 'Of the measurement of lots' comprises an entire issue Number 329 of Philosophical Transactions. At 52 journal pages it is more than three times longer than anything else de Moivre had written to that date" Bellhouse p. 70. De Moivre begins De Mensura Sortis with two basic definitions from which many of his results are derived. The first comes directly from Huygens's De ratiociniis. For two players A and B contending for a stake of value a A has p chances to win and B has q. The expected value for each player follows what Huygens obtained: ap/ p q for A and aq/ p q for B. The second definition may have come from Edmond Halley or Francis Robartes. If an event can happen in p ways and fail to happen in q and a second event can happen in r ways and fail to happen in s then all the chances for events happening or failing are in the product p qr s or pr qr ps qs. For example pr is the number of ways both events can happen and ps is the number of ways that the first event happens and the second fails. This is the approach that Halley used in evaluating joint life annuities in his 1693 paper on mortality data from the city of Breslau . "De Moivre finishes the introduction by saying that if the first event is repeated n times then the total number of chances in the game is given in the binomial expression p qn. When this expression is expanded it may be written as a sum containing terms of the form piqn-imultiplied by an appropriate coefficient where i represents the number of times the event happens and n - i represents the number of times it fails the sum of the first c terms of this expansion is denoted Bc n p . The binomial expansion becomes the motif for the paper . At the beginning nine of the first ten problems there are some simple variations on the use of the expansion of p qn and then at the end the last seven problems the expansion is used to solve a very complex problem the problem of the duration of play. In the middle there are several solutions to a number of challenge problems taken from various sources including the three from Robartes" Bellhouse p. 73. Problems 1 3 and 4 are relatively straightforward applications of the binomial distribution. Problem 1 is to find the chance of throwing an ace two or more times in 8 throws with a single die. Problem 3 is to determine the chances of A and B winning a single game supposing that A can give B two games out of three. Problem 4 is similar. In problems 5 to 7 de Moivre considers the problem of finding the number of trials that gives an even chance for getting at least one success but fewer than some given number of successes c say. This means he has to solve the equation Bc - 1 n p = ½ for n when c and p are given. De Moivre considers the two extreme cases p = ½ and p tends to 0 of which the first is easy by symmetry. De Moivre shows that as p tends to 0 Bc - 1 n p tends to e-mmultiplied by the sum of the first c terms in the series expansion of em in powers of m where m = np/1 - p de Moivre was not able to express the result this way because our notation for the exponential function had not yet been invented. This result the 'Poisson approximation' to the binomial distribution played a very important role in later developments. "There has been some discussion of whether it is reasonable to contend that de Moivre found the Poisson distribution" Hald 1984 p. 231 more than a century before Simeon-Denis Poisson. Problems 2 3 4 and 10 are on the division of stakes or 'problem of points'. "Consider a series of games with two players A and B where in each game A has probability p and B probability q = 1 - p of winning a point. If play stops when A lacks a points and B lacks b points in winning how should the stake be divided between them De Moivre proves that A's probability of winning equals the sum of the last b terms of the expansion of p qab-1 and B's probability of winning equals the remaining a terms. This result had already been derived by Johann Bernoulli in 1710 in a letter to Montmort but it was not published until 1713 . In Problem 8 de Moivre generalizes to k players say and gives the solution as the sum of the appropriate terms of the multinomial pl p2 . pknl-k n being the total number of points lacking. He points out that certain terms have to be divided among the players depending on the permutation of the p's. "In Problems 16 and 17 he gives the solution of Robartes's problem: the division problem for two gamesters playing bowls. In each game B say gets a number of points equal to the number of his bowls which is nearer to the jack than any of A's bowls. By combinatorial methods de Moivre finds the probability of getting i points in a single game assuming that the players have the same number of bowls and are of the same skill. The division problem is then solved by recursion" Hald 1984 pp. 231-2. Problems 11 12 and 13 are related to the first two of the five problems Huygens posed at the end of his De ratiociniis. "In these problems the players take turns in a specified order until one of them wins. De Moivre gives the solution as the sum of an infinite series" ibid. p. 232. Problem 15 is 'Waldegrave's problem' James Waldegrave 1684-1741 later the first Earl Waldegrave was a British diplomat living in Paris who himself published nothing in mathematics. "Let there be n 1 players A1 . An1 of equal skill. Players A1 and A2 play a game and the loser pays a crown to a common stock and does not enter the play again until all the other players have played; the winner plays against A3 and the loser pays a crown to the stock and so on. If the winner of the first game beats all the rest the play is finished; if not the play goes on each player coming in again in turn until one player has beaten in succession all the other players and he then receives all the money in the stock. The problem is to determine the probability of each player winning the stock; the expectation of each player; and the probability of a given duration of the play. "In a letter to Bernoulli of I0 April 1711 Montmort writes that the problem has been proposed to him and also solved by Waldegrave for three players. Independently de Moivre formulated and solved the problem for three p1ayers in De Mensura Sortis 1712" Hald 2003 p. 378. "De Moivre solves this problem by means of conditional expectations. First he supposes that A beats B in the first game. On this assumption the play may end with A as winner in the second fifth eighth . game. The probabilities of A for reaching these games and winning are ½ ½4 ½7 . Hence the expected stake plus fines may be found and subtracting A's expected fine his conditional expectation results. Under the same assumption B's expectation is obtained. The unconditional expectation is then found as the average of the two conditional expectations" Hald 1984 p. 232. Problems 18 and 19 are 'occupancy problems' the third type of problem posed to de Moivre by Robartes: Find the probability pn that f specified faces occur at least once in n throws with a die having k faces. De Moivre calculates pn by means of the method of 'inclusion and exclusion'. In Problem 19 he solves the equation pn = ½ under the assumption that f is small compared to k. Problem 9 is a generalization of the 'gambler's ruin problem' the fifth of Huygens's problems in De ratiociniis. "Consider two players A and B having a and b counters respectively. In each game A has probability p and B has probability q = 1 - p of winning and the winner gets a counter from the loser. The play continues until one of the players is ruined. What is the probability of A being ruined Huygens's fifth problem is obtained for a = b = 12" ibid. Problems 20-26 are a continuation of the discussion of the ruin problem: what is the probability that the play ends at the nth game or before Problem 25 is the case when A has infinitely many counters; de Moivre states the result without proof. "Although the publication date is given as 1711 De Mensura Sortis was not in print until 1712. Shortly after its publication de Moivre sent copies of the issue to several people in England including Edmond Halley Isaac Newton and de Moivre's fellow chess player at Slaughter's Coffeehouse the Earl of Sunderland. De Moivre's friend Pierre des Maizeaux handled several copies that were bound for the Continent. Using his connections in the Republic of Letters des Maizeaux sent copies of De Mensura Sortis to Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon at that time the French minister of state with responsibility for the Académie Royale des Sciences. Bignon wrote to des Maizeaux on September 24 1712 saying that the copies he received had been distributed. He also enclosed a letter from Montmort to de Moivre thanking him for his treatise; the letter has not survived. Whatever he thought personally about de Moivre's treatise Montmort was adhering to the code of civility in the Republic of Letters by sending the letter of thanks. Other people on the Continent receiving copies were Nicolaus Bernoulli Johann Bernoulli and Pierre Varignon. Johann Bernoulli received his copy via William Burnet a younger son of Gilbert Burnet Bishop of Salisbury; Bernoulli had asked Burnet to obtain a copy for him" Bellhouse p. 71. Abraham Moivre stemmed from a Protestant family. His father was a surgeon from Vitry-le-François in the Champagne. From the age of five to eleven he was educated by the Catholic Péres de la doctrine Chrètienne. Then he moved to the Protestant Academy at Sedan were he mainly studied Greek. After the latter was forced to close in 1681 for its profession of faith Moivre continued his studies at Saumur between 1682 and 1684 before joining his parents who had meanwhile moved to Paris. At that time he had studied some books on elementary mathematics and the first six books of Euclid's elements. He had even tried his hand at Huygens' 1657 tract without mastering it completely. In Paris he was taught mathematics by Jacques Ozanam who had made a reputation from a series of books on practical mathematics and mathematical recreations. Ozanam made his living as a private teacher of mathematics. He had extended the usual teachings of the European reckoning masters and mathematical practitioners by what was considered fashionable mathematics in Paris. Ozanam enjoyed a moderate financial success due to the many students he attracted. It seems plausible that young Moivre took him as a model he wanted to follow when he had to support himself. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 the Protestant faith was no longer tolerated in France and hundreds of thousands of Huguenots who had refused to convert to Catholicism emigrated to Protestant countries. Amongst them was Moivre who arrived in England in 1687. There he began his occupation as a tutor in mathematics. He also added a 'De' to his name probably because he wanted to take advantage of the prestige of a pretended noble birth in France in dealing with his clients many of whom were noblemen. An anecdote from this time which goes back to de Moivre himself tells that he cut out the pages of Newton's Principia of 1687 and read them while waiting for his students or walking from one to the other - the main function of this anecdote was to demonstrate that de Moivre was amongst the first true and loyal Newtonians and that as such he deserved help and protection in order to gain a better position than that of a humble tutor of mathematics. In 1692 de Moivre met with Edmond Halley and shortly afterwards with Newton. Halley ensured the publication of de Moivre's first paper on Newton's doctrine of fluxions in the Philosophical Transactions for 1695 and saw to his election to the Royal Society in 1697. Newton's influence concerning university positions in mathematics and natural philosophy persuaded de Moivre to engage in the solution of problems posed by the new infinitesimal calculus. In 1697 and 1698 he published the polynomial theorem a generalization of Newton's binomial theorem together with application in the theory of series. In 1704 de Moivre began a correspondence with Johann Bernoulli but Bernoulli's letters showed de Moivre that he lacked the time and perhaps the mathematical power to compete with a mathematician of this calibre in the new field of analysis. De Moivre ceased his correspondence with Bernoulli after he was made a member of the Royal Society commission to adjudicate in the priority dispute between Newton and Leibniz over the invention of calculus - continuing the correspondence may have made him appear disloyal to the Newtonian cause. When the Lucasian chair in mathematics at Cambridge was given in 1711 on Newton's recommendation to Nicholas Saunderson de Moivre realized that this only option was to continue his occupation as a tutor and consultant in mathematical affairs in the world of the coffee houses where he met his clients; additional income he could draw from the publication of books and from translations. He therefore turned to the calculus of games of chance and probability theory which was of great interest for many of his students and where he had few competitors in England. Hald 'A. de Moivre: De Mensura Sortis or On the Measurement of Chance' International Statistical Review 52 1984 pp. 229-262. Hald History of Probability and Statistics and their Applications before 1750 2003. Bellhouse Abraham de Moivre 2011. Cajori A History of Mathematics 1894. 4to 218 x 168 mm pp. vi 555 with 13 plates a little browning and foxing. Contemporary calf sides decorated in blind with corner fleurons a little rubbed joints starting spine label mostly missing. A handsome copy with no restoration. Printed for H. Clements ... and W. Innys ... and D. Brown unknown

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NAUSEA, Friedrich [FLEMING, Abraham (translator)].Biblio.com

A Treatise of Blazing Starres in Generall. As well supernaturall as naturall: To what countries or people soever they appeare in the spacious world.

Best.-Nr. 117232London imprinted by Bernard Alsop and are to be solde by Henry Bell 1618. . 18-leaf pamphlet; woodcut comet to title woodcut headpiece and initial loss from the upper corners of the first 3 leaves just touching the text on the verso of the third leaf dampstain marks spotting and tanning and creases from folding and some wax spots to the final leaf of text; later grey paper wrappers rubbed marked and worn at the edges good condition. The rare English language translation of a work mentioning the 1531 appearance of Halley's comet by the German theologian and Bishop of Vienna Friedrich Nausea 1496-1552 and originally titled Super huis anni post Christus natum M. D. XXXI & quo libet alio cometa exploratio. Only two other copies appear in auction records sold in 1932 and 1975 and around seventeen are listed in the English Short Title Catalogue with the imprint in two different states. The majority of the text is an analysis of comets as portents including a list of occurrences from the death of Julius Caesar forward. Halley's comet of 1531 is mentioned in the penultimate chapter: 'A questions is asked what that Blazing starre which was sene in the year 1531 might signifie and to whom it is a foretoken of some evil to ensue. In answering whereunto I would to God I might not tell the truth so directly. The Blazing starre which appeared 1531 betokens a heavie burthen of vengeance not only to the state temporall but also ecclesiasticall: yea it threatens a plague to the whole world.' The translator of this work Abraham Fleming 1552-1607 was a clergyman author and literary editor who was associated with at least fifteen printing houses and fifty-seven different works most notably the second edition of Holinshed's Chronicles of England Scotland and Ireland Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. London, imprinted by Bernard Alsop, and are to be solde by Henry Bell, 1618. unknown

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ORTELIUS, Abraham - VRIENTS, Jan BaptisteBiblio.com

Angliae et Hiberniae Accurata Descriptio Veteribus et Recentioribus Nominibus Illustrata

Best.-Nr. 7752Antwerp: 1605-09. No binding. Very Good. 435 x 570 mm. in full early wash colour trimmed close to the side margins as is often the case with no apparent loss otherwise in very good condition. The second state with Latin text of Jan Baptiste Vrients' classic map of England Wales and Ireland issued to celebrate the recent accession of James I to the throne. It first appeared in the English text edition of Abraham Ortelius' 'Theatre of the World' published in 1606. On the death of Queen Elizabeth I in March 1603 James VI of Scotland inherited the throne. Along with uniting the Scottish and English thrones he claimed historical rights to the throne of France. The dedication of the English edition of the atlas is to ""James by the grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland"" and was clearly made to cultivate sales. A similar claim appears on this map upper right on the first state. In 1608 Vrients published an Italian edition dedicated to the Pope. The Catholic Church did not recognise James I a Protestant as King of France then ruled by Henry IV. This was also the case for Ireland. Therefore Vrients issued variants of the map in which a pasted label re-written would be placed over the offending part of the map; this did however still leave one further reference to the claim still visible in almost all known examples. These are known as variants of the first state. For the Latin edition of 1609 offered here Vrients was clearly prepared having had time to alter the plates themselves. All references to James I being King of France and Ireland are removed creating the second state. Below these references in the upper right is an attractive family tree of the English royal family from William the Conqueror. The map itself is derived from the Anonymous map printed in London 1594 which itself is derived from that of Jodocus Hondius of 1592. The engravers are believed to the Arsenius brothers who have produced a magnificent map one of the finest ever produced for the atlas. Its desirability along with the fact that it only appears in a handful of editions makes this one of the rarest. Shirley 1991 no. 275 see also 164 & 177; Kelly 2007; Van den Broecke 1996 no. 17. 1605-[09] unknown

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MUNTING, AbrahamBiblio.com

Phytographia Curiosa Exhibens Arborum Fruticum Herbarum & Florum Icones.

Best.-Nr. 99525Amsterdam Petrus de Coup 1727. . First Latin edition presumed third issue; two parts in one folio 39.2 x 25.4 cm; engraved title-page used here as a frontispiece and 245 engraved botanical plates inserted at rear with allegorical vignette on title-page and two engraved headpieces on ppiii and 25 by Goeree title-page printed in black and red lacking half-title and dedication leaf text somewhat toned frontispiece repaired at inner margin all inserted plates with small circular ink stamp of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society near the bottom their bookplate is present on the front pastedown plates twenty-five and twenty-six are trimmed smaller as most likely supplied some soiling and foxing to text and plates prominent damp staining on plates 144 to 245 plate 32 has small marginal repairs a few leaves with minor marginal worming plates 1 - 48 with neat ink captions in an unknown hand; nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards spine ruled in gilt in compartments black morocco lettering piece gilt edge wear to binding especially at spine and corners upper board detached lower board loose; xxvi 47 1 blank pp. First Latin edition presumed third issue. A good copy only sold with all faults. 'The illustrations are remarkable for their elegance and originality' Oak Spring Flora 45. This is perhaps the most handsome and influential botanical of its day with its near-dreamlike depiction of plants suspended above cityscapes and other backgrounds. Munting 1626-1683 was a Dutch botanist and botanical artist the son of Henricus Munting 1583-1658. He studied under his father and at the universities of Franeker Utrecht and Leiden also spending two years in France where he obtained an M.D. degree in Angers. Returning to Groningen in 1651 he joined the staff at the Rijkshogeschool Groningen which eventually became the University of Groningen. Here he taught for 24 years as professor of botany and chemistry. On his father's death he assumed management of the Hortus Botanicus Groninganus from 1658 to 1683. His botanist friends sent him seeds from the Dutch East- and West Indies Africa and the Americas. His daughter Hester died after eating Deadly Nightshade from the Garden. Munting subsequently developed a particular interest in the medicinal uses of plants. The present work Munting's best known was first published in Dutch as Naauwkeurige Beschryving Der Aardgewassen 1696. Illustrated were trees shrubs flowers and grasses of temperate zones with some tropical and subtropical plants that had been introduced to the Netherlands. Nissen BBI 1429; Hunt 404. Amsterdam, Petrus de Coup, 1727. hardcover

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