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Aanteekeningen op eene reize van Parijs naar Napels, door het Tirolsche en van daar door Zwitserland en langs den Rhijn terug naar Holland.Haarlem, Adriaan Loosjes, (back of half-title parts 2-4: Utrecht, G. Post), 1811-1813. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With an engraved title-page to the first part (with a stipple-engraved medallion portrait of the author) and 13 engraved plates by J. P. Visscher Bender. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines.
Aanteekeningen op eene reize van Parijs naar Napels, door het Tirolsche en van daar door Zwitserland en langs den Rhijn terug naar Holland.Haarlem, Adriaan Loosjes, (back of half-title parts 2-4: Utrecht, G. Post), 1811-1813. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With an engraved title-page to the first part (with a stipple-engraved medallion portrait of the author) and 13 engraved plates by J. P. Visscher Bender. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines.
WILLIGEN, Adriaan van der. · 1766
€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)
VIII, 269, [1]; IV, 292; VIII, 322; "VIII"[=6], 405, [3] pp.First and only edition of a popular account of a trip from Paris to Naples via Tirol, and from Naples back to the Netherlands by way of Switzerland and along the Rhine, written by the Dutch Adriaan van der Willigen (1...
De nihilo geometrico, libri II. Verona, Augostino Carattoni, 1758. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page (with a globe, book and instruments), and many fine-line diagrams in text.With:(2) SALADINI, Girolamo. Elementa geometriae infinitesimorum. Libri tres.Bologna, Tommaso d'Aquino, 1760. Title-page with an engraved vignette of a putto with drafting instruments and an armillary sphere, and with numerous diagrams on 9 folding engraved plates.(3) CARNOT, Lazare. Oeuvres mathématiques.Basel, J. Decker, 1797. With a stipple-engraved (and aquatint) frontispiece portrait of Carnot by Jean Jacques de Mechel, and 6 diagrams on a folding engraved plate. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
De nihilo geometrico, libri II. Verona, Augostino Carattoni, 1758. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page (with a globe, book and instruments), and many fine-line diagrams in text.With:(2) SALADINI, Girolamo. Elementa geometriae infinitesimorum. Libri tres.Bologna, Tommaso d'Aquino, 1760. Title-page with an engraved vignette of a putto with drafting instruments and an armillary sphere, and with numerous diagrams on 9 folding engraved plates.(3) CARNOT, Lazare. Oeuvres mathématiques.Basel, J. Decker, 1797. With a stipple-engraved (and aquatint) frontispiece portrait of Carnot by Jean Jacques de Mechel, and 6 diagrams on a folding engraved plate. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
TORELLI, Guiseppe. · 1721
€9,000.00 ($9,919.64 | £7,508.39 | ¥1,584,038)
117, [3 blank]; XIV, [2], 139, [2], [1 blank]; XVI, 208 pp.Three important 18th-century mathematical first editions, together in one volume.Ad 1: First (and only?) edition of a text book on infinitesimal geometry by Guiseppe Torelli (1721-1781), a wide-ranging Veronese scholar...
De scaphander of de konst om in de diepste wateren dryvende te gaan en allerhande werk te verrigten.Amsterdam, G. Warners & Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1777. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates on 2 large folded sheets by B. de Bakker after the plates in the original French edition, charmingly illustrating the water-jacket and water-pants discussed in the text. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers.
De scaphander of de konst om in de diepste wateren dryvende te gaan en allerhande werk te verrigten.Amsterdam, G. Warners & Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1777. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates on 2 large folded sheets by B. de Bakker after the plates in the original French edition, charmingly illustrating the water-jacket and water-pants discussed in the text. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper wrappers.
LA CHAPELLE, Jean Baptista de (Cornelis van ENGELEN, transl.). · 1787
€3,000.00 ($3,306.55 | £2,502.80 | ¥528,013)
[2], VIII, 139, [1] pp.First and only Dutch edition of an interesting treatise describing and depicting the practical use of a newly invented life jacket (water jacket and water pants) enabling men to remain in water for extended periods of time and to walk upright through the...
Atlas céleste de Flamstéed ... Paris, Le citoyen Lamarche, successeur de Robert de Vaugondy & J. Fortin, "L'an IIIe de la République Françoise" [= 1795]. Small 4to. With beautifully designed engraved maps of the celestial globe, including all astronomical constellations, on 30 double-page plates, versos blank, including 2 maps of the celestial hemispheres, and 2 maps of the celestial planisphere, one after a design by Abbé de La Caille with the plans of the southern constellations, all maps engraved by C. E. Voisard after Flamsteed, and the text written on the maps by Beaublé. With the title and text set within a simple woodcut frame. Contemporary half calf, black morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, brown sprinkled paper sides, marbled edges.
Atlas céleste de Flamstéed ... Paris, Le citoyen Lamarche, successeur de Robert de Vaugondy & J. Fortin, "L'an IIIe de la République Françoise" [= 1795]. Small 4to. With beautifully designed engraved maps of the celestial globe, including all astronomical constellations, on 30 double-page plates, versos blank, including 2 maps of the celestial hemispheres, and 2 maps of the celestial planisphere, one after a design by Abbé de La Caille with the plans of the southern constellations, all maps engraved by C. E. Voisard after Flamsteed, and the text written on the maps by Beaublé. With the title and text set within a simple woodcut frame. Contemporary half calf, black morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, brown sprinkled paper sides, marbled edges.
FLAMSTEED, John and Jean FORTIN (editor). · 1750
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
IX, [1] pp.; 30 double-page engraved plates; 47, [1 blank] pp.Second revised, corrected and enlarged edition of the French edition by Jean Fortin (1750-1831), of the famous celestial atlas by John Flamsteed (1646-1719), the first royal astronomer of the observatory at Greenwic...
La pittura in Parnaso. Florence, Michele Nestenus, 1725. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several woodcut decorated initials, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled sprinkled calf.
La pittura in Parnaso. Florence, Michele Nestenus, 1725. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, several woodcut decorated initials, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled sprinkled calf.
CIOCCHI, Giovanni Maria. · 1658
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
XXIV, 310, [2 blank] pp.First edition of a Florentine manual on the art of painting, presented in the form of a dialogue. The work offers a comprehensive description of all aspects of painting, from conception and composition to symmetry, perspective, and colour, combining the...
Principi di architettura civile. Finale, Jacopo de' Rossi, 1781. 3 volumes. 4to. With tables of proportion in text and on a large folding leaf, and 18 architectural measured drawings and perspective and other views of domes, pinnacles, arches, curves and spires on 8 full-page engraved plates, all bound in the third volume.Contemporary half sprinkled calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spines with black morroco spine labels, red sprinkled edges.With:(2) CIPRIANI, Giovanni Battista. Indice delle figure relative al Principi di architettura civile di Francesco Milizia. Rome, Nella stamperia Salomoni, si vende da Giov. Pietro, 1800. 8vo. With numerous illustrations on 27 double-page plates, illustrating Milizia's work, showing architectural measured drawings and perspective and other views of buildings and details of buildings, theatres, bridges, gardens, etc., models of ornament and decoration, technical building instruments, building materials, etc. (10 plates for vol. 1, 12 plates for vol. 2, 5 plates for vol. 3). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with red label, red edges.
Principi di architettura civile. Finale, Jacopo de' Rossi, 1781. 3 volumes. 4to. With tables of proportion in text and on a large folding leaf, and 18 architectural measured drawings and perspective and other views of domes, pinnacles, arches, curves and spires on 8 full-page engraved plates, all bound in the third volume.Contemporary half sprinkled calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spines with black morroco spine labels, red sprinkled edges.With:(2) CIPRIANI, Giovanni Battista. Indice delle figure relative al Principi di architettura civile di Francesco Milizia. Rome, Nella stamperia Salomoni, si vende da Giov. Pietro, 1800. 8vo. With numerous illustrations on 27 double-page plates, illustrating Milizia's work, showing architectural measured drawings and perspective and other views of buildings and details of buildings, theatres, bridges, gardens, etc., models of ornament and decoration, technical building instruments, building materials, etc. (10 plates for vol. 1, 12 plates for vol. 2, 5 plates for vol. 3). Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with red label, red edges.
MILIZIA, Francesco. · 1725
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
480; 515, [1 blank]; 442; 76 pp.First edition of a complete course on civil architecture, the best of the many works on art and architecture written by Francesco Milizia (1725-1798), born in Oria as a member of the best-established and richest family of the city. The impressiv...
Proprietez et la maniere de se servir d'un elixer & d'une opiate, composés de simples souverainement bonnes pour les dents & pour les gencives, ... [Paris, Le Cloitre du St. Sepulcre, ca. 1720]. 4to. Modern boards, covered with paste-paper.
Proprietez et la maniere de se servir d'un elixer & d'une opiate, composés de simples souverainement bonnes pour les dents & pour les gencives, ... [Paris, Le Cloitre du St. Sepulcre, ca. 1720]. 4to. Modern boards, covered with paste-paper.
ANCELOT, Abbé. · 1998
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
3, [1 blank] pp.Extremely rare treatise with recipes for an elixir and opiate to clean one's teeth and gums in order to prevent tartar, to use with coffee water as a mouthwash for a clean and fresh breath, to use in various ways to relieve tooth-ache, etc. With author's manusc...
Notice sur la carie des dents et sur l'emploi d'une liqueur alumineuse camphrée au chlorophorme, qui calme la douleur et arrête les progrès de la carie, sans qu'il soit nécessaire d'extraire les dents malades. Metz, the author (back of the title page: Metz, printed by Ch. Dieu), 1848. Small 8vo. With slab-serif capitals on the title page and sans-serif capitals in a heading on p. 3. Modern boards, with a gold-tooled morocco title-label on the spine.
Notice sur la carie des dents et sur l'emploi d'une liqueur alumineuse camphrée au chlorophorme, qui calme la douleur et arrête les progrès de la carie, sans qu'il soit nécessaire d'extraire les dents malades. Metz, the author (back of the title page: Metz, printed by Ch. Dieu), 1848. Small 8vo. With slab-serif capitals on the title page and sans-serif capitals in a heading on p. 3. Modern boards, with a gold-tooled morocco title-label on the spine.
DELACOUR, chirurgien-dentiste. · 1854
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
12 pp.First edition of a 12-page notice on the use of a mouth-wash with an aluminous elixer of camphorated chloroform to stop the progress and kill the pain of dental cavities, written by Delacour, described as a ch[irurgien]. dentiste, living in the house “Le Palais Français”...
Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, où l'on enseigne les moyens de les entretenir propres & saines, de les embellir, d'en réparer la perte & de remédier à leur maladies, à celles des gencives, & aux accidens qui peuvent survenir aux autres parties voisines des dents. Avec des observations & des réflexions sur plusieurs cas singuliers.Paris, chez Servieres, 1786. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece-portrait of the author by J.B. Scotin after a painting by J. le Bel, and 42 full-page engraved plates with illustrations of teeth, dentures, artificial teeth, protheses, and a large variety of dental instruments. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled tree-marbled calf.
Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, où l'on enseigne les moyens de les entretenir propres & saines, de les embellir, d'en réparer la perte & de remédier à leur maladies, à celles des gencives, & aux accidens qui peuvent survenir aux autres parties voisines des dents. Avec des observations & des réflexions sur plusieurs cas singuliers.Paris, chez Servieres, 1786. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece-portrait of the author by J.B. Scotin after a painting by J. le Bel, and 42 full-page engraved plates with illustrations of teeth, dentures, artificial teeth, protheses, and a large variety of dental instruments. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled tree-marbled calf.
FAUCHARD, Pierre. · 1678
€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)
XXIV, 494, [8], [2 blank]; [20], 424 pp.Revised and enlarged edition of the first complete scientific description of dentistry. It contains a systematic description of dental anatomy, pathology, and therapy, together with detailed accounts of restorative and surgical procedure...
Essay sur les maladies des dents, ou l'on propose les moyens de leur procurer une bonne confirmation dès la plus tendre enfance, & d'en assurer la conservation tout le cours de la vie. Avec une lettre où l'on discute quelques opinions particulieres de l'auteur de l'orthopedie. Paris, Briasson, Chaubert, et De Hansy, 1743. With: (2) BUNON, Robert. Dissertation sur un prejugé très-pernicieux, concernant les maux de dents qui surviennent aux femmes grosses. Paris, Chaubert, Briasson, Nully, Prault, 1741. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 ornamental woodcut headpieces, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold- and blind tooled mottled brown calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label lettered in gold in the second compartment on the spine, fleurons in the other compartments, a blind tooled border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled end papers.
Essay sur les maladies des dents, ou l'on propose les moyens de leur procurer une bonne confirmation dès la plus tendre enfance, & d'en assurer la conservation tout le cours de la vie. Avec une lettre où l'on discute quelques opinions particulieres de l'auteur de l'orthopedie. Paris, Briasson, Chaubert, et De Hansy, 1743. With: (2) BUNON, Robert. Dissertation sur un prejugé très-pernicieux, concernant les maux de dents qui surviennent aux femmes grosses. Paris, Chaubert, Briasson, Nully, Prault, 1741. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 ornamental woodcut headpieces, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold- and blind tooled mottled brown calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label lettered in gold in the second compartment on the spine, fleurons in the other compartments, a blind tooled border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled end papers.
BUNON, Robert. · 1702
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
XII, 237, [3]; 20 pp.Rare first edition of two of the most important works on dentistry by "the father of paediatric dentistry". The present works stress the importance of prevention of dental issues rather than treatment, which was a novel idea at the time. In addition, they ...
Nouveaux secours pour les corps arrêtés dans l'oesophage; ou description de quatre instrumens plus propres qu'aucun des anciens moyens à retirer ces corps par la bouche.Lausanne, François Grasset & compagnie, 1769. 12mo (16.5 x 9 cm). With a folding engraved plate by Chovin after designs by the author. Modern boards.
Nouveaux secours pour les corps arrêtés dans l'oesophage; ou description de quatre instrumens plus propres qu'aucun des anciens moyens à retirer ces corps par la bouche.Lausanne, François Grasset & compagnie, 1769. 12mo (16.5 x 9 cm). With a folding engraved plate by Chovin after designs by the author. Modern boards.
VENEL, Jean-André. · 1740
€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)
42, [4] pp.First edition of a medical treatise dealing with problems of the human oesophagus (gullet) by the Swiss doctor Jean-André Venel (1740-1791). He describes the use of some new instruments, designed by Venel himself, for removing (via the mouth) any odd pieces of food ...
De l'arrangement des secondes dents, ou la méthode naturelle de diriger la deuxième dentition, soumise au jugement de la raison et de l'expérience. Paris, Méquignon-Marvis 1820. 8vo. Modern beige boards.
De l'arrangement des secondes dents, ou la méthode naturelle de diriger la deuxième dentition, soumise au jugement de la raison et de l'expérience. Paris, Méquignon-Marvis 1820. 8vo. Modern beige boards.
DUVAL, Jacques René. · 1751
€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)
VIII, 92 pp.First edition of an interesting essay on a new and natural method to correct the arrangement of one's second set of teeth, based on common sense and practical experience, by Jacques René Duval (1751-1854). He was a member of the Faculty of Medicine and of the Collè...
Mémoire sur de nouvelles dents et de nouveaux dentiers en pate minéro-adamantine, présentés à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, ou Nouveau système de prothèse dentaire dont la beauté, la propreté, la durée, l'utilité et la perfection de l'ajustement, obvient à tous les inconvénients des dents et des dentiers actuellement en usage, suivi de quelques conseils sur la conservation des dents chez l'adulte et chez l'enfant.[Paris, chez l'auteur, 1846]. Small 8vo. Recent dark blue-grey cloth over boards.
Mémoire sur de nouvelles dents et de nouveaux dentiers en pate minéro-adamantine, présentés à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, ou Nouveau système de prothèse dentaire dont la beauté, la propreté, la durée, l'utilité et la perfection de l'ajustement, obvient à tous les inconvénients des dents et des dentiers actuellement en usage, suivi de quelques conseils sur la conservation des dents chez l'adulte et chez l'enfant.[Paris, chez l'auteur, 1846]. Small 8vo. Recent dark blue-grey cloth over boards.
DIDIER, Joseph-Maximilien.
€2,100.00 ($2,314.58 | £1,751.96 | ¥369,609)
16 pp.Rare treatise, proposing a new mineral paste for making artificial teeth and dentures, which would be much more beautiful, lasting and “perfect” than those made of any materials previously used. The author also gives a short survey of dental protheses of the past, and ad...
Mémoire sur l'art du dentiste, adressé à les ministres de l'instruction publique, de l'agriculture, du commerce et de la justice, et à M. Orfila, doyen de la Faculté de Médecine. Paris, the author, 1845. Small 8vo. Modern boards with a morocco spine-label lettered in gold.
Mémoire sur l'art du dentiste, adressé à les ministres de l'instruction publique, de l'agriculture, du commerce et de la justice, et à M. Orfila, doyen de la Faculté de Médecine. Paris, the author, 1845. Small 8vo. Modern boards with a morocco spine-label lettered in gold.
JAMET, C. L.
€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)
32 pp.First edition of an essay calling for a firm regulation by law of the professions of dentist and dental surgeon, not in the last place to protect people against foul treatment and damages by charlatans. The practicing of medicine and surgery were regulated anew since the...
Les dents artificielles comprenant 30 vignettes.Paris, chez les auteurs (Brussels, printed by Ch. Vanderauwera; Paris, bureaux), 1874. Large 8vo. With 30 wood-engraved illustrations in the text (a few nearly full-page), several printed in 2 colours (pink and black). Original publisher's wrappers.
Les dents artificielles comprenant 30 vignettes.Paris, chez les auteurs (Brussels, printed by Ch. Vanderauwera; Paris, bureaux), 1874. Large 8vo. With 30 wood-engraved illustrations in the text (a few nearly full-page), several printed in 2 colours (pink and black). Original publisher's wrappers.
ADLER, Marcus & Herman. · 1875
€1,000.00 ($1,102.18 | £834.27 | ¥176,004)
64 pp.Rare first (and only?) edition of a treatise on dentures, the first part describing and depicting various systems of designing and producing dentures and dental protheses, and the second part treating dental hygiene, care of the gums, tooth powders and elixirs, tartar, t...
Traité de déchaussement et de l'ébranglemement des dents et des maladies des gencives.Paris, the author (back of the half-title: printed by V. Goupy et Cie), 1865. Small 8vo. Contemporary half purple morocco.
Traité de déchaussement et de l'ébranglemement des dents et des maladies des gencives.Paris, the author (back of the half-title: printed by V. Goupy et Cie), 1865. Small 8vo. Contemporary half purple morocco.
BERTIN, Auguste.
€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)
X, 311, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a thorough study of the loosening and loss of teeth, as well as gum disease and ailments. The author was a dentist in Paris, and he dedicated his book to the memory of his father, a well-known dental surgeon in his day.With some foxing (mo...
Odes sacrées ..., détachées du corps de ses ouvrages.Brussels, Gilles Stryckwant, 1738. 4to. With a woodcut coat of arms of Austria on title-page. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine and board edges.
Odes sacrées ..., détachées du corps de ses ouvrages.Brussels, Gilles Stryckwant, 1738. 4to. With a woodcut coat of arms of Austria on title-page. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine and board edges.
ROUSSEAU, Jean Baptiste. · 1671
€8,000.00 ($8,817.46 | £6,674.13 | ¥1,408,034)
[6], 109, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a collection of sacred songs in verse selected from his own works by Jean Baptiste Rousseau (1671-1741), most of them based on psalms and a few on other biblical texts. Born in Paris, Rousseau published his Cantates françoises around 170...
Homo et eius partes figuratus & symbolicus, anatomicus, rationalis, moralis, mysticus, politicus, & legalis, collectus et explicatus cum figuris.Augsburg & Dillingen, Johann Caspar Bencard, 1695. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large folio (37 x 23 cm). With a finely engraved emblematic frontispiece by the Augsburg engraver Leonhard Heckenauer (1655-1704), 2 title-pages with the same large engraved brooding chicken emblem and 42 engraved emblems in decorative cartouches in the text (plate size mostly 14 x 13 cm, but that on p. 232 of vol. 1 3.5 x 8.5 cm) perhaps also by Heckenauer. Contemporary vellum.
Homo et eius partes figuratus & symbolicus, anatomicus, rationalis, moralis, mysticus, politicus, & legalis, collectus et explicatus cum figuris.Augsburg & Dillingen, Johann Caspar Bencard, 1695. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large folio (37 x 23 cm). With a finely engraved emblematic frontispiece by the Augsburg engraver Leonhard Heckenauer (1655-1704), 2 title-pages with the same large engraved brooding chicken emblem and 42 engraved emblems in decorative cartouches in the text (plate size mostly 14 x 13 cm, but that on p. 232 of vol. 1 3.5 x 8.5 cm) perhaps also by Heckenauer. Contemporary vellum.
SCARLATINI, Ottavio. · 1684
€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)
[52], 342, [44]; [28], 249, [29] pp. including the frontispiece.First and only Latin edition (translated by Matthias Honcamp) of a truly unique emblematic and philosophical work, originally published in Italian in 1684 as L'uomo e sue parti, figurato e simbolico, with 42 engra...
De triplici philosophia naturali, astrologica, et minerali. In quibus differit cohaerenter de elementis, & variis mixtorum proprietatibus. ... Opus theol. philos. medicis, chymicis, & astrologis jucundum, ac simul utile.Bologna, Giovanni Bapttista Ferroni, 1653. 4to. With an engraved heraldic and allegorical frontispiece drawn and engraved by Bartolomeo Coriolano with the arms of the dedicatee Hipolyto Cattaneo, a full-page engraving (with 7 figures) on an integral leaf, and 2 engraved illustrations and 2 woodcut diagrams in the text. Contemporary boards covered with a vellum leaf from a 16th-century(?) plain-chant manuscript antiphonary.
De triplici philosophia naturali, astrologica, et minerali. In quibus differit cohaerenter de elementis, & variis mixtorum proprietatibus. ... Opus theol. philos. medicis, chymicis, & astrologis jucundum, ac simul utile.Bologna, Giovanni Bapttista Ferroni, 1653. 4to. With an engraved heraldic and allegorical frontispiece drawn and engraved by Bartolomeo Coriolano with the arms of the dedicatee Hipolyto Cattaneo, a full-page engraving (with 7 figures) on an integral leaf, and 2 engraved illustrations and 2 woodcut diagrams in the text. Contemporary boards covered with a vellum leaf from a 16th-century(?) plain-chant manuscript antiphonary.
MAZZOTTA, Benedetto. · 1599
€19,500.00 ($21,492.55 | £16,268.19 | ¥3,432,082)
Frontispiece plus [10], [2 blank], 148, “252” [= 272] pp.First and only edition of a detailed Latin treatise mixing astronomy, astrology, mineralogy, metallurgy, chemistry, alchemy and gemology, by Benedetto Mazzotta, professor of theology at the University of Bologna and a me...
De gemmarum lapidumq[ue] pretiosorum formis, naturis, atq[ue] viribus eruditu[m] cu[m] primis opusculu[m], ... scholiis q[uo]q[ue] illustratu[m] p[er] Alardu[m] Aemstelredamu[m].Cologne, Hero Alopecius [Fuchs], 1539. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, representing a Jewish priest behind a board with the names of 12 stones which represent the 12 tribes of Israel. 17th-century gold-tooled red morocco, richly gold-tooled spine with green morocco title-label, gold-tooled fillets and small cornerpieces on both boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
De gemmarum lapidumq[ue] pretiosorum formis, naturis, atq[ue] viribus eruditu[m] cu[m] primis opusculu[m], ... scholiis q[uo]q[ue] illustratu[m] p[er] Alardu[m] Aemstelredamu[m].Cologne, Hero Alopecius [Fuchs], 1539. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, representing a Jewish priest behind a board with the names of 12 stones which represent the 12 tribes of Israel. 17th-century gold-tooled red morocco, richly gold-tooled spine with green morocco title-label, gold-tooled fillets and small cornerpieces on both boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.
MARBODE of Rennes. · 1511
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
124, [2] ll.Perhaps the best of the seven 16th-century editions of an influential treatise in verse on the virtues of precious stones, compiled by Marbode of Rennes (or Marbodius, 1035-1123), archdeacon and schoolmaster at Anjou, later bishop of Rennes. Beside the magical powe...