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Item #5022 Phonurgia Nova sive Conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & naturae paranympha...

Phonurgia Nova sive Conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & naturae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum. quâ universa sonorum natura, proprietas, vires effectuúm[que] prodigiosorum causæ, novâ & multiplici experimentorum exhibitione enucleantur : instrumentorum acusticorum, machinarúm[que] ad naturæ prototypon adaptandarum, tum ad sonos ad remotissima spatia propagandos, tum in abditis domorum recessibus per occultioris ingenii machinamenta clam palámue sermocinandi modus & ratio traditur, tum denique in bellorum tumultibus singurlaris hujusmodi organorum usus, & praxis per nouam phonologiam describitur.

Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in contemporary stiff vellum (small repairs to foot of the spine, re-cased, endpapers renewed.) Internally, this copy is in fine condition with only minor faults as follows: half-title soiled, small wormholes in first four lvs., a peppering of small wormholes to final four index lvs. and final blank leaf...

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Item #5134 Archidoxorum, seu de secretis naturae mysteriis, libri decem. Quibus nunc accesserunt...

Archidoxorum, seu de secretis naturae mysteriis, libri decem. Quibus nunc accesserunt libri duo, unus de mercuriis metallorum, alter de quinta essentia. Manuale item duo, quorum prius chemicorum versus thesaurus,… Basel: Peter Perna, 1582

Basel: Peter Perna, 1582.

Price: $22,000.00

Bound with: Köppe, Martin (Arioponus Cephalus) (1554 - 1615) Das Spissglas Antimonium oder Stibium genandt, in ein Glas gegossen, es sey geel oder rodt, das man Vitrum antimonii nennet, ein warhafftige Gifft und gantz gefehrliche schedliche Artzney sey….Und derhalben von der Obrigkeit in wolbestelten Policeyen, billich die Landtfehrer...

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Item #5332 Solis e puteo emergentis, sive Dissertationis chymiatechnicae: libri tres, in quibus...

Solis e puteo emergentis, sive Dissertationis chymiatechnicae: libri tres, in quibus totius operationis chymicae : I. methodus practica : II. materia lapidis philosophici et nodus solvendi ejus operandiq; : III. clavis operum Paracelsi, qua abstrusa explicantur defficientia supplentur : cum praefatione chymiae veritatem asserente

Frankfurt: Apud Conradum Eifridum, 1623 and Impensis Antonii Hummii, 1615.

Price: $4,800.00

Bound in modern stiff vellum with ties. Contents in fine condition, possibly lightly washed. Tiny hole in title patched. Two small stains on leaf Cc1, another in the gutter of lvs. H4 and I1. Illustrated with woodcuts.A rare collection of alchemical texts, the third of which is attributed by the...

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Item #4866 Les Emblemes. Andrea Alciati, Jean Mercure Jollat

Les Emblemes

Paris: Chrestien Wechel, 1540.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in 19th c. citron Morocco, gilt. A nice copy, lightly washed, with 16th c. annotations (faded and in some cases irretrievable due to the washing). The washing of the annotations has resulted in some light staining, with occasional shine-through to the image on the verso of the sheet. Very...

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Item #4503 Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum in Septem Libros. [Graece:] Anthologia diaphoron...

Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum in Septem Libros. [Graece:] Anthologia diaphoron epigrammaton.

Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, Mense Novembri, 1503.

Price: $29,000.00

Text in Greek type 4:79, (first part of title, register, and colophon in roman 10:82.) Bound in a contemporary Greek-style binding (see below). A tall copy, contents in very good condition with scattered ink stains (mostly light) and minor marks, dampstain at head of some gatherings and in a few...

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Item #5334 Ein sendbrieff Hans Huthe(n) etwa ains furnemen Vorsteers im widertauffer ordenn....

Ein sendbrieff Hans Huthe(n) etwa ains furnemen Vorsteers im widertauffer ordenn. Verantwort durch Urbanum Rhegium.

Augsburg: Alexander Weyssenhorn, 1528.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in modern wrappers. Top margin of title cut close but not affecting the woodcut border. Several underscores in red pencil, tiny wormhole in blank lower margin. The book is extremely rare. No copies traced in North America.Urbanus Rhegius’ point-by-point refutation of an unpublished pastoral letter by the radical Anabaptist...

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Item #4102 Lettere Della Signora Isabella Andreini Padovana, Comica Gelosa, [et] Academica...

Lettere Della Signora Isabella Andreini Padovana, Comica Gelosa, [et] Academica Intenta, nominata l'Accesa. Aggiuntovi di nuovo li Ragionamenti Piacevoli dell'istessa. Con due Tauole vna delle Lettere, e l'altra de' Ragionamenti, che nell'Opera si contengono. Di nuovo ristampate, & con ogni diligenza ricorrette. [With:] Fragmenti.

Venice: Presso Gio. Battista Combi, 1638.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, stained red, some wear and soiling, remains of green silk ties. A nice copy with a little minor damp-staining, and some worming in three signatures, affecting one to two lines of text but not the sense.The first edition of Isabella Andreini's collection of letters appeared in...

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Item #5173 Commentarii a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in asinu[m] aureau[m]. Apuleius, ca. 124-...

Commentarii a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in asinu[m] aureau[m].

Venice: Per Simonem Papiensem dictum Bevilacquam, 29 April, 1501.

Price: $12,500.00

An excellent copy in a contemporary blind-stamped Venetian morocco binding with pastedowns from a 14th c. manuscript of Justinian’s Pandects (small tears to spine, boards with some surface wear, corners bumped, small losses to the leather, short worm-trails on rear board). The text is crisp and bright aside from about...

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Item #5007 Architectura Recreationis… [and] Architectura Civilis…. [and] Architectura...

Architectura Recreationis… [and] Architectura Civilis…. [and] Architectura Privata.

First and third works: Augsburg: Durch Johann Schultes, 1640 and 1641. Second work: Ulm: Durch Jonam Saurn, 1628.

Price: $24,000.00

A sammelband of three of Furttenbach's major architectural treatises. With 3 engraved frontispieces, printed titles in red and black, and a total of 89 folding plates of various sizes (the largest of them 370 x 300 mm.) showing residences, civic structures, palaces, churches, elaborate gardens and grottoes, pavilions, and theaters...

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Item #4433 Plans et Elevations du Corps de L'Eglize du Port Royal [and other series]. Antoine...

Plans et Elevations du Corps de L'Eglize du Port Royal [and other series]

Paris: No printer stated, 1652.

Price: $12,000.00

A superb album OF NINETY-ONE PLATES IN RICH EARLY IMPRESSIONS presents the work of three French and one Dutch artists, including the Parisian architect Antoine Le Pautre’s ideal and realized designs for exteriors and interiors at the height of the French Baroque. All eight suites are in excellent condition. Bound...

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Item #3976 Orazione ne' funerali di d. Giuseppe Maria Jurato avvocato fiscale della Regia Gran...

Orazione ne' funerali di d. Giuseppe Maria Jurato avvocato fiscale della Regia Gran Corte del Regno di Sicilia nella chiesa di S. Ninfa.

Palermo: nella stamperia di Francesco Valenza, 1774.

Price: $2,600.00

Bound in attractive contemporary patterned pasteboards (corners bumped, minor wear.) The text is in excellent condition. The two folding engravings show the funeral monument and the catafalque. Clean tear (mended, no loss) to first plate. Marginal tear, not affecting image to second plate. The portrait was etched by Giuseppe Garofalo...

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Item #5256 Ain fast nutzlich Büchlin zü diser Zeit, zülesen/ Von dem Sindtfluß oder grossen...

Ain fast nutzlich Büchlin zü diser Zeit, zülesen/ Von dem Sindtfluß oder grossen wasser: das solchs durch den einfluss des hymels nit berzaichent/ wie etlich Astrologi ungeschicklich davon geschriben/ auch sich niemant des besorgen soll/ durch den hochberümten ... Paulum Bischoffen Forosempronieñ an Bapst Clementē den sibenden aussgangen uñ zü trost den förchtigen zü teütschem bracht.

Augsburg: Simprecht Ruff, 1524.

Price: $4,500.00

Bound in modern boards. A fine copy.First German edition of a book written to quell the growing hysteria around the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the sign of Pisces in February 1524, which was rumored to herald a catastrophic flood. Written by Paul of Middelburg, renowned astrologer...

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Item #5240 Protomathesis opus uarium, ac scitu non minus utile quàm iucundum, nunc primùm in...

Protomathesis opus uarium, ac scitu non minus utile quàm iucundum, nunc primùm in lucem foeliciter emissum: cuius index uniuersalis, in uersa pagina continetur.

Paris: Impensis Gerardi Morrhij & Ioannis Petri, 1532.

Price: $85,000.00

Bound in contemporary quarter pigskin and wooden boards with intact clasps. Inscription on title: “Est Adolfi Glauburg, Johannis Adolfi Glauburg, Jacobi Maquardi Glauburg.” An extremely fine, crisp, bright copy with broad margins. There is some minor damp-staining to a few gatherings, a few insignificant blemishes, and a short worm-trail in...

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Item #5206 Francisci Sarzosi aragonei, in aequatorem planetarum libri duo. Prior fabricam...

Francisci Sarzosi aragonei, in aequatorem planetarum libri duo. Prior fabricam aequatoris complectitur. Posterior usum atque utilitatem, hoc est veros motus ac passiones in zodiaci decursu contingentes, aequatoris ministerio investigare docet

Paris: Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1526.

Price: $16,500.00

Bound in modern brown calf, ruled and tooled in blind (some mild surface wear.). A fine copy internally, with the oversize illustrations on leaves 14, 16, 18 and 19 folded in to avoid trimming. Light soiling to title page, blank upper corner of leaf 2 restored without loss. Small ink...

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Item #5225 Introductorium Compendiosum in Tractatum Spere Materialis magistri Joannis de...

Introductorium Compendiosum in Tractatum Spere Materialis magistri Joannis de Sacrobusto. Quem abbreviavit et almagesti Sapientis Ptholomei Claudii philosophi Alexandrini ex Pheludio progeniti a magistrum Joannem Glogoviensem feliciter recollectum. [With a table of the declination of the Sun, with canon, on m6 recto]

Krakow: [Jan Haller], 28 April, 1506.

Price: $45,000.00

Illustrated with a full-page woodcut of an armillary sphere on the verso of the title page and another large woodcut on B1 recto, showing the spheres of Earth, the elemental zones, the spheres of the planets, and above them, the zodiac. This diagram of Creation is overseen by Christ as...

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Item #5257 An ephemeris for nine yeeres, inclusive, from the yeere of our Lord God 1609. to the...

An ephemeris for nine yeeres, inclusive, from the yeere of our Lord God 1609. to the yeere 1617. Supputated according to the most exquisite obseruations, and hipotheses of the tresnoble Tycho Brah, and diuers others the best modern astronomers of this age, and referred to the meridian longitude of the honourable citie of London. Whereunto is annexed three succinct treatises, the first discoursing of the vse of an ephemeris. The second of the fixed starres, and the third being diuided into foure sections of astrologie. By Iohn Searle, Master in Chyrurgerie.

London: Printed by John Windet [and Elizabeth Allde] for William Cotton and John Tapp, 1609.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in early 20th ¼ brown morocco and marbled paper over boards (light wear to extremities.) A fine, fresh copy with just a few light stains or ink marks; very slight fraying along the blank edge of the final few leaves, the last strengthened on the blank verso; small rust...

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Item #4183 Confessio Fidei exhibita inuictiss. imp. Carolo V. caesari aug. in comicijs Augustae....

Confessio Fidei exhibita inuictiss. imp. Carolo V. caesari aug. in comicijs Augustae. Anno M.D. XXX. Addita est Apologia confessionis [Bound with: Confessio doctrinae saxonicarum ecclesiarum. Leipzig, V. Bapst, 1553]

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542, 1556.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, one clasp defective, binding soiled and mildly worn and with small defects. The boards are ruled and tooled in blind, signed and dated “IPN 1556”. The contents are in excellent, crisp condition (one leaf working loose, marginal tear in margin of leaf...

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Item #4340 Saint Augustine, Of the citie of God : with the learned comments of Io. Lodouicus...

Saint Augustine, Of the citie of God : with the learned comments of Io. Lodouicus Viues. Englished first by J. H. and now in this second edition compared with the Latine originall, and in very many places corrected and amended.

London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked with wear to hinges; boards scuffed, corners bumped. Internally a very good copy with intermittent light marginal damp-stains, a bit darker in a few signatures. Very fine woodcut initials and headpieces. Leaves of sig. O bound out of sequence, N3 with tiny rust hole...

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Item #3649 Les Plus Beaux Monuments De Rome Ancienne. Ou Recueíl Des Plus Beaux Morceaux de...

Les Plus Beaux Monuments De Rome Ancienne. Ou Recueíl Des Plus Beaux Morceaux de L'Antiquité Romaine Qui Existent Encore: Dessinés Par Monsieur Barbault Peintre Ancien Pensionnaire Du Roy a Rome, Et Gravés, en 128 Planches Avec Leur Explication.

Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires François rüe du Cours près de Saint Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1761.

Price: $16,000.00

Magnificently illustrated with 73 etched and engraved plates comprising 88 half-page and 29 full-page images of ancient Roman architecture and sculpture. These were designed by Barbault (83 engravings), Carlo Nolli (1), and L. Bufalino (1) and engraved by Barbault (56), Domenico Montagù (52), Giuseppe? Bouchard (6), and Freicenet (4). The...

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Item #3623 Les Plus Beaux Édifices De Rome Moderne, Ou Recueíl Des Plus Belles Vües Des...

Les Plus Beaux Édifices De Rome Moderne, Ou Recueíl Des Plus Belles Vües Des Principales Églises, Places, Palais, Fontaines &c. Qui Sont Dans Rome Dessinées Par Jean Barbault Peintre, Ancien Pensionnaire Du Roy a Rome, Et Gravées en XLIV. Grandes Planches et Plusieurs Vignettes; Par D’Habiles Maitres. Avec La Description Historique De Chaque Edifice.

Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.

Price: $22,000.00

Bound in later quarter leather and paste-paper over boards. Small defects to head and tail of spine, upper hinge starting at foot, hinges and extremities rubbed. Magnificently illustrated with 44 double-page etched and engraved plates of Renaissance and Baroque Roman architecture, with captions in Italian and French. All plates are...

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Item #4344 The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus. Nicolas Béatrizet, attrib,...

The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus

Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552.

Price: $3,500.00

First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: “LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM.” (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and...

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Item #5218 Il fuoco trionfante racconto della traslatione della miracolosa imagine detta la...

Il fuoco trionfante racconto della traslatione della miracolosa imagine detta la Madonna del Fuoco protettrice della citta' di Forlì solenizzata da essa città sotto il 20. di ottobre 1636.

Forlì: Giovanni Cimatti, 1637.

Price: $14,500.00

Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and paste-paper over boards (re-cased, possiby a remboîtage, recent endpapers.) A fine copy with just a small abrasion to the blank lower margin of the half-title and title with careful restoration, and a short, clean tear in the blank margin of leaf H2 (not...

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Item #4261 Biblia Latina (With printed summaries by Menardus Monachus). BIBLE

Biblia Latina (With printed summaries by Menardus Monachus)

Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 January, 1480.

Price: $100,000.00

An excellent copy, with noble provenance, of this magnificent Bible. A very large, impressive copy, with broad margins, preserving numerous deckled edges. The quires are numbered in a contemporary hand, in red ink, at the foot of leaves. The stub for the canceled blank leaf ll3 (the conjugate of leaf...

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Item #3241 Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte...

Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or wysedome, moche necessary for all men to read and know, wherein suche as be in aduersitie, shall fynde muche consolation and comforte, and suche as be in great worldly prosperitie may knowe the vanitie and frailtie therof, and consequently fynde eternall felycytie. And this boke is in maner of a dialoge or communication betwene two persones, the one is Boecius, and the other is Philosophy, whose disputations and argumentes do playnly declare the diuersitie of th lyfe actiue, that consisteth in worldly, temporall, and transitory thynges, ... Translated out of Latin into the Englyshe toungue by George Coluile, alias Coldewel, to thintent that such as be ignoraunt in the Latin tongue, and can rede Englyshe, maye vnderstande the same. And to the mergentes is added the Latin, accordynge to the boke of the translatour, whiche was a very olde prynte

London: In Paules churche yarde at the sygne of the holy Ghost, by Ihon Cawoode, prynter to the Kynge and Quenes Maiesties, 1556.

Price: $30,000.00

Bound in contemporary English calfskin, rebacked in the 19th c., a few patches to the leather of the boards. Text in very good condition with occasional browning, darker in signatures I and K. Light dampstain to signatures T, Z, Bb, and Ff. Text in Latin and English in two columns...

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Item #4432 Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis,...

Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II. imperatoris Medicus. Postea Adrianus Tollius, Lugd.-Bat., M. D., recensuit; figuris melioribus, & commentariis pluribus illustravit, & indice auxit multo locupletiore. Tertia editio longe purgatissima. Cui accedunt Ioannis De Laet, Antvverpiani, De Gemmis & Lapidibus libri II. Et Theophrasti liber De Lapidibus, Gr. & Lat. cum brevibus notis.

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647.

Price: $4,900.00

Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lower “yapped” edge a bit warped). Complete with both folding tables. Illustrated with eighty-seven (87) woodcuts of gems and minerals, including geodes, hematite, crystals, corral, and fossils. A very good copy, with scattered mild soiling and light foxing, very lightly stained at upper margin; a....

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