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Ferrara: Francesco Succio, 1629. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (315 x 225 mm). [16], 412, [12] pp., engraved architectural title, 4 small engravings, including a world map (repeated), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, and nearly 240 woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. 18th-century Italian xylographic cardboard binding, ink-lettered paper label to spine, red-marbled edges (wear and minor chipping to hinges, extremities and paper label, corners bumped and scuffed, spine rubbed). Internally only little browned, leaves P2 and Nn1 somewhat soiled, occasional minor spotting, a little worming to pastedowns and gutter of a few leaves, but generally quite crisp and clean. Provenance: old faint library stamp to title. A fine, wide-margined copy in untouched binding. ---- Ferguson I, 136; Riccardi I, 205; Wheeler Gift 97. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Cabei (1586-1650) was a Jesuit father born in Ferrara and a contemporary of Athanasius…
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Philosophia magnetica in qua magnetis natura penitus explicatur, et omnium quae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur
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Commentariorum de bello Gallico liber primus (-septimus)
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Treviso: Michele Manzolo, 1480. 6th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6th Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 30 June 1480. Folio (288 x 198 mm). 167 (of 168) unfoliated leaves, lacking the initial blank leaf only. Signatures: a8 (-a1) b6 c8 d6 e8 f6 g8 h6 i8 k6 l8 m6 n8 o6 p8 q6 r8 s6 t8 u6 x6, A-B8 C6. 44 lines to the page, Roman letter, 8-line initials. Includes index at end. Gathering i is numbered but not signed. Title from incipit on a2r. Imprint details from colophon on x5r. Edited, and with a poem (leaf x6r), by Girolamo Bologni (i.e. Hieronymus Bononius). Bound in early 18th century vellum, spine hand lettered and decorated in red, blue and black paint (short, 3 cm split of joint at foot of upper board, some soiling and spotting of vellum, extremities rubbed). Internally quite crisp and clean, occasional very minor spotting, few leaves with faint dampstaining to lower gutter, commentary in old manuscript on final leaf verso partially cancelled in black ink (having caused slight…
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Mineralogia, sive Naturalis philosophiae thesauri..
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Lyon: J. & P. Prost, 1636. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Mineralogia, sive Natvralis philosophiae thesauri, in qvibvs metallicae concretionis medicatorúmque fossilium miracula, terrarum pretium, colorum & pigmentorum apparatus concretorum succorum virtus lapidum atque gemmarum dignitas continentur. Lyon: J. & P. Prost, 1636. Folio (360x230 mm), [16], 626, [70] pp. Contemporary flexible vellum, title lettered in manuscript on spine. Half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, paper repairs to fore margin of first 3 leaves, not affecting text block. Woodcut initials, head and tail pieces. Library stamps on dedication page, first page, 8pp of text and 58 pp. of index (not affecting text). Stamp from "Escuela de Ingenieros" dates 1882, discharged. Old repair to the lower tip of p.115, worm tracks on pp 304-350, last 6 pages of index with unobtrusive paper repairs to lower corner, light…
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Defensio orthodoxae fidei de sacra Trinitate, contra prodigiosos errores Michaelis Serveti Hispani: ubi ostenditur haereticos iure gladii coercendos esse. . . / Defensio sanae et orthodoxae doctrinae de sacramentis, eorumque natura, vi, fine, usu, et fructu : quam pastores et ministri Tigurinae ecclesiae et Genevensis antehac brevi consensionis mutuae formula complexi sunt : una cum refutatione probrorum quibus eam indocti et clamosi homines infamant
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Geneva: Robert Estienne, 1554. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Defensio orthodoxae fidei de sacra Trinitate, co[n]tra prodigiosos errores Michaelis Serveti Hispani: ubi ostenditur haereticos iure gladii coercendos esse,... [Geneva]: Robert Estienne, 1554. pp. 261 [1]. Signatures: a-q8 r4 [-r4], bound without blank leaf r4. Printer's woodcut device to title, floral woodcut initial, list of subscribers on r3v. [Bound with:] CALVIN, Jean. Defensio sanae et orthodoxae doctrinae de sacramentis, eorumque natura, vi, fine, usu, et fructu : quam pastores et ministri Tigurinae ecclesiae et Genevensis antehac brevi consensionis mutuae formula complexi sunt : una cum refutatione probrorum quibus eam indocti et clamosi homines infamant. [Geneva]: Robert Estienne, 1555. pp. 52. Signatures: A-B8 C10. Printer's woodcut device to title, floral woodcut initial, text ends on p.52 without colophon as called for. Two works in one volume. 8vo (177 x 117 mm). 17th…
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Institutio totius Christianae religionis, nunc ex postrema authoris recognitione, quibusdam locis auctior, infinitis vero castigatior. .
by CALVIN, Jean
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Geneva: Ex officina Ioannis Gerardi typographi, 1550. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4th Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (246 x 162 mm). [32], 735, [81] pp. [alpha]-[delta]4 a-z8 A-Z8 2A-2K4. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, white-on-black criblé initials, with final blank Kk4. Several neat marginalia in at least three different contemporary hands and later text markings and underscoring in one hand. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, blind rollwork and embossed decoration, spine and front cover with faint lettering in manuscript, brass clasps intact but one brass catch broken (vellum soiled, a few wormholes, wear to extremities), lacking free endpapers. Title page repaired at gutter and fore-margin and with a small hole affecting woodcut device, some dampstaining mostly at front and rear, occasional minor spotting, but generally quite clean and bright. Provenance: Paulus Thurius (inscription to front pastedown " Paulii…
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Institution de la religion chrestienne, nouvellement mise en quatre livres: et distinguee par chapitres, en ordre & methode bien propre: Augmentee aussi de tel accroissement, qu'on la peut presque estimer un Livre nouveau
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Lyon (but Geneva): Jean Martin (Jean II Frellon?), 1565. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (183 x 109 mm). [200], 1256 pp. Floral woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Bound in contemporary vellum, spine with ink-lettering (vellum soiled and spotted, small hole at upper hinge, light wear to extremities). Text with light even browning, occasional minor spotting, faint dampstaing in places, small wormtracks in blank margin of 4 leaves, annotations in contemporary hand to first 20 pages. Very good copy in untouched binding. ---- Peter-Gilmont, Bibliotheca Calviniana, III, 65/8. Rare octavo edition of Calvin's famous work, actually printed in Geneva one year after Calvin's death and with a false place "Lyon" stated on the title page. The half-page woodcut on verso of the title-page with an allegorical woodcut portrait of the 'True Religion' which is actually the printer's stamp of P. Haultin, in which one of three folio editions appeared in the same year (see Baudrier…
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Description anatomique d'un elephant male
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Paris: H.J. Jansen, 1802. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Imperial folio. Imperial folio (530x350 mm), uncut, x, [2], 108 pp., half title, portrait frontispiece, 20 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, skillfully rebacked; foxing to first pages, unobstrusive library stamps. Superb copy. --- First edition, exeedingly rare - Nissen 798, Schrader-H. 327-328, DSB III, 38: "He performed careful dissections of the elephant. " - published posthumously. - Probably one of the first descriptions of the dissection of a Ceylonese elephant which was carried out in 1774. - Plates with numerous detailed anatomical illustrations.
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Planches pour les oeuvres de P. Camper qui ont pour objet l'histoire naturelle, la physiologie et l'anatomie comparee
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Paris, 1803. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Imperial folio. Atlas volume only. Large folio (495x318 mm), portrait frontispiece by B. Roger, 34 engraved plates, contemporary soft cover, paper label to front cover, worn and soiled, top cover loose, title and plates foxed and browned throughout, library stamps to portrait and some plates. Provenance: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. - Nissen ZBI, 796. - Rare atlas to this important comparative anatomical monograph on apes and especially on elephants, seacows, horses, frogs etc. The plates are by C. Picquenot.
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Principes d'Économie Politique
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Paris: Chez F. Buisson, 1801. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. An X (1801). 8vo (216 x 138 mm). [4], 236 pp., including half-title with "Décret concernant les contrefacteurs" and signature stamp of publisher on verso, 3 folding letterpress tables. Uncut and in the original wrappers, spine with original printed paper label (minor paper chipping to spine and corners, creasing and dust-soiling, small hole in rear wrapper). Paper little age-toned only, minor occasional spotting and dust-soiling to outer margins, lower blank corner of p. 181/2 torn and a few paper flaws elsewhere all not affecting text. A very good, highly unsophisticated copy. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE FOUNDING WORKS OF ECONOMICS. Nicolas-François Canard (1754-1833) taught mathematics at the École centrale de Moulins and was the first to introduce mathematics to the field of economics. He was the first to have set up the theoretical framework which requires the necessary recourse to…
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R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots
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Prague: Vydalo Aventinum, 1920. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (222 x 150 mm). [1-7] 8-96 [97-100] pp. Original printed wrappers, uncut, unbound/unsewed as issued with gatherings loosely inserted (first and final leaves glued to wrappers), professional paper restorations to portion of spine (loss of 3 letters) and wrapper edges, upper wrapper with minor edge chipping. Very little age toning of text and very minor edge soiling and creasing. Provenance: "Jenda" (signature in red crayon on front wrapper and first flyleaf). A very good, clean and fresh copy. ---- FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK WHICH COINED THE WORD 'ROBOT', AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE WITH THE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS. Capek's dramatic exploration of advancing automation, and the near-universal fear of machines supplanting humans, was an immediate worldwide success. R.U.R. premiered in Prague early in 1921, was performed in New York in 1922, and issued in English translation in…
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Medicina practica, sive Methodos cognoscendorum, & curandorum omnium corporis humani affectum..
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Venice: Baptistam, & Ioan. Bernardum Sessam, 1597. Soft cover. Fair. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (320x225 mm). [2], 27, [1], 175 n.ll., 310, [2] pp., title with large vignette device printed in red and black, woodcut initials and headers in text, last leaf with colophon, contemporary limp vellum, very worn and shriveled, title-page, first and last leaves chipped at corners and frayed, dog ears, occasional marginal dampstaining, ink-spotting and soiling, little worming to top margins, frequent ink annotations in old hand. ---- NLM/Durling 816 (list the 1598 edition only), not in Garrison-Morton and Wellcome I. - The first Venice edition, edited Giovanni Bernardo Sessa.
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De causis, signis, ac locis morborum, liber unus
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Bologna: A. Benacci, 1569. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. De causis, signis, ac locis morborum, liber unus. Bologna: A. Benacci, 1569. 110 (i.e. 112), [4] leaves. Woodcut initials and tailpieces, 4 leaves of index at end. Signatures: A-O8 P4. Light browning of just a few leaves, but generally bright and clean throughout. Leaf A8 chipped at lower corner not affecting text, pp. 23-28 with brown stains at outer blank margin, light pale dampstaining to final 4 leaves. [Bound with:] VALVERDE, Juan de. De Animi et corporis Sanitate tuenda libellus. Venise: Dominicus Lilius, 1553. 50, [6] leaves. Including printer's woodcut device on title, repeated on final leaf recto, woodcut initials, woodcut text diagram, general index at end. Signatures: A-G8. Fol. D2v with brown spot, a few spots elsewhere, fol. D3r with contemporary annotation. [Bound with:] VALDAGNI, Giuseppe (VALDANIUS, Josephus). De Mistione Dialogi duo. Item Procli de Motu libri duo ab…
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Offenbarung der Natur unnd Natürlicher dingen auch mancherley subtiler würckungen. Durch den hochgelerten Hieronymum Cardanum Docctoin der artzney zü Weyland erstlich zü Latin aufsgangen. Darinn kunstlich die art und eigenschafft desz gantzen ... Alles durch Heinrich Pantaleon der artzney doctoren zu gutem Teütcher nation gantz fleissig und auff das treüwlichest verteütschet
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Basel: Henricus Petri, 1559. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two parts in one volume. Folio (304 x 202 mm). [52], 934, [2] pp. Includes woodcut portrait on first title, separate title-page "Ein kurtzer ausszug und inhalt aller fürnemmen und nutzlicher puncten und articklen..." dated 1554 on Aaa1r, final leaf 3N8 with colophon on recto and printer's device on verso, errata on c6r, text in black letter, several smaller and a few larger woodcut diagrams in text. Signatures: [cross]8 a-c6, A-Z6 Aa-Zz6 AA-SS6 TT4, Aaa-Mmm6 Nnn8. Bound in 17th century half calf over decorated paste-paper, spine with abraded gilt-lettering and some gilt decoration (boards and spine heavily rubbed, extremities worn and chipped, corners bumped and scuffed), red-dyed edges, no endpapers. First title-page browned and soiled, long tear repaired without loss, first and final leaves reinforced with paper stripes at outer margins, hole in leaf a2…
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Opera quaedam lectu digna : Nempe, De libris proprijs ; De curationibus & praedictionibus admirandis ; Neronis encomium ; Geometriae encomium ; De uno ; Actio in Thessalicum Medicum ; De secretis ; De gemmis & coloribus ; Dialogus de Morte ; Dialogus de Humanis consilijs, Tetim inscriptus ; De mnimis & propinquis ; De summo bono
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Basel: Henricum Petri, 1562. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (202 x 150 mm). [36], 413 [1] pp. Woodcut historiated initials, a few woodcut diagrams in text, errata on final page, lacking - as often - the leaf with the printer's device on verso only. Signatures: [alpha]-[gamma]4, [delta]6, a-z4, A-Z4, aa-ff4. Bound in 18th century half calf, sprinkled boards, gilt-lettered spine label, hand lettering in ink on lower edge (extremities lightly rubbed, covers little soiled). Text little unevenly browned, occasional minor spotting and light foxing, one page with ink annotations in contemporary hand, p. 20 of content list with blackened text by censors, few ink corrections in text. Provenance: L. Bodin, Libraire, Paris (sticker to front pastedown). Very good copy. ---- VD 16 C 928; Adams C, 691; NLM/Durling 832. This rare edition contains 11 mostly medical texts by Cardano, among which: De libris propriis; De curationibus & praedictionibus…
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De rerum varietate libri XVII
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Basel: Henricus Petri, 1557. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (161 x 113 mm). [30], 1194, [64] pp. Woodcut portrait of the author on title verso, two folding plates, folding table, woodcut initials, and several woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text (2 full page). 19th century half calf over marbled boards, plain spine with gilt-lettered label (rubbing to spine and extremities). Internally little browned throughout, occasional spotting an dampstaining, up to 7 mm of upper blank corner of book block lost by animal bites affecting about half of the gathering affecting page numbering on 4 leaves, first 28 leaves of gatherings aa-bb8 and a-b8 with paper defect at gutter due to paper embrittlement with loss of letters at inner margin of 8 leaves and with several lines obscured by old paper reinforcements, larger paper repair at inner margin of title-leaf, leaves A1-4 glued at gutter just into text field, upper margin trimmed close…
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Opus novum de proportionibus numerorum, motuum, ponderum, sonorum, aliarumque rerum mensurandarum ... Praeterea artis magnae, sive de regulis algebraicis liber unus ... Item, de aliza regula liber
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Basel: Henricus Petri, 1570. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Three parts in one volume. Folio (311 x 191 mm). [16], 271 [1], 163 [1], [8], 111 [1] pp. Signatures: *6, A-R6 Q8 R2 S-Y6, Z4, Aa-Tt4, Vv6, *4, AA-OO4. Separate title-page and pagination for Artis magnae and Operis perfecti sui sive algebraicae, printer's device on general title and verso of final leaf, numerous woodcut diagrams in text, pp 177 to 184 of gathering P mispaginated 171-178. Bifolium Gg2-3 in second part differs in condition, printed on different paper stock, and is possibly supplied. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped vellum (stained and spotted). Text somewhat browned throughout, occasional minor spotting, waterstain in center creating hole in first five leaves of gathering *, these restored and missing letters of printed text redrawn by black ink, some light dampstaing to upper gutter throughout and to lower corner of third part, wormtracks at lower blank margin in…
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De subtilitate libri XXI
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Nürnberg: J. Petreius, 1550. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio (309 x 201 mm). [36], 371 [1] pp. Roman type, italic marginalia. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut portrait of the author on title verso, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, blank leaf D6. Signatures: A-C4 D6 a-z4 aa-yy4 zz6. 204 leaves. Bound in 20th-century half-vellum and pastepaper boards. Text quite crisp and clean throughout with only minor occasional spotting. Last 10 gatherings with light waterstaining to inner margins; small marginal tears to title; p. 195 with text corrections in contemporary hand. Provenance: old ownership entry at head of title-page; Former Redemptorist order, Hennef-Geistingen* (ink stamp "Bibl. Prov. Germ. Inf. C.SS.R" on title page). A very good, tall copy. ---- EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF CARDANO'S MOST CELEBRATED WORK. This encyclopaedia of natural science "represents the most advanced representation of physical knowledge up to his time…
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Grundsätze der Mechanik vom Gleichgewicht und der Bewegung: mit Anwendung auf einzelne Probleme des Maschienenwesens, namentlich auf das Perpetuum mobile etc.; aus dem Französischen übersetzt
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Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1805. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (199 x 115 mm). xxviii, 303 [1] pp., 2 folding engraved plates. Bound in late 19th century cloth over blue card boards, spine lettered and ruled in black (minor soiling of spine, extremities rubbed, corners bumped and scuffed). Text crisp and clean throughout. Provenance: from the Library of the Sadi-Carnot family (catalogue of the sale "Carnot : la bibliothèque d"une dynastie" by Astrid Guillon, Paris 27 Oct. 2022, lot 86). A near pristine copy internally. ---- VERY RARE FIRST GERMAN EDITION of "Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du movement" translated from a new edition, published in Paris in 1803. Itself a work that first appeared in Dijon in 1783 under the title Essai sur les machines en général. The author explains in the preface that he has made changes in the light of recent discoveries. "These developments have necessitated a new order in the subjects, and made the writing more voluminous. .…
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Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the Elementary Forms of Diseases
by CARSWELL, Robert
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London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman for the author, 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (374 x 267 mm). 109 unnumbered leaves, 48 fine hand-colored lithographed plates after Carswell. Contemporary half calf over boards, spine with green morocco label lettered in gilt, some gilt decoration and blind stamping, red-sprinkled edges (spine leather and hinges heavily rubbed, wear to spine ends and corners). Internally very crisp and clean with little age-toning of text and plates only, two plates with offsetting from dark colors, minor spotting of one plate, rare marginal thumb-soiling. Provenance: Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London (ink stamp on title and a few other leaves); small sticker of bindery S. Weston, London to rear pastedown. Excellent copy. ---- Eimas, Heirs of Hippocrates 1501; Norman 408; Osler 2250; Garrison-Morton 2291; Goldschmid 156; Wellcome II, p.306. - FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Carswell's atlas,…
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De Vocis Auditusque Organis Historia Anatomica. Tractatibus Duobus Explicata ac Variis Iconibus Aere Excusis Illustrata
by CASSERIO, Giulio Cesare [CASSERIUS, Julius]
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Ferrara: Victorius Valdinus, 1600. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1600-1601. Two parts in one volume. Large folio (406 x 268 mm). [56] (of [60]), 191 [1]; 126, [2] pp. Engraved title, engraved portrait of the author, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 34 full-page anatomical engravings (22 of the vocal organs, 12 of the auditory organs); lacking the bifolium a3-4 with the portrait of the Duke of Parma (a4) and the conjugate text leaf (a3). Signatures: a-b6 (-a3-4) a-c4 d6 A-2A4; A-Q4. Colophon on 2A4v: Ferrariae: excudebat Victorius Baldinus typographus cameralis, 1601, and Q4r: Ferrariae: excudebat Victorius Baldinus typographus cameralis, sumptibus unicorum Patavii, 1600. Contemporary full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (vellum browned and soiled, tail of spine scuffed, minor wear and chipping to board edges and extremities, corners bumped and worn, upper slightly curved and with pen trials and signatures). Text and engravings crisp and clean, minor pale…
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