Search Results: Authors starting with G from Asher Rare Books

[1], [1 blank], [44], 660, [60] pp.Detailed botanical description of Frisian and Northwest European plants, trees, flowers and herbs by the Frisian historian Simon Abbes Gabbema (1628-1688). Although Gabbema was appointed history writer of Frisia in 1659 by the States of Frisia because of his learning and knowledge concerning Frisian history, he also knew a lot about botany. The frontispiece is often ascribed to Jan Luyken (Klaversma & Hannema 545). Altogether this work can be considered a compilation of Gabbema's own botanical knowledge enriched with ancient knowledge, forming an extensive Frisian and Northwestern European flora.The present copy contains two leaves not normally present (4*5 and 5*5: the STCN notes them only in the copy at the Royal Library in The Hague): two laudatory poems by J. Vollenhove and H. Sweerts. Binding a bit dirty, frontispiece a little browned and repaired, some small stains throughout the book, some paper corners a little frayed, a small hole in leaf 2Y1, but otherwise… Read More

[8], 199, 100-456 [= 556], [4] pp. (pp. 113-116 and 201-204 misbound).Rare first and only edition of the Dutch translation of the Artzneybuch of Oswald Gabelkover (1538-1616), who was the personal physician to the dukes of Württemberg. It was originally printed in 1589 under the patronage of Ludwig von Württemberg and soon followed by several other editions. The present translation was made by Carolus Battus, a physician in Dordrecht, who was the first to translate medical works into Dutch. He is known as the author of one of the earliest Dutch cookery books, which was published together with his translation of Wirtsung's Arzney Buch (1568) with the confusingly similar title: Medicyn-boeck. Battus present translation served as served as the basis for the English translation The boock of physicke, which was published a year later, also in Dordrecht.With old owners' inscriptions on title-page and flyleaf ("A. (or R?) Van Wachtendonck") and some manuscript citations in French, Greek and Latin and… Read More

“162”[=163], [1] pp.First edition of a French translation from the Greek by the French physician Jean Canappe, of two chapters (5 and 9) from Galen’s pharmaceutical work later translated into Latin as the De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus. Canappe would publish a full translation a few years later as Le livre des simples (1545).“There is no name more illustrious in the whole history of medicine than that of Galen… Written in Greek, this Galenic treasure reached the Latin Western World only through Arabic translations” (Hagelin).With the bookplate of Etienne Récamier (1833-1898), Bibliothèque Lyonnaise 1858-1893, some partly removed owner’s inscriptions on title-page and a few other inscriptions throughout. Some occasional smudges and stains, but otherwise in good condition.l Durling, A chronological census of renaissance editions and translations of Galen 1542.11; Krivatsy, Suppl. 16th century, 86; USTC 24275; not in Wellcome; cf. DSB V, pp. 227-235; Hagelin, Rare and important… Read More

[12], 168, [1], [1 blank]; 159, [1] pp.Second edition of the first part and first edition of the second part of a very popular textbook for students of painting and architecture, by the Italian painter, architect and stage designer Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657-1743), teacher at the Accademia Clementina at Bologna. The first part, devoted to architecture, is divided into five parts covering practical geometry, the architectural orders according to Vitruvius, Serlio and Palladio, the architecture of Galli Bibiena himself, and the division of architecture according to Vignola. The engraved plates depict geometric figures, columns, capitals, friezes, facades, arches and more, each plate accompanied by some pages of explanatory text. The second volume teaches drawing and planning in perspective, discussing perspective projections of geometrical bodies, perspective for theatrical scenes, perspective of lights and shadows, and finally also teaching mechanics for the lifting and moving of objects for use in… Read More

(12), 143, (1); 159, (1) pp.Rare early edition of the first volume and first edition of the second volume of art students' text books of the 18th century, published by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657-1743), teacher at the Academia Clementina, and the founder of the famous dynasty of scenographic designers. He had been trained in the Bolognese school of illusionists and later returned to Bologna to continue the tradition. The first volume of the present student's manual, first published in 1725, contains a concise text book on architecture for students at the Academy Clementina at Bologna, based on the author's Architettura Civile from 1711, much reduced and abridged for the convenience of the students of architecture. The beautiful and orginal plates include some beautiful Baroque settings for theatrical scenes. Bibiena's perspective designs for theatre scenery revolutionized the Baroque stage, and also profoundly influenced artists like Piranesi. Fine copies in contemporary Italian vellum.l Fowler… Read More

[4], 137, [1 blank], 4, [2 blank] pp.First edition of a well-illustrated account of the curative properties of sulphur fumes for the treatment of (primarily skin) diseases: not for the squeamish. An English edition appeared in 1818 under the title, Memoirs and Reports on the Efficacy of Sulphurous Fumigation in the treatment of diseases of the skin, joints and glandular system, chronic rheumatism, gout, paralytic affections, &c. , and a second French edition in 1824. After a general introduction, the author presents 119 case studies in five chapters (8 illustrated with coloured plates of the naked patients, all but one with both a front and a rear view). The text pages are printed on wove paper; the plates on laid paper. A fascinating study of both the illnesses and the treatments, both well illustrated.In very good condition, with only light foxing in a few leaves. The binding also very good, with only a small hole near the base of the spine.l Waller 3398; Wellcome, p. 83; not in Garrison & Morton;… Read More

IV, 474, [3] pp. text.Both the text and the atlas volume of an important work on 19th-century Mexico by Antonio Garcia Cubas (1832-1912), not often found together. The text contains full accounts on the politics, ethnography, religion, education, mining, agriculture, history, archaeology, etc. of Mexico. The atlas includes thirteen double-page maps illustrating several aspects of Mexico, such as politics, ethnography, transport routes, mountains, hydrography, education, agriculture, mining, history and archaeology, and a full-page chromolithographed general map of Mexico at the end.l Chadenat 7016; Palau 98736 (not mentioning the general map); Phillips & LeGear 2686; not in Sabin.

130, [12] pp.Interesting work on the politics, history and ethnography of Mexico, by the Mexican scientist Antonio Garcia Cubas (1832-1912). In the third part on ethnography the focus is on several indigenous Mexican Indian families. "For a better knowledge of the races, their real characteristics, their uses and customs should be studied, as I have mentioned on another occasion, in the depths of the mountainous regions where they still preserve their ancient habits and their dialects with greater purity. ..." (pp. 67-68). Corners of the binding slightly rubbed. Very good copy of a work on the politics, history and ethnography of Mexico.l Palau 65704.

[12], 26 pp.Very rare Mallorca imprint giving the text of a memorial sermon delivered at the Palma Cathedral in Mallorca by the Jesuit Diego Garcia (1655-1723), in praise of Mariana de Austria (1634-1696), widow of Philip IV (1605-1665) and mother of Charles II of Spain (1661-1700).Minor thumbing on the title-page. Otherwise in very good condition.l De Backer & Sommervogel III, col. 1202, no. 2; Palau 97824 (erroneously calling for 96 pp); not in WorldCat, KVK.

[24], 84, 36 pp.Ninth edition (the first after the dead of the author) of this satirical mock-heroic poem in six canto’s which had been first published anonymously by Garth in 1699. Although the satire on the building of a medicines dispensary for the poor at Royal College of Physicians, has now been largely forgotten, at the time of its publication the poem was an instant success, making the writer the talk of the London coffee houses and the fashionable literary scene. The poem went through three editions within a year and eight editions appeared within Garth’s lifetime and the text was reprinted regularly throughout the 18th century.Samuel Johnston, in his Life of Garth, suggested that the poem appealed because of its clear moral stance. After all, Garth was ‘on the side of charity against the intrigues of interest, and of regular learning against licentious usurpation of medical authority’.With ownership’s stamp of Wm Sherlock, Ormskirk, on first fly-leaf. Hinges weak, slight marginal… Read More

Rare very early engraved map showing the Indian subcontinent, the Strait of Hormuz, the eastern half of the Gulf, and the Indian Ocean, including the islands of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the Maldives, Seychelles, the western tip of Sumatra and what must be the eastern tip of Somalia. Many topographic names appear in forms used in early Portuguese accounts of voyages, but most can be identified. In India and Ceylon we find Goa, Mangalor (Mangalore), Cochin (Kochi), Calinapata (Calcutta?), Besinagar (Bangalore), Colmucho (Colombo) and many others; in the Gulf region Cor. Dulfar (Dhofar), the island Macira (Masirah), C. Resalgate (Ras el Had?), Galatia (the ancient site Qalhat), Mazcate (Muscat), the island Quexumo (Qeshm) and Ormus (Hormuz). There is even an unlabelled city close to present-day Abu Dhabi. Two of the ships are labelled with their destinations: Calicut (Kozhikode) on the Malabar Coast and Molucche (the Moluccas) in the East Indies.Gastaldi first published a similar map as one of a set of three… Read More

(16), 437 (pp. 422-432 numb. 522-532), (19) pp.Second corrected and enlarged edition of this important manual on pharmacology by the German physician, chemist, vitalist and Leiden professor Hieronymus David Gaubius (Jerome Gaub, 1705-1780). The first edition was published in 1739.Gaubius was a native of Heidelberg. He studied medicine and sciences at the Universities of Harderwijk and Leiden, where he was a pupil of Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738) He earned his degree at Leiden in 1725 with a thesis on psychosomatic medicine. After graduation he continued his training in Paris, and then practiced medicine in Amsterdam and Deventer, before he was invited to Leiden by Boerhaave in 1731 as a lecturer in chemistry, and in 1734 he became a full professor of medicine and chemistry. Three times he was Rector of the Leiden University.With bookplate of P. Lanszweert, Pharma. Ostend. (Pharmacist at Ostende, Belgium). Good copy (sl. browned at places).l NNBW, III, cols. 431-432; Rather, Lelland J., Mind and body… Read More

[20], 140; 169-538, [14] pp.Ad 1: First and only edition of three very rare medical and pharmacological treatises published together, by the German physician Jan(sz) Abraham Gehema (1647-1715). Gehema studied in Leiden where he settled as a physician before returning to Berlin in 1695. All three treatises, translated into Dutch by “G.D.C.” from the original German, were originally published in Bremen in 1688 as Grausame medicinische Mord-Mittel (containing serious warnings against the evil practices of charlatans and quacks such as blood-letting, purgation and suspicious prescriptions, noting that they have killed many people), Der Reformirte Apotheker (a proposal to reform pharmacies to modern standards) and Diaetetica rationalis (instructions for a healthy lifestyle). Although the Dutch edition gives each work its own title-page and each begins on the first page of a quire (so that they could have been sold separately), they share a single series of page numbers and quire signatures.Ad 2: An… Read More

24, [4], 32, [4] pp.Presentation copy of a rare publication, presented as an extract from Gendrin's Récit historique, exact et sincère, par mer et par terre, de quatre voyages … published in Versailles 1856. About half of the material is taken from the 1856 edition (the introduction, a poem by Dorlin Père, the author's portrait and 8 plates), but the other half is newly included here: 36 pages with lithographed reproductions of letters received after the 1856 publication."Gendrin worked in the upholstery trade in Paris, and in 1816 travelled with his employer who was moving to Rio de Janeiro. After some time he was able to set up his own business, a shop in which he sold snuff, snuff-boxes, mirrors, .. [etc.] Business proved profitable, but having been informed by French colleagues who travelled to Chile of the good commercial opportunities offered by that country, he sold his shop, invested everything in suitable merchandise, and left for Valparaiso, sailing around Cape Horn. He also set up… Read More

[1 blank], [5], [3 blank], [20], [1 blank], [1], [78 blank] ll.Manuscript family chronicle incorporating multiple chronicles from the 17th and 18th century. The manuscript chronicles the births and deaths of four generations of the Bos, Werdolen (or Verdole) and Roda family in Amersfoort, Groningen, The Hague, Scheveningen, IJsselstijn, Tiel, Deventer, Kampen, Zuilen and Edam. The book was probably compiled by Dirk Daniel Roda (1726-1898), a lieutenant in the infantry and later beer brewer, shortly after the death of his father in 1747. It incorporates chronicles by his father Michiel Roda (1686-1747), his maternal grandfather Jacob Werdolen (chronicling 1668-1686), Jacob Werdolen's father Hendrik van Werdolen (a note from 1639) and a copy by Hendrik's wife Barbera Bos (born 1596), of the chronicle written by her father (chronicling 1577-1601).The different chronicles are interleaved with notes by Dirk Daniel Roda, which supply additional biographical information. In several pages he describes the his… Read More

[12], ''296'' [= 298], [2 blank] pp.First edition of a curious and extensively illustrated work on what the author calls a "horloge magnetique", a horizontal sundial with a rotating magnetic needle. He makes great (and dubious) claims for his invention: it can be used day or night, even when the sky is overcast, as long as one can make out the sun, moon or a known star. The magnetic needle did no doubt help one set it up at any location, as he claimed.The title-page notes that Pierre Georges is Chanoine régulier at the Congrégation de Notre-Sauveur, established by the archbishop of Toul in 1623 under Jesuit influence, and it also gives the Jesuit "IHS" with cross. Given that Jesuit association, the manuscript fragment used for the binding is particularly interesting, for it contains a text known from the Acta sanctorum (which is arranged by the Saints' feast days, in this case 25 July). With an early 19th-century 2-page note on a free endleaf with information about Georges, the dedicatee François… Read More

[4], XII, [5], [1 blank], 271, [1 blank]; [2], 273-530, [10] pp.Second German edition of "the first ethnographic survey of the Russian Empire" (Wortman). Georgi was part of an ambitious scientific expedition prompted by Catherine the Great to study the economic, cultural and geographical characteristics of the various regions in the Russian Empire. Georgi based his work on his own observations and the important works of Müller, Gmelin, Krasheninnikov and Pallas. He applied the Linnaean taxonomy to classify the great diversity of nationalities inhabiting the vast empire. The 2 frontispieces show 39 different peoples in their respective dress. The last page shows 2 lines of engraved polyphonic music (2-line staff with round-head notes).An additional set of 95 plates could be ordered from the publisher, as he explains in the preface. The first German edition appeared in 4 volumes between 1776 and 1780. Other editions appeared in English, French and Russian.Occasional spotting. Fine set of an important… Read More

523, [1]; 242, [2] pp.First edition of an extensive work on both land- and water molluscs that can be found in Syria, by the French malacologist Louis Germain (1878-1942). It describes numerous families and species of molluscs, the first volume containing an introduction and the sections on Syrian gastropods (snails and slugs), the second volume dealing with pelecypods (bivalvia) and closing with an index.In very good condition.l Junk, Thes. libr. conchyliorum 145.

[10], 189, [13] pp. plus 38 plates.One of the 200 deluxe copies reserved for the Antwerp magistrates, printed on heavy Venetian paper and including the equestrian portrait of Ferdinand, of a splendid monument of Baroque book illustration by Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the greatest Flemish artist of the 17th century: one of the most sumptuously illustrated books of the 17th century. It illustrates and describes the spectacular triumphal entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (1609-1641), Infante of Spain, into the city of Antwerp on 16 May 1635, after his victory at the Battle of Nördingen in 1634. The city was richly decorated for his triumphal procession with wooden arches, stages and paintings by Rubens. The present work, commissioned by the Antwerp city magistrates to commemorate the procession and festivities, records Ferdinand’s entry into Antwerp in great detail, in both words and images.Arents notes two different Van Thulden states of the imprint and dates the present one with… Read More

[6], 116 pp.First and only edition of the thesis of Willem Theodorus Gevers Deynoot (1808-1879) on herring fishery in the Low Countries. It discusses the Dutch laws and legislation concerning herring fishery as well as internal cooperation and foreign relations. After his studies Gevers Deynoot became a lawyer in The Hague, and later a member of the town-council in Rotterdam and member the States General. There he mainly dealt with economical subjects, waters and fishery. With the small bookplate of the Dutch professor of anatomy and medicine Willem Vrolik (1801-1863) on half-title. His "Vrolik Museum" was and is well known for its collection of anatomical, zoological and teratological preparations. In very good condition, binding only slightly rubbed along the extremities.l D. Mulder Bosgoed, Bibliotheca ichthyologica et piscatoria (1874), 3299.