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[4], 166, [2]; [2], 168, [4]; [4], 155, [5]; [2], VI, 103, [1] pp.Second Dutch edition of Gellert's famous fable book, first published by the same publisher in Amsterdam from 1772 to 1774. The series of plates by Jacobus Buijs (1724-1801), beautifully illustrating each fable, are still of great importance for our knowledge of Dutch life and customs in the second half of the 18th century. The fables were translated in verse from the German by B. de Bosch, J. Lutkeman, P. Meyer, J.P. Broeckhoff, H.J. Roullaud, L. Pater and J. Lublink jr.From the library of Buijnsters-Smet, with their bookplate on front paste-downs. Ad 1 lacks the frontispiece and the plate “Monima”, otherwise in fine condition. Some superficial cracks in the spines, and the hinges slightly worn, but binding otherwise very good.l Ad 1: Landwehr, Emblem & fable books F107; Waller 589; Cohen & De Ricci 1108; Buijnsters-Smets, “Buijs als Boekillustrator”, in: Doc.blad werkgroep 18de eeuw, XVI (1984), pp. 91-106, no. 39; E. de la… Read More
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[8], 84, 308 pp.Amsterdam reprint of an edition published in Rouen of this interesting School edition of the Phaedrus fables (pp. 1-205) in Latin verses with notes underneath and a French translation in prose on facing pages, together with a choice collection of 49 fables of De La Fontaine, numbered after the related Phaedrus fable, and followed by an extensive dictionary of words etc. occurring in the fables. The book starts with an unusual presentation of the fables of the first two books of the Phaedrus fables: each Latin verse with a line-for-line French translation with interlinear added letters (a-z and *) referring to the following complicated grammatical ‘Règles’. Poor French pupils!The edition seems to be composed by Prof. Philippe Dumas (1738-1782) director of the College d’Issoudun and professor of Rhetoric at the University of Tolouse. Some annotations (1796), some slight soiling and foxing, corners bumped, top of spine damaged.l Landwehr, F172; Schwabe/Barbier, 105.
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60, [2] pp.Second edition, in the original Arabic with a Latin translation and notes by Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624), of the classic fables by Luqman (Lokman). Luqman "the greatest figure in the whole corpus of pre-Islamic myth and legend" (Cambridge history of Arabic literature, p. 378) is to Arabic what Aesop is to Greek, a real but much mythologized figure, said to have gathered his wisdom from observation of (and by some accounts conversation with) animals. Surat 31 of the Quran is named after him. Luqman's animal fables became an important part of pre-Islamic Arabic culture, were incorporated into early Islamic culture and remain popular today in both Western and Islamic culture. The fables are first given in Arabic, followed by a translation in Latin and Erpenius's notes. Erpenius, appointed professor of Arabic at Leiden University in 1613, set up a printing office for Arabic and other "oriental" languages and had Arabic type cut under his supervision by Arent Corsz. Hogenacker. He printed the… Read More
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Fabulae Graecè & Latinè, nunc denuo selectae: eae item, quas Avienus carmine expressit. Accedit...
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134, [2] pp.Very popular Latin school book, edited by Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655), famous Dutch humanist and teacher, first published by order of the Dutch States in 1626, and beautifully illustrated with woodcuts by Christoph van Sichem II (ca. 1582-1658), a pupil of Jacques de Gheyn and a very popular book illustrator in the first half of the 17th century. The school book contains a short introduction on the life and work of Aesop with a charming woodcut portrait, and 40 fables by Aesop, each illustrated by an attractive woodcut, the text was printed parallel in two columns, in Greek and Latin, with the moral of the fable at the end. This is followed by the same number of fables in verse by Avianus, in Latin only, and the book closes the fable of the "War between the Mice and the Frogs", once ascribed to Homer. Here the text in Greek and Latin is printed parallel on facing pages, and lively illustrated with 6 more woodcuts. The book starts and ends with a poem in Greek by Heinsius, the first on the… Read More
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[2], 58, 290, [2], 291-615 pp.First illustrated edition of the vast complete collection of Aesop fables, arranged in 15 books to give a total of 532 fables in Latin verse, with extensive footnotes, brought together by Francois Joseph Terrasse Desbillons (1711-1789), a Jesuit and poet from Chateauneuf who studied with the Jesuits at Bourges and who became a professor of rhetoric in Nevers and Caen. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in France he moved to Mannheim. Earlier editions, containing fewer fables, appeared in Glasgow published by the famous printers Robert and Agnew Foulis in 8vo, 1754 (“first edition”) and in Paris, by Guerin & Delatour, 1756 (“second edition”). J. Barbou in Paris also published editions with fewer fables around 1750.With the armorial bookplate of Duke R.H. St. Maur on front paste-down. A very good and clean copy.l Bodemann 152.1; not in Fabula docet.
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Fabulae variorum auctorum nempè Aesopi Fabulae Graeco-Latinae CCXCVII. Phthonii Soph. Fabulae...
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[16], 678 pp.The 1660 second issue (with new preliminaries) of the first and only edition of an important and remarkably complete collection of humanistic and 16th-century compilations of fables, first published in 1610 with the title Mythologia Aesopica (Bodemann 60.1), printed at Frankfurt by Nikolaus Hoffmann for Jonas Rosa. The Greek fables appear both in the original Greek and in Latin translation, those on pp. 1-353 set in two columns with the Greek text in the inner columns and the Latin translation in the outer columns. The shorter fables that follow in Greek verse on pp. 354-387 are set in a single column with the Latin translation below the Greek. The remaining fables, on pp. 388-618, are in the original Latin. After Aesop’s fables Nevelet adds 47 fables “nunquam hactenus editae” (pp. 212-321), meaning published for the first time in 1610. The 782 fables included in the compilation are illustrated with 237 woodcuts after the well-known Virgil Solis series. Little is known of the editor… Read More
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Fabulae Aesopi Graecè & Latinè, nunc denuo selectae: ea item, quas Avienus carmine expressit.Utrecht, widow of Jurriaen Poolsom, 1699. Small 8vo. With a woodcut of a wolf sitting next to a tree on the title-page and 47 woodcuts in the text (ca. 5 x 6 cm). Marbled wrappers.

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136 pp.Rare Greek and Latin school edition of Aesop, with the same contents and 47 woodcuts as the 1685 edition published by Jurriaen Poolsum in Utrecht (Bodemann 65.4), one of the many editions based on the original Heinsius school edition of 1626, published by Johannes Maire in Leiden with a woodcut series by Christoffel van Sichem II (ca. 1577-1658). Landwehr counts 15 editions between 1626 and 1727. The unsigned woodcuts in the present edition closely follow the Van Sichem series.The Aesop fables are printed in two columns with the Greek (left) and Latin (right) prose texts; Avianus’s Latin verse rendition of the fables follows in one column. The added “Brachomyomachia”, or “Ranarum & murium pugna”, a spoof of Homer (here attributed to him as in many early editions), gives the Greek verse text (left) and Latin verse translation (right) on facing pages, illustrated with 6 woodcuts.First quire loose, part of the last leaf torn out.l Fabula docet 16 (p. 99); Landwehr, Emblem & fable books F025… Read More
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[64], 462, [206] pp. (last two blanks missing).Johannes Laurentius’s first edition of Phaedrus’s fables in Latin verse, loosely based on the Greek prose fables attributed to Aesop, with Laurentius’s extensive commentary and notes, prologues, biographies, etc., printed in two columns. This edition is profusely illustrated with very innovative engravings, mostly quite independent of earlier examples and series, and rendering the contents of the fables on two levels: in the foreground with a more-or-less literal presentation of the story, and in the background with a more ethical or moralistic interpretation. Erroneous engravings corrected for lib. III, fable 12 (p. 194) and fable 15 (p. 205), as partially noted by Landwehr - he mentiones fable 12 on p. 194, but then also fable 14 on p. 201 (which is correct in the present edition), instead of fable 15 on p. 205.Lacking the 2 final blank leaves 2T7-8. Binding worn, front hinge broken, head and foot of spine damaged, very slight foxing throughout.l… Read More
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Facetiae facetiarum, hoc est, jocoseriorum fasciculus novus, exhibens varia variorum autorum...
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Rare collection of popular farcical texts, inspired by the Facetiae (1474) of the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini. Poggio wrote anti-clerical, bawdy and obscene stories, that enjoyed great popularity in the 16th century. He thereby showed that Latin was flexible enough to be written as a living language. His stories were soon imitated all over Europe. A collection of 12 titles, first published in 1600, was later placed on the Papal Index. The present collection, published by Augustin Ferber, increases the number of titles to 17. It mainly consists of mock medical dissertations and disputations and macaronic poetry about sex and drinking.Of particular interest are: Disputatio inauguralis, a mock disputation on the social law of drinking, with Bacchus as praeses and written by "Blasius Multibibus", a pseudonym often attributed to Richard Brathwait, who would translate this work into English in 1617 as A solemne joviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefly shadowing the law of drinking;… Read More
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Faits memorables des empereurs de la Chine, tirés des annales chinoises… gravées … d'après...
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Deluxe issue, printed on wove paper, of two handsomely engraved print series, with each print accompanied by an engraved text leaf. The first series is a radically revised version of Dijian tushuo (The emperor's mirror), designed to appeal to educated Parisians. Besides reframing the Chinese historical anecdotes for a French audience, Helman also completely reconceptualised "Published in Paris just a year before the French revolution, perhaps the volume was meant as a veiled criticism not only of Louis XVI's policies but also of his wife, Marie-Antoinette" (Reed & Demattè). The second series illustrates the life of Confucius, with on the text leaves "morales de Confucius" from Collection des moralistes anciens (1782). Both series are here printed on wove paper, and ad 2 (usually dated 1786) appears to have been issues together with ad 1 in 1788.A couple occasional spots and some very minor foxing in the upper margins, otherwise a very good copy. The binding has some minor wear along the extremities… Read More
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Falconry in the British Isles.London, John van Voorst, 1873. 4to. With 3 additional original watercolours by the illustrator, William Brodrick, highlighted with gum arabic. And with 28 hand-coloured lithographed plates after William Brodrick, some highlighted with gum arabic. Contemporary half green morocco, gold-tooled spine.

by SALVIN, Francis Henry (William BRODRICK, illustrator).

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[10], 171, [1] pp.Second edition, revised and enlarged: the best edition of this handsome work. The present copy, with an impeccable provenance, is enriched by the inclusion of 3 fine original watercolours by the eminent William Brodrick (1814-88), falconer, taxidermist, physician and artist, whose works of avian portraiture set the standard of his times.The first edition was published in 1855. The author, Francis Henry Salvin (1817-1904), was not satisfied with the first edition, so he made improvements and important additions. The resulting second edition must be preferred to the first, and Salvin wanted to leave no doubt that it would be the best modern book on falconry even written in England. It indeed remains even today an essential standard work. To illustrate the second edition new lithographs had to be made from scratch, because the stones that were used to illustrate the first edition were destroyed. The ornithological artist William Brodrick took up the task once more and apparently made… Read More
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Falconry in the British isles.London, John van Voorst, 1855. 4to (29 x 19.5 cm). With 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates by William Brodrick. Original publisher’s blind- and gold-blocked cloth, front board with title and large illustration of a falcon.

by SALVIN, Francis Henry and William BRODRICK.

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VII [1 blank], 147 [1 blank] pp.First edition of a complete and important treatise on the art of falconry by Francis Henry Salvin (1817-1904), in which he describes the various species of birds used in England, both hawks and falcons. ''The best English book on falconry and a very attractive publication'' (Schwerdt). The treatise is illustrated with lithographs by William Brodrick (1814-1888); they show 21 falcons and 5 hawks; plates 22-24 depict equipment used for falconry. The stones for the first edition were destroyed after publication so the plates for the second edition (London, 1873) had to be redrawn. With bookplate. Some pages and plates reinforced, two plates loose, some spotting, but still in good condition. Binding discoloured and slightly worn.l Nissen, IVB 147; Souhart 419; Schwerdt II, p. 145; Wood p. 541; not in Thiebaud.
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Falconry in the valley of the Indus.London, Van Voorst, 1852. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece, 3 plates and with an 8-page publisher’s catalogue at the end. Original publisher's cloth.

by BURTON, Sir Richard Francis.

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[16], 107, [1]; 8 pp.First edition with an inscription by the author, of a "well written" (Harting) work on traditional falconry in India and Pakistan, by the great British orientalist and explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). After finishing his education at Oxford University, Burton enlisted in the East India Company and travelled all over India as a British officer in the colonial army. He was known for having an immense talent for languages and during his seven years of service he learned, among other things, Sanskrit. He made use of this skill by translating the Kamasutra into English for the first time. The practice of falconry by the Sindhis (native people of Sindh in Pakistan) apparently impressed him greatly when he was travelling in that region. This inspired him to write the present work on the traditional way of falconry in Sindh culture. Falconry as a sport was at that moment beginning to regain popularity in England. Burton dedicated his work to King Willem III of The… Read More
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Frontispiece plus [8], XXXII, [2], 115, [2], [1 blank] pp.; 48 ll.First printing in any language of three important manuscripts on falcons and falconry: a 12th-century Turkish treatise on falconry by Mahmud Ibn Mehmed al-Bargini, "Baz nama" [= Falcon book] (in the original Turkish and in German translation); the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I's ca. 1515(?) "Über die Falknerey" in the original German; and a shorter Greek treatise on hawking, "Hierakosophion" [= Hawking apprenticeship] in the original Greek and in German translation, a variant form of part of a 13th-century work by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII (1223-1282). Little is known about the author of the Turkish treatise, but he came from Anatolia on the southeastern coast of what is now Turkey, where he apparently worked in service of the Bey of Mentese. He cites another work from 597 AH (1200/01 CE).Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856), a leading Austrian orientalist with an extensive knowledge of languages, took up a diplomatic position at… Read More
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Famous castles & temples in Japan.Tokio, [Kazamusa Ogawa?], (colophon in Japanese: Meiji 28 =...
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Famous castles & temples in Japan.Tokio, [Kazamusa Ogawa?], (colophon in Japanese: Meiji 28 = 1895). Oblong (27 x 36.5 cm). With 35 hand-coloured collotypes, with captions. Slightly later black, gold-tooled morocco, with initials C.R. at the foot of the spine.

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36 ll.First edition of a work with 35 hand-coloured collotypes, showing different Japanese temples and castles. The volume is one of many from Ogawa's collection of collotype albums entitled "Things Japanese", which were issued from 1893. Other volumes deal with Japanese costumes, flowers, geishas and several Japanese districts. In 1898 this volume appears to be reissued or reprinted twice, once with 35 and once with 37 plates, both with “of Japan” in the title instead of “ in Japan” (Baxley). Wenckstern probably refers to the 1898 edition (with “of Japan”) but notes 36 plates. Binding rubbed along the extremities and slightly scratched. Plates slightly browned with some occasional minor foxing. A good copy.l Cf. Wenckstern II, 9 (1898 (?) ed., 36 plates).
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VIII, 403 pp.Rare first edition of the translation in Spanish (Catalan) from the Latin original, the first official Pharmacopoeia Matritensis by the Collegio de Farmaceuticos, published in 1739. Only in the 18th century , during the reign of the Bourbons, did all the Spanish pharmacopoeias unify into a single pharmacopoeia common to the whole of the Kingdom of Spain, with the publication, in 1794 , of the Pharmacopoea Hispana.A little worn around the edges, otherwise in good condition.l WorldCat (6 copies); not in Wellcome.
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Fasciculus geomanticus, in quo varia variorum opera geomantica continentur. Verona [= Frankfurt...
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647, [1 blank]; 197, [1 blank] pp.First edition of a collection of three texts on geomancy, a divination system with Arabian origins. Geomancy comes from the Ancient Greek "geômanteía", a translation of the Arabic term " 'ilm al-raml", the "science of the sand". It includes texts by the English physician and astrologer Robert Fludd (1574-1637), the French physician Henri de Pisis and the Arab Alfakini. It is preceded by its separately published supplement Tabulae geomanticae, together forming "the standard printed Latin source for the rules of geomantic practice … a handbook and compendium not since rivalled for clarity and completeness" (Skinner)."Fludd ... tried to present [geomancy] as a science of intellectual soul in which intellectual rays emanated from the mind to mundane affairs and then returned to the center with tidings of the future. ... Fludd's treatise is immediately followed by a longer geomancy by H. de Pisis … divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice… Read More
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Fauna Brasliensis [sic].Uppsala, Palmblad et C. 1823. Small 4to. With a thin marbled paper strip to reinforce the spine.

by THUNBERG, Carl Peter and Carolus Henricus EKSTRAND.

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[4], 9, [1] pp.Very rare first edition of an overview of some species of the Brazilian fauna. The work is the dissertation of Carolus Henricus Ekstrand, who had to defend it, although Thunberg, presiding the work, is considered to be the actual author, as was common these days. Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828) was a Swedish natural historian and pupil of Carl Linnaeus. As researcher for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Thunberg sailed to South Africa, where he is considered to be a pioneer in botanical investigation, and moreover to Japan, where he became the first Western scientist to investigate Japan botanically. In 1784 he succeeded Linnaeus as professor at the university of Uppsala. The present dissertation provides a small catalogue of animals living in Brazil that came up to their knowledge, listing birds, fishes and mammals.A highly interesting zoological work on Brazilian animal life, written by one of the most important taxonomists after Linneaus.Very slightly browned, but overall in… Read More
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3 ll.Original designs for 3 sets fireworks, all erected on the world famous shell-shaped piazza in Siena. They were designed, erected and set off to celebrate the creation of the following cardinals: Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese (1697-1759), titular archbishop of Traianopoli, who received the red hat and the title of Pietro in Montorio on 3 August 1729 (drawing 1); Vincenzo Bichi (1668-1750), who was born in Siena and created cardinal priest in the consistory of 24 September 1731 (drawing 2) and Pietro Maria Pieri (1676-1743), also born in Siena, who was created cardinal priest in the consistory of 24 March 1734 (drawing 3).List of the drawings (numbered 38, 39 and 40 respectively):1. Macchina de Fuochi Artifiziali in onore del Cardinale Francesco Borghesi, reppresentati nella Piazza di Sienna il di 2 Octobre 1729.2. Disegno della Macchina de Fuochi artifiziali representati nella Piazza de Sienna il 25 Novembre 1731 in onore del Cardinal Vincenzo Bichi significante l'Odio et l'Invidia ... del… Read More
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First Arab seminar on underground storage of oil and gas.Stockholm, 1981. Large 8vo. With approximately 150 figures, illustrations, photographs, maps, graphs, formulas and tables in the text, and 24 pages of Arabic text including a separate title-page at the end of the work. Original publisher's green cloth.

by LINDBLOM, Ulf and Wissam S. AL-HASHIMI (editors).

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XIX, [5], 261, [3], 22, [2] pp.Noteworthy collection of conference papers and proceedings of the First Arab seminar on underground storage of oil and gas, held in Baghdad in October 1979. The present publication functions as a handbook on oil and gas storage for all companies and institutions interested in and concerned with the storage of oil, gas and other refined petroleum products. New production and consumption patterns, formed during the second half of the 20th century, have led to increased demand for these resources and their storage. It is our hope that this document can serve as a valuable handbook to Arab oil institutions and other bodies which are involved in the handling of large amounts of oil and gas." (editor's foreword). With a library shelf mark label around the spine, a crossed-out library stamp (of the "ERG Research Library Cities Service Company Tulsa, Oklahoma") on the title page, the same stamp (not crossed out) on the head edge, and the pocket used to hold the library's due… Read More
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