Search Results: Titles starting with I from Adam Weinberger Books

1555: Cabalistic symbolism, Speculative science,and Neoplatonic thought PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni (1463-1494). Le sette sposizioni ... intitolate Heptaplo. Translated from Latin into Italian by Antonio Buonagrazia. Pescia: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1555. Small 4to., 158 pp. Woodcut architectural title border incorporating the Medici arms, charming printer's emblem to verso of title with a book and a bug quoting Romans 14:3. BL/STC Italian Books, p.514. 18th century mottled calf, front board detached, wear to spine and glued relaid, altering lettering to spine, small perforated stamp to title page, a couple other small library markings, old library card holder to inner rear board, "FIRST ITALIAN EDITION of the "Heptaplus," the principal philosophic work of Pico della Mirandola. His Hebrew studies had made him acquainted with the Kabbalah, the influence of which is very obvious in this work. This beautifully printed volume is remarkable as bearing the very explicit imprint "Pescia," a little… Read More

Trattato delle operationi chirurgiche agionte alcune osseruationi con sue figure.
Treatise on surgical operations with figures. First half of the 18th century? Large 8vo (21 x 17 cm)
Probably an abridgement in Italian by Carlo Michele Lotteri, of the 'Cours d'opérations de chirurgie' by Dionis. This conclusion is based on the identical title page of another manuscript in the Wellcome library. No record has been traced of an Italian translation of Dionis' work-first printed in Paris in 1707. This MS. is either an original translation and abridgement by Lotteri, or notes of lectures on operative surgery closely following the original text, taken down by him when a student. Produced in Turin? The plates are identical with the MS in in the Wellcome and different from the work of Dionis.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ujbs6942
Engraved title page within an ornamental shield. 518 pages and 73 chalcographic plates (of which one group numbered from II to LX and others not numbered, and a pair… Read More

STRADA, JACQUES de. Epitome thesauri antiquitatum, hoc est, Impp. Rom. Orientalium & Occidentalium iconum, ex antiquis numismatibus . . .Lyon (Jean de Tournes for) Jac. de Strada & Th. Guerin, 6.11.1553. 4to. (88) + 339 + (3 +) pp. With Guerin's large mark on the title; full-page woodcut of Fugger arms on verso of title; and 491 white-on-black medallion portraits. Limp vellum, boards separated, lacking spine, text block shaken and loose, with pages starting to detach. Complete, but in need of restoration. One Medal filled in with a 16th CETURY MANUSCRIPT PORTRAIT OF CHARLES V Ref: Mortimer, Harvard French 502; Adams S1916. This first edition is among the most significant medal-books ever created. Dedicated to J. J. Fugger, it features an intriguing introduction about Strada's journeys and scholarly pursuits, making numerous references to Jean Grolier's enduring library and coin collection. Boasting an unparalleled number of illustrations, this edition includes an 8-page list of previously unpublished… Read More

HARRIS, Frank (1856-1931). My Life and Loves. Paris and Nice: for the author, 1922-1927. 3 volumes, 8vo. approx 21 x 14 cm. With errata in volume Volume 1 in original white cloth-backed green boards printed in gilt; volume 2 in contemporary plain untitled wraps, volume 3 original original wrappers printed in black. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED AUTOBIOGRAPHY, VOLUME TWO INSCRIBED BY HARRIS to his friend Francis E. Collin "'from his friend, Frank Harris, 1976" and quoting a line from Tennyson's Ulysses: 'Death closes all; yet something 'ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done'. The book, which was published in 4 volumes (these are the first 3) gives a graphic account of Harris's sexual adventures and was banned in the US and Britain for 40 years.

1892. An Evocative Exploration of Death Valley: Pictorial and Descriptive Insight into the Borax Deserts of the West Coast Spears offers readers a vividly descriptive journey through Death Valley Spears, John R. Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast : 226 pp. Features photographs and a map detailing the Borax zones along the Pacific Coast. Dimensions: 19x12.7 cm (7½x5"). Chicago, 1892. Variant issue, with yellow cover pasted over later boards and library spine. Internally with old reinforcement to inner hinge. A VERY RARE Book. Spears presents a detailed depiction of Death Valley as it was in the year 1891, providing a narrative that predates Manly's account by a couple of years. "Illustrated Sketches" is distinguished as much by its pioneering photographs as by the narrative it conveys. These images might be among the earliest-if not the very first-published photographs of the Death Valley area, lending them significant historical value. Edwards… Read More

Bell, Lilian. A LITTLE SISTER TO THE WILDERNESS. Chicago, Stone & Kimball, 1895. 267 pp. 12mo., olive gilt-stamped cloth. First Edition, first issue, with no colophon on recto of leaf following close of text. The cover design was the first of two done for Stone & Kimball by Bruce Rogers. (Kramer, 42.) Provenance: copy of prominent bibliophile, Wallace Hugh Cathcart (1856-1942).A most peculiar copy with a full page presentation by Lilian Bell, the American woman novelist and travel writer. Additionally two letters of Bell to Cathcart are preserved in neat stamped envelops at the back. It appears, according to the correspondence, that this book was sent in error ("you sent the wrong man!") to Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr, the minister and white supremist best known as the storyteller behind the 1915 D. W. Griffith Film The Birth of a Nation. The intended recipient was Dr. Thomas Dixon of New York as Bell evidently intended. The racist Rev. Dixon pasted his photograph to the inside cover and has a… Read More