Polydorus VERGILIUS

De Rerum Inventoribus lib. VIII. Eiusdem in dominicam precem commentariolus

Apud Iacobum Boyerium, Lugduni (Lyon) 1560, fort in-16 (12,2x8cm), (24) 676pp. -34., relié.

New edition. The work was blacklisted and was republished in 1575 in redacted form and editing that we present is not so no. The first French translation seems to have appeared in 1527 as a copy of the University of Glasgow, although contradictory data gives 1528 as the date of the first French [...]

700 €

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Emanuelis KÖNIG

Regnum animale, sectionibus III. Physicè, Medicè, Anatomicè, Harmonicè, Mechanicè, ...

Apud Emanuelem König, Coloniae munatianae (Bâle) 1682, petit in-4 (20,2x15cm), (14) 176pp., relié.

First Edition. Full Sheepskin mottled tan, spine ribbed Jansenist piece black title. Binding nineteenth environment. Emanuel König (1658-1731) was a German physicist and physician of Basel. Strangely this classic description of the animal kingdom including a rigorous anatomical and mechanical [...]

600 €

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Polydorus VERGILIUS

Les livres de Polydore Vergil d'Urbin, des inventeurs des choses

Benoist Rigaud, à Lyon 1576, in-16 (11,3x8,5cm), 313pp. (7), relié.

The work was blacklisted and was republished in 1575 in redacted form, the first French translation seems to have appeared in 1527 as a copy of the University of Glasgow., Although given contradictory gives 1528 as the date of the first French edition in Latin by Robert Etienne. Rare, like all [...]

600 €

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Zacharie Pazzi de BONNEVILLE

Esprit des lois de la tactique du Maréchal de saxe, contenant plusieurs découvertes nouvelles sur ...

Chez Pierre Gosse Junior, à La Haye 1762, in 4, xvi. 160 (erreur de pagination p.459 pour 159), 196pp. 56pl.

Brunet and Graesse have the first edition appearing in 1756; we have not found any trace of this edition.
With 56 folding plates. A scarce work. Not in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and numerous other great libraries.
Contemporary marbled sheep, spine in 6 decorated compartments. The [...]

2 500 €

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Jean-Baptiste AYMEN

Dissertation dans laquelle on examine si les jours critiques sont les mêmes en nos climats qu'ils ...

Chez Prault, à Paris 1752, petit in-8 (11,5x18,5cm), (16) 114pp. Manque la dernière page de la préface., relié.

First edition, rare.plein modern brown speckled calf, spine ribbed features 5 jewels. Adroit contemporary pastiche of a time binding. Yellowed title page, Clear and yellow wetness on 30 pages in the middle of the book. A leaflet missing the last page of the preface. Beautiful copy. After outlining [...]

250 €

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Joh. Fried PENTHER

Praxis geometriae, worinnen nicht bu ralle bey dem Feld-Messen forkommende fälle, mit Stäben, dem ...

Chez Christoph Peter Detleffsen, Augsburg 1732, petit in-folio (20,5 cm x 30,5 cm, (10) 97 pp. -5. et de 11ff.),

PENTHER Joh. Fried.
Praxis geometriae, worinnen nicht bu ralle bey dem Feld-Messen forkommende fälle, mit Stäben, dem Astrolabio, der Boussole und der Mensul, [...]
Chez Christoph Peter Detleffsen, Augsburg 1732, small in-folio (20,5 cm x 30,5 cm), (10) (97 [...]

2 300 €

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François-Michel DISDIER

Traité des bandages ou Méthode exacte pour appliquer les bandages les plus usités en Chirurgie, ...

Guillaume Desprez, Paris 1741, in-12 (10x16cm), 2fbc vii (5) 119pp., relié.

First Edition. Rare. Absent the BN of France and French catalogs and English. Calf full time, back with five bands decorated with boxes and gilded finials. Minor losses to the top cap and another, equally superficial and small, Length, boards guidance of a net cold roulette golden on the cuts, some [...]

450 €

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