Lodovico DOLCE

Dialogo nel quale si ragion del modo di accrescere, & conservar la memoria

apresso Giambattista Sessa & fratelli, In Venetia (Venise) 1586, in-12 (15,3x10cm), 11ff., relié.

New edition after the original from 1562. Rare. Brunet II, 789. Edition italics illustrated twenty figures in and out of curious objects including text combining letters. A copy in the library of Manchester, we have found nothing in France and Germany. Vellum full time, smooth back and as long [...]

1 500 €

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John POTTER

Archeologia graeca sive veterum graecorum praecipue vero atheniensium, ritus ciciles, religiosi, ...

Excudit Petrus Vander, Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1702, in-folio (41x26cm), (5f.) 394pp. (7f.)., relié.

First Latin edition. 1 illustrated frontispiece and 9 large plates are not included in the pagination with 41 figures, depicting scenes of battles, ships, war machines ... Full Vellum time, back to Jansenist nerves (as in black pen) , large central medallion on the boards with cold frames and [...]

1 200 €

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Gerard BLAES & Thomas SYDENHAM

Observationes medicae rariores in quibus multa ad anatomiam et medicinam spectantia deteguntur. ...

apud Henricum & Johanem Boom, Henricum Westenium, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1700, 1694, in 12 (16x9,5cm), (4) 69pp. (8) 96pp., relié.

Rare second edition of Blaes illustrated 12 boards. Rare edition of Thomas Sydenham, found in European libraries. We do not know if this is the first. Title pages in red and black. Absent Brunet. Calf full time, back with nerves tooled, red morocco title. Friction. This book by Gerard Blaes [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Giulio Cesare CROCE

Bertoldino et Cacasenno

Pietro Pinolato, Venezia (Venise) 1782, in 8 (18,5x10,5cm), xii. 396pp., relié.

First edition. Neat print on thin paper. Illustrated with 20 woodcuts in a rough and popular taste, and a medallion portrait frontispiece (intaglio). The original date of 1606 Half Calf glossy navy late nineteenth, spine ribbed features 5 jewels. The copy, perfectly white, appears to have been [...]

400 €

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First edition

Isaac VOSSIUS

Isaaci Vossii variarum observationum liber

Apud Robertum Scott, Londini (Londres) 1685, in-4 (23,5x18,5cm), (8) 397pp., relié.

First edition. With some illustrations. Brunet V, 1374.
Contemporary vellum. Faint spotting to title.
Vossius (1618-1689) was one of the learned Huguenots who emigrated to England, where he became Canon of Windsor, and had the finest private library in the world. He also provided books for [...]

1 000 €

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Salvatore ROSA

Figurine. Varia et concinna delineamenta

S.n. Ca 1656, petit in 4, un frontispice et 60 planches., relié.

ROSA Salvatore
Figurine. Varia et concinna delineamenta
N. n., n. p. n. d. [circa 1656], small in-4 (15,5 x 22 cm), one frontispice et 60 plates, restoration-period binding
62 etchings on thick paper. Very rare.
Salvatore Rosa made these etchings [...]

3 800 €

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First edition

Johann SCHEFFER

De Re vehiculari veterum libri duo

Ex officina Zunneriana typis Johannis Andreae, Francofurti (Francfort) 1671, in-4 (21,4x17,5), (6)286pp. et 422pp.,

Rare first edition illustrated with 38 wood in the text and 4 figures engraved on copper mid-page (one repeated). A beautiful frontispiece Hoos.) Brunet, 29030. Half calf flat spine decorated in small corners. Green part of title, florets and nets waves. Binding late eighteenth century. 2/3 of the [...]

800 €

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First edition

Johann NOMSZ

Willem de Eerste

David Klippink, Te Amsterdam 1779, in-4 (24x20cm), 3ff. xiv. 504pp. et 25 planches., relié.

Rare first edition absent from the catalog of all major national libraries except for the British Library. 25 beautiful plates engraved by Koming Buys. Sheepskin half mottled tan, smooth spine with 4 large wheels and multiple chains (binding later 1810). Part of title torn damaged top cap, small [...]

500 €

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