STRABONIS DE SITU ORBIS LIBRI XVII [Title also given in Greek] Graece & latine simul iam, in eorum qui pariter & Geographiae et utriusque linguae studiosi sunt, gratiam editi: olim quidem, ut putatur a Guarino Veronensi, & Gregorio Trifernate in latinum conversi: ac deinde Conradi Heresbachij opera ad eius generis autorum fidem recogniti: nunc vero postremum .. Accessit Rerum et Verborum memorabilium locupletiss[imum] Index. by Strabo (edited by Heresbach, Hopper and others) - 1549 Mense Augusto

Amsterdam: J. Ravesteyn, 1662. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved emblematic Titlepage. . Duodecimo original leather 4 raised bands, spine compartments gilt & gilt spine title (worn with lower half of top hinge split/hinges rubbed & some ends of hinge splits/tips worn/scuffed but quite sound & firm). Engraved titlepage +[26] +388pp +[3]pp index. Small archival repair to margin of TP (no involvement of print), ownership stamp (faint & hard to read) on pastedown and nice ownership inscription of an Avignon medical doctor dated 1676 on flyleaf. *Harvey's fundamental work on embryology and endocrinology which, if he had not discovered the circulation of the blood would alone have ensured his fame. All earlier theories of reproduction were based on Aristotelian and Galenic medicinal teaching but Harvey's researches on chicken and deer embryos proved to his satisfaction that semen fertilized the ovum and that spontaneous generation was without foundation. He also explained growth and differentiation of organs… Read More

Amsterdam: Henricus & Widow Theodor Boom, 1681. Hardcover. Very Good-. Engraved title of a surgery scene, patients waiting and examination table + 60 copperplate engravings in the text + 5 woodcuts.. Octavo old sprinkled boards with gilt spine label (recased and spine underlaid, tips bit worn, newer end-papers. Engraved title +Printed title with woodcut printer's mark Apollo & Pegasus in a landscape +[12]pp +392pp +[6]pp index & blank. Nice name C.? Michaelis to blank area of printed title. *This is the first Latin translation by the medical student Abraham Blasius of the 'Heel-en Geneeskonstige Aanmerkingen' of the Dutch physician Job van Meek'ren, illustrated by cases from his own patients. Four leaves have 2mmx10mm paper faults to fore edge and 8 leaves with marginal damp mark not touching text. An entire and particularly crisp clean copy with good margins, strong paper and no underlining/marginalia of these well illustrated medical observations.

London: J. Osborn 2nd edition, 1741. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates (25 with 8 & 9 on one page) "which are the original ones engraven at Paris upon an Octavo leaf the size of this work" ( to the Bookbinder) plates by J.P. Le Bas.. 2 VOLUMES octavo calf on 5 raised bands (tips worn/hinges with splitting but covers firmly attached) frontis +titlepage +x +[2]pp Approbation/errata & to binder +288pp +[8]pp index, Frontis to vol.2 +titlepage +312pp +Revisal pp1-92 +[8]pp index & plate list. Ownership of Corby Johnson of Elksley June 1833 and another +remains of a book label, a clean tear without loss and a tear with loss to beginning/end of a few lines of pp179-80. Lacks rear endpapers and front endpaper of vol.2. First 3 and last 4 leaves of both volumes slightly marked or foxed else clean and crisp copy of quite scarce work in complete and nice condition.

Antwerp] but no place given: N.P., 1598], 1610 but no date given for 1st Work. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved title with shipping & battle scenes + folding Map of the Low Countries by by Frans Hogenberg + 22 copperplate portraits many folding + fine engraved title to 2nd Work.. 2 WORKS IN ONE VOLUME folio near contemporary calf blindstamped monogram crowned HL, spine overall gilt on raised bands (spine repaired at top compartment and lower hinge, corners & hinges worn but sound) [8]pp +623pp +[1]p blank (collates as V & A Libraries copy which catalogue attributes to 1598 from STC Dutch 1470-1600 and Antwerp place of publication: many pagination errors but collated A-Hhh in 6's except Fff in 4 with correct catchword. The first 3 pages of portraits have 2 busts each thereafter all are single full page portraits often with fore-edge folded back. All have text on the other side of the leaf. Second Work (BELLI CIVILIS IN BELGIO per quadraginta fere continuos annos gesti Historia ed. by Gaspar Ens) also… Read More

London: Charles Harper printed by M. Clark, 1681. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine frontis Portrait of Heylyn by R. White.. Folio contemporary calf (head and foot of spine repaired with newer leather/tips worn) Frontispiece (repaired at foot) +Titlepage +xxvii Life of Heylyn +[20]pp 1st Part Title/To Reader +745pp +[24]pp index. Nine further dated titlepages to the tracts. Several pagination faults but collated and complete. Neat ownership inscription J. Yonge at top of titlepage (Yonge family of Puslinch in Devon). A neat wide margined copy crisp paper and with the fine portrait that is often missing. Ten tracts in all.

Antwerp: Andreae Frisi, 1668. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates (45 numbered) of cruel tortures, including the engraved pictorial titlepage by Antonio Tempesta large copperplate printer's device of man consulting books in a library (optimi Consultores Mortui). Duodecimo contemporary calf blind rules with corner floral ornaments spine with gilt label (top cover nearly detached, tips worn, chipped to head/foot of spine) All edges red sprinkled. Engraved Titlepage of the stoning of a martyr +Titlepage +(19pp dedication & preface) +(1p blank) +576pp +(47pp index) +(1p blank) A-Cc12. Page 456 with small adhesion obscuring 2 or 3 letters and initial. Inscription E.lib R.S. on blank back of engraved Title. Endpapers bit browned else a clean tight neat copy needing repair to front hinge. All copperplates are present, shewing gruesomely detailed plates of all the possible torture methods being administered to the martyrs, which also are in crisp V.G. condition.The early editionshad fewer plates (from 25 with… Read More

Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1591. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine Royal Neapolitan coat of arms on each titlepage, head- and tail-pieces, fine foliated initials to the Signori di Capuana. . Three Parts in Two Volumes complete, octavo speckled 18th century calf, decorated gilt spines (one spine label missing, tips & edges rubbed hinges split but held by cords) fine marbled end-papers All edges rouged. First titlepage +[31] leaves +244 leaves +2nd title +[15] leaves +258 leaves +[2] leaves +3rd title +[11] leaves +96 leaves. Early paper repair to lower corner of page 1 otherwise crisp & clean throughout, neat pencil notes in Italian to rear end-papers with "the following passage by Costo copied from the edition of 1563 .. at Florence 24 Mar. 1832 W.M Tarlt". Bookplates with presentation to Cheltenham Public Library by Miss Carrington [1886]. *Revised & enlarged edition of this important historical work by Collenuccio, an early Italian humanist, first published in 1539 after his death.

Helmstadt, Frankfurt: Jacobus Lucius, Wolfgang Richter, 1584, 1605. Hardcover. Good. Printer's mark of goddess carrying torch and book. . Two Works in One Volume quarto vellum yapp edges (some old ink writing to cover and spine title faded) [20] leaves +268 leaves +[32] leaves of Appendix. The Second work lacks titlepage and first 3 prelim leaves (supplied in facsimile), original text here begins on p9 with the Preface thus 9-317pp +[26 of 31]pp of Index ending with letter T, lacking final 3 leaves. *History of the Crusades in Latin, followed by Melchior Goldast's collection of writers in Latin on the History of Suevia.

Amsterdam: Jan Jacobsz Schipper, 1656, 1655. Hardcover. Very Good-. Engraved titlepage + 3 full-page plates + 16, 30, 23 half-page copperplates by or after Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662) showing customs, family life, agriculture, trades and dances of death.. Quarto vellum laced through with yapp fore-edges and faded manuscript title to spine (slightly marked). Half-title and engraved Titlepage dated 1656 to OUDERDOM en BUYTEN-LEVEN +[xxiv]+261pp +[3]pp; HOF-GEDACHTEN (with Titlepage dated 1655) and INVALLENDE GEDACHTEN (with half-title) 125+[3]pp; KONINGKLYKE HERDERIN ASPASIA (with Titlepage and extra frontis plate) [4]+84pp; HUWELIJCX FUYCK (with half-title) 32pp; and DOODT-KISTE voor de LEVENDIGE (with half-title) 224pp. A few tears to margins not affecting printed area, some with marginal paper loss, and light marginal damp-staining towards the end. *Narrative poetry by the foremost writer of the 17th century Dutch Republic with many fine engravings of city and country life (by or after van de… Read More

Frankfurt: Claudius Marnius & heirs of Johann Aubrius, 1603. Hardcover. Very Good. Printer's mark of flying horse over cornucopia & hand from cloud holding caduceus to titlepage + 2 full-page portaits of six + seven kings at page 38 & 410 + head- & tail-pieces & figural or foliated initials.. Folio handsome gilt 18th century gilt sprinkled calf with red spine label and 6 raised bands, gilt spine compartments, raised bands, dentelles & reverses (minor splitting to head and foot of one board but covers well attached, tips bumped). All Edges Marbled to match endpapers, sstamp on flyleaf "bound by J. Clarke". Two armorial bookplates (see provenance below), 2 miniature crested RFG monogram stamps on titlepage, [12]pp + 898pp + [32]pp index, verso of last leaf with repeated printer's mark. Collated complete. Side notes throughout with some erudite neat comments in pencil and a list of indexed page numbers written on an extra free front endpaper. Titlepage a bit dusty, narrow faint mark of former damp… Read More