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Paris: C.-A. Jombert, 1754. Contemporary mottled calf (worn), flat spine and red morocco label gilt, red edges, green silk marker. First Edition in French, the most popular 18th-century introduction to the field. A Jesuit, the translator Esprit Pezenas (1692-1776) was director of the Marseille observatory, wrote on eclipses, gauging, optics, navigation and navigational astronomy and promoted English contributions to science. Pasted in facing the title is L.-A. Jombert's printed change of address announcement. In good condition. ¶Nissen, Die zoologische Buchillustration I: 202; Sommervogel-deBacker, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus VI: 648-9,10; see Clay & Court's The History of the Microscope.
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Le Microscope A La Portée De Tout Le Monde
by Baker, Henry
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Der Verschantzte Turenne Oder Gründliche Alt= und Neue Kriegs=Bau=Kunst
by Behr, Johann Heinrich
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Gera: G.H. Müller for C. Weidmann in Frankfurt a.M. and Leipzig, 1677. Contemporary vellum over paper boards (slightly warped, soiled, short slit in the front cover), flat spine, old green edges. First Edition. To begin, Behr lays out the mathematics, geometry and surveying necessary for the military architect and presents HIS INSTRUMENT FOR CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL MENSURATION. In the other two parts, he describes and illustrates regular and irregular fortifications in all types of terrain and summarizes the current state of the art. He addresses everything from parapets, outerworks and the width of rampart footpaths to the reinforcement of extant gates, bridges and urban environments. The author rose to Prussian Royal Architect and Chief Engineer. In good condition (slightly browned, one or two ink spots), lacks the last leaf with instructions to the binder (as all copies I have identified), bookplate of economist Walther Voth. ¶Jordan, Bibliographie zur Geschichte des Festungsbaues 0203;…
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Petri Bembi Epistolarum Leonis Decimi Pont. Max. Nomine Scriptarum Libri XVI
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Lyon: D. de Harsy for S. Vincent, 1538. Contemporary limp vellum (stained, spine damaged), overlapping edges, contemporary gothic lettered manuscript title in a cartouche on the front panel with the owner's initials and arms on the sides and below, manuscript spine title, evidence of four ties. Second Edition. Employing Bembo to draft and send these five hundred eighty-one chronologically arranged letters, Pope Leo X addressed Raphael, Lucrezia Borgia (with whom Bembo had a notorious affair), rulers from England to Hungary to Venice and dozens of Italian city states, friends' daughters, prelates, humanists, merchants, intimates and artists. Bembo's poem on Lago di Garda and five of his private letters to Longolius, Budé and Erasmus conclude the volume - an early reader censored Erasmus' name from the title and text. Nice copy (spot on one leaf), a couple of uncut edges, early signature of Do. Sofronio ?Parri, bookplate of Guelfo-Sitta. ¶Erdmann, Ars epistolica 65.
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Précis Historique, Physiologique Et Moral, Des Principaux Objets En Cire Préparée Et Coloriée D'Apres Nature
by BERTRAND-RIVAL, Jean-François
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Paris: Richard, 1801. Polished red calf-backed marbled boards (Laurenchet), flat spine with gilt-lettered title. Only Complete Edition of this exhaustive account of the author's medical museum, exhibiting the wax specimens he made himself over a quarter century. The objects were divided into three classes - human anatomy, human diseases, natural history - Â and thirty-eight sub-categories, each beginning with a description of the models on view with special emphasis on pregnancy, child birth, reproductive organs, venereal disease and newborns. Larded with case histories, personal opinion, ethnography, legislative recommendations and medical advice, the text shows the universal application to which the author put his cabinet of curiosities. For instance, his models of young women and men both prior to and after their first act of masturbation unleashes his views on the evils of onanism. The one-hundred-twelve-entry table of contents provides access to every class of specimen. In good condition (pale…
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Recueil De Poésies...Le tous sur de beaux airs connus
by Billot, Jean-Louis
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Arbois: [A. Javel] for the Author, 1802. Contemporary calf-backed pink boards (worn, defective), flat spine and label gilt, gilt arms of the Counts of Roussillon at the base (O-H-R 1494), edges sprinkled red. Only Edition of the author's only book, which includes CHRISTMAS CAROLS IN THE LOCAL DIALECT and a guide to its pronunciation. Helpfully, Billot (1736-1811) explains local traditions and word-play opaque to contemporary readers. His other songs lament the Revolution and celebrate Napoleon's return from Egypt. Printing began in Arbois in 1797. In good condition, later flyleaf inscription of Bruno Donnier. ¶Collins, Catalogue of the Library of...L.-L. Bonaparte 3619; Bousson de Mairet, Annales historiques...de la ville d'Arbois 65-6; Deschamps, Dictionnaire de géographie 1410.
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Brusselschen Blom-Hof Van Cupido
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Bruxelles: G. Scheybel, 1641. 19th-century half-calf and tan boards (front hinge repaired), gilt spine label, old blue edges. Only Edition, the nineteen-year-old poet's first book. The first suite explores unrequited love, the second reciprocated love, and the third the good life - drinking, eating, laughing, smoking (three poems praise tobacco). The illustrations include a suitor on his knees pleading with his hard-hearted mistress who literally shows him the door, negotiations with a prostitute, Death claiming Cupid even as he draws his bow.... A QUATRAIN ON THE MONA LISA begins the volume. No copies in U.S. libraries. In good condition (eight leaves trimmed askew, one headline shaved, one quire slightly stained), a couple of margins uncut; signature of bibliophile and champion of early Flemish literature C.-P. Serrure (Catalogue (1872) I: 841 "Rare...figures curieuses"). ¶Praz, Studies in 17th-Century Imagery 281; Funck, Le Livre belge à gravures 261 & 282 "très rare"; Scheurleer, Nederlandsche…
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Histoire De La Ville D'Ath
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Mons: J.B.J. Varret, 1750. Contemporary mottled calf (worn), gilt spine and morocco label, red edges. Only Edition of this history of Ath - its abbeys, armories, brasseries, butcher shops, schools, festivals, sieges and battles, comets, supernatural occurrences.... It mentions columbus' discovery of the new world. One copy in U.S. collections. In modest condition, bookplate of Ad. Lefrancq. ¶Pirenne, Bibliographie de l'histoire de Belgique 1280.
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[Masks]
by Boyvin, René
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[Paris]: [René Boyvin or his atelier], 1560. CONTEMPORARY BROWN MOROCCO WITH THE ARMS OF HENRI III AS KING OF FRANCE AND POLAND in a field of lilies, the corners with his crowned cipher braced by foliage, gilt lilies cover the flat spine, evidence of four ties, all edges gilt (Olivier-Hermal-Roton 2491,2 and 2491,8). "AMONG THE BEST-KNOWN ORNAMENT PRINTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHOOL OF FONTAINEBLEAU" (Acton).            Flesh has become artifact. The figure has become a work of art, a vehicle for ornament, the exotic and the mysterious - part ancient Rome, part Arabia, part carnival. Without horizon or background, eyeholes darkened, mouths frozen, parted lips immobile, the profiles disquiet the viewer.            The scale and overabundance make the images difficult to read. Grotesques, animals, shocks of feathers, straps and diadems crowd helmets, bows, blooms, crowns and plaits. Shimmering jewelry falls from head to chest. Cabochons are the size of lion pelts. Pearls are as…
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Promptuaire des Loix municipales & Coustumes...de France
by Brèché, Jean
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Tours: J. Rousset for G. Bourgeat, 1553. Mid-19th-century gilt red morocco, wide border of small partly pointillé tools, gilt spine and title, all edges gilt, green silk marker. Only Edition. Brèché adopts the order, article by article, of the statutes of his native Touraine for the Promptuaire, at once commentary on and concordance to the competing, complementary and conflicting customary laws of a dozen major jurisdictions across France. He points out differences among them and closes with the Tours coutumes. The work was not superseded until the 1780s. A nice copy, a couple of lower margins uncut, manuscript notes on a half dozen leaves, early signatures of JM Gerard Const-, Jacques Gerard, G. Parrie?t, D. leblant and armorial stamp in red of Giuerzic s[eigneu]r de Gerard. ¶Gouron & Terrin, Bibliographie des coutumes 2074; Camus, Bibliothèque...des livres de droit 116; Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au XVIe siècle VII: 28,9.
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Opuscula
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Paris: André Bocard for Jean Petit, 1500. Contemporary limp vellum (soiled, front hinge weak), 18th-century gilt calf spine (minor defects), manuscript title label, edges striped in red, evidence of four ties. Only Edition, posthumously published by an anonymous French editor, who added the subject index and decried the low state of learning in England and Germany. Brulefer was "among the important Franciscan preachers of the late fifteenth century" (Sullivan). Contentious and controversial, he was banned from Paris.            Scattered foxing, two leaves soiled, one natural paper flaw, some lower edges uncut. In 1610 François Bullioud (fl. 1583-1633) gave this copy to the Lyon Jesuits, their memorial bookplate of 1610 and catalog entry of 1611. ¶Sullivan, Parisian Licentiates in Theology 101-3; Contemporaries of Erasmus I: 205-6; ISTC ib01222000; Goff B-1222.
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