Search Results: Titles starting with A from Liber Antiquus

First and third works: Augsburg: Durch Johann Schultes, 1640 and 1641. Second work: Ulm: Durch Jonam Saurn, 1628. FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE WORKS. Hardcover. Fine. A sammelband of three of Furttenbach's major architectural treatises. With 3 engraved frontispieces, printed titles in red and black, and a total of 89 folding plates of various sizes (the largest of them 370 x 300 mm.) showing residences, civic structures, palaces, churches, elaborate gardens and grottoes, pavilions, and theaters. All works with elaborate decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, German text in Gothic type throughout. The plates by various engravers, largely after Furttenbach himself. Exceptional copies, complete with all plates, the text and plates on the whole bright and crisp. Bound in contemporary full vellum (lightly soiled, minor wear to extremities) with a decorative title label (gilt-tooled with citron wash.) All plates are folding, having been tipped in on guards at the time of binding… Read More

London: Printed, and sold by the Booksellers, 1749. THIRD EDITION THUS (1st collected ed. 1739). Hardcover. Fine. A composite collection of works dealing with sexuality, childbirth, and other subjects, comprising four separate works published: pseudo-Aristotle's "Compleat Master-Piece", "Aristotle's midwife", "Problems... touching the state of Man's Body", and the "Last Legacy: Unfolding the Mysteries of Nature in the Generation of Man", together with a general title page. These treatises on pregnancy, childbirth, sexuality, and home medicine, trading on the name of Aristotle, appeared individually and then in collected editions throughout the 18th century, mostly in undated editions. Due to the alluring nature of some of the texts (the "Master-Piece" and "Legacy" had pornographic content) and the utilitarian function of the midwives' manual, all printings are uncommon and rarely found complete. The parts (without the general title) were also available separately. It is particularly unusual to find… Read More