Search Results: Titles starting with N from Govi Rare Books LLC

405x277 mm. Text within a typographic border. Woodcut decorative initial. Traces of folding, restorations along the folding, some foxing, all in all well preserved.
Celebratory broadsheet printed on the occasion of a dinner party given by the vice-podesta of Brescia Andrea Cornaro (or Corner), containing a laudatory sonnet signed by Pietro dalla Curte.
Andrea Corner, born in Venice in 1610 into a noble Venetian family, became a member of the Maggior Consiglio at only 20 in 1630. He had a very successful and long career as a politician, diplomat and galley captain, both in Venice and in the Venetian islands. On February 6, 1668 he married Marina Barbaro, widow of Girolamo Corner, who brought him a dowry of 6,000 ducats. On July 14, 1669 he was elected podesta in Brescia. He made his entrance in town in January 1670. Among the various problems connected with the administration of a territory as vast and relevant as that of Brescia, he had to reorganize the local possessions of the Church, to provide new… Read More

4to. [4] leaves. Collation: A4. Printer's device on title page (an eagle with spread wings above a vase containing three lilies supported by a hand coming out of the clouds, in a figurative frame). Woodcut initial and headpiece. On l. A3r full-page engraving by Giacomo Pecini (c. 1617-1669) containing six numbered figures. Some light foxing, traces of folding as the pamphlet was presumably sent as a letter, a very good, wide-margined copy.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION (first issue) of the most accurate description of the ear up to its time.
The work, sent as a letter - the dedication is dated Venice, May 10, 1645 - to the a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), became immediately sought-after and rare. Its fame and importance are due to the engraved plate containing six figures that offer an extremely accurate and analytical description of the middle and inner ear. Folli describes some structures of the hearing organ never previously observed and, among the… Read More