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1723 1st ed Mathematics Instruments Bion Engineering Science Navigation PhysicsRare 1st English edition of Bion's famous mathematics treatise!'The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments' is an important mathematics treatise by Nicolas Bion which is considered "the most famous book devoted to instruments." (Knight). Bion was a 17th-century engineer and math tool maker who was well-known for being the king's engineer.This 1723 first English edition includes all 26 full-page and folding engravings – a highly desirable book! Illustrations in this book depict navigational tools such as compasses, ships and ship masts, armillary spheres, and protractors; it also includes maps, clocks, sundials, globes, vacuum pumps, pendulums, mirrors, telescopes, and more!Item number: #5166Price: $2500BION, NicolasThe construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments : Translated from the French of M. Bion, ... To which are added, the construction and uses of such instruments as are omitted… Read More

1571 Fabricius Virorum Illustrium Famous Lives ROME Josephus Tacitus Strabo

"Death comes to all, But great achievements raise a monument, Which shall endure until the sun grows old."
– Georg Fabricius

Georg Fabricius was an important 16th-century Protestant German author who is responsible for some of the best editions of Greek and Roman classics such as Terence, Virgil, and Horace. And while his commentary on classical literature is without a doubt his best work, he is also known for a study on the history of Christian religion. He published a number of sacred poems as well in which he sought to completely avoid all traces of paganism.

This 1571 printing of 'Virorum Illustrium' includes many of his sacred poems, but is desirable for his biographical sketches of notable church fathers, historians, and Roman rulers including:
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Africanus
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Appian
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Florus
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Josephus
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Justin Martyr
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Thucydides
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Xenophon
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1584 Medicine & Surgery Augenio Curandi Renaissance Plague Bloodletting Galen

An important, 16th-century medical treatise by Orazio Augenio! 'De Ratione Curandi' includes a wide variety of medical topics but most famously covers the use and benefits of bloodletting. Known as one of the best Italian physicians of the Renaissance, Augenio incorporated his fondness of Galen into his philosophy-based practice – practices that regularly treated the plague and neuropathology.

Item number: #7490
Price: $1950
AUGENIO, Orazio
De ratione curandi per sanguinis missionem, libri decem: in quibus extirpatis erroneis opinionibus passim hodie apud nonnullos vigentibus, omnia ad hoc argumentum pertinentia, secundum Galeni doctrinam explanantur

Taurini [Turin]: Apud Io. Baptistam Ratterium, 1584.

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1565 Charles IX Great Ordinance of 1561 France French LAW & Government Chalard

In 1561, when Charles IX ascended the French throne, he led a series of 151 articles compromising the Great Ordinance of 1561. French scholar Joachim Chalard published his own commentary and perspective on the ordinances, notes that deal primarily with the corruption within the government. He also discusses the deplorable acts of Catholic clergy, unlawful taxation, trade regulations, the nobility, and the use of military.

This 1565 edition is considered exceptionally rare. According to Baudrier, the Clement Baudin editions were much scarcer than those published by Giochard or Rigaud.

Item number: #7521
Price: $795
CHALARD, Joachim du

Sommaire exposition des ordonnances du roy Charles IX. Sur les plaintes des trois Estats de son royaume, tenus à Orleans, l'an M.D.LX. Par Joachim Du Chalard, advocat au Grand Conseil, natif de La Souterraine, en Limousin.
A Lyon : Par Clement Baudin., 1565.

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1674 Boccalini Parnassus Greek Mythology English Satire Italian Authors Monmouth

Trajano Boccalini was a 16th-century Italian author known for his most important work "Ragguagli di Parnaso". This work is a story on mythology in which he satirizes the works and lives of other Italian authors through the lens of Apollo. This 1674 English edition was translated by Henry Carey of Monmouth.

Item number: #8629
Price: $750
BOCCALINI, Traiano
I ragguagli di Parnasso; or Advertisements from Parnassus: in two centuries. WIth the Politik touchstone.
London: Printed and are to be sold by Tho. Guy, 1674.

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1686 Council of Constance Catholic Papal Decrees Vatican Library Schelstrate

Emmanuel Schelstrate was a 17th-century Catholic clergyman known for being the Vatican Library librarian. While working in the Vatican, he wrote a number of works discussing various aspects of the Catholic Church including decrees of the popes, as well as reports on the Council of Constance which discuss the ecclesiastical powers that were determined in the fourth and fifth sessions of the 15th-century ecumenical council.
Item number: #8849
Price: $550
SCHELSTRATE, Emmanuel
Tractatus de sensu et auctoritate decretorum Constantiensis Concilii sessione quarta et quinta circa potestatem ecclesiasticam editorum cum actis et gestis ad illa spectantibus...
Romae: Typis S. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1686. 1st edition

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1796 Paradise Lost BOSTON John Milton Poetry + Regained RARE American ed Newton

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

'Paradise Lost' follows the biblical story of the Fall of Man and the temptation of Adam and Eve. Milton himself states that purpose for this book was to "Justify the ways of God to Men". It covers the characters Adam, Eve, and Satan and the roles each played in the development of religious culture and idolatry.
It was critically acclaimed and well-received by many famed personalities, including Samuel Johnson who states.
"[Paradise Lost shows] Milton's peculiar power to astonish…and he seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was the Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.
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1618 Roman Rota Catholic Ecclesiastical LAW Vatican Cardinal Mantica Bologna

Francesco Mantica was a 16th-century Bolognese Cardinal who was famously part of the Roman Rota during the 1580s. This 1618 printing of 'Decisions of the Roman Rota' is a collection of ecclesiastical law proceedings at the Vatican. This edition includes 375 legal decisions made by Cardinal Mantica from 1587 through 1596.
Item number: #11858
Price: $550
MANTICA, Francesco
Decisiones rotae romanae Francisci Card. Mantica a germanico Mantica protonotario... Quibus arduae perplexae, atque tam ab ecclesiasticis, quam secularibus suscitatae controversiae fuerunt diremptae, et executioni demandatae : Annexo dencho omnium excusarum, et indice verum et verborum.

Venetiis : Apud Juntas (Giunta), 1618.

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1684 English LAW 1ed Brady Old English History Politics Doomsday Book Britain

Robert Brady was a 17th-century English royalist historian who played an important role in the emergence of English history out of its medieval forms. Much of this was from his book 'Introduction to the Old English History'. In this work, Brady covered aspects of English politics and government noting the influence of the famed 'Doomsday Book' – (citing taxation, land ownership, heraldic law, etc.).
This 1684 first edition proved to be an important advancement in English law.
Item number: #15781
Price: $950
BRADY, Robert

An introduction to the old English history comprehended in three several tracts : the first, an answer to Mr. Petyt's Rights of the commons asserted ... the second, an answer to a book intituled Argumentum antinormanicum ... the third, the exact history of the succession of the crown of England ... together with an appendix ... and a glossary
London : Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Samuel Lowndes ...,… Read More

1592 Diogenes Laertius Eminent Philosophers Greek Aristotle Socrates Philosophy
"Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend."
– Diogenes Laërtius

'Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers' is often considered the best Greco-Roman biography of notable philosophers. Written in the 3rd-century by Greek scholar Diogenes Laërtius, this work gives an account of the lives, studies, and sayings of Greek philosophers. Diogenes originally wrote ten distinct books covering Ionian and Italian philosophers – notable names include:
· Solon
· Socrates
· Anacharsis
· Xenophon
· Cebes
· Plato
· Aristotle
· Theophrastus
· Menippus
· Dionysius
· Pythagoras
· Xenophanes
· Democritus
· Pyrrho
· Epicurus
This edition was published in 1592 by Gryphium who used the Latin translation of Ambrogio Traversari.
Item number: #17804
Price: $950
DIOGENES, Laertius
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1686 IRELAND 1ed James Ussher Life & Letters Archbishop Irish Bible Sermons

"What is it which all men especially desire? Eternal life and happiness?" ­
– James Ussher, Body of Divinity
James Ussher was an early 17th-century Archbishop in the Church of Ireland who is most remembered for giving an exact date to the beginning of creation. His full body of work includes letters, sermons, dissertations, and exegeticals, but this work focuses solely on improving the Christians life and strengthening their faith. A biographical sketch of Ussher's life was written by Richard Parr in 1686 in which he included hundreds of correspondence letters, including those from William Camden and Edward Stradling.
Item number: #18171
Price: $950
PARR, Richard
The life of the most reverend father in God, James Usher, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland. With a collection of three hundred letters, between the said Lord Primate and most of the eminentest persons for piety and learning… Read More

1877 Freemasonry in Holy Land Voyages Masonic Poetry Eastern Star Robert Morris
Robert Morris was an important American Freemason poet who is chiefly remembered for creating the Order of the Eastern Star. He composed over 400 poems most of which dealt with the Eastern Star and Freemasonry. He voyaged to the Holy Land and wrote hymns and poems based on his experiences there. He also published a book describing his sights and discoveries in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt entitled 'Freemasonry in the Holy Land' which featured many of his poems and odes.
Item number: #18279
Price: $499
MORRIS, Robert
Freemasonry in the Holy Land A narrative of masonic explorations made in 1868, in the land of King Solomon and the two Hirams… Masonic Odes and Poems
Chicago : Published for the author [by] Knight & Leonard, printers, 1877.

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1692 Works of CICERO Orations Politics Philosophy ROME Dutch Gronovio Latin 2v
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero was one of the most notable and prolific Roman figures of ancient Rome. His philosophical works and letters are considered the most reliable source of information for the period leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic. The works of Cicero have been published in numerous languages and formats from as early as the mid-15th-century.

This Latin set was published by Peter Van der Aa in Lyon in 1692 and was edited by the famous Dutch scholar Jacob Gronovius. It contains Cicero's philosophical orations. Gronovius included the contributions of Janus Gruterus and Janus Gulielmus.

Item number: #19670
Price: $750
CICERO, Marcus Tullius
Marci Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae extant omnia,
Lugduni Batavorum, Apud P. vander Aa, 1692.

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1793 SLAVERY in Jamaica Tobago Muscogee INDIANS Americana Washington Congress

The Gentleman's Magazine was an English periodical which first appeared in 1731. It was published without interrupt for nearly 200 years and was the first of its kind to use the term 'magazine'. It was published by Edward Cave, pseud. Sylvanus Urban.

This 1793 edition includes a variety of important and interesting contents including:
• Slavery –
o Sale of negroes in Jamaica
o Capture of Tobago by the English
• Description of native tribes in Madagascar
• George Washington speeches to Congress
• Execution of Quakers in Boston
• Description of Chief McGillivray, or Hoboi-Hili-Miko and the Muscogee Creek Indians
• Sighting of a double-horned rhino

Item number: #21649
Price: $750

URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]

The Gentleman's Magazine: for 1793, volume LXIII.

London: printed by John Nichols, 1793. First edition.

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1685 SCOTLAND 1ed Royal Burghs Alexander Skene Scottish Government Aberdeen
Alexander Skene's "Memorials of the Royal Burghs in Scotland" is a rare, 17th-century history of the Scottish royal municipalities established by the royal crown. Royal Burghs had been utilized in Scotland and Northern England since the 12th-century and Skene's "Memorials" is easily the most important and thorough history of the royal burgh tradition in Scotland.
In addition to discussing the matters of Scottish royalty, this 1685 first and only edition covers Scottish government, public services, trade and commerce, all with a sense of Scottish patriotism and national pride. It also contains a survey of the city of Aberdeen
Item number: #22528
Price: $750
SKENE, Alexander
Memorialls for the Government of the Royall-Burghs in Scotland : With Some Overtures Laid Before the Nobility and Gentry of the Several Shyres in This Kingdom
Aberdeen: printed by John Forbes, 1685. First and only edition.
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