XVIIth Century

London: George Sawbridge, 1674 pp (22) + 107 + 183-429 . In addition to the frontispiece there are five folding plates. This copy is complete despite the jump in pagination after page 107 ; it corresponds with that in the British Library. Internally very good subject to moderate browning, some fraying to the fep and fairly inoffensive evidence of moisture to the edges of the first few leaves. Hinges cracked although binding still holding. Cover, which looks to be contemporary, rather worn. The boards scuffed with wear to the edges and corners. The ornate spine has significant wear to both extremities. Scans available.

La Compagnie a Amsterdam, 1751. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. In-12, plein cuir, original leather binding, edgeworn but in pretty good shape. There is an inscription in French saying that the book belongs to someone who is a sergeant in 152 brigade. The date of the inscription is unreadable. The book is signed on the first page. The frontispiece is clean. There's no library stamps. The overall condition of the book is Good reliure originale un peu usée mais en bon état. Le livre etait la propriété d'un sergent de 152e brigade. Il-y a une signature inconnue sur la première page. La page de titre est propre. Pas d'étampes de bibliothèque. L'état de livre est Bon..

London: Printed M.Clark for J.Martyn printer to the Royal Society 4th edition, 1680. Hardcover. Good. Frontis portrait (by Faithorne) + 69 copperplate or woodcut illustrations and diagrams.. Quarto contemporary calf ruled and with corner ornaments (worn to all corners, top cover re-attached lower cover held by cords). Frontis portrait + Titlepage +[2]pp dedication +xvi +[18]pp contents & errata +731pp (recte 723pp since pp17-23 are omitted but catchwords & signatures are correct) +[1]p blank. Contents generally in good clean and crisp condition but damp has damaged outer margins of preliminaries and first dozen or so leaves of text. This affects margins and some side notes only except for frontis & titlepage which have margins repaired. Library stamp "Bib.Scriptorum, S.J. Londinii" on back of frontis with shelf mark to upper corner, titlepage with old owner's name Ed. Southcott on blank area. Cancellandum leaves at 2F4 & 2H2 with original stubs as required. *The first 4 editions of this Latin… Read More

Patavi (Padua): Petri Mariae Frambotti 3rd edition with large additions.., 1685. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates (frontis of 3 male figures & Minerva on architectural stage + 50 plates & 2 text illustratations by Ruffonus, Gio. Georg or unsigned.. Three Books in One quarto vellum-spined thin pasteboard covers (tips bumped covers damp marked). Engraved title + printed title with woodcut PFM printer's mark (Minerva with owl) +3 full page plates preceding dedication leaf +[6]ppprelims +261p; Titlepage to "Pars Altera Libri Quatuor" with larger PFM Minerva printer's mark signed DR +[6]pp prelims +213pp + [21]pp indices +"Analecta de Re Vestiaria sive exercitationes ad Albert Rubenius Commentarium, accessit dissertatio De Veterum Lucernis" with repeat of printer's mark of 1st titlepage +[10]pp prelims + 155pp +Titlepage to De Veterum Lucernis with printer's mark +39pp +[16]pp index + multi folding copy of a Latin inscription. Neat early MS note in Latin on flyleaf about placing of 2 plates.The plates… Read More

VENETIA : APPRESSO GIO. GUERIGLI, 1626. In 8. Dim. 24x18 cm. Pp. (62)+453+(1), (8)+164+(8), (4)+36. Rara raccolta di tre opere scritte dal letterato, poeta e drammaturgo italiano Gabriele Zinano (Reggio nell'Emilia 1557-1635) autore di dialoghi, trattati, rime e poemi eroici. Zinano è stato uno dei rappresentanti della poesia barocca e del movimento artistico e letterario del marinismo. Le tre opere di Zinano sono tutte state pubblicate nel 1626 e 1625 da "Giovanni Gueriglio". La prima opera del 1626 è politica "Della ragione de gli stati" nel quale tratta l'argomento della gestione degli Stati (diversi tipi di Stato, cambaimenti degli stati, cambiamento delle monarchie e repubbliche, corruzioni interne ed esterne degli stati, il principe, difesa dello Stato da pericoli interni ed esterni ecc...). La seconda del 1625 "Il segretario" sulla gestione degli affari e del mestiere sia privato che statale (l'abito, il trattare, i fatti segreti, il… Read More

Bruxellis: Typis Francisci Foppens, 1662. FIRST EDITION. 152 x 90 mm. (6 x 3 1/2"). 4 p.l., 60 pp., [1] leaf (approbation). Pleasing 18th century marbled calf, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with acorn tool at center, pomegranate cornerpieces, red morocco label, marbled endpapers. Woodcut initials and tailpieces, and 30 engravings on title and in text of female faces and animal faces, to which some of them are compared. Dorbon 5014; Wellcome V, 322; Brunet V, 1026 ("orné de jolies gravures au trait"). ◆Extremities a little rubbed, small black smudge to upper board, the binding otherwise lustrous and well preserved, and A FINE COPY INTERNALLY, quite clean, fresh, and bright. This is the sole printing of an obscure but fascinating physiological treatise on pulchritude. The text is divided up into 14 sections, each of which begins with a quotation from the "Song of Songs," followed by an explanation of how the quoted "mystic" words show that Solomon indeed knew what perfect female beauty… Read More

Paris: Matthieu Guillemot, 1609. "Reueue, Corrigee & mise en meilleur ordre, en ceste nouuelle Edition A Paris Chez Matthieu Guillemot, au Palais, en la gallerie des prisonniers." RARE early French edition, with Italian and French texts on facing pages. Rectos (French) only are numbered. 458 pp. Very Good, bound in full calf, gilt title at spine faded yet legible, 5 raised bands with gilt rules, red title label, edges of boards rubbed, prior owner name front end page dated 1823, light toning to end pages, contents clean and remarkably free of toning or foxing. Written by Boccaccio in the years 1343-1345, "La Fiammette" "has been called the first psychological novel in a modern language".. First Edition Thus. Full Calf. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Coloniae Agrippinae - Cologne: Sumptibus Hermanni Demen, 1687 Book. Good. Full vellum. [52], 738; [8], 82, 93-276, [206] pages. Pagination erratic in places. Vol 1 - page numbers 367/8 repeated. Vol 2 page numbers 234/5 repeated. But complete, also with the final blank leaf to vol 2.. With the additional engraved allegorical title page and the 34 engraved vignettes in the text. Paper repair to the upper outer corner of pages 403/4 affecting the page number. Some browning and occasional spotting. A few pages creased. Bookplate removed from the front pastedown. Old ink number to the front free end paper - 2001. In old blindstamped pigskin which is worn and soiled. Head of the spine very worn. A few ink underlinings. A very heavy volume, extra postage may be required to send it outside the UK..

Venice: Carlo Conzatti, 1665 Octavo (8½x6 inches). Pp. [24], 471, [1]. Text in Italian. Title printed in red and black. Illustrated with 197 woodcuts throughout text, some of which appear more than once. Woodcuts are generally 2x1¼ inches or smaller, a few larger. Printer's woodcut device on last leaf. Bound in full contemporary vellum over boards, morocco spine label, gilt, red sprinkled edges. Front end affixed to pastedown, small marginal fragment torn from K8, repair to short tear at T7. One woodcut with two holes. Some light internal foxing, toning. A very good copy. The Epistles and Gospels to be read throughout the year, according to the Church services. Originally written by the Jesuit Petrus Canisius (although only the Translators are mentioned in the title). Remigio's real name was Remigio Nannini. He was born in Florence c. 1521. He was a Dominican friar, author of secular and religious works, editor and translator. He died in 1581. Epistole et Evangeli was his most… Read More

Printed by W.W. for Humphrey Moseley, London, 1650. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good+ Condition. Book ESTC Citation R202463; Wing (2nd ed.), H-3081; Thomason, E.1374[2]. 140 p. (Illustrated title, title, portrait of Prince Charles). James Howell (c.1594-1666) was an author of political and historical works who traveled widely in Europe and produced this book, which is often described as the first continental handbook for travelers. The full title is: "Instructions and Directions For Forren Travell. Shewing by what cours, and in what compas of time, one may take an exact Survey of the Kingdomes, and States of Christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledge of the Languages, to good purpose. With a new Appendix for Travelling into Turkey and the Levant parts." The appendix (pp. 129-140) draws heavily from Sir Henry Blount's account of his trip in 1634-36. It describes ways of getting to Constantinople, touches briefly on travel to Egypt and compares and contrasts… Read More

[5 of 6]+132 leaves with several armorial engravings. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in half leather with four raised spine bands with black label to spine in gilt lettering over marbled boards. (Medina, Mexico 594; Palau 44870 ("actualmente rarísima"); Sabin 10953) First edition. Horacio Carochi (1586-1666) was a Jesuit priest and grammarian who was born in Florence and died in Mexico. He is known for his grammar of the Classical Nahuatl language. He went to Rome where he entered the Society of Jesus. From Rome he went to the New World, arriving in New Spain (now Mexico). There he dedicated himself to the study of the indigenous languages and became proficient in Otomi and then in Nahuatl. He was a friend of the Bishop and later Viceroy of New Spain, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, as is documented by surviving letters written by Carochi to the bishop. Carochi had an acute understanding of the Nahuatl language and was the first grammarian to understand and propose a consistent transcription of two… Read More

1698 Book of SECRETS Health & Beauty Perfumes Makeup Fashion Arts Medicine RARE
'Recueil de Secrets' is a rare, late 17th-century collection of 'self-help' secrets. Equivalent to the modern-day 'life hacks', this book contains hundreds of entries on important topics including health and beauty tips – (perfume making, artificial pearls jewelry, using makeup, etc.), arts, sciences, and even treatment and care of animal diseases.
Item number: #18457
Price: $750
BOUDE, J.
Recueil de secrets divisé en deux parties, la première concernant la conservation de la santé & de la beauté. La seconde, concernant les arts & les maladies des animaux
A Toulouse : Chez la veuve de J.J. Boude, 1698.

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Collation: Complete with all pages – 2 parts
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Part I – [12], 120
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Part II – [4], 150
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~6in X 3.75in (15.5cm x 9.5cm)
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Graece & Latine una cum Prognosticis, Prorrheticis, Coacis, & aliis decem eiusdem opusculis, Aphoristicabrevitate conscriptis. Pleraque ex interpretatione Iohannis Heurnii Ultraiectini Iterata editio, commodior. Lugduni Batavorum, Ex officina Iohannis Maire, 1627. 636 pp. 13,5 x 8 cm.
--- Text in ancient greek and latin. Parchment binding, very tight, with light wear. Occasional light foxing. Previous owner's names written on front endpaper and on the first blank pages. Among them, the name of the German doctor Heinrich Landerer (1814-1877). The date of the edition is 1627, but in front cover, under the acronym PSK, is written 1632. The original form of the famous Hippocratic Oath on page 454.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leyde], Iodocum a Colster, 1616.
2 parts bound in 1 volume 4to [200 x 140 mm] of: I/ (12) ll. including the title printed in red and black and the portrait of the author at the back, 270 pp., 1 folding frontispiece and 34 engravings in the text; II/ (1) title, 128 pp., 2 folding plates and 25 engravings in the text. Small wormhole in pp. 9 to 55 of the second text, 2 handwritten ex libris on the title-page, old handwritten note in the margin of p. 177. Bound in contemporary full limp overlapping vellum, remains of leather ties, flat spine with handwritten title. Contemporary binding.
Rare original edition of paaw's comments on Hippocrates and Celsius' works concerning the head wounds.
Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, V, p. 99.
The Renaissance humanism is marked by a sudden infatuation for anatomy. The first anatomists had to overcome great difficulties. The anatomic lecture halls were slowly built, in Padua in 1490, in Basel in 1588, in Paris in 1608.
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Rare. 91pp + 4pp preliminary 'To The Reader', Prologue and Production details, 1pp Epilogue. Bound in later brown wrappers with title feintly written in pencil to front. Opens at title page, which has been tipped in and has a strip of paper strengthening to verso of leading edge. The pages are closely cropped to upper and lower edges. Minor loss to lower corner of rear cover, and crease to upper corner.Sir Patient Fancy: A Comedy, Aphra Behn's first overtly political play, was performed in Dorset Garden on 17 January 1678. In An Account of the English Dramatick Poets, Gerard Langbaine noted that Sir Patient Fancy was based loosely on Moliere's last play, Le Malade imaginaire, which had been staged in Paris in 1673 and printed in 1675.