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	[GODFREY, J.] The poor man's friend; or a few plain words from a plain man, who desires to see the poor happy and contented in that situation of life in which it has pleased God to place them ... Fourth edition. Lynn: Wade, Printer, 1835. 8vo. 28p. Signed at end: J.G. Top and bottom margins of title repaired. Modern cloth, new end-papers. Reflections on the effects of the distressed state of agriculture in Norfolk in the 1820s. A continuation of the poor man's friend was printed at Lynn in 1836. The British Library has a copy of the Continuation but apparently not of the earlier publication. The National Union Catalog reports only one copy of each - at Yale. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 13/046 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	ANON. Condizioni intime e misteriose della Russia tratte da documenti autentici. Versione libera di G.A.G. Torino: Presso Bazzarini e Savallo, 1855. 8vo. 169p. Frontispiece portrait of Alexander II. 19th-century paper-covered boards, slightly worn and ink stain on front board. Spine title in ink. The text is divided into nine chapters: Despotism of the Czar, Character of the Russians, Religion and clergy, Administration, Law and justice and Siberian penal colonies, Serfdom, Army, Navy, Russian expansionist policies and foreign affairs. The text - anti-Russian throughout - ends just before the outbreak of the Crimean War (October 1853). The original author appears to have been French (cf. page 168: "Qui s'arresta lo scrittor francese che con quest'opera si propose di rivelare le condizioni intime e misteriose della Russia.") No copy found in BLC. NUC records 2 copies (under title) at Library of Congress and University of Illinois. GBP 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 100 US$ 149.49 \| JP¥ 13207] Book number: GA0050 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	BOUDIER DE VILLEMENT, PIERRE JOSEPH. L'amico delle donne: opera morale trasportata dall' idioma franzese nell' italiano dall' abate Giuliano Merlini. Firenze: Andrea Bonducci, 1761. 8vo. xvi, 152p. Marbled boards, leather-backed. slightly worn. An Italian translation of L'ami des femmes, first published in Paris in 1758. 'Ce livre blâme les femmes qui écrivent ou étudient les sciences; il veut qu'elles travaillent continuellement aux ouvrages d'aiguille; il préconise le mariage, et demande que les femmes nourrissent elles-mêmes leurs enfants.' - Jules Gay, "Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, aux femmes, au mariage", 4 éd., p.94. GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 61 US$ 91.36 \| JP¥ 8071] Book number: 6/010 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	CAMPISTRON, JEAN GALBERT DE. Oeuvres choisies. Édition stéréotype, d'après le procédé de Firmin Didot. Paris: De l'Imprimerie et de la Fonderie Stéréotypes de P. Didot l'ainé, et de Firmin Didot, 1810. 18mo. xiv, 198, [2]p. Red cloth, leather-backed. Small dent in rear cover, otherwise in VG condition. Between 1683 and 1709 Campistron turned out 9 tragedies, 2 comedies and, in collaboration with Lully, 3 'tragédies en musique'. To a certain extent Campistron was an imitator of Corneille and Racine, but not so much as to accuse him of lack of originality. Some of his tragedies are heroic and patriotic; others pyschological and pathetic. The conflict of generations and the fatal destructiveness of incestuous love are recurrent themes. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 27.75 US$ 41.53 \| JP¥ 3669] Book number: 6/016 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	LA CHAUSSÉE, PIERRE CLAUDE NIVELLE DE. Oeuvres choisies. Édition stéréotype, d'après le procédé de Firmin Didot. Paris: De l'Imprimerie et de la Fonderie Stéréotypes de P. Didot l'ainé, et de Firmin Didot, 1810. 18mo. 2 vols. Vol. 1: 253, [3] p. Vol. 2: 227, [1] p. Red cloth, leather-backed. VG condition. La Chaussée (1692-1754) was the originator in France of sentimental comedy, comédie larmoyante as it was nicknamed by his opponents, in which the pathetic element, drawn from the realistic representation of the sufferings of everyday domestic life, outweighs or entirely obliterates the comic. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 6/051 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	CORNEILLE, THOMAS. Poèmes dramatiques ... Nouvelle édition, revûË, corrigée & augmentée. Paris: chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1722. 12mo. 4 vols. 27 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, gilt, with some signs of wear. Title and preliminaries of vol. 4 discoloured. The younger brother - by 20 years - of the more renowned playwright, Pierre Corneille, Thomas produced over 40 comedies, tragi-comedies, tragedies and operas, some of which (e.g. his romantic tragedy "Timocrate" and his comedy "Le Geôlier de soi même") were highly successful in their day. GBP 160.00 [Appr.: EURO 177.5 US$ 265.76 \| JP¥ 23479] Book number: 6/022 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DAUNOU, PIERRE CLAUDE FRANÇOIS. Essai sur les garanties individuelles que réclame l'état actuel de la société. Paris: Foulon, 1819. [4], 245p. Modern marbled boards, leather-backed. Historian, legislator and idéologue, Daunou opposed Louis XVI's trial and protested against the proscription of the Girondins. He was the chief author of the constitution of 1795 and founder of the Institut National. After Bonaparte's coup in 1799, he also participated in the writing of the constitution of the year VIII (Dec. 1799) from which Napoleon excised many liberal provisions. O. Connelly, Historical dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815, p.145. GBP 135.00 [Appr.: EURO 149.75 US$ 224.24 \| JP¥ 19810] Book number: 6/099 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DIAKONOW, PETR IVANOVICH. Guide médical de Moscou. Traduit du russe par A. Tastevin. Moscou: Imprimerie de la Société I.D. Sytine, 1897. [4], iv, 84p. 1 folding plan of Moscow. Cloth covers. At head of cover title: XII Congrès International de Médecine. The text is divided into six sections: 1. General medical statistics for Moscow - births and deaths. 2. Institutions for the teaching of medicine - Faculty of Medicine at the University of Moscow and other teaching bodies - with details of personnel and courses. 3. Medical administration and public health. 4. List of hospitals with details of their foundation, staff, number of patients treated in 1896. 5. Medical journals published in Moscow. 6. Other related institutions. Rare. No copy in BL or in BN Paris. NUC records just two copies: John Crerar Library and Yale Medical School. GBP 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 77.75 US$ 116.27 \| JP¥ 10272] Book number: GA0054 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DOLCE, LODOVICO. Il capitano, comedia. Nuouamente corretta, e ristampata. Venetia: presso Gio. Battista Combi, 1620. 12mo. 79p. French, 19th-century quarter brown morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; silk bookmark. Ludovico Dolce (1510-68), Venetian humanist, worked for the press of Gabriel Giolito. Claudia Di Filippo Bareggi claims that over the course of thirty-six years Dolce was responsible for 96 editions of his own original work, 202 editions of other writers, and at least 54 translations. Dolce worked in most of the literary genres available at the time, including epic and lyric poetry, chivalric romance, comedy, tragedy, the prose dialogue, treatises (where he discussed women, ill-married men, memory, the Italian language, gems, painting, and colours), encyclopedic summaries (of Aristotle's philosophy and world history), and historical works on major figures of the 16th century and earlier, such as Cicero, Ovid, Dante, and Boccaccio. His comedy, Il capitano (first published and perhaps performed in 1545), is a more or less updated version of Plautus' Miles gloriosus, written in verse. BL Cat. of 17th-century Italian books, vol.1 p.305. GBP 180.00 [Appr.: EURO 199.75 US$ 298.98 \| JP¥ 26414] Book number: GA0038 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DROZ, JOSEPH FRANÇOIS XAVIER. La morale applicata alla politica: operetta di Giuseppe Droz ... Prima traduzione italiana di S.C. Firenze: Presso G.P. Vieusseux Editore, Tipografia di Luigi Pezzati, 1826. 8vo. 134, [1]p. Marbled boards, leather-backed. VG condition. Writer on literature and philosophy, Droz was also one of the founders of the science of political economy. In 1801 he published Des lois relatives au progrès de l'industrie, which was followed in 1829 by his principal work Économie politique, ou principes de la science de richesses. La morale applicata alla politica is an Italian translation of his Applications de la morale à la politique first published in 1825. Two years earlier Droz had published De la philosophie morale, whose main thesis is that society will never be in a proper state until men have been educated to think of their duties as much as their rights. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 6/100 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	FIELDING, HENRY. Amelia. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752 [1751]. 12mo. 4 vols. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt; slightly rubbed at joints and at top and bottom of spine. Some boards slightly loose and joints strengthened. Bookplate of Henry Francis Redhead Yorke. First edition of Amelia, Fielding's "favourite child", a novel of social protest and an experiment in new techniques, especially in irony and in subtle characterisation. Robert Alter argues that the novel pioneers "the masterful interlocking of separate lives through shared experience that gives Middlemarch such remarkable coherence. - "Fielding's problem novel" in his Fielding and the nature of the novel, pp.141-178. The Rothschild Library: a catalogue, 853. H. Fielding, Amelia, edited by M.C. Battestin (Appendix VII: Bibliographical descriptions, pp.583-4). ESTC t089846. GBP 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 443.75 US$ 664.4 \| JP¥ 58697] Book number: 13/042 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	FLACHAT, EUGÈNE & PETIET, JULES. Calculs et tableaux sur l'avance du tiroir, les tuyaux d'échappement, les conduits de vapeur et de fumée dans les machines locomotives (extrait du Guide du mécanicien conducteur de machines locomotives), précédés d'une lettre à M. Arago, Secrétaire Perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences; par Eugène Flachat et Jules Petiet. Ingénieurs Civils. [Paris? 1839?] Small 8vo. xiii, 92p. Some spotting and a little damp-staining. New marbled boards cloth spine, new end papers. "Lettre à M. Arago" is dated "Paris, le 22 novembre 1839" and the second paragraph includes the information "Nos observations ont été faites sur cinquante machines des chemins de fer de Saint-Germain et de Versailles (rive droite), et, par conséquent, sur des locomotives spécialement affectées au transport des voyageurs." An early work of railway interest published only a couple of years after the inauguration (26 August 1837) of the first steam railway in France to operate for both freight and passengers (connnecting Paris and the town of St. Germain). Flachat was a distinguished civil engineer from Nîmes who in his youth had made a study of the London docks and had been involved in the planning of the Paris-St. Germain line. He was responsible for numerous publications on locomotive design, railway engineering, projects for new docks and railway lines (including the Simplon route through the Alps) GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 US$ 99.66 \| JP¥ 8805] Book number: 6/102 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	FUMÉE, ANTOINE. Tractatus tres. De eo quod interest. De substitutionibus. De coniunctionibus. Tolosae: apud Joannem Girardum, 1546. 4to. 123p. Bound in a leaf of vellum from a late medieval manuscript; skilfully restored, new fly leaves. This legal treatise was first published at Lyon in 1536, the year in which its author became an active member of the Paris Parlement. As a suspected crypto-Protestant, Fumée prudently withdrew from Paris in the early 1560s and became attached to the Breton Parlement. He later returned to Paris and celebrated the accession of Henri III (1574) with a lively flurry of literary activity, including three courtly eclogues in Latin and a panegyric on the king's return from Poland. GBP 290.00 [Appr.: EURO 321.75 US$ 481.69 \| JP¥ 42555] Book number: 6/038 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	GAGARIN, JEAN XAVIER. La Russie sera-t-elle catholique? Paris: Douniol, 1856. 8vo. viii, 169p. Original printed wrappers mounted on new boards. New end-papers. Very small worm hole in top margin, not affecting text. A plea, by a Jesuit of Russian birth, for reconciliation between the Russian Orthodox Church and Rome. Printed as appendices are: the Decree of Eugenius IV (6 July 1439) on union with the Eastern Church, the Bull of Clement VIII (23 December 1595) concerning reunion with the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Brief of Benedict XIV (26 March 1755) on Eastern rites. De Backer Sommervogel, vol.3, col.1090, no.4. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39 US$ 58.14 \| JP¥ 5136] Book number: GA0055 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	GATTESCHI, DOMENICO. Manuale di diritto pubblico e privato ottomano contenente le principali capitolazioni e trattati di commercio della Porta colle potenze cristiane e relativi regolamenti ... Compilato dal dottor Domenico Gatteschi, edito per cura dei sigg. Castelnuovo e Leoncavallo. Alessandria in Egitto: Tipografia della posta europea di V. Minasi e C., 1865. lxxxii, 570p. Occasional very slight spotting; Cloth boards, leather-backed. An uncommon work (only two copies are reported in NUC) dealing with commercial relations between the Ottoman Empire on the one hand and the major European powers (England, France, Italy, Austria, Russia and Prussia) and the United States of America on the other. A large section of the text consists of official documents and treaties and these are in French. GBP 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 277.5 US$ 415.25 \| JP¥ 36686] Book number: GA0001 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	KOCH, KARL HEINRICH EMIL. The Crimea and Odessa: journal of a tour, with an account of the climate and vegetation ... Translated by Joanna B. Horner. With a map of the Crimea. London: John Murray, 1855. 8vo. xii, 323p. Fold. map. Title page a little soiled. Modern dark blue morocco. A translation of Der Krim und Odessa (1854). Koch's journey to the Crimea in the autumn of 1844 was part of a more extensive tour in the Caucasus which was undertaken for scientific reasons with assistance from the Russian government and the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. He had also visited southern Russia in 1836-38 - described in his Reise durch Russland nach dem kaukasischen Isthmus. Koch was a botanist - he taught at the universities of Jena and Berlin - and his interests are evident in his description of the grounds of the castle at Aloupka "the Alhambra of Prince Woronzoff in the Crimea", and in the detailed inventory of foreign trees and shrubs introduced into the Crimea (pp.278-92). GBP 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 88.75 US$ 132.88 \| JP¥ 11739] Book number: GA0058 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	KOERBER, KARL VON. Epistel an die Freunde des Feldbaues besonders an jene, die einen nasskalten Lehmboden haben. Wien: Johann Georg Ritter v. Mösle, 1805. 8vo. 53, [2]p. 19th-century marbled boards, a little worn. As owner of estates in the mountainous region of Silesia, the author had experience of the management of wet clay soils. He argues that fell farmers mistakenly concentrate on grain production to the neglect of cattle rearing, which should be the true basis of sound agriculture (the availability of manure being essential for the improvement of poor clay soils). He advocates the abandonment of the three-field system and the substitution of a system of crop rotation which will keep all arable land in use all of the time - the crops to include vegetables as well as cereals. Milk yields will increase from a greater variety of fodder, and thereby incomes will also rise. The benefits of crop rotation will become evident after five or six years. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50 US$ 74.75 \| JP¥ 6603] Book number: GA0002 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	LABAUME, EUGÈNE. A circumstantial narrative of the campaign in Russia, embellished with plans of the battles of the Moskwa and Malo-Jaroslavitz. Containing a faithful description of the affecting and interesting scenes, of which the author was an eye-witness. By Eugene Labaume ... Translated from the French. Second edition, considerably improved. London: printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1815. 8vo. viii, 416p. 2 folding battle plans (facing p. 210 & p. 216). "Large map to face title" called for in the Directions to the binder on p.412, is not present in this copy (NUC entry for this ed. calls for 1 map, 1 plan). Modern black cloth, red leather title-label. A translation of Relation circonstanciée de la campagne de Russie. In his preface the author writes: "It was by the light of the burning of Mosow, that I described the sack of that unfortunate city ... I retraced, each night, the events of the day, sitting beside a wretched fire, under a temperature of ten or twelve degrees, and surrounded by the dying and the dead. The knife with which I had carved my scanty morsel of horse-flesh, was employed in cutting a raven's quill, and a little gunpowder, mixed with some melted snow, in the hollow of my hand, served me for ink and inkstand." GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 72.25 US$ 107.97 \| JP¥ 9538] Book number: GA0059 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	LIGUORI, ALFONSO MARIA DE', SAINT. Thejia ghal meut mictuba bit-talian min Sant' Alfonsu de Liguori u ghal gid tar-ruieh migiuba fil-Isien Malti mn' Achille Ferres. Malta: stampat ghand l'ahua Bonello, 1863. 496 p, [2] p. 8vo. Some light worming in first and final sections, almost entirely marginal. 19th-century black leather, gilt, with initials V.Z. in gilt on front cover. Small repair at foot of spine. New end-papers. A translation of "Considerazioni sulle massime eterne" - one of over 100 works by the founder of the Order of the Redemptorists, Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, who was canonized by Gregory XVI in 1839 and delcared a Doctor of the Church by Pius IX in 1871. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 27.75 US$ 41.53 \| JP¥ 3669] Book number: 9/006 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DE LOLME, JOHN LOUIS. The constitution of England; or, An account of the English government ... A new edition, corrected. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson; and J. Murray, 1790. 8vo. [8], xv, [1], 540, [19]p. Frontis. portrait of De Lolme. Modern black cloth boards, red leather title label, all edges marbled. First published in French in Amsterdam in 1771, this work is one of a number of commendations of the English constitution which emanated from the pens of non-Englishmen (Voltaire and Montesquieu being more illustrious examples). The success of De Lolme's book (it went into numerous editions) lay not so much in its insight but in the gross flattery with which it bombarded the English reader. The author, however, showed little interest in the practical working of the constitution - no references to rotten and pocket boroughs, or to the fact that most of the industrial cities were unrepresented in Parliament. GBP 48.00 [Appr.: EURO 53.25 US$ 79.73 \| JP¥ 7044] Book number: 13/026 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	LITURGIES - LATIN RITE. HYMNAL - LATIN & MALTESE. L'inni imkadsa l'antifoni tat-tmiem tal breviariu ruman u is-sequenzi tal missal migiubin bil Malti Mis-Sac. Dr. Lod. Mifsud Tommasi. Malta: Stampat ghand F. Cumbo, 1853. 419, [1], viii p. 8vo. Some worming, particularly in first section, mainly marginal or interlinear. Black cloth. New end-papers. Title mounted. Latin and Maltese texts on facing pages. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.25 US$ 33.22 \| JP¥ 2935] Book number: 9/007 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	MENAGE, GILLES. Menagiana, ou les bons mots et remarques critiques, historiques, morales & d'érudition de Monsieur Menage. Recueillies par ses amis ... Troisième édition, plus ample de moitié, & plus correcte que les précédentes. Paris: chez Florentin Delaulne, 1715. 12mo. 4 vols. Contemporary calf, gilt, scuffed and worn at head and foot of spine. Bookplates removed from all 4 volumes. Despite his accomplishments as a philologist, Ménage was never elected to the Académie française, though he did become a member of the Accademia della Crusca. He was a frequenter of the Hôtel Rambouillet - the intellectual centre of Parisian society in the early 17th century - but he was quarrelsome by nature and had disputes with Bouhours, Cotin and others, and he was satirized as Vadius in Molière's Les femmes savantes. Menagiana is a collection of Ménage's sayings, observations, anecdotes and miscellanies, prepared by him and first published in 1693 after his death. GBP 160.00 [Appr.: EURO 177.5 US$ 265.76 \| JP¥ 23479] Book number: 6/062 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	MILNER, THOMAS. Russia: its rise and progress, tragedies and revolutions. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. 8vo. xv, 500p. Frontispiece portrait of Vassali V. Fly leaves spotted. Light brown calf, gilt, marbled edges. Fly leaves spotted. Inscription on front free end-paper: "Frank Cecil with the best wishes of Lewis Cochran on his leaving Eton Xmas 1864". A history of Russia beginning with the legend that St. Andrew had introduced Christianity to the Slavs, and ending with the accession of Nicholas I in 1825. The author is critical of Catherine the Great - "an infidel to all forms of faith" who "publicly squandered ... no less a sum than 88,820,000 roubles" and who in her Code of Laws committed literary larceny by pillaging the writings of Montesquieu and Beccaria. "To have submitted to the rule of a foreign woman, like Catherine, without the shadow of a title to the throne, stamps Russia at the time as the most debased of nations." Milner, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, also wrote works on the Baltic, the Crimea, and the Ottoman Empire. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: GA0062 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	MILNER, THOMAS. Russia: its rise and progress, tragedies and revolutions. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. 8vo. xv, 500p. Frontispiece portrait of Vassali V. Fly leaves spotted. Crimson calf, gilt, marbled edges. Inscription on front free end-paper: "Frank Cecil with the best wishes of Herbert C. Tower on his leaving Eton Xmas 1864". A history of Russia beginning with the legend that St. Andrew had introduced Christianity to the Slavs, and ending with the accession of Nicholas I in 1825. The author is critical of Catherine the Great - "an infidel to all forms of faith" who "publicly squandered ... no less a sum than 88,820,000 roubles" and who in her Code of Laws committed literary larceny by pillaging the writings of Montesquieu and Beccaria. "To have submitted to the rule of a foreign woman, like Catherine, without the shadow of a title to the throne, stamps Russia at the time as the most debased of nations." Milner, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, also wrote works on the Baltic, the Crimea, and the Ottoman Empire. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: GA0061 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	MIZAULD, ANTOINE. De hortensium arborum insitione opusculum, Antonii Mizaldi Monluciani studio et diligentia concinnatum. Eiusdem Dendranatome, hoc est partiu[m] corporis arborei explicatio brevis: ubi de earundem nutritione. Lutetiae: apud Federicum Morellum, 1560. 8vo. 28ff. Some slight browning. Contemporary vellum. Printer's device on title. 18th-century ownership inscription and library stamp on title page. A treatise on the grafting of trees. Mizauld (1510?-1578) studied at Bourges and at Paris and at first devoted himself to medicine. Later, along with Oronce Finé, he turned to astrology and the secrets of Nature (he was astrologer to Marguerite de Valois). J.P. Niceron (Mémoires, vol.40, pp.200-13) credits Mizauld with the authorship of 41 books including works on comets, astrology, cosmography, sympathy and antipathy, almanacs, mathematics, agriculture and gardening. De Thou commends him for his learning; Niceron, however, complains of his books being stuffed with false and useless notions. Bound with: DIOCLES Carystius. Aurea ad Antigonum regem epistola, de morborum praesagiis, & eorumdem exte[m]poraneis remediis. Adhaec, Arnaldi a Villa-Nova ... de salubri hortensium usu. Antonii Mizaldi ... cura & diligentia. Lutetiae: apud Federicum Morelleum, 1572. 8vo. [4], 27, [1]ff. According to Pliny, Diocles was the second physician after Hippocrates in time and fame, a contemporary of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.). His writings dealt with animal anatomy, physiology, aetiology, symptomatology, prognostics, dietetics and botany. The surviving fragments show the influence of the Sicilian School of Empedocles (four humours, importance of the heart, the pneuma), of Hippocrates (the body considered as organism), of Aristotle (methodological concepts and terminology). Diocles' originality consists in uniting these different trends. See W. Jaeger, Diokles von Karystos. GBP 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 443.75 US$ 664.4 \| JP¥ 58697] Book number: 6/066 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.

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	[GODFREY, J.] The poor man's friend; or a few plain words from a plain man, who desires to see the poor happy and contented in that situation of life in which it has pleased God to place them ... Fourth edition. Lynn: Wade, Printer, 1835. 8vo. 28p. Signed at end: J.G. Top and bottom margins of title repaired. Modern cloth, new end-papers. Reflections on the effects of the distressed state of agriculture in Norfolk in the 1820s. A continuation of the poor man's friend was printed at Lynn in 1836. The British Library has a copy of the Continuation but apparently not of the earlier publication. The National Union Catalog reports only one copy of each - at Yale. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 13/046 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	ANON. Condizioni intime e misteriose della Russia tratte da documenti autentici. Versione libera di G.A.G. Torino: Presso Bazzarini e Savallo, 1855. 8vo. 169p. Frontispiece portrait of Alexander II. 19th-century paper-covered boards, slightly worn and ink stain on front board. Spine title in ink. The text is divided into nine chapters: Despotism of the Czar, Character of the Russians, Religion and clergy, Administration, Law and justice and Siberian penal colonies, Serfdom, Army, Navy, Russian expansionist policies and foreign affairs. The text - anti-Russian throughout - ends just before the outbreak of the Crimean War (October 1853). The original author appears to have been French (cf. page 168: "Qui s'arresta lo scrittor francese che con quest'opera si propose di rivelare le condizioni intime e misteriose della Russia.") No copy found in BLC. NUC records 2 copies (under title) at Library of Congress and University of Illinois. GBP 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 100 US$ 149.49 \| JP¥ 13207] Book number: GA0050 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	BOUDIER DE VILLEMENT, PIERRE JOSEPH. L'amico delle donne: opera morale trasportata dall' idioma franzese nell' italiano dall' abate Giuliano Merlini. Firenze: Andrea Bonducci, 1761. 8vo. xvi, 152p. Marbled boards, leather-backed. slightly worn. An Italian translation of L'ami des femmes, first published in Paris in 1758. 'Ce livre blâme les femmes qui écrivent ou étudient les sciences; il veut qu'elles travaillent continuellement aux ouvrages d'aiguille; il préconise le mariage, et demande que les femmes nourrissent elles-mêmes leurs enfants.' - Jules Gay, "Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, aux femmes, au mariage", 4 éd., p.94. GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 61 US$ 91.36 \| JP¥ 8071] Book number: 6/010 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	CAMPISTRON, JEAN GALBERT DE. Oeuvres choisies. Édition stéréotype, d'après le procédé de Firmin Didot. Paris: De l'Imprimerie et de la Fonderie Stéréotypes de P. Didot l'ainé, et de Firmin Didot, 1810. 18mo. xiv, 198, [2]p. Red cloth, leather-backed. Small dent in rear cover, otherwise in VG condition. Between 1683 and 1709 Campistron turned out 9 tragedies, 2 comedies and, in collaboration with Lully, 3 'tragédies en musique'. To a certain extent Campistron was an imitator of Corneille and Racine, but not so much as to accuse him of lack of originality. Some of his tragedies are heroic and patriotic; others pyschological and pathetic. The conflict of generations and the fatal destructiveness of incestuous love are recurrent themes. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 27.75 US$ 41.53 \| JP¥ 3669] Book number: 6/016 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	LA CHAUSSÉE, PIERRE CLAUDE NIVELLE DE. Oeuvres choisies. Édition stéréotype, d'après le procédé de Firmin Didot. Paris: De l'Imprimerie et de la Fonderie Stéréotypes de P. Didot l'ainé, et de Firmin Didot, 1810. 18mo. 2 vols. Vol. 1: 253, [3] p. Vol. 2: 227, [1] p. Red cloth, leather-backed. VG condition. La Chaussée (1692-1754) was the originator in France of sentimental comedy, comédie larmoyante as it was nicknamed by his opponents, in which the pathetic element, drawn from the realistic representation of the sufferings of everyday domestic life, outweighs or entirely obliterates the comic. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 6/051 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	CORNEILLE, THOMAS. Poèmes dramatiques ... Nouvelle édition, revûË, corrigée & augmentée. Paris: chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1722. 12mo. 4 vols. 27 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, gilt, with some signs of wear. Title and preliminaries of vol. 4 discoloured. The younger brother - by 20 years - of the more renowned playwright, Pierre Corneille, Thomas produced over 40 comedies, tragi-comedies, tragedies and operas, some of which (e.g. his romantic tragedy "Timocrate" and his comedy "Le Geôlier de soi même") were highly successful in their day. GBP 160.00 [Appr.: EURO 177.5 US$ 265.76 \| JP¥ 23479] Book number: 6/022 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DAUNOU, PIERRE CLAUDE FRANÇOIS. Essai sur les garanties individuelles que réclame l'état actuel de la société. Paris: Foulon, 1819. [4], 245p. Modern marbled boards, leather-backed. Historian, legislator and idéologue, Daunou opposed Louis XVI's trial and protested against the proscription of the Girondins. He was the chief author of the constitution of 1795 and founder of the Institut National. After Bonaparte's coup in 1799, he also participated in the writing of the constitution of the year VIII (Dec. 1799) from which Napoleon excised many liberal provisions. O. Connelly, Historical dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815, p.145. GBP 135.00 [Appr.: EURO 149.75 US$ 224.24 \| JP¥ 19810] Book number: 6/099 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DIAKONOW, PETR IVANOVICH. Guide médical de Moscou. Traduit du russe par A. Tastevin. Moscou: Imprimerie de la Société I.D. Sytine, 1897. [4], iv, 84p. 1 folding plan of Moscow. Cloth covers. At head of cover title: XII Congrès International de Médecine. The text is divided into six sections: 1. General medical statistics for Moscow - births and deaths. 2. Institutions for the teaching of medicine - Faculty of Medicine at the University of Moscow and other teaching bodies - with details of personnel and courses. 3. Medical administration and public health. 4. List of hospitals with details of their foundation, staff, number of patients treated in 1896. 5. Medical journals published in Moscow. 6. Other related institutions. Rare. No copy in BL or in BN Paris. NUC records just two copies: John Crerar Library and Yale Medical School. GBP 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 77.75 US$ 116.27 \| JP¥ 10272] Book number: GA0054 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DOLCE, LODOVICO. Il capitano, comedia. Nuouamente corretta, e ristampata. Venetia: presso Gio. Battista Combi, 1620. 12mo. 79p. French, 19th-century quarter brown morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; silk bookmark. Ludovico Dolce (1510-68), Venetian humanist, worked for the press of Gabriel Giolito. Claudia Di Filippo Bareggi claims that over the course of thirty-six years Dolce was responsible for 96 editions of his own original work, 202 editions of other writers, and at least 54 translations. Dolce worked in most of the literary genres available at the time, including epic and lyric poetry, chivalric romance, comedy, tragedy, the prose dialogue, treatises (where he discussed women, ill-married men, memory, the Italian language, gems, painting, and colours), encyclopedic summaries (of Aristotle's philosophy and world history), and historical works on major figures of the 16th century and earlier, such as Cicero, Ovid, Dante, and Boccaccio. His comedy, Il capitano (first published and perhaps performed in 1545), is a more or less updated version of Plautus' Miles gloriosus, written in verse. BL Cat. of 17th-century Italian books, vol.1 p.305. GBP 180.00 [Appr.: EURO 199.75 US$ 298.98 \| JP¥ 26414] Book number: GA0038 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DROZ, JOSEPH FRANÇOIS XAVIER. La morale applicata alla politica: operetta di Giuseppe Droz ... Prima traduzione italiana di S.C. Firenze: Presso G.P. Vieusseux Editore, Tipografia di Luigi Pezzati, 1826. 8vo. 134, [1]p. Marbled boards, leather-backed. VG condition. Writer on literature and philosophy, Droz was also one of the founders of the science of political economy. In 1801 he published Des lois relatives au progrès de l'industrie, which was followed in 1829 by his principal work Économie politique, ou principes de la science de richesses. La morale applicata alla politica is an Italian translation of his Applications de la morale à la politique first published in 1825. Two years earlier Droz had published De la philosophie morale, whose main thesis is that society will never be in a proper state until men have been educated to think of their duties as much as their rights. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 \| JP¥ 7337] Book number: 6/100 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	FIELDING, HENRY. Amelia. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752 [1751]. 12mo. 4 vols. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt; slightly rubbed at joints and at top and bottom of spine. Some boards slightly loose and joints strengthened. Bookplate of Henry Francis Redhead Yorke. First edition of Amelia, Fielding's "favourite child", a novel of social protest and an experiment in new techniques, especially in irony and in subtle characterisation. Robert Alter argues that the novel pioneers "the masterful interlocking of separate lives through shared experience that gives Middlemarch such remarkable coherence. - "Fielding's problem novel" in his Fielding and the nature of the novel, pp.141-178. The Rothschild Library: a catalogue, 853. H. Fielding, Amelia, edited by M.C. Battestin (Appendix VII: Bibliographical descriptions, pp.583-4). ESTC t089846. GBP 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 443.75 US$ 664.4 \| JP¥ 58697] Book number: 13/042 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	FLACHAT, EUGÈNE & PETIET, JULES. Calculs et tableaux sur l'avance du tiroir, les tuyaux d'échappement, les conduits de vapeur et de fumée dans les machines locomotives (extrait du Guide du mécanicien conducteur de machines locomotives), précédés d'une lettre à M. Arago, Secrétaire Perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences; par Eugène Flachat et Jules Petiet. Ingénieurs Civils. [Paris? 1839?] Small 8vo. xiii, 92p. Some spotting and a little damp-staining. New marbled boards cloth spine, new end papers. "Lettre à M. Arago" is dated "Paris, le 22 novembre 1839" and the second paragraph includes the information "Nos observations ont été faites sur cinquante machines des chemins de fer de Saint-Germain et de Versailles (rive droite), et, par conséquent, sur des locomotives spécialement affectées au transport des voyageurs." An early work of railway interest published only a couple of years after the inauguration (26 August 1837) of the first steam railway in France to operate for both freight and passengers (connnecting Paris and the town of St. Germain). Flachat was a distinguished civil engineer from Nîmes who in his youth had made a study of the London docks and had been involved in the planning of the Paris-St. Germain line. He was responsible for numerous publications on locomotive design, railway engineering, projects for new docks and railway lines (including the Simplon route through the Alps) GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 US$ 99.66 \| JP¥ 8805] Book number: 6/102 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	FUMÉE, ANTOINE. Tractatus tres. De eo quod interest. De substitutionibus. De coniunctionibus. Tolosae: apud Joannem Girardum, 1546. 4to. 123p. Bound in a leaf of vellum from a late medieval manuscript; skilfully restored, new fly leaves. This legal treatise was first published at Lyon in 1536, the year in which its author became an active member of the Paris Parlement. As a suspected crypto-Protestant, Fumée prudently withdrew from Paris in the early 1560s and became attached to the Breton Parlement. He later returned to Paris and celebrated the accession of Henri III (1574) with a lively flurry of literary activity, including three courtly eclogues in Latin and a panegyric on the king's return from Poland. GBP 290.00 [Appr.: EURO 321.75 US$ 481.69 \| JP¥ 42555] Book number: 6/038 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	GAGARIN, JEAN XAVIER. La Russie sera-t-elle catholique? Paris: Douniol, 1856. 8vo. viii, 169p. Original printed wrappers mounted on new boards. New end-papers. Very small worm hole in top margin, not affecting text. A plea, by a Jesuit of Russian birth, for reconciliation between the Russian Orthodox Church and Rome. Printed as appendices are: the Decree of Eugenius IV (6 July 1439) on union with the Eastern Church, the Bull of Clement VIII (23 December 1595) concerning reunion with the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Brief of Benedict XIV (26 March 1755) on Eastern rites. De Backer Sommervogel, vol.3, col.1090, no.4. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39 US$ 58.14 \| JP¥ 5136] Book number: GA0055 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	GATTESCHI, DOMENICO. Manuale di diritto pubblico e privato ottomano contenente le principali capitolazioni e trattati di commercio della Porta colle potenze cristiane e relativi regolamenti ... Compilato dal dottor Domenico Gatteschi, edito per cura dei sigg. Castelnuovo e Leoncavallo. Alessandria in Egitto: Tipografia della posta europea di V. Minasi e C., 1865. lxxxii, 570p. Occasional very slight spotting; Cloth boards, leather-backed. An uncommon work (only two copies are reported in NUC) dealing with commercial relations between the Ottoman Empire on the one hand and the major European powers (England, France, Italy, Austria, Russia and Prussia) and the United States of America on the other. A large section of the text consists of official documents and treaties and these are in French. GBP 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 277.5 US$ 415.25 \| JP¥ 36686] Book number: GA0001 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	KOCH, KARL HEINRICH EMIL. The Crimea and Odessa: journal of a tour, with an account of the climate and vegetation ... Translated by Joanna B. Horner. With a map of the Crimea. London: John Murray, 1855. 8vo. xii, 323p. Fold. map. Title page a little soiled. Modern dark blue morocco. A translation of Der Krim und Odessa (1854). Koch's journey to the Crimea in the autumn of 1844 was part of a more extensive tour in the Caucasus which was undertaken for scientific reasons with assistance from the Russian government and the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. He had also visited southern Russia in 1836-38 - described in his Reise durch Russland nach dem kaukasischen Isthmus. Koch was a botanist - he taught at the universities of Jena and Berlin - and his interests are evident in his description of the grounds of the castle at Aloupka "the Alhambra of Prince Woronzoff in the Crimea", and in the detailed inventory of foreign trees and shrubs introduced into the Crimea (pp.278-92). GBP 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 88.75 US$ 132.88 \| JP¥ 11739] Book number: GA0058 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	KOERBER, KARL VON. Epistel an die Freunde des Feldbaues besonders an jene, die einen nasskalten Lehmboden haben. Wien: Johann Georg Ritter v. Mösle, 1805. 8vo. 53, [2]p. 19th-century marbled boards, a little worn. As owner of estates in the mountainous region of Silesia, the author had experience of the management of wet clay soils. He argues that fell farmers mistakenly concentrate on grain production to the neglect of cattle rearing, which should be the true basis of sound agriculture (the availability of manure being essential for the improvement of poor clay soils). He advocates the abandonment of the three-field system and the substitution of a system of crop rotation which will keep all arable land in use all of the time - the crops to include vegetables as well as cereals. Milk yields will increase from a greater variety of fodder, and thereby incomes will also rise. The benefits of crop rotation will become evident after five or six years. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50 US$ 74.75 \| JP¥ 6603] Book number: GA0002 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	LABAUME, EUGÈNE. A circumstantial narrative of the campaign in Russia, embellished with plans of the battles of the Moskwa and Malo-Jaroslavitz. Containing a faithful description of the affecting and interesting scenes, of which the author was an eye-witness. By Eugene Labaume ... Translated from the French. Second edition, considerably improved. London: printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1815. 8vo. viii, 416p. 2 folding battle plans (facing p. 210 & p. 216). "Large map to face title" called for in the Directions to the binder on p.412, is not present in this copy (NUC entry for this ed. calls for 1 map, 1 plan). Modern black cloth, red leather title-label. A translation of Relation circonstanciée de la campagne de Russie. In his preface the author writes: "It was by the light of the burning of Mosow, that I described the sack of that unfortunate city ... I retraced, each night, the events of the day, sitting beside a wretched fire, under a temperature of ten or twelve degrees, and surrounded by the dying and the dead. The knife with which I had carved my scanty morsel of horse-flesh, was employed in cutting a raven's quill, and a little gunpowder, mixed with some melted snow, in the hollow of my hand, served me for ink and inkstand." GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 72.25 US$ 107.97 \| JP¥ 9538] Book number: GA0059 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	LIGUORI, ALFONSO MARIA DE', SAINT. Thejia ghal meut mictuba bit-talian min Sant' Alfonsu de Liguori u ghal gid tar-ruieh migiuba fil-Isien Malti mn' Achille Ferres. Malta: stampat ghand l'ahua Bonello, 1863. 496 p, [2] p. 8vo. Some light worming in first and final sections, almost entirely marginal. 19th-century black leather, gilt, with initials V.Z. in gilt on front cover. Small repair at foot of spine. New end-papers. A translation of "Considerazioni sulle massime eterne" - one of over 100 works by the founder of the Order of the Redemptorists, Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, who was canonized by Gregory XVI in 1839 and delcared a Doctor of the Church by Pius IX in 1871. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 27.75 US$ 41.53 \| JP¥ 3669] Book number: 9/006 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	DE LOLME, JOHN LOUIS. The constitution of England; or, An account of the English government ... A new edition, corrected. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson; and J. Murray, 1790. 8vo. [8], xv, [1], 540, [19]p. Frontis. portrait of De Lolme. Modern black cloth boards, red leather title label, all edges marbled. First published in French in Amsterdam in 1771, this work is one of a number of commendations of the English constitution which emanated from the pens of non-Englishmen (Voltaire and Montesquieu being more illustrious examples). The success of De Lolme's book (it went into numerous editions) lay not so much in its insight but in the gross flattery with which it bombarded the English reader. The author, however, showed little interest in the practical working of the constitution - no references to rotten and pocket boroughs, or to the fact that most of the industrial cities were unrepresented in Parliament. GBP 48.00 [Appr.: EURO 53.25 US$ 79.73 \| JP¥ 7044] Book number: 13/026 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	LITURGIES - LATIN RITE. HYMNAL - LATIN & MALTESE. L'inni imkadsa l'antifoni tat-tmiem tal breviariu ruman u is-sequenzi tal missal migiubin bil Malti Mis-Sac. Dr. Lod. Mifsud Tommasi. Malta: Stampat ghand F. Cumbo, 1853. 419, [1], viii p. 8vo. Some worming, particularly in first section, mainly marginal or interlinear. Black cloth. New end-papers. Title mounted. Latin and Maltese texts on facing pages. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.25 US$ 33.22 \| JP¥ 2935] Book number: 9/007 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	MENAGE, GILLES. Menagiana, ou les bons mots et remarques critiques, historiques, morales & d'érudition de Monsieur Menage. Recueillies par ses amis ... Troisième édition, plus ample de moitié, & plus correcte que les précédentes. Paris: chez Florentin Delaulne, 1715. 12mo. 4 vols. Contemporary calf, gilt, scuffed and worn at head and foot of spine. Bookplates removed from all 4 volumes. Despite his accomplishments as a philologist, Ménage was never elected to the Académie française, though he did become a member of the Accademia della Crusca. He was a frequenter of the Hôtel Rambouillet - the intellectual centre of Parisian society in the early 17th century - but he was quarrelsome by nature and had disputes with Bouhours, Cotin and others, and he was satirized as Vadius in Molière's Les femmes savantes. Menagiana is a collection of Ménage's sayings, observations, anecdotes and miscellanies, prepared by him and first published in 1693 after his death. GBP 160.00 [Appr.: EURO 177.5 US$ 265.76 \| JP¥ 23479] Book number: 6/062 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	MILNER, THOMAS. Russia: its rise and progress, tragedies and revolutions. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. 8vo. xv, 500p. Frontispiece portrait of Vassali V. Fly leaves spotted. Light brown calf, gilt, marbled edges. Fly leaves spotted. Inscription on front free end-paper: "Frank Cecil with the best wishes of Lewis Cochran on his leaving Eton Xmas 1864". A history of Russia beginning with the legend that St. Andrew had introduced Christianity to the Slavs, and ending with the accession of Nicholas I in 1825. The author is critical of Catherine the Great - "an infidel to all forms of faith" who "publicly squandered ... no less a sum than 88,820,000 roubles" and who in her Code of Laws committed literary larceny by pillaging the writings of Montesquieu and Beccaria. "To have submitted to the rule of a foreign woman, like Catherine, without the shadow of a title to the throne, stamps Russia at the time as the most debased of nations." Milner, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, also wrote works on the Baltic, the Crimea, and the Ottoman Empire. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: GA0062 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	MILNER, THOMAS. Russia: its rise and progress, tragedies and revolutions. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. 8vo. xv, 500p. Frontispiece portrait of Vassali V. Fly leaves spotted. Crimson calf, gilt, marbled edges. Inscription on front free end-paper: "Frank Cecil with the best wishes of Herbert C. Tower on his leaving Eton Xmas 1864". A history of Russia beginning with the legend that St. Andrew had introduced Christianity to the Slavs, and ending with the accession of Nicholas I in 1825. The author is critical of Catherine the Great - "an infidel to all forms of faith" who "publicly squandered ... no less a sum than 88,820,000 roubles" and who in her Code of Laws committed literary larceny by pillaging the writings of Montesquieu and Beccaria. "To have submitted to the rule of a foreign woman, like Catherine, without the shadow of a title to the throne, stamps Russia at the time as the most debased of nations." Milner, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, also wrote works on the Baltic, the Crimea, and the Ottoman Empire. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 122 US$ 182.71 \| JP¥ 16142] Book number: GA0061 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.
	MIZAULD, ANTOINE. De hortensium arborum insitione opusculum, Antonii Mizaldi Monluciani studio et diligentia concinnatum. Eiusdem Dendranatome, hoc est partiu[m] corporis arborei explicatio brevis: ubi de earundem nutritione. Lutetiae: apud Federicum Morellum, 1560. 8vo. 28ff. Some slight browning. Contemporary vellum. Printer's device on title. 18th-century ownership inscription and library stamp on title page. A treatise on the grafting of trees. Mizauld (1510?-1578) studied at Bourges and at Paris and at first devoted himself to medicine. Later, along with Oronce Finé, he turned to astrology and the secrets of Nature (he was astrologer to Marguerite de Valois). J.P. Niceron (Mémoires, vol.40, pp.200-13) credits Mizauld with the authorship of 41 books including works on comets, astrology, cosmography, sympathy and antipathy, almanacs, mathematics, agriculture and gardening. De Thou commends him for his learning; Niceron, however, complains of his books being stuffed with false and useless notions. Bound with: DIOCLES Carystius. Aurea ad Antigonum regem epistola, de morborum praesagiis, & eorumdem exte[m]poraneis remediis. Adhaec, Arnaldi a Villa-Nova ... de salubri hortensium usu. Antonii Mizaldi ... cura & diligentia. Lutetiae: apud Federicum Morelleum, 1572. 8vo. [4], 27, [1]ff. According to Pliny, Diocles was the second physician after Hippocrates in time and fame, a contemporary of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.). His writings dealt with animal anatomy, physiology, aetiology, symptomatology, prognostics, dietetics and botany. The surviving fragments show the influence of the Sicilian School of Empedocles (four humours, importance of the heart, the pneuma), of Hippocrates (the body considered as organism), of Aristotle (methodological concepts and terminology). Diocles' originality consists in uniting these different trends. See W. Jaeger, Diokles von Karystos. GBP 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 443.75 US$ 664.4 \| JP¥ 58697] Book number: 6/066 Click here to order or inquire at Jack Baldwin - Rare Books.