BOEMUS (BÖHM), Johannes.

Omnium gentium mores leges et ritus ex multis clarrissimis rerum scriptoribus ... nuper collecti: & in libros tris distinctos Aphricam, Asiam, Europam, optime lector lege. [Half-title:] Repertorium librorum trium Ioannis Boemi de omnium gentium ritibus. Item index rerum scitu digniorum in eosdem. Cum privilegio Papali ac Imperiali M.D.XX.[Colophon: Augsburg, Sigismund Grimm & Marcus Wirsung, July 1520]. Folio. With the letterpress half-title in an elaborate woodcut border with a trophy of arms, putti and mermen. 17th century vellum with 3 raised spine-bands.

[6], LXXXI, [1] ll.First edition of a pioneering and highly influential foundational work of anthropology that went through almost fifty editions in 100 years and was widely read throughout Western Europe. Written by the "father of scientific ethnography" (NDB), who based his information on several sources from antiquity, as he indicates in the title. It is the first printed compendium of the religion, laws and customs of the peoples of Africa, Asia and Europe. The chapters are classified by region, including Egypt, Assyria, Persia, India, Russia and Ethiopia. The part on India stands out among the rest because of the addition of new information drawn from recent explorations by Ludovico di Varthema, first published in 1510 (just ten years earlier).Although the many later editions of this foundation stone of anthropology are widely available, the present first edition is very rare on the market. It is also remarkable typographically, with the largest series of ornamented roman initials (A, C, D, M and P) absolutely stunning: Grimm and Wirsung appear to have introduced it in 1518. The two sets of roman titling capitals are also well-made. Grimm and Wirsum had introduced the largest, certainly movable type but perhaps cut in wood, in 1518. It may be the fourth series of large titling capitals used north of the Alps (after one used by Ratdoldt and two probably cut by Peter Schoeffer the younger).Near contemporary owner's inscription in ink on the title-page "... Fulginei". Stains on the title-page due to a removed label and an attempt to erase a stamp. A few leaves browned, the last 10 stained.Otherwise in good condition.l Adams B2270; NDB II, 403; Palau 31247; Sabin 6117; USTC 690593; VD16, B6316.

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BOER, Pieter A. de (D. de BOER, compilor).

Krijgs- en geschiedkundig overzigt van den Punjab, de natie der Seiks en het rijk van Lahore. Van de vroegste tijden tot op de gebeurtenissen aan den Sutledje, in 1845 en 1846.The Hague, K.W. Pickhardt (back of the title-page: printed by C.H. Susan junior), 1849. With a lithographed frontispiece and 4 folding maps, and 1 table.Contemporary half cloth, marbled sides.

XXIX, [3], 444 pp. and 1 publications slip.Rare first and only edition, published posthumously, of a Dutch description of Punjab with an emphasis on the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-1846). The author Pieter A. de Boer (1818-1847) was a lieutenant in the Dutch artillery, who based his information on several sources but was not an eye-witness.The original lithographed frontispiece by Elias Spanier (1821-1863) shows Maharadjah Runjit Singh and the 4 folding maps, also by Spanier, depict a plan of the Battle of Aliwal 1846; plan of the Battle of Sobraon 1846; overview of British troop movement in 1845-1846, after a sketch by captain H.T. Combe; and large map of Punjab. With an addendum slip.Bookplate of the society Doctrina & Amicitia on front paste-down. Shelf mark on spine. Boards and spine somewhat discoloured. 3 out of 4 plates have a small tear at the fold. Otherwise in very good condition.l Not in Bruce; Sloos; for the author: Van der Aa, Biografisch woordenboek II, p. 725.

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BOERHAAVE, Herman.

Libellus de materia medica et remedorium formulis, quae servient Aphorismis de cognoscendis et curandis morbis.Leiden, Isaac Severinus, 1727. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette. Contemporary speckled calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label with the author's name in gold.

[16], 260, [44] pp.Rare second authorized edition of Boerhaave's collection of prescriptions referring to his Aphorismi. It is a word-for-word exact reprint of Severinus’ first edition of the Materia medica of 1719; the copies of both editions were signed by the publisher; the apparently pirated editions of 1720 and 1721, both in Leiden and in Paris, were not.A year after Boerhave published his main work, his Institutiones medicae (1708) and his Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis came out in 1709. The Aphorismi is a collection of short pronouncements concerning the diagnosis and therapy of various diseases. If possible this work was still more in demand than the previous one, the Instititiones medicae, and numerous editions and translations spread the fame of its author all over Europe (Lindeboom, nrs. 143-197).In the Aphorismi no exact prescriptions were given. The unauthorized printing of them by some of his English students forced Boerhaave to publish a collection of corrected and supplemented prescriptions referring to his teachings in the Aphorismi himself as Libellus de materia medica in 1719.In order to guarantee the authenticity of the Libellus de materia medica he made the publisher Severinus sign personally every copy (as he did also in our copy). The small book ran to 259 pages and was provided with an extensive index. It was eagerly received and was frequently reprinted, even after Boerhaave's death. The last edition appeared in 1776. Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), was the central figure of European medicine and the greatest clinical, or ‘bedside’ teacher of his time. He spent the whole of his professional life at the University of Leiden, serving as professor of botany of medicine, rector of the university, professor of practical medicine, and professor of chemistry.Upper margin of the title-page repaired, slightly foxed and soiled, otherwise in good condition.l Blake, p. 54; BMGC, III, p. 758; Lindeboom, 285; Lindeboom, Dutch med. biogr., 179/186; Wellcome II, 189; cf. Heirs of Hippocrates 741; Boerhaave tentoonstelling (Leiden 1968), p. 18.

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BOERHAAVE, Herman.

Praxis medica, sive commentarium in aphorismos Hermanni Boerhaave de cognoscendoid & curandis morbis. Pars 1-5. Editio tertia, aucta, & accuratissima.London [= Amsterdam?], sumtibus societatis, 1738. 5 volumes bound as 3. Each title-page with a woodcut vignette and a border built up from typographic ornaments. With an engraved oval portrait of Boerhaave as added as frontispiece, pasted to the first fly-leaf.With: (2) Herman BOERHAAVE. Historia plantarum. quae in Horto Academico Lugduni Batavorum crescent cum earum charecteribus[!], & medicinalibus virtutibus desumptis ex ore … Hermanni Boerhaave … Collectis atque in lucem editis ab ***. Pars 1-2. Editio novissima, aucta …12mo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.

[8], 648, [12]; [2], 400, [6]; [2], 458, [2]; [2], 326, [6]; [2], 382, [10] pp; [4], 408, [2], 409-696, [30] pp.Ad 1: Although Boerhave considered Institutiones medicae (1708) his greatest work and it made him famous, his Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis (Aphorisms on the recognition and treatment of diseases) published a year later in 1709, met an even greater demand. It is a collection of short pronouncements concerning the diagnosis of and therapy for various diseases, and numerous editions and translations spread the fame of its author all over Europe (Lindeboom 143-197). In 1718 an extensive commentary on the Aphorismi appeared in Padua (Lindeboom 198). Ad 2: Third edition, with corrections and an expanded index, of Boerhaave's description of the plants in Leiden University's botanical garden. It gives an account of the various species, including the origins of the plants, their names, characteristics and possible medicinal properties. It covers trees, herbs, flowers, mushrooms and marine plants, including American, East Indian and other exotic species. A second edition appeared with imprint London, S. Kuchel & J. Knapton [= Amsterdam], 1731: see Weller, I, p. 295), and the present third in 1738, again with a London imprint but probably printed in Amsterdam.Binding slightly worn and rubbed, head (vol. 2) and feat (all 3 vols.) of spine slightly damaged. Otherwise in good condition.l Ad 1: Lindeboom, Bibliogr. Boerhaaviana, nr. 204. Ad 2: Arnold Arboretum I, p. 91; Henrey 463.

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BOËSSIÈRE the younger, Texier la.

Traité de l'art des armes, a l'usage des professeurs et des amateurs.Paris, Didot l'Ainé, 1818. 8vo. With 20 numbered folding engraved plates depicting various fencing positions, by Adam after Bodem. Conteporary polished calf, decorated gilt spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers.

XXII, 309, [1 blank] pp.First edition of this famous manual on fencing. The author was the son of the famous fencing master that anonymously published an essay against the treatise of Guillaume Danet, in 1766. He opposed his father with his reforms in the art of fencing, and laid the foundations of the fencing methods perfected by Jean-Louis.Binding restored with origiginal spine laid down. A few plates slightly cut short with loss of plate numbers. Otherwise in good condition.l Pardoel 396; Thimm, p. 33; Vigeant, pp. 38-39.

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BOETHIUS.

De consolatione philosophie duplici commentario videlicet Sancti Thome & Jodoci Badii Ascensii cum utriusque tabula. Item eiusdem de disciplina scholarium cum explanatione et quintilianum de officio discipulorum diligenter annotata.Rouen, [printed by Pierre Olivier] for Jean Macé in Rennes, 1519. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to With Macé’s large woodcut devices on the 2 title-pages and on the verso of the last leaf, the first title-page printed in red and black. Several fine woodcut initials. Modern vellum, red morocco spine-label.

[312]; [64] pp.Rare and beautifully produced edition, printed in Rouen for Jean Macé in Rennes, of a famous book by Boethius, with commentaries by Thomas Aquinas and Josse Badius Ascensius skilfully arranged in smaller type around Boethius's text. Added with a separate title-page is the famous pseudo-Boethius text on school discipline together with Quintilianus's text on the duty of pupils, also in edited by Josse Badius Ascensius, and also with Badius's comments in small print around The importance of the book can hardly be exaggerated. All through the Middle Ages it found a large number of commentators and imitators, inspired philosophy as well as literature, and was considered most suitable for use at schools. It inspired great authors like Jean de Meung, Chaucer and Dante. The added treatises were basic sources for ideas about the organisation of education, the duties of students and - especially in the Renaissance - all questions of education.A few small wormholes in first leaves, a few unobtrusive stains and occasionally very slightly browned, but otherwise in fine condition. A rare edition of an essential source for Mediaeval pedagogy.l Desgraves, et al., Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au seizième siècle, 19, 41:70; French vernacular books 58380 (4 copies); Renouard, Badius Ascensius, II, pp. 211-212, no. 22; USTC 111626 (same 4 copies); not in Adams; BMC STC French.

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BOISSOUDAN, Jacques Elie Manceau de.

Le fauconnier parfait, ou méthode pour dresser et faire voler les oiseaux.Paris, pour la Société des Bibliophiles (back of the half-title: printed by Ch. Lahure), 1866. 8vo. Half-title, title-page with a wood-engraved medallion portrait of Jean-Auguste de Thou. 20th-century panelled calf.

[4], XII, 72 pp.Written at Poitou ca. 1745, this falconry manual was published only in 1864, at the end of an edition of Jacques du Fouilloux’s La venerie. Harting recommends it and writes that Boissoudan’s "treatise conveys a good idea of the state of falconry in the 18th century in Poitou, where the native goshawk was much used".Occasional spotting, heavier in the endpapers.l Harting 202; Schwerdt I, 74; Thiébaud 109.

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BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien.

Catalogo metodico dei pesci Europei.Naples, Stamperia e cartiere del Fibreno, 1846. Large 4to (32.5 x 23.5 cm). With a vignette of two fish on the title page. Contemporary green wrappers.

97, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of the standalone version of a systematic classification of European species of fish by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803-1857). This publication - in Latin but with an Italian title - was also published as part of the proceedings of the 7th congress of Italian scientists held in Naples in 1845, at which Bonaparte presided over the zoological commission. "As early as 1831 Bonaparte became interested on the great principle of classification and was critical of Cuvier's concepts. … In ichthyology Bonaparte made use of the location, the structure and the relationships of the branchiae in the classification of fishes. … Bonaparte tried to establish our knowledge of various zoological groups once and for all, and published numerous synopses, conspectuses, and catalogs" (DSB).Binding worn with the head of the spine damaged and a large tear at the back repaired with tape. Some foxing throughout but otherwise in good condition.l Dean I, p. 149 1845.2; DSB II, pp. 281-283; Mulder Bosgoed, Bibliotheca ichthyologica et piscatoria, 591.

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BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien.

[Collection of revised ornithological offprints from Comptes rendus].Including:Coup d'oeil sur l'ordre des pigeons. Paris, 1855.Tableaux synoptiques de l'ordre des hérons. Paris, 1855.Catalogue des genres et sous-genres d'oiseaux contenus dans le Muséum Brittanique. Paris, 1855. Note sur les oiseaux des Iles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius. Paris, 1855.Tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des gallinacés. Paris, 1856. Excursions dans les divers musées d'Allemagne, de Hollande et de Belgique, et tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des échassiers. Paris, 1856. Ornithologie fossile servant d'introduction au tableau comparatif des ineptes et des autruches. Paris, 1856.Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1855-1856. 4to. 7 parts in 1 volume. With a collective title-page for several of the offprints: Tableaux paralléliques des oiseaux praecoces ou autophages. Gallinacés, échassiers, palmipèdes et rudipennes (Paris, 1856) and all first leaves of the quires signed with a "B", indicating a revised offprint. Modern half morocco.

Collection of revised ornithological offprints from Comptes rendus (a French scientific journal published since 1666), by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, a well-known ornithologist and nephew of Napoleon. Included are taxonomic classifications of various birds, including pigeons, herons, galliformes (gamefowl) and ostriches, birds found in the collections of various museums in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Marquesas Islands, and also a review of George Robert Gray's Genera and subgenera of birds (1855). Apparently several similar collections were published, containing various articles by Bonaparte from the Comptes rendus.Some foxing near the edges, otherwise a good copy.l Ronsil 294; Zimmer, pp. 72-77.

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BONAVENTURA (pseudo) [= Conradus de SAXONIA].

Speculum beate Marie virginis: compilatum ab humili fratre Bonauentura.Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 1476. Folio (26.5 x 21.2 cm). Set in a Gothic letter in 40 lines to the page, printed in 1 column. Rubricated throughout. With a large Maiblumen woodcut-initial and 16 smaller initials (of which 11 hand-coloured in red). Modern vellum, with a manuscript title on the spine.

[48] ll.First edition of this Speculum beate Marie virginis, an early work from the presses of Augsburg printer Anton Sorg (active 1475-1493). The beautiful Sorgs type (type 103) used here was taken over from the Augsburg monastery printers St. Ulrich and Afra and used until 1477. The Mayflower initial "Q" from Sorg's largest alphabet is particularly noteworthy and beautiful. GKW attributes the authorship of this commentary on the Ave Maria to Konrad Holzinger (Holtnicker) von Sachsen, a Franciscan preacher hailing from Braunschweig. In 1247, he began serving as a lecturer at Hildesheim's oldest "Privatstudium" and was simultaneously appointed as the Saxon provincial of his Order. He continued in this role for 16 years until he resigned in 1263. However, he was re-elected as provincial in 1272 and held the position until his passing in 1279 while en route to the General Franciscan Assembly in Assisi, with Bologna serving as his place of demise. Konrad's work was particularly widespread in German-speaking countries and had a major influence on Middle High German literature. Many others' sermons are based on his work. After the Middle Ages, Konrad's fame declined and his work has often been wrongly attributed to the Italian theologian Bonaventura. His Sermones form the bulk of Konrad's work. Today, around 700 of his sermons are known. These were probably written between 1262 and 1272 and have survived in many manuscripts. They are not fully written sermons, but drafts that other clergy could use as the basis for their own sermons. The Speculum Beatae M. Virginis was written in the same period as the Sermones (1262-1272). The content consists of an interpretation of the Hail Mary and a theological reflection on the belief in Mary. The text has long been regarded as an important work and there are approximately 250 manuscripts known.One of the unique features of Sorg's press was the use of outlined woodcut initials, following the model of medieval manuscripts. A large outlined initial was frequently included at the start of each chapter, with smaller woodcut initials marking divisions within each chapter. Both large and small initials were adorned with colour, as seen in our edition with red. Sorg's utilization of printed outlines for illuminated letters was an unconventional technique.With the bookplate of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica on the front paste-down. Several leaves with contemporary handwritten marginals and underlinings. Lacking first and last blank leaves. A few leaves strengthened in the gutter. Some occasional slight soiling and dampstaining. Otherwise in very good condition.l BMC II, 343; Goff B 959; GW 4817 (88 copies); HC 3566; ISTC ib00959000; Pellechet 2681; Proctor 1645; USTC 743574 (71 copies). For Sorg see: Albert Schramm - Der Bilderschmuck der Fruhdrucke. Vol. 4: Die Drucke von Anton Sorg in Augsburg (Hiersemann, 1921).

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BONELLI, Jean-Baptist & Jean VIREAU (ed. & translator).

Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume du Japon, es annees 1625. 1626. & 1627.Paris, Sebastian Cramoisy, 1633. 8vo. With woodcut printer's device of Cramoisy on the title, several woodcut headpieces. Beautiful 19th-century green morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments, with title lettered in gold, triple gilt lines along the edges of both covers, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

[7] 1 blank, 465 (=485) pp.First and only edition of the enlarged French translation, by Jean Vireau (1558-1638), procureur in Paris, of the highly interesting letters on the situation in Japan, written by the Jesuit missionaries in Japan to the General of the Jesuit Order in Rome, Mutius Vitelleschi (1563-1645) during the years 1625-1627. The letters contain, next to ample first-hand information on the Jesuit missions in Japan and the treatment of the Jesuits by the Japanese authorities, the martyr's deaths of many of the fellow missionaries, and fascinating stories on the Japanese empire itself, its customs, usages, daily life, travel facilities, etc.The original edition in Italian was edited by Jean Jean Baptiste Bonelli (1589-1638), who also wrote the first letter from Macao: Lettere annue del Giappone de gli'anni MDCXXV. MDCXXVI. MDCXXVII. Al molto Rev. in Christo P. Mutio Vitelleschi Preposito generale della Compagnia di Giesu. 8vo. (Rome, Francesco Corbelletti, 1631; second edition: Rome & Milan, Filippo Ghisolfi, 1632).Newly added to this French translation is the letter containing the history of the martyrdom of three Jesuits in Paraguay in 1628.,Slight browing throughout, otherwise a fine copy.l De Backer-Sommervogel, VIII, col. 834, cf. I, col. 711; Alt Japan Kat. 674; Cordier, Japonica, col. 315; Molossi, Memoire d'alcuni uomini illustri di Lodi (1776), pp. 134-6.

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[BONFILS, Félix].

Jerusalem.[Palestine, 1880s]. Oblong album (44.5 x 31.5 cm) With 71 large photographic albumen prints, mostly ca. 22 x 28 cm, signed and captioned in the negative (in French and English), mounted on both sides of the album's leaves. Includes a three-part folding panorama of Jerusalem from Mount Olivet, measuring 82 x 21 cm. Original auburn morocco with gold-stamped front board, gilt edges.

A rare and unusually massive Palestine souvenir album containing 71 photographs by the renowned studio of Félix Bonfils (1831-85), the French-born photographer who had come to the Levant with General d'Hautpoul in 1860 and remained active in the East. Based in Beirut, Bonfils produced thousands of photographs depicting Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Greece and other parts of the Ottoman Empire. In the early days of western tourism to the Middle East, his works soon became popular as souvenirs. The photographs were available both separately and as customized albums, but sets of this scope were uncommon,very few exceeding fifty images. The sumptuous binding, which the owner would have commissioned, underlines that this was a deluxe souvenir for a more than ordinarily wealthy traveller. It features landscapes and city views, famous sights such as Jaffa Gate (Bab el-Khalil), sites sacred to the three religions (Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Church of the Flagellation, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Mosque of Omar, Wailing Wall), but also sights outside Jerusalem, including Hebron, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, the River Jordan, Jericho, Wadi el-Kelt, Khan-el-Ahmar, Bethany, Nazareth and Emmaus.The photographs occasionally show some insignificant loss of contrast, but are in good condition overall. The paperboard album leaves show a few flaws along the edges, including a chafe mark across the lower edge where the paper has buckled. Binding in good condition, with occasional scuffing (more obvious on the back board). A fine album of photographs of Palestine.

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BONFILS, G. LEKEGIAN & CO, Brothers ZANGAKI, Collection MERLIN and Carlo NAYA.

[Souvenir album with photographs of the Holy Land, Cairo, Athens and Venice].[Palestine, Cairo, Athens, Venice, ca. 1890]. Oblong album (41.5 x 31 cm) containing 62 albumen prints, mostly 23 x 28 cm, with 2 smaller prints of ca. 16 x 28 and 5 large prints of 35.5 x 27 cm. Most of the photographs are numbered and captioned in French, and sometimes also in English, on the negative. Contemporary brown half morocco.

[59], [11 blank] pp.Interesting photo album, probably compiled as a souvenir of a journey through the Holy Land, Egypt, Athens and Venice in the 1890s. Complete souvenir albums were sold by photographer's studios and dealers alike. However, the fact that the current album has several blank pages at the end, lacks a binding title and contains photographs showing several different countries, suggests that it was compiled by an individual traveller. Among the photographs of Athens, is an image of the statue of Themis, excavated in 1890 in Rhamnous and subsequently transported to Athens. The inclusion of this photograph suggests the album was compiled in or soon after 1890.The largest part of the album contains photographs of Egypt and Jerusalem. After a view with numerous watermelons at the market of Jaffa, it shows views of Ramlah, Bethany (al-Azariya), Khan al-Ahmar ("scene of the ‘good Samaritan’ episode") and the convent Mar Saba. Before the views of Bethlehem on Christmas day, are two photographs showing local inhabitants: a single rider with his horse before the river Jordan and a Bedouin camp near Jericho. All the major sites of Jerusalem are present, including the Mount of Olives, Wailing Wall, Solomon's Stables and the Jaffa Gate with more watermelons. A misplaced image of the coppersmiths of Cairo appears before images of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The images of Egypt mostly show the river Nile and the Pyramids, but also a busy market in the garden of Gezireh, the interior of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali and a mummy. Typical images of Athens and Venice follow, with the final image showing a gentleman and two ladies feeding the pigeons on the Piazza San Marco.With the captions of several of the photographs transcribed in pencil or ink. Binding worn at the extremities. Paperboard album leaves with a few spots and several tears, most of the header corners damaged and several repaired. Photographs in excellent condition, a few with some spots and light damage at the sides.

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BONHOMO, Gabriele.

Automatum inaequale sive horologium antiquum automatis animatum. Opusculum sanè perutile, ac pro rei novitate jucundum, in quo multiplex datur. Hoc nondùm excogitatum automatum condendi methodus. ..Palermo, Francisco Valenze, 1747. 4to. With numerous woodcut headpieces and tailpieces and decorated initials, some tables in the text and 15 numbered, folding engraved plates showing timepieces and clockwork mechanisms. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

[8], 122 pp.Important treatise on timepieces, describing a clockwork mechanism that indicates the solar hours of variable length. Riccardi calls Gabriele Bonhomo (1694-1760) one of the best mathematicians of the 18th century. In the present publication he includes an appendix with two interesting mathematical treatises and some astronomical tables. Bonhomo published all his works in Palermo, Sicilia.Good copy. Binding skilfully restored.l Riccardi I 155; not in Honeyman.

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BONNET, Charles.

La palingénésie philosophique, ou idées sur l' état passé et sur l' état futur des êtres vivans. Ouvrage destiné à servir de supplement aux derniers écrits de l'auteur ...Genève, Claude Philibert and Barthelemi Chirol, 1770. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine.

XXVI, [2], 431, [1 blank]; [2], II, 448 pp.Third edition of an important work in theoretical biology. "Yet Bonnet was less doctrinaire than his colleagues; he supported, for example, a very elastic thesis of the germ cell, which according to him, was not only "an organized body reduced in size ... " but "every kind of original preformation out of which may result an organic whole, as of his immediate principle". This theory, which Bonnet christened "palingenenis," set forth the functional and structural notion of the cell, which was not stated formally until a hundred years later" (DSB).A very good copy, some spots throughout and a small tear in the title-page of volume one.l DSB II, pp. 286-287.

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