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 [ARAMCO]., Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, Al-Mutawa press company, 1973. Large folding map (60 × 90.5 cm), printed in light orange with darker purple, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another.
[ARAMCO].
Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, Al-Mutawa press company, 1973. Large folding map (60 × 90.5 cm), printed in light orange with darker purple, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another.
Large folding map, published by the Arabian American Oil Company, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It depicts the country’s roads, trails, railroads, roads that are still under construction and proposed roads, as well as cities, villages, airports and deserts. The table on the right shows the distance in kilometres from several towns and cities to some of the major cities: Buraidah, Dhahran, Dammam, Hofuf, Jeddah, Mecca, Medina, Riyadh and Ta’if.Slightly discoloured along the folds, with only some very minor tears along the folds. Otherwise in very good condition
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 ARAMCO., Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, printed by the Al-Mutawa Press for the Arabian American Oil Company, 1973. Large folding map (60 x 90.5 cm), printed in colour, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another. Printed on two sides, one side with the map in English and the other in Arabic.
ARAMCO.
Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, printed by the Al-Mutawa Press for the Arabian American Oil Company, 1973. Large folding map (60 x 90.5 cm), printed in colour, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another. Printed on two sides, one side with the map in English and the other in Arabic.
Bilingual road map of the Arabian Peninsula for Aramco employees. Focused on Saudi Arabia, the map shows the main roads, as well as surfaced roads, trails, roads under constructions and even proposed roads. A list titled "hints for survival" mentions extremely logical traffic rules such as "come to a complete stop at stop signs and observe stop-and-go signals" and "observe speed laws in the community where you live as well as on the highway". Placing common traffic rules under the header "hints for survival" makes one fear the worst for Saudi Arabian traffic in this period. The Arabic side of the map contains the same "hints" as well as a list of road signs in Arabic and English. A table lists the distance in kilometres from several towns and cities to some of the major cities: Buraidah, Dhahran, Dammam, Hofuf, Jeddah, Mecca, Medina, Riyadh and Ta'if. In very good condition.
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 ARAMCO., Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, printed by the Al-Mutawa Press for the Arabian American Oil Company, 1975. Large folding map (60 x 90.5 cm), printed in colour, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another. Printed on two sides, one side with the map in English and the other in Arabic.
ARAMCO.
Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, printed by the Al-Mutawa Press for the Arabian American Oil Company, 1975. Large folding map (60 x 90.5 cm), printed in colour, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another. Printed on two sides, one side with the map in English and the other in Arabic.
Bilingual road map of the Arabian Peninsula for Aramco employees. Focused on Saudi Arabia, the map shows the main roads, as well as surfaced roads, trails, roads under constructions and even proposed roads. A list titled "hints for survival" mentions extremely logical traffic rules such as "come to a complete stop at stop signs and observe stop-and-go signals" and "observe speed laws in the community where you live as well as on the highway". Placing common traffic rules under the header "hints for survival" makes one fear the worst for Saudi Arabian traffic in this period. The Arabic side of the map contains the same "hints" as well as a list of road signs in Arabic and English. A table lists the distance in kilometres from several towns and cities to some of the major cities: Buraidah, Dhahran, Dammam, Hofuf, Jeddah, Mecca, Medina, Riyadh and Ta'if. In very good condition.
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 ARATOR., Acta Apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1535 (title 1534). 8vo. Old boards.
ARATOR.
Acta Apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1535 (title 1534). 8vo. Old boards.
(48) ll.Antwerp edition of Arator's Acts of the Apostles in Latin verses. The Italian poet Arator (490-c. 560), subdeacon in Rome, composed these verses in 544 and presented them to Pope Vigile. They were published by Aldus at Venice in 1502, and later in the Bibliothèque des Pères, Paris, 1575.Good copy, with on verso of the front board, spine damagaed, boards loose, first leaves stained, slightly browned, old owner's manuscript entries.l Nijhoff-Kronenberg 129; Machiels A 831; not in STC Dutch, Adams; NUC lists one copy.
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 ARAYA, Fernando de., Conclusiones mathematicas, practicas, y especulativas defendidas en el principio del segundo año ...  Manila, Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay, 1758. 4to. With engraved frontispiece equestrian portrait of Ferdinand VI, King of Spain and Emperor of the Indies. Contemporary salmon-coloured silk over flexible boards, preserved in modern portfolio.
ARAYA, Fernando de.
Conclusiones mathematicas, practicas, y especulativas defendidas en el principio del segundo año ... Manila, Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay, 1758. 4to. With engraved frontispiece equestrian portrait of Ferdinand VI, King of Spain and Emperor of the Indies. Contemporary salmon-coloured silk over flexible boards, preserved in modern portfolio.
[4], 4 ll.First and only edition of a brief dissertation on the practical use of mathematics in the military by the Spanish soldier Fernando de Araya, "alferez de una de las compañias del regimiento del rey nuestro señor", who studied at Manilla's Jesuit University. With the Jesuit mathematician Francisco Ortiz Zugasti (1727-1772) as praeses. Although the letterpress presswork leaves much to be desired, the frontispiece is nicely executed and well printed, and the Italian laid paper is excellent and very white. In very good condition. Silk covering torn at the spine (front board nearly detached) and with faded patches along the edge of the front board. A rare Manilla imprint, bound in silk.l De Backer & Sommervogel VIII, col. 1534; Medina, La imprenta en Manila 260; WorldCat (7 copies).
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 [ARCHAEOLOGY - PHILOLOGY] BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques and others., [Collection of texts on early archaeology and philology].[Various places], [various publishers], 1760-1827.Containing:(1) [CHRISTIE'S - LONDON]. A list of the very rare and valuable Aethiopic and other oriental manuscripts, collected by the celebrated traveller, James Bruce, esq. of Kinnaird, taken from the catalogue of them made by the late Alexander Murray, editor of the travels by Mr. Bruce in Abyssinia.[London, 1827].(2) WEBER, Georg Friedrich. Observationes sacrae circa funera populorum orientis. ...Strasbourg, Johann Heinrich Heitz, [1767].With a woodcut headpiece, tailpieces (2) and open-sided factotum.(3) SEYFFARTH, Gustav [and Friedrich August Wilhelm SPOHN]. Brevis defensio hieroglyphices. Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1827.(4) SCHLICHTEGROLL, Friedrich von. Ueber die bey Rosette in Aegypten gefundene dreyfache Inschrift...München, printed by Ignaz Joseph Lentner, [1818?].(5) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Explication de la mosaïque de Palestrine. Paris, H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1760.With 1 large folding engraved plate of the mosaic, 1 plate showing the names of animals written in the mosaic. Bound with it is an unrelated engraved plate on a 4to leaf, showing Samaritan medals (drawn and engraved by Poisson in 1790) that accompanied another one of Barthélemy’s publications.(6) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Lettre de m. l'abbé Barthelemy ...[Paris, 1760].With 2 plates of the Phoenician medals and Phoenician inscriptions found on Malta, with an elaborate woodcut headpiece and a woodcut tailpiece.(7) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Seconde lettre de m. l'abbé Barthelemy, ... sur quelques médailles Phéniciennes. [Paris, 1763].With one plate of the Phoenician medals and the same elaborate woodcut headpiece as ad 6.(8) [PARQUOY (assistant to l’abbé François BEJOT at the Bibliothèque du Roi). Lettre à messieurs les auteurs du Journal des Savans, sur un projet d'edition du Syncelle.[Paris, 1778].(9) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Lettre a monsieur le Marquis Olivieri, au sujet de quelques monuments Phéniciens ... Paris, L.F. Delatour (printer), 1766.With 4 plates (numbered I-IV, nos. I & III folding), the first 3 signed by P.L Charpentier, of Phoenician inscriptions, alphabet and medals. With a woodcut (oak branches with a ribbon) on the title-page and a woodcut headpiece.(10) [D'ANSSE DE VILLOISON, Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard (draughtsman) and DROÜET (engraver)]. Alphabetum codicis bibliothecae coislininae, nunc sangermanensis, ineunte decimo saeculo manu exarati, ex quo Apollonii lexicon descriptum est. Paris, 1771.10 works in 1 volume. 4to. A wholly engraved monograph, in Greek and Latin with a few words of Syriac.Mid-19th-century half red goatskin morocco, sewn on 4 supports, gold-tooled spine (blind-tooled fillets) with the cypher monogram of a French count in compartments 1, 3 & 5 and “l’abbé|Barthelemy” and “Dissertations|1760-1792” in mid-19th-century roman capitals across compartments 2 & 4, “agathe” chemical-marbled sides, Spanish-marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges, green ribbon marker.
[ARCHAEOLOGY - PHILOLOGY] BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques and others.
[Collection of texts on early archaeology and philology].[Various places], [various publishers], 1760-1827.Containing:(1) [CHRISTIE'S - LONDON]. A list of the very rare and valuable Aethiopic and other oriental manuscripts, collected by the celebrated traveller, James Bruce, esq. of Kinnaird, taken from the catalogue of them made by the late Alexander Murray, editor of the travels by Mr. Bruce in Abyssinia.[London, 1827].(2) WEBER, Georg Friedrich. Observationes sacrae circa funera populorum orientis. ...Strasbourg, Johann Heinrich Heitz, [1767].With a woodcut headpiece, tailpieces (2) and open-sided factotum.(3) SEYFFARTH, Gustav [and Friedrich August Wilhelm SPOHN]. Brevis defensio hieroglyphices. Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1827.(4) SCHLICHTEGROLL, Friedrich von. Ueber die bey Rosette in Aegypten gefundene dreyfache Inschrift...München, printed by Ignaz Joseph Lentner, [1818?].(5) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Explication de la mosaïque de Palestrine. Paris, H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1760.With 1 large folding engraved plate of the mosaic, 1 plate showing the names of animals written in the mosaic. Bound with it is an unrelated engraved plate on a 4to leaf, showing Samaritan medals (drawn and engraved by Poisson in 1790) that accompanied another one of Barthélemy’s publications.(6) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Lettre de m. l'abbé Barthelemy ...[Paris, 1760].With 2 plates of the Phoenician medals and Phoenician inscriptions found on Malta, with an elaborate woodcut headpiece and a woodcut tailpiece.(7) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Seconde lettre de m. l'abbé Barthelemy, ... sur quelques médailles Phéniciennes. [Paris, 1763].With one plate of the Phoenician medals and the same elaborate woodcut headpiece as ad 6.(8) [PARQUOY (assistant to l’abbé François BEJOT at the Bibliothèque du Roi). Lettre à messieurs les auteurs du Journal des Savans, sur un projet d'edition du Syncelle.[Paris, 1778].(9) BARTHÉLEMY, Jean-Jacques. Lettre a monsieur le Marquis Olivieri, au sujet de quelques monuments Phéniciens ... Paris, L.F. Delatour (printer), 1766.With 4 plates (numbered I-IV, nos. I & III folding), the first 3 signed by P.L Charpentier, of Phoenician inscriptions, alphabet and medals. With a woodcut (oak branches with a ribbon) on the title-page and a woodcut headpiece.(10) [D'ANSSE DE VILLOISON, Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard (draughtsman) and DROÜET (engraver)]. Alphabetum codicis bibliothecae coislininae, nunc sangermanensis, ineunte decimo saeculo manu exarati, ex quo Apollonii lexicon descriptum est. Paris, 1771.10 works in 1 volume. 4to. A wholly engraved monograph, in Greek and Latin with a few words of Syriac.Mid-19th-century half red goatskin morocco, sewn on 4 supports, gold-tooled spine (blind-tooled fillets) with the cypher monogram of a French count in compartments 1, 3 & 5 and “l’abbé|Barthelemy” and “Dissertations|1760-1792” in mid-19th-century roman capitals across compartments 2 & 4, “agathe” chemical-marbled sides, Spanish-marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges, green ribbon marker.
16; 43, [1 blank]; 24; 28, XIV; [2], 44; 12; 8; 12; [1], [1 blank], 45, [1 blank]; 9, [1 blank] pp.Very important collection of essays and other texts marking the establishment of archaeology and philology as serious scientific disciplines. While still drawing from the experience and works of "antiquarians" who studied antiquity in a more amateurish and occasional way, the authors of the present works attempted to work more methodically towards greater discoveries. This renewed interest in antiquity and the move to studying it in a more scientific way came as a result of several major 18th-century discoveries like the Herculaneum (1709), Pompeii (1748) and the Rosetta Stone (1799, see ad 4).Naturally, Egyptology is also a well-represented subject in the present work. It includes a fabulous depiction and detailed description and explanation of the Nile mosaic of Palestrina (ad 5), a floor mosaic depicting the flow of the river Nile from the Blue Nile in Ethiopia to the Mediterranean Sea. Additionally, the study of hieroglyphs and differing views on deciphering the Ancient Egyptian scripts can be found in ads 3 and 4.Philology, in this case the study of language in written historical sources (not in oral ones), is a returning subject in many of the essays in the present work, including the Christie's auction catalogue, since it comprises a list of written historical sources in the form of oriental (especially Ethiopic) manuscripts collected by James Bruce. Four works by the abbot and scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716-1795) are also included. He was the first to decipher two alphabets of ancient extinct languages: Palmyrene and Phoenician. His works also include descriptions, depictions and explanations of Phoenician medals and the collection of texts in the present volume ends with an engraved example of the Phoenician alphabet.The monogram on the binding (based on Louis XIV’s but with a count’s crown instead of the royal crown) suggests that the collection was bound for a (Bourbon?) Count (Louis?) in the mid-19th century. Olivier, Reliures armoriées Françaises, records many examples with the royal crown, but only one with a count’s crown (plate 1095, no. 3) and it does not resemble the present one and is much older: Ange-Laurent de la Live de Jully (1725-1779). Boards slightly worn, mainly at the extremities, occasional foxing and browning, mainly to ad 3 and 4, fore-edge of ad 1 and foot of ad 3 and 4 slightly frayed, upper headband broken but complete. Otherwise in good condition.l Ad 1: WorldCat (5 copies). Ad 2: VD18 15073807; WorldCat (15 copies). Ad 3: WorldCat (6 entries, multiple copies). Ad 4: WorldCat (3 entries, multiple copies). Ad 5: WorldCat (2 entries, multiple copies). Ad 6: WorldCat (8 copies). Ad 7: WorldCat (3 copies). Ad 8: WorldCat (1 copy). Ad 9: WorldCat (3 entries, multiple copies). Ad 10: WorldCat (3 copies).
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 [ARCHITECTURE - DRAWINGS]., Dissegno per la fabrica della Libreria Canonicale. [Verona, ca. 1720/25]. Folio (38.5 x 25.5 cm). With 4 architectural drawings, 3 double-page (ca. 37 x 50 cm at a scale of about 1:60) and 1 loosely inserted full-page (24 x 35 cm at a scale of about 1:107), skillfully drawn in brown ink and several shades of grey watercolour. Two of the double-page drawings are elevations (1 partly in cross-section), the other 2 drawings are floor plans, each plan with a folding flap tipped on showing the plan of a higher level. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers.
[ARCHITECTURE - DRAWINGS].
Dissegno per la fabrica della Libreria Canonicale. [Verona, ca. 1720/25]. Folio (38.5 x 25.5 cm). With 4 architectural drawings, 3 double-page (ca. 37 x 50 cm at a scale of about 1:60) and 1 loosely inserted full-page (24 x 35 cm at a scale of about 1:107), skillfully drawn in brown ink and several shades of grey watercolour. Two of the double-page drawings are elevations (1 partly in cross-section), the other 2 drawings are floor plans, each plan with a folding flap tipped on showing the plan of a higher level. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers.
The original designs for the alterations to the chapter library at Verona, situated in the Church of St. Helena, abutting the famous Cathedral of San Zeno (the common wall appears in the drawings). The alteration was ordered by Scipione Maffei (1675-1755) and Jacopo(?) Muselli and executed by the architect Lodovico Perini; it was finished in 1726. In 1713 Maffei, a leading scholar, poet and man of letters, had made a remarkable discovery in the library: in its old cupboards he found late-classical and early Christian manuscripts from the 5th to 9th century, stored there centuries earlier, apparently to protect them against danger of flooding of the river Adige. On the basis of these old manuscripts and helped by the Canon Carlo Carinelli, Maffei formulated a completely new and epoch-making theory regarding the development of the Latin script in three variants: the Roman majuscule, the minuscule and the cursive hand, showing an uninterrupted evolution from Roman Antiquity to the Renaissance. Maffei published the results of his studies in his Istoria diplomatica (1727) and Verona illustrata (1742). The rediscovery of these old manuscripts also resulted in a revival of Patristic studies and many new editions of the works of the Church Fathers.With some faint stains near the fore-edges (an one edge of the loosely inserted drawing) and a couple rust spots in the paper, but still in very good condition.
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 ARCOS Y MORENO, Joseph de., Real ordenanza de cavalleria del Reyno, con las ilustraciones correspondientes a sus articulos, para le mejor instruccion de los tribunales, y professores ...Madrid, Antonio Marin, 1757. 8vo. With the full-page woodcut arms of Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, before the half-title, a woodcut headpiece and several tailpieces, decorations built up from typographic ornaments, a decorated woodcut initial (plus 1 repeat) and a crowned A, M and E to represent the three autonomous southern crown lands. Contemporary vellum.
ARCOS Y MORENO, Joseph de.
Real ordenanza de cavalleria del Reyno, con las ilustraciones correspondientes a sus articulos, para le mejor instruccion de los tribunales, y professores ...Madrid, Antonio Marin, 1757. 8vo. With the full-page woodcut arms of Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, before the half-title, a woodcut headpiece and several tailpieces, decorations built up from typographic ornaments, a decorated woodcut initial (plus 1 repeat) and a crowned A, M and E to represent the three autonomous southern crown lands. Contemporary vellum.
[26], 406 pp.Only edition of a scarce legal manual written by the lawyer and experienced cavalryman Arcos y Moreno, laying down the rules and standards of the Spanish cavalry in 27 articles to facilitate the work of the courts. It includes sections on the abundance of horses, the use of stallions and their prohibition in Andalucía, Murcia and Extremadura, the prohibition of the removal of mares from the same areas, the duty of horse keepers to provide suitable horseshoes, and the cultivation of pastures, as well as an injunction on report violations. The woodcut that opens the book on
¶ 1r shows an elaborate form of the Spanish royal arms as introduced by King Philip V in 1700, the first Spanish king in the House of Burbon, and continued by King Ferdinand VI to his death in 1759. It is here shown with the royal crown and two chains (the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Order of the Holy Spirit).Inner hinges broken. First and last leaves very slightly water stained; a small hole in a flyleaf. Armorial bookplate with motto "Stabo" of the Accorne or Kinninmond families of Scotland on the paste-down. Later in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president of the Society for Army History Research. Rare in the trade.l Palau I, 15635; WorldCat 1024941751.
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 ARCUSSIA, Charles d'., La fauconnerie ... Divisee en trois livres. Avec une briefve instruction pour traitter les autours, sur la fin de l'oeuvre, ...Paris, Jean Houzé, 1599. 8vo. With Houzé's woodcut device, 6 full-page engravings of birds of prey (12.5 x 8.5 cm) plus 3 (of 5) repeats and all on integral leaves. Red goatskin morocco, signed in the foot of the front turn-in by M[arcel] GODILLOT (active as bookbinder 1938-1975), with wide gold-tooled turn-ins and gold fillets on board edge.
ARCUSSIA, Charles d'.
La fauconnerie ... Divisee en trois livres. Avec une briefve instruction pour traitter les autours, sur la fin de l'oeuvre, ...Paris, Jean Houzé, 1599. 8vo. With Houzé's woodcut device, 6 full-page engravings of birds of prey (12.5 x 8.5 cm) plus 3 (of 5) repeats and all on integral leaves. Red goatskin morocco, signed in the foot of the front turn-in by M[arcel] GODILLOT (active as bookbinder 1938-1975), with wide gold-tooled turn-ins and gold fillets on board edge.
272, [8] pp.Very rare second edition, one year after the equally rare first edition, of one of the earliest French treatises on falconry and hawking, by Charles d'Arcussia (1554-1628), falconer to King Henri IV (and later to Louis XIII), who dedicates it to the king. "The work is much esteemed on account of its originality and the amount of information it contains" (Harting), "the outcome of long practice and an astonishing amount of research work in every subject connected with [Arcussia's] favourite sport [hawking]" (Schwerdt). Jean Tholosan published the first edition at Aix-en-Provence in 1598, but the USTC records only 3 copies of each, all in French libraries except for a copy of the present edition at the Wellcome Library in London. The six birds of prey illustrated are described as: De l'espece du faucon premier de noz oyseaux, Du Lanier Nyais, Du sacre, Du Gerfaut, De l'Emerillon and De l'Autour Nyais.With an 18th-century endleaf, a ca. 1800(?) monogram stamp on the title-page and a modern armorial bookplate. Washed and lacking F8 (supplied in facsimile), but that leaf contains only repeats of 2 engravings plus their captions and a 4-line verse, with no other text. Three other plates are slightly shaved, affecting the tip of one bird's tail (present in the repeat plate), the beak of another and a small bit of foliage in a third plate, a corner torn off 1 leaf (affecting one shoulder note), a small hole in another, a worm hole in the foot margin of the last few leaves and a faint water stain in the fore-edge margin of a few leaves. Still generally in good condition, the binding fine. Very rare classic of falconry and hawking.l Harting, Bibl. accipitraria 153 note; Nissen, IVB 35; Ronsil 3120; Schwerdt, p. 41; Souhart, col. 16; Thiébaud, col. 28 & supp. col. 1050; USTC 20901 (3 copies); Wellcome I, 388; cf. Lindner, Bibl. Jagdliteratur 11.0077.01; for the binder Godillot: Fléty, p. 82.
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 ARDÈNE, Jean Paul Rome de., Tractat von den Ranunkeln worinnen nebst andern physischen Wahrnehmungen auch zum Feldbau und zur Gärtnerey gehörige nützliche Anmerkungen vorkommen. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von D.G.L.H.Nuremberg, Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1754. 8vo. With the title-page and the engraved frontispiece printed in red, and 6 folding engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand. Later grey paper boards.
ARDÈNE, Jean Paul Rome de.
Tractat von den Ranunkeln worinnen nebst andern physischen Wahrnehmungen auch zum Feldbau und zur Gärtnerey gehörige nützliche Anmerkungen vorkommen. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von D.G.L.H.Nuremberg, Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, 1754. 8vo. With the title-page and the engraved frontispiece printed in red, and 6 folding engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand. Later grey paper boards.
[14], 460, [20] pp.First edition of the German translation of a book on ranunculi by the French priest and botanist Jean Paul Rome d'Ardène, translated into German by G.L. Huth. Ranunculus is a genus of toxic flowering plants, including buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots. It is divided into two parts. The first (pp. 1-39) deals with the history of ranunculi, how they got their name and where they originated, and gives a description of the physical appearance of the plant. The second part (pp. 40-450) deals in great depth with its cultivation, commenting on the perfect soil, how and when to water them and place them in sunlight, how to get rid of aphids and plant diseases, etc., followed by descriptions of the folding engraved plates and an index. One plate depicts the roots of the ranunculus, the others show different types of flowers, all coloured by a contemporary hand.A small hole in the frontispiece and title-page, a tear in 2 of the folding engraved plates, 1 slightly affecting the image, both restored, 2 plates slightly frayed along the margins, and some occasional minor foxing in the text leaves. Binding slightly rubbed and soiled. Overall in good condition.l Cat. Lindley Libr., p. 10; Hunt 526 note; Nissen, BBI supplement 45nb; VD18 10529144.
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 ARDÈNE, Jean Paul de Rome d'., Traité sur la connoissance et la culture des jacintes. Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1759. 12mo. With 2 engraved folding plates. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers, red edges.
ARDÈNE, Jean Paul de Rome d'.
Traité sur la connoissance et la culture des jacintes. Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1759. 12mo. With 2 engraved folding plates. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers, red edges.
156 pp.First edition of a book on hyacinths, printed in 1759, by the French priest and botanist Jean Paul Rome d’Ardène. "Jean Paul Rome d' Ardène retired, about 1750, from his duties as 'supérieur' of the college at Marseilles to the Château d' Ardène, diocese of Sisteron, where he created a botanical garden and gave himself to the study of flowers" (Hunt). D’Ardène is famous because of his studies on flowers. In 1746 he had already published a book on ranuncula, titled Traité des renoncules. It went through 3 further editions in French and 1 in German, so it apparently proved popular. After this work, D’Ardène wrote the present book on hyacinths. Its 12 chapters discuss different aspects of hyacinths, including the etymology of the name, the right conditions for cultivating the flower and its common diseases. The book ends with two engraved folding plates with hyacinths, followed by an explanation of what we can see on those plates. The book was reprinted in French in 1765 and an Italian translation of this hyacinth study was printed in Viterbo, Italy in 1763. After this book, D’Ardène also wrote books on tulips (1760) and carnations (1762). The present first edition of the Traité sur la connoissance et la culture des jacintes seems to be very rare: the botanical literature mentions it only in the catalogue of the Lindley Library and a note in Hunt. Nissen and BMC (NH) note only the Traité des renoncules and Hunt describes only that book. We know only other copies of the present first edition: in the Lindley library, the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In very good condition.l Cat. Lindley libr., p. 10; Hunt, II 526 (note); WorldCat (2 copies); cf. BMC (NH) I, p. 58; Nissen, BBI S. 5 45na.
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 ARDÈNE, Jean Paul Rome de., Traité des renoncules, qui contient, outre ce qui regarde ces fleurs, beaucoup d'observations physiques & de remarques utiles, soit pour l'agriculture, soit pour le jardinage. Troisième édition.Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1763. 12mo. With 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
ARDÈNE, Jean Paul Rome de.
Traité des renoncules, qui contient, outre ce qui regarde ces fleurs, beaucoup d'observations physiques & de remarques utiles, soit pour l'agriculture, soit pour le jardinage. Troisième édition.Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1763. 12mo. With 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine.
[6], 16, 342 pp.Third and last edition of a manual on ranunculi by the French priest and botanist Jean Paul Rome d'Ardène (1689-1769). "Ardène retired, about 1750, from his duties as sepérieur of the college at Marseilles to the Château d' Ardène, diocese of Sisteron, where he created a botanical garden and gave himself to the study of flowers" (Hunt).Ranunculus is a genus of toxic flowering plants, including buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots. It is divided into two parts. The first (pp. 1-30) deals with the history of ranunculi, how they got their name and where they originated, and gives a description of the physical appearance of the plant. The second part (pp. 31-336) deals in great depth with its cultivation, commenting on the perfect soil, how and when to water them and place them in sunlight, how to get rid of aphids and plant diseases, etc., followed by descriptions of the plates. A very good copy, binding rubbed at the foot.l Nissen, BBI supplement 45na; cf. Cat. Lindley libr., p. 10 (1st ed.); Hunt 526 (1st d.).
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 ARDÈNE, Jean Paul de Rome d'., Traité des tulipes, qui non-seulement réunit tout ce qu'on avoit précédemment écrit de raisonnable, mais est augmenté de quantité de remarques nouvelles sur l'éducation de cette belle fleur.With: (2) ARDÈNE, Jean Paul de Rome d'. Traité sur la connoissance et la culture des jacintes, ...  Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1765. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Each work with 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, sewn on 5 supports, richly gold-tooled spine with title, red edges.
ARDÈNE, Jean Paul de Rome d'.
Traité des tulipes, qui non-seulement réunit tout ce qu'on avoit précédemment écrit de raisonnable, mais est augmenté de quantité de remarques nouvelles sur l'éducation de cette belle fleur.With: (2) ARDÈNE, Jean Paul de Rome d'. Traité sur la connoissance et la culture des jacintes, ... Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1765. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Each work with 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, sewn on 5 supports, richly gold-tooled spine with title, red edges.
252, [4]; 156 pp.Convolute containing the rare second editions of two botanical books, one on tulips and the other on hyacinths, written by the French priest and botanist Jean Paul Rome d’Ardène (1689-1769), famous for his studies of flowers, which demonstrate his “vast erudition” as well as providing practical advice. His work “is therefore full of information” addressed “not only to florists and gardeners, but to scientists, flower lovers and cultivated persons generally” and “infused with the author’s profound love for his subject” (Oak Spring Flora). The same printer-publisher published the first editions in 1760 and 1759 respectively.Ad 1: Traité des tulipes is an extensive work exclusively devoted to tulips, discussing their origin, name, different varieties, cultivation and beauty in 12 chapters. It ends with two folding plates illustrating tulips with an explanation for each plate.Ad 2: Traité sur la connoissance et la culture des jacintes similarly discusses .different aspects of the hyacinth, once again in twelve chapters. It covers etymology, the right conditions for cultivation and common diseases that affect hyacinths. Like the tulips, it ends with two folding plates, illustrating hyacinths, with an explanation for each plate. It was translated into Italian in 1763. Both first editions are very rare: WorldCat records two copies of each, but also only three and four copies of the present second editions of 1765.With a small crease in the first folding engraved plate of Traité des tulipes and a small tear in one text leaf, but overall in very good condition.l Ad 1: Hunt 587; Oak Spring flora 76 note (p. 294); WorldCat (3 copies); cf. Cat. Lindley libr., p. 10 (1760 ed.). Ad 2: Oak Spring flora 76 note (p. 294); WorldCat (4 copies); cf. Cat. Lindley libr., p. 10 (1759 ed.); Hunt 526 note (1759 ed.); neither in: BMC (NH); Nissen, BBI; Bradley.
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 ARDUINO, Sante., [Incipit:] Incipit liber de venenis ...(Colophon: Venice, Bernardino Rizzo, 1492). Folio (42 x 28 cm). Set in in 2 columns in 2 sizes of rotunda gothic types, with spaces left for numerous 3-line and 4-line and a few larger initials (with printed guide letters), none filled in.  Modern black- and gold-tooled calf.
ARDUINO, Sante.
[Incipit:] Incipit liber de venenis ...(Colophon: Venice, Bernardino Rizzo, 1492). Folio (42 x 28 cm). Set in in 2 columns in 2 sizes of rotunda gothic types, with spaces left for numerous 3-line and 4-line and a few larger initials (with printed guide letters), none filled in. Modern black- and gold-tooled calf.
[4], 101, [1] ll.First edition of a work on poisons, compiled by Sante Arduino (or Ardoini) of Pesaro: an “elaborate compendium on poisons in eight books which Sante Ardoini of Pesaro compiled in the years, 1424-1426, from Greek, Arabic and Latin works on medicine and nature, and which was printed at Venice in 1492, and at Basel in 1518 and 1562. … Although Ardoini quotes previous authors at great length, his work is no mere compilation, since he does not hesitate to disagree with such medical authorities as Peter of Abano and Gentile da Foligno, and refers to his own medical experience or observation of nature at Venice and to what fisherman or collectors of herbs have told him. He also seems to have known Arabic, and his occasional practice of giving the names of herbs in several Italian dialects is of some linguistic value” (Thorndike). Arduino makes extensive use of the works of Avicenna (Ibn Sina), who “held a high place in Western European medical studies, ranking together with Hippocrates and Galen as an acknowledged authority" (Weisser). Among the numerous other sources he used are Galen, Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), Rasis (al-Razi), Andromachus, Albucasis (Al-Zahrawi), Serapion the younger and Dioscorides.A very good copy, with only a few marginal water stains. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities and with a few scratches on boards.l BMC STC Italian, p. 927; GW 2318; ISTC ia00950000; Thorndike III, p. 545.
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 ARENA, Filippo., La natura, e coltura de' fiori fisicamente esposta.Palermo, Angelo Felicella, 1767-1768. 2 text volumes (4to), bound as 3, and 1 plates volume (oblong folio). With 65 engraved plates printed in colour, occasionally combining up to 6 colours on one plate. The first plate (here wholly printed in dark green) serves as an (allegorical) frontispiece and includes the name of the author and that of Mario Cammerari, the second plate depicts tools, seeds and details of flowers, the third plate contains parterre designs and the other plates depict flowers (several to each plate). Modern flexible boards, covered with decorated paper.
ARENA, Filippo.
La natura, e coltura de' fiori fisicamente esposta.Palermo, Angelo Felicella, 1767-1768. 2 text volumes (4to), bound as 3, and 1 plates volume (oblong folio). With 65 engraved plates printed in colour, occasionally combining up to 6 colours on one plate. The first plate (here wholly printed in dark green) serves as an (allegorical) frontispiece and includes the name of the author and that of Mario Cammerari, the second plate depicts tools, seeds and details of flowers, the third plate contains parterre designs and the other plates depict flowers (several to each plate). Modern flexible boards, covered with decorated paper.
VIII, 440; VIII, “116” [= 416]; [2], 167, [1 blank], [8] pp. plus 65 plates.Only copy known with all engraved plates printed in colour, of the first edition of an Italian florilegium. The 65 engravings really stand out and are sometimes printed in up to 6 different colours. The text is written by Filippo Arena (1708-1789), a Jesuit professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Palermo, with a real passion for botany. "But because La natura, e coltura de' fiori was printed in Sicily, an island far from the principal intellectual centres of Europe, his work became known only to a handful of contemporaries, and his significant contributions to the history of botany were never fully recognized. … Volume one is devoted to a general discussion of botany … In fact, it contains a remarkably advanced dissertation on the sexual generation of plants, including the function of pollen and the importance of its transmission by insects, a discovery that has traditionally been attributed to the German botanist Joseph Gottlieb Koelreuter … The second volume deals with horticulture, in particular the cultivation of flowers" (Tomasi).Arena also took it upon himself to engrave the 65 plates, which he did with the help of his Jesuit colleague Mario Cammerari. For this he drew heavily on Weinmann's Phytanthoza iconographia (1737-1745). In the last part of the text (p. 4, part 4) the author comments on the colour prints used in some copies. Even complete copies of this work in black & white are rare on the market, and we have not located any other copy with the plates printed in colour.Without the letterpress title-page to the plates volume, often lacking. Text foxed, about half of the plates have at least some minor restorations in the margins, occasionally just touching the plates (once with a restored clean tear halfway through the illustration), and the first and last few leaves more heavily restored, but mostly restricted to the margins. The restorations are all done professionally and afterward all plates were washed, making a very attractive set.l Cat. Lindley libr., p. 10; De Belder 37; ICCU 006174; Johnston 484; Moncada, Bibl. Siciliana 103; Nissen, BBI 48; Plesch, pp. 128-129; Tomasi, An Oak Spring flora 38; not in Dunthorne; GFB; Hunt.
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