ACOSTA, José de.

Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien.Enkhuizen, Jacob Lenaertsz. Meyn (colophon: Haarlem, printed by Gillis Rooman), 1598. 8vo. With a woodcut decoration on the title-page. Vellum (ca. 1700?).

[7], 398, [8] ll.First Dutch edition of "the most convincing, detailed and reliable account of the riches and new things of America" (Streeter), written by the Spanish Jesuit José de Acosta (1539/40-1600) and translated by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten from the original Spanish. The "West Indies" of the title still referred at this date to the New World as a whole, and the book concentrates on the Spanish possessions in Peru and Mexico, covering the Inca and Aztec people, customs, history, botany, zoology, mineral riches, trade, products, and much more. It was this book above all others that opened the eyes of the Dutch, the English and the rest of Europe to the extraordinary wealth Spain was reaping from its possessions in the New World, and it includes practical information such as sailing instructions, accounts of diseases, etc.With a 1645 owner's inscription, library stamps and the armorial bookplate of the Marchese of Bernezzo on the back of the title-page. With some repairs in the first two quires, the title-page rather worn and two leaves somewhat browned, but otherwise in good condition. The binding is scuffed and has cracks in the vellum at the front hinge, but is still good and structurally sound. The most influential early work on America, in its first Dutch edition.l Alden & Landis 598/3; Palau 1992; Sabin 126; cf. Streeter 32 (1604 Eng. ed.).

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[ACTON, Sir John Francis Edward & Antonius Count of THURN and Valsassina].

Istruzione per il servizio de bastimenti della Real Marina di guerra.Naples, 1800. 8vo. Engraved coat-of arms (King Ferdinand IV of Naples) on title-page. Contemporary gold-tooled "marbled" calf with tan and blue spots on a chemically darkened background.

86 pp.Only known copy of a manual with rules and regulations for maintenance of the ships of the Royal Marine at Naples, the handling of the equipment, the composition, the punishments, how to salute with the canons, the division of booty, etc., published during an interesting time of Naples's turbulent history when the English and Franco-Spanish fleets dominated the Mediterranean.A preface by Antonius Count of Thurn and Valsassina (1723-1806), Commander of the navy of Naples and Sicily, precedes extracts of the rules and regulations issued by the Count of Thurn himself and Sir John Francis Edward Acton (1736-1811), Prime Minister of Naples under King Ferdinand IV of Naples (also King of Sicily and later of the Two Sicilies) and friend of the English, especially of the famous ambassador Hamiltion at Naples and his wife Emma. The preface is dated Naples, 15 April 1800, and is directed to the commanders of the Italian navy.The manual was compiled as a supplement to a manual titled Istruzioni dirette agl'inglesi ... tradotte per sovrano comando, e corredate di annotazioni da Giannantonio de Torrebruna tenente colonnello al servizio di sua Maesta il Re delle Sicilie, published at Naples by the Stamperia Reale in 1798 (with an expanded edition in 1799). Fine copy of an unrecorded manual for the Naples Royal Marine.l No other copy located; cf. Diz. biogr. degli Italiani 1, pp. 206-210; P. Pieri, “La distruzione della flotta napolitana”, in: Studi di storia napoletana (1926), pp. 603, 611-613; S. Romiti, Le marine militari italiane nel Risorgimento (1748-1861) (1950), p. 49; not in ICCU; KVK; WorldCat.

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ACUÑA, Cristóbal Diatristán de.

Relation de la Riviere des Amazones traduite par feu Mr de Gomberville de l'Académie Françoise. Avec un dissertation sur la riviere des Amazones pour servir de preface.Paris, Claude Barbin, 1682. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 12mo. With a folding engraved map of the Amazon River. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.

199, [1; 4], 218; 238, [2 blank]; 206 pp.First edition in French of a travel account of the expedition by Pedro Texeira (d. 1641) and Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña (1597 - ca. 1676), exploring the Amazon River from Quito to the east. They were the first Europeans to penetrate Indian land as deep as they did. Originally published in Spanish in 1641.This French edition is the most complete edition to be found, with the Journal du voyage qu'ont fait les Peres Jean Grillet & François Bechamel de la Compagnie de Jesus, dans la Goyane, l'an 1674, following the fourth part and including the very rare map of the Amazon River, drawn by Sanson d'Abbeville. Borba de Moraes thought the map could only be found in the simultaneous issue with the publisher's address of the widow of Louis Billane.With some water stains. Good copy of a travel account of the exploration of the Amazon River.l Alden & Landis 682/2; Borba de Moraes, p. 12; Palau 2484; Sabin 151.

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ADAM, [Eugen and Franz].

Erinnerungen an die Feldzüge der K. K. Oester. Armee in Italien in den Jahren 1848-49.Munich, Cotta, [1851]. Royal oblong folio (62.5 x 45.5 cm). With tinted lithographed title, dedication leaf to Radetzky, preface and 24 lithographed plates. With 24 ll. of explanatory text printed on blue paper. Plates loose in a contemporary red cloth slipcase with a silk lining.

[24] ll.First edition of a monumental commemorative work to mark the campaigns of the Austrian army in Italy during the years 1848-49. The plates, lithographed by Ernst and Franz Adam and printed by Julius Adam, depict the street riots, assaults, cavalry battles, and sieges near Milan, Santa Lucia, Vicenza, Custozza, Volta, Mortara, Novara, Malghera and elsewhere during the suppression of the Italian revolt by the Habsburgs. The war correspondent Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer (1816-77) wrote the extensive explanatory texts (most in both German and French) for each plate. Austria won this first Italian War of Independence; a decade later, however, Italy was an independent state.From the library of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808-1888), father of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria ('Sisi'). Some minor browning and foxing. Frayed edges. Very good set of lithographs depicting military scenes during the first Italian Independence War.l Hiler, p. 6; Lipperheide Qe 20.

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ADAM, Victor.

[L'hippodrome au coin du feu].Paris, A. de Vresse, [ca. 1845?]. Oblong 1mo (full-sheet leaves) or oblong Royal folio (30 x 42 cm). With 16 hand-coloured lithographed plates, each with a caption and decorative border. Lacking the title-page.Original publisher’s gold-blocked blue cloth. With a bookseller's ticket.

[16] ll.A fine example of Adam's expertise in lithography. The plates depict a variety of unusual equestrian racing scenes including chariot racing with women driving, and monkeys riding horseback.Victor Adam (1801-67) was originally employed as painter for the Museum at Versailles, but in the 1840s he decided to concentrate on the art of lithography. The present scarce album is typical of his work.Ten plates with some mostly marginal spotting; one plate with a 1 cm marginal tear, not affecting the plate, paper on front paste-down wrinkled. Overall an attractive copy.l WorldCat (3 copies); not in Colas; Lipperheide; Schwerdt.

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ADAMS, George (Frederick KANMACHER, ed.).

Essays on the microscope; containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits and oeconomy: an account of the various species, and singular properties, ...The second edition, with considerable additions and improvements, ...London, Dillon and Keating for W. and S. Jones, 1798. 1 text volume and 1 plates volume. Large 4to. With an allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia in the text volume and 32 numbered double-page plates (numbered I-XXXII) mounted on guards, printed from 36 copper plates (plates 2, 7, 23 and 24 each from 2 copper plates distinguished as A and B) with hundreds of figures showing microscopes, associated equipment and microscopic views of insects, microbes, shells and tissue samples. Uniform 20th-century dark blue morocco.

XVII, [7], 724, 14, 2 pp.Second edition of a detailed and thoroughly illustrated account of microscopes and their use by the famous London optician George Adams (1750-1795), mathematical instrument maker to King George III, first published in 1787, but here with both the text and illustrations greatly expanded. Adams earned a worldwide reputation as a maker of spectacles and microscope lenses and wrote many scientific publications that give regular and systematic instruction in the most important branches of natural science with all its modern improvements, including the present one devoted to microscopes. With an owner's inscription of the Edinburgh Royal Society on the title-page of the text volume and an inscription, perhaps by the Glasgow professor of medicine, eye surgeon and fellow of the Royal Society Thomas Wharton Jones (1808-1891) on the first contemporary endpaper of the plates volume: "For the Royal Society Edinburgh from their ... humble servant / Mr Jones". Bindings only very slightly worn. Frontispiece and title-page slightly foxed, also some foxing throughout the text volume. Otherwise in good condition.l ESTC T88415; Hagen, p. 2; Horn & Schenkling 39; Nissen ZBI 24; Pritzel 18; cf. Poggendorff I, p. 10 (1787 ed.).

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[ADAMS, Robert (= Benjamin ROSE)].

Jongste en echte berigten betrekkelijk Tombuctoo en eenige andere nog onbezochte deelen der binnenlanden van Afrika.Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp en Zoon, 1818. 8vo. With a folding engraved map (30.5 x 37.5 cm) of North Africa with the routes of Mungo Park and Robert Adams highlighted in colour. Contemporary boards.

VI, 353, [1 blank] pp.First Dutch edition of Adam’s The narrative of Robert Adams,... (1816). Robert Adams, an American sailor whose real name was Benjamin Rose, sailed in the Charles on a trading voyage along the west coast of Africa. Somewhere near Cape Blanc the ship struck ground, and after the crew had struggled ashore they were immediately taken prisoner by some 30 Moors, possibly with the intention of selling the crew as slaves. The prisoners were taken into the interior of Mauritania, and after the party had reached a hilly village, they were assaulted by a company of black Africans. Both the Moors and the captives were imprisoned and subsequently taken to the King in Timbuktu, where they arrived in February 1811. Adams, who stayed as a guest of the king, describes Timbuktu and its inhabitants at length. Timbuktu wasn’t the thriving metropolis it was made out to be, but a small city with no walls, and houses made of clay and grass. However, after a time Adams was sold as a slave to a group of tobacco sellers. Over the next three years, Adams would change hands four more times before eventually being ransomed by the British consul.Spine slightly damaged. In very good condition, untrimmed leaving all deckles intact.l Howgego, 1800-1850, R24; NCC (4 copies); Saalmink, p. 31.

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ADAMS, George.

Verhandeling over het zien, verklaarende kortlijk den aart van het zien, en het zamenstel van het oog; ten dienste van menschen, wier oogen zwak of ongesteld zijn; stellende hen in staat om een juist denkbeeld van de waare gesteldheid van hun gezicht te maaken, geevende de behoedmiddelen daar voor op, beneevens zekere regelen, om te weeten of men eenen bril noodig hebbe, en hoe dien als dan te kiezen, zonder dat hij het gezicht benadeele. Uit het Engelsch vertaald, en met aanmerkingen verrijkt door H. Aeneae.Amsterdam, H. Gartman, W. Vermandel, J.W. Smit, 1792. 8vo. Large folding engraved plate with 8 images concerning optics such as cross-sections of the human eye, camera obscura, spectacles etc. Contemporary stiff sprinkled wrappers.

[8], 174, [2] pp.First and only edition of the Dutch translation, after the second English edition of 1792, of a detailed account of the anatomy of the eye, the use of spectacles and the improvement of vision by their use. The first edition of Adams's work had appeared in 1787 under the title An essay on vision, briefly explaining the fabric of the eye. George Adams (1750-1795), a famous London optician, served King George III as a mathematical instrument maker. He earned a worldwide reputation as a maker of spectacles and microscope lenses and wrote many elementary scientific works, which gave regular and systematic instruction in the most important branches of natural science with all its modern improvements.The translator Henricus Aeneae (1743-1810) was a teacher of maths and physics in Amsterdam and Pieter Nieuwland was one of his pupils. He was especially interested in optics, perspective and construction of optical instruments.Wrappers somewhat worn, especially on the spine. Otherwise in good condition and untrimmed, preserving all deckles.l Bierens de Haan 10; Wellcome II, p. 13 (2nd Engl. ed.); Hirschberg, paragr. 470; DNB 1, p. 97; for the translator and editor Aeneae: NNBW I, cols. 8-9; Van der Aa, I, 32.

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ADHÉMAR, Joseph Alphonse.

Traité des ombres. Théorie des teintes, des points brillants et de la perspective cavalière. Troisième édition. [Plates volume:] Cours de mathématiques à l'usage des architectes, ingénieurs civils, etc. Applications de géométrie descriptive. Ombres. Quatrième édition.Paris, Armand Colin, etc.; Berlin; Madrid (plates volume: Paris, Armand Colin), 1870-1874. Text volume and atlas volume. 8vo (text) and folio (atlas). Atlas volume with letterpress title-page and numerous illustrations on 42 numbered engraved plates after the author, including 2 folding double-page plates (one of these numbered 12 bis) and 10 double-page plates. Contemporary uniform red half shagreen, gold-stamped spine, marbled boards.

Text volume: X, [1], [1 blank], 388 pp.Rare treatise specially devoted to the perspective of shadows, first published in 1838 (plates) and 1840 (text). A second edition appeared in 1852. Only the plates-volume indicates it is part of the series Cours de mathématiques. In the preface to this posthumous edition (the preface apparently used for an unknown earlier edition, at page 386 our text is dated in letterpress: “Mai 1854”), the author Joseph Alphonse Adhémar (1797-1862) indicates the difference between the first and the present edition: (1) by demonstrating many principles that appeared not to have been properly developed yet and (2) by adding quite a number of plates meant to improve the students' abilities in graphic exercises."A good example of an author who attempts to embrace the mathematical, pictorial and technically illustrative aspects of perspective in this period is Joseph-Alphonse Adhémar, one of the Mongean theorists [following Gaspard Monge's Geométrie descriptive, 1798]. Adhémar was a prolific author on applied geometry, and his various treatises were gathered together in a set of volumes under the title Cours de mathématiques à l'usage des architectes, ingénieurs civils etc. These included accounts of descriptive geometry, linear perspective, the theory of shadows and the applications of the Mongean techniques to engineering drawing." (Kemp).The text volume is divided into 7 main chapters, incorporating problems involved in drawing shadows of all possible forms in a series of 583 paragraphs. After general definitions of shadows, the author deals with polyhedrons, broken shadows, cylinders, cones, spheres, niches, vases, capitals, ellipsoids, other surfaces, aerial perspective, exercises etc., with the number of the plate illustrating the subject listed at the top of each text page. The fine plates follow the exact order of the text.Two preliminary blank (?) leaves of the text volume torn out; both volumes occasionally slightly foxed, otherwise good copies.

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ADLER, Jacob Georg Christian.

Brevis linguae Syriacae insitutio in usum tironum edita.Altona, Johann David Adam Eckhardt, 1784. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page and typographical ornaments at the head of every page. The text is set in Roman and Syriac type. Early 19th-century blue marbled paper wrappers.

64, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a Syriac grammar for beginners, written by Jakob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834). It starts with a short introduction to Syriac grammar and is followed by excerpts from works by two important Syrian Christian authors: Gregory Bar Hebraeus (1226-1286), a prominent writer and church figure, and Jacob of Edessa (640-708), the bishop of Edessa and one of the most important scholars of the Christian-Aramean tradition.Adler was an Orientalist and Syriac language professor at the University of Copenhagen. He was also a Lutheran theologian and became the head of the Bible society in Schleswig-Holstein. He has written multiple works on Syriac and Arabic. With a paper label mounted at the head of the front wrapper and an annotation at the foot of page 17. The edges and corners of the wrapper show some signs of wear, with some loss of material at the foot of the spine. With a tear in the lower margin of page 43, without affecting the text. Overall in good condition.l VD18 1437708X.

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ADLER, Marcus & Herman.

Les dents artificielles comprenant 30 vignettes.Paris, chez les auteurs (Brussels, printed by Ch. Vanderauwera; Paris, bureaux), 1874. Large 8vo. With 30 wood-engraved illustrations in the text (a few nearly full-page), several printed in 2 colours (pink and black). Original publisher's wrappers.

64 pp.Rare first (and only?) edition of a treatise on dentures, the first part describing and depicting various systems of designing and producing dentures and dental protheses, and the second part treating dental hygiene, care of the gums, tooth powders and elixirs, tartar, the falling out and loosening of teeth, etc. There appears to be another version dated 1875, but it has only 31 pages and may be a reissue of part 1 alone. In good condition and untrimmed, with some minor browning. Wrappers slightly damaged, and frayed at the edges. An extensively illustrated treatise on dentures, published by two Paris dentists in 1874.l David, Bibl. Fr. dentaire, p. 5; Weinberger, p. 5.

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[AERTSBERGUE?].

A voyage to the island of Ceylon: on board a Dutch Indiaman, in the year M.DCC.XLVII. Containing a succinct relation of the productions, trade, and inhabitants of that place. Together with some account of St. Helena and other islands …London, for Joseph Bouquet, 1754. 8vo. Modern wrappers.

[4], 24 pp.Rare first English edition of the description of a voyage to Ceylon, beginning on a Dutch East Indiaman, written by a Dutchman who survived the disastrous voyage. The book never names the author, but the second English edition, published in Dublin the following year, apparently calls him the “Dutch gentleman Aertsbergue”, probably an English rendering of “Heer van Aertsbergen” or Aertsberge, Aertsberch or something similar. The title-page notes that it is “translated from a copy of the original, transmitted to the publisher of the Evening Advertiser” but we have found no record of a Dutch edition, so the Dutch text may have circulated only in manuscript.After accounts of the stay at the harbour of Angra on the island Terceira, and on St. Helena after a storm forced them there, the ship sailed on to the Cape, then set off for the East Indies, but got caught in a storm and sank a few days later. The first group to abandon ship crowded into the (small) yawl, which soon sank as well, while the author was one of about 150 who waited and set off in the longboat. They rowed all night but remained far from land, so they made a makshift sail, using an oar as a mast. On the evening of the fifth day they reached Mauritius where they survived as maroons for six months. An English East Indiamen brought the author and 23 others to Ceylon, where the author remained for two years in Ceylon.Binding somewhat loose and paper a bit brittle, otherwise in good condition.l ESTC T61272 (8 copies); not in Tiele; Landwehr, VOC; Cat. Ned. Scheepvaart Mus.

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AESOP.

Aesopi Phrygis, et aliorum fabulae. Quorum nomina sequens pagella indicabit. Elegantissimis iconibus in gratiam studiosae iuventutis illustratae … Cum indice locupletissimo.Venice, Niccolò Polo, 1592. 12mo. With printer’s device with ornamental frame on title-page and 187 small woodcut illustrations. Contemporary limp vellum, rebound with modern endpapers.

282, [6] pp.Rare Latin edition of Aesop’s fables with 187 woodcut illustrations, based on the first illustrated edition of the "Aesopus Dorpii" to be published in Italy, by Dominicus Nicolinus at Venice in 1563 (Bodemann 31.3; Thoen 135). This Latin prose collection of fables compiled by Martinus Dorpius (1485-1525), a humanist teaching in Louvain, was first published in 1509 at Antwerp without illustrations. The Dorpius compilation proved very important for the diffusion of Aesop as a school textbook during the following centuries and went through at least two hundred editions to the mid-19th century, mostly in small formats.With "Aesopi" written in ink on the foot edge. Rebound with modern endpapers; binding soiled and slightly worn. With a small hole in the margin running through the first half of the book. A good copy.l EDIT16 CNCE 407 (1 copy); ICCU (same copy); USTC 807915 (same copy); WorldCat (3 copies); cf. Bodemann 31.1-3 (1556 Lyons, 1561 Paris & 1563 Venice eds.); Fabula docet ; Paul Thoen, “Aesopus Dorpii, essai sur l’Esope Latin des temps modernes”, in: Humanistica Lovaniensia, 19 (1970), pp. 241-289, nos. 112, 118, 131, 135 (“ca. 1550” [recté post 1634?] Venice, 1554 Lyons, 1561 Paris & 1563 Venice eds.).

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AESOP.

Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae Graee & Latine, Cum aliis opusculis, quorum Index proxima refertur pagella. Denuo, & quam correctissime in lucem editae.Venice, Jo. Baptistam Combus, 1619. 12mo. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page and 92 woodcuts in text. Contemporary vellum.

450, [4] pp., lacking the last blank.One of the many school editions of the fables of Aesop with the same title (at least 8 between 1524 and 1589, some printed in Basel by Froben, others in Venice), with parallel Greek and Latin text printed on facing pages.A few leaves cut short, at two or three places affecting the text, upper corner of title-page restored. Otherwise in good condition.l Not in Bodemann; Fabula docet.

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AESOP.

Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae, elegantissimis iconibus veras animalium species ad ivum adumbrantibus. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XLIII. [Greek: Batrachomyomachia] Homeri, hoc est, ranarum & murium pugna. [Greek: Galeomyomachia], hoc est, felium & murium pugna, fabla Graeca. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretation. Accesserunt Avieni antique auctoris fabulae. Editio postrema, ceteris castigatior.[Genève or Lyon], Jean de Tournes, 1619. 2 volumes bound as 1. 16mo. With the woodcut portrait of Aesop in a roundel on the title-page and 61 woodcuts (ca. 3.5 x 4.5 cm) in the text, illustrating the fables of Aesop, most after Bernard Salomon, but 22 from another series. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Text in two columns: Greek (left) and Latin (right).[With:] 2) THEOGNIS and others. [Greek text] Theognidis, Phocylidis, Pythagorae, Solonis & aliorum Poemata gnomica … Opera Friderici Sylbrgii. Utrecht, Johannes I Janssonius van Waesberge, 1651. 12mo. With printer’s device on title-page and some woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum.

410, [6]; [8], 168 pp.Ad. 1: One of the many Aesop editions based on the famous first illustrated edition by Jean de Tournes, Lyon 1571, which was a landmark in humanistic scholarship and printing with woodcuts by Bernard Salomon (Bodemann 29.1). The De Tournes family moved to Geneva in 1585 to escape religious persecution as Hugenots. In 1619 Jean de Tournes III sold his house in Lyon to the printer Guichard Juliéron, who probably issued the present edition in Lyon under the name of Jean de Tournes.Ad 2: A rare collection of Greek poetry and other works by Theognis and Phocylides, ideas and thoughts of Pythagoras, and the mottos of Solon. The editor and translator, Fredericus Sylberg (1536-1596) was a classical philologist working as a corrector and editor for the publisher Henr. Commelin at Heidelberg. Ad. 1: with owner’s entry on the front paste-down: "Sum ex libris Hugonis Suchier, Ritelii [= Rinteln], 1881". There are more than a dozen errors in the pagination, but both books are nevertheless complete. Some woodcuts slightly worn, boards slightly damaged. Ad. 2: minor water stains (pp. 115-158).l Ad 1: cf. Bodeman, 29.2. Ad 2: STCN (2 copies).

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