[BECH, Philipp, ed.].

De disciplina puerorum, recteque formandis eorum & studiis & moribus, ...Basel, Joannes Oporinus (colophon: Bern, Samuel Apiarius, March 1556).With: (2) [MOREL, Guillaume, ed.]. Graecorum veterum selectae brevesque epistolae.Paris, Guillaume Morel, King's printer for Greek, 1562. With a remarkable woodcut device on the title-page. With the Greek text set in Claude Garamont's famous Grec du Roi and the Latin translation set in his Aldine-style italic. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (15 x 10 x 4.5 cm). Richly gold-tooled tanned sheepskin (ca. 1700), gilt edges.

31, [21]; [16], "840" [= 804] pp.Two rare works, both the first editions of these collections, in an elegant French binding from ca. 1700.Ad 1: Rare first and only collective edition of 27 Latin pedagogical works originally published separately in the first half of the 16th century. It includes texts by Louis Vives, Erasmus, Rudolph Agricola, Melanchthon, Christophe Hegendorf, Otho Brundels, Sebald Heyden and others. Even the separately published works are very rare and hard to bring together. This collection presents the essential pedagogical concepts and opinions of the Renaissance. Ad 2: Rare first edition of a selection of excerpts from Greek epistles by more than a dozen classical authors, printed by Guillaume Morel. The authors include Diogenes of Sinope, Apollonius of Tyana, Philostratus, Theophilact and many more. It is followed by a Latin translation. With extensive contemporary annotations in the Greek text of the Epistolae, owner's inscription and bookplate. With some running heads and page numbers in the Epistolae shaved, but otherwise in very good condition, with only minor browning and one quire of the Disiplina with a tiny marginal worm trail. Two rare collective editions of Greek epistles and Latin pedagogical texts, beautifully bound.l Ad 1: VD16, B1342 (5 copies); USTC 629492 (4 of the same 5 copies); ad 2: USTC 198586 (4 copies).

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BÉCHARD, Émile.

L'Égypte et la Nubie. Grand album monumental, historique, architectural...Paris, André Palmieri & Émile Béchard, 1887. Large folio (45.5 x 63 cm). With 150 collotype photographic plates, all signed, numbered and captioned in the wide margins of each plate. The half title-page and divisional half title-page for the explanation of the plates are printed in red , the typographical title-page shows a small vignette of an Egyptian mask. Loose leaves.

23, [1 blank], [3 (numbered [175]-177)], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. and 150 plates.Grand collection of collotype photographic plates of monuments, views and other scenes in Egypt and Nubia by the French photographer Émile Béchard. Each of the 150 plates is accompanied by a short description, based on the works of renowned Egyptologists, Orientalists, and other scientists like the philologist Champollion who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs.Notable plates in the present series include views of Cairo, the pyramids, the valley of the kings, the Karnac temple complex and many other monuments.The original photographs of the present collection by Béchard has won the "medailled d'or" at the "Exposition Universelle 1878", also known as the third Paris World's Fair, as proudly stated in the preface. A loose translation reads: "However, with regard to the photographs that we have had reproduced by the unalterable processes of collotype, let us recall here that the jury of the awards at the Universal Exhibition of 1878 judged them worthy of a first class gold medal awarded to their author, Mr. Émile Béchard" (p. 5).Émile Béchard (1844-?) was a French photographer, active during the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s. "Working in Egypt from 1870 to 1880, the photographer Émile Béchard (1844- ?) is above all known for his genre scenes and cunningly composed Egyptian views, as well as his carefully constructed versions of Egypt’s cultural heritage, ancient or medieval...". (M. Volait, Emile Bechard. The New Cairo in 1874. See: https://heritage.bnf.fr/bibliothequesorient/en/emile-bechard-new-cairo-article).Émile and Henri Béchard together with Hippolyte (Délié) are often thought to be 3 different photographers, related by a family- and/or business-connection (see the Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography, p. 131). The Met Museum suggests another theory, in which Émile and Henri are the same person, namely Émile Henri Béchard, and Hippolyte was a distributor of Béchard's work in France.The present album is not bound, the half title-page is somewhat browned and scuffed, the edges of the leaves are very slightly browned and frayed. The margins leaves show some occasional very slight foxing, but the plates remain very clear. Overall in good condition.l Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography p. 131; WorldCat 759756036, 9198318, 252011877, 922071449, 80534462; 1179187662, cf. for the photographer(s): The BnF: https://heritage.bnf.fr/bibliothequesorient/en/emile-bechard-new-cairo-article; The Met Museum, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266061.

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BÉCHARD, Henri

Égypte et Nubie. [ca. 1880]. 60 photographs on albumen paper, measuring 28 x 22 cm each, signed and captioned in the plate, numbered 1 through 68. Contemporary green half calf with gilt spine and title "Égypte & Nubie", initialed "B.C.D." on first plate.

Large and beautiful photographs by Bechard: excellent vintage prints, mostly in superior condition. They represent the popular Egyptian and Nubian types, frequently in close-ups. Nissan N. Perez states that this part of the work of a photographer specializing in views of sites and monuments "has escaped general attention" (cf. Focus East, p. 123, reproducing the photograph of water carriers resting). Includes: a scribe; a sheikh reading the Qur'an, merchants and grocers, a group of ulemas (religious scholars) reading the Qur'an, an Arab drawing water, whirling dervishes, Arab peasants (a fellah carrying water), a sheikh going to the mosque, a game of Mangala, water carriers, mat manufacturers, Sheikh Sadad, a descendant of Mohammed, a falconer, washerwomen, an Arabic singer, a young fellah, a Darabouka player, labourers, a public fountain, a beggar, Arabs at prayer, Arabic coffee, etc. Béchard was active between 1869 and ca. 1890. "His work is distinguished by the superb quality of his prints and the generally spectacular presentation of even the most common sites, such as the pyramids. His studies of people and costumes are even more interesting and point to a very personal involvement of the photographer in the life and customs of the country. His cityscapes and urban scenes were mostly taken from unusual angles in an attempt to cope with the narrow and confined spaces" (Nissan N. Perez).Binding repaired in places.

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BECHTINGER, Joseph.

Ein Jahr auf den Sandwich-Inseln. (Hawaiische Inseln.) … Memoiren. - Band I. [all published].Vienna, for the author (colophon: printed by W. Jacobi), 1869. 8vo. With wood-engraved frontispiece, 7 illustration plates (showing 14 numbered wood-engravings with letterpress captions), 3 woodcuts in the text, and a tinted lithographic folding map. Original publisher's yellow printed-paper wrappers with wood-engraved vignette.

[7], [1 blank], 202, [4] pp.First and only edition of a report about a visit to the Hawaiian Islands in 1868 by the German physician Joseph Bechtinger.''Dr. Bechtinger arrived at Hawaii from San Francisco in the fall of 1868. In October 1868 he was on the island of Hawaii, where he visited the volcano. At a later date he made an excursion to Haleakala on Maui. Much of the text concerns medical matters, particularly the doctor's interest in lepers on Molokai. A woodcut vignette on page 45 is a fine view of Kaneohe from the Nuuanu Pali. The frontispiece (which may also include the author's himself) and three of the images on the plates depict Hawaiians afflicted with leprosy. A portrait of Kamehameha V is on the plate inserted at page 144'' (Forbes).The views of Honolulu include one of the beach where Cook was murdered.With the edges somewhat tattered, not approaching the text, but otherwise in good condition. Wrappers soiled and damaged, and spine repaired with tape.l Forbes 2820.

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BECKER (VON HERVORD), Peter.

Nieuwe manier van vestingbou, hoe men alle regulare en irregulare vestingen met hare buytenwerken na haer behoorlijke proportie, sonder eenige rekeninge, door den gemeenen cirkel op een nieuwe en gansch lichte manier tekenen, afsteken en opbouwen sal. Van nieuws van den autheur selve, met het offensive en defensive vermeerdert, en door de tabulae sinuum uytgerekent, en met nodige demonstratien en figuren allen liefhebbers deser kunst verrijkt.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge I, 1673. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical title-page, a letterpress title-page, 7 engraved plates (5 folding), 3 engraved illustrations in the text and 3 folding tables. Contemporary vellum.

[16], 146 pp.Rare Dutch translation of a work on fortification giving a very detailed description of the mathematical problems encountered in designing and building fortifications. It was originally published in German in 1664 by the German military engineer Peter Becker. The translation is dedicated to Prince William Hendrik of Nassau. The engraved title-page shows workmen with tools and plans facing a female figure, while a child or putto and an ape sit drawing. The ape may be a joke alluding to the informal Dutch name for a pantograph, which translates as "drawing ape".A very good copy.l Jordan 0208 (5 copies); Hoogendoorn BEKP01D (6 copies, incl. 1 incomplete); Sloos, Warfare 08049; STCN (3 of the same copies); cf. Jähns, p. 1207.

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BECKER, Wilhelm Gottlieb (editor).

Der plauische Grund bei Dresden, mit Hinsicht auf Naturgeschichte und schöne Gartenkunst.Nuremberg, Frauenholzischen Kunsthandlung, 1799. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved folding plan, and 24 engraved plates, including 8 hand-coloured. Early 19th-century green half morocco.

XII, 128; [4], 120 pp.First edition of a work on landscape gardening, including the part on natural history, often lacking, written by Wilhelm Gotlieb Becker (1753-1813). The first part consists of a description of the area around Dresden, its geology, vegetation, villages and the ruins that can be found there. Twelve of the fine views of the first part are made after drawings by the famous Johann Christian Klengel (1751-1824). "Meisterwerk der Dresdner Landschaftskunst des späten 18. Jahrhunderts" (Lanck.-Oehler).The second part, describing the natural history of the region, contains three texts, each with its own divisional title: Mineralogische Beschreibung des Plauischen Grundse bis Tharand by Andreas Tauber, with four hand-coloured plates on geology and minerals, Verzeichniss der im Plauischen Grunde und den zunächst angrenzenden Gegenden wildwachsenden Pflanzen, by Friedrich Traugott Pursch and Verzeichnis der merkwürdigsten Insecten welche im Plauischen Grunde gefunden werden, by Ludwig Heinrich Freihern von Block, also with four hand-coloured plates, displaying various insects.Foxed with some marginal waterstains. Binding rubbed along the extremities. Otherwise in good condition.l Lanck.-Oehler III, 49; Stafleu & Cowan 8403.

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BECKFORD, William.

The History of the Caliph Vathek.London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, [ca. 1900]. Contemporary gold-tooled cloth, gilt edges.

X, 189, 16 pp.Orientalist tale of Arabia and a Caliph who renounces Islam. Originally published in French and in English anonymously in 1786, here in a printed verbatim from the first edition, with the original prefaces and notes by Henley. Note that the titlepage is a rubricated, tissue-guarded facsimile (of an earlier book appearance) that misleadingly shows facsimile date of 1868.Spine slightly discoloured, Front hinge cracked. Otherwise a good copy.

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BEDA VENERABILIS (The Venerable BEDE).

Ecclesiasticae historiae gentis Anglorum libri quinque diligenti studio à mendis, quibus hactenus scatebant, vindicati.Including: BEDA VENERABILIS. Epitome sive breviarium totius praecedentis historiae Anglorum ...Antwerp, Joannes de Grave (Gravius), 1550. Folio. With De Grave's woodcut armorial device on title-page (repeated on the otherwise blank final leaf) and 30 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, each board with a double border made from a roll with 4 heads in profile, not labelled but showing Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Desiderius Erasmus and apparently the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V rather than the more common Jan Hus, each in an oval wreath and separated by foliage (bilaterally symmetrical both vertically and horizontally).

[6], 263, [1 blank], [12] pp.Second and most important edition, in the original Latin, of the greatest work by the father of English history, the Venerable Bede (672/73-735 AD), his Ecclesiastical history of the English people, completed ca. 731 AD. It begins with the Roman invasion of England in 55 BC and covers the introduction of Christianity to England and the entire history of England up to Bede's own day. Although nominally a religious history it remains the most important source for English history in general for its period. Few works have ever dominated a subject as much as Bede's history, which established the notion of English history, served as the most important source for his period for nearly every writer who followed, and remains today an essential primary source for any history of England before 735. This work even largely established today's practice of dating events from the birth of Christ and the use of the term 'anno domini' (AD). This edition is also an impressive example of Renaissance typography in Antwerp, five years before Plantin set up his printing office. Lacking the blank leaf A4. With mostly marginal foxing and some minor browning in the first few quires and an occasional later sheet, a few marginal worm holes, mostly confined to quires R to Y, and an occasional minor stain or small marginal tear, but still in good condition, most leaves very good. The binding was refurbished in the early 19th-century, the hinges are cracked and the front free endleaf is browned, but most of the tooling is well-preserved, and the portrait roll was used so extensively (each of the four portraits appears about 15 or 20 times) that one can find an abundance of crisp impressions.l Adams B452; Belg. Typ. 277; Index Aureliensis 115.647; USTC 400809 (erroneous collation).

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BEECHER STOWE, Harriet.

De negerhut. (Uncle Tom's cabin.) Een verhaal uit het slavenleven in Noord-Amerika.Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1853. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed title-page in each volume and a tinted lithographed author's portrait as frontispiece in the first volume. Contemporary half sheepskin.

[1], [1 blank], IV, 368; [1], [1 blank], 403, [1 blank] pp.Very rare first edition of the second(?) Dutch translation of the famous anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's cabin by the abolitionist writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), translated by C.M. Mensing. Another equally rare Dutch translation was published in Ghent (Belgium), without a year of publication, but generally thought to have been published in 1852, the same year as the original English edition published in Boston. The novel became extremely popular in the Netherlands. Kruseman printed 1100 copies of this translation, which sold out almost immediately (a first edition of a novel would normally consist of 300 copies). Slightly browned, some spots. Bindings slightly worn along the extremities, corners damaged. Overall in very good condition.l Huisman, Verhalen van vrijheid, pp. 60-61; NCC (3 copies); WorldCat (1 additional copy).

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BEECHEY, Frederick William.

Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait...London, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 3 lithographed maps (2 large folding), 20 engraved plates, 3 two-page folding plates, and 1 engraved illustration in the text. Contemporary half green morocco, marbled sides, gold-tooled title on spine, marbled edges.

XXVI, [1], [1 blank], 472; IV, 330, [1], 331-452 pp.First octavo edition of Beechey's account of his celebrated Pacific voyage, which was preceded by a quarto edition in the same year. It "is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands, the Mangareva (Gambier) Islands, and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California" (Hill).Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856), English naval officer and hydrographer, was appointed to command the Blossom and to sail to the Bering Strait to assist in finding a northwest passage. In the winter and spring of 1826-1827 he visited California, Hawaii, Macao, the Ryukyu Islands (Japan) and the Philippines. The account also includes valuable descriptions of San Francisco and Monterey before the American conquest, with many details regarding the mission among the indigenous Americans.The plates include portraits of John Adams, indigenous Alaskans (Eskimos), views of the Pictairn Islands, Gambier Islands and Ryukyu Islands (Loo Choo). The account concludes with an extensive appendix, including a vocabulary of the language of the western Alaskan Eskimos.Binding slightly rubbed (especially the marbled sides), corners slightly bumped. With a small tear in the first large folding map. Otherwise in good condition.l Forbes 772; Hill 93; Howes B309; Howgego, 1800-1850, B22; Judd 16; O'Reilly & Reitman 849; Sabin 4347; cf. Alt Japan Kat. 180 (German edition); not in Abbey, Travel; Cordier, Japonica.

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BEECQ, Jan Karel Donatus van (Jean-Charles-Donat).

Plusieurs pieces maritimes.Paris, "rue St. Jacques aux 2 Piliers d'or" [= Gérard Audran, ca. 1683]. Oblong folio. Series of 6 numbered engraved plates after designs by Van Beecq, including title-page and 5 naval views with captions below. The title-page indicates that the series is engraved by Moyse Jean-Baptiste Fouard, but three of the other plates name Gérard Audran as the engraver.With: (2) POILLY, Nicolas de. Livre de plusieurs navires de guerre et vaisseaux marchands.Paris, Nicolas de Poilly, [ca. 1683?]. Oblong 4to. Series of 6 plates, the first with the title as a caption below and the name and address of De Poilly, the others only note "NDePoilly ex C.P.R.", that is "cum privilegio regis". 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary calf.

[12] ll.Ad 1: Third (or second) copy located of an attractive print series by the Dutch marine painter J. van Beecq (1638-1722), a nearly forgotten master who had left the Netherlands when the art market collapsed in the "year of disaster" 1672. He first followed Willem van de Velde, father and son, to England, but soon moved to France where he became painter to Louis XIV, a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and a protégé of important patrons. In 1685, the art-loving naval official Esprit Cabart de Villermont wrote a letter to the Minister of the Navy Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay, recommending Van Beecq to his attention: "He is the only one here [in France] who excels in this genre". We have located only one other copy, in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Schwartz also notes a copy in the Bibliothèque National, but the title is not in their online catalogue.Ad 2: Only copy located of a naval print series by the French engraver Nicolas de Poilly (1626-1696). He learned the art of engraving under his better known brother François de Poilly and mostly produced portraits and religious and historical engravings. The first plates show large war and merchant ships and the last shows several battered ships in the aftermath of a storm.A stain at the top right corner throughout, only affecting a small corner of the plates, and a vertical fold though the centre of the second series, otherwise in very good condition. Binding restored.l Ad 1: Hollstein I, p. 192 (no location); G. Schwartz, "J. van Beecq" in: Les échanges artistiques entre les ancien Pays-Bas et la France 1482-1814 (2010); KVK & WorldCat (1 copy); Wurzbach I, p. 68; not in Cat. NHSM; CCfr; Groot & Vorstman; Polak; SUDOC; ad 2: not in CCfr; Polak; SUDOC; WorldCat; for Poilly: Nagler XIII, pp. 68-69.

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BEELDSNIJDER, Joost Jansz.

Vernieuwde Kaart van Noordholland en Westfriesland, benevens het voornaamste gedeelte van Rhynland, en daar aan grenzende Landen.Amsterdam, Yntema & Tieboel, 1778. (92 x 68 cm). Large hand-coloured engraved map on 2 sheets, decorated with arms, figures and products from the regions shown, and with the title at the foot. Framed.

A large engraved map of what is now North Holland, showing its situation largely as it was in 1575, but with some revisions made in 1608. It is the most detailed map to show this region before the major drainage projects that began early in the seventeenth century. At a scale of about 1:82,000, it covers all but the northernmost tip of North Holland, from De Zijp in the North to Leiden and Utrecht in the south, including Haarlem, Amsterdam and Edam. It shows not only canals, inland seas, cities and towns (most represented by their churches, though other buildings or fortifications are sometimes depicted), dozens of boats and ships in the water, dunes and other topographic features, but also roads and paths, not included in Van Deventer’s 1542 map or the other major early maps. A compass appears in the sea (magnetic north above, with true north slightly to the left), and a small cartouche at the foot has a pair of compasses whose span indicates one mile. The northern part of the present day North Holland was formerly called West Friesland, and the top part of the large cartouche at right contains the coat of arms of the province of Friesland, surrounded by those of the West Friesian cities Alkmaar, Enkhuizen, Purmerend, Medemblik, Monnikendam and Hoorn. Below it is a dedication to the States of North Holland and West Friesland by Harman Allertsz. van Warmenhuysen (from 1608) and Johannes Le Francq van Berkhey (dated 1778). Below that is a key to 9 numbered regions in West Friesland and 149 numbered estates, as well as symbols for a few other features. Below that is the 1575 imprint of the original publisher. The whole cartouche is decorated with a ship’s pilot and his equipment, a woman in local dress, a ship, and products of the regions depicted.Joost Jansz. Beeldsnijder or Bilhamer (pre-1541-1590) in Amsterdam began his map in 1571 for the Duke of Alva’s Alkmaar campagne of 1573 in the Eighty Years’ War, but he published it only in 1575. His original woodcut edition is not known to survive, but Harman Allertsz. van Warmenhuysen produced a revised edition in copperplate in 1608, and his edition was copied by the engraver Jan van Jagen (the large cartouche by C. Bogerts) in 1778. It is printed from two copperplates on two large sheets of paper. It was an initiative of the medical doctor and natural historian, Johannes Le Francq van Berkhey (1729-1812), and the publishers advertised for subscriptions on 11 March 1777 and 19 December 1778, the latter announcing publication for 29 December and also noting that the copper plates would be destroyed after printing, an early example of the deliberate limitation of an edition as a selling point. Probably because it was never reprinted, it is very rare on the market.A large and detailed eighteenth-century edition of a lost sixteenth-century map. In very good condition, with only a few small marginal tears, one slightly affecting the border.l Blonk-van der Wijst, Hollandia Comitatus, pp. 35-36 (note); Boomgaard, Holland, pp. 40-41 (ill.); Donkersloot-de Vrij 677 note (6 copies); V.d. Krogt, Advertenties 1391 & 1429.

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BEHR, Johann Heinrich.

Der aufs Neu-verschantzte Turenne oder gründlich alt- und neue Kriegs-Bau-Kunst.Frankfurt and Leipzig, widow of Reinhard Wächtler, printed by Christoph Balthasar Lampe, 1690. Oblong 8vo (11 x 17 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved plates. Contemporary calf.

[3], [1 blank], [20], 616 pp.Rare second edition, complete with all the preliminaries and engravings, of a detailed practical handbook of fortification design. This second edition, revised and improved by the author, emphasizes the new advances in fortification introduced in the Netherlands. The first edition, published in 1677, was itself a reworking of Christoph Nottnagel's popular Manuale fortificatorium from 1659. Like its predecessors, Der aufs Neu-verschantzte Turenne was published in "pocket" size, although "coat pockets were large at that time" (Jähns). In his introduction, Behr gives his reasons for naming his treatise after the French marshal Turenne and not after some German prince or general. The title should be understood to be anti-French, and implies that although the French were renowned for their military science, there was so much engineering talent to be found in the German states that Turenne would lock himself in a fortress in fear (*2v).Binding damaged at the extremities with the hinges cracked, back cover with restored fold and ca. 3 cm of the backstrip missing. Text browned and with some spots and wormholes at the lower outer corner of pp. 385-422; a fair copy.l Jähns, pp. 1373-1374; Sloos, Warfare 08062; VD17, 23:313315R (4 copies, 3 lacking the plates); WorldCat (14 copies, many incomplete).

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BEIER, Gottfried and Johann Arnold FRIDERICI.

Aloen publicae florae cultorum censurae.Jena, Johann Werther, [1670]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Modern half vellum.

[28] pp.Rare dissertation on the cultivation of the aloe plant by Gottfried Beier, with Johann Arnold Friderici (1637-1672), professor of medicine and botany at the University of Jena, as praeses. "The work provides an account of the origins in Arabia and Indian Ocean regions, the varieties, the nature of its extracts and their uses. The greater part deals with the plant's cultivation and the climate necessary for it to thrive, and includes a number of references to a variety cultivated in the Americas (i.e., Agave)" (Landis).Gottfried Beier (fl. 1669-1674) would act as praeses himself a few years later for dissertations by A. Werner (1673) and D. Valder (1674). Title-page very slightly browned, but otherwise in very good condition.l Alden & Landis 670/83; BMC NH, p. 124; D.C. Landis, Drugs from the colonies: the new American medicine chest (online); Krivatsy 4380 (cf. 1049-1050); VD17 39:142078N; Wellcome II, p. 132.

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BEILSCHMIED, Karl Traugott.

Pflanzengeographie, nach Alexander van Humboldt's Werke ueber die geographische Vertheilung der Gewächse.Breslau, Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 1831. 8vo. With 1 folding lithographic chart and 1 folding letterpress table. Contemporary black paste-paper over boards, red spine label.

XIII, [1 blank], 201 pp.First and only edition of a supplement to Alexander von Humboldt's work on the distribution of flora and their climatic classification, dedicated to Humboldt. The erratum leaf, printed with the preliminaries, has been bound at the end as intended, so that its conjugate is nearly detached, but still a good copy, with only slightly browned patches in the chart and occasional minor foxing. Binding rubbed and back-strip chipped. A supplememt to Alexander von Humboldt's work on the climatic distribution of flora.l BMC NH, p 125; Pritzel 578.

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