[BINDING - SILVER].

[Pair of embossed silver book covers, with two engraved silver clasps].[Netherlands?, ca. 1725?]. Pair of embossed silver book covers (34 x 25 x 3 cm); each cover with a large scrollwork cartouche surrounded by extensive vine and flower decorations and with medallion portraits in each of the four corners, the front showing the crucifixion flanked by Mary and St. John (with an "INRI" scroll above, flanked by a crescent moon and a sun, and a skull and crossbones below), with portraits of four saints, each with a blank scroll (above left bearded with a regal crown; above right clean-shaven with a round-topped mitre; below left and right bare-headed and bearded), the back showing the resurrection with an angel and two astonished guards, with portraits of the four Evangelists.

Beautiful, richly decorated early 18th-century Dutch silver binding. The large silver covers, together weighing about 750 grams, bear no silver marks. Although no spine is present, the clasps show that the binding was made for a book about 2 cm thick, suggesting 200 or 300 pages, so most likely made for a folio missal. The clasps are hinged to the back cover, each with a round hole that fastens to a round-headed pin on the fore-edge of the front cover.With a 1 cm crack on the fore-edge of the back cover, another slightly affecting the arm of one guard and a few tiny holes where the tips of the noses of some figures have worn, but still generally in good condition. A lovely and unusually large pair of embossed silver book covers.l Cf. J.W. Frederiks, Dutch silver, vol. 4 (1961), nos. 238-239 & plates 235-237 (vaguely similar silver bindings from 1732 & 1738); nothing similar in J.F. Hayward, Silver bindings from the J.R. Abbey collection.

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[BINDO GUERRI of Siena] with a prologue by Antonius de RAMPIGOLLIS.

Reportatorium Biblie aureum [= Biblia aurea].[Augsburg], [printing office of the Abbey of Saints Ulrich and Afra], [in the period 1473 to early 1475]. Chancery (Foolscap) folio (28 x 22 cm). With the title in a note following the prologue, at the foot of the first page (and abbreviated at the end of the book), a 2-page alphabetical table of contents and the main text comprising 139 entries.Burgundy goatskin morocco (ca. 1890?). With the armorial bookplate of Robert Proctor.

[231], [1 blank] pp.First edition, in the original Latin, of the Biblia aurea (Golden Bible), long attributed to Antonius de Rampigollis (ca. 1360-ca. 1423?), a well-known Augustinian monk from Genoa, who in fact wrote the present one-page prologue for a different but related work of his own, the first edition of Compendium morale, by the Ulrich and Afra printing office in 1473. The printing office added Rampigollis’s prologue to the present work, written by Bindo Guerri of Siena (active ca. 1350?, d. 1390), leading to the confusion about the author. The Biblia aurea presents 139 Christian virtues in alphabetical order, each with a heading (beginning with the key word, from abstinentia to zelus indiscretus) and a discussion of the virtue (about one-and-a-half pages on average, but some fill less than a page and some more than two). The entries are based on the Bible, and many priests throughout Europe used the book when preparing sermons for church services. At least eleven Latin editions and a German edition appeared before 1500 but few after 1516 (though a Czech edition appeared in 1543), while Rampigollis’s Compendium morale became more common, going through many editions up to 1585 (mostly under the title Figurae Bibliae). Clement VIII placed the Biblia aurea on the Index of prohibited books (for mis-quoting the Bible), apparently in the 1590s, but the prohibition was soon lifted and another Latin edition appeared in 1628.In 1903, Proctor gave a detailed account of the Ulrich and Afra printing office that produced the present first edition of the Biblia aurea (Proctor owned the present copy), basing his study on a convolute at Cambridge University Library that contained five works (three by the Ulrich and Afra printing office, including the present edition) and included lengthy and very informative manuscript notes by its first owner Ulrich von Ellenbog (ca. 1435-1499) in Augsburg, who worked together with the printing office, initiating their production of the first edition of Quadragesimale viatoris, set in the present type sometime in the period 1473 to 1476. The main texts of the Biblia aurea and the Compendium morale both begin with “De abstinentia” but continue differently, the former with “Abstinentia est primo meriti argumentativa ...” and the latter with “Castigo corpus meum et in servitutem redigo ...”. Not surprisingly, the two works have sometimes been confused.The manuscript note “Beyharting” above the opening of the text means the book came from the Augustinian Beyharting Monastery, dissolved in 1803, whose collections were dispersed ca. 1807 (Beyharting, 35 or 40 km southeast of München, is now incorporated into Tuntenhausen). With the armorial bookplate of the pioneering incunabulist Robert Proctor (1868-1903), who bought it from the dealer Caspar Haugg in Augsburg 1892; a pencilled chronology of the book dealers who owned it: Lüdwig Rosenthal ca. 1885, Caspar Haugg in 1891 & 1892, Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930) to 1910 and H. Th. Wenner in 1965; and a detailed typescript description in German taped to the back paste-down, noting Proctor’s 1903 death (at age 35, climbing in the Tirolian Alps) and his article of that year. The first leaf is somewhat worn, with traces of a couple old creases, some marginal spots and a marginal water stain in the upper outside corner, most leaves have a smaller marginal water stain in the lower outside corner and a few have a small browned spot on the edge of the leaf at the head, which has led to a tiny chip, only about 2 mm deep. Further with some small marginal worm holes or trails, mostly confined to about 20 scattered leaves. Otherwise in very good condition and with generous margins. The binding shows some faint stains and minor scratches but is otherwise also very good. Robert Proctor’s large-margined copy, from the Augustinian Beyharting Monastery, of the first edition of an important and very popular Augustinian religious work, also a remarkable display of a roman printing type that deserves to be better known: nearly the first roman type used north of the Alps and one of the best of the earliest roman types.l BMC II 340; Goff R13; GW M36960; Hain-Copinger 13678; Hubay, Augsburg 1746; Hubay, Eichstätt 877; ISTC ir00013000; Madsen 3449; Proctor 1635; Robert Proctor, “Ulrich von Ellenbog and the press of S. Ulrich at Augsburg”, The library, s2, 4 (1903), pp. 163-179 at pp. 166, 170, 177 (reprinted in his Bibliographical essays, 1905, pp. 73-88, at pp. 80 etc.), viewable on zendo.org; Sallander 1923; Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1939 pp. 153-154 (reprinted in his Fifty essays, 1966, pp. 141-143; USTC 748381.

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[BINGHAM, Minerva Clarissa (née Brewster)].

[Kingsmill primer]. [Ponape Island (Micronesia), Mission Press, 1858]. 4to (24 x 20 cm). Set in roman type with rules dividing the page into 5 compartments.

[1] leaf.A rudimentary one-page primer for the language of the Gilbert Islands in the South Pacific, printed in "a few copies" for the missionary Hiram Bingham junior (stationed on Apaiang Island), whose wife had prepared it, and produced by the printing office of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) at their mission on Ponape Island. It was intended as an aid to teach the natives the alphabet and take the first steps toward teaching them to read. The language, very close to that of the Caroline Islands where it was printed, is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, which includes Maori. The Gilbert Islands were often called "Kingsmill" in the 19th-century, hence the title "Kingsmill primer" in the manuscript note on the copy in the ABCFM collection at Harvard College Library, which continues: "printed at Ponape, Sept. 1858". With the upper right corner torn off, not approaching the printed letters or rules, a couple small marginal tears, 1 small hole in a blank area and a few small spots, but still in very good condition. An ephemeral teaching aid and one of the earliest examples of printing in Micronesia: an extraordinary survival.l J.E. Alden, "A press in paradise: the beginnings of printing in Micronesia", in: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 38 (1944), pp. 269-283, item 14.

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BIORCI, Guido.

Applausi poetici alla vera rigenerazione del Piemonte operata nel 1799. Dalla divina provvidenza col celebre valore delle armi Austro-Russe.Acqui Terme (between Torino and Genoua), Giovanni Francesco Arcasio, [1799?]. 4to. With woodcut arms on first leaf. Printed in gold throughout. Gold-brocade decorated paper wrappers, showing an embossed floral pattern with hunters, a wild boar, deer and dogs scattered through it, in gold, orange, yellow, lavendar and blue. In modern clamshell box.

[1], [1 blank], [8], [2 blank] pp.Verses celebrating the Habsburg Imperial forces' repulsion of the French from the walls of Acqui Terme in Piedmont (between Torino and Genoua) on 17 May 1799 during the War of the Second Coalition (1798-1801). Although the imprint explicitly indicates that it comes from Arcasio's printing office and that he is printer to the city of Acqui Terme, the ICCU records no other work under his name and no other publications at Acqui Terme between 1622 and 1805. It records only one other copy of the present work (at the Biblioteca Federico Patetta) and neither it nor the library's own catalogue indicates whether it is printed in gold (and neither describes the binding). That copy may also lack the initial leaf with the coat of arms and its blank conjugate. We have located no other copy. The book must have been printed in a very limited number of copies.The printing shows through the paper slightly, but both the book and the wrapper are in fine condition, with only a few small bits of dirt on the wrapper and a couple very minor stains in the foot margin of the last printed page. An extraordinary and extremely rare piece of occasional printing from the War of the Second Coalition.l ICCU (1 copy); not in WorldCat.

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[BISSCHOP, Jan].

Pharmacia Galenica & Chymica, dat is: de vermeerderde ende verbeterde Apotheker en Alchymiste licht ende distilleer-konst. Begrijpende de beginselen ende fondamenten der selver. … en verrijckt met een kort Examen der Chirurgie, benevens een tractaet van de kennisse der Droogen. Den vierden druck.Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1662. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece of the interior of an apothecary’s shop: Het Nieu verbetert en vermeerdert licht der Apothekers en distilleerkonst. T’Amsteldam by Joannes van Ravesteyn den […in ink: tienden] druck 16[.. in ink: 1662]; woodcut printer’s device on title; 3 half-page woodcut illustrations of distilling equipment (pp. 343, 347 and 391); woodcut initials and endpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum over boards with title in ink on spine.

[16], 466, [14], 54 pp.The second edition of a successful apothecary’s manual for students, mirroring the general knowledge of pharmacy in the middle of the 17th century. The author of this intriguing book long remained unidentified until his initials ‘I.B.S.I’ (see fol.*3v) gave him away: Jan Bisschop Soc. Jesu. Jan Bisschop (1590-1664) worked in Bruges as a pharmacist before he moved to Ghent in 1613 to join the Jesuit order. He trained numerous apprentice pharmacists and served later as official pharmacist at the Vienna Court of Emperor Ferdinand II. His book owed its success above all to its extremely practical approach, containing also a vast collection of medical (distillery) recipes.Bisschop’s book probably was first published anonymously at Ghent in 1653, but no copy is known. The ‘first edition’ was published by Joannes van Ravesteyn at Amsterdam in 1657, followed by two editions in 1661: one in Amsterdam by Van Ravesteyn and one in Rotterdam by P. and A. van Waesberge. The text of the main part of our edition - the fourth as is stated on the title - is in fact a re-issue of Ravesteyns1661 edition, including the frontispiece (‘de tweeden druck Ao 1661’; in our copy ‘corrected’ by hand in: ‘den tienden (sic) druck 1662’). In 1667 an edition was published in Antwerp by Reynier Seghers.Spine a little damaged, some soiling and browning in the text, with a wormhole affecting the text at some places. Still in good condition.l BMN I, p. 372; Boeymans, ‘Broeder Jan Bisschop en zijn “Pharmacia Galenica”’, in: Pharmaceutisch tijdschr. voor België, 33,9 (1956), pp. 197-201; Hoogendoorn, p. 104, nr. BIS01, 2.2; Krivatsy 8900; Vandewiele, ‘Enige nieuwe gegevens over apotheker Jan Bisschop, Jezuïet’, in: Pharmaceutisch tijdschr, voor België, 51, 9 (1974), pp. 443-449; cf. Hoogendoorn, p. 104 no. 4 (1657 ed.); Jesuit Books in the Dutch Republic, p. 52 (1657 ed.); Notaker 409 (1657 ed).

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[BISSCHOP, Jan].

Pharmacia Galenica & chymica, dat is: apotheker ende alchymiste ofte distilleer-konste. Begrijpende de beginselen ende fondamenten der selver. [Additional title and imprint on the frontispiece:] Nieu licht der apothekers en distilleerkonst. ... t’Amsteldam by Joannes van Ravesteyn op ’t Water.Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1657. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece showing the interior of an apothecary’s shop, Van Ravesteyn’s woodcut device on title-page (Elijah and the ravens); 3 half-page woodcut illustrations of distilling equipment (pp. 339, 343 and 387); woodcut decorated initials and tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum over boards.

[8], 460, [12] pp.Rare first known edition of a successful apothecary’s manual for students, written in Dutch, mirroring the general knowledge of pharmacology in the middle of the 17th century. The author of this intriguing book long remained unidentified until his initials “I.B.S.I” (fol.*3v of the 1662 “4th” edition, in the Latin note following the Dutch approbation, both signed from Ghent) identified him as Jan Bisschop S.J. (1590-1664) who worked in Bruges as a pharmacist before he moved to Ghent in 1613 to join the Jesuit order. He trained numerous apprentice pharmacists and later served as official pharmacist at the Vienna court of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. His book owed its success above all to its extremely practical approach, including its vast collection of medicinal recipes, many involving distillation.With owner’s inscription of Carolina van de Poel on paste-down. Small tear in vellum of back board, bookblock somewhat loose in binding, no endpapers; frontispiece and first leaves a bit thumbed. First known edition of a practical apothecary’s manual in Dutch.l Paul Begheyn, Jesuit books in the Dutch Republic 1657.1 (1 copy); BMN, I, p. 372; P. Boeymans, “Broeder Jan Bisschop en zijn ‘Pharmacia Galenica’”, in: Pharmaceutisch tijdschr. voor België, 33, 9 (1956), pp. 197-201; Hoogendoorn, Bis 01, 1 (3 copies); Jesuit books in the Dutch Republic, p. 52 ; Notaker 409; STCN (1 copy); L.J. Vanderwiele, “Het ‘Licht der apotekers’”, in: Kring voor de Geschiedenis van de Pharmacie in Benelux, Bulletin, 27 (1960), pp. 1-8; L.J. Vandewiele, “Enige nieuwe gegevens over apotheker Jan Bisschop, Jezuïet”, in: Pharmaceutisch tijdschr. voor België, 51, 9 (1974), pp. 443-449; cf. STCV (1667 Antwerp eds. & possibly a 1660/61 Latin translation).

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[BISSCHOP, Jan].

Pharmacia galenica & chymica, dat is: de vermeerderde ende verbeterde apothekeren alchymiste licht ende distilleer-konst. Begrijpende de beginselen ende fondamenten der selve. Verdeylt in acht boecken, tot onderwijsinghe der apothekers. En verrijckt met een vermeerderde examen der chirurgie, benevens een tractaet vande kennisse der drooghen. [Engraved title-page:] Het nieu verbetert en vermeerdert licht der apothekers en distilleerkonst.Antwerpen, Reynier Sleghers, 1667. 8vo. With an anonymous engraved title-page and 2 woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

[16], 466, [22]; 70, [2] pp.The fourth edition of a collection of medical distillery recipes, first published anonymously at Ghent in 1653, making it the first book on pharmaceutical chemistry published in the Southern Netherlands. The present 1667 edition for the first time gives the author's initials in the approbation (*5 r): I.B.S.I., meaning the Flemish Jesuit Jan Bisschop (1590-1664). The engraved title suggests that the information in this handbook is an improvement on a previous apothecary's handbook, calling this a new light on the apothecary, alchemist and the art of distillation. This apparently refers to Dlicht d'Apothekers by Quiricus de Augustis. The title on the frontispiece does not match that on the title page, and this title was used for a new publication in 1683 that re-published all the recipes under the title 't Nieuw-Ligt des Apothekers (Amsterdam 1683). In the Pharmacia galenica & chymica the art of distillation is still described as an alchemists' secret. The final ca. 30 pages of the handbook describes confectionery distillation recipes instead of medicine. The engraved title-page shows the interior of an apothecary shop and the two woodcut illustrations depict distilling equipment. The last two (4th and 5th) editions have the same imprint, the present copy of the fourth edition has the same finger print as the copy in Leuven: 166708 - # a1 *3 $t' : # a2 *5 ari - # 1b1 A h : # 1b2 2G erie - # 2b1 A2 ele : # 2b2 E2 ,$ge. With the bookplates of J.W. Six and Van der Hoeven on the pastedown. Binding rubbed and lacking the first flyleaf, but interally in very good condition.l Bibliotheca Walleriana 7382; Krivatsy 8899; Hoogendoorn, p. 104 no. 4 (1657 ed.); Jesuit Books in the Dutch Republic, p. 52 (1657 ed.); Notaker 409 (1657 ed.); not in Forbes.

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BIVERUS, Pierre.

Sacrum oratorium piarum imaginum immaculatae Mariae et animae creatae, ac baptismo, poenitentia, et eucharistia innovatae: ars nova bene vivendi et moriendi.Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana/Balthasar Moretus, 1634. 4to. With engraved title-page, 42 engraved plates by Charles de Mallery after Adam van Noort and Adriaan Collaert, 2 engravings in text, and 15 heart-shaped engraved emblems in text by Theodoor Galle. 19th-century gold-tooled brown morocco, gilt edges; bound by Émile Bosquet.

[20], 769, [9] pp.First and only edition of a beautifully illustrated Roman Catholic emblem book, written by the Spanish Jesuit Pierre de Bivero, Latinized Biverus (1572-1656). The book is divided into three parts, closing with an appendix. The first part is devoted to the emblematic representation of the Holy Virgin, with 16 engraved emblems, several depicting Mary in a cartouche on the breast of an enormous dove. The second part centres on King David, illustrated with 20 plates, and the third part deals with female saints, including 6 emblematic plates, 5 depicting two saints on each plate and the sixth devoted to Maria. The appendix contains 15 heart-shaped devotional emblems, which had been published before in the devotional work Typus praedestinationis, also printed at Antwerp, in 1630. The emblems were designed and engraved by some of the best Antwerp artists. Adriaan Collaert (ca. 1560-1618), a fine Antwerp engraver, was married to the daughter of Philip Galle, whose pupil was Charles de Mallery (ca. 1571-ca. 1631), the engraver of the full-page emblems. Theodoor Galle (1571-1633), who engraved the heart-shaped emblems, was Philip Galle's son and pupil.With the bookplate of Merlin d'Estreux de Beaugrenier on paste-down. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities. Only very slightly browned with a few small spots. A very good copy in an attractive binding.l Funck 280; Landwehr, Emblem and fable books 63; Praz, p. 275.

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BLACKWELL, Thomas Eden.

[Sketchbook containing several sketches of India, Burma and Switzerland, with an emphasis on their cultures].[Various places, ca. 1826-1830]. Oblong 4to. With 66 sketches in pen & ink and pencil, mostly signed by Blackwell, mounted and bound in, with manuscript captions. There is also 1 print (ca. 1795/1800?) drawn by Singey Bey and engraved by Thomas Medland. Half black morocco, black decorated paper sides, gold-tooled ornaments on spine.

[70] gray, white and blue album ll., containing 67 sketches and their accompanying manuscript captions and descriptions.Sketchbook by the English lieutenant Thomas Eden Blackwell (1803?-1845), showing views of India, Burma and Switzerland, made in the years 1826-1830, when India, which is the subject of about 30 of the sketches, and parts of Burma (nowadays Myanmar) were British colonies. The sketches, most signed and dated by Blackwell, are mounted on album leaves and accompanied by manuscript captions and descriptions, also by Blackwell and sometimes by a later hand. These descriptions explain the sketches in more detail. Some of these remarks are general or contain interesting facts, while others are very personal or describe an event that happened during Blackwell’s time as officer.As noted, most of the sketches concern India. Blackwell drew some panoramic views and buildings (for example an Indian mosque or a narrow street in Calcutta), but he pays particular attention to the Indian culture in his sketches of India and the accompanying explanations. He sketched Indian inhabitants, animals and scenes representing the everyday life of Indian people. For Burma (now Myanmar), for which not very many sketches were made, Blackwell made only a few sketches, but focussed mostly on the coasts and the city of Ragoon’s wharfs. The only exception is a sketch of the so-called great bell in Ragoon, which is representative for all the bells in Burma, which are often located near celestial buildings. The album also includes two views of Tobago in the West Indies.Another large part of the sketchbook consists of sketches of Swiss landscapes and panoramas, especially of the region surrounding the Swiss city of Basel. This sketchbook, nearly a personal dairy of Lieutenant Blackwell, contains sketches outlining a variety of subjects. He gives us an insight into Indian habits, animals and inhabitants, in the breeding of Arabian horses, shows us Swiss and Burmese landscapes and also Indian architecture and culture. With his refined drawings, Blackwell offers the reader an interesting historical artefact that gives an insight into the life of an English officer in the first half of the 19th century and the cultures he encountered, including his remarks upon them.With an owner's inscription on the front paste-down; "Lieut. Blackwell 13th Light Infantry. Indian, Burmese and Swiss Sketches". Binding a little worn, one quire loose, some occasional spots and somewhat browned, but not affecting the drawings. Otherwise in good condition.

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BLANCARDUS, Stephanus.

Lexicon novum medicum Graeco-Latinum, caeteris editioibus longè perfectissimum.Inhoc enim totius artis medicae termini, in anatomia, chirurgia, pharmacia, chumia, re botanica, &c. … Leiden, Cornelis Boutesteyn & Jordaan Luchtmans, 1701. 8vo. With the engraved portrait of the author, 4 engraved full-page tables of medical symbols, title-page printed in red and black, some woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Vellum over boards, title written in ink on spine, sprinkled edges.

[16], 662, [194] pp.Much enlarged edition of Steven Blankaart’s Lexicon medicum, that was first published in 1659. One of the many continually enlarged re-editions was published by the Leiden publishers Boutersteyn and Luchtmans in 1690; our copy is from this edition with a new title-page dated 1701. Some of the re-editions with titles as Lexicon novum medicum, or Lexxicon medicum renovate were published in Germany (Jena, Frankfurt) and England (London), including translations in German and English.Stephanus Blancardus (Steven Blankaart; 1650-1704) was the son of Nicolaas Blankaart, professor of philosophy in Steinfurt, and of Greek in Franeker. Steven studied medicine in Leiden and became a famous physician in Amsterdam. He published many medical treatises f.e. on gout, children’s diseases, blood circulation, etc.l NNBW IV, cols. 156-157; A.J.J. Vandevelde, Bijdr. tot de studie der werken van St. Blankaart’, in: Versl. en meded. Kon. Vl. Ac. Voor Taal- en letterk., 1924, pp. 453-494.

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BLANCO, Pedro Luis.

Noticia de las antiguas y genuinas colecciones canónicas inéditas de la Iglesia Espanola, que de órden del rey nuestro señor se publicarán por su Real Bibliotheca de Madrid, ...Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1798. 8vo. With some lines printed in Arabic type. Later brown half morocco, gold-tooled spine.

XLI [=XXXVIII], [1], 168, [2], [2 blank] pp.First and only edition of a work offering new details on Gothic and Arabic manuscripts in the collections of the Spanish Church in the Royal Library in Madrid, compiled by the librarian Pedro Luis Blanco. In part Blanco continued the work of his predecessor, the orientalist Miguel Casiri (1710-1791), who published the Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis, a catalogue in two volumes containing more than 1800 Arabic manuscripts in the library of the Monasterio del Escorial in Madrid. The present work is divided into two parts, the first dealing with Gothic manuscripts, the second with Arabic manuscripts. The latter contains corrections and additions to Casiri's work, as well as some Latin translations of Arabic inscriptions or passages found in these manuscripts.With a stamp of "Montserrat" on the last page. Internally in very good condition.l Díez & Rodríquez, Colección canónica hispana, pp. 591-593.

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BLANKAART, Steven.

Venus belegert en ontset. Oft verhandelinge van de pokken, en des selfs toevallen, met een grondige en zekere genesinge. ...Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1684. 8vo. With a finely etched and engraved illustrated title-page, and 8 finely engraved plates. Mottled half calf (ca. 1830?), gold tooled spine with a pink gold-tooled vellum label, decorated paper sides. Rebacked, preserving the original backstrip.

[8], 522, [14] pp.First edition of a very popular book on smallpox by Steven Blanckaart (1650-1704), son of a leading Dutch physician and professor, who trained as a pharmacologist, studied medicine at Franeker and promoted recent ideas in medicine. He was the first to introduce Cartesianism into medical science. All of the plates, excellent and interesting work by the artist-engraver Jacob Harrewijn, illustrate Blanckaart’s own work, but following it he added three other treatises on smallpox, by Franciscus de le Boë Sylvius, Johannes Wier and Blankaart’s contemporary, the English physician Thomas Sydenham, this last written in the form of a letter to his London colleague Henri Paman. Blankaart’s book, still accompanied by the contributions by others, went through several editions in the original Dutch and in English and German translations.With the Jugenstil book plate of Dr. Ad. Stordeur, Bruges (Belgium), dated 1910; and a small owner’s label (“GOM” monogram) partly overlapping it. Very slightly browned but still in good condition.l Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, 221; De Vries, Populaire prozaschrijvers 470; STCN (5 copies); Wellcome Library II, 177; cf. Bibl. Walleriana 1110-1111 (German eds.); Scheepers I, 562 (1696 ed.).

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BLANKAART, Steven.

Verhandelinge van de opvoedinge en ziekten der kinderen. Vertoonende op wat wyse de kinderen gezond konnen blyven, en ziek zijnde, bequamelyk konnen herstelt werden. Zeer nodig voor alle huyshoudende lieden.Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1684. 8vo. With an engraved title-page showing a hospital scene and 19 figures on 6 engraved plates. Near contemporary vellum.

[8], 332, [20] pp.Rare first and only early edition (here with the dedication in the rarer first of two settings) of one of the first medical books on raising and educating children and especially on paediatrics. Intended for parents, it offers advice and instructions for treating all sorts of children's illnesses, common and rare, as well as tips on the prevention of disease. It gives detailed descriptions and instructions for many home recipes that the parents themselves can prepare and administer to the children. Two appendices follow the three main parts: the first called "Verscheide aanmerkingen aangaande de kinder-ziekten" (Various notes on children's diseases) with 23 numbered case studies, including a description of a child whose body was covered with scales except for his head (gossips blamed his mother for thinking about fish when she was pregnant!); the second, translated from the English, called "Historie der Japanse campher" (History of Japanese camphor).Steven Blankaart (1650-1704) at Amsterdam, one of the most important physicians of the 17th century, wrote many popular medical treatises, books on anatomy, surgery, etc., including an herbal and a large work on insects. He was the first to introduce Cartesianism into medical science and one the first scientific and empiricist physicians. With bookplate and with an occasional pencilled note or mark. With occasional small ink spots or faint marginal stains, but still in good condition. The binding somewhat soiled but also good.l BMN I, p. 279; Krivatsky 1338; G.A. Lindeboom, Geschiedenis van de medische wetensch. in Nederland, pp. 93-95; STCN (3 copies); Waller 1120; not in Wellcome.

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BLANQUI, Jérôme- Adolphe.

Reis naar Madrid, gedaan in de maanden augustus en september 1826; behelzende een staatkundig-wijsgeerig overzigt van de zeden en gebruiken der Spanjaarden.Amsterdam, J.C. van Kesteren, 1827. 8vo. With title-page with engraved vignette. Contemporary boards, uncut.

XVI, 184, [4] pp.First and only Dutch translation of this account on an itinerary to Madrid by the French economist Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (Paris 1798 - 1854), also giving a political, economic and historical report of Spain and the customs and traditions of its inhabitants. The work originally was published in French in 1826. Blanqui's most important contributions were made in labour economics, economic history and especially the history of economic thought. Blanqui was a disciple of Jean-Baptiste Say to whom he succeeded in 1833 to the chair of political economy at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiersin Paris. Spine damaged. A good copy.l Saakes 8 (1827), p. 349.

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BLASIUS, Gerard.

Anatome animalium, terrestrium variorum, volatilium, aquatilium, serpentum, insectorum, ovorumque, structuram naturalem ex veterum, recentiorum, propriisque observationibus proponens, figuris variis illustrata.Amsterdam, J. van Someren, 1681. 4to. With engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken, and 60 numbered and 5 unnumbered engraved plates. Contemporary vellum.

[8], 496 pp."The first general systematic treatise on comparative anatomy" (Garrison & Morton) and a "well known and important early treatise" (Wood). Gerard Blasius (or Blaes; ca. 1625-1692) combined some of his earlier writings as well as those by other scientists into the present work. The section on the anatomy of the dog is especially important. The engraved plates depict animals and parts of animals and are accompanied by an explanation (plates 39-47 depicting birds).Engraved ex-libris "Biblioth: Wagneriana" on verso frontispiece, ownership stamps "Whitman", on inside front cover and endleaf; some browning and foxing, plates XXVII, LIII bound in upside down. Good copy with plates in fresh impression.l Garrison & Morton 296; Krivatsy 1339; Nissen, ZBI 381; Wellcome II, p. 179; Wood, p. 243.

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