BLASIUS, GERARD; [BLAES, GERARD]

Anatome Animalium, Terrestrium Variorum, Volatilium, Aquatilium, Serpentum, Insectorum, Ovorumque, Structuram Naturalem. [the Anatomy of Animals, Land, Sea, Air, Serpents, Insects... The Structure of Natural Things from Vertebrae]

Amsterdam: Joanis a Someren / Hernrici & Viduae Theodori Boom, 1681. First Edition. Vellum spine on marbled boards. 290mm x 240mm (11" x 9"). [3pp], 496pp. Engraved frontis plate and sixty-five fine engraved anatomical plates. Gerard Blasius (1627-1682) - Dutch physician and anatomist. He was the eldest son of Leonard Blasius, who had worked as an architect in Copenhagen. Gerard started his studies there then moved to Leiden with his family, after his father died. Around 1655 he became a physician in Amsterdam. In October 1659 Blasius was appointed at the Athenaeum Illustre but without being paid. In the next year he became the first Amsterdam professor in medicine. This, his last work is considered the first comprehensive treatise on comparative anatomy.. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Boards rubbed with edge-wear. Vellum spine age-darkened. Edge-tear to fep with some loss. Closed tear to upper edge of frontis engraving (c. 1"). Previous owner's ink inscription to fep. Contents otherwise clean and tight .

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Boeknummer: j9596

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Anatomy Very Special Books

CLUVERII, PHILIPPI [CLUVER, PHILIPP]

Introductio in Universam Geographiam. Iam Veterem Quam Novam. Tabulis Geographicis XLVI Ac Notis Olim Ornata, Etc

London: Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1697. Reprint. Brown hardback leather cover. 240mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). [20pp], 565pp + index. Frontis engraving. Four tables. No maps. Latin text throughout.. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed and edgeworn. Browning and occasional foxing within .

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Boeknummer: c1953

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Topography

CRAWFURD, GEORGE

The Lives and Characters of the Officers of the Crown of State in Scotland. Volume 1 [All Published]

Edinburgh: Robert Fleming, 1726. First Edition. Contemporary calf cover. 330mm x 210mm (13" x 8"). 480pp. Title and dedication page vignettes. A note on a preliminary page states that the work was not continued beyond the present volume.. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed and bumped with corner wear. Spine neatly rebacked with new eps. Tightly bound. Pages browning. Bookplate on paste-down of Society of Advocates in Aberdeen with stamp on verso of title page. Contents G+ .

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Boeknummer: L1514

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Scots History

FREART, ROLAND

A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern. To Which Is Added, an Account of Architects and Architecture; by John Evelyn, with the Addition of the Elements of Architecture; Collected by Sir John Wotton. With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of

London: D. Browne &c, 1723. Third English Language Edition. Fawn hardback half-leather cover with brown cloth boards. 360mm x 230mm (14" x 9"). (24),xxxviii+115+74. One engraved title page and one printed in red and black. 37 of the 40 full page engraved plates. Numerous head and tail pieces, plus two engravings to text.. Attractive modern rebind with "Evelyn - Architecture" blind stamped to spine. Slightly dampstained, more heavily at end. Two pages missing from chapter XXI (pages 57,58), chapters 27 & 28 missing (pages 69, 70, 71 and 72) from which there would have been 3 plates .

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Boeknummer: g5991

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Architecture

FREHERI, D PAULI

Theatrum Virorum Eruditione Clarorum. In Quo Vitae & Scripta Theologorum, Jureconsultorum, Medicorum & Philosophorum,... . Volume I: Theologorum

Noribergae (Nurenberg): Johannis Hofmanni, 1688. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 340mm x 220mm (13" x 9"). [iv], 722pp + plates. Engraved frontispiece and title page, rubricated title page, 30 pages of b/w engraved portraits, each page containing 16 portraits, and an engraved headpiece to the dedication page.. Worn condition. Cover rubbed with loss and erosion to leather. Boards detached. Prelims detached with edge-loss. Some foxing and marks, but content in overall good condition .

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Boeknummer: d3170

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Illustrated Books Religion

GILBERT, SAMUEL

The Florists Vade-Mecum Being a Choice Compendium of Whatever Worthy Notice Hath Been Extant for the Propagation, Raising, Planting, Encreasing and Preserving the Rarest Flowers and Plants

London: J Taylor [printed for], 1702. Third Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover. 150mm x 90mm (6" x 4"). 149pp + appendix and index.. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Later binding. Pages browned. Sm tear to lower margin of pp143-144 with slight loss to text .

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Boeknummer: k0707

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Botany

JUVARRA, FILIPPO

Raccolta Di Varie Targhe Fatte Da Professori Primarii in Roma

Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1715. Reprint. Vellum cover. 280mm x 180mm (11" x 7"). [x] + plates. Illustrated with 51 full page engravings. First published in 1711 - this could be the second edition. Text in Italian. A "catalogue" of Papal coats-of arms carved by Michelangelo, Bernini and Borromini amongst others and recorded by Juvarra. The bookplate of the Earl of Galloway is the verso of the title page.. G: in good condition. Covers soiled. Some soiling to the fore-edge of the title page as well as some other light marks and blind-stamp. The plates are in very good condition .

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Boeknummer: d3865

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Crafts Architecture

LEYBOURN, WILLIAM; MANLEY, THOMAS

The Compleat [Complete] Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying Land by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, Peractor, and Other Instruments... Corrected and Enlarged, with the Addition of Three Books Not Before Printed. 7 Books in 1

London: Printed by E Flesher for George Sawbridge, 1674. Third Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 295mm x 195mm (12" x 8"). [xviii], 429pp + plates. 5 b/w plates + 84 b/w vignettes. Contents listed at front: 1: Geometrical definitions 2: Description of Instruments 3: Trigonometrie [Trigonometry]4: Part 1: Application and use of instruments; part 2: Measuration and plotting of roads, highways street and lanes, and of the taking of the Ground-plot of cities towns and hamlets 5: Measuring 6: Dialling; 7: Legal part of Surveying. The pagination is faulted, jumping from pages 107 to 183 - though the book is complete. William Leybourn was a printer before working as a land and quantity surveyor. He was one of the surveyors of London after the great fire of 1666 where he was associated with Robert Hooke. His book was one of the standard treatises on surveying throughout the second half of the 17th. and beginning of the 18th. century.. G: in good condition. Original 17th century binding with hinges restored and strengthened. New eps .

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Boeknummer: d3616

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Mathematics Engineering

MONTAIGNE, MICHEL SEIGNEUR DE

Essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne. Volume 1

Frankfurt: Eichborn, 1999. First edition thus. Blue hardback cloth cover. 310mm x 220mm (12" x 9"). 574pp. Text in German. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas.. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket .

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Boeknummer: g5585c

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Philosophy

PARLIAMENT

The Parliamentary Register 1660-1741

London: Edward Cave, 1741. First Edition. Brown gilt hardback cloth cover. 150mm x 90mm (6" x 4"). xxiv, 288pp, [xlviii]. Comprises lists of the twenty-four Parliaments from 1660-174. With index of names and places and Peers for England and Scotland.. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and faded. Eps darkened. Slight foxing. Ex-lib .

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Boeknummer: j0916

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Reference

SIMIENOWICZ, CASIMIR; SHELVOCKE, GEORGE [TRANSL.]

The Great Art of Artillery

London: J Tonson [printer], 1729. First translated edition. Full leather binding with impressed front panel. Gilt bands and embellished red title panel to spine. 350mm x 230mm (14" x 9"). 404pp. 23 folding engraved plates detailing the science and construction of weaponry. First translated edition of what was for over a century the standard work on the science and technology of artillery. Originally published as 'Artis Magnae Artilleriae' in Amsterdam in 1650 the work contains one of the first tracts on the rocket as well as treating the subjects of pyrotechnics and weights and measures. This edition complete with all twenty-three engraved folding plates.. Modern leather binding with new endpapers. Contents G - in Good condition. Some mild foxing and light marking to text and plates. Occasional sm. tears largely confined to margins. Edges uncut .

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Boeknummer: j4387

Catalogus: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

Trefwoorden: 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian Weapons Military History Very Special Books