BOOTHBY, Richard.

A breife discovery or description of the most famous island of Madagascar or St. Laurence in Asia neare unto East-India.London, Printed by E[dward]. G[riffin]. for John Hardesty, 1646. Small 4to (20 x 15.5 cm). Gold-tooled tanned sheepskin (ca. 1850). Rebacked, with original backstrip laid down.

[12], 72, [1], [1 blank] pp.First separately published edition of Boothby's description of Madagascar and its opportunities for trade and colonization, detailing the trade with India, Persia (including Ormuz, captured in 1622 by a joint Anglo-Persian force) and other countries along the Arabian Sea and touching on a large variety of subjects including Saint Augustine's harbour, culture of the natives, opportunities for plantations, natural resources, pearl fishery and trading practices of the English, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch.The British merchant Richard Boothby had reinvested his capital in the East India Company around 1615, after which he sailed to India where he was jailed as a result of a dispute with company officials. Upon his release he returned to London by way of Madagascar, which inspired his enthusiasm so much that he wrote the present book advising the East India Company's rivals to take advantage of it as the ideal location for a European colony.With the bookplate Crosby Gaige (1882-1949). Several chapters are heavily annotated in English in an early hand. These give information about a voyage or voyages and would reward further study. With the gutter margin of the title-page and all margins of the last leaf restored but otherwise in good condition, with a small tear in the fore-edge margin of the title-page and a couple minor spots. Rebacked, but binding otherwise good.l BMC III, p. 943; Gay, Bibl. de l'Afrique et l'Arabe 3204 (note); ESTC R200937; cf. G. Campbell, David Griffiths and the missionary "History of Madagascar" (2012), p. 416.

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BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon.

Gelegentheyt van 's Hertogen-Bosch vierde hooft-stadt van Brabandt. Haer oorspronck, fundatie ende vergrootinge, verscheyden hare belegeringen. Ende eyntlijcke overwinninge verrassinghe ende inneminghe van Wesel ende meer andere geschiedenissen des iaers 1629.The Hague, Aert Meuris, 1630. 4to. With an engraved title-page, which is part of the collation (page (a)2 recto) and a few decorated initials. Contemporary vellum.

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [27], [1 blank], 412, [3], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of this early 17th-century detailed description of the city 's-Hertogenbosch in the duchy of Brabant by the famous Dutch historian Pieter Christiaenszoon Bor (1559-1635). Bor was a notary in Haarlem, but he dedicated his life to compiling primary sources, doing historical research, and writing the very detailed, precise and reliable history of the Dutch Revolt. That major historical work was Bor's magnum opus, which was first published in 1595 under the following title: Oorspronck, begin ende aenvang der Nederlantscher oorlogen [...] but he kept on revising and expanding the work. Apart from his magnum opus and the present work on 's-Hertogenbosch, Bor wrote one other work on the "origins of the Dutch wars": the cause and first few years from 1555-1567 of the Eighty Years' War (or Dutch War of Independence, 1555-1648).Binding is very slightly soiled, slight foxing and browning throughout, small part of the outer corner at the foot of leaf 2I3 is missing without affecting the text, a tear in the corner of the foot of leaf 3C1, slightly affecting the text without loss, lacking gathering *** (a separate dedication to the city officials (burgermeesteren) of Amsterdam, as often lacking in other copies), with a small tear in the top of the last (blank) flyleaf.l Bodel Nijenhuis, Topgrafische lijst der plaatsbeschrijvingen, 430; Nijhoff & Van Hattum, 40. cf. NNBW 6, cols. 160-163.

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BOR, Pieter Christiaensz.

Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, beroerten, en borgerlyke oneenigheden, beginnende met d' opdracht der selve landen, gedaen by keyser Karel den Vijfden, aen sijnen soon konink Philippus van Spanjen, en eindigende met het einde van 't jaer MDC, ... voorts met een byvoeghsel van authentyke stukken en nieuwe registers vermeerdert.[engraved title:] Historie der Nederlandtsche oorlogen. ontpartydiglyk beschreven.Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangh, Hendrick and Dirck Boom, 1679-1684. 4 volumes. Folio. With the joint device of the publishers (with their initials) on each title-page, four nearly identical engraved frontispieces and a total of 80 engraved plates (including 4 identical portraits of the author and 39 double-page plates). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with remnants of green ties.

[28], 1006, [10], 188; [8], 231, 234-242, 241-672, 679-994, [8], 128; [8], 532, [6], 529-690, 693-896, [8], 28; [8], 419, 432-512, 517-692, 14, 16, [188] pp.The most detailed and complete edition of Bor's history of the Revolt against Spain in the Low Countries from 1555 to 1600. Pieter Christiaensz. Bor (1559-1635) was a notary, but he dedicated his life to compiling primary sources, doing historical research, and writing the very detailed, precise and reliable history of the Dutch Revolt during the second half of the sixteenth century. In this edition four supplements (noted on the title-pages) and new registers are added to Bor's chronicle-like account of the Dutch War in 37 “books” in four volumes. The supplements contain even more sources and facts about the period which underline its reputation of the book being the leading work about the subject. The of the four volumes contains a nearly identical engraved frontispiece, with only the indication of the volume revised. The text is enriched by the addition of 80 plates. These include four identical portraits of the author, other portraits of important historical figures and 39 double-page plates of, for example, the siege of Haarlem (1572-73) in volume 1 or the famous plate of a beached whale in volume 4. These plates were produced by Jan Luyken and Romeyn de Hooghe, among others, and the portrait of the Bor is based on a painting by Frans Hals.The bindings of volumes 1 and 2 are a bit more soiled than those of volumes 3 and 4. The spines are slightly damaged from use, without affecting the overall integrity of the binding. Volume 1 are slightly browned, the others only very slightly foxed. An impressive, illustrated historical work in very good condition.l Sloos, Warfare and the age of printing, 12134; Van Eeghen & Van der Kellen 9.

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BORCHT, Willem van der (Guilielmus a CASTRO).

Spieghel der eyghen-kennisse, ... in-gheknoopt Het conterfeytsel des wereldts, ...Brussels, Lambert de Grieck, 1643. 4to. With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author (after P. de Backer), both by Antoine van der Does ("AVD"), and 3 nearly full-page engraved illustrations in the text, probably by Van der Does. 18th-century vellum.

[16], 271, [1] pp.First edition, in Flemish Dutch, of a didactic satire, mostly in verse, by the Flemish poet and lawyer Willem van der Borcht or Guilelmus a Castro (1621/22-1668) in Brussels, with elegies and epigrams alternating with prose passages. It allegorically presents a mirror of self-knowledge and knowledge of the world, intended to improve the faults of the age and show the foolishness and vanity of the world. The fine plates by Antoine van der Does, showing scenes of rich and frivolous society, are of interest for the costume and morals of the time. The "Toe-ghifte", an integral part of the edition, but with its own title-page on 2D1, represents the world as a capricious woman. The portrait shows Van der Borcht at age 21 with the motto "nosce te ipsum", and a 2-line verse by Ericus Puteanus below. The 3 illustrations show realistic genre scenes, influenced by Rubens. Half the copies listed by the STCV lack the portrait and/or the engraved title-page. One illustration was printed over a crease in the paper, leaving a white line through part of the scene. In very good condition, with a minor water stain in the head margin of the engraved title, just touching its border. Binding lacking ties, with 1 sewing support broken at the back hinge, slightly wrinkled and a bit dirty, but still good. First edition of a satire of society, with plates made for it by Antoine van der Does.l Bibl. Belg I, p. 319; BCNI 9630; Funck, pp. 282-283; STCV (8 copies incl. 4 incomplete).

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BORGET, Auguste.

La Chine et let Chinois.Paris, Goupil & Vibert, 1842. Royal folio (56.3 x 40.2 cm). With lithographed title-page (text), tinted lithographed title-page (illustrated), 2 lithographed dedication leaves, lithographed list of plates, and 32 tinted lithographs on 25 plates by Eugène Ciceri, after drawings by Borget. Protective guardleaves. Contemporary half leather and cloth over boards, the title lettered in gold on the spine.

26 pp. and [5] lithographed leaves and 32 lithographs on 25 plates.First edition of this set of thirty-two magnificent views of China after drawings by the notable French artist Auguste Borget (1808-77), a close friend of Honoré de Balzac. Borget travelled through Asia from 1838 to 1840; his perceptive sketches include views in the area of Hong Kong (4), Macao (13), and Canton (12). "The feeling of superiority to the Chinese, so characteristic of accounts from the 1840s, is absent here. The artist observes with a fresh eye" (Lust). Explanations to all views are found in the letterpress text in the form of letters by Borget. A second edition in English was published in the same year under the title "Sketches of China and the Chinese".Some foxing, as common, especially to text leaves, due to paper stock. Waterstains to the margins of the final eight plates. A detailed list of plates is available on request.

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BORGHÈSE, Antonio D.R.

Traité général de musique, ou l'Art musical ramené a ses vrais principes; humblement dédié a Son Altesse Royale le Prince des Asturies ...[back wrapper:] Bayonne, Imprimerie de Duhart-Fauvet, [ca. 1807?]. Large 4to (27 x 20 cm). With 11 folding "plates" containing manuscript examples of mensural music. With no title-page, but with the letterpress title and composer's name on the front wrapper and the letterpress imprint on the back wrapper. Bound with the wrappers in contemporary gold-tooled, long-grain red goatskin morocco, gilt edges.

V, 65, [2] pp.Second copy known of a general introduction to music theory, composition and performance by the Italian composer and music teacher Antonio Borghèse, printed but probably never published due to the chaos resulting from the abdications of the Kings of Spain at Bayonne (where this treatise was printed) in 1808 and the ensuing Spanish revolution and Napoleon's invasion of Spain. It was clearly supposed to have engraved plates, for the printed text refers to them parenthetically in the form "voyez planche A, no. 6" etc., but they were apparently never engraved. The author-composer therefore inserted what are probably his own autograph models for the plates, with mensural music illustrating various points in his book, some simple and brief, showing things like the forms of notes and rests of various lengths; others showing whole pages of polyphonic music with up to eight five-line staves. Borghèse attempts to cover both the art and the science of music, both theory (part 1, pp. 1-22) and practice (part 2, pp. 23-65), including both composition and performance, vocal and instrumental. Although the present book is undated, the dedication to the Prince of Asturias, the Spanish crown prince, clearly refers to the future King Fernando VII, who was Prince of Asturias from 1789 to 1808, so the book was almost certainly printed before his arrest in October 1807. If Borghèse had this copy bound with his original manuscript examples of music for presentation to Fernando either when he was crown prince or during his brief and ill-fated first reign as King of Spain, there is no indication that he ever received it. The Bibliothèque Municipale de Toulouse has the only other copy located, and its catalogue mentions no plates.With a small stain at the head of the leaves, not approaching the text, and minor foxing in a couple leaves, but generally in fine condition and with generous margins. The manuscript music samples show a couple creases, a couple faint and small stains and one tattered edge, but all are very good or fine. The binding has very slight wear at the extremities but is also generally fine.l Not in BNF Paris; KVK; WorldCat.

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BORJA (BORIA), Juan de.

Emblemata moralia.Berlin, Johann Michael Rudiger, Ulrich Liebpert, 1697. Small 4to. With large engraved device on title-page, 100 finely engraved circular emblems by J.C. Schott. 18th-century blind-tooled mottled sheepskin.

[6], 201, [1 blank] pp.First Latin edition of a Spanish emblem book, translated by Ludovicus Camerarius, first published in Spanish at Prague in 1581. Each of the 100 moralistic emblems appears on a recto with a 2-line verse below it and a motto and Latin prose explanation on the facing page. The emblems depict all sorts of subjects: animals, trees and other plants, vases, buildings, the elements, lightning hitting a temple, lamps, a cobweb, a sword, sailing ships, a terrestrial globe, Heracles in his lionskin holding a celestial globe, Noah's Ark on mount Ararat, a huge pair of glasses in the sky above a landscape, and many more.From the library of Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753), with his name stamped on an endleaf. A few leaves at the beginning and end browned, but otherwise in very good condition and with generous margins.l Landwehr, German Emblem Books 137; Praz, pp. 281-282; VD 17, 1:059502E.

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BORJA, Juan de.

Empresas morales ...Prague, Georg Nigrin, 1581. 4to (17.8 x 13.6 cm). With a hand-coloured engraved title-page, incorporating the coat of arms of the dedicatee King Philip II of Spain, 100 hand-coloured engraved emblems, 2 hand-coloured woodcut decorated initials, and numerous woodcut ornamental tail-pieces throughout, all text and illustrations are set within a frame of double red lines. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine and remnants of ties.

[2], 101, [3] ll.Very rare first edition of the first emblem book, written and compiled by a Spanish author in Spanish with Latin mottos, the first work of this kind to be printed in Bohemia. Juan de Borja y Castro (1533-1606) was a Spanish noble from the renowned House of Borja (Borgia) and was the third son of Saint Francis Borgia, or Francisco de Borja, fourth Duke of Gandía (1510-1572). He was educated by and among Jesuits at the Universidad de Gandía. He was a member of the religious and military Order of Santiago - at that time under the direct control of the Spanish monarchy - and later entered the service of King Philip II of Spain and Prince Carlos. As a soldier, he took part in the Italian Wars (a series of conflicts between 1494-1559). Borja was a distinguished diplomat, first acting as a substitute for the Portuguese ambassador and in 1576 moving to Prague as the Spanish ambassador to Emperor Rudolph II of the Holy Roman Empire, where he stayed until 1581. Upon his return to Spain, he was named head "majordomo" of Maria de Austria, acting as the head of her household staff until 1603. The Empresas morales is Juan de Borja's only known literary work. A second edition was published in Brussels in 1680 by Borja's grandson, Francisco, who added 124 emblems claimed to have come from among the original author’s papers. At the end of the 17th century, in 1697, a Latin translation by Ludovicus Camerarius was published in Berlin, while a German translation by Georg Friedrich Scharff had appeared a few years earlier (1693), also in Berlin.The present copy contains only one cancel engraving on leaf 91, instead of the 8 cancels noted by Landwehr in the Glasgow University copy and instead of the 6 different cancels noted in the description of the Getty Research Institute copy.Lubomír Konecný attributed the engraved title and one hundred engraved emblems to Erasmus Hornick, an artist born in Antwerp in 1520, who worked in Augsburg and Nuremberg as a printmaker, designer, and goldsmith. In 1582, Hornick was appointed “Camer Goldschmidt” (royal (or imperial) goldsmith) by Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Hornick is known for five series of etchings of jewellery, vases, and metal work, some bearing the monogram EH, and numerous unsigned drawings (no silver- or goldsmith work bearing Hornick’s mark survives). Subsequently, Silke Reiter conducted a more thorough examination of the monograms featured on 41 plates in the Empresas morales, identifying three types and interpreting them as the initials EI of an unidentified printmaker. He found no stylistic similarities with Hornick's drawings.The name of the printmaker notwithstanding, the emblems in this very rare first edition of the first Spanish emblem book remain remarkable, especially these hand-coloured examples in the present work.With the small bookplate of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow on the front pastedown, a crossed out (owner's?) inscription on the engraved title-page and a crossed out IHS stamp on ll. A1r, A2r, and 1r (= B1r). The vellum binding is slightly dust soiled and the manuscript title on the spine is slightly faded. The first blank flyleaf is missing, the gutter between the front paste-down and the engraved title-page is fragile, leaves 1 and 101 are nearly detached, the gutters of leaves B3-4 and B4-C1 are reinforced, and some leaves are restored/reinforced in the margins without affecting the text. Leaves 3 and 84 show a hole in the centre of the leaf, affecting text and image and leaf 80 shows a large horizontal tear in head margin, slightly affecting the red frame, otherwise with some small tears in the margins of several leaves, barely affecting the text. Slight browning throughout, mainly to the first few leaves and the last 2/3rds of the work, and leaf 91 contains a cancelled illustration, with its correction mounted over it. Overall a remarkable copy of the very rare first Spanish emblem book, in contemporary colouring.l Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispania nova, vol. 1 (1783) p. 663; Becker, Fact and Fantasy, Illustrated Books from a Private Collection (Cambridge, MA 1976), no. 41 (this copy); Henkel-Schöne (1976) p. CLXXXI; Iberian Books 2168 (3 copies); Landwehr, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books, 172; Palau 33112 ("primera edicion rara"); Praz p. 281; USTC 342746 (3 copies, same as IB); WorldCat 434061521, 181666513, 21936852 (5 copies); cf. Konecný, “La ilustración de las Empresas morales de Juan de Borja: Erasmo Hornick,” in Ars Longa: Cuadernos de Arte 3 [1992], pp. 9-12; Reiter, Erasmus Hornick: ein Goldschmied, Radierer und Zeichner des 16. Jahrhunderts [Regensburg, 2012], pp. 72-77

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BORRI, Cristoforo.

Relatione della nuova missione delli pp. della Compagnia di Giesu, al regno della Cocincina, scritta dal padre Christoforo Borri Milanese della medesima Compagnia, che fù uno de primi ch'entrarono in detto Regno. Alla santita di N. Sig. Urbano PP. Ottavo.Rome, Francesco Corbelletti, 1631. 8vo. With a woodcut Jesuit IHS device on the title-page and woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine.

231, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the earliest detailed account of Cochin China (primarily modern Vietnam), written by a Jesuit missionary who lived there in the years 1617 to 1622: "considered one of the best sources of information for the region" (Howgego). It covers the country's topography, climate, natural history, agriculture, trade and commerce, language, government, society, and in the second part (about half the book) religion, including the work of the Jesuit missionary. It also provides valuable information about the country's relations with Japan and China.Borri (1583-1632) joined the Society of Jesuits in 1601 and taught astronomy at the Jesuit college in his hometown Milan. After his interest in Copernicus and Galileo led to his dismissal, he travelled to the Jesuit mission in Macau, which sent him to Indochina around 1617. He was nearly the first European to master the Vietnamese language and worked on a dictionary of the language for many years. In 1621/22 he returned to Europe and again took up his astronomical work. He is said to have drawn the first "isogonic" chart (showing the deviation of magnetic from geographic north) for the Atlantic and Indian oceans, anticipating Edmund Halley by more than seventy years, but his premature death kept him from publishing both his work on astronomy and his dictionary. He abandoned the Jesuits for the Cistercians a few months before his death. The present first edition of his account of Cochin China was followed by translations into French later the same year, Dutch in 1632 and Latin, German and English in 1633.With an owner's inscription on the title-page in brown ink " au(?) legatum P. Virg. Spade". The binding is slightly damaged at the foot of the front board, somewhat browned throughout and with some water staining in the lower and outer margins throughout, not affecting the text.l Cordier, Indosinica III, col. 1917; De Backer & Sommervogel I, col. 1821; Howgego B136; James Ford Bell Library B323; STC Italian (17th century), p. 134; cf. Ist. Cent. Cat. Unico (French ed. only).

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[BOSCHETTI, Ambrogio].

Il Mar Baltico e le sue coste descritti e illustrati con alcune carte geografiche topografiche ed orografiche per la guerre d'Oriente.Triest, Colombo Coen, 1854. Large 4to (32.5 x 23.5 cm). With 1 folding map of the Baltic Sea as the frontispiece, 1 military plan of Kronstadt, 15 plates of Finnish, Swedish, Baltic and Russian cities, and 1 small illustration in the text on p. 58. Contemporary half brown cloth, grey paper sides, with the publisher’s front wrapper (for the “seconda edizione”) printed letterpress on pink paper.

131, [1] pp.Italian description of cities along the coasts of the Baltic Sea, mainly in Finland, Sweden, the Baltic states and Russia, published in 1854 in the context of the Crimean War (October 1853 to February 1856). The main reason for this conflict between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Sardinia, was to prevent Russian expansion to the south as the power of the Ottoman Empire was weakening. An immediate cause for the war was a series of disputes over the rights of Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire (especially Palestine) between the Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox Church.The text is illustrated with 15 tinted lithographic views of cities such as Saint Petersburg in Russia, Cristianstadt (Kristianstad) in Sweden, and Ado in Finland, 1 map of the Baltic Sea, and a military ground plan of Kronstadt (a small island near Saint Petersburg). All lithographs, except the map, are signed by V. Stranski and printed by Colombo Coen.The present copy is the first edition of this description of cities in the Baltic region, even though the wrapper-title on the front board says "seconda edizione". What is called the second edition is practically identical to the first and was published in the same year. They appear to have been printed from the same setting, except for the first two leaves of the first quire (the title-page, its verso and the preface, whose verso is blank). WorldCat records only 5 copies of the first and 7 copies of the second.Covers somewhat soiled, very slight foxing throughout, some browning and offsetting in the plates. A rare work with tinted lithographed views of Finnish, Swedish, Baltic and Russian cities.

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BOSE, Johann Andreas.

Introductio generalis in notitiam rerumpublicarum orbis universi. ...Jena, Johann Bielcke for Samuel Krebs, 1676. 4to. With an engraved full-page portrait of the author in the text, the title printed in red and black, and further with woodcut decorated initials and woodcut endpieces. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, manuscript title and shelf mark on spine.

[16], 370, [22] pp.First edition of an important work on social science, politics and statistics, the main work of the German philosopher and historian Johann Andreas Bose (1626-1674), edited by Georg Schubart (1650-1701). Bose was professor of history at the University of Jena since 1654 and he became rector of this university at 1661. Leipnitz and Puffendorf were among his students.In this work, in which he proves to be one of the founders of the science of statistics as the basis for political sciences, Bose emphasizes the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach for the study of human society in general, including economics, political, religious, scientific, historical and geographical studies. With references to great discoveries and voyages, for example America (California), Nova Zembla, Japan, Cuba, "Terra Australis" etc. (p. 150-151).With library stamp and a manuscript owner's inscription on the title-page. Some browning throughout, otherwise in good condition.l USTC 2711387 (18 copies, only in Germany); VD17 23:255313V; not in Brunet, Graesse, Kress Library, Goldsmith Library, etc., nor Sabin.

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BOSMAN, Willem.

Voyage de Guinée, contenant une description nouvelle & très-exacte de cette côte où l'on trouve & où l'on trafique l'or, les dents d'elephant, & les esclaves: ...Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1705. Large 12mo (17 x 10 cm). With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved frontispiece and 27 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards.

[16], 520 pp.First edition of the French translation of a work on the trade-settlements on the West Coast of Africa. The author, Willem Bosman (b. 1672), was Chief Factor at Fort Elmina for the Dutch West Indian Company. "He stayed on the coast for fourteen years, his Voyage de Guinée ... being regarded as the first authoritative and detailed account of the West Coast of Africa. It is a major source for the Dutch slave trade during second half of the seventeenth century, and provides an interesting picture of international rivalry, current trade, and the wretched and depraved existence of the European factors stationed permanently at the coast" (Howgego). It contains detailed information of areas which were hardly described by other travellers, and remained the most important source for over a century. The book is written in the form of letters to a friend, Dr. D. Havard, living in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.With library stamp. Some occasional spots and one plate heavily browned, but otherwise in good condition, wholly untrimmed. Binding worn along the extremities and spine discoloured.l Gay 2808; Howgego, to 1800, F58; Tiele 174, note.

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BOSSCHE, Guilielmo vanden.

Historia medica, in qua libris IV. Animalium natura, et eorum medica utilitas exactè & luculenter tractantur. Cum iconibus eorum, ad vivum delineatis.Brussels, Ioannis Mommart II, 1639. 4to. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and a larger one on the final page, and 80 woodcut illustrations in text (a few with the monogram I.C.I. of Cristoffel Jaeger (1596-1653)). 18th-century calf, with red morocco title-label; rebacked with original backstrip laid down, modern endpapers.

[16], 422 [= 434], [20] pp.Rare first and only edition of a well-illustrated handbook on medicinal uses of animals and animal products, by Willem vanden Bossche in Dendermonde (East Flanders). The wild and domesticated animals are arranged in four sections: birds and other winged animals (pp. 1-140, including a bat, eagle, falcon, vulture, owls, swan, goose, peacock, pheasant and parrot), mammalian quadrupeds (pp. 141-318, including a camel, horse, lion, elephant and macaque(?)), fish and other marine animals, edible and inedible (pp. 319-386, including an eel, sea urchin, turtle, crustaceans, snails, frogs, otter and beaver), and insects, arthropods, reptiles, worms, etc. (pp. 387-434, including a spider, lizard, lice, scorpions, snakes, leeches and worms). The lice are shown with their host scratching his head and the leeches in use for bloodletting on a woman’s arm. The beaver looks rather like a wolf with a fish body for a tail. The woodcut of a hedgehog is reused to illustrate the sea urchin! Bossche gives a description of each animal, quoting sources from antiquity to the seventeenth century, and then discusses its medical uses. Only four of the woodcuts are signed, all with the initials “ICI”, identified as the Antwerp woodblock cutter Jan Christoffel Jeghers (1618-1666/67), son of the woodblock cutter Christoffel Jeghers (1596-1652/53) who worked in Rubens’s shop in 1630 and continued to work closely with Rubens to his death in 1640. With the bookplate of the Gouda pharmacist Elize Grendel (1899-1986) on the first blank. A few leaves slightly loosening, slightly browned and some foxing, otherwise good. Rebacked, as noted, and slightly rubbed.l Krivatsy 1603; Nissen, ZBI 481; Wood, p. 250; Wellcome 994 (lacking final leaf); Waller 1325; cf. Thieme & Becker XVIII, pp. 487-488.

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BOSSE, Abraham.

Differentes manieres de dessiner et peindre.[Paris, Abraham Bosse, engraved 1667?]. 8vo (17.5 x 12 cm). With engraved allegorical title-print and 45 full-page and 1 double-page (ca. 16.5 x 15 cm) engraved plates. With:(2) FARINATI, Paulo. Diverses figures a l'eau forte de petits amours, anges vollants, et enfans, propre a mettre sur frontons portes et autres lieux ensemble plusieurs sortes de masques.Paris, Abraham Bosse, engraved 1644. Suite of 30 numbered double-page engraved prints, including the engraved title-print signed by Abraham Bosse.(3) [BOSSE Abraham]. [Illustrations of drawing and painting].[Paris, Abraham Bosse, engraved 1667?]. Suite of 4 full-page engravings of a draftsman (2) and a painter (2) at work, sometimes regarded as part of the Differentes manieres de dessiner et peindre.(4) BOSSE, Abraham. Le feu ... La terre ... L[']eau ... L[']air.[Paris, Abraham Bosse, engraved 1630?]. Suite of 4 double-page engravings of the four elements.(5) [BULLET, Pierre]. [Plates from Traité du nivellement].[Paris, N. Langlois, engraved 1688]. Complete suite of 11 double-page engraved plates, numbered [1a], [1b], 2-4, 6-11. Sprinkled calf (ca. 1700), richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges.

[47]; 30; [4]; [4]; 11 [+ 2 added] engraved prints.Highly interesting collection of five 17th-century print series (one a set of plates for an illustrated book) all in the field of art, drawing and ornamentation. They seem likely to have been printed together sometime around or soon after 1688.Ad 1: A beautiful print series intended as plates for a manual to learn the art of drawing and painting, ranging from images of the human body to battle fields, by the famous French artist Abraham Bosse (1602-1676). In the event the plates were published on their own and the makeup varies from set to set. Ad 2: A numbered series of 30 engravings of ornamentation that could be used in sculptural, architectural, art and book illustration, including putti, grotesque masks, garlands, etc. Paolo Farinati (1524-1606) worked mostly in his native city of Verona. Ad 3: A series of 4 prints showing artists at work, intended to illustrate art technique. Two are devoted to drawing and the other two are devoted to painting. These prints are often considered part of the larger series described here separately as ad 1.Ad 4: A beautiful series of 4 prints representing the four elements in the form of two male and two female figures, elegantly dressed, with various items related to the relevant element. Blum tentatively dates the series to 1630, making it one of Bosse's earliest mature works.Ad 5: A complete set of the plates made to illustrate the first and only edition of Pierre Bullet's work on surveying (Paris, 1688). With a few plates (primarily in ad 2) spotted, but otherwise a good copy. The binding is somewhat worn and the front hinge cracked.l BAL 494 (ad 5); Berlin Kat. 4355 (ad 2, 1736 ed.); A. Blum, L'oeurve gravé d'Abraham Bosse 358-387 (ad 2), 940-943 (ad 4), 1101-1152 (ads 1, 3); for Bosse: Thieme & Becker IV, pp. 402-403.

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BOSWELL, James.

Beschreibung von Corsica nebst vielen wichtigen Nachrichten und Anecdoten vom Pascal Paoli dem General der Corsen.Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1768. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved folding map of Corsica (29 x 44 cm). Contemporary paper-covered boards, spine with red title label lettered in gold, red edges.

[14], 346 pp.The first German edition of Boswell's Account of Corsica (1768), translated by Anton Ernst Klausing. In the first part Boswell recounts historical and geographical information about Corsica, while the second part includes a lively and detailed narrative of his journey to the island, interspersed with conversations with the Corsican patriot and leader Pasquale Paoli. The conversations with Paoli centre on democracy, social freedom, religion, and, of course, the Corsican Cause. Following Corsica's invasion by the French in 1768, Paoli took refuge in England, where he was feted by Samuel Johnson and his circle.Boswell's account was very successful. First published in 1768, it was immediately reprinted several times and translated into French, Dutch, Italian and German.The map with a small tear, binding chafed, corners bumped. A very good copy with the bookplate of Franz Pollack-Parnau on front pastedown.l VD 18, 10550321; Watson II, col. 1211; cf. Cox I, pp. 138-9 (other eds).

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