Urban,Sylvanus

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE and Historical Chronicle. For the year MDCCXCIII

London,Printed John Nichols for, David Henry & Eliz.Newbery 1787 Engraved plates {13 including folding} . 8vo marbled leather spine extra gilt + 2 spine labels gilt titled and black round number label gilt [edges worn/hinges cracked but firmly held, head and foot of spine chipped to headbands] All edges blue dyed. Printed title +ii-iv =Preface,+ index indicatorius etc +[January to June woodcut titlepages included with each of the 6 month's contents] +552pp +{14pp = index] Small pink University stamp to titlepage and a single lower margin stamp to pp101. There is one gathering misnumbered but the collation and the text is correct and without a break.There is a small erasure to the front pastedown but otherwise the book is crisp, clean and has no loose or torn pages. There are articles on America, the discovery of discovery of a fine Roman pavement found near Warminster, finding the tomb of Gundred wife of William de Warrens Earl of Surrey daughter of William the Conqueror who died c 1078, Affairs of the East India Company, Tobacco and its effects on the lungs, etc. etc.

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Sonstige Stichworte: News

Urban,Sylvanus

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE: Vol.LXIV Part II for Jul-Dec 1794

London, John Nichols 1794 Illustrations (21 in this half year volume) + two text illustrations. . 8vo containing 6 monthly issues for July to December. Tan roan spined marbled boards (covers detached, corners worn & slightly scuffed /partly split to mid-spine) fore-edges sprinkled red and brown. General titlepage + 585-1212pp which includes the SUPPLEMENT + [16pp=index Each monthly issue has a "titlepage" with a view of St. John's Gate. *Includes the unknown in Europe surgical operation of reconstructing the nose.This description of PLASTIC SURGERY is shown in a plate at page 883 signed "Longmate sc." This volume also comments on French affairs and on America also contains a letter by Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Buchan etc. etc SOUGHT FOR THE PICTURE & DESCRIPTION OF RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY.

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Sonstige Stichworte: MEDICAL first European description of plastic surgery, French revolution America

Ursin,Johann Heinrich) Joh. Henrici Ursini

HOSEAS, commentario Literali ex optimis Interpretibus concinnato, per Analysin & Exegesin Textus ita enucleatus, Ut simul usus Doctrinae Propheticae, in Thesi & Antithesi infinuetur breviter & perspicue. Opus Postumum

Nuremberg, Tauber printed by Miltenberg 1677 Copperplate large printer's mark of cockatoo with twig, landscape with town, trees etc. a few woodcut head/tailpieces & capitals incl. a nice butterfly (1.6x1in) . Octavo original laced vellum boards traces of calligraphic title to spine (sl.marked) (12)+364pp Titlepage printed in red & black 3 leaves affected by small marginal worming, one ink spot from one marginal comment affects 4 leaves at margin only. Usual pale foxing, gift inscription onFEP. A very neat little commentary on the Bible book of Josiah in Latin by this Superintendent of Regensburg. In very good condition and contemporary binding also in very good state. Quite scarce.

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Valegio, Francesco (1560-1643?)

RACCOLTA DI LE PIU ILLUSTRI ET FAMOSE CITTA DI TUTTO IL MONDO

Venice, F. Valegio (according to BL) 1595 (acc. to BL) Engraved illustrated titlepage + 260 plates of cities/towns. . Oblong octavo (190x127mm) pocked dark calf, spine on 6 cords, compartments floral gilt (tips bumped, hinges tender & head/foot of spine chipped). FEP has neat MS shelfmark "No 30" and (in different hand) MS ownership note dated 1886. Engraved titlepage +260 plates of cities & towns ordered by region or country (all with wide margins, all undated except Constantinople, Rhodes & Algiers signed "Martinus Rota" & dated 1572). Most plates partly affected by light stains of former damp. *Valegio may have collected the plates which were engraved by Martin Rota in about 1580. Various other engravers contributed to the publication, but others were engraved by Valegio himself and, because of that, his name is usually associated with this work. The views & plans of principal cities & towns in Europe, Africa & Asia derive from those in the first 'city atlas', Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum published in Cologne from 1572, which placed the plans in picturesque landscapes, often with costumed figures in the foreground, and these elements are also found here. Very rare (referenced by BM STC Italy p.547, Thieme-Becker xxxiv, p.71, Cremonini, Italia, n.10).

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Vallemont, Pierre le Lorrain, abbe´ de] (1649-1721) but not named

CURIOSITIES OF NATURE AND ART IN HUSBANDRY AND GARDENING. Containing several new experiments in the Improvement of Land, Trees, Fruits, &c. And also nice and useful Observations relating to the Vegetation and Propagation of Plants; with choice Secrets to make Plants, Flowers and Fruits larger, more beautiful, and to ripen earlier than usual.

London, D. Brown, A. Roper & Fran. Coggan First English edition 1707 Allegorical frontispiece + 12 copperplates (one of which in facsimile on old paper). Frontispiece attributed to Michael van der Gucht (1660-1725) Flemish engraver working in England. . Octavo panelled calf blindtooled (tips worn, neatly rebackacked I matching leather). Frontis, titlepage +[14] +352pp some misnumbered but collated complete. Text foxed & browned but paper still quite crisp, stable & tight. The plates printed on different paper and are all unfoxed, and aside from slight marginal browning are whiter than the text. *Translated by William Fleetwood from Curiositez de la Nature et de l'Art sur la Ve´ge´tation, but author's & translator's names do not appear. This English version pre-dates the French first edition as given in British Library catalogue, and the chapter order does not correspond with the French.

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Sonstige Stichworte: gardening agriculture horticulture plants

Varenius, Bernhardus [1622-1650]

DESCRIPTIO REGNI JAPONIAE cum quibusdam affinis materiae ex variis auctoribus collecta et in ordinem redacta per Bernhardum Varenium

Amstelodami, Ludovicum Elzevirium 1649, 1649 double-page table + engraved pictorial titlepage with Japanese studying a map of japan + smaller scene of two rows of Japanese bowing before the emperors throne. . 16mo in 8's vellum with fore-edge yapp edged [on hinge split half way/some damage to top of spine & 3 small holes to mid spine] 2 Parts in one volume. Pictorial titlepage + [46pp =dedicatation +Preface +Dissertatio + contents] + 287pp [last page misnumbered 267] +[verso blank] + Titlepage + [6pp=Dedication + contents] +318pp + last 2 pages misnumbered 119 & 120 instead of 319 -320. Slight edge dusting to edges and one page with corner torn off affecting parts of 5 lines of text on either side. A scholarly early description of Japan and of an early european travel writer. The work includes an account of Siam taken from Schouten. A nice Elzevir travel volume. SCARCE first edition.

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Vegetius Renatus, Flavius] called only Vegece on titlepage (French translation by C.G. Bourdon de Sigrais)

INSTITUTIONS MILITAIRES DE VEGECE

Amsterdam, J. Wetstein 1757 Head- and tail-pieces + initials + folding plate +copperplate printer's mark to titlepage including 2 female sphinxes & musical angels. . Small octavo (157x100mm) marbled roan on 4 raised bands, spine compartments prettily gilt flowers & leaves with contrasting spine title label (1" split to lower hinge with small loss of leather/tips bit worn). All edges rouge xxvi +[6]pp contents +148pp +[4]pp publisher's list. Endpapers with a few library & bookseller's notes/shelving. Name on titlepage, Title in red and black. Original silk marker still attached, one opening with small ink splatter, minimal pale foxing. *Third edition of Bourdon de Sigrais' translation of Vegetius' landmark military treatise in very nice condition (Graesse VII p272, Brunet V-1111 only 1759 Paris edition).

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Sonstige Stichworte: military history Roman

Verdier, F

[ HISTOIRE DES ACTIONS EXTRAORDRES [sic] DE SAMSON ]

Paris, Benoist Audran et Charles Simonneau 1698 Engraved Dedication leaf designed & engraved by Verdier & others + 37 numbered plates [lacking plate 27] + unumbered final plate [total 39 of 40 plates] . obling 4to [24 x 33 cm], Cloth spined boards with brown speckled covers [edges worn and a bit bumped] There are 39 plates printed on water-marked paper but the greater part of the water mark is cut off at the upper margin. There is a fine bookplate to the front pastedown of a bearded man turning the pages of a book with a bee-hive instead of a hat and bees swarming around. The ex-libris has the owner's name Hubert Dupond under the illustration which also shows that he designed the bookplate. All pages are printed on one side only and have two or three lines of french & latin text below the picture. The illustrations show episodes in the life of Samson and these are taken from the book of Judges chapter thirteen. The plates are beautifully printed with the dedication plate the only one to be foxed -and that mainly to the margins..

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Verne,Jules (1828-1905)

ETOILE DU SUD Le Pays des Diamants

Paris, J. Hetzel Bibliotheque D'Education & Recreation 1890 approx) Woodengravings in the text (60) by Benett and map. . 267x170mm in 4's Red morocco spined boards 4 gilt raised faux bands (tips rubbed) 242pp + [1]p index. Paper slightly tanned. Part of the series Les Voyages Extraordinaires. Handsome with others bound to match in this series. A scarce title.

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Vidari, Gio. Maria

IL VIAGGIO IN PRATICA o sia istruzione generale, e ristretta per tutte quelle persone, che volessero viaggiare per tutte le strade, e poste di Europa / Opera praticata, e data in luce da Gio: Maria Vidari. Fu` corriere della serenissima repubblica di Venezia. Divisa in quattro parti.

Venice, Luigi Pavino 2nd edition 1730 italian text throughout dealing with four countries. . 12mo speckled tan leather on 5 raised bands gilt spines with newer paper labels. [corners worn else sound and tight binding] all edges sprinkled red 10pp [=title + dedication +to reader] + 347pp [recte 349pp as half title to part 3 was skipped in the numbering] + 3 blank pages at the end. Part One =Italy + Part Two =France + Part Three =Spain Part Four =Germany + ALTRI AVVERTIMENTI NECESSARI per La Vettura. Endpapers a bit spotted and creased, last two leaves with smal corner torn off not anywhere near to any text. Free end paper & pastedown at rear a bit stained and with pastedown torn away to expose leather turn-in to the foot of the page. Clean, neat and tight quite scarce.

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Sonstige Stichworte: travel guide Italy, France, Spain & Germany

Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da (1507-1573)

LI CINQUE ORDINI DI ARCHITTETURA et agiuntade lopere del eccmo. M. Giacomo Barocio da Vignola; con un ragionamento alli architeti di mo. Ottaviano Ridolfi .. con la nova agiunta di Michiel Angielo Bona Rotta Fiorentino.

Venice, nel Negotio Remondini 1648 approx. Engraved titlepage + [42] leaves of plates. . Folio (390x280mm) paper-covered limp pasteboard, gilt-titled leather spine & tips (worn at edges). Engraved titlepage + [42] leaves of full-page engraved plates (signed A-E8 + 3 of Bernini Vatican monuments). Fowler 363: „The title page … and the plates of this issue are worn copies of those in the 1603 edition. The seven pages of printed text and the doorway of the Cancellaria of the 1603 edition have been omitted, and the last two plates containing Bernini altars by Gio. Dolivar, have been added … The figure 1259 is engraved on the title page.“ – Vorsatz mit Besitzvermerk, knitterig, fleckig und teils wasserrandig, vereinzelte Eintragungen mit Bleistift, die Bernini-Tafeln etw. Knapp beschnitten, eine mit kleinen Wurmspuren im Bund.The title page in part and the plates are worn copies of those of the 1603 edition. Wholly engraved. The number "1259" is engraved on the title page, below the portrait. [Bonhams sold 09/12/2010 $ 1,220 with this description: Engraved throughout with title leaf and 41 plates. Folio (444 x 295 mm). Early plain limp boards. Custom cloth chemise and clamshell case. First signature loose, generally internally clean, light wear to spine, an excellent copy. Reprinted from the edition of 1603 without the text, but with the addition of two plates of Bernini altars by Gio. Dolivar. "Vignola, another of the great protagonists of the Italian Renaissance, was as influential in France, as Palladio was in England" (Fowler 363, another imprint). *Very rare only 1 copy in British libraries 2022 (Cambridge).

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Vincent of Lerins, Saint (died circa 435) & Augustine, Saint (Bishop of Hippo)

Vincentii Lirinensis ADVERSUS PROFANAS omnium novitates haereticorum commonitorium. Cum notis V.C. Stephani Baluzii. Adjicitur S. Augustini LIBER DE HAERESIBUS.

Cambridge England, Printed John Hayes published William Graves (Bookselle) 1687 . Duodecimo (118x70mm) disbound lacking a1 which is a blank. Contains Titlepage within double ruled border + (68pp) of preface with errata + 2nd identical titlepage -verso blank +(10p) additional Preface with same errata as on C12 + 1-312p Is sometimes found without the first 68p preface, and in another variant with catchword on p269 Ste- when it leaves out p270-4 which is an Appendix. In our copy the catch word is Appen- and the Appendix is present starting on 270. The signatures are thus correct & as usual in 12's. The Saint Augustine begins on p169. The first TP has small tears but only affecting the outer of the two ruled borders it also has some uniform tanning. There are some early underlinings or marginal annotations else clean and square. *Little is know of St.Vincent, his work being far better known than his life. The Commonitorium stresses the importance of tradition and commonly understood practice in scriptural exegesis. He is, thus, opposed to the doctrine of St. Augustine. The Etienne Baluze commentary notes apply only to the St.Vincent work and are considered by many to be the best of the 17th century's many translations and printings of Vincent de Lerins. The long first Preface deals with the French editions which tended to allow Papal supremacy in these controveries. Here combining the Vincent and Augustine controversialists' on early Catholic heresies in one abridged volume (WING V453).

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Sonstige Stichworte: heresy St.Augustine & St.Vincent of Lerins

Vinnius,Arnold

In quatuor libros INSTITUTIONUM IMPERIALIUM COMMENTARIUS Editio tertia / Ab auctore recognita, novaque & largiore cum florum, tum rerum forensium aspersione exornata atque adaucta.

Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevirios 1659 . Quarto fine tooled English contemporary calf double border and concentric panels (lacking ties/front cover nearly detached/corners very worn & lower corner needs restoring/head and foot of spine with some chipping) TP +(10p)+888p+)20pp=index) hand-drawn coat of arms on pastedown and back of TP with another name dated 1787 which has been partly crossed out. Minor damp marks to gutter margin of first few gatherings. Single marginal worm hole to fore-edge. Early chapters have some underlining (neat) and a few other marks throughout. A neat copy in a nice English binding of the time.

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Vitringa,Campegius (1659-1722) edited by Hermann Venema (1697-1787)

COMMENTARIUS AD CANTICUM MOSIS Deut. XXXII .. Opus posthumum edente Hermanno Venema .. [Bound with] COMMENTARII AD LIBRUM PROPHETIARUM ZACHARIAE [same author & editor].

Harlingae & Leovardiae, Folkert Jansz van der Plaats, Tobias van Dessel 1734 Woodcut printer's devices on both titles: Athena & her owl under olive tree with motto "Ne extra oleas", seated figure expounding scriptures in front of Dutch landscape by J.C. P. Two Works in One Volume small quarto vellum on 5 raised bands ruled and with central blindstamp & red gilt spine label (tips bumped slightly soiled starting to split along hinge but covers firm). Neat name John Knott MD 1906 on free endpaper. Titlepages in red & black +[14]pp +239pp +[1]p blank and (2nd work) +[4]pp +288pp (blank before title present in Vol.1 but not required in Vol.2). Some corners dusty else a nice clean copy of two lesser known works bound together but from different publishers & different Flemish cities. Head- & tail-pieces & foliated initials, extensive editorial comments by Herman Venema, text in Latin with some Hebrew.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Bible commentary religion Latin

Walford,Edward

GREATER LONDON

London, Cassell & Co. 1880s approx) Engravings (over 350) of Chiswick, Croydon, Epsom, Shepperton & Thames Valley, Edgeware Pinner Harrow & all around suburbs of London through the ages to Victorian times. . Two Volumes large octavo half gilt calf with spine labels (covers with splitting, one cover detached, one only attached by a single cord, others attached, tips worn but neat & reastorable). About 1100 pages of text & illustrations in nice shape. NOTE extra shipping cost for 2 vols weighing over 3Kg.

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Sonstige Stichworte: London suburbs history topography