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This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details.One of the first comprehensive 19th-century studies on Astral Worship
Hill, J.H. Astral worship. New York : Truth Seeker Co., [1895?].
8° (200 x 142 mm), original green cloth binding with gilt title at front board, pp. 128.
Richly illustrated, including the original moving astrological wheel at inside front board
Astral Workship is defined as the worship of the stars, the planets, and other heavenly bodies as deities, or the association of deities with heavenly bodies. In anthropological literature these systems of practice may be referred to as astral cults.
The most common instances of this are sun gods and moon gods in polytheistic systems worldwide. Also notable is the association of the planets with deities in Babylonian, and hence in Greco-Roman religion, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Gods, goddesses, and demons may also be considered personifications of astronomical phenomena such as lunar eclipses, planetary… Leer más

First Edition of the first book on the artificial kidney by Willem Johan Kolff, considered the father of artificial organs
Kolff, Willem Johan. De kunstmatige nier [The artificial kidney]. Uitgave J.H. Kock, N.V. Kampen, 1946.
4to [24,5 x 16], original paper wrapper, title in blue ink at front board, pp. [4], 200, tex in Dutch with some summaries in English.
The beginning of haemodialysis
First Edition of the commercial edition of Kolff's Ph.D. dissertation on the building of artificial kidney and Hemodialysys.
"This was his doctoral dissertation. There were two versions published. The first was designated Proefschrift and credited Kolff as Willem Johan Kolff on the title page. It indicated on the title page that Kolff defended the dissertation on January 16, 1946. The imprint of this edition read Drukkerij J. H. Kok N.V. Te Kampen [without a date.]
The other edition [offered here], published for commercial circulation, designated Kolff as Dr. W. J. Kolff on the title page and printed wrapper."… Leer más

THE SIEGE OF TURIN BY THE DUCA DE LA FEUILLADE TROOPS IN 1706 DURING THE SPANISH SUCCESSION WAR
Coquart, Antoine. Turin et sa Citadelle. - Attaques de Turin. Par l'Armée du Roy commandée par le duc de la Feuillade en 1706, le 30 juin. Paris, de Fer, 1706
Copper engravings 400 x 505 mm with big margins, title at center of top margin, lower left the "cartiglio" with the legenda, date, 29 shortcut to main point in the map, and the scale "Echelle de Cing cent toises"
Rare map of the fortified city of Turin and its surroundings, published in Paris by Antoine Coquart. The engraving identifies the attacks to the city of Turin on 30 June 1706, by the army of the King of France commanded by the Duke de la Feuillade.
In the map we can see the details of the offensive positions of the French army and the main lines of fire of the various positions of artillery, in battery against the Citadel of Turin.
The siege of Turin took place in 1706 during the War of the Spanish Succession. Over 44,000 French soldiers… Leer más

Collection of two very rare italian medical treatises on Surgery and dermatologyNo copy of both treatise recorded in WorldCat
Blandin, Philippe Frédéric. Degli accidenti che possono sopraggiungere nelle operazioni chirurgiche e dei mezzi per rimediarvi / tesi di Federigo Blandin ; prima traduzione italiana con note del dott. Alessandro Foresi. Firenze : D. Passigli, 1844.
8° (220 x 150 mm), original brown paper boards, blind tooled glit titles at spine, pp. 280, [1-errata]
[bound with]
Lepelletier, Almire. Trattato della erisipela e delle differenti varietà che può presentare ... / di Alm. Lepelletier. Livorno : Bertani, Antonelli e c., 1838.
8° (220 x 150 mm), original brown paper boards, blind-tooled gilt titles at spine, 136-223.
Many illustrations along the text of first work

The first work consists of the first Italian edition, translated, and commented by the Tuscan doctor and art collector Alessandro Foresi of the treatise on accidents that can occur during surgical operations and on… Leer más

Rare collection of treatises on wine making and vine cultivation
Puvis, Marc-Antoine. De la culture de la vigne et de la fabrication du vin / par M.A. Puvis. Paris : Librairie agricole Dusacq, Mme Bouchard-Huzard, 1848.
[bound with:] Puvis, Marc-Antoine. Des différens moyens d'amender le sol. Paris : Madame Huzard, 1837
[bound with:] Thackeray, Thomas James. Observations sur le fumier de basse-cour, les engrais artificiels, la construction des granges et le labourage profond. Paris : A LA LIBRAIRIE AGRICOLE DE Ve BOUCHARD-HUZARD, 7, RUE DE L'ÉPRON-ST-ANDRÉ. 1847.
Extremely rare collection of treatises on wine making and vine cultivation, agricultural technique on different ways of fertilizing the soil and on different kinds of natural and artificial fertilizers.
De la culture de la vigne et de la fabrication du vin is the most important opera written by the renowned agronomist and member of parliament Marc-Antoine Puvis [1776-1851], member of the Ain Agricultural Society, discussing the importance… Leer más

Renowned italian treatise on mathematic and Practical geometry
the use of the "Squadro Geometrico" (Set Square)
the multiplication "per crocetta" and the first mention of the surveyor's cross
Feliciano, Francesco. Scala Grimaldelli libro di aritmetica, e geometria speculatiua, e pratticale di M. Francesco Feliciano Veronese. Diuiso in tre libri. Nel primo si tratta di cose pertinenti a Mercatanti ... Nel secondo si tratta dell'arte maggiore di algebra ...accresciuto in quest'vltima impressione di dottissimi problemi ... Nel terzo, & vltimo si dimostra il misurar della Terra ... i nuovo ristampato, e da molti errori corretto, e accresciuto di molte cose da M. Filippo Macario Veronese . Venetia : presso Gio. Giacomo Hertz, 1669.
4to (188 x 120 mm), contemporary paper board, handwrtten titles at front board in sepia ink, pp. [8], 240, printer device with Galleon at title page, xylographic head-letters, head-pieces and end-pieces.
Last printed edition of this milestone in the history of mathematic… Leer más

The Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum; rules and precepts for a healthy life:
"mens laeta, requies, moderata diaeta"
Arnaldo de Villanova. De conservanda bona valetudine, opusculum scholae Salernitanae, ad regem Angliae, cum Arnoldi Novicensis ... enarrationibus vtilissimis ... Novissimé impressis, & auctis per Ioan. Curionem, & ab erroribus, accuratissimè repurgatis, & vindicatis ... . Venetiis : apud Petrum Marinellum, 1587
12° (135 x 80 mm), contemporary stiff vellum, handwritten title in sepia ink at spine, cc. [12], 271, [5], printer device at title page.
hygiene standards, food, herbs and their therapeutic indications
The Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum or De conservanda bona valetudine or Flos medicine is a collective, anonymous work, collected and commented in the thirteenth century by the Catalan physician and alchemist Arnaldo da Villanova. It is assumed that the first verses were written around the tenth century, and the it belongs to the tacuina sanitates family, works of encyclopaedic… Leer más

FINE AND IMPORTANT ALDINE EDITION OF ERASMUS ADAGES

Erasmus Roterodamus. Adagia quaecumque ad hanc diem exierunt, Paulli Manutii studio, atque industria, ... ab omnibus mendis vindicata, quae pium, et veritatis Catholicae studiosum lectorem poterant offendere: sublatis etiam falsis interpretationibus, & nonnullis, ... digressionibus. Quem laborem, a sacrosanti Concilii Tridentini patribus Manutio mandatum, Gregorius 13. motu proprio ita comprobauit, vt omnes Adagiorum libros, vna excepta editione Manutiana, prohibeat, atque condemnet. Cum plurimis, ac locupletissimis indicibus Graecis, & Latinis, quorum nonnulli nusquam antheac impressi fuerunt. Florentiae, apud Iuntas, MDLXXV (Florence, Giunti for the Aldine Press, 1575).

2°, later limp cartonnage, handwritten title and library label at spine, ff. [4], columns 1454 [i.e.1440], ff. [36].
Giunti device at title and final leaves. Woodcut headletters. Text in Latin on two columns, with some passages in Greek.
Aldus Manutius' dedicatory to pope Gregory… Leer más

Exceedingly rare Roman Missal By Pezzana in a richly decorated contemporary descriptive binding
No copy of this edition recorded in WorldCat
Roman Church. Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, s. Pii 5. pontificis maximi jussu editum, Clementis 8. & Urbani 8. auctoritate recognitum. Cui accessere Sanctorum missae ad hanc usque diem per summos pontifices novissime emanatae. Venetiis : apud Nicolaum Pezzana, MDCCLXVI [1766].
4to (24 x 16,5 cm), Contemporary red Morocco descriptive binding, gilt monogrammed, C.F. and N.G at boards, gilt floral border with geometrical decoration at angles, spine richly decorated with gilt geometrical decorations, pp. [48], 632, CXCI, [1], XXIII, [1], signature: [cross]-3[cross]⁸ A-P⁸ 2Q¹² a-k⁸ l¹² m⁴ [2]a-c⁴; title page and text in black and red, musical notation along the text, 8 silk bookmark, on a brass mobile support, 5 silk bookmarkm stick to 5 leavs on external margin, xylographic headletters.
This copy belongs to the… Leer más

RARE FIRST EDITION OF LORENZO MASCHERONI's TREATISE ABOUT THE USE OF THE COMPASS IN GEOMETRY
UNTRIMMED AND UNCUT COPY IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPPER
Mascheroni, Lorenzo. La geometria del compasso di Lorenzo Mascheroni. Pavia : presso gli eredi di Pietro Galeazzi, anno V della Repubblica francese 1797.
8to (223 x 130 mm), original printer's wrappers; pp. [2], XVIII, 264, [14] leaves of folding plates, woodcut decoration at title page, friezes and headletters.
The principle of economy in geometric constructions

First edition of Mascheroni's most important work, with a dedication in verse to Napoleon, in which he proves that any geometrical construction of Euclidean geometry, can be carried out by means of compasses alone, admitting that a straight line is constructed once two of its points have been defined, thus demonstrating how a certain principle of economics in geometric constructions, proclaimed by all the great mathematicians of the past, from Pappus to Descartes, was regularly and violated by… Leer más

the forerunner of mathematical recreations and its use in the art of illusionism and magic
an early manual for the first "mentalists"
Ozanam, Jacques. Recreations mathematiques et physiques VOL I. Amsterdam: Gallet, 1696.
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Ozanam, Jacques. Recreations mathematiques et physiques VOL II. Paris : Jombert, 1696.
2 volumes in 8vo (188x120 mm), contemporary calf with gilt decorations at spine, pp. [16], 265, [1]; 266-583, [25, the last is blank]. Engraved title-page.
Second edition of the forerunner of modern books on mathematical recreations, including illusionism, mentalism, fireworks, conjuring, sundials and clocks.
84 engraved folding plates (45 first Vol., 39 second), that support the solution of mathematical, arithmetic, geometric, optical or cosmographic problems or that visualize the mechanism of a clock.
Scarce second edition (1st published in 1694) of the first work on recreational mathematics. This is one of the most popular books on the subject, dealing, among the other subjects,… Leer más

First Rare edition in Italian of William Bolts Historical, political and cultural treatise on Bengal
Bolts, William. Stato civile politico, e commerciante del Regno di Bengala ovvero Storia delle conquiste e dell'amministrazione della compagnia inglese in quelle contrade che vengono a formare i tomi 19. e 20. in seguito della Storia filosofica, e politica dell'abate Rainal. Tomo primo [-secondo]. [sl], [se], 1780.
8vo (180 x 120 mm), modern quarter calf binding, boards enriched by handcoloured paper, vol 1: pp. [2], 199, [1], signature [pigreco]1 A-L8 M12. [M12v blank], vol 2: pp. [2], 208, [2], signature π¹ A-N⁸ χ¹; at the end folded map "Carta di Bengala ... formata secondo il piano preso su i luoghi da W. Bolts", signed "Bart.o Nerici sc. Lucae"
Big folded Map of Bengal

Rare First Edition in Italian of William Bolts most important work on denunciation of the activities of the East India Company in the Indian region of Bengal, published for the First Time in 1772 under the title… Leer más

Rare second edition
The first italian translation of the renowned treatise on venereal illnesses (STD) by the French doctor Philippe Ricord
The distinction of the three stages of syphilis and its specific differences respect to gonorrhoea
Ricord, Philippe. Trattato completo delle malattie veneree: clinica iconografica dell'ospedale dei venerei : raccolta di osservazioni, seguite da considerazioni pratiche sulle malattie che sono state curate in cotesto spedale / del dott. Filippo Ricord […]; prima traduzione italiana riveduta ed annotata dal dott. Isacco Galligo […]; per Demetrio Serantoni disegnatore, incisore e modellatore in cera. Firenze: Tipografia Grazzini, Giannini e c., Firenze, 1861.
4° (335x250 mm), contemporary half calf binding, boards enriched by hand-coloured paper, pp. 208; L plates (but 66, with 16 additional plates number bis and ter).
66 detailed chromolithography, completed by hand only two copies recorded in WorldCat in worldwide libraries (University of Pisa Medical Library… Leer más

First Edition
GORGEOUS COLLECTION OF HANDCOLOURED AQUATIN PRINTING
DEPICTING GLIMPSES AND VIEWS OF THE HOLY LAND
amazing copy, clean and with wide margins
Ferrario, Giulio. Descrizione della Palestina o Storia del vangelo : illustrata coi monumenti / dal dottor Giulio Ferrario. Milano : Società tipogr. de' classici italiani, 1831.
In-4° (26,5 x 18,5 cm), contemporary half percaline binding, handcoloured paper at boards, gilt titles at spine, pp. [4], 171, [5]
31 hand-colored plates , 1 hand-coloured engraved plan, 1 uncoloured plate and one folding map of Palestine coloured in outline.
First independent edition of Ferrario's work on Palestine originally published as part of the work Il Costume Antico e Moderno. In the preface Ferrario claims to have corrected the errors of the first edition from various accounts, including those of Mayer and Chateaubriand.
Descrizione della Palestina is an extensive work that weaves together the geographical with the scriptural, offering a thorough description of… Leer más

First complete edition of one of the first work to deal with the
gastronomic and healing qualities of coffee, tea and chocolate
The first work in any language to describe togheter
the three new beverages of the seventeenth century
Wide margins copy
Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre. Traitez nouveaux & curieux du cafe', du the' et du chocolate. Ouvrage également necessaire aux medecins, & à tous ceux qui aiment leur santé. Par Philippe Sylvestre Dufour.
A Lyon : chez Iean Girin, & B. Riviere, ruë Merciere, à la Prudence, 1685
12mo, (155 x 90 mm), contemporary full leather binding, gilt floral decorations and title at compartment, pp. [24], 445, [7 – last leaf blank], at p. 423: Dialogue du chocolate, di Bartolomé Marradon, cfr. l'avertissement at p. 422, Signature: â¹² A-S¹² T⁸ V².
Frontispiece and engravings by M. Demasso e Matthieu Ogier, engraved headletters and headpieces.
Three full page plates at the starting of each chapter
showing An Arab man drinking coffee
a Chinese man drinking tea… Leer más

Original complete first issue of the card deck "Jean Hachette " Jeu à transformation (Transformation game), by Maximilian Frommann
Card Deck, Jean HachetteJeu à transformation. Darmstadn (Germany), Maximilian Frommann, c.a. 1860.
Complete deck, (9 x 6,5 cm), 52 chromolithographic cards, printed on thick cardboard, back of the card embellished with blue and with floral decorations, square corners.
Jeu à transformation (Transformation Game) is the name given to a particular deck of cards, printed for the first time in Germany at the starting of XIX century, in which the suit signs are made to form part of the humorous design.
The present set, printed by Maximilian Frommann for the first time, is known by the name "Jean Hachette".
Many of the illustrations can also be found on a contemporary pack made by Grimaud in Paris or on the Kartenspielereien by Braun & Schneider in Munich.
The original Frommann deck, as the one here described, can be identified by the initials of the maker printed on the upper… Leer más

Very rare first Italian EditionHow to choose the gender of a newborn during procreationOnly 1 know existing copy of this issue recorded in WorldCat (Italy)Untrimmed in its original printer paper binding
Millot, Jacques-André. L'arte di generare maschi, e femmine ad arbitrio : sistema completo della generazione / di monsieur Millot. Prima versione italiana corredata in fine di una Memoria sulla Dissenteria epidemica del 1808.In Assisi: presso Ottavio Sgariglia, 1809.
8° (205 x 140 mm), contemporary printer paper binding (small restorations), paper, pp. xiv, 176, 47, [1].
No copy on the market no copy at auction in last 40 years

First Italian edition of this bizarre treatise dealing with the methods and techniques to choose the gender of the newborn during the procreation, and on the formation of the Placenta.

The original work was translated by the Italian Giovanni Palmieri and dedicated to his friend Antonio Trevisani, who was the inspirer of the translation. Upon learning that his friend's wife… Leer más

Very rare Second enhanced edition
No copy of any edition of this title recorded in WorldCat
Uncut
Oliveti, Torquato. Della morte apparente nei cholerosi, del modo di farli risorgere e della sola cura giovevole nel cholera asiatico / Torquato Oliveti. Savignano : Tipografia dei Filopatridi, 1893
8° (185 x 120 mm), original paper binding with title page printed on front board, pp. 116.
Very rare second edition of Torquato Olivetti treatise on Asian cholera and the phenomenon of apparent death in the sufferers of cholera
The treatise, published in First Edition in Naples in 1886, organised as a practical manual to be used by doctors during an epidemic of cholera, deals with the causes and symptoms of the disease, the most effective cures and deals with the phenomenon of the apparent death of some sick people, on how to recognise this symptom and how to raise the (apparent) dead.
Olivetti, a doctor and lawyer from Emilia, formed his experience on cholera during the terrible plague epidemic that broke… Leer más

EXTREMELY RARE ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION OF THE RENOWNED "PHARMACOPOEA TAURINENSIS"
MEDICAL/GASTRONOMICAL RECEIPT BOOKS PRINTED IN TORINO CONTAINING NUMEROUS RECIPES OF SPIRITS AND LIQUORS
THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE VERMOUTH RECIPEPharmacopœa Taurinensis, nunc primum edita jussu augustissimi regis. Augustae Taurinorum : in Aedibus Academicis, apud Joannem-Baptistam Chais typographum regium, 1736.4to, (238 x 180 mm) contemporary stiff vellum, title on leather label at spine, pp. [8], 246, [16], Coat of arms of the House of Savoy at title page, woodcut head-pieces and head-letters, woodcut cul-de-lampeTWO LARGE ENGRAVED FOLDING PLATES (46X34 CM) BY THE FRENCH ARTIST GEORGES TASNIERE (ACTIVE IN TORINO AND WIEN), DEPICTING THE DISTILLATORY APPARATUS NECESSARY FOR THE SPIRITUS SULPHURIS (PLATE I) AND THE SPIRITUS VINI (PLATE II). THE PLATE II IS EXYTREMELY RARE, BEING NOT PRESENT IN THE majority of the COPIES OFFERED ON THE MARKET IN THE LAST YEARS.The two plates were, in fact, meant to be used as… Leer más

Precious elaborated Roman binding with the Coat of Arms of Cardinal Alberto Albani, librarian at the Vatican Library
Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. L. Caelii Lactantii Firmiani Carmina omnia, quae extant recensuit, variantibus lectionibus, annotationibus, castigationibus, ac dissertationibus illustravit Fr. Eduardus a S. Xaverio C.E. Romae : ex typographia Josephi, et Nicolai Grossi in aedibus de Maximis, 1759.
4° (21 x 14 cm), full red morocco leather binding, gilt Cardinal Albiani's coat of arms at both boards, surrounded by a floral border, gilt festoons at the four corners, the insignia of the Bailiff of Sovereign Military Order of Malta embossed on the gold impression, rich gilt decorated at compartments, titles on a red leather label at spine,
pp. xiii, [3], 260 [i.e.264 – page 109-112 repeated], signature: a⁸ A-P⁸ Q¹², chalcographic vignette at title page.
Rare roman edition of the works of the roman catholic writer Lactantius in a precious roman binding
printed on strong… Leer más