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[36], 220, [2] pp.Original and only edition of this curious work which can be considered as a partly historical, and partly scientific history of the world, including all kinds of arguments concerning chemistry, physics, anatomy and even alchemy. Hornius felt the need for philological criticism to back up what he saw to be integral history, and was fully involved both in Reformations attack on Scholasticism and in the rebirth of literature and the emergence of philology. I have not come across any book more curious, less known and scarcer
the Arca Mosis is one of the most original books which I have ever met with (Ferguson, Bibl. notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets).Hornius, following a third road between Aristotelism and mechanism as represented by Comenius c.s., treated universal history in a modern manner, no longer divided into the history of the four classical empires (Assyria, Persia, Macedon, Rome) but based on the concept of national history, including the…
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De Originibus Americanis: Libri Quatuor
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The Hague: Adriani Vlacq, 1652. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in fine 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards. Marbled end pages. [20], 282 pages; 16 cm. Clean, unmarked pages. Horn's On American Origins "traces the supposed original sources from whence the North American Indians were derived." There was a strong contemporary argument as to North American Indian origins, with Hugo Grotius suggesting most of the population came from Scandinavia. Horn wrote this work as a rebuttal to Grotius and in support of Joannes de Laet. In this work he surveys the different opinions of American origins. Horn proposes a diffuse settlement of the Americans and ultimately suggests a land bridge from Asia over the Bering Strait. Horn references early travels to and accounts of America. He also discusses of the Huron and Iroquois tribes of Canada. <br> Sabin 33014; Palau y Dulcet 116199; Alden/Landis 652/111; Field 717. <br> Provenance: Sign on title "James Gardiner, Eman. Coll. 1684" According to a tipped-in early 20th century note, Gardiner was the Bishop of Lincoln from 1695-1705. Explorers Club (NYC) book plate on front pastedown. Signed on book plate by James B. Ford. Ford was the President of the Club, the Club's library is named after him.
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Arca mosis sive historia mundi.Leiden & Rotterdam, ex officina Hackiana, 1668. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece (dated 1669), a woodcut printer's device and some initials. Contemporary sheepskin.
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Wall Map of The Tribes of Israel (Hornius Map of the Holy Land).
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[c.1652-84]. . Copper engraving, 85 x 179 cm. The complete map comprising 6 parts on 8 conjoined sheets, an excellent example. Framed and glazed, overall size: 96cm by 190.5cm. A rare map, covering the land modern of day Israel and beyond - from the southern tip of the Dead Sea and Edom region to the Golan Heights and modern day Lebanon.The map was included in the sixth volume of Janssonius' Novus Atlas, Accuratissimia Orbis Antiqui Delineatio. The same sixth volume, but with a different title was also sold as a separate historical atlas. The atlas was first published in 1652, and the following year a 32 pages long introduction by Georgius Hornius was added to the publication.It is assumed that the current map was based on an earlier map by Christian Kruik van Adrichem, published circa 1590. Johannes Janssonius expanded Adrichem's map in order to illustrate Hornius' text in his atlas. Consequently, some refer to this map as the 'Hornius Map'.Georgius Hornius (a.k.a. Georg Horn or Horne) was a…
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