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L'Etat Militaire De L'Empire Ottoman. Parts I-II
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L'Etat Militaire De L'Empire Ottoman. Parts I-II

de Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli

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The Hague: Pierre Gosse, Jean Neaulme, De Hondt & Moetjens, 1732. Leather Bound. Very Good. Folio. 2 volumes in one. [vi], [ix]-xvi, 151pp.; [ii], 199pp. French and Italian dual column text. Full bound in contemporary leather. Marbled boards. 7 raised bands and 8 compartments. Gilt flourishes to compartments. Small to head of spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Stain to bottom corner of title page. Book features 2 hand-colored folding maps, one uncolored folding map, 34 full-plates, illustrations throughout text and multiple folding tables. Plate XXXIV torn and lacking upper left corner. Pages clean and unmarked with light to moderate toning. Please see our pictures.
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La historia d'Italia
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La historia d'Italia

de Francesco Guicciardini; Remigio Nannini

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Venetia : Appresso Giovan Maria Bonelli, 1562-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. From the library of Hugo Grotius, inscribed by his hand on bottom verso of title page. Quarto. [24], 470, [8] p. ; 22 cm, Printers devices, engravings. Full vellum binding with leather spine label. Marbled pastedowns. Page ends colored dark blue. Good binding and cover. Soiling to boards. Chipping to the head of vellum spine. Indentation on title page of 3 small stamps removed. Contemporary repair by printer to tail of title page. Written in contemporary ink, with rust occurring in some parts: Ex Libris Hug. Grotii on bottom corner of title page verso. Scattered foxing, with light toning occuring, otherwise very good internally. <br><br> The first edition of this work was published in Florence in 1561, under the care of the author's nephew, Agnolo Guicciardini, and contained sixteen books only; the last four being unfinished, the editor hesitated to publish them and they were not printed until 1564. The… Leer más
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Beati Alberti Magni: Opera quae hactenus haberi potuerunt (Works of Albertus Magnus in 21 folio...
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Beati Alberti Magni: Opera quae hactenus haberi potuerunt (Works of Albertus Magnus in 21 folio volumes)

de Albertus, Magnus Saint (Teutonicus); Petrus Jammy (Pierre); Giovanni Battista de' MARINI (Joan. Baptista de Martino); Nicolaus RODULPHIUS (Nicolao Rodulphio); Thomas TURCO (Thoma Turco)

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Lugduni - Lyon: Claudii Prost, Petri Claudii Rigaud, 1651-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 21 folio volumes. Massive set. Collected works of Saint Albertus. <br> Bound in contemporary mottled calf. 7 raised spine bands. Gilt spine. Most volumes have good bindings. 2 volumes lacking most of spine leather. Vol. 1 front hinge cracked, but holding. Wear to extremities. Some corners bumped. All edges speckled red. Bookplate from the Newton Theological Institute. Engraved portrait, engraved titles in red and black. Generally very good internally with clean, white, unmarked pages. Title pages have a name clipped out, mostly excising the whole head margins. Volume 4 binding is broken, resulting in loose pages. Marginal loss to tail of first 100 pages in volume 2, as well as cover, from corrosion; also marginal loss to first 31 pages of volume 16; affects only printers text on title page. Volumes 3, 8, 14 15 have marginal damp stains, with worming to Vol. 15. Volume 9 has a dampstain to the… Leer más
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The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (109 volume set; Volumes: 1-171...
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The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (109 volume set; Volumes: 1-171 +186, 191-192, 197-198, 216 (with some gaps))

de Henry Oldenburg; Isaac Newton; Samuel Pepys; Robert Boyle; Joseph Banks; George Gabriel Stokes; William and Caroline Herschel; John Winthrop; John Bartram; David Rittenhouse; Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Bayes

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London: Royal Society (Great Britain); The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge: 1753 - 1880; 1960, 1753. Hardcover. Good. A massive collection of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 109 volume set in 102 volumes. Buckram red cloth. Original volumes begin with 1753, volumes: 48, 50 (part 1), 53-56, 59-61, 63, 67, 69, 71-74, 76-84, 86-87, 89, 93-95, 97, 135, 137, 140, 160, 166, 167, 169-171 (end in 1880) + vols. 181, 186, 191-192, 197-198, 216 (1916); Also includes the Royal Society's facsimile reprint of volumes: 1-47 (1665 - 1752), 49, 51-52, 57-58, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70 + Index. University library stamps on front paste down, title and some edges. Good binding and covers. Over 1053 plates and maps, many are folding. <br> The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was first published in 1665 to promote the discussion and diffusion of scientific knowledge. It was the world's first scientific journal and has lasting and… Leer más
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New experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America 3 parts in 1
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New experiments and observations on electricity : made at Philadelphia in America 3 parts in 1

de Benjamin Franklin

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London : Printed and sold by D. Henry and R. Cave, 1760-1754. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 parts bound as 1. Part I: 1760 and Part II: 1762, 3rd edition. Part III, 1754, 1st edition. Fine binding. Bound in modern tree calf leather. Cover leather has been acid stained to approximate a lightning strike. Gilt spine, red and green moroccan leather spine labels. Gilt dentelle. Housed in a custom-made electric blue leather clamshell case. A silver key has been inlaid into the front board of the case. Silver lightning shoots out of the key. Beautiful hand made marbled endpapers in both the book and case. Collated: 86, 1plate., 87-109, 110-154 pp, 1 illustration. Marginal chipping with loss to of title page and end page. Contemporary notations in the margins of Part I reflecting Franklin's later corrections. 4 leaves are in facsimile: p. 13-14, 85-86, the ad page, and the plate in Part I. <br><br> Printing and the Mind of Man calls Franklin's work "the most important… Leer más
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Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District with Atlas
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Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District with Atlas

de Dutton, Clarence E

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Government Printing Office, 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 1st ed. 2 volumes. Atlas + Monograph. Rebound in fine 3/4 moroccan leather over marbled boards. The boards have been specially designed to reproduce the majesty of the Grand Canyon. Monograph: xiv, 264; ills. 31 x 23 cm. Atlas: 23 sheets: color illustrations, color maps ; 52 x 45 cm. 22 double-page color plates. Lithographed by Julius Bien. "One of the greatest, if not the very greatest of all Grand Canyon books... The atlas, containing the superb panoramic views by William H. Holmes and a drawing by Thomas Moran, is a rich portfolio of art as well as a collection of maps and an exposition of geology." Farquhar, Books of the Colorado River & the Grand Canyon: A Selective Bibliography, 73. Stephen Pyne states that Dutton "recast a rocky peninsula into geo-poetry, reshaped an amorphous panorama of Time into narrative History, and transformed an American scene into a universal symbol." (introduction the… Leer más
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Memoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages, &c. des...
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Memoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages, &c. des chinois (16 volume set)

de Joseph Marie Amiot; Francois Bourgeois; Pierre Martial Cibot; Aloys Kao; Aloys de Poirot; Charles Batteux; Brequigny, M. de; Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Baron; Antoine Gaubil

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A Paris : Chez Nyon, Libraire, 1776 - 1791. Hardcover. Good. 16 volume set. Published 1776-1791, also includes appendix volume published in by Treuttel and Wurtz, 1814. Bound in contemporary French mottled calf. 25 x 20 cm. All edges stained red. 153 plates and tables. Clean, unmarked pages. Marbled end pages. Blind stamp on title page. <br> Memoires concernat les Chinois was an important source for introducing China to Europeans and the foundation of French Sinology. It collected the reports of French and Chinese missionaries in Beijing, "considered at the time the chief source of information in Europe regarding China and its people ... Among the monographs, the most interesting are on language and literature, warfare and philosophy, including a complete life of Confucius. In addition, there are studies on natural history, science, architecture and agriculture, translations of Chinese poetry and biographical sketches of famous Chinese. This is undoubtedly the best work that… Leer más
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Relacion del sucesso que tuvo nuestra Santa Fe en los reynos del Japon : desde el ano de...
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Relacion del sucesso que tuvo nuestra Santa Fe en los reynos del Japon : desde el ano de seyscientos y doze hasta el de seyscientos y quinze, Imperando Cubosama

de Luis Pineyro

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Madrid : Por la Viuda de Alonso Martin de Balboa, 1617. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st edition of Pineyro's history of the Jesuit Mission in Japan. Folio, 30 x 20 cm. Bound in contemporary limp vellum. Spine title in brown ink. Some cover wear, mostly creasing. Collated: [16], 516, [8] pages. Text in two columns, with double ruled border. Worming to blank margins. Top margin torn from last 9 leaves, with loss to text. 18th century inscription on title of the Seminario Conciliar de Mexico, stating that this book was received from Juan Antonio de Vizarron y Eguiarreta (1682-1747), Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain. Refs: Cordier Japonica, 290. Palau 226932 'Muy raro'; Streit-Dindinger V, 1163. <br> Pineyro's history of the Jesuit Mission in Japan covers the period between 1612 and 1615, in five books. In 1614, the Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyasu expelled Christian missionaries from Japan, in an attempt to stop Christian evangelist efforts started in 1549.… Leer más
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Rhetorum Graecorum Orationes: [Orationes Horum Rhetorum; Orationes Infrascriptorum Rhetorum;...
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Rhetorum Graecorum Orationes: [Orationes Horum Rhetorum; Orationes Infrascriptorum Rhetorum; Isocrates Orationes] {Aldine Printing}

de Isocrates, Alcidamas, Gorgias, Aristides, Harpocration; etc

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Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andreas Asulanus, 1513. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [Early Printing, Aldine Press] Two volumes (of three), bound as one. Folio, 30 x 20 cm. Bound in early vellum. Good binding. Small scuff on center of spine. Edges red. Held in a fine modern cloth clamshell case. Collated: [4], 3-197, [3 blank]; 162 [i.e. 163], [1 blank] pp. Titles in Greek and Latin. Text in Greek. Colophon in Latin. Aldine printer's device on each title. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked, with wide margins. Editio Princeps of the works of the Attic orators, notably: Aeschines, Lysias, Alcidamas, Anthisthenes, Damades, Andocides, Isaeus, Dinarchus, Antiphon, Lycurgus, Gorgias, Lesbonax, and Herodes. According to Dibdin, these orations had been hidden in Mount Athos until Lacsaris, under patronage of Lorenzo de Medici discovered them. Refs: Adams O-244; Renouard. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde. p. 60-62; Laurenziana, 114; Ahmanson-Murphy 95/1-4; Hoffman 3, p.167.… Leer más
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Voyage de l'Arabie Petree
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Voyage de l'Arabie Petree

de Leon de Laborde; Linant

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Paris : Giard, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [Important early views of Petra and Kazneh (Al-Khazneh)] First Edition. Atlas Folio, 59.5 x 32.5 cm. Bound in contemporary leather backed boards. Marbled end sheets. Collated, complete. [8], 87 p., [73]. Plate list at rear. The title page with a fine vignette illustration. 69 plates (most on India paper), including a large folding map. One map hand-colored. Institutional stamp on title and one text leaf. Foxing throughout. <br> After being rediscovered by Johann Burckhardt in 1812, Petra was largely unknown before Laborde's publication. In 1828 Laborde made the journey to Petra with engineer Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds dressed as Bedouins. They were the first to make detailed drawings of the area. Their work was the only graphic representation of Petra in the west before David Robert's work ten years later. Refs: Blackmer 929; Nissen ZBI 2335; Gay 3647; Brunet III, 714; Vicaire IV, 758-9. <br>… Leer más
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A new American atlas : containing maps of the several states of the North American Union
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A new American atlas : containing maps of the several states of the North American Union

de Henry Schenck Tanner

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Philadelphia : H.S. Tanner, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Atlas folio, 60.5 x 43 cm. Contemporary leather backed boards, rebacked with new spine. Solid binding and cover. Complete with 22 hand-colored, copper engraved maps. A few of the maps have marginal restoration or restoration at center folds. Corners bumped. Half-title has some marginal chipping. Engraved title showing Columbus landing in the New World has some toning, minor spotting. 18 text pages (one provided in facsimile). Manuscript map of Cape Cod on verso of map 17. <br> Refs: Howes T29; Sabin 94319; Phillips 1374; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, Mapping of America, p. 251; Wheat Transmississippi 350; Rumsey 2892. <br> What makes the Tanner Atlas special is that it was so much better than other contemporary American atlases and that it was uniform in scale, updated with recent discoveries in the interior of North America (Tanner consulted Lewis and Clarks actual maps to devise his atlas) and in an large and opulent… Leer más
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History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the...
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History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. (3 volumes)

de Thomas L McKenney; James Hall

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Philadelphia: Philadelphia, J.T. Bowen, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [Landmark Work in 19th Century Ethnology with Exquisite Colored Portraits of American Indians] The first octavo edition, 26 x 16 cm. 3 volume set, printed 1848, 1849, and 1850, respectively. Bound in black leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Collated: iv, 333 pp.; xviii, 11-290 pp.; iv, 17-392 pp. Complete with 120 hand-colored plates, and the colored dedication lithograph to Washington. A fresh, mostly clean copy. Plates by J.T. Bowen, most after Charles Bird King, some by James Otto Lewis and George Cooke. According to Howes, the plates are "the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed." Charles Bird King was employed by the War Department to paint portraits of visiting Indian delegates. King painted from life Indian leaders of at least twenty tribes, including: Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. Most of King's original paintings in… Leer más
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Pharmacopoeia Londinensis : or, the London dispensatory
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Pharmacopoeia Londinensis : or, the London dispensatory

de Nicholas Culpeper

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Boston : Printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill ; Daniel Henchman over-against the Brick Meeting-House ; and John Edwards, at the Sign of the Light-House, 1720. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. [First American Edition of the first London pharmacopoeia] Bound in modern leather. New leather spine labels. Gilt to spine. Text printed in two columns. Collation: [24], 305, [33 (of 35)] pages. Lacking leaf Y7 of the Table of Compounds. Some browning, foxing. Minor marginal chips to title page. "This 1720 Boston edition of Culpeper's Pharmacopoeia Londinensis enjoys the triple distinction of being the first herbal, the first pharmacopoeia, and the first full-length medical book published in the American colonies." Norman 542; Evans 2114; Austin 591; Garrison-Morton 1828.2. Culpeper's an English work originally published in 1653. 1759 signature and inscription of Oliver Powers at rear end page. Presumed to be Oliver Powers (1741 - 1818),… Leer más
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Los quarenta libros d'el Compendio Historial de las Chronicas y Universal Historia de todos...
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Los quarenta libros d'el Compendio Historial de las Chronicas y Universal Historia de todos los Reynos de Espana. (Los XL Libros) (4 tomes)

de Estevan de Garibay y Zamalloa (Camalloa); Esteban

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Antwerp: Anvers : Christophoro Plantino [Plantin], 1571. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Signed. [Chronicle of the Spanish Kings: 16th century printing by the Plantin press.] Complete, in four volumes. Folios. Bound in contemporary vellum, with manuscript spine titles. Signed by the author on the verso of title, v.1. (also contains a woodcut portrait of author). Collation: [28], 563, [14] p.; 561-1530 [15] p.; 659 [11] p. ; p. 657-1166 [1] p. Large woodcut on title with arms of Castile and other Spanish dynastic houses before the union. Refs. Palau 100101. Sabin 26666. Voet, Plantin Press 1238 (I.2). Peeters-Fontainas, 499. Adams G-244. <br> Garibay y Zamalloa (1533-1599) was from the Basque region of Mondragon in Guipuzcoa. He was the librarian and historiographer of King Philip II (the husband of Mary Tudor, Queen of England). Garibay y Zamalloa's history of Spain begins with Tubal (circa 3831 B.C.) He traces the influence of Egyptians, Chaldeans, Persians and Jews, and the… Leer más
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Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described (4 volumes)
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Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described (4 volumes)

de Henry Frederick Conrad Sander

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London: J. French for Henry Sotheran & Co and F. Sander & Co. of St. Albans, 1892, 1895, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [Orchidology: Great Flower Books] 2 series, bound in 4 volumes. Elephant folios, 53 x 40 cm. Bound in contemporary red half morocco. 6 spine compartments and 5 raised bands. All edges gilt. Bindings sound, with minor shelf wear, rubbing. Text in English, French and German. 192 fine chromolithographic plates, most finished by hand, by Joseph Mansell, G. Leutzsch and J.L. Macfarlane after Henry Moon, W.H. Fitch, A.H. Loch and C. Storer. <br> An "important and authoritative work for orchid growers" (Great Flower Books). Named in honor of the botanist and celebrated orchidologist, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1824-1889). "By modern standards the work was of a monstrous size ... Where the orchid was concerned, Sander never spared himself, but even so, the care lavished on the Reichenbachia still provokes astonishment. Apart from the… Leer más
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