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Item #021502 A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN OF THE LORD AMBASSADOR HOWARD'S RETINUE, TO HIS FRIEND IN...

A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN OF THE LORD AMBASSADOR HOWARD'S RETINUE, TO HIS FRIEND IN LONDON: DATED AT FEZ, NOV. 1. 1669 Wherein He Gives a Full Relation of the Most Remarkable passages in Their Voyage Thither, and of the Present State of the Countries Under the power of Taffaletta, Emperour Of Morocco; with a Brief Account f the Merchandizing Commodities of Africa; as also the Manners and Customs of the People There

London: Moses Pitt, 1670. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (5-1/4" x 7") bound in 19th Century 3/4 calf leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spine, housed in a modern cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered spine label; 36 pages. WING L61. "Henry Howard, Sixth Duke of Norfolk, went out to Morocco.....

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Item #004548 ORLANDO FURIOSO and I CINQUE CANTI. Lodovico ARIOSTO

ARIOSTO, Lodovico

ORLANDO FURIOSO and I CINQUE CANTI

Venice: F. Valgrisi and N. Moretti, 1603. Early Printing. Hardcover. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in early full vellum, [16] 654 [32] pages. The complete and corrected ORLANDO FURIOSO, with Ruscelli's dedication to the Duke of Ferrara dated 1556 and an account of the life of Ariosto by Battista.....

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Item #020456 THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. What It Is. With All The Kinds Causes, Symptomes,...

[BURTON, Robert] DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR

THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. What It Is. With All The Kinds Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Severall Cures of It. In Three Partitions, with Their Severall Sections, Members and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up

London: Henry Cripps, 1628. Third Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 11") in early calf leather, the spine with 5 raised bands and a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label. Text complete but for the colophon and errata leaf, unevenly paginated: [8], 79, 78-208. [4], 209-374, [2], 375-584, 583-646, [8, table], [2.....

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Item #017257 THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN CHARDIN INTO PERSIA AND THE EAST-INDIES. Sir John CHARDIN

CHARDIN, Sir John

THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN CHARDIN INTO PERSIA AND THE EAST-INDIES

London: Moses Pitt, 1686. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Folio (7-3/4" x 12-1/8") bound in later calf leather recently and sympathetically rebacked with a gilt-decorated spine preserving the original morocco spine label; [xviii], 264, 331-417, [9], 154, [6] pages. Complete with the frontispiece portrait of the author, an additional engraved.....

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Item #020566 DEFFENSE DE LA LANGUE FRANCOISE, POUR L'INSCRIPTION DE L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE. Dedie'e au...

CHARPENTIER, (Francois) and LUCAS, Jean

DEFFENSE DE LA LANGUE FRANCOISE, POUR L'INSCRIPTION DE L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE. Dedie'e au Roy bound with DE MONUMENTIS PUBLICIS LATINE INSCRIBENDIS ORATIO...

Paris: Claude Barbin and Simon Benard, 1676 & 1677. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (3-3/4" x 6-1/4") in calf; [xxxviii], 341, [17]; [xvi], 71pages. In the 1670s, there was a heated debate among Paris intellectuals concerning whether inscriptions for a proposed triumphal arch in honor of Louis XIV should be.....

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Item #020472 METAMORPHOSES D'OVIDE en Rondeaux Imprimez et Enrichis de Figures par Ordre de sa...

[EMBLEM BOOK] OVID [BENSERADE (Isaac de)]

METAMORPHOSES D'OVIDE en Rondeaux Imprimez et Enrichis de Figures par Ordre de sa Majeste, Dediez a Monseigneur le Dauphin

Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1697. Early Edition. Hardcover. Two small quarto (6-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in full mottled calf leather with marbled endpapers and gilt-lettered contrasting morocco spine labels: [x], 243, [1]; 220, [4] pages. Text in French translation by Issac de Benserade who was commissioned by Louis XIV to.....

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Item #022210 SYMBOLA HEROICA. Multo ... de Gallicae lingua in Latinam conversa. EMBLEM BOOK,...

[EMBLEM BOOK] PARADIN, Claude and SIMEONI, D. Gabrielis

SYMBOLA HEROICA. Multo ... de Gallicae lingua in Latinam conversa

Lyons: Plantin Press (C. Raphelengius), 1600. Hardcover. Small octavo (3" x 4-1/2") in contemporary limp vellum; 319 pages. An uncommon later Latin translation of Paradin's DEVISES HEROIQUES, first published in Antwerp in 1583. Illustrated with 216 woodcut devices (some full-page) with Latin captions: 179 for Paradin and 37 for Simeoni.....

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Item #015344 [HERBAL] THE HERBALL OR GENERALL HISTORIE OF PLANTES. GATHERED BY JOHN GERARDE OF...

GERARDE [GERARD], John

[HERBAL] THE HERBALL OR GENERALL HISTORIE OF PLANTES. GATHERED BY JOHN GERARDE OF LONDON MASTER IN CHYRURGERIE Very Much Enlarged and Ammended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London

London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third Edition. Hardcover. First published in 1597, this is the second edition edited by Thomas Johnson (a reprint of the 1633 edition) who corrected many of Gerard's errors and who improved the accuracy of the illustrations by using Plantin's woodcuts. Thick.....

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Item #018990 AUSSFUHRLICHE GESCHICHT DER IN DEM AUSSERSTEN WELT-THEIL GELEGENEN JAPONESISCHEN...

[JAPAN] CRASSET, Jean

AUSSFUHRLICHE GESCHICHT DER IN DEM AUSSERSTEN WELT-THEIL GELEGENEN JAPONESISCHEN KIRCH

Augsburg: Franz Antoni Alger, 1738. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") with two parts bound together in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps lacking but catches present, title on spine label stamped in blind; [24], 534, [2], 559, [1] pages. Title in red and black, engraved head- and.....

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Item #016969 HISTORIAE NATURALIS DE QUADRUPEDIBUS. [bound with] DE PISCIBUS ET CETIS. [bound...

JONSTON, Johannes

HISTORIAE NATURALIS DE QUADRUPEDIBUS. [bound with] DE PISCIBUS ET CETIS. [bound with] DE EXANGUIBUS AQUATICIS. [bound with] DE AVIBUS. [bound with] DE INSECTIS. [bound with] DE SERPENTIBUS

Amsterdam: J. J. Schipper, 1657 & 1665. Second Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9-1/2" x 15") masterfully bound in recent full vellum lettered in brown on the spine with new endpapers. Six parts in one, four with an engraved title page and two with woodcut title vignettes: DE QUADRUPEDIBUS (1657), [3]-6, [2].....

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Item #017302 ATHANASII KIRCHERI, SOCIETATIS IESU. MAGNES SIVE ARTE MAGNETICA OPUS TRIPARTITUM....

KIRCHER, Athanasius

ATHANASII KIRCHERI, SOCIETATIS IESU. MAGNES SIVE ARTE MAGNETICA OPUS TRIPARTITUM. QUO UNIVERSAMAGNETIS NATURA, EIUSQUE IN OMNIBUS SCIENTIJS & ARTIBUS USUS, NOVA METHODO EXPLICATUR, ETC

Rome: B. Deuersin, & Z. Masotti, 1654. Third, and best, Edition. Hardcover. Folio (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in contemporary vellum; [xxxii (including engraved title-page)], 618, [24] pages. Title page printed in red and black with engraved printer's device; additional engraved title page; woodcut initials; head- and tailpieces; full-page engraved arms.....

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Item #021865 THE STRATAGEMS OF JERUSALEM: with the martiall lawes and militarie discipline, as...

LODOWICK LLOYD Esquier, one of her Majesties Serieants at Armes

THE STRATAGEMS OF JERUSALEM: with the martiall lawes and militarie discipline, as well of the Jewes, as of the Gentiles By he Stratagems of Jerusalem bound with [A BRIEFE CONFERENCE OF DIVERS LAWES; DIVIDED INTO CERTAIN REGIMENTS]

London: Thomas Creede, 1602. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (5-1/2" x 7-1/4") in later sheep leather; [viii], 352, [14], without the last blank; 143, [9] pages, the last leaf is blank. First work is the variant with a Latin quotation above the device on title page; the second work lacks.....

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Item #019171 THE RUSSIAN IMPOSTOR: OR, THE HISTORY OF MUSKOVIE, Under The Usurpation of Boris and...

[MANLEY, Sir Roger]

THE RUSSIAN IMPOSTOR: OR, THE HISTORY OF MUSKOVIE, Under The Usurpation of Boris and the Imposture of Demetrius, Late Emperors of Muskovy

London: by J[ames]. C[otrell]. for Thomas Basset, 1674. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (4-1/4" x 6-3/4") bound in 3/4 brown morocco leather and brown boards with a gilt-stamped spine; [1], 250 pages. Engraving on verso of title page; lacking the 12-page preface. Wing M75. An appendix was included in the Second.....

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Item #019170 ALPHABET DE L'IMPERFECTION ET MALICE DES FEMMES. Reueu, corrigé & augmenté d'vn...

OLIVIER, Jacques

ALPHABET DE L'IMPERFECTION ET MALICE DES FEMMES. Reueu, corrigé & augmenté d'vn Friant Dessert pour les Courtizans & Partisanes de la Femme Mondaine. Dédié à la plus mauuaise du monde

Paris: Petit-Pas, 1619. Third Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (3-1/8" x 5-1/4") bound in full 18th century calf with the insignia of Montgomery stamped in blind to the front board, recent gilt-lettered black morocco spine label; 360, 70, (23, [1]) pages. Contains the first issue of the "Portraict racourcy d'une femme mondaine.....

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Item #021859 RERUM ET URBIS AMSTELODAMENSIUM HISTORIA; In qua Hollandiae primum atque inde...

PONTANUS, Johannes Isacius

RERUM ET URBIS AMSTELODAMENSIUM HISTORIA; In qua Hollandiae primum atque inde Amstelandiae,oppidique, natales, exordia, progressus, privilegia, statute eventaque mirabilia cum novis urbis incrementis com Cercijsque ac navigationibus longinquis, aliaque ad politiam spectantia, additis suo loco tabulis aeri incisis, ad haec usque tempora, observata annorum serie accurate omnia deducuntur. Auctore Ioh. Isacio Pontano. Accedunt sub calcem Auctores vetustiores duo nunquam antea editi, quorum nomina et seriem verba pagella indicabit

Amsterdam: Judocus Hondius, 1611. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 10-3/4") in somewhat later full calf leather; [viii], 64, [40], 65-292, [7] pages with a page of errata at rear. Complete with the 40-page section, bound in after page 64, rather than at the end, as in other copies. Illustrated.....

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Item #020441 CANTERBURIES DOOME. OR THE FIRST PART OF A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF THE COMMITMENT,...

PRYNNE, William

CANTERBURIES DOOME. OR THE FIRST PART OF A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF THE COMMITMENT, CHARGE, TRYALL, CONDEMNATION, EXECUTION OF WILLIAM LAUD, LATE ARCH-BISHOP OF CANTERBURY. Containing The Severall Orders, Articles, Proceedings In Parliament Against Him, From His First Accusation Therein, Till His Tryall: Together With The Various Evidences And Proofs Produced Against Him At The Lords Bar, In Justification Of The First Branch Of The Commons Charge Against Him; ... With His Severall Answers To Those Evidences, Proofs, And The Commons Reply Thereunto. Wherein This Arch-Prelates Manifold Trayterous Artifices To Usher In Popery By Degrees, Are Cleerly Detected, And The Ecclesiasticall History Of Our Church-Affaires, During His Pontificall Domination, Faithfully Presented To The Publike View Of The World

London: John Macock for Michael Spark senior, at the sign of the Blue Bible in Green Arbour, 1646. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 11") in contemporary calf leather with cloth string ties, the spine with 5 raised bands and a gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. Text complete with errata.....

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Item #020236 HAS LUDENTIS OTIJ CAROLO RUBEO SINGULARIS AMICITIAE PIGNUS D D D. Salvator ROSA

ROSA, Salvator

HAS LUDENTIS OTIJ CAROLO RUBEO SINGULARIS AMICITIAE PIGNUS D D D

Nuremberg: Jacobum de Sandrart Pictorem, n.d. [1690s]. Salvator Rosa. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (6-1/2" x 8-3/4") bound in early marbled boards. Famous series of exquisite etchings by Salvatore Rosa (1615-1673) of soldiers and people of other occupations drawn with lively gestures and expressive facial expressions. There are 60 numbered.....

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Item #011782 IATRICA: SEU PRAXIS MEDENDI. THE PRACTICE OF CURING BEING A MEDICINAL HISTORY OF...

SALMON, William

IATRICA: SEU PRAXIS MEDENDI. THE PRACTICE OF CURING BEING A MEDICINAL HISTORY OF MANY FAMOUS OBSERVATIONS IN THE CURE OF DISEASES, PERFORMED BY THE AUTHOR HEREOF. WHEREUNTO IS ADDED BY WAY OF SCHOLIA, A COMPLETE THEORY, OR METHOD OF PRECEPTS, WHEREIN THE NAMES, DEFINITIONS, KINDS, SIGNS, CAUSES, PROGNOSTICKS, AND VARIOUS WAIES OF CURE ARE METHODICALLY INSTITUTED, DIGESTED AND REDUCED TO VULGAR PRACTICE, TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL OF THE CHOICES OBSERVATIONS OF OTHER FAMOUS MEN....

London: Th. Dawks, 1681 (1684). Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/8" x 9-1/4") bound in contemporary calf with modern sympathetic and expert restoration at the spine and corners, one original brass clasp with remains of the other; gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Salmon; [xx], 762, [14] pages.....

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Item #019183 THE ANATOMY OF THE BODY OF MAN: WHEREIN IS EXACTLY DESCRIBED EVERY PART THEREOF, IN...

VESLING, Johann

THE ANATOMY OF THE BODY OF MAN: WHEREIN IS EXACTLY DESCRIBED EVERY PART THEREOF, IN THE SAME MANNER AS IT IS COMMONLY SHEWED IN PUBLICK ANATOMIES...

London: George Sawbridge, 1677. Second Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (7-1/2" x 11-3/4") in contemporary calf; A4 D-N4 R4 S2; [8], 80, 181-192 pages. The Second Edition in English, translated by Nicholas Culpeper. Illustrated with 24 full-page plates, each facing a printed full-page table. ESTC R23770; Wing V287.

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