911J Henricus Suso, (1295-1366). ed. Elsbeth Stagel (1300-1360) Horologiu[m] eternae sapientiae. Köln Cornelius von Zierickzee 1503 . Price $7,500 Octavo 14 × 10.5 cm. 128 leaves. Signatures: A-Q8 Date in the colophon: M.ccccc.iij. mensis Septembris ipso die Marcelli. With title‐woodcut with four‐part border and... Continue Reading →
Gaurico, Luca (1476-1558). Annotated by Paul Haintzel (1527–1581 Tractatus astrologiae judiciariae de nativitatibus virorum & mulierum, compositus per D. Lucam Gauricum Neapolitanum, ex Ptolemaeo & alijs autoribus dignissimis, cum multis aphorismis expertis & comprobatis ab eodem. Addito in fine libello Antonii... Continue Reading →
Georg Peuerbach’s Theoricæ novæ planetarum, Wittenberg, 1580, expanded by Erasmus Reinhold and edited by Kaspar Peucer. An important Renaissance astronomy textbook with two reconstructed working volvelles for demonstrating lunar illumination and planetary motion. Contemporary limp parchment, from the libraries of Hopetoun House and astronomer and historian Owen Gingerich.
982Jj Valentini, Michael Bernhard (1657-1729.) Amphitheatrum Zootomicum Tabulis Æneis Quamplurimis Exhibens Historiam Animalium Anatomicam è Miscellaneis S.R.I. Academiæ Naturæ Curiosorum, Diariis Societatum Scientiarum Regiarum, Parisiensis, Anglicæ & Prvssiacæ, Actis Hafniensibus & Lipsiensibus, Zootomiis Anatomicorum celeberrimorum aliisque scriptis rarioribus Collectam Accedit Methodus... Continue Reading →
Today I describe two editions of Vanossi's Idea Sapientis Theo-politici 1725 & 1728. These two remarkably rare issues preserve two distinct forms of the same Jesuit emblematic work and, together, demonstrate its transformation from a published treatise into a text... Continue Reading →
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1) The Ladies Diary: Or, the Woman's Almanack. Price $3,800 The ladies diary: or, the woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1718. Being the second after bissextile, or leap-year. Containing many delightful and entertaining particulars, peculiarly adapted for the... Continue Reading →
635J Rider, Cardanus Riders (1683.) British Merlin: bedect with many delightful varieties, and useful verities: fitting the longitude and latitude of all capacities within the islands of Great Brittains monarchy. And chronological observations of principal note to this year 1683.... Continue Reading →
The Magnalia Christi Americana reminds us that America’s story was never simple. Seventeenth-century New England was already negotiating diversity and inclusion
The History of the Royal-Society of London 1667. The natural history of animals 1702 The natural history of Northampton-Shire. The Natural History of Oxford-Shire A Philosophical Language by John Wilkins The natural history of Stafford-shire 1686 The natural history of... Continue Reading →
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