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August 2017

Joco-seriorum naturæ et artis, sive, Magiæ naturalis centuriæ tres

679G Gaspar Schott ( Aspasius Caramuelius) ; Athanasius Kircher 1608-1666 Joco-seriorum naturæ et artis, sive, Magiæ naturalis centuriæ tres, das ist, Drey-Hundert nütz- und lustige Sätze allerhand merckwürdiger Stücke, von Schimpff und Ernst, genommen auss der Kunst und Natur, oder... Continue Reading →

Incunabula

OK so by clicking on the following links, you SHOULD get the index to my most recent Fascicule : # VIII F VIII index and then  the complete catalogue Fascicule no 8INIf that doesn't work please find below the text:  ... Continue Reading →

Kircher and The first published illustration of a magic lantern.

This part one of a group of blogs on Kircher's  Ars magna lucis et umbrae this books covers such a broad scope I've picked a few subjects to focus on and today Will be the Macic Latern  "De Lucerna[e] Magicae"... Continue Reading →

The History of the Low-Countrey Warres

911G       Famianus Strada   1572-1649 De Bello Belgico. The History of the Low-Countrey Warres      London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1650    $1,750 Folio. 11 1/2 X 7 1/2 inches. A-T, Aa-Kk , Ll , Aaa-Ggg , 1 leaf unsigned, Aaaa-Cccc , a ,... Continue Reading →

The Fabulous Histories of Heathen Gods!

952G            1619-1673      Pantheum mythicum,seu fabulosa deorum historia, hoc primo epitomes eruditionis volumine.        Ultrajecti : Vande Water,1698 (1701)                               $1,800 Octavo. 6 ½ X 3 ¾ inches. Fifth edition. with engraved title-page after J. Goeree... Continue Reading →

Faith, Hope and Charity

917G       Willem van Hees (Gulielmus Hesius)      1601-1690 Emblemata sacra de fide, spe, charitate                Antuerpiae : Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1636           $2,900 Octavo    A-R12. Sole Edition There are 116 emblems half-page emblematic woodcuts (Liber I with 41, Liber... Continue Reading →

“Truth consists of an adequation between the intellect and a thing”

930G Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274. editor Theodoricus de Susteren. Summa de veritate celeberrimi doctoris s[an]cti Thome Aquinatis. que olim … me[n]dis scatebat. Nouissime iam per … magistru[m] nostru[m] Theodericum de Susteren co[n]uentus Coloniens[is] fratru[m] predicatoru[m] regentem … laboriose reuisa … feliciter incipit. 930G Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274 Summa de veritate celeberrimi doctoris s[an]cti Thome Aquinatis. que olim … […]

1681 Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society.

941G      Nehemiah Grew                 1641-1712   Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description Of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society And preserved at Gresham Colledge. Made By Nehemjah Grew M.D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and... Continue Reading →

Lusus Poeticus

  744G   John     Langston         1641-1704   Lusus poeticus Latino-Anglicanus in usum scholarum. Or The more eminent sayings of the Latin poets collected; and for the service of youth in that ancient exercise, commonly called capping of verses, alphabetically digested; and for the greater... Continue Reading →

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