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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 … […]
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 →
551G Nicholas Ling fl. ca. 1599 Politeuphuia, Wits Common-wealth. Newly corrected and amended. London : printed for E. Flesher, in the year 1684. $4,900 Duodecimo 5 3/4 x 3... Continue Reading →
“the heart of a fool is like a broken vessel, no wisdom at all shall it hold.” 960G Nicolaus de Byard (13th century) Dictionarius pauperum omnibus pr[a]edicatoribus verbi diuini pernecessarius : in quo multu[m] succinte contine[n]tur materi[a]e singulis festiuitatibus... Continue Reading →
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