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December 2024

Experiments on Diverse Natural Things Francesco Redi 1685

Francisci Redi Nobilis Aretini, Experimenta circa varias res naturales, speciatim illas Quæ ex Indiis afferuntur. Ut & alia ejusdem Opuscula, que paginâ sequenti narrantur. Amstelaedami : Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1685.                               Price $3,500 On Hold The frontispiece signed by Cornelis Decker, allegorically... Continue Reading →

2 Books by Eusebius of Caesarea (275-339)

592J. Eusebius of Cæsarea (275-339) The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hvndred Yeares After Christ, written in the Greeke tongue by three learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Evsebivs Pamphilvs Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina uurote 10. bookes.... Continue Reading →

Annotated copy of a 1497 Juvenal

‡670J Heavily annotated copy of a 1497 Juvenal by a German (Rhenish scholar ca 1512) 670J.  JUVENAL. (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) with the commentary of Domitius Calderinus, Georgius Valla and Antonius Mancinellus. IVVENALIS Anton.Manci. Domici(us) Geor. Val. Argumenta Satyrarum Iuuenalis per Antonium Mancinellum. Príma... Continue Reading →

Two 17th c. editions Of The Consolation Of Philosophy.

803J Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus (480-525) Anicius Manlius Serverinus Boetius, Of The Consolation Of Philosophy. In Five Books. Made English and Illustrated with Notes, By the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Preston. London: Printed by J.D. for Awnsham and John... Continue Reading →

3 books on women’s health

Today I offer 3 books which deal with female topics, procreation, psychology, child bearing and raising Claude Quillet's poem is exceedingly stylish and yet quite informative, very, rarely found with all five of the engravings. pseudo Albertus Magnus who was... Continue Reading →

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