Disbound Nürnberg pamphlet of 1553: Bishop Weigand of Bamberg defends against Albrecht Alcibiades in the Margrave Wars. Only copy traced in North America.
1499-1513 Pre Reformation collection on updating the mass. 5 part Sammelband 537Ji-v This volume is Sammelbandof five printed books. Four from the early sixteenth century and one printed in the late fifteenth. Basel, Mainz, Oppenheim, Speyer, Straßburg, 1499-1515. Price $ 9,500... Continue Reading →
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“Rare 1592 Jena funeral sermon for Duchess Dorothea Susanna, with ten prayers in her own voice—unique female-authored Lutheran devotion.”
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This is a remarkable survival of Renaissance printing and binding practice, a book that tells its story on several levels—through its text, its images, its binding, and even the waste materials used to construct it. At its heart lies the 1521... Continue Reading →
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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, published in 1495, are crucial to understanding his role in the Platonic and Hermetic revival during the Italian Renaissance. They offer insights into his thoughts, relationships, and intellectual activities. Comprised of significant correspondences, these letters serve as both historical documents and moral teachings, showcasing humanistic scholarship.
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In this blog I feature seven books from my shelves that, each in their own way, reflect the imprint of René Descartes’ Cartesian method. Their authors—physicians, priests, and members of the Royal Society—draw on doubt and the questioning of inherited... Continue Reading →
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876J Swammerdam, Jan (1637-1680). Histoire générale des insectes, où l’on explique la génération & les métamorphoses de ces animaux, où l’on décrit leur différentes figures, leur anatomie & leurs usages. A Utrecht, Chez Guillaume de Walcheren, Marchant Libraire demeurant en... Continue Reading →
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870J Lemery , Nicholas (1645-1715) A course of chymistry : containing an easie method of preparing those chymical medicins which are used in physick : with curious remarks and useful discourses upon each preparation, for the benefit of such who... Continue Reading →
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538J. George Bate. (1608-1669) Pharmacopoeia Bateana: or, Bate’s dispensatory. Translated from the second edition of the Latin copy, published by Mr. James Shipton. Containing his choice and select recipe’s, their names, compositions, preparations, vertues, uses and doses, as they are... Continue Reading →
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