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The gentleman’s jockey, and approved farrier 1681.

559J.  John Halfpenny. (fl 1670)  The gentleman’s jockey, and approved farrier, instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses, with an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses,... Continue Reading →

Archæology of a book from 1518

A school book, with counter fictitious imprint and numerous annotations was well as a humble yet informative binding with many annotations by early modern students . 723J Quintilian, Marcus Fabius 35-96ad Marci Fabij Quintiliani Oratoriarum institutionum libri duodecim diligenter emendati.... Continue Reading →

Fascicule L II (52)

Links and INDEX This is the Live Bibliographical index Here is the full catalogue https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:dd0ac960-34c9-4948-a29e-9eccadd8bd9e Thirty books 1470-1501± 1) 704J Albertus Magnus 1501 https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/8000522) 564J Albertus of Padua 1480± . https://data.cerl.org/istc/ia00340000     564Ja. Spiegel des Sünders 1487± https://data.cerl.org/istc/is006750003) 563J Aquinas 1493/4 https://data.cerl.org/istc/it003250004) 566J Aquinas 1493± https://data.cerl.org/istc/it002720005) 552Ji... Continue Reading →

Two translations of Virgil

Virgil was regarded by the Romans as their greatest poet, an estimation that subsequent generations have upheld. His fame rests chiefly upon the Aeneid, which tells the story of Rome’s legendary founder and proclaims the Roman mission to civilize the... Continue Reading →

The Earth and Cosmology

Today I offer four English books on cosmology from the second half of the seventeenth century. [From the Botton]. Burnet's Theory of the Sacred Earth, Hale'sOrigination of Mankind, Grew's Cosmologis Sacra. and on top Ray's Discourses concerning the dissolution and... Continue Reading →

Suetonius ILLUSTRATED: This book, with the first Image of a Caesarian Section.

Currently there is no reliable evidence that Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born by the method now known as C-section.  At the time of Julius's birth, there was an prohibition to burring a dead pregnant woman with the fetus intact, this... Continue Reading →

The First printed tribute to Gutenberg with a date.(1440)

307J Eusebius of Caesarea 260-c. 340 Eusebii Caesariensis episcopi chronicon id est temporum breuiarium incipit foeliciter: quem Hieronymus praesbiter diuino eius ingenio Latinum facere curauit: et vsque in Valente[m] Cesarem Romano adiecit eloquio. Que[m] et Prosper deinde Matheus Palmerius ...... Continue Reading →

One of the most widely read texts of the High Middle Ages. The Secretum Secretorum:

659J. Aristotle (pseudo) Tr  Johannes Lorchner.  Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Abū Bakr al-; (864?-925?). Das aller edlest und bewertest Regiment der gesundtheyt, Auch von allen verßorgen Künsten un[d] Königklichen Regimenten Aristotelis. Das er dem Großmechtigen König Alexandro zůgeschrieben hatt. Auß Arabischer Sprach durch... Continue Reading →

∞ Fascicule L VI I ∞ •ISTC Index  MMXXIV

Thirty books 1470± to 1501± In this list there about a dozen titles represented with fewer than four U.S. Holdings. Eight in contemporary bindings three sammelbands. Ten under $10,000. More than six heavily annotated books. And the subjects include Science... Continue Reading →

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