CATALOGUE of the First Portion ...Extensive & Choice Library removed from Buckinghamshire WITH a Most Interesting Collection...of the Poet Gray WITH A Further Selection... including Reserved Books, Autograph Manuscripts, and Letters, of the Poet Gray ... by Gray, Thomas - Granville Penn of Stoke Poges - 1851

Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarem et Ioannem Moretos fratres., 1618. Hardcover. Very Good. Two engraved titlepages & 102 full-page engraved emblem plates, the first in each part signed by by Theodor. Galle.. Two Parts in one Volume, octavo contemporary calf (repaired and rebacked with fragments of original gilt spine laid on) ink and pencil ownership names on front endpapers and another small inked out at foot of title. Engraved titlepage +[14] +212pp +[4]pp (last blank) with 1 preliminary + 50 numbered full page engraved plates; 2nd engraved titlepage +[14] +213pp +[4]pp (last blank) again with 1 preliminary + 50 numbered full page engraved plates. All plates with captions in Latin, Dutch & French. Endpapers browned, 1st engraved title very slightly chipped at fore-edge, a few small marginal tears without loss, otherwise beautifully clean throughout with the two complete sets of 51 plates interleaved in the text following each engraved titlepage. *Rare complete edition (the 2 parts… Read More

Paris, Delongchamps, 1825.En 8vo, 6 vol.: I: 425p. + retrato de autor; II: 451p. + 1 lámina; III: 443p. + 1 lámina; IV: 460p. + 1 lámina; V: 455p. + 1 lámina; y VI: 458p.+ 1 lámina. Encuadernados en piel de época, con ciertas reparaciones. Textos con algunas manchas de oxido, pero en general limpio en buen estado de conservación.Bonitas láminas de Deveria. Ex-libris de Bibliothèque de Chateau Valencay y de Joaquín García Pimentel.

London.: Oriental Translation Fund.. 1st thus.. 1829.. 2 volumes. Volume I: black & white frontispiece "Fac-simile of the Title-Page to Haoukewchuen, or the Fortunate Union". A further page with borders decorated and printed in blue announce: Oriental Translation Fund Instituted 1828 under the patronage of His Most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth and states that 'This copy was printed for the Most Noble the Marquess of Anglesey, A subscriber to the Oriental Translation Fund.' Some foxing preliminary leaves, one gathering loosening. xxiv + 258pp and errata. Volume II: Frontispiece map showing "the Route of the Embassy in 1816 from Peking to Tengchang Foo along the Grand Canal", vi + 262pp, appendix and bound together with 31pp 'Report of the Proceedings of the Second General Meeting of the Subscribers to the Oriental Translation Fund with the Prospectus, A list of the Oriental Translation Committee, a Report of the Committee and Regulations and a List of Works in the Press. Generally very clean… Read More

Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary vellum. Printed by Jean Antoine Huguetan, Lyons 1638. (Colophon at end dated 1627; printing privilege dated 1626.) Second Edition of this comprehensive treatise on geomancy.Illustrated with numerous diagrams, schematic woodcuts and tables in text, as well as 10 plates, 1 of which is an engraved single-page plate, while the other 9 are fold-out woodcut diagrams or letterpress tables, some bound to face each other; plus large engraved printer's device with an armillary sphere on title-page; a few decorative woodcut head-pieces and initials.The Opus Geomantiae Completum "is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar, medieval Latins like… Read More

Extremely scarce medicine book.
WorldCat and other bibliographies find only the later edition from 1826. This is the first and only copy of the 1816 edition known and currently for sale.
This book contains instructions for limb amputation procedures. It also contains illustrations of the various tools of the trade.
The author was Vincenz von Kern (born January 20, 1760, in Graz, † April 16, 1829, in Vienna), an Austrian doctor and surgeon.
Kern worked as a surgical assistant in Salzburg, Trieste, and Venice. In 1783 he moved to the hospital in Sankt Marx, where he practiced and attended surgical lectures at the same time. After Kern had become a master of surgery and obstetrics in 1784, he received his doctorate in 1790. chir. and in 1797 took over a professorship for surgery and obstetrics at the k. k. Lyceum in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Kern established a surgical reading society and a surgeon institute. Kern laid the foundation for a book collection that had already contained thousands of books by the… Read More

Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarem et Ioannem Moretos fratres., 1618. Hardcover. Very Good. Two engraved titlepages & 102 full-page engraved emblem plates, the first in each part signed by by Theodor. Galle.. Two Parts in one Volume, octavo contemporary calf (repaired and rebacked with fragments of original gilt spine laid on) ink and pencil ownership names on front endpapers and another small inked out at foot of title. Engraved titlepage +[14] +212pp +[4]pp (last blank) with 1 preliminary + 50 numbered full page engraved plates; 2nd engraved titlepage +[14] +213pp +[4]pp (last blank) again with 1 preliminary + 50 numbered full page engraved plates. All plates with captions in Latin, Dutch & French. Endpapers browned, 1st engraved title very slightly chipped at fore-edge, a few small marginal tears without loss, otherwise beautifully clean throughout with the two complete sets of 51 plates interleaved in the text following each engraved titlepage. *Rare complete edition (the 2 parts… Read More

Paris, Delongchamps, 1825.En 8vo, 6 vol.: I: 425p. + retrato de autor; II: 451p. + 1 lámina; III: 443p. + 1 lámina; IV: 460p. + 1 lámina; V: 455p. + 1 lámina; y VI: 458p.+ 1 lámina. Encuadernados en piel de época, con ciertas reparaciones. Textos con algunas manchas de oxido, pero en general limpio en buen estado de conservación.Bonitas láminas de Deveria. Ex-libris de Bibliothèque de Chateau Valencay y de Joaquín García Pimentel.

London.: Oriental Translation Fund.. 1st thus.. 1829.. 2 volumes. Volume I: black & white frontispiece "Fac-simile of the Title-Page to Haoukewchuen, or the Fortunate Union". A further page with borders decorated and printed in blue announce: Oriental Translation Fund Instituted 1828 under the patronage of His Most Gracious Majesty George the Fourth and states that 'This copy was printed for the Most Noble the Marquess of Anglesey, A subscriber to the Oriental Translation Fund.' Some foxing preliminary leaves, one gathering loosening. xxiv + 258pp and errata. Volume II: Frontispiece map showing "the Route of the Embassy in 1816 from Peking to Tengchang Foo along the Grand Canal", vi + 262pp, appendix and bound together with 31pp 'Report of the Proceedings of the Second General Meeting of the Subscribers to the Oriental Translation Fund with the Prospectus, A list of the Oriental Translation Committee, a Report of the Committee and Regulations and a List of Works in the Press. Generally very clean… Read More

Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary vellum. Printed by Jean Antoine Huguetan, Lyons 1638. (Colophon at end dated 1627; printing privilege dated 1626.) Second Edition of this comprehensive treatise on geomancy.Illustrated with numerous diagrams, schematic woodcuts and tables in text, as well as 10 plates, 1 of which is an engraved single-page plate, while the other 9 are fold-out woodcut diagrams or letterpress tables, some bound to face each other; plus large engraved printer's device with an armillary sphere on title-page; a few decorative woodcut head-pieces and initials.The Opus Geomantiae Completum "is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar, medieval Latins like… Read More

Extremely scarce medicine book.
WorldCat and other bibliographies find only the later edition from 1826. This is the first and only copy of the 1816 edition known and currently for sale.
This book contains instructions for limb amputation procedures. It also contains illustrations of the various tools of the trade.
The author was Vincenz von Kern (born January 20, 1760, in Graz, † April 16, 1829, in Vienna), an Austrian doctor and surgeon.
Kern worked as a surgical assistant in Salzburg, Trieste, and Venice. In 1783 he moved to the hospital in Sankt Marx, where he practiced and attended surgical lectures at the same time. After Kern had become a master of surgery and obstetrics in 1784, he received his doctorate in 1790. chir. and in 1797 took over a professorship for surgery and obstetrics at the k. k. Lyceum in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Kern established a surgical reading society and a surgeon institute. Kern laid the foundation for a book collection that had already contained thousands of books by the… Read More