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London: Adam Islip, 1600. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH. 330 x 220 mm. (13 x 8 3/4"). 6 p.l., 1403, [1] pp., [21] leaves (first and last leaves blank). Translated from the Latin by Philemon Holland. Early 18th century mottled calf, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with large central fleuron and complex scrolling cornerpieces, one compartment with gilt lettering "G / 2 * II," another with small inlaid red morocco label of the Earl of Essex, with gilt "SX" and a coronet, red morocco title label, edges marbled (expertly--almost invisibly--rebacked and recornered). Title page with printer's elaborate device (McKerrow 324), verso of title with woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, dedication to the queen with woodcut headpiece and armorial initial, verso of fourth leaf with portrait of Livy within a laurel wreath, verso of sixth leaf with epitaph of Livy within a laurel wreath. Front pastedown with 18th(?) century ink notation "D : 2. / 9."; also with engraved armorial bookplate of James…
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Historia Romana. De Bellis Civilibus.
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Venice, Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Loslein, 1477. Two parts in one. Folio (27.3 x 20.4 cm). 343 [211, 132] leaves. Early 17th-century full vellum. Spine with three raised bands and script title in an old hand. Edges speckled red. = Famous incunabulum, one of the first books that appeared with woodcut ornaments: the borders for both the Historia Romana and De Bellis Civilibus are an intricate pattern of vines and acanthus leaves, the first here printed in red, a rare process seen only in a very few copies. Usually, these ornaments are simply printed in black. Also, this is the first book with ornaments on a black background, including the large initial on the first page. Contents-wise, this is the first complete edition of the surviving portions of Appians Roman History, written in Greek and translated into Latin by Petrus Candidas Decembrius. Appian of Alexandria (ca. 95-ca. 165) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Emperors of Rome Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius. He was born in Alexandria. After holding the chief offices in the province of Aegyptus (Egypt), he went to Rome c. 120, where he practised as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors (probably as advocatus fisci). It was in 147 at the earliest that he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto, a well-known litterateur. Because the position of procurator was open only to members of the equestrian order (the knightly class), his possession of this office tells us about Appians family background. His principal surviving work (??µa??? Romaiká, known in Latin as Historia Romana and in English as Roman History) was written in Greek in 24 books, before 165. This work more closely resembles a series of monographs than a connected history. It gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, and survives in complete books and considerable fragments. The work is very valuable, especially for the period of the civil wars. The Civil Wars, books 13-17 of the Roman History, concern mainly the end of the Roman Republic and take a conflict-based view and approach to history. Despite the lack of cited sources for his works, these books of the Roman History are the only extant comprehensive description of these momentous decades of Roman history. (Wikipedia). The translators division of the extant books into two parts differs slightly in its order from the Greek originals. Leaf numbering is [a-c 10 (a1 blank discarded, as usual) d12, e10-x10; a-i 10 (a1 blank) k-m 8, o10]. a2r is the translators dedication to Pope Nicholas V. The blank 11-line space on c1v and all of c2r in part 1 was left by the printers to indicate a gap in the extant manuscripts. The partnership of the printers Erhard Ratdolt and Bernhard Maler and the corrector and editor Peter Loslein lasted from 1476 to 1478. The exceptional beauty of the books printed at their press is characterized by the use of a series of very fine woodcut borders and initials along with a strikingly clear and pleasing roman type. Although traditionally credited to Ratdolt, the design of the woodblocks and possibly of the type is more likely to have been the work of Bernhard Maler who was in charge of the press. When Ratdolt set up his own press in 1480, he apparently brought only one of the border blocks with him, the one that appears in part II of the present work, which he used again for the 1482 Euclid. The border used in part I appears in this edition only. Provenance: inscribed on the last text page blank verso by the Venetian senator Angelo Gabrieli (1470-1532), writer of a little-known 16 pp. treatise, Libellus hospitalis munificentiae Venetorum in excipienda Anna regina Hungariae (1502). "Anna of Foix-Candale (1484-1506) was Queen of Hungary and Bohemia as the third wife of King Vladislaus II. She incurred debts in Venice and was said to favour this city all her life" (Wikipedia). A few marginalia in a neat old hand. Slight wear to spine ends; first ornament border ever so slightly shaved at the top, a few leaves with minimal marginal spotting but generally remarkably clean: a wonderfully preserved copy. BMC V, 244; Essling, 221; IGI, 763; Redgrave, Ratdolt p. 28 n° 3; Sander, 482.
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THE ROMANE HISTORIE . . . ALSO, THE BREVIARIES OF L. FLORUS . . . AND THE TOPOGRAPHIES OF ROME IN OLD TIME
by HOLLAND, PHILEMON, Translator. LIVIUS, TITUS. [LIVY]
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Les singeries humaines. Petit museum comique et grotesque.
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Paris, Louis Janet, ca. 1825. Oblong 8vo (19.0 x 12.3 cm). iv, 146, [i] pp.; title page with large, engraved and finely hand-coloured vignette, 12 finely engraved, tissue-guarded plates with contemporary hand-colouring. Contemporary quarter polished calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title, and blind tooled vignettes. = A wonderfully preserved copy of a very rare, delightfully illustrated satire on human behaviour, humorously compared with the behaviour of monkeys. The author is unknown, and, given the satire hidden behind the jolly illustrations, perhaps wisely remained anonymous. However, it seems reasonable to assume that the publisher, [Pierre Claude] Louis Janet (1788-1840) was the author, as he was known as a writer, in particular of works published by himself. Former owner's name pencilled in an old hand on the front free endpaper recto. Some (mostly light) rubbing to the boards, occasional light, marginal thumbing, a few small smudges, but generally very clean. The…
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A paradox: prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the World. Whereunto is prefixed, a briefe and true description of that island: the nature of the climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English above other nations. With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East-Indies.
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London, Nathaniell Butter, 1640. 4to (18.7 x 14.4 cm). Original second blank; title page, half title, half-title (placed after 12th text page) [xii, xxi] pp., Mid-19th century brown crushed morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and gilt title; boards with triple gilt borders and rosettes; gilt-lined edges and elaborate gilt inner dentelles. = Very rare first edition of the first of two accounts of Madagascar by a ship's surgeon in the service of the East India Company, Walter Hamond (d. 1648). The first work was written as an encouragement to colonise Madagascar, something that was scheduled for 1639. That plan never came to fruition. After Hamond published a second, similar work, the Englishman John Bond led an expedition to the island and established a colony - with about 300 settlers - in 1645. It proved to be not the Utopia promoted by Hamond, and was abandoned the next year after a huge death toll. A fabulous and clean copy, with…
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New and improved system of logarithms, with a table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 100,000, and by differences, from 1 to 10,000,000. The calculations have been recently made, and afterwards compared with the tables of Callet, Hutton, Vega, Briggs, Gardiner, Taylor, and Babbage. To which is added, an account of the origin, nature and use; and their application to several subjects to which they appertain. Also, an index, containing tables of trigonometrical formulae, (the notation entirely new and simple.)
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London, William Day, Lithographer to the Queen, and Queen Dowager, 1838. Tall folio (40.7 x 25.9 cm). Half-title, title page, [vii]-xii, 106, [i] pp.; nine double-sized, partially hand-coloured tables; a few hand-coloured text figures; mounted tabs. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with triple gilt bands; front board with rectangular ruled morocco label with gilt ornamental borders and title. Edges speckled red. = An important work by the British mathematician Oliver Byrne (1810-1880). He "... was a civil engineer and prolific author of works on subjects including mathematics, geometry, and engineering. He is best known for his 'coloured' book of Euclid's Elements." (Wikipedia). The latter work (first published in 1847), renowned for its brightly coloured Mondrian-like illustrations, finds a predecessor in this work, which, although on an altogether very different, practical mathematical subject, already contains tables with typical hand-coloured squares.…
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[De l'institution du Prince.] De Linstitution du Prince. Livre contenant plusieurs Histoires, Enseignements, & saiges Dicts des Anciens tant Grecs que Latins: Faict & composé par Maistre Guillaume Budé, lors Secretaire & maistre de la Librairie, & depuis Maistre des Requestes, et Conseiller du Roy. Reveu, enrichy d'Arguments, divisé par Chapitres, & augmenté de Scholies & Annotations, Par hault & puissant Seigneur, Missire Jean de Luxembourg, Abbé d'Jury
by Budé, Guillaume; Luxembourg, Jean de; [Dolet, Étienne]
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Imprimé à l'Arrivour Abbaye [Larrivour]: dudict Seign, Par Maistre Nicole Paris, 1547. First edition, later version (first in 1546). Title page in an ornate frame. Woodcut printer's device on the last page. Woodcut initials throughout. Woodcut coat of arms of Jean de Luxembourg on S1r. In later paste paper. Gauffered edges. Label with shelfmark on the front panel. Old collection stamps on the title page. Budé's name underlined in ink on the title page, ghosting. Wormholes at the gutter. Binding artistically restored. Overall in very good condition.. First edition, later version (first in 1546). Title page in an ornate frame. Woodcut printer's device on the last page. Woodcut initials throughout. Woodcut coat of arms of Jean de Luxembourg on S1r. In later paste paper. Gauffered edges. [Complete:] A4, B-S6; (6), 15-16, 13-204, (12) p. A scarce edition of Budé's mirror for princes. This important mirror for princes was written by Guillaume Budé (1467-1540), the greatest French humanist, or the…
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Map of Massachusetts proper compiled from Actual Surveys made by Order of the General Court, and under the inspection of agents of their appointment
by CARLETON, Osgood (fl.1792-1806)
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[Boston: B. & J. Loring, 1801. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, folded and mounted on linen. Publisher's paper label to verso, in good condition apart from some slight browning. Modern cloth chemise, within a morocco-backed cloth slipcase. A very rare and highly important early map of Massachusetts. The revised and much improved first "official" edition of the most important early map of Massachusetts. In three key ways, this edition is a great improvement over Osgood Carleton's 1798 original which was rejected for official sanction by the government of the Commonwealth. Firstly, the coastline and coastal islands have been more correctly rendered, largely due to the incorporation of information from the charts of Joseph Des Barres. Secondly, roads and streams that had been left incomplete in the earlier map were extended. Thirdly, some of the clutter of the 1798 map, engraved by Carleton's partner, John Norman, was removed, and the map is more attractive and informative, with a…
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THE POETICAL WORKS OF MR. JOHN MILTON. Containing, PARADISE LOST, PARADISE REGAIN'D, SAMSON AGONISTES, and his POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. Together With Explanatory NOTES ON ON EACH BOOK OF THE PARADISE LOST, and a TABLE never before Printed.
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London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge’s-Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate...by Tho. Hodgkin et. al., 1695 [but 1688 and 1695]. Very Rare LARGE PAPER COPY of The First “Collected” Edition. A sammelband of the poems of Milton. This copy comprised of the sheets of the large paper 1688 printing of the first illustrated edition of PARADISE LOST. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS with a 1695 reissued title-page for this edition; PARADISE REGAIN’D. A POEM. IN IV BOOKS. To whiich is added SAMSON AGONISTES, A DRAMATICK POEM.. [these with the 1688 Title-Pages included, Printed by R.E....MDLXXXVIII and for Randal Taylor....MDCLXXXVIII ] and with the large paper issuance of the first printing of the NOTES [by Patrick Hume]as well as the additional “POEMS”. Engraved portrait frontispiece and the 12 copperplate engravings by Burg after Medina used in the first illustrated edition of 1688. Folio, very fine full early calf Farquhar, the covers decorated with double gilt fillet and stippled lines and…
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Paris, Louis Janet, ca. 1825. Oblong 8vo (19.0 x 12.3 cm). iv, 146, [i] pp.; title page with large, engraved and finely hand-coloured vignette, 12 finely engraved, tissue-guarded plates with contemporary hand-colouring. Contemporary quarter polished calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title, and blind tooled vignettes. = A wonderfully preserved copy of a very rare, delightfully illustrated satire on human behaviour, humorously compared with the behaviour of monkeys. The author is unknown, and, given the satire hidden behind the jolly illustrations, perhaps wisely remained anonymous. However, it seems reasonable to assume that the publisher, [Pierre Claude] Louis Janet (1788-1840) was the author, as he was known as a writer, in particular of works published by himself. Former owner's name pencilled in an old hand on the front free endpaper recto. Some (mostly light) rubbing to the boards, occasional light, marginal thumbing, a few small smudges, but generally very clean. The…
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A paradox: prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the World. Whereunto is prefixed, a briefe and true description of that island: the nature of the climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English above other nations. With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East-Indies.
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London, Nathaniell Butter, 1640. 4to (18.7 x 14.4 cm). Original second blank; title page, half title, half-title (placed after 12th text page) [xii, xxi] pp., Mid-19th century brown crushed morocco. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments rich gilt with floral patterns and gilt title; boards with triple gilt borders and rosettes; gilt-lined edges and elaborate gilt inner dentelles. = Very rare first edition of the first of two accounts of Madagascar by a ship's surgeon in the service of the East India Company, Walter Hamond (d. 1648). The first work was written as an encouragement to colonise Madagascar, something that was scheduled for 1639. That plan never came to fruition. After Hamond published a second, similar work, the Englishman John Bond led an expedition to the island and established a colony - with about 300 settlers - in 1645. It proved to be not the Utopia promoted by Hamond, and was abandoned the next year after a huge death toll. A fabulous and clean copy, with…
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New and improved system of logarithms, with a table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 100,000, and by differences, from 1 to 10,000,000. The calculations have been recently made, and afterwards compared with the tables of Callet, Hutton, Vega, Briggs, Gardiner, Taylor, and Babbage. To which is added, an account of the origin, nature and use; and their application to several subjects to which they appertain. Also, an index, containing tables of trigonometrical formulae, (the notation entirely new and simple.)
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London, William Day, Lithographer to the Queen, and Queen Dowager, 1838. Tall folio (40.7 x 25.9 cm). Half-title, title page, [vii]-xii, 106, [i] pp.; nine double-sized, partially hand-coloured tables; a few hand-coloured text figures; mounted tabs. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with triple gilt bands; front board with rectangular ruled morocco label with gilt ornamental borders and title. Edges speckled red. = An important work by the British mathematician Oliver Byrne (1810-1880). He "... was a civil engineer and prolific author of works on subjects including mathematics, geometry, and engineering. He is best known for his 'coloured' book of Euclid's Elements." (Wikipedia). The latter work (first published in 1847), renowned for its brightly coloured Mondrian-like illustrations, finds a predecessor in this work, which, although on an altogether very different, practical mathematical subject, already contains tables with typical hand-coloured squares.…
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