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RARE THIRD EDITION OF THE GREEK TEXT AND SECOND EDITION TO INCLUDE THE LATIN TRANSLATION.GALEN. De humoribus liber nunquam antehac typis excusus, & nunc primum ex Graeco in Latinum sermonem ita conversus, a Bernardo Bertrando Rhegino ... ut facile Graecis Latina conferri possint.Strasbourg, Apud Samuelem Emmel, 1558.FIRST EDITION of Rheginus' Latin translation. 8vo, text in Greek and Latin translation by Bernardus Rheginus. 43 unnumbered pages. Final diagrams. Some browning to the initial leaves. Later semi-limp vellum.Rare third edition of the Greek text after the first one of 1555 (Paris), which included a Latin translation by Nicolaus Vigoreus, and the second of 1557 (Strasbourg), which contained the Greek text only.This is the work usually known as the De humoribus, generally considered spurious; it is not to be confused with and is not included in the probably genuine work of Galen, In Hippocratis De humoribus librum commentarii tres. Cf. Kühn's edition of Galen, v. 1, p. clxiii; v. 16, p.… Read More

"EPPUR SI MUOVE": A LOVELY COPY OF GALILEO'S CELEBRATED "DIALOGO" IN THE SECOND EDITION.
GALILEI, Galileo. Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo Matematico Supremo (…) Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano (…)
Florence [i.e. Naples], Tartini e Franchi, 1710.
4to, 2 parts in 1 volume; ff. [6], pp. 458, ff. [15]; ff. [1], pp. 84; with numerous illustrations in the text. Both parts with individual t-p, being the first title printed in red and black. the second part opens with a letter to the Gran Duchess of Tuscany. Contemporary full stiff vellum, ms. title to spine. Sporadic marginal spotting, short tear along rear hinge at the head of the spine. All edges sprinkled in blue. Original endpapers. An excellent copy.
Second Italian edition of "Dialogo sopra i due massimi Sistemi del Mondo", which first appeared in 1632 in Florence.
The work "was designed both as an appeal to the great public and as an escape from silence... it is a… Read More

A BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION COPY WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE GREAT BIBLIOPHILE HORACE DE LANDAU.
PROUST, Marcel. Les Plaisirs et les jours. Illustrations de Madeleine Lemaire. Preface d'Anatole France. Quatre pieces pour piano de Reynaldo Hahn.
Paris, Calmann Levy, 1896.
FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [2], X, 271 pp., [2]; with 14 plates out of the text and several illustrations in the text. Landau's bookplate. Beautiful dedication on the initial blank by Proust to Baron Landau: "A Monsieur Horace de Landau, comme un hommage de ma respecteuse, admirative et reconnaisante amitié Marcel Proust". Contemporary binding in half purple morocco, publisher's printed wrappers preserved. Pasteboard slipcase. Fine copy.
Horace de Landau was an important 19th century banker and a great collector and bibliophile. Part of his famous library was donated to the city of Florence, the other was auctioned by Hoepli in 1945.
The work is a collection of poems and prose on the world of the Parisian salons and cultural… Read More

"DEUS SIVE NATURA"B.d.S. [Benedict de SPINOZA]. Opera Postuma, Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur.[Amsterdam], 1677, [Jan Rieuwertsz].FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [40], 614, [32]; [2], 112, [8]. Without the engraved frontispiece portrait, found in only a very small number of copies and probably not originally issued with this edition. Woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. Woodcut vignette on title, decorative woodcut tail-piece and initials. Negligible withdrawal stamp of German university library on t-p and verso. Early C20th binding in half calf and decorated paper. Light soiling to t-p. Internally crisp, fresh and clean. A good copy.First edition of Spinoza's posthumous works, which "have served, then and since, with the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, to immortalize his name" (PMM). It includes his influential Ethica, more geometrico demonstrata, the work which established Spinoza's reputation as a rationalist and "atheist." It is considered the first systematic exposition of pantheism… Read More

THREE RARE EDITIONES PRINCIPES, INCLUDING AESCHYLUS' COMPLETE PLAYS, PUBLISHED BY ESTIENNE AND BOUND IN A MAGNIFICENT RENAISSANCE BLIND-TOOLED CALF BINDING.The volume contains three very important Estienne imprints. It is bound in very well-preserved contemporary full blind-tooled calf, showing elaborate concentric borders on the covers and a contemporaneous, or nearly contemporaneous addition, on the central panel, of blind-stamped fleurons, floral centrepiece and two monograms (initials "A.M." - as yet unidentified) topped by a crown within ovals. The spine was skilfully restored in some points. There are metal pieces for protection nailed along the fore-edge of the board's corners and towards the hinges. The works contained in the volume are:POLÉMON, Marcus Antonius. Polemonis, Himerii, & Aliorum quorundam declamationes, nunc primùm edita.[Geneva], Excudebat Henr. Stephanus, 1567.EDITIO PRINCEPS. 4to, pp. [4], 91, [1] ("Henrici Stephani annotatiunculae in eos declamationum Polemonis & Himeriilcos… Read More

SMALLPOX VACCINE: EARLY OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS.Risultati di osservazioni e sperienze sull'inoculazione del vajuolo vaccino institute nello Spedal Maggiore di Milano dalla commissione medico-chirurgica superiormente delegata a questo oggetto.Milan, Dalla tipografia di Luigi Veladini, Anno X [i.e. 1802].FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 8, 224 pp., original printed wrappers, untrimmed with deckled edges. Small 19th-c. stamp of the Biblioteca Civica di Bergamo at foot of t-p with faded withdrawal stamp aside, old paper library label at foot of spine. Fine copy, crisp and clean throughout.An early Italian work on Jennerian vaccination. Preface signed by G. Locatelli, et al. A charming copy of this report of the findings of a commission appointed to investigate Jenner's cowpox vaccine. Chapters are on: description of smallpox vaccine and its variations; false smallpox vaccine and how to recognise it; causes of the false smallpox vaccine; qualities and features of the disease and the vaccination;… Read More