Search Results: Authors starting with A from Alessandro Borgato

some defects to title-page, stains to white margin of first leaves, marginal ink stains to last leaves, overall a good copy in attractive binding.
Rare edition of this work by Paulus Aegineta, the only work by the author that survived. With a concise exposition of the information taken from the manuals of the major "masters of arts", he succeeded in enclosing in a book of modest size much of the medical knowledge of the Greco-Roman era.
The work contains a rather extensive discussion of topics divided as follows:
-the art of preserving health;
-treatise on fevers (or diseases of similar parts);
-internal ailments;
-external ailments;
-sores, bites, poisons;
-surgery;
-simple and compound medicines.
The topics covered are extremely summarized, but not for this reason unclear.
Paul of Aegina (Aegina, 625? - 690?) was a Byzantine physician. He represents the last important exponent of Greco-Roman medicine and is to be considered as the "bridge" between the latter and medieval medicine. The first… Read More

Fully illustrated by 145 nice full-page copper engravings throughout the text; interesting provenance: Antonio Gambarotta manuscript ex libris on title-page.
Rare second edition (the first one published in 1627) of what is probably the least common work by Prospero Alpino, postumously published by his son Alpino Alpini.The author carefully studied the flora of Crete (information on plants from other areas was later incorporated into the manuscript, which was edited by his son Alpino and completed in 1614); data concerning some of these plants were obtained by examining specimens grown from seeds sent to Alpini, for a total of 156 plants, each illustrated by an engraving formed a notable contribution to Mediterranean floristics.
This is especially true of the flora of Crete: many of whose plants were described for the first time. The accuracy of Alpini's descriptions was demonstrated by A. Baldacci and P.A. Saccardo, who identified seventy-one of the eighty-five Cretan plants on which he reported.… Read More

One box (350 x 230 x 90 mm) and 32 booklets; the angles of the box are slightly worn, the overall coditions of the box and the collection are very good, considering the great fragility of these thin booklets and the scarcity of such an item.
Rare 118th century box entirely hand-painted in powder blue, with floral decorations in dark green, blue and antique pink on the sides.
The lid is also powder blue, but with a big rectangular straw-yellow shape in the middle, framed by the same floral decorations used on the sides. The booklets vary in dimensions and topics: most of them are religious themed, although among them can be found works of poetry, plays, and comedies composed for aristocratic weddings as well as annual accounts and political reviews, each one published in Italy during the 18th century.
The most interesting aspect of these pamphlets is in fact the paper they are bound in; the collection shows a wide range of 18th century decorative papers that vary in colours, patterns and thickness.… Read More

Both volumes with general slight signs of use, evenly slightly browned (due to the quality of the paper), else in good condition.
Very rare, attractive set of this account on the expeditions to the Argentinian Patagonia by the German Scientific Society.
The work is the result of the collaboration of several authors as Sr. Alfredo Kölliker, Dr. Franz Kühn, Dr. Fritz Reichert, Adolfo Tomsen and Dr. Lutz Witte, with the prologue of Dr. Cristóbal M. Hicken and the artistic contribution of Prof. Juan Jörgensen.
The German Scientific Society came up with the project of "promoting the knowledge about the Argentinian Republic", which led to several explorations starting from the lesser known lands, such as the Cordillera Patagonica, the mountain system in the Patagonian region.
The first account on the expedition to the Cordillera Patagonica was published in 1915 in a German scientific journal. It was very obvious at that point that one single expedition wasn't enough, given the geographical and… Read More

Missing plate 54, plates 55 and 57 are loose and apparently come from another copy with thinner margins, very slight spots and foxing throughout especially to first leaves and last one leaf, slight large waterstain from the top, else a clean large copy in good condition.
A spectacular, majestic work illustrating the magnificent decorations of the walls and the pavements discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum, that required the collaboration of many artists.
At page 6 there's a large engraved vignette illustrating the eruption of the Vesuvius with the inscription "Eruzione del Vesuvio 8 Agosto 1779 (Eruption of the Vesuvius 8th of August 1779)" engraved by Francesco Giomignani, after a painting by Pietro Fabris; the index lists all the plates present in the work: 67 plates for the ornati delle pareti (ornaments of the walls) and 46 for the pavimenti mosaicati (mosaic pavements).
Among the draughtsmen involved in the production are: Vincenzo Campana, Giovanni and Domenico Casanova, Giuseppe… Read More