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Aegyptiaca, et dekaphylon. Sive, de aegyptiacorum sacrorum cum Hebraicis collatione libri tres....

Aegyptiaca, et dekaphylon. Sive, de aegyptiacorum sacrorum cum Hebraicis collatione libri tres. Et de decem tribubus Israelis liber singularis. Accessit diatribe de legione fulminatrice Christianorum, sub Imperatore Marco Aurelio Antonino. Editio secunda,

by WITSIUS, Hermann

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Amsterdam: Gerardus Brostius, 1696. Second Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to pp. [16], 492. Includes extra engraved title page. Library stamp on main title accompanied by a second perforated library stamp near the printer's device. The outer edges to the first few prelims are slightly worn. Pages are generally clean with occasional mild marginal spotting. A small piece is missing from bottom margin of the final leaf. Page 492 is a bit soiled. Bound in brown library buckram; title and shelf number in gilt on the spine; pocket on inside front cover. Hermann Witsius (1636-1708) was a Dutch theologian and a professor of divinity at Franeker (1675), Utrecht (1680), and Leiden (1698). [EB11]. His Aegyptiaca (first printed in 1683) compares the religious rites of the Jews and the Egyptians. He argues against the theory put forth by Sir John Marsham and by John Spencer that Jewish traditions were derived from Egyptian practices. This second edition has been expanded from the first.… Read More
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All of us are dying and other stories.

All of us are dying and other stories.

by JOHNSON, George Clayton

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Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. (236 mm) pp. [2], 463, [3]. Limited edition #66 of 600, signed on the half title by George Clayton Johnson, Dennis Etchison and Christopher Conlon. Bound in cream publisher's cloth with dust jacket. As new. Binding and jacket show hardly any wear. Interior pages are clean. "George Clayton Johnson has written for the likes of the 'Twilight Zone' (both the television show and the movie), 'Star Trek', and co-wrote the novel 'Logan's Run'. This mammoth retrospective collection includes more than a dozen classic stories; teleplays from TZ and the 'Law and Mr. Jones'; television story treatments for an unproduced ST episode and a weekly series inspired by 'Frankenstein'; a full-length unproduced fantasy screenplay; a movie treatment on the death of H.P. Lovecraft; and thousands upon thousands of words of original fiction written especially for this volume, including the autobiographical short novel, 'Every Other War'… Read More
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American phrenological journal and repository of science, literature, and general intelligence.

American phrenological journal and repository of science, literature, and general intelligence.

by FOWLER, O.S. and L.N. (Editors)

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New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1851. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to or small folio size. Volumes XIII-XIV. And Volume XV, No. I. (The complete year of 1851 plus one extra issue - January 1852). Volume XIII (Jan. - Jun.) pp. iv, 144. Volume XIV (Jul. - Dec.) pp. 140. Volume XV, No. I, pp. 24.With many wood engraved illustrations. Bound in quarter sheep with marbled boards. Spine and covers are well rubbed and worn. Outer hinges and head caps are professionally restored; board corner tips are neatly repaired. Interior is foxed. Owner's name is written in an old hand in the margins of several pages. Upper marginal corners are chipped on pp. 41-44 (Vol. XIV, No. II). The journal describes itself as "devoted to phrenology, physiology, magnetism, education, mechanism, agriculture, and to all those progressive measures which are calculated to reform, elevate, and improve mankind." Contains columns on a variety of subjects - human and animal phrenology, book reviews, mechanics… Read More
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Annales sacri et ex profanis praecipui ab orbe condito ad eumdem Christi passione redemtum...
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Annales sacri et ex profanis praecipui ab orbe condito ad eumdem Christi passione redemtum /auctore Augustino Torniello…quos nuper Augustinus Maria Negri…additis commentariis, in re historica simul, et chronologica emendare, illustrare, ac perficere studuit.

by TORNIELLI, Agostino

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Lucca: Leonardi Venturini 1756-1757, 1756. Hardcover. See Description. Revised and extended edition. Tall folios. 4 volumes. Volume I., pp. [12], xciv, [2], 546. Volume II., pp. [2], 559, [1]. Volume III., pp. [2], 557, [1]. Volume IV., pp. [2], 520. Double column text in Latin. With 21 full page illustrations (mostly in volume II) depicting maps, floor plans, architecture, clothing and religious objects described in the Hebrew Scriptures. Several illustrations are also included with the text. The title page to volume I is printed in red and black, and displays a vignette. …Bound in full period vellum showing rubbing and wear. Spine caps and areas along the board edges are carefully restored. Interior pages show general wear and stress. A few minor marginal tears are neatly sealed. A very faint diagonal stress line (not a full crease) appears in the upper quarter of the leaves; as if, at some period, the text blocks had been bent. Age-toning/browning, scattered foxing and periodic uniform… Read More
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Ansichten der nature, mit wissenschaftlichen Erläuterungen.

Ansichten der nature, mit wissenschaftlichen Erläuterungen.

by HUMBOLDT, Alexander Von

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Stuttgart und Tubingen: J.S. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1849. Hardcover. See Description. Third Revised Edition. 8vo. 2 vols. Vol. I. pp. XVII, 362. Vol. II. pp. [2], 407, [1]. Half calf with marbled boards. Gilt spines - re-capped. Library stamp on top and bottom edges of the book block as well as on the bottom margin of the second page in each volume. Light discoloration on inner rear paste downs where tags were removed. Memorial book plates on inside front covers. Scattered foxing. Alexander von Humboldt (1769 -1859) famous natural scientist and traveler who made significant contributions in physical geography and plant morphology.The "Ansichten der Natur" (first published in 1808) was Humboldt's favorite work. Late in life Humboldt worked on this substantially revised third edition. The book is based on his researches in South and Central America and contains chapters on the steppes and deserts; on the waterfalls of the Orinoco River (Venezuela); on nocturnal animal life in the… Read More
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Archaeologia: or, miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity, published by the Society of...

Archaeologia: or, miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity, published by the Society of Antiquaries of London. Volume XXXVII.

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London: J.B. Nichols and Sons, 1857. Hardcover. See Description. Tall 4to. pp. viii, [2], 508. Volume XXVII. 12 plates including several in color and 2 folding maps (one map is folded in six sections and backed with thin gauze or mull). B&W illustrations with the text. Pages are generally clean with a couple small marginal tears. Light brown cloth; re-backed preserving part of the original spine (minus 25mm at the tail and 15mm at the top). Inner hinges neatly strengthened. Some rubbing and wear; corners bumped. Contents include: An accound of the discovery of Anglo-Saxon remains at Kemble, in North Wilts; On choirs and chancels, particularly as to their use in the South of Europe; Remarks on some early churches in France and Switzerland, partly in the time of Charlemagne; The City of Cumae and the recent excavations there; An account of the investigation of some remarkable circular trenches, and the discovery of an ancient British cemetery, at Stanlake, Oxon.; The Burning and burial of the… Read More
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Argonauticon libri octo, cum notis integris Ludovici Carrionis, Laurentii Balbi Liliensis, Justi...

Argonauticon libri octo, cum notis integris Ludovici Carrionis, Laurentii Balbi Liliensis, Justi Zinzerlingi, Christophori Bulaei, Gerardi Vossii et Nicolai Heinsii […] curante Petro Burmanno, qui & suas adnotationes adjecit.

by VALERIUS FLACCUS, Caius

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Leiden: Samuelem Luchtmans, 1724. Hardcover. See Description. Second and best Burmann edition. 4to. pp. [154], 760, [96]. With engraved frontispiece depicting the Argonauts. Title is printed in red and black with vignette medallion depicting an ancient rowing ship. Very faint library stamp in outer margin of title and on p. 101. Bound in attractive modern half calf with marbled boards and end papers. Original spine label is preserved. Interior is generally clean with periodic mild scattered foxing; occasional small tears are neatly sealed; some staining present on the bottom outer marginal corner of some leaves. Gaius Valerius Flaccus was a first century c.e. Roman poet. His surviving epic verse work, the "Argonauticon," describes the quest of Jason and the Argonauts for the legendary Golden Fleece. The work exists in eight books but was left incomplete by the author. This edition of the "Argonauticon" was edited by Pieter Burmann (1668-1741) a professor of History and Eloquence… Read More
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Atomismus demonstratus et vindicatus ab impugnationibus philosophico-theologicis reverendi...

Atomismus demonstratus et vindicatus ab impugnationibus philosophico-theologicis reverendi Admodum Patris Francisci Palanco, [.].

by SAGUENS, Joannes

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Tolouse: Dominici Desclassan, 1715. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to pp. [16], 538, [2]. Engraved frontispiece. Library blind stamp on title page and in margin of several leaves; ink stamp on bottom margin of frontispiece and inner margin of title. Interior contains scattered foxing, spotting and age-toning. A few marginal corners are clipped. Occasional minor tear neatly sealed. Bound in modern half brown calf with marbled boards. Juan Saguens, a scholar in the Order of Minims produced his "Atomismus demonstratus" in defense of Cartesian atomism. The book, written in dialogue form, was designed to counter the anti-Cartesian arguments of Francisco Palanco (1657-1720), a scholar also of the Order of Minims and a professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Salamanca. Palanco attacked Cartesian philosophy in the fourth tome of his work "Cursus Philosophicus" (Madrid, 1714). (See Randles, The Unmaking of the Medieval Christian Cosmos 1500-1760, p. 206).
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The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, and...

The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, and several cures of it. In three partitions [.] The eleventh edition corrected. To which is now first prefixed an account of the author.

by BURTON, Robert, (Democritus Junior)

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London: J Walker; R. Lea; J. Cuthell [et al.], 1813. Hardcover. See Description. Eleventh edition (1813 printing). 8vo. 2 volumes. Volume I, pp. xxiv, 121, [1], 461, [1]. Volume II, pp. [2], 612. Bound in full modern tan calf after period style with spine gilt in 6 compartments. Interior pages are generally very clean with occasional faint foxing. Robert Burton's psychiatric study "Anatomy of Melancholy" (first printed in London, 1621) is a learned work on various types of melancholia. The author, cites numerous authorities and includes much curious lore about customs, treatments, secrets of nature, psychology, witchcraft, dreams, sickness, demons, ghosts, and apparitions. Burton himself may have suffered from melancholia/depression. The 8th edition of Burton's book appeared in 1676. Authors such as Milton, Johnson and Sterne found inspiration with Burton. Nevertheless, in the 18th century the book fell into obscurity with no editions being issued. Interest in Burton's work increased during the… Read More
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