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16 pp.Hydrography pertains to the applied sciences that encompass the assessment and depiction of the natural characteristics of bodies of water, such as oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, and coastal regions. It also involves forecasting changes over time to guarantee safe navigation and support various marine-related activities, which include scientific research, environmental preservation, economic advancement, security, and defense. Offered here is a very rare Swedish eighteenth-century dissertation on the composition of hydrographic maps and their correct use. Its author, Olaf Friberg defines a hydrographic map as a projection of a part of a certain globe on a plane, adapted for the use of navigators. He explains that these type of maps are called reduced maps, in which the degrees of the parallels are smaller than the degrees of the meridian in a given ratio. Friberg was acutely aware of the problem of depicting the curved surfaces of the earth and its waters on flat maps. He exemplified his…
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Q.B.V. Dissertatio academica, de constructione et usu mapparum hydrographicarum, quam consentiente ampliss. senatu philosoph. in regia academia Upsaliensi, publico eruditorum examini modeste submittunt auctor Olavus Friberg et respondens Olavus Herwech. ad. fil. Vermelandi, In auditorio Carolino Marjori die III. Maji Anno MDCCXLIV.Uppsala, 1744. 4to. With 4 woodcut geometrical illustrations in the text, a large woodcut headpiece (with the words "constantia coronatur" in it) and one large woodcut decorated initial. Modern stiff (marbled?) paper boards with the title in gold on the spine.
by FRIBERG, Olavus and Olavus HERWECH.
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[Qanunceh (= Small canon)].[colophon: 1279 AH (= 1862 CE)]. (ca. 17.5 x 10.5 cm). Manuscript on paper, written in a cursive, Persian-Arabic script in 15 to 23 lines per page. With 1 leaf containing 8 hand coloured illustrations, with captions, of medical instruments (4 instruments on respectively the recto and verso of leaf 26). Contemporary brown calf, with blind-stamped decorations.
by [MANUSCRIPT - IBN SINA (AVICENNA)]. [Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar AL-GAMINI and others].
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[29] ll.Arabic manuscript containing the Arabic translation of Ibn Sinas Qanunsah ("Small canon"), originally written in Persian: a brief medical compendium compiled by the Khwarazmian polymath Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Gamini based on Ibn Sinas famous Qanun. This abridged manual of medicine is arranged in ten parts ("maqalat", or "discourses"), each containing several chapters. The first maqalat serves as a general introduction, dealing with the basic concepts of 14th century medical science and illustrating the various physical qualities (al-arkan) and body constitutions (al-amzigat), then focusing on the four Galenic humours (al-ahlat) - blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile - before discussing the parts of the body, the senses or faculties (al-quwá), and the preservation of ones natural temper (al-umur at-tabi iya). Further "discourses" treat anatomy, the various "conditions of the human body" ("ahwal badan al-insan"), the pulse, the "tafsira", or urine bottle given to the physician by…
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Qataban & Sheba. Exploring ancient kingdoms on the biblical spice routes of Arabia.London, Victor Gollancz, 1955. 8vo. With numerous photographic plates. Original publisher's cloth with dustjacket.
by PHILLIPS, Wendell.
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335 pp.First British edition of the narrative of an American archaeological expedition to Yemen, under the leadership of Wendell Phillips (1921-1975) which earned him the nickname "America's Lawrence of Arabia". After having successfully organised an expedition to various parts of Africa, Phillips turned his attention to southern Arabia, at the suggestion of the Aga Khan. After crossing out several candidate locations, Phillips decided to excavate in Ma'rib, in the western part of the Kingdom of Yemen, where he believed that the capital of the legendary Queen of Sheba was to be found. With the help of a large workforce of local inhabitants the expedition started work at Timna, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Qataban, and at nearby Hajar bin Humeid. With tensions increasing between the expedition and the local populace, the expedition as finally abandoned in 1952. Many of the excavated (or looted, according to the local population) items are now in the collection of the Smithsonian.Phillips…
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Quae exstant omnia, diligentissime emendata, et cum optimis editionibus collata, ut ex praefatione manifestum.Padua, Giuseppe Comino, 1736. 8vo. With engraved device on title-page, 5 woodcuts in text and woodcut arms above the colophon. Contemporary richly gold-tooled morocco (goatskin), each board with a large centre-piece in a panel design, gilt and gauffered edges, traces of clasps.
by MACROBIUS, Theodosius Ambrosius.
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XXXIX, [1], 640, 85, [2], [1 blank] pp.Collected works of the Roman author Macrobius, active in the fifth century, in contemporary richly gold-tooled morocco. "The basis is the text of Gronovius,
The notes of Pontanus and Obsopoeus are added, with an account
of the use of the works of Macrobius, and of the best editions of his text" (Dibdin).With the bookplate of Cornelius J. Hauck. Binding slightly rubbed and part of the tooling oxidized, but otherwise still good. Internally in very good condition.l Brunet III, col. 1286; Graesse IV, p. 330; ICCU 008758; cf. Dibdin II, p. 221 (1737 Padua ed.).
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Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or the reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments.London, S. & J. Fuller, 1815 [-1819]. Oblong folio (25 x 34.4 cm). With engraved title-page, 7 hand-coloured engraved plates by Alken, including plate 5 with a J. Whatman 1819 watermark. Later red hard-grained half morocco, spine and front board lettered in gold. Re-backed preserving the original spine.
by ALKEN, Henry.
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First edition, early issue. The first of Alken's works to have a title-page, "lacking from a great many copies" (Dixon). Signed Ben Tally Ho, the title explains with good humour that the plates are a reply to Robert Frankland's Indispensable accomplishments, a set of 6 Leicestershire hunting prints published in June 1811. Where Frankland blames the horse for any failures, Alken aims to show how a perfectly good horse can be handicapped by an "unqualified" or untrained rider.Light browning to sky areas and plate margins, with the bookplate of Alfred N. Beadleston.l Dixon 4 (noting 2 plates watermarked 1819); Mellon 3; Schwerdt I, 20 (1813 watermark); Siltzer 69 & 74; Tooley, Some English books with coloured plates 44 (dating it 1819).
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Quieta solitudine di varii ragionamenti, discorsi, et concetti, ove si narra quattro navigationi ... Bologna, Alessandro Benacci, 1587. Small 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Giovanni Luigi Scappi, elaborately helmed, crested and mantled, on the title-page, a woodcut tailpiece (plus 1 repeat), woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series), decorations built up from cast typographic ornaments. Goatskin morocco (ca. 1870/80?), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, signed in foot of front turn-in by the Paris bookbinders "DARLAUD FRÈRES", gold fillets on sides and board edges, combed curl-marbled endpapers, edges gilt over marbling, headbands worked in white and beige, and a yellow, red and green ribbon marker.
by CIGNANO, Ludovico.
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166 pp.First and only edition of a fascinating combination of Italian Renaissance travel account, literature and philosophy. The publication is rare and hardly appears in the literature, so it is little known and provides a wealth of curious information. Real and imaginary stories of mercantile voyages to the East are combined with philosophical reflections on travel, in an endeavour to lift travel to a higher philosophical level. There are seven numbered chapters. The fourth chapter lays out an extensive trade route from Italy to India that runs through the Arabian Peninsula, resembling the famous Silk Route. It names many Arabian locations including Aleppo, Mecca, Hormuz and Basra. The final destinations are the cities of Magalore and Canonore (Kannur) on the Indian west coast, which are reached via Cambaia (Khambhat). Another chapter tells the story of a mercantile voyage by ship to China, with a stopover in India. The traveller describes a stay of several days in Calicut (Kozhikode), where they…
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