Search Results: Titles starting with R from Edmund Brumfitt Rare Books Ltd

4to, pp. [viii], xxviii, 194, 138; with two folding leaves of plates; engraved vignette on title-page and engraved headpiece, both by Eisen; prelims misbound, but complete, tear to lower corner of b1, not affecting text, and some spotting and foxing, mainly marginal; in contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, gilt morocco lettering-piece; some wear, especially to joints and extremities.
First Paris printing, in the same year as the Berlin first, but unlike the Berlin issue also including the original Latin text of d'Alembert's prize essay, of this important essay on wind patterns and tides.
"In 1747 d'Alembert published two more important works, one of which, the Réflexions sur la cause générale des Vents, won a prize from the Prussian Academy. In it appear the first general use of partial differential equations in mathematical physics. Euler later perfected the techniques of using these equations . D'Alembert's treatise on winds was the only of his works honoured by a… Read More

4to, pp. xxiv; woodcut vignette of St Andrew Avellino on title-page; occasional spotting, but largely clean and fresh throughout; manuscript note, sporadically legible, in a contemporary hand on inside of upper wrapper, and printed names of authors pasted in at foot of p. xx; in contemporary brocade wrappers; light wear but an attractive copy.
Very rare set of rules for a congregation of secular priests established under the patronage of St Andrew Avellino at the Milanese church of San Giovanni sopra il muro, 'regolata da soli Confratelli Ecclesiastici'.
Although, as article II of the rules tells us, the congregation itself will only admit clerics, lay people, both men and women, can be associated with it, although they would obviously only be allowed to play a very small role in its affairs (essentially, to participate in indulgences). The Regole prescribe the celebration of the patronal festival and the associated requiem masses for dead members, benefactors, and their parents, before setting out… Read More

4to, pp. [xvi], 52; woodcut device of the Confraternity on title-page, woodcut initial on p. 1; aside from a couple of light marginal stains, clean and fresh throughout; stamp of the Fürstenberg library at Donaueschingen on verso of title-page; in slightly later vellum, boards with gilt borders; some wear and staining, especially to lower cover.
First edition, rare, of the statutes and rules governing the newly established Archconfraternity of the Holy Name of Mary.
The confraternity was formally approved in 1688, in the wake of the establishment of the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary by Pope Innocent XI in celebration of the victory over the Turks in the second siege of Vienna in 1683. A cult devoted to the Holy Name made its home in 1685 at the Roman church of San Stefano del Cacco, under its founder, the Sylvestrine monk Giuseppe Bianchi; it was to move firstly, in 1684, to the church of San Bernando, which was swiftly deemed to be too small, and was replaced with a new building, now dedicated to… Read More