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Before Copernicus, before Galileo: Cosmography at the origins of modern science.
This 1574 Anversese edition of Pierre Apian's Cosmographia, revised, corrected, and expanded by Gemma Frisius, is one of the cornerstone works in the development of modern science. Even before the

Astrology, Astronomy - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Petri Apiani - Cosmographia - 1574

The Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum (Vicenza, 1491) is considered the first Latin herbal printed in the Veneto region, a milestone in the history of medicine and pharmacology. It draws on Galen, Pliny, Mesue, Avicenna and Averroes.

This prestigious facsimile was produced by

Medicine, Botany, Incunabula & early printing - Quantity: 2 - Slipcase - Book

Tractatus de virtutibus herbarium-Facsimile of the 1491 Vicenza incunabulum - Edizioni Valdonega, - Attributed to Arnaldus de Villanova / - 2008

Ancient Geography: The Orbis Terrarum that illustrated the world known to the Romans.
Numerous hand-painted initials in red and blue. This geographical compendium, printed in Florence in 1519 by the heirs of Filippo Giunta, presents ancient geography as one of the great

History, Incunabula & early printing - Quantity: 1 - Hand coloured illustrations - Book

Pomponio Mela - [Post Incunable] De Situ Orbis - 1519

Beautiful colored woodcuts, heightened with egg-white of two Merluccius fish. Published in Ulisse Aldrovandi's "De Piscibus Libri V".

Bologna, N. Thebaldinum, 1638.
Dimensions: 35,4 x 23,6 cm.

Good condition, some shine-through.


Ornithology - Quantity: 1 - Book

Ulisse Aldrovandi - De Piscibus Libri V - 1638

Italian scriptorium of the Middle Ages 
- Breviary illuminated single leaf on vellum Italy initial with burnished gold and colours -  ca.  1460.
Latin manuscript on parchment, 15th century, ca. 1460 A.D. Writing in dark brown and red ink, with 2 two-line decorative initial in

Quantity: 1 - Manuscript

Italian scriptorium of the Middle Ages - Breviary illuminated leaf on vellum Italy 2 initials with burnished gold and colours - 1450

Abrahami Couleii Angli, Poemata Latina: in quibus continentur sex libri plantarum, viz. duo herbarum, duo florum, duo sylvarum. Et unus miscellaneorum. - Abrahami Couleii Angli [Abraham Cowley] (1618-1667)

London: Typis M. Clark, Impensis Jo. Martyn, 1678. [27], 343, [13] pages.

Poetry, Philosophy - Quantity: 1 - Book

Abrahami Couleii Angli [Abraham Cowley] (1618-1667) - Abrahami Couleii Angli, Poemata Latina: in quibus continentur sex libri plantarum, viz. duo - 1678

Velin / parchment - 17 x 10.5 cm.
This 16th-century leaf comes from a Latin Book of Prayers that was printed in 1502 in France by Vostre. For 1497, the Books of Hours were handwritten; this leaf comes from a book that was printed.

This is a leaf on velin (thin parchment - animal

Illustrated, Religion - Quantity: 1 - Book

Vostre - Leaf from a book of hours, printed on vellum - 1502

Enormous choral manuscript, front and back, with gold initials on parchment.
Large sheet from a liturgical choir manuscript on parchment, written on both sides and enriched with a refined decorative apparatus. 9 initials decorated in gold leaf and colors, enhanced by gold leaf

Quantity: 1 - Hand coloured illustrations - Manuscript

AA. VV. - Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment - 1640

Full brown morocco binding with restored spine that presents 5 raised bands and gold tooling. Wormholes to the front board and defects to the hinges with restoration to the spine. Edges speckled and somewhat dirty. 

1 white leaf, [5] unpaginated leaves, 808, [3], 2 white leaves.

History - Quantity: 1 - Book

R.P. Ottone Aicher - Historia quartae monarchiae sacra et profana [...] - 1691

Author / Illustrator: Johann Piscator.
Edition: Antiquarian edition – 17th century.
Language: Latin.
Original language: Yes.
Publisher: Herborn (Germany), 1608.
Binding: period parchment.
Extras: old handwritten annotations.
Description.
Very rare Protestant theological work from

Religion - Quantity: 1 - Book

Ioannes Trucatior - Analysis Logica Evangelii Secundum Lucam - 1608

A lot of seven early editions - two Spanish language and five Latin language early editions of tales by Beatrix Potter (British, 1866 - 1943).

PLEASE GO THROUGH ALL PHOTOS before bidding, the photos are detailed and comprehensive, showing the true condition of the books! 

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Children's books - Quantity: 7 - Book

Beatrix Potter - Lot of 7 Spanish and Latin Early Editions - 1963-1987

Three works of Protestant theology:

De Ratione Legendi cum Fructu Auctores.
Amandi Polani à Polansdorf.
De Ratione Legendi Cum Fructu Autores, Inprimis Sacros: & dignoscendi in illis proposita, themata & argumenta.
Tractatus.
Cui adjuncta est Analyfis Logica & Exegesis

Amandus Polanus - De ratione legendi - De Christi Servatoris  - Perspicva et Orthodoxa LIII. - 1592-1611

Enormous choral manuscript, front and back, with gold initials on parchment.
A large parchment leaf, originating from a liturgical choral manuscript on parchment, written on both sides and adorned with a refined decorative apparatus. The leaf features eight initials decorated in

Prompta Library of Canon Law, Juridical, Moral, Theological, and also Ascetic, Polemical, Rubricistic, and Historical.
3 books I–III with 10 volumes I–X.
From Admiral R. P. F. Lucii Ferraris.
You are bidding on an interesting edition from the publisher Typis Modesti Fentii

Religion - Quantity: 3 - Book

Adm. R. P. F. Lucii Ferraris - Prompta Bibliotheca Canonica,Juridica,Moralis,Theologica Nec Non Ascetica, Polemica, - 1778

An interesting bilingual edition of the two poems: Two Destinies, the War and the Return, Achilles and Ulysses.
This seventeenth-century edition of Homer's works, printed in Amsterdam by Johann Ravestein, returns the founding poet of the West according to an editorial structure

Poetry - Quantity: 2 - Book

Omero - Opera Omnia - 1650

For sale are three very rare astronomical works:

"Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque Astrolabii" from 1594.

‘Astrolabii Declaratio eiusdemque usus’ from 1594.

"The New Theory of the Planets" from 1601.

All three works are richly illustrated and contain numerous woodcuts depicting

Astronomy - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Johannes Stöffler - Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii - 1594-1601

Lot Title: Wolff, Christian – Elements of Universal Mathematics (Volume Five)

Description:
An individual exemplar of Tomus Quintus (Volume 5) of the famous mathematical encyclopedia by Christian Wolff (Freiherr von Wolff), one of the most influential figures of the German

Mathematics - Quantity: 1 - Book

Christiani Wolfii - Elementa Matheseos Universae. Tomus Quintus - 1752

PHAEDRI, AUG.
LIBERTI.
FABULARUM.
AESOPIARUM.
LIBRI V.
Cum integris Commentariis.
MARQ. GUDII, CONR. RITTERSHUSII.
NIC. RIGALTII, IS. NEVELETI.
NIC. HEINSII, JOAN. SCHEFFERI.
JO. LUD. PRASCHII.
& excerptis aliorum.
Curante.
PETRO BURMANNO.
HAGAE-COMITUM.
Apud HENRICUM SCHEURLEER.

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Petro Burmanno - Phaedri, Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarium - 1718

A foundational text: one of the earliest Latin translations of the work of Homer.
The Works of Homer in the translation by Raffaele Volterrano represent one of the earliest Homeric anthologies available in Latin.
In addition to Homer’s Odyssey, turned into Latin by Raphaël

Omero / Volterrano - [Post Incunable] Odysseae / Βατραχομυομαχία [Batrachomyomachia] - 1528

LIVIO UNCOVERED IN THE MAGONZA FORESTS: A FIRST EDITION NEVER REPRINTED.
An extraordinary event for the humanists of the sixteenth century: the rediscovery in Mainz of new books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, previously unknown, culminates in this rare first edition, carefully

History - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Tito Livio - [Post-Incunable] Codice Moguntin - 1518

Jean Cabassut / Gerolamo Grimaldi / Abel Ludovicus de Sainte-Marthe / Claudius Lion: The Very Rev. Joannes Cabassutius Aquisextiensis, priest of the Congregation of the Oratory of the Lord Jesus, ecclesiastical knowledge, history of councils and canons mutually collated, ancient

History, Illustrated, Law, Religion, Politics - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jean Cabassut / Gerolamo Grimaldi / Abel Ludovicus de Sainte-Marthe / Claudius Lion - R.P. Joannis Cabassutij Aquisextiensis, Presbyteri Congregationis Oratorij Domini Iesu, notitia - 1685

[PSEUDO-JOACHIM OF FIORE; SAVONAROLA, ET AL.]. Mirabilis liber qui prophetias Revelationes ques necnon res mirandas preteritas presentes et futuras : aperte demonstrat. [Paris]: Au roy David en la rue Sainct Jacques, c. 1531. A book of prophecies, the first of its kind in France,

[PSEUDO-JOACHIM OF FIORE; SAVONAROLA, ET AL.] - Mirabilis liber qui prophetias Revelationes ques necnon res mirandas - 1531

Beautiful colored woodcuts, heightened with egg-white of a Barndoor-Skate fish. Published in Ulisse Aldrovandi's "De Piscibus Libri V".

Bologna, N. Thebaldinum, 1638.
Dimensions: 35,4 x 23,8 cm.

Good condition, some shine-through.



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