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Important work on astrology and medicine by an Italian Professor at Padua View picture(s) 1 ARGOLI, Andreas. De diebus criticis et ægrorum decubitu libri duo. Padua, Paulus Frambottus, 1652. 4to. Contemporary publishers boards with title in ink on spine. With almost 230 woodcut diagrams. (8), 6, (2), 371 (109-112 unpag.), 1 blank, (11) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astrology  Italy  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Contemporary criticism to Nostradamus prophecies View picture(s) 2 COUILLARD, Antoine. Les contredicts du Seigneur du Pavillon, lez Lorris, en Gastinois, aux faulses & abbusifves propheties de Nostradamus, & autres astrologues. Adiousté quelques oeuvres de Michel Marot, fils de feu Clément Marot, prince des poètes Francois. Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1560. Small 8vo. 19th century Jansenist style red morocco, spine ribbed with title lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (JOLY). Woodcut printer's device on title. (6), 116, (8) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  France  Occult  Occult Sciences  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare and early work on astrology, meteorology and weather forecasting View picture(s) 3 FIRMIN DE BEAUVAL (FIRMINUS DE BELLAVALLE). Firmini repertorium de mutatione aeris, tam via astrologica, quam metheorologica, pristino nitori restitutum, per Philippum Iollainum Blereium, cum scholiis eiusdem. Paris, Jacques Kerver I, 1539. Folio (28 x 20 cm). 19th century half linen painted in red and black; spine with label lettered in gold; boards covered with marbled paper. With Kerver's printer's device with two cocks standing on either side of a little tree on a pedestal with his monogram, on the title (Silvestre 52); some nice criblé woodcut initials and many astrological tables in the text. (4), 79 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astrology  Meteorology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Treatise on comets inspired by the famous comet of 1811 View picture(s) 4 GRUITHUISEN, Franz von Paula. Ueber die Natur der Kometen, mit Reflexionen auf ihre Bewohnbarkeit und Schicksale - Bey Gelegenheit des Kometen von 1811. Munich, Ignatz Joseph Lentner, 1811. 8vo. Contemporary half-leather, red title-label, red edges. With aquatint frontispiece showing 5 illustrations above a 2-line verse by Schiller, 3 folding engraved plates, 2 folding letterpress tables. 368 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Astrology  Astronomy  Astronomy & Cosmography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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At the threshold of modern science View picture(s) 5 MAZZOTTA, Benedetto. De triplici philosophia naturali, astrologica, et minerali. In quibus differit cohaerenter de elementis, & varijs mixtorum proprietatibus. Possibilitate corporis physici cpmpleti non compositi. Productione mundi temporanea, & eius possibilitate ab aeterno. Compositione continui ex solis indivisibilibus finitis, & probaliter ex inflatis. Productione substantiae. Infinito. Intensione. Rarefactione, & condensatione. De modo formandi veros colores Lapidum pretiosorum. Specula ustoria, & praeparandi lapidem luminosum. De metheoris omnibus. Metallorum natura, & transmutatione, rebusque mineralibus, aliique; arcanis chymicis. Effectibus planetarum iuxta varias eorum configurationes, eclipsibus, & magnis coniunctionibus, alijsque causis coelestibus, & novis, praeter communes, planetarum aspectibus, & eorum significatis; alijsque quaestionibus naturalibus, astrologicis, & mineralibus. Opus theol. phil. medicis, chymicis, & astrologis iucundum, ac simul utile. Bologna, Io. Baptista Ferroni, 1653. 4to. Contemp. bound in a vellum leaf of a mediaeval musical manuscript. With large allegorical woodcut of the requisites of natural scientists and alchemists on title, richly engraved allegorical frontispiece with flying cherubs and little naked children paying honour to the tree of knowledge comprising the coat of arms of Bologna, signed Il Coriolano, some astronomical woodcut figures and engravings in text, full-page engraved plate with illustrations of celestial fire, some woodcut tables, one full-page, of the signs of the Zodiac and numerous small astrological signs in text in the last part. (10, 2 blank), 148, 252 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Astrology  Astronomy & Cosmography  Occult  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On magic, astronomy and occult matters View picture(s) 6 PERERIUS VALENTINUS, Benedictus. Adversus fallaces & superstitiosas artes, id est, de magia, de observatione somniorum, & de divinatione astrologica. Libri tres. Lyon, H. Cardon, 1603. Contemporary limp vellum, title in ink on spine, traces of ties. With large woodcut vignette on title, title-page printed in red and black, woodcut headpiece and initials. (10), 253, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astrology  Jesuits  Occult Sciences  Superstition  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldus edition of the collected works of one of the most important Italian humanists View picture(s) 7 PONTANUS, Joannes Jovianus (Giovanni PONTANO). Opera. Urania, sive de Stellis libri quinque. Meteororum liber unus. De Hortus Hesperidum libri duo. Lepidina sive postorales pompae septem. Item Meliseus. Maeon Acon. Hendeca syllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim. Quae vero in tot opere habeantur in Indice, qui in calce est, licet videre.  Venice, Aldus Manutius, (May-August 1505). 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern speckled brown calf in 16th-century style, frontcover with Aldus' printer's device stamped in gold, ribbed spine lettered in gilt. Title and final page with Aldus' woodcut printer's device. [242] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  Humanism  Italy  Meteorology  Post Incunabula  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The comet of 1664 View picture(s) 8 RICHTERN, Christophorus. Berichtendes Send-Schreiben vom Cometen, so in Christmonat des 1664. Christen-Jahres ist erschienen: darinnen derselbige Astronomicè, Physicè, Astrologicè, Theologicè, betrachtet und erkläret wirt. Leipzig, Ritzsch, 1665. 4to. Modern boards. With a woodcut of a comet on the title-page. (12) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astrology  Astronomy  Pamphlets  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How the stars and planets influence human destiny View picture(s) 9 [ASTROLOGY]. Het groote planeet-boeck. Met de geomanci, physiognomi ende chyromanci. Alles uit Platone, Ptolomeo, Hali, Albimaser, ende Johannes Konincxberger, op het kortste ende vlytigste te samen getogen. Eenen yegelijcken tot goet, dat quaet te middelen, ende het goet aen te nemen. Nu wederom ten twaalfde mael verbetert, en met schoone figuren verciert. Amsterdam, Widow of Gysbert de Groot, 1700. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut portrait of an astronomer on title, and over 250 woodcuts in text, depicting star-constellations, illustrations to the months, various types of heads and hands, etc., title and leaf 4v printed in red and black. 147, (1) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astrology  Astronomy & Cosmography  Popular Books  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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