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How the stars and planets influence human destiny View picture(s) 1 PLANEET-BOECK, Het groote.- 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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Important work on astrology and medicine by an Italian Professor at Padua View picture(s) 2 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) 3 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) 4 FIRMIN DE BEAUVAL (BELLEVAL). 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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Prognostications for the last quarter of the 17th century View picture(s) 5 GODARD, Pierre. Manuel astronomic, ou introduction aux jugemens astrologiques, contenant un abregé succinct, positif & familier, tant des ephemerides pour le reste de ce present siècle, que des régles, observations, sentences, & pronostications qui en dépendent; pour servir, tant à la medecine, agriculture, & navigation, qu'aux horoscopes; sans neanmoins déroger au liberal arbitre, ny aux decrets de l'eglise Catholique. Auquel est ajouté un petit traité des talismans ou figures astrales, & de la poudre & de l'encre de sympathie. Le tout recüeilly de plusieurs excellens auteurs, tant anciens que modernes. Rouen, Jean Oursel, Jean Lucas, & Henry-François Viret, 1678. 2 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary vellum. 64 pages with astronomical tables, some woodcut tables and figures in the text and 1 woodcut with movable parts, woodcut head-pieces. (2), 32, (64 (tables)), 56 pp. Collation: [x]2-1, A-H2, *-3*2, [x]1, a-m2, n1, A-N2 (with some errors in signature at the end), N2. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Astrology  Astronomy & Cosmography  Medicine  Navigation  Occult  Science  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) 6 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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Rare and beautiful print-series of astrological allegories View picture(s) 7 LE ROY, HENRI & THOMAS LEU. Imagines Septem Planetarum. (Paris). Thomas Leu, (ca. 1610). Large 8vo. 19th century half green morocco, with gilt green morocco title-label on front cover. With richly engraved allegorical title by Thomas Leu, and 7 full-page engraved allegorical plates of the "Seven Planets" by Henri Le Roy, all tipped onto lvs. of strong pink paper. 8 lvs., versos blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Astrology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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At the threshold of modern science View picture(s) 8 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) 9 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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The world in emblems: best Latin edition of this famous encyclopaedia of symbols View picture(s) 10 PICINELLO, Filippo. Mundus symbolicus, in emblematum universitate formatus, explicatus, et tam sacris, quam profanis eruditionibus ac sententiis illustratus: subministrans oratoribus, prædicatoribus, academicis, poetism &c. innumera conceptuum argumenta ... nunc vero justo volumine auctus & in latinum traductus à r. d. Augustino Erath ... tomus primus [-secundus]. Cum quadruplici copiosissimo indice, lemmatum, applicationum, rerum notabilium, et locorum S. Scripturae. . Cologne, Hermann Demen, 1694. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary blind ruled and panel-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, brass claps, red painted edges. Full-page engraved allegorical dated frontispiece by J.E. Löffler after A. Waldenmair, title to part 1 printed in red & black with engraved emblem by Löffler, that of part 2 in black with woodcut vignette, 21 respectively 13 half-page engraved emblems in beautiful cartouches in part 1 and 2, woodcut head- and end-pieces, woodcut initials. (52, incl. frontispiece and title), 740; (8), 276 [i.e. 266], (206, 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astrology  Astronomy & Cosmography  Emblem Books  Encyclopædic Works  Gemology  Latin  Mathematics  Mechanics  Metals  Natural History  Science  Scientific Instruments  Theology  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) 11 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 vol. 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) lvs. Collation: a-z8 (part 1, May 1505); 2a-2f8, 2g10 (part 2, August 1505). 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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Rare treatise on astronomy, prophecies and the 'anni climacterici', printed by Plantin View picture(s) 12 RANTZOVIUS (RANZOVIUS, RANTZAU), Henricus. Catalogus Imperatorum, Regum ac Principum qui astrologicam artem amarunt, ornarunt & exercuerunt. Antwerp, Christoph Plantin, 1580. Sm.8vo. Modern boards. With full-page table and woodcut circular horoscope with astronomical figures and annotations within a typographically printed text. 109, 3 (blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Astrology  Denmark  Humanists  Plantin  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The comet of 1664 View picture(s) 13 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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Astronomy in the service of perspective View picture(s) 14 SCULTETUS, Bartholomäus. Winckelige-wyzer, van de sonnevolgen, of leeringe van de uytwerckinge des derden deels der sterrekunst van alderley sonnevolgen. Dat is, hemelsche circulen en uuren-linien, hoe men deselve aen de opgerechte plattingen of muren, en in alderhande holle instrumenten, van den platten, klootschen en vermengeden vlackingen te zamen geset, konstelijck afteyckenen en vertoonen zal. Voornamentlijck na de geometrische grondt des afmetens aengestelt. Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1670. 4to. Contemporary parchment. With printer's device on the title and 81 geometrical engravings and two printed tables in the text. (18), 186 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astrology  Astronomy & Cosmography  Mathematics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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