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High school record incorporating a very rare mnemotechnical print-series View picture(s) 1 MANUSCRIPT NOTE-BOOK containing a course on physics, together with a letter-press table of contents of this course, an extensive engraved pictorial memory aid, and a letter-press list of names of students following the courses in philosophy and physics at the Jesuit College Aquicinctinus (Collège d'Anchin) in Douai. Douai, Widow of Balthazar Bellerus, Rector of the College Aquicinctinus, Guilielmo Le Vaillant, 1704. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, gilt binding edges. With large folding letter-press table, woodcut printer's device of the Widow of Balthazar Bellerus on title of the published list of names, and engraved print-series, consisting of a richly designed architectural title and 20 full-page finely engraved plates, each with numerous small illustrations to serve as a student's memory aid. 7, (1 blank) pp. for the Student's names list, (1), 20 lvs. for the print-series, and (2 blank, 106, 4 blank) lvs. for the manuscript note-book. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Jesuits  Philosophy  Physics  Print Series  Prints  Prints - 18th Century  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In praise of imaginary happy Australians View picture(s) 2 VOYAGE DE ROBERTSON, aux Terres Australes, traduit sur le manuscript Anglois. Amst. (=Paris), 1767. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt with red title-label. 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Australia & New Zealand  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Medieval view on India View picture(s) 3 (ACHILLINI, A.). Secreta secretorum Aristotelis. (Lyon), L. M(artin), 1528. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary blind-stamped tooled vellum over wooden boards, remnants of clasps. Title-page decorated with woodcut border, some woodcut initials and woodcut printer's device on verso last page. LXXXIII leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anatomy  Asia  Cartography  History  India  Medicine  Mineralogy  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Do animals have souls? View picture(s) 4 (BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinth). Amusement philosophique sur le langage des bestes. Paris, Gissey, Bordelet & Ganeau, 1739. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, gilt and decorated spine with title lettered in gold, gilt-stamped coat of arms of The Society of Writers to the Signet library on sides, gilt and decorated binding edges, marbled endpapers, red painted edges. Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut headpiece and initial. (4), 157, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  French  Jesuits  Medicine  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare first editions on the ethics of the famous Chinese thinker and social philiosopher Confucius (551-479 BC) View picture(s) 5 (FOUCHER, Simon?). Lettre sur la morale de Confucius, philosophe de la Chine. Amsterdam, Pierre Savouret, (1688). 8vo. Later (18th century?) calf, spine gilt and decorated in compartments, red title label, triple fillet borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, red painted edges and blue silk bookmarker. Frontispiece with engraved portrait of Confucius, woodcut headpiece. 45, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  China  French  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Printed for friends only View picture(s) 6 (HEMSTERHUYS, F.). Aristée, ou de la Divinité. Paris (= Haarlem), 1779. Small 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, spine richly gilt, with green title-label, with gilt fillet and ornamental borders on sides, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With 4 fine engraved allegorical vignettes printed in sepia after the author's own designs. X, 208 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A curious book by an Italian excentric View picture(s) 7 (LANDI, Ortensio). Questions diverses, et responces d'icelles. Divisees en trois livres assçavoir, questions d'amour, questions naturelles, questions morales & politiques. Nouvellement traduites de Tuscan en Françoys. Paris, Nicolas Bonsons, 1576. 16mo. 19th century orange morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, large gilt centreornaments on both covers, richly gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e., with matching slipcase, covered with marbled paper. With woodcut printer's device on title, and several woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. 178 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  French  Philosophy  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Biography and bibliography of Francis Bacon View picture(s) 8 (MALLET, David). Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de François Bacon, Grand-chancellier d'Angleterre. Londres (= Amsterdam?), Imprimerie de la Chancellerie & de la Trésorerie, 1742. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. Title in red and black  with engraved vignette with portraits of Bacon and Robert Walpole in medaillons, signed J.v.S. (16), 207, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliography  Biography  England  Philosophy  Politics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare auction catalogue View picture(s) 9 (TIRION, ISAAK). Catalogus librorum, Latinorum, Gallicorum, Anglicorum & Belgicorum: theologicorum, historicorum, philosophicorum & miscellaneorum. Accedit manuscriptorum collectio, de rebus in Belgia gestis. Quos reliquit Isaacus Tirion. Horum auctio fiet in aedibus defuncti ad diem 23 octobris & seq. 1769. in Platea (vulgo) de Kalverstraat. Catalogus van Latynsche, Fransche, Engelsche en Nederduitsche godgeleerde, historische, philosophische en poetische boeken waarbij komt een verzameling van handschriften betreffende de zaaken van Nederland..... Amsterdam, Cesar Noël Guerin, (1769). 8vo. Contemporary marbled wrappers. (4), 132 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Catalogues  History  Philosophy  Poetry  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In very intriguing binding with the monogram 'HD' surrounded with four 'Closed S's on both sides View picture(s) 10 (VIRGIL & OVID). (Elegantes Variorum Virgilio-Ovidio-centones de opificio mundi, Christo Deo, Deique Matre, SS Francisco et Car. Borromaeo ...) Munich, A. Bergia for Raphael Sadeler, 1617). Sm. 8vo. Contemporary black morocco, spine ribbed, with alternately a small gilt fleur-de-lis ornament and a gilt 'closed S' in the 6 compartments, and the gilt monogram 'HD' surrounded by four 'closed S'-s (possibly of Henri IV and Gabrielle d'Estrées?) in centre on both sides, marbled endpapers. 98 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Classical Antiquity  French  Neo-Latin  Philosophy  Provenance  Royalty  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Refreshing new insights and ideas View picture(s) 11 ABAT, Bonaventure. Amusemens philosophiques sur diverses parties des sciences, et principalement de la physique et des mathematiques. Amsterdam, Jean Mossy, 1763. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and compartments gilt with floral ornaments, marbled edges. 4 folding engraved plates with many figures, some woodcut head- and tailpieces. XXXII, 564, 4 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Philosophy  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two treatises on magic and the marvels of the Universe attributed to Albertus Magnus in a very rare Antwerp edition of 1502 View picture(s) 12 ALBERTUS MAGNUS (Pseudo-). [Liber aggregationibus] De virtutibus herbarum. De virtutibus lapidum. De virutibus animalium et mirabilibus mundi. Item parvum regimen sanitatis valde utile. Antwerp, Govaert Bac, 1502. 4to. Nineteenth-century polished calf with double gilt lines along the edges of both sides, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, gilt inner dentelles. With a full-page woodcut (115 x 84 mm) of a monk offering a book to a prince, repeated on the verso of the title; and full-page woodcut of the printer's device of Govaert Bac on the verso of the last leaf (133 x 84 mm): 'g [masters mark] b' cut within a birdcage on a black fond, with the coat of arms of Antwerp underneath (see NAT II, 5-6); rubricated in red throughout. 36 lvs. (Collation: a8, b4, c8, d4, e8, f4). 36 ll. to a page. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Medicine  Middle Ages  Mineralogy  Occult Sciences  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition of Apuleius' works, including a text attributed to Hermes Trismegistus View picture(s) 13 APULEIUS, Lucius & ALCINOUS and others, & ALCINOUS. Metamorphoseos, sive lusus Asini libri XI. Floridorum IIII. De Deo Socratis I. De Philosophia I. Asclepius Trismegisti Dialogus eodem Apuleio interprete. Eiusdem Apuleij liber de Dogmatis Platonicis. Eiusdem liber de Mundo, quem magna ex parte ex lib. Aristotelis eiusdem argumenti in latinum traduxit. ... Apologiae II. ALCINOUS, Isagogicus liber Platonicae philosophiae, Graece impressus. Nam commodius visi sumus facere, si hunc librum graecum imprimeremus, quam latinum, cum inepta tralatione cuiusdam Episcopi Ttropiensis (sic) barbarus esset. (Colophon: Venice, heirs of Aldus the Elder (Andrea Asulani & sons), May 1521). 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary richly blind ruled full calf with three blind tooled decorated rolls, red speckled edges. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. 266 (i.e. 264), (28) ff. [Collation: a-z8, A-K8 (Rom.), (1-3)8, (4)4 (Arab.)]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Bindings  Greek & Latin  Greek Printing  Philosophy  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Written for the benefit of mankind View picture(s) 14 BACON, Francis. Sermones fideles, ethici, politici, oeconomici; sive interiora rerum. Accedunt faber fortunae colores boni et mali, &c. Leyden, Franciscus Hackius, 1644. 2 works in one vol. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with two clasps, red edges. Engraved title. (2), 5-416, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Philosophy  Politics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First printing of rules for the lottery game View picture(s) 15 BALDERIC LE ROUGE. Chronicon Cameracense et Atrebatense, sive historia utrisque ecclesiae, III libris, ab hinc DC sere annis conscripta. Nunc primum in luce edita, & notis illustrata  Per G. Colvenerius. Douay, Ioan. Bogarde, 1615. Sm.8vo. Contemp. vellum. With engraved printer's vignette on title, 9 engraved illustrations of seals and dice in text, and 3 large folding  plates, 2 in woodcut and 1 engraved, showing three different playing boards for a lottery game. (40), 601, (1 blank, 16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Games & Pastimes  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare third edition of the first translation into Italian, with the coat of arms of the Gaetani family on both covers View picture(s) 16 BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius. Di consolatione philosophica volgare, nuovamente revisto & di molti errori porgato opera al tutto dignissima eccellente & bella. Don Anselmo Tanzo al pio lettore. Varie en le voglie, i stati & il valore ... (sonnet by A. Tanzo). Colophon: Venice, Marchio Sessa, December 1531. 8vo. 17th-century full green morocco, gilt title on spine, double gilt filets along edges and gilt central crowned coat-of-arms incorporating the arms of the GAETANI (or CAETANI) family on both sides, interesting paper pastedowns with stamped and coloured floral decoration, red painted edges. Title and fol. B1r within woodcut typographical border, some woodcut initials of which one historiated. (8), 104 lvs. [Collation: A-O8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition in the desirable large 4to issue of the Complete Works of one of the fathers of modern biology View picture(s) 17 BONNET, Charles. Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie. Collection complette des oeuvres de Charles Bonnet. Neuchatel, Samuel Fauche, 1779-83. 8 vols. 4to. Uniformly bound in full contemporary calf, richly gilt spines with two green morocco title-labels lettered in gold, gilt border along the edges, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, blue endpapers, g.e. With engraved vignettes on titles, many head- and end-pieces (some by Bradt), one folding and 55 full-page engraved plates, some signed by Billé and R.B... (4), XXXII, (4), 1-114, (8), 115-574, (2); (4), II, 524, (2); (4), IV, VII-XVI, 579, 2; (4), XX, 396; (4), IV, 396; (6), XXIV, 422, 215/6, 425-428; (4), II, VIII, 698; (4), XIV, 509 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Natural History  Philosophy  Switzerland  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous medical man promoting the use of tea, coffee, chocolate and tobacco View picture(s) 18 BONTEKOE, C. Alle de Philosophische, Medicinale en Chymische Werken van den heer Corn. Bontekoe, in sijn leven Med. Doct. Raad, en Oppergenees-Heer van de Keurvorst van Brandenburg. Professor tot Frankfort aan den Oder. Behelsende een afwerp der ongefondeerde Medicyne, Chirurgie en Pharmacie der oude Genees-heeren. Neffens den opbouw van een ware Philosophie, Medicyne en Chymie, dienende om de gesondheid lang te bewaren, en de siektens kort en veilig te genezen. - IDEM. Tractaat van het Excellenste Kruyd Thee, Coffi en Chocolate, 't Welk vertoond het regte gebruyk, en de groote Kragten van 't selve in Gesondheyd, en Siekten; Ten dienste van die geene, die lust hebben om een Drank te drinken, welke seer veel dient om langer, gesonder en met beter Herssenen te leven, als de menschen in 't gemeen doen. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1689. Together 5 parts in 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary calf. 2 engraved title-vignettes. Fold. engr. portrait and 2 full-page engr. plates. With general title in red and black. (28), 356; 402(recte 406), (1); 432; 411 (recte 409), (6); (1), 136 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chemistry  Medicine  Philosophy  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First modern treatise on oceanography View picture(s) 19 BOTERO, Giovanni. Aggiunte fatte. Rome, Presso Giorgio Ferrari, 1598. 6 works in one vol. 4to. 18th century vellum, spine with gilt ornaments. Woodcut on title which is repeated on every title-page. (22), (2), 72, 46, (2), 32, 16, 14, (2), 32 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Economy  History  Law  Oceanography  Philosophy  Politics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A close friend of Montaigne on morality: into the breath for freedom of thought! View picture(s) 20 CHARRON, Pierre. De la sagesse, trois livres. Leiden, Jean Elzevier, ca. 1659. 12mo. 19th century green morocco, ribbed spine with title and imprint lettered in gold, gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, g.e., marbled endpapers. With engraved allegorical frontispiece. (24), 1-264, 295-366, 377-621, (12), (3 lvs. blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Elzevier  France  French  Philosophy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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