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Rare publication offering insight into 18th-century Dutch efforts to limit the amount of drowning casualties

[BROADSIDE - DELFT]. Publicatie tot redding van drenckelingen.
Delft, Adrianus Sterck, 2 February 1769. Ca. 54 x 43.5 cm. With the woodcut coat of arms of Delft, and a decorated woodcut initial. [1] l. Full description

€ 450

Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Law & Politics Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Netherlands

3 little-known works by Italian scientist on astronomy, hydrostatics and navigation

BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio. Trattenimenti scientifici su la sfera, geografia istorica, meteore, ed astronomia.
Rome, Bernabò and Lazzarini, 1754. With several woodcut illustrations in the text (including an armillary sphere), and an extra added folding engraved frontispiece.
With:
(2) BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio. Trattenimenti scientifici su lindrografia, nautica, blasone, statica, meccanica, architectura, pirotecnia, e suono.
Roma, Bernabò and Lazzarini, 1755. With several woodcut illustrations in the text, and an extra added frontispiece (facsimile of an engraving?).
(3) BRUNETTI, Francesco Saverio. Macchina semplicissima per cui lacqua da se stessa salice ad una data altezza.
Rome, Bernabò and Lazzarini, 1747. With folding engraved plate as frontispiece. 3 works (the first in 2 parts) in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [24], 180, 112; [8], 173, [3 blank]; 12 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Architecture Astronomy & Cosmography Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Navigation North Africa Science Technology Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Buno's extraordinary mnemonic engravings in their first edition

[BUNO, Johannes]. [Historische Bilder, darinnen Idea Historia Universalis, eine kurtze summarisch Abbildungen der fürnehmsten Geist- und Weltlichen Geschichte durch die vier Monarchien...]
[Lüneburg, printed by B. Elers for the author, 1672]. 4to. With 21 copper-engraved plates of multiple different sizes. Each plate depicts the history of a century or millenium. Contemporary half vellum, with marbled paper sides. [21] plates. Full description

€ 9,500

Education & Pedagogy Germany History / 17th Century Prints & Print Series School & Textbooks

One of the first dental works to focus on prevention

BUNON, Robert. Essay sur les maladies des dents, ou l'on propose les moyens de leur procurer une bonne confirmation dès la plus tendre enfance, & d'en assurer la conservation tout le cours de la vie. Avec une lettre où l'on discute quelques opinions particulieres de l'auteur de l'orthopedie.
Paris, Briasson, Chaubert, et De Hansy, 1743.
With: (2) BUNON, Robert. Dissertation sur un prejugé très-pernicieux, concernant les maux de dents qui surviennent aux femmes grosses.
Paris, Chaubert, Briasson, Nully, Prault, 1741. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 ornamental woodcut headpieces, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold- and blind tooled mottled brown calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label lettered in gold in the second compartment on the spine, fleurons in the other compartments, a blind tooled border on both boards, gold-tooled board edges, red edges, marbled end papers. XII, 237, [3]; 20 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Dentistry Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century)

Introduction to the ancient history of Mexico, printed in Mexico

BUSTAMANTE, Carlos Maria de. Mañanas de la alameda de México. Publícalas para facilitar a las señoritas el estudio de la historia de su país.
Mexico, Imprenta de la testamentaria de Valdés, 1835-36. 2 volumes. 4to. With a woodcut a vignette on both titles, 2 lithographed plates of Mexican calendars in the first volume, and a woodcut illustration of a house in the second volume. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco. [6], 325, [1 blank]; [4], XIX, 309, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Education & Pedagogy History / 19th Century Mexico

A history of the English colonies in North America

[BUTEL DUMONT, George Marie]. Histoire et commerce des colonies Angloises, dans l'Amerique septentrionale. Ou l'on trouve l'état actuel de leur population, & des détails curieux sur la constitution de leur gouvernement, principalement sur celui de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, de la Pensilvanie, de la Caroline, & de la Géorgie.
Londres, et se vend a Paris, chez Le Breton, Desaint, Pissot, Lambert, 1755. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a decorated woodcut initial, a woodcut headpiece and several woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. XXIV, 336 pp. Full description

€ 950

Canada & Greenland Economic History & Trade North America

Rare Italian translation of an originally Spanish chivalric novel

[CAMILLI, Camillo (translator)]. Historia del nobile, et valoroso Cavalier. Felice Magno, figliuolo del Re Falangrè della Gran Brettagna, & della Reina Clarinta, nella quale si raccontano i suoi grandi, & maravigliosi fatti tradotta con somma diligenza di Spagnuolo in lingua Italiana.
Verona, Sebastiano dalle Donne for Francesco de Franceschi Senese, 1587. 8vo. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [12], 298 ll. Full description

€ 7,500

Early Printing - 16th century Italy Literature

Contemporary accounts of two power struggles, in Italy and in the Low Countries

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis [in the running heads: "De bello Mediolanensi"] libro octo ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser), 1533.
With: (2) SERVILIUS, Johannes (Jan KNAAP). Geldrogallica conjuratio in totius Belgicae clarissimam civitatem Antverpiam, duce Martino Rosheymio, ...
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). Contemporary vellum wrappers, with 2 fragments of the March and April calendar leaf (in red and black) of a manuscript Missale romanum (ca. 1475/1500?) used as end leaves. 96; [44] ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Italy Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Netherlands

First and only edition of a primary source for the early history
and church history of Southern Italy, in particular of Naples

CARACCIOLI, Antonio and Francesco BOLVITO (editor). De Sacris Ecclesiae Neapolitanae Monumentis Liber Singularis ... Opus posthumum Francisci Bolviti ... Studio, et industria in lucem editum. Qui cuncta digessit: stylum alicubi mutavit: omissas ab Auctore curas secundas adiecit: et innumeras penè hiantes lacunas implevit.
Naples, Ottavio Beltrani, 1645. Folio. With large engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Pope Innocent X on the title page, 2 half-page engravings of the martyrdom of S. Maximus Levita from Cumma (5th century; ca. 153 x 103 mm), many woodcut tailpieces and initials.19th-century half vellum. [20], 365, [14], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

History / 17th Century Italy Religion (17th Century)

The making of the first complete French edition of Casanova’s Mémoires

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Paulin, 1833-1837. 10 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter calf. The set is housed in two blue marbled paper slipcases. [4], 427, [3]; [4], 422, [2]; [4], 432, [4], 480; [4], 455, [1 blank]; [4], 468; [4], 475, [1]; [4], 455, [1 blank], [4], 426; [4], 394 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

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