Paris: Société d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres" 1981. Hardcover. Octavo. 154, [2]pp. Original orange cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine, and printer's device on front and back cover. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work, being one of the first treatises on Physiognomy: method based on the idea that..... More
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Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1547. Hardcover. 16mo in 8s: a-z8 A-Z8 aa8 bb8 (=384 leaves; blank bb7-8). 763, [5, blank]pp. Printer’s device at title, woodcut lettrines. Text in italic, headlines and chapter headings in roman; printed marginalia. Later pigskin over bevelled boards, tooled in blind, brass clasps (one of two) and..... More
[Paris]: F. Gryphius, 1540. Two parts in one volume, 16mo in 8s. 199, [1, blank]; 136, [16, index]ff. "Novvm testamentum" in cartouche vignette at title-page, along with Gryphius' griffin device (Renouard 413); 90 three-quarter page (including repeats), and 15 smaller woodcut illustrations (including repeats); 21 historiated initials and woodcut lettrines;..... More
Leiden: Jean Luzac, 1737. First edition. Two volumes, large quarto. [52], 544; [2], 545-1232, [63, indices], [1, corrigenda]pp. Text in two columns, with Hebrew text and facing Latin translation interspersed with commentary. Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes. Contemporary speckled calf; gilt-tooled spine with raised bands and morocco..... More
Leiden: Jean Luzac, 1748. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [8], cviii, 522, (60 indices & corrigenda)pp. Text in two columns, with Hebrew text and facing Latin translation interspersed with commentary. Title in red and black with engraved vignette; woodcut ornaments. Contemporary Dutch paneled vellum with blind-stamped vignettes and ruled borders; manuscript..... More
Amsterdam: Jan Boom, 1715. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. [asterisk]4 a-f4 (-blank f4) A-3F4 (= 235 leaves). [54], 415, [1, blank]pp. Contemporary vellum with exposed thongs (boards somewhat bowed, spine darkened), early manuscript title in Hebrew and Latin at spine. Old owner entry at top margin title, memorial label at..... More
Liege: Jean-François Broncart, 1701. First edition, thus. Hardcover. Two tomes (each in two parts), bound in one volume, folio: [6], lxxix, [1, blank], 544; [1, title], [1, blank], [545]-957, [1, blank], xx (Cantique des cantiques), 96 (La sagesse; Ecclesiastique de Jesus fils de Sirach); [1, title], [1, blank], 468; [1..... More
Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XXI, [5], 288, [2]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait of Galileo Galilei. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. This work, written during the last years of Galileo's life, incorporates the work that he had done much earlier..... More
Amstelodami (Amsterdam: Johannis à Someren, 1679. First Latin language edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 3/4 x 8"). [16], 288, [20]pp (Index) (Vol. 1); [20], 418, [30]pp (Index) (Vol. 2). Original full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Main title in red and black lettering, with title vignette. Engraved frontispiece portrait of..... More
Kansas City: The Lowell Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XLVII, [1], 226pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, and portrait in gilt on front cover. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by Richard L. Sutton. Remarkable edition of Girolamo Mercuriale's "De morbis cutaneis" (1572)..... More