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First edition of a rare Italian treatise on papermaking and the Hollander beater, published under the authority of the Bourbon government of Parma. An important early example of the transmission of French industrial technology to Italy, adapting the investigations of the Académie Royale des Sciences to the practical requirements of local manufacture.

First edition of a rare Italian treatise on papermaking and the Hollander beater, published under the authority of the Bourbon government of Parma. An important early example of the transmission of French industrial technology to Italy, adapting the investigations of the Académie Royale des Sciences to the practical requirements of local manufacture.

Osservazioni intorno all’arte di fabbricare la carta, dedotte da varj autori dell’Accademia Reale delle Scienze per la maggior perfezione delle cartiere negli stati di S.A.R. il Sig. Infante D. Filippo Duca di Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla ec. ec. ec. Con la dimostrazione del Mulino all’Olandese fatto a cilindro. Date dalla Segreteria della R. Azienda

Parma, Fratelli Borsi stampatori, e libraj, 1762

$1,100

A particularly interesting and exceptionally ephemeral survival regulating the ceremonial purification and return to church of women after childbirth

A particularly interesting and exceptionally ephemeral survival regulating the ceremonial purification and return to church of women after childbirth

Sega Filippo

Ordo quando mulier post partum expletis diebus purificationis primo Ecclesiam ingreditur

Piacenza, Giovanni Bazachi, 1589

$3,200

First edition of the first substantial scientific monograph devoted to turquoise. an exceptional presentation copy to Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), president of the Royal Society, preserved in its original printed wrappers

First edition of the first substantial scientific monograph devoted to turquoise. an exceptional presentation copy to Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), president of the Royal Society, preserved in its original printed wrappers

Fischer von Waldheim Johann Gotthelf

Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite

Moscow, Imperial University Press, printed at the expense of the Zozima Brothers, 1816

$9,000

“Gli dei bevono ambrosia, gli uomini cioccolata” - “The gods drink ambrosia; men drink chocolate”

“Gli dei bevono ambrosia, gli uomini cioccolata” - “The gods drink ambrosia; men drink chocolate”

Anfossi Giovanni Battista

Dell’uso ed abuso della cioccolata del Dottore Gio: Battista Anfossi romano a sua eccellenza Pier - Vettore Pisani Procurator di S. Marco

Venice, Francesco Locatelli a S. Bartolommeo, 1779

$1,100

Galen’s Ars medica edited by Martin Akakia

Galen’s Ars medica edited by Martin Akakia

Galenus Claudius - Akakia Martin

Claudii Galeni Pergameni Ars medica, quae et Ars parva, Martino Acakia Catalaunensi Doctore medico interprete & enarratore, multò quàm antea castigatior, & ab infinitis erroribus repurgata

Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1549

$1,380

Medieval theology for Renaissance readers

Medieval theology for Renaissance readers

Honorius Augustodunensis

Libro del Maestro & del Discipolo: Nelquale si dechiara la scriptura di molte sententie intitulato Lucidario: Novamente reuisto e da molti errori expurgato: & in lingua Toscha ridutto.

Venice, Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro Ravani, 15 December 1525

$1,800

Photography, juvenile reform, and the bookbinding trade in imperial Russia

Photography, juvenile reform, and the bookbinding trade in imperial Russia

RUKAVISHNIKOV MUNICIPAL REFORMATORY-MOSCOW. Asile urbain Roukavichnikoff à Moscou. 17/29 juin 1890.

[Moscow, Photographie Française, 1890]

$2,000

An important document of early 16th-century anti-Ottoman political and religious thought

An important document of early 16th-century anti-Ottoman political and religious thought

Tegliacci Stefano

Oratio habita in decima sessione die quarta Maii M.D.XV. per R. P. D. Stephanum Archiepm Patracensem

[Rome, Marcello Silber, after 4 May 1515]

$1,380

The survival of the Jesuits in White Russia after the suppression of 1773

The survival of the Jesuits in White Russia after the suppression of 1773

Czerniewicz Stanisław

Catalogus personarum et officiorum Societatis Jesu in Alba-Russia ex anno 1784 in annum 1785

Mohiloviae (Mohilev or Mogilev), In Privilegiata a Sua Imperatoria Majestate Typographia Illustrissimi Archiepiscopi, [after 18 July 1785]

$4,200

A precedent in the cultural history of the idea of an artificial architecture of knowledge - With a two-colour typographical diagram, materially embodying the spatial organization of rhetorical artifice

A precedent in the cultural history of the idea of an artificial architecture of knowledge - With a two-colour typographical diagram, materially embodying the spatial organization of rhetorical artifice

Camillo Giulio

Due trattati dell’Eccellentissimo M. Iulio Camillo: l’uno delle materie, che possono venir sotto lo stile dell’eloquente: l’altro della imitatione

Colophon: Venice, Giovanni Farri & Brothers, [15]44

$3,200

A contemporary Portuguese plague report explicitly tied to the post-1755 reorganisation of maritime quarantine.

A contemporary Portuguese plague report explicitly tied to the post-1755 reorganisation of maritime quarantine.

Relação verdadeira da implacavel peste, que padece a Cidade de Marrocos, Argel, e outras Africanas, e da grande trovoada, que a 15. de Março do prezente anno de 1756 experimentou a Berberia

Lisbon, [printer not identified], 1756

$700

An apparently unpublished polyglot philological specimen in Hebrew, Chaldean/Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Greek and Latin

An apparently unpublished polyglot philological specimen in Hebrew, Chaldean/Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Greek and Latin

Hrdlička Emanuel František

Specimen diligentiae ad linguas Haebraicam, Chaldaicam, Syriacam et Arabicam impensae ab Emanuele Hrdličzka. Manuscript on paper. [Prague?], 1835

1835

$1,000

Wedding publication for the marriage of Johannes Schelius and Barbara Moser, celebrated at Torgau on 6 September 1636, with texts in Greek, Latin and Hebrew

Wedding publication for the marriage of Johannes Schelius and Barbara Moser, celebrated at Torgau on 6 September 1636, with texts in Greek, Latin and Hebrew

Bauer Andreas

Serenissimi Potentissimiq[ue] Principis ac Domini, Dn. Mauritii, Ducis Saxoniae, Iuliae, Cliviae ac Montium, &c. Landgravii Thuringiae, […] Informatori Fidelissimo, Dn. Johanni Schelio, SS. Theologiae Candidato, nec non Linguarium Orientalium peritissimo, Sponso, Cum Lectissima […] Matrona Barbara Moseriana, Viri […] Dn. M. Nicolai Bohemi, Pastoris Ecclesiae Montanae aput Ilenburgenses […] relicta vidua, Sponsa, die VI. M. Septembris, matrimonium Torgae contrahenti […] L. Andreas Bawer/ S. Ling. Profes. & D. Nicol. Lipsiae Archidiaconuns

Leipzig, Johann Albrecht Mintzel, 1636

$780

A pioneering work on modern oyster cultivation

A pioneering work on modern oyster cultivation

D'Erco Riccardo

Opuscolo terzo sulla coltura delle ostriche

Trieste, L. Herrmanstorfer, 1864

$1,000

With respectively 47 and 38 engraved portraits of learned men and women

With respectively 47 and 38 engraved portraits of learned men and women

Tomasini Giacomo Filippo

Illustrium virorum elogia iconibus exornata. Illustriss. et Revereniss. D.D. Io. Baptistae Agucchiae

Padua, Donato Pasquardi & C., 1630

$1,380

Only edition of this selection of Erasmian letter intended for school boys

Only edition of this selection of Erasmian letter intended for school boys

Erasmus Desiderius - Tethinger Johann Pedius

Epistolae breviores aliquot, lectuq(u)e iucundores, in rem studiosae iuventutis nuperrime selectae, per Ioan. Pedium Tethingerum, apud nobile Brisgoie Friburgum de trivio literatorem

Freiburg im Breisgau, Stephan Graf, 1543

$690

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