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Two parts in one volume, large folio 21 x 16 1/2 inches. Full eighteenth century calf- worn, boards detached. Engraved portrait of the author, 9 plates of coats-of-arms, 46 plates (plates complete), all but one double-page, by Crispin de Passe (1), Wilhelm Jacob Delff (3), J. Gilli (6), Crispian Quebon (6) and others, divided into 33 sections in the first part, and 13 sections in the second, each separately paginated. Numerous condition issues- most minor- Lacking engraved title, portrait repaired, 4 plates with repairs, mostly on the verso, some outer marginal minor splits. The last plate creased and with some tiny old holes- to the last two plates. HOWEVER A GOOD WORKING OR BREAKING COPY OF THIS MASTERPIECE ON FENCING. Two plates are enlarged copies of emblematic engravings in praise of fencing produced for Thibault around 1615 and the remainder are of fencers in either Roman costume or period seventeenth century costume. The most sumptuous book on fencing ever produced: a triumph of the art of book production with inspired typography blending seamlessly with very fine engraving. These folding plates are the largest produced on fencing.

First edition of one of Descartes's rarest works, his famous open letter to the Dutch Calvinist Gisbert Voetius (1589-1676), who as rector of the University of Utrecht engineered a condemnation of Cartesianism and accused Descartes of actively encouraging atheism. The so-called "Querelle d' Utrecht" was a fierce public argument between Descartes and Voetius which lasted from 1639 until Descartes's death in 1650. Descartes's Letter was written as a response to two works by Voetius and his colleagues: the Confraternitas Mariana (1642) and the Admiranda Methodus (1643). Both attacked Descartes's philosophy, and the latter - attributed to Martin Schoock (1614-1669), a supporter of Voetius - charged Descartes with rejecting the traditional proofs for the existence of God. It also implied that he deserved the same treatment as heretics such as Lucilio Vanini, the Italian free-thinking philosopher who was executed in 1619 for atheism and blasphemy. In his Letter, Descartes defended his philosophy at length and argued for the autonomy of human reason and religious tolerance. "As to moral philosophy the Letter to Voetius contains much of interest, not only because it contains extensive discussions of the passions, but also because, much more than the Passions de l'âme, it establishes a link between virtue and knowledge, between morality and method" (Verbeek). A Dutch translation was issued simultaneously (Amsterdam: Van Baerdt, 1643), and the original Latin was reprinted several times by the Elzevirs in the quarto editions of the Meditationes. Guibert 75 (1) ("très rare"); Willems 998. Theo Verbeek, "Descartes's Letter to Voetius", Church History and Religious Culture, vol. 100, 2020. Duodecimo (124 x 70 mm). Contemporary vellum, spine hand-lettered, gilt single fillet border and fleur-de-lys cornerpieces on covers, gilt gauffered edges. Woodcut printer's device on title page, tailpieces, initials. Small gilt bookplate on front pastedown, with ink shelf marks, of Tibulle Desbarreaux-Bernard (1798-1880), a Toulousian doctor, author, and noted collector of incunables and Elzevir imprints in particular. Vellum a little splayed, spine and top edge of book block darkened; contents browned, heavier to margins, with very occasional spots. Overall a very good, unsophisticated copy, presenting handsomely in contemporary vellum.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. REMBRANDT S DOCTOR TULP FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. [14], 279, [1], lacking *8 (blank), interleaved throughout with 145 blanks. Elzevir device to title, 15 full-page or smaller text anatomical illustrations, decorated initials and ornaments. Slight browning, very light water stain to upper margin of second half. A very good copy in contemporary vellum over boards, yapp edges, early ms title to spine, a.e.r., early ms note (price?) and C19 stamp S. de Jager to fly, latter repeated on t-p. A very good, unsophisticated copy of the first edition of this important, exquisitely illustrated medical manual, mostly devoted to exceptional cases, by the Dutch surgeon Nicolaas Tulp (1593-1674), famously the subject of Rembrandt s painting Doctor Nicolaas Tulp Demonstrating the Anatomy of the Arm (1632). Along with other distinguished anatomists in Holland, Tulp, a professor of anatomy at Amsterdam, left a rich legacy of anatomical discoveries. His name is current in the eponym Tulp s valve (the ileocecal valve) [.]. The present work [is] Tulp s only book [.]. [ ] Several interesting plates complement the book, including a well-known one showing a most comically bemused chimpanzee, erroneously labelled an orang-outang (Heirs of Hippocrates). In the preface, Tulp compares the innovative descriptions he provides to what America and Magellan s Strait are for geographers. Book I focuses on the bones, including skull fractures, neurological conditions such as epilepsy, convulsions and St. Vitus dance (now Sydenham's chorea), eye conditions (e.g., blindness, wounds), conditions of the mouth and throat, including cancer, and breast tumours. Book II focuses on the chest and abdomen, from pleurisy to blood spitting, palpitations, vomiting, sweating blood, diabetes and kidney stones. Book III tackles a variety of conditions, from hernia to abdominal convulsions, spina bifida, fungi, gangrene, fevers, and the birth of a two-headed baby. The last chapter talks about the Satyrus Indicus or Homo sylvestris (also illustrated) - a quadruped primate but of the human species , misidentified as an orangutan. Apparently captured in the Borneo, it fascinated Tulp for his quasi-human aspect and behaviour, including his prehensile thumbs. A most interesting work. USTC 1013691; Krivatsy 12007; Heirs of Hippocrates 464 (later ed.); Wellcome II, 306 (imp.); Osler 4126 (later ed.); Willems 980.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. [THE BALUZE DE ROTHESAY SCHIFF COPY] FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [12], 499, [81]. Roman letter, little Italic and Greek; printer s device on title, floriated initials; pin hole at blank head of title, tiny rustspot to outer lower margin of p. 193, tiny splash to (a)10 in final index; A very good copy in early nineteenth-century straight-grained dark blue morocco, by Simier, gilt border with palmette and flowers, central coat of arms of Lord Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845); spine elaborately gilt with floral decoration and title, a. e. g., marbled pastedowns and endpapers; corners and head of spine very lightly rubbed; ex libris label of the American banker Mortimer Loeb Schiff (1877-1931) on front pastedown, late seventeenth-century inscription Stephanus Baluzius Tutelensis lightly faint at foot of title. Elegantly bound first edition of a legal university textbook published by the Elzevir press in the distinctive portable format. Johannes Arnold Corvinus (c.1582-1650) was a Dutch jurist, Arminian minister and practitioner in Amsterdam. A follower of Hugo Grotius, he authored several pamphlets and essays as well as a few influential textbooks on Roman law for higher education. Postumus Pacianus is named after the Italian Calvinist Giulio Pace (1550-1635), who taught law and philosophy successfully throughout Europe and published a long-lasting edition of Aristotle s Organon. Corvinus dedicated this work to the city council of Leiden and to any young student of law eager to learn more. This copy belonged to Etienne Baluze (1630 1718), a prominent French bibliophile, Latin philologist, Church historian and professor of canon law at the Collége Royal in Paris. Baluze is mostly famous for having served Jean-Baptiste Colbert as keeper of his legendary library. Baluze s vast personal collection of books and manuscripts, including a significant portion of Mazarin s papers, was sold at auction by Martin and Baudot in 1719. Later in the century, the book was acquired by Charles, 1st Baron Stuart of Rothesay (1779-1845). A major figure of British diplomacy during the Napoleonic wars and the Restoration, he was ambassador to Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain and, most importantly, to the France of Louis XVIII between 1815 and 1824. Probably during the latter period, Stuart commissioned this fine morocco binding to the Parisian family workshop Simier. Not in Brunet or Graesse. Willems, 996.

Second and expanded edition of the most famous work by the Dutch polymath and proto-feminist Anna Maria van Schurman, first published in 1648. Comprising over 70 letters in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and French, a striking self-portrait, and a reprint of her treatise on the rights of women to education, Opuscula definitively affirmed Schurman's authoritative standing in the Republic of Letters. Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was "regarded throughout the 17th century as the most learned woman not only of the Netherlands but also of Europe. She was 'the Star of Utrecht', 'the Tenth Muse', 'a miracle of her sex'. As the first woman to attend non-officially a university, she was also the first to advocate, boldly, that women should be admitted into universities. A brilliant linguist, she mastered at least 14 languages and was the first Dutch woman to seek publication of her correspondence. Her letters in several languages to the intellectual men and women of her time reveal the breadth of her interests in theology, philosophy, medicine, education, literature, painting, sculpture, embroidery, and instrumental music" (Oxford Bibliographies entry). Notable among her correspondents are Antoinette Bourignon, Rene Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, Bathsua Makin, and André Rivet, as well as royal figures like Queen Christina of Sweden. She also served as academic mentor to Princess Elizabeth of the Palatinate. In later life Schurman joined the Labadist religious community, for whom she composed a number of devotional works. Appearing at the height of Schurman's fame, Opuscula was instrumental in structuring her positive identity in the male-dominated sphere of artists and authors. It also established her reputation as a humanist polyglot, proficient in classical and modern languages including Arabic and Syriac (see p. 10). The book was published by Elzeviers, the most prestigious contemporary publisher in Leiden, and it opens with an iconic engraved self-portrait of the author, with a Latin inscription below: "Cernitis hic picta nostros in imagine vultus: si negas ars formam, gratia vestra dabit", meaning "See my features portrayed in this image; if art denies beauty, then your favour will grant it". Schurman had studied under the famous engraver Magdalena van de Passe and was a talented artist; here, she adopted the format of the oval with inscription, which was typical of male portraits. In addition to her Latin essays Dissertatio and De vitae termino, a selection of her letters on theological, philological, and philosophical subjects, and her poems, a significant portion of the volume is dedicated to acquaintances' praise of her abilities: "In these verses, frequent comparisons are made not only with the goddess Minerva but also with Sappho Van Schurman was labelled a 'virago', or a woman who engages in violent battle. One verse even compares her to the ancient Amazons Adolph Vorstius calls her a heroine of noble name and uncommon courage" (Peacock, pp. 121-1). This second edition was expanded with an additional laudatory poem by Schurman's friend the "swan" Utricia Ogle, accomplished singer and musician (p. 369), and a final letter of appreciation from Schurman to the editor, the theology professor Heinrich Spanheim the Elder. The book enjoyed an enormous popularity, with a third edition appearing in 1652, and subsequent editions in 1672 and 1700. In 1658 and 1678, Opuscula was included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the list of banned books by the Roman Catholic Church, for reasons today unknown. Scholars suggest that the ban might have helped the book's popularity even more (see Beek, p. 272). This copy has contemporary Dutch provenance, with the manuscript ownership inscription dated 1655 of Johan Van Sÿpesteÿn on the title page verso. This was possibly the soldier Jan Van Sÿpesteÿn (1633-1669), a member of the noble Sÿpesteÿn family of Amsterdam. The book was later in the library of the Leigh family of West Hall, with its 18th century armorial bookplate engraved by Bickham the Younger (c.1706 1771) to the front pastedown; the owner was possibly Egerton Leigh (1702-1760), Anglican clergyman, landowner, and antiquary. This copy was latterly in the collection of Robert J. Hayhurst (1929-2016), noted Lancashire bibliophile and chemist. Pieta van Beek, "Alpha Virginum, Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678)", in Women Writing Latin: Early Modern Women Writing Latin, 2013; Bo Karen Lee & Anne Larsen, "Anna Maria van Schurman", in Oxford Bibliographies: Renaissance and Reformation; Martha Moffitt Peacock, Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age, 2020. Small octavo (155 x 94 mm). Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, edges sprinkled blue. Title page printed in red and black, with woodcut printer's device, woodcut floriated initials and headpieces. Vellum soiled and gently rubbed, faint toning to head of title page, contents generally clean and fresh. A very good, crisp copy, notably square.

Folio, 325x220mm (12¾"x8½"). Treatise on military architecture, published with the encouragement of Prince of Orange Frederick-Henry of Nassau; a work widely influential through the second half of the 17th century. French language edition, following the Latin edition of 1647 also published by Louys Elzevier. Fine pictorial engraved title-page, letterpress title (facing page 452) for "La partie qui concerne l'attaque & la deffance" with fine wood-engraved device. Full complement of 70 double-page plates, 10 leaves of mathematical tables, a few decorated capitals, and tailpiece at final page. pp(8)547(1) including both titles; jump in pagination from page 154 to page 159, no loss of continuity. Margins of pictorial title a little toned and lightly dust- & handling-marked. Pale dampstain around upper inner corners from pictorial title to page 16, and at upper outer corners to page 8; no print affected. A few small powdery-black blemishes affecting fore-edge margin of page 8, and fore-edge margins & versos of 'Straelsundt' plate between pages 8 & 9; effects all very minor. Loss in lower parts of fore-edge margins of leaf D1 (pages 25/26). P gathering (pages 113-120) creased; with signs of re-insertion, including strips of white paper tape of some age - here & there just in contact with text - along inner margins of all four versos. Noticeable toning at Bb2 & Bb3 (pages 199-202), and at upper- & fore-edges of Mmm2 & Mmm3 (pages 463-466) where upper edges also nicked and fore-edges chipped with loss, though no print affected. Gg1 (pages 237/238) with closed tear of length about 55mm from inner edge close to foot; effects on text minimal, passing through just single words in final two lines on page 237 and through catchword on page 238. Ppp4 (pages 491/492) with a little loss confined to margins at lower outer corner. Contents otherwise slightly undulating, here & there lightly toned, with occasional minor foxing, isolated spots and pale tan blemishes, and with a few creased corner tips. Edges of text-block age-toned. Near-contemporary full calf. Spine with five raised bands bordered by black rules, and gilt title on gilt-bordered relatively-recent replacement leather label. Boards with narrow ruled borders in black. Replacement endpapers of considerable age. Spine worn, with loss of hide most noticeable at head & foot and adjacent to split along upper part of front hinge. Boards also worn; both front and rear with loss of hide most noticeable at fore- & lower edges and at outer corners, rear also with considerable loss to hide surface layer. Endpapers creased and lightly adhesive-stained at outer edges, rear endpapers also a little dust-marked. Binding worn and a little wanting in appearance, but holding firmly. Contents complete, and generally clean, tight, and very good. GOOD+ copy.

The poet Edmund Waller?s copy of this well-known Elzevir edition of Vitruvius by Jan de Laet, which had the merit for educated readers that it provided not just a text of Vitruvius but also De Laet?s own translation into Latin of Sir Henry Wotton?s Elements of Architecture and substantial texts on related subjects by other authors. It also includes the very first printing of Nicolaus Goldmann?s illustrated discussion of the Ionic volute. As it happens, the present copy only contains the text of the book as far as its two indexes, respectively devoted to the Greek words and the Latin words found in the text of the ten books of Vitruvius (and occupying 28 unnumbered pages after p.272). What are customarily found in copies of the book, and which are absent from this copy, are separately paginated texts of Alberti?s writings on painting and sculpture, and of three shorter essays, called for on the volume?s printed title leaf, and habitually found bound after the Vitruvian indexes. Whatever the reason why these pages are absent, it is nonetheless interesting that a copy of this edition of Vitruvius should have been acquired by Edmund Waller (1606-1687), who built up a substantial private library at his Buckinghamshire country house. It must be one of the few seventeenth century architectural books to have been owned by a significant English literary figure of the period, and its value rests on the presence of Edmund Waller?s autograph signature at the head of its title leaf . BAL Cat 3500. Folio. Engraved frontispiece, (6) + 31 + (1) + 272 + (28)pp, with (2) additional pages between p. 252 and p.253, many woodcut text ills (a further 169 + 69 + (3)pp are absent). Mid twentieth century quarter calf, marbled boards. Frontispiece stained at foot and slightly abraded at head and foot, and an old stain affecting pages of Book X of Vitruvius and all subsequent leaves. Ownership inscription of Edmund Waller (?Edm Waller?) at head of title leaf, with his note of the cost of the book (?00:16s -00d?), and the date 1673. A blank preliminary leaf carries the following note in ink : ?This copy of Vitruvius which belonged to Waller the poet, and is inscribed with his autograph, was bought by me at Oxford May 1841 - John Hamilton Gray Magdalen College Oxford 1841?.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 12mo. 2 vols in 1. pp. [xii] 336 + foldout 337-496; [xvi] 232 [xvi]. FIRST EDITION of first, and first Latin edition of second work. 1) Roman and Italic letter, head- and tail-pieces, engraved title page depicting three debating philosophers with various instruments (astrolabe, globe, sextant), printed title page with Elzevir device. 2) Roman and Italic letter, head- and tail-pieces, engraved title page depicting the creation of a tempest through magic. Light age yellowing, foldout plate torn with no loss, C19 ex libris on fly, in contemporary polished vellum, title written in brown ink on spine, all edges speckled blue. Gibson 223 "important collection"; 110a.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. [PIRATED JESUIT ELZEVIRS] 8vo. 3 works in 1, pp. 128 (xxiv); 448 (viii); 288, without final errata as often, probably indicating first issue. Roman letter, with Italic. Separate t-p to each with woodcut vignette with St Ignatius crowned by angels. Edges a bit dusty, very minor toning, the odd spot, paper flaw to lower blank margin of N2 and small damp stain to lower blank margin of one gathering of second. Good copies in contemporary vellum, dusty, yapp edges, titles elaborately inked to spine in red and gold (oxidized) with floral decorations and IHS monogram. C18 armorial bookplate D. Henr. Ios. Rega. Med. Doc. Proff. Prim and finely engraved C17 bookplate of Petrus Ludovicus Danes Casletanus to front pastedown, C19 ex-dono label of Antonius Joannes Philippus Wemaer, C19 book label Bib. F.F. Min. Cappuccinorum and stamp of Capuchins library of S. Maria Angelica in Bruges to ffep. Good copies of these forged editions of three major Jesuit works probably compiled by Mutio Vitelleschi (1563-1645). He was the Sixth Superior General of the Society of Jesus, and professor of theology, philosophy and logic at Roman Collegia. These three works gathered together important texts for the continuing education of Jesuits worldwide, as reliable, approved reference manuals. Directorium is an introduction to the meaning, purpose and techniques for undertaking St Ignatius s spiritual exercises and meditation, spanning the course of a four-week retreat, on Christ s life and suffering. The Epistolae is a collection of letters from major figures of the Order (St Ignatius, Aquaviva, Mercuriano, Borgia, Laines and Vitelleschi) to superiors and members on theology and the Jesuits spiritual mission. The third work, a detailed Index generalis of the Institutiones , reveals the original context of these works, part of a 16-volume series called Corpus institutionum societatis Jesu . Separately printed, they were found as stand-alone or bound, as in this case, in a sammelband of two or three. Whilst the first edition of the Corpus was published by Jan Meurs in 1635, the present copies were published two to three decades later by Jan Schipper in Amsterdam, without the license of the Society of Jesus. A distinction is the spelling Joannem with a J on the t-ps of the first and second, as well as the woodcut vignette of St Ignatius with the Latin motto on all three. The pirated edition was probably intended for the Low Countries, where the Jesuits were flourishing; the early ownership of this copy can indeed be traced to Leuven. An important sammelband with editions of special bibliographical interest for Elzevir collectors unnoticed by Willems. This volume was once in the library of Petrus Ludovicus Danes Casletanus (1683-1736), professor of theology, influenced by Scholasticism, at Leuven in the 1730s. The following owner, Henri-Joseph Rega (1690-1754), was a Dutch physician, rector at Leuven. His interest in Jesuit theology probably urged him to take sides against the spreading Jansenism, which led to a fall in student numbers. In the C19, it belonged to Antonius Joannes Philippus Wemaer, professor of Physics at Ghent, and to the convent of the Capuchins in Bruges. I) Backer-Sommervogel V, 81. Not in Willems.II) Backer-Sommervogel V, 81. Not in Willems.III) Backer-Sommervogel V, 81. Not in Willems. P. Begheyn, De Elzeviers en de jezuïeten , in Boekverkopers van Europa, ed. B.P.M. Dongelmans et al. (Zutphen, 2000), 59-76; L. van Miert, Een onopgemerkte Elzevier-druk? , Het Boek, 1923, 131-38; S. van Impe, Corpus institutionum societatis Jesu , in Jesuit Books in the Low Countries, 1540-1773, ed. P. Begheyn et al (Leuven, 2009).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 3 volume set, 7.75 inches tall. A wonderful set in a full crushed morocco, unsigned but possibly by Clarke at the beginning of the 19th century. With gilt raised bands, superb gilt floral tooling to the panels. Gilt rolls, fillets and corner tools frame the boards. Fine engraved frontispiece to volume 1. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Sold at Sotheby's in December 1857. A fine set of this work by this great Roman Historian, in the original Latin.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. London: printed by Daniel Elzevir; and sold by William West; and T.J. Hookham, 1799, First Stodhart Illustrated Edition. Full morocco leather binding, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine, gilt decorated to both boards, 7 hand coloured plates with a hand coloured frontispiece of the author. At foot of titlepage: "Price seven shillings and sixpence with coloured plates; and five shillings plain". Scarce, British Library only records 3 copies internationally (Citation no. T5735) [2], xii, 75,[1]pp, 7 colour plates and a colour portrait frontispiece. Provenance: bookplate for Henry Lambert Carnagh to the front paste down. Approximately 4 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles and decoration. Joints good condition sound and solid. Corners good condition bumped and worn with minor rubbing. Boards good condition full leather, gilt decorated boards, gently marked and worn. Page edges good condition top edges slightly darkened, all gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition marbled, bookplate to the front. End papers good condition marbled. Title good condition tanned. Pages good condition tanned, small marks and minor foxing, colour plates. Binding good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1799 Binding: Hardback.

4to, pp. [76], 239, [1 (blank)]; title printed in red and black with woodcut Elzevir device, woodcut illustrations throughout; marginal toning, occasional spots; a very good copy in recent mottled sheep to period style, spine gilt-ruled in compartments with gilt red morocco l ettering-piece.First and only Elzevir edition, and the first edition of the better Latin text of Descartes's Traité de l'homme. De homine 'is the first work in the history of science and medicine to construct a unified system of human physiology that presents man as a purely material and mechanical being: man as machine de terre. In conceptualizing man as a machine, Descartes helped emancipate the study of human physiology from religious and cultural constraints and validated a clinical and experimental approach to anatomy and physiology.' (Grolier). Withheld from the public while Descartes was alive for fear of censure by the Catholic church, the text was first printed in 1662 from a flawed manuscript. A French translation appeared in 1664, followed by the present corrected Latin edition published by Elzevir, with diagrams after la Forge and von Gutschoven and an extensive introduction by Clerselier. Willems 1531; Wellcome II, p. 453; cf. Grolier 31. Language: Latin.

Quarter Calf. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First. 185 pages, no place of publication or publisher given but it does have the printer's device associated with Elzevir of the sphere on the title page, bound in modern half calf, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, title label of black morocco onset with gilt lettering, lacking the three blank pages at the end, otherwise very good. *Willems 662. Rather scarce. PROVENANCE: Bookplate of Robert J Hayhurst.

First edition of this famous work in urology, one of the earliest medical books to accept William Harvey's account of the circulation of the blood. Beverwyck was a Dutch physician and a relative of Vesalius. He sent a copy of this work to Harvey with a letter praising him for his work on circulation, saying "As everyone here wonderingly admires this doctrine, so I too embrace it both both arms in the little book which I send 'On the calculus of the kidneys and the bladder'". Harvey replied at length, praising the work with the punning passage: "Pleasing me, learned and elegant, and truly original, your De calculo renum et vesicae, in which you have laid a firm and solid foundation for your name and fame; go on to build further day by day, and erect a splendid monument of your genius. I will, not unwillingly, add my stone." He went on to provide a detailed and approving critique of Beverwyk's work on the operation of the kidneys. 12mo (122 × 70 mm.), pp. [xvi], 305, [15]. Woodcut Elzevir device to title, woodcut initials. Title soiled, with traces of an early ownership inscription, some scattered spotting, a few early ink underlinings. Contemporary vellum, title in old manuscript to spine. Rubbed (further wear in places) and slightly soiled, with the covers a little bowed. A good copy. [Keynes, The Life of William Harvey, pp. 271-73. Murphy, History of Urology, p. 78. Willems 463.].

2 vols. 8vo, pp. [xxxii], 1224; [ii], 899, [xi], [ccxxiii]. Additional engraved title-page to first vol., woodcut device to title-page, woodcut head & tail pieces & initials. Occasional light foxing, small loss to fore-edge margin of engraved title-page, vol. II with one front endpaper excised and a marginal scorch-hole to Y7. Late 19th-century red straight-grain morocco, spines and boards blind tooled, gilt titles, a.e.g, green endpapers. Joints, endcaps and corners a bit rubbed, a few faint spots and smudges but very good overall. To front paste-down of each volume a 20th-century bookplate of James Elwin Millard. To front paste-down of vol. I, small bookseller's ticket of Edward Rainford of 12 Red Lion Passage. To preliminary blank, MS extract from Dibdin. Described by Dibdin as more 'beautiful and valuable' than the 1685 Bleau edition, though he observes that the Bipont editors consider that 'its accuracy is not equal to its beauty'. Contains the notes of various commentators including J.F. Gronovius, who unfortunately died before the work was completed. Willems 1479; Dibdin II (4th ed.) 453.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Full morocco, 5 1/4 inches tall. A beautiful binding with gilt raised bands, delicate gilt tooling to the panels, triple fillet framing the boards and gilt dentelles and all edges. A tiny ink inscription on the reverse of the free endpaper. With the bookplate of Geoffrey Aspin who attributes the binding to Masson-Debonelle. A superb little Elzevir edition in excellent condition. In Latin.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 2 parts in one volume, over 2000 pages, printer's device on title, new half calf, title printed in red and black, title paage a bit dusty and some faint damstaining on bottom margin at front of book but a pleasing copy generally very crisp and clean. The largest Elzevir published. WILLWMS 706, A SCARCE ELZEVIR .

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good.

First Elzevir edition of this biography of the French protestant hero Gaspard de Coligny. Coligny had been appointed Admiral of France in 1552 and was captured at the siege of St Quentin in 1557. In the two years of his captivity he became a convinced Calvinist and went on to lead the French Huguenots in the religious wars against Catholic dominance in France. He was implicated in the murder of Francis, Duke of Guise in February 1563, an event which was to lead ultimately to the Massacre of St Bartholomew in 1572, in which Coligny himself was killed under the direct supervision of the Duke's son, Henry.Coligny's life became an inspiration to Protestants throughout Europe. It was first printed in Latin in 1575 and had previously appeared in French earlier the same year, in a quarto edtion. 2 parts in one vol., 12mo (130 × 70 mm.), pp. [viii], 143, [1]; 88. Woodcut Elzevir device to the 2 titles. Very light browning throughout, mainly marginal. Early full vellum with yapp edges, exposed cords at joints, spine neatly lettered in later manuscript, now indistinct. An appealing copy. [Willems 564 'ce petit volume, parfaitement exécuté, est un des plus recherché de la collection elzevirienne.'].

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Full morocco, 5 inches tall. A delightful little 18th century French crushed morocco binding with gilt bands, floral gilt tooling to the panels and contrasting green label. Triple gilt fillets and corner tools frame the boards. With map of Alexander's expedition, engraved title and portrait. This is a lovely little copy of the only known work of Curtius the first century Roman historian. In the original Latin.

First Edition. 12mo, pp. [24], 1-289, '300-414' [i.e. 290-404], [28]; woodcut device le Solitaire to title, woodcut ornaments and initials; a very attractive copy in late eighteenth-century red straight-grained morocco, upper board lettered 'Wogan Browne' in gilt (see below), spine gilt-ruled in compartments, lettered directly in gilt, turn-ins roll-tooled in gilt with Greek-key motif, edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon place-marker; small scuff to spine; twentieth-century private collector's bookplate to upper pastedown.First Elzevir edition, handsomely bound for the Irish politician Thomas Wogan Browne. Thomas Wogan Browne (c. 1758 1812) served as a magistrate, and twice as high sheriff of Co. Kildare. Politically a Whig and denounced as a United Irishman, pre-emptive suspicions appear to have thwarted any intended involvement in the rebellion of 1798. Among others he entertained Wolfe Tone, with whom in 1792 he toasted 'the spirit of the French mob to the people of Ireland', and Thomas Russell, whom he impressed with his 'large and well chosen library' (DIB). Wogan Browne's library, advertised as containing six thousand volumes, included numerous Elzevirs and other examples of fine printing, several incunables and manuscripts, and an extensive collection of Boccaccio. He appears to have had several books similarly bound in red morocco, with his name gilt on the upper board. On his death in 1812, the library was auctioned by Thomas Jones of Dublin, although we have not been able to identify this volume in the catalogue. Castle Browne, which Wogan Browne had enlarged in the gothic style from 1788, was inherited by his brother Michael Browne and sold soon after to the Jesuit Peter Kenney to become the Clongowes College described in Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Willems 506; see Jones, Bibliotheca Browniana: A Catalogue of the valuable and extensive Library of the late Wogan Browne, Esq., of Castle Browne (Dublin, 1812). Language: Latin.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Full crushed morocco, 4.75 inches tall. A delightful little volume in a sumptuous binding with gilt bands and floral tooling to the panels, dentelles, triple gilt fillet to the boards and all edges gilt. With wonderful gilt stamped endpapers. Voluptuous engraved title page. There were two first editions, this being the larger without the dedication from Vossius to Bielke but with summaries of the contents of each book. With the Bookplate of the Hayhurst Collection.

Full vellum. Etat : Good. Vol 1 - [xlviii], 922, [70], 62 pages. Vol 2 dated 1678 - 973, [61], 58 pages. Vol 3 dated 1678 - 1080, [82] pages. In the original vellum with ink titles to the spines. Vellum is soiled and worn. Small old paper labels to the spines, also a small old lot number. Bookplates to the front pastedowns of Fintray House. Engraved title and two portraits in vol 1 are included in the pagination. Some tearing to paper on the pastedowns. A heavy set - extra postage will be required to send them outside the UK. Book.

Full-Leather. Etat : Very Good. La Rettorica was reprinted in Venice in 1648, but along with Pallavicino's other works, had to wait until the 1660s and 1670s before Daniel Elzevir published further editions in Amsterdam. The present volume seems to comprise the first four works from his Opere scelte of 1673, which is a reprint of the 1671 edition with the addition of a new title-page, La Rettorica and La Pudicitia schernita (the former was also published separately). 4 parts in one volume, 1671/1673, [12] 70 [2]: [8] 9-68 [4] 73-206: [2] 124: [8] 76pp, titles with woodcut sphere device later gilt ruled red morocco (rubbed particularly to joints and corners), marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 12mo (13x7cm). La Rettorica delle puttane ("The Rhetoric of Whores"), first published in Geneva in 1642, and written in the form of a dialogue between an aged prostitute and her naive apprentice, was the work which finally sealed the fate of the satyrist and anti-Jesuit Pallavicino. Forced to flee Venice for Bergamo, he managed to complete his other best-known work, Il Divortio celeste, before being persuaded by a papal spy that he should go to France to take up a spurious position being offered by Cardinal Richelieu. As he crossed the papal territory near Avignon, he was betrayed to the authorities and spent fourteen months in prison before being beheaded.

Period Vellum. Etat : Very Good Plus. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 20.5x13.cm. Collation, [xxxii],1224pp, [ii],899pp,[xi]pp, [ccxxiii],pp index, engraved title in first volume. Bound in period vellum, yapped edges, title in manuscript. Vellum dust/dirt marked, titles faded. Both bindings in very good firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice set, in attractive period bindings. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. (24) + 139pp, engraved title [legendary and symbolical]THE ENGRAVED TITLE IS A FACSIMILE BUT AN EXCEEDINGLY GOOD FACSIMILE, . BOUND WITH . (30) + 183pp, engraved title, 12mo, bound in contemporary vellum, very good condition, Elzevirios, Leyden, 1636. * Willems 444 & 445. The type here is notable for its great size and beauty: Malvezzi has been called a 'universal scholar' for this innovative typeface. Italian text. 2 vols bound as one. Splendid condition and exceedingly clean, crisp text.

Full Calf. Etat : Good. First Thus. One volume in two - Volume One - [28], 466 and Volume Two - 467-917pp, [15]. Later (late-eighteenth century) full-calf, raised bands, spines in six panels, lacking contrasting title / volume labels to second and third panels, volute corner pieces and central lozenge shaped tool to remaining panels, gilt flower head frame to covers, all edges marbled with blue paste endpapers. Rubbed to extremities, chipped to head of spines, bump to fore-edge of volume one, scrape to upper cover of volume two, previous owner's name to first page of text in each volume, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. Engraved title page. Willems 1350, "est fort bien imprime", with Dibdin noting that this is the "best Variorum edition, as containing the fruits of the collation of ten fresh MSS., and the notes of Gronovious and others as well as of the editor himself. It is a book of considerable price" (Dibdin I:471). Latin text Size: 8vo.

Hardback. Etat : V.g. fifth Edition. [vi], 343pp. [First edition was pub. 1627. Strong and sound original binding in full calf, raised bands with gilt titles and compartments. Mottled damp marps to the leather. Two parts , each with a title-page bound in one with continuous pagination. Volume two is also in two parts so three title-pages each the printers wood block printer's mark.An important Latin grammar by Geraldus Johannes Vossius [1577-1649] Pub. for use in the Dutch Republic. Size: small 8vo.

Etat : Good. Engraved pictorial titlepage + 3 folding engraved maps + portrait medallion of Caesar + 5 woodengraved full page plates Duodecimo [129 x 73mm] blindstamped floral ornaments to each corner and central ornament in double ruled lines spine with five triple lines where each of the spine ties laces through, fore edge with overlap. [sl.marked but a PRETTY BINDING in good condition] 12 ff. [including engraved title] +561pp + 70pp =index without numbers. Two lower corners torn away neither near any print. Some marginal numbering and a few underinings in pencil and some in ink at the beginning.There is some edge dusting and browning with some foxing while damp marks, though often marginal, also affect some of the text.However the paper remains entirely crisp and strong. 3 Excellent maps of the Roman Empire (Gaul, Iberia) included. This conforms to Willems 420 of the 1635 first printing in all points including the buffalo heads to the dedication & on page 1. The Willems catalogue entry considers this book the most perfect production of the Elzeviriennes for beauty of the impression, tasteful ornementation, as well as the purity and correctness of the text coming together to make this Caesar Willems' choice for the finest of all the books publsihed by these typographers. * This edt of Caesar`s most famous literary work by Josephus Justus Scaliger. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Etat : Very Good-. Elzevir Printer's mark to Titlepage. Duodecimo (132x67mm) 18th century roan spined marbled boards (upper hinge repaired/head of spine chipped/tips worn) All edges rouged. Titlepage +[6] +424pp. Coat of arms bookplate & location on front end-paper otherwise completely unmarked crisp copy. *The only Elzevir edition. These essays are the first edition of Boyle's work in Latin to be printed on the continent. Physiologica in this sense included discourses on physics, chemistry, meteorology, medicine & related subjects as well as observations that we would still classify as physiology (eg. dog's digestive system). There are accounts of purely chemical research. According to Fulton "the importance of this work lies in the fact that in a very real sense it was a prologue to the Sceptical Chymist since it continued the attack on the alchemists began in New experiments, and actually it was as much of a landmark in the history of chemistry" [as those other works]. It gives the first clear outline of his corpuscular theory of the nature of matter (References: Fulton 29, Wellcome I 221, Garrison & Morton). 1 volume. Hardcover.