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The Most Important Medical Woodcut 1500
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[BOTANY/MATERIA MEDICA] Anonymous. Ortus Sanitatis. De Herbis et Plantis. De Animalibus et Reptilibus. De Avibus et Volatilibus. De Piscibus et Natatilibus. Strasbourg, Reinhard Beck, 1517.
An unusually fresh example of this early augmented Strasbourg edition of “the most important medical woodcut book printed before 1500” (Hunt) giving descriptions of medicinal plants and medicinal stones, instructions on animal husbandry, and a treatise on urine.
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“The ‘Opening Gun’ In the Campaign Against Galileo's Dialogo”
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[Galileiana] BERIGARD, Claudio [Claude Guillermet]. Dubitationes in dialogum Galilaei Galilaei Lyncei in Gymnasio Pisano mathematici supraordinarij. Florence, Petri Nesti, 1632.
Rare first and only edition of this understudied treatise, the first critique of Galileo’s Dialogo, by a staunch proponent of fixed-earth Aristotelianism.
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“Which Is the Best Wine”- BOCK
First Edition of Bock on Gastronomy and Alchemy
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BOCK, Hieronymus. Teutsche Speiszkammer: inn welcher du findest was gesunden vnnd kranken Menschen zur Leibs narung vnd desselben gepresten von nöten. . Strassburg, Wendel Rihel, 1550.
Very rare first edition of the botanist Hieronymus Bock’s gastronomic treatise, Teutsche Speizkammer, or German Larder, a theme the author asserts has never before been treated in German.
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DUERER, Albrecht. Della simmetria de I corpi humani, libri quattro. Venice, Domenico Nicolini, 1591.
A very fresh and attractive copy of the first Italian edition, first issue, of this important handbook for painters, sculptors and anatomical illustrators, translated from the first Latin edition (1528), by Giovanni Gallucci, who added a fifth book.
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GALILEI, Galileo / [MERSENNE, Marin, tr.]. Les Mechaniqves de Galile’e… avec plvsievrs additions rares, & nouuelles, utiles aux Architectes, Ingenieurs, Fonteniers, Philosophes, & Artisans. Paris, Henry Guenon, 1634.
First edition of the earliest printed account of Galileo's work on the physics of moving bodies,is regarded as important by Stillman Drake for "bridging the gap between statics and dynamics" (Galileo on Motion and Mechanics).
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