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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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Overlooked Editio Princeps:
Of the First Treatise On Conic Sections
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APOLLONIUS OF PERGA / Ed. MEMO, Giovanni Battista.. Opera per doctissimum Philosophum Ioannem Baptistam Memum…de Graeco in Latinum Traducta & Noviter impressa. Venice, Bernardo Bindoni, 1537.
Very rare editio princeps of Apollonius Conics (Books I-IV), the basic treatise on the subject, “which recognized and named the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola.” – Horblit 4 (on the later edition of 1566).
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ARAMBURU de la Cruz, Dr. Don Manuel Vincente. Historia Chronológica de la Santa Angélica, y Apostólica Capilla de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de la Ciudad de Zaragoza, y de los Progressos de Sus Reedificaciones. Zaragoza, En la Imprenta del Rey Nuestro Señor, 1766.
Very rare and sole edition of this work documenting the history, architecture, and festivals of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pilar, the largest Baroque church in Spain.
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The Doges Of Venice
As Seen In Their Portraits
In The Palazzo Dogale
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BARDI, Girolamo. Dichiaratione di tutte le Istorie, che si sontengenono nei Quadri posti novamente nelle Sale dello Scrutinio, & del Gran Consiglio, del Palagio Ducale. Venice, F. Valgrigio, 1587.
First edition of this potted version of Venetian history as seen through the portraits and other paintings hanging in or decorating some of the public rooms of the Palazzo Dogale after the fire of 1577, of art historical interest for the disposition of numerous famous Venetian paintings during the 16th century.
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The Most Influential Star Atlas of Its Time
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BAYER, Johann. Uranometria, omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, series laminis expressa. Augsburg, Christophorus Magnus, 1603.
A spectacular copy of the rare first edition of the most influential star atlas published in the first half of the seventeenth century and the first to represent the stars of the southern latitudes.
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