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'The earliest first-hand Dutch descriptions of the Ladrones (Marianas),
the Philippines, and Borneo.' -- Lach. Asia III.1.442
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DE BRY, Theodor.. Americae Nona & Postrema Pars. Frankfurt, Matthias Becker, 1602.
First Latin edition of the ninth part of the De Bry's Grand Voyages, containing an extremely important account of a Pacific voyage by Olivier van Noort -- as well as much ethnographic material relating to the indigenous Indian culture of Mexico and Peru.
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"Europe's Best Observatory" - Dibner
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HEVELIUS, Johannes. Machinae Coelestis pars prior; Organographiam, sive Instrumentum Astronomicorum omnium, quibus Auctor hactenus Sidera rimatus, ac dimensus est. Danzig, Simon Reininger for the Author, 1673.
Extremely rare first edition of this lavishly illustrated, privately printed description by Hevelius of his observatory, "Stellaburgum".
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PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro. De le stelle fisse Libro Vno; Doue di tutte le XLVIII Imagin celesti minutissimamente si tratta…. Venice, Giouanni Varisco & Compagni, 1564.
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With 194 Illustrations Of Machines
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RAMELLI, Agostino. Le Diverse et Artifiose Machine... Nelle quali si contengono varii et industriosi Movimenti, degni di Grandissima Speculatione, per cavarne beneficio infinito in ogni sorte d'operatione. Paris, for the author, 1588.
First and sole edition of this profusely illustrated landmark on early technology, and along with Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556), the most influential and copied of all the early illustrated manuals of inventions and machines.
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An Astronomical Perpetual Calendar
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SCANAVACCA, Bartolomeo. Novissima Inventione per dissegnare con grandissima facilite prestezza Horologi Solari, Italiani, Babilonici, e Francesi. Padova, Stamperia del Seminario per Bernardo Luciani, 1688.
Rare first and sole edition of this description of a sundial of the author's invention, which functioned as an astronomical perpetual calendar: determining for any day of the year the sun's rising, noon, setting, and mid-night, place of the sun in the Zodiac, etc. The work explains how to take basic measurements and co-ordinate them with the known physical points of Northern Italian cities through the calendar.
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