Separately published large-format chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from four separate woodblocks in distinct color tonalities and brown and buff hues, and featuring striking embossing on thick paper. Conceived in Venice in 1741, this monumental work belongs to Jackson’s historic suite of twenty-four sheets reproducing seventeen masterpieces by 16th-century Venetian masters, including..... More
First edition of the first textbook of astronomy based on Newtonian principles. “Newton thought highly of the book, and communicated, for insertion in it (p. 332), his `lunar theory,' long the guide of practical astronomers in determining the moon's motion. The discussion in the preface, in which the doctrine of..... More
First edition of the bilingual English-German version (following the Italian edition of 1931). Commissioned directly by the City of Genoa under the direction of a special scholarly commission to present an incontrovertible archival defense of Columbus's Genoese identity and ancestry. The work remains an essential visual and textual repository of..... More
These two images originally appeared in Coronelli’s Atlante Veneto, nel quale si contiene la descrittione geografica, storica, sacra, profana, e politica, degl’ universo, published in Venice in 1690. The upper plate includes three different images, each lettered “A” through “C” and keyed to captions below the image area. Shown in..... More
hese two images originally appeared in Coronelli’s Atlante Veneto, nel quale si contiene la descrittione geografica, storica, sacra, profana, e politica, degl’ universo, published in Venice in 1690. The upper engraving depicts the splendor of the royal barge of the King of Siam (modern day Thailand). The vessel is exceptionally..... More
This rare copper engraving captures the tumultuous waters of the “Moskestraumen”, a legendary system of tidal eddies and massive waves found off the Norwegian coast. Known historically as a voragine or vortex, this phenomenon has captivated observers for millennia. The two images originally appeared in Coronelli’s Atlante Veneto, nel quale..... More
These two images originally appeared in Coronelli’s Atlante Veneto, nel quale si contiene la descrittione geografica, storica, sacra, profana, e politica, degl’ universo, published in Venice in 1690. The upper of the two images shows six different representations of waterspouts, a tornado that forms over water. The lower of the..... More
These two images originally appeared in Coronelli’s Atlante Veneto, nel quale si contiene la descrittione geografica, storica, sacra, profana, e politica, degl’ universo, published in Venice in 1690. The upper plate illustrates early Atlantic whaling operations in the North Atlantic. It presents a simultaneous sequence of events—harpooning, the perilous capsizing..... More
A lavish, large-format survey of the Philippine archipelago, produced at the height of the Marcos government's international image campaign and clearly conceived as a showpiece. The volume includes well over a hundred color photographs by Larry Secrist and Jeffrey Aas, organized by region — Luzon, the Visayas, Mindanao, Palawan, and..... More
A superb, three-volume limited edition set, produced to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the monumental and legendary "grand edition" of 1877–1883. Number 0149 of a strictly limited printing of 1,000 copies. Father Manuel Blanco’s seminal Flora de Filipinas (originally published in 1837) remains the most important and comprehesive botanical work..... More
An elegant engraved map of the alpine State of Milan and its strategic trade corridors, originally issued in Giovanni Antonio Magini’s landmark Italia (Bologna, 1620). Centered on lakes Maggiore, Lugano, and Como, the map provides a highly detailed survey of the intricate hydrography and mountain passes connecting Lombardy with the..... More
Extremely rare first edition of this highly original and insufficiently known work on mechanics, which recent scholarship by Camerota and Hellbing has shown to be the most important such work in the generation between Guidobaldo and Galileo. Highlights include the revolutionary view that the true science of motion is the..... More
Second edition, a virtual reprint of the first and an internally superb copy of this classic in experimental science, giving important accounts of experiments conducted by among others Torricelli in the Accademia del Cimento — “the first report from what we would now call a research laboratory” (Middleton)—including experiments in..... More
First edition of the most detailed eighteenth-century biography of Galileo, “particularly important and authoritative because Nelli had discovered Galileo’s papers and had at his disposal an impressive collection of sources” (The Cambridge Companion to Galileo). Nelli’s 18th century biography stands as a comprehensive feat which would not be equaled in..... More
First edition of a text providing new applications for logarithms, the new computational tool by Napier that Cavalieri had recently introduced in Italy. Cavalieri opens by solving 16 problems in planar and 10 problems in spherical geometry, followed by a set of axioms and definitions. Having laid the groundwork, he..... More
A very rare official register of preachers active in Paris and its suburbs during the Advent of 1685—a definitive “who’s-who” of the clergy in Paris during the Grand Siècle. Entries are organized by city sector (e.g., “En la Cité”, “Au Fauxbourg S. Germain”, “En l’Université”), then subdivided by specific parish..... More
Very rare second edition (first, 1568) of this early attack on the Jesuits, written as part of a wider tug-of-war between the Protestants and the Catholics over the right to the teachings of St. Augustine. It provides an early Protestant reaction to the Jesuits’ use of print in polemical disputes..... More
Very rare first German edition (Latin 1721) of the earliest printed work devoted to the Cathedral of St. Stephan, the most important medieval building in Vienna, issued the same year the Vienna Diocese was promoted to an archdiocese by Innocent XIII. This illustrated work provides a detailed history of the..... More
Lively popular scene illustrating a fishmonger at her stand in the Halles, the famous food market in the center of Paris, here displaying her fish for sale. The large characters of the title let us believe that the print might have been conceived for promotional use. The artist, Camille Bourget..... More
A large and vividly colored chromolithograph of the Bowhead Whale — also called the Greenland Whale or Right Whale — from the celebrated series of Austrian school wall charts popularly known as Hartingers Wandtafeln, after the Viennese court chromolithographic firm, k.k. Hof-Chromolithographische Anstalt von Ant. Hartinger & Sohn, that printed..... More
Very rare first edition of Argenti’s detailed eyewitness account of the religious turmoil resulting in the destruction in 1603 of the Jesuit College in Claudiopolis, Transylvania (modern-day Cluj-Napoca, Romania) by hostile Protestant forces. A manuscript of this letter is housed at the Biblioteca Vacelliana in Rome. In the present letter..... More
Rare augmented first edition of this history of early Christian pilgrimage to Rome by the Jesuit scholar Pietro Lazzeri (1710-80). Lazzari’s painstaking study catalogues the motives for Roman pilgrimages undertaken both by famous individuals and as part of popular movements, from the apostolic rush to the imperial capital in the..... More
First edition of the first printed work devoted to the Cathedral of St. Stephen, the most historically important medieval building in Vienna. St. Stephen’s Cathedral had its origins as a Roman basilica (dedicated in 1147). Repeatedly burnt and rebuilt, it was enlarged in the 14th century by Duke Rudolf IV..... More
Extremely rare first and only edition of this abbreviated encyclopedia of Church history from the first century to the end of the eighteenth, with special focus on saints and heretics. Each chapter begins with a five-part list of major figures and events within that century—popes, heretics, councils, ecclesiastical writers and..... More
A fine and very genuine copy of the rare first edition of Pablo José de Arriaga’s meticulous account of the Indians of Peru at the turn of the 17th century. Intended as a manual to help clerics identify and eradicate native “superstitions”, the work is filled with minute details describing..... More