Hafniae [Copenhagen], Typis academicis Martzani sumptibus Petri Hauboldt, Bibl. [printed by Melchior Martzan for Peter Haubold], 1654. The first edition of this important illustrated work on anatomical abnormalities and deformities. Another edition of this first part (centuria I and II) was published by Adriaan Vlacq at the Hague in the..... More
Amstelodami [Amsterdam], Apud Danielem Elsevirium [Elzevir], 1678. A scarce offprint from the 1679 Elzevir edition of Livy's 'History of Rome' (the second and third volumes bearing the date 1678, as here; not to be confused with the 1678 edition in one volume). With an early printed ownership label of 'M..... More
London, Company of Stationers, 1606 [new and corrected edition]/ 1515. With summaries of hundreds of cases heard during the reign of Edward III (1327 to 1377), selected from the Yearbooks and arranged chronologically. The cases range from criminal matters to property disputes. The text, in Law French, is set in..... More
Lugdunum Batavorum [Leiden], Pieter van der Aa, 1693. This edition by Jacobus Gronovius (Jacob Gronow) of 'Res Gestae', the history of Rome by Ammianus Marcellinus, was also issued by van der Aa in quarto format the same year. More
Paris, Chez Rolet Boutonné, 1638 [second edition]/ 1630. The second edition of Claude Mydorge's expanded edition and critique of this popular early work of recreational mathematics, first published in 1624 and usually attributed to Jean Leurechon. Each of Leurechon's mathematical problems is reprinted here in roman type, with Mydorge's explanatory..... More
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London, Printed by Samuel Smith [for John Leusden], 1688. A pocket Psalter with parallel text in Hebrew (Johann Leusden's influential edition) and English (the Authorised Version). In his introduction Leusden dedicates this edition to 'the very Reverend and pious John Eliot. The Indefatigable and faithfull Minister ... and Venerable Apostle..... More
London, Goodwin, 1694 [first edition]. An ink inscription on the half-title states 'By Dr Robinson, B[isho]p of Bristoll' (in 1710). John Robinson (1650-1723) was also Bishop of London from 1714 to 1723; prior to that, he was 'chaplain (c.1680) to English embassy at Swedish court, where he remained more than..... More