8 BORELLI (J. A.) . . de Motu Animalium

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ac Dissertationibus Physico-Mechanicis de Motu Musculorum, et de Effervescentia et Fermentatione . . . J. Bernoullii . . . Sm. 4to., with 19 plates, hf.

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another edition. Sm. 4to., with 19 plates; old calf gilt

Lugd. Bat., 1710 10 BRAHE (TYC-ONIS) et F. B, GROSSCHEDEL AB AICHA, CALENDARIUM NATURALE MAGICUM perpetuum profundissimam Rerum secretissimarum contemplationem totiusiue Philosophiae cognitionem complectens, Io. THEODORE DE BRY, excudeb. large engraving (39 by 22 inches), mounted on cloth 1582 A very great curiosity, excessively rare and nearly unique, not more than three copies being known,

11 CABEUS. PHILOSOPHIA MAGNETICA, in qva Magnetis Natvra penitvs explicatvr, et omnivm qvæ hoc Lapide cernuntur, causæ propriæ afferuntur . . . Auctore NICOLAO CABEO . . . M.DC.XXIX. Folio, with engraved title and numerous woodcuts; bound in old French olive morocco fleurs-de-lis on back, and semis of the same on sides with plain centre panels, gilt edges; FINE COPY; RARE; "Domus probat. Paris. Soc. Jesu " on title

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12 CALCULS ASTROLOGIQUES AVEC PEINTURES (probably compiled at the birth of the heir of Philippe d'Orleans). Folio, MS. on 68 leaves of paper, with finely painted mythological scenes, figures, and decoration; bound in citron morocco extra, probably by Bozérian, and lettered with the title given above; with the bookplate of Reginald Cholmondeley

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The decoration is very elegant, and the figures are painted in the style of Bouchet --perhaps by Philippe d'Orleans (afterwards Regent of France). The combination of circumstances which leads to this conjecture is that the decoration work is pure French of the time, while the language used in the tables is German, and on leaf 65 which gives "Des Himels Lauf von Augustus 1703" there is a note in the margin of the table "Der Herzog von Chartres ist den 4 dieses Monats geboren." What German, able to command the services of the courtly French art which is here visible, could have been so interested in the little Duc de Chartres, first son of the Duc d'Orleans, as the mother of the latter Prince-namely Madame, Elizabeth-Charlotte of Bavaria, who lived on for abont twenty years after her grandson's birth and who to the last stuck loyally to her native German speech.

13 CARDANUS. Hieronymi Carda'ni . . de Rerum Varietate libri XVII. . . Basileæ, anno M.D.LVII. With portrait and many woodcuts.-PORTA. Phytognomonica Io. Baptistae Portae Neap. octo libris contenta Neapoli... 1588. With numerous woodcut figures of plants-in 1 vol., folio, old stamped pigskin 1557-1588 18

14 CLUSII (Caroli)

(Caroli) ... Exoticarum libri decem: Quibus Animalium, Plantarum, Aromatum aliorumque perigrinorum Fructuum historia describuntur: item Petri Bellonii Observationes . . . Folio, with numerous woodcuts; slightly wormed; vellum, rare

[Lugd. Bat.] Ex Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1605 Also, containing N. Monardii. . . libri tres, Magna Medicinæ Secreta at varia Experimenta continentes, 54 pp. of which pp. 37-54 are in MS.

15 DELPHINI (Federici) . . . De flvxv et reflvxv aqvae maris. . . disputatio: ejusdem de motv octavae sphaerae. Sm. folio, with diagrams; green morocco extra, gold borders, from Sir J. Thorold's Inbrary

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16 [FOCARD (J.)]. Paraphrase de l'Astrolabe. . . Reuue & corrigee par IAQUES BASSENTIN Escossois, auec vne Amplificacion de l'Vsage de l'Astrolabe par luimesme aioutee . . . Sm. 4to., with woodcut volvelles and diagrams, vellum, gilt edges, very rare

Lyon, 1555

Bassentin held a distinguished place among the astronomers of his age. He was also credited with astrological powers, and it is said that he predicted the downfall and fate of Mary Queen of Scots. Sir James Melvil states that his brother Sir Robert, when endeavouring to reconcile the two Queens, Elizabeth and Mary, met with one Bassantin, a man learned in the high sciences, who told him that all his labour would be in vain.

"For they will never meet together; and next there will never be anything but dissembling and secret hatred, for a while; and at length, captivity and utter wreck to our Queen from England."

17 FRANCK. Von dem grewlichem laster der trunckenheyt . . . durch Sebastian Franck . . . Sm. 4to., bds.

1531 1 4 0

The rather coarse woodcut on the title is a representation of a banquet, with the guests in various stages of intoxication.

18 GALILEO GALILEI, DIALOGO, sopra i due massimi SISTEMI del MONDO Tolemaico e Copernicano. Sm. 4to., with two engraved titles, one being A PROOF BEFORE LETTERS, fine large copy, red morocco extra, by Bedford Fiorenza, G. B. Landini, 1632 12 10 0 This edition is very rare, having been suppressed.

19 GILBERT. GUILIELMI GILBERTI Colcestrensis. . de Magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure . . . Smallest folio, woodcuts, old calf, rebacked, very rare

Sig. V is not contained in this copy and A 1 is defective.

1600

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20 Gilbert.. De Magnete, Magneticisque; corporibus & magno Magnete tellure opera & studio W. Lochmans. . . Sm. 4to., frontispiece, plates and diagrams; calf, very fine copy

21

Sedini, 1628 another edition. Sm. 4to., plates and diagrams; calf Sedini, 1633 A work containing many curious experiments and ingenious suggestions, and a complete history of all that had been written on the subject before Gilbert's time. He was the discoverer of many of the properties of the loadstone, and his researches form the basis of many important recent inventions.

22 HARVEY (Gideon) Archelogia Philosophica Nova, or New Principles of Philosophy. Sm. 4to., plates; calf 1663 23 HERO OF ALEXANDRIA. Gli Artifitiosi et Curiosi Moti Spiritali di HERRONE. Tradotti da G. B. Aleotti, aggiontoui dal medisimo Quattro Theoremi. Sm. 4to., fine woodcuts of inventions and machinery, crushed red morocco, with inside gilt borders, gilt edges, by Roger de Coverley Ferrara, V. Baldini, 1589 The rare first edition. Excellently illustrating, in a highly scientific manner, many of the principles of mechanics.

De Gli Automati, ouero Machine se moventi, Libri due, tradotti dal Greco da B. Baldi. Sm. 4to., engraved title, copperplate engravings and woodcut figures, mottled calf extra, uncut, very rare in this state Venetia, G. B. Bertoni, 1601 25 HERONIS Alexandri Spiritalium liber, à Fed. Commandino ex græco in Latinum conversus. Sm. 4to., copperplate eugravings of Hydraulic Inventions and machinery, sd.

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26 HERO OF ALEXANDRIA'S Pneumatics, translated for and edited by B. Woodcroft. Sm. 4to., numerous cuts, cloth

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Recherches sur la Vie et les Ouvrages d'Heron d'Alexandre, par
H. MATIN, 4to., hf. calf

Paris, 1854

28 HORTUS SANITATIS. Sm. folio, with hundreds of woodcuts, but not
quite complete; in the original binding, rebacked (Cologne, about 1490)
This edition (8941 Han) is considered by Mr. Proctor to have been printed at
Cologne by Quentell about 1490. It ought to contain 360 leaves, double columns, 55
lines to the column; with signatures a-z, Aa-li; A-V; and aa-ee, all in sixes
except a, 1, s, Bb, Ff, A, D, 1, R, V, which are eights, and ee which has four leaves.
In the above copy the following leaves are missing: a1, 2, 8; r2; A1; aa and bb;
dd1, 2, 5, 6; and ee 2, 3, 4. Thus it contains 336 leaves out of 360.

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29 HORTUS SANITATIS. Title: Ortus sanitatis. On the reverse a full-
page woodcut with 9 figures. On fol. 248a ends the Tractatus de Herbis.
Fol. 249a: Tractatus de Animalibus | vitam in terris ducentium. On
the reverse
a full-page woodcut. Fol. 299a: Tractatus de Auibus.
On the reverse a full-page woodcut (mended). On Fol. 334b a full-page
woodcut. Fol. 335a: De Piscibus. | On fol. 364b a full-page
woodcut. Fol. 365a: De Lapidibus. | Fol. 409a: Tractatus de
Vrinis. On the reverse a full-page woodcut. On fol. 422b a full-page

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woodcut. Foll. 423-453 are occupied by Tables, and on the reverse of 453
is the long colophon: Iacobus meydenbach ciuis Moguntinus

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luculetissime impressit. . . in inclita ciuitate Moguntina . . . Anno
salutis Millesimo Quadringentesimo Nonagesimo primo..

Small folio, printed in double columns, with hundreds of woodcuts
(including 7 of full-page dimensions, which are among the most remark-
able productions of German work before the time of Dürer) several of
them in contemporary colouring; a few pages waterstained and some
ancient MS. notes on blank spaces; vellum binding with the bookplate of
the Hauslab collection; size in inches 11 by 73
Mentz, 1491 30 0

the same. Folio, a very large and fine uncut copy (12 in. by 8 in.),
without the Tabula but with that of the Strassburg edition
same date inserted; bound in two calf extra volumes

of about the
1491 31 10
This is beyond all comparison the finest illustrated edition of the Hortus Sanitatis,
and is likewise the rarest. Not only the large woodcuts, but many of the smaller ones
may be regarded as effective works of genre drawing. There are, besides the illustra-
tions of the herbal and the animal kingdom, designs of doctors and patients, and work.
men at their various labours, as well as incidental accessories in treatment which
raise this book beyond the ordinary level of an illustrated work of popular
science.

The colophon contains a contribution to the history of Typography. After the word Mentz it goes on with in which most noble city was first invented this most subtle art and science of characterising or printing. Meydenbach is believed to have been a son of the man (similarly named) who cut the letters for the Psalter of 1457.

30 HORTUS SANITATIS, quatuor libris haec quæ subsequuntur complectens. De Animalibus & Reptilibus. Auibus & Volatilibus. Piscibus & Natatilibus. Gemmis & in ueuis terræ nascentibus Argentorati per Mathiam Opiarium Anno M.D.XXXVI.

Sm. folio, with over 500 fine woodcuts; a few of the preliminary leaves slightly stained; boards, calf back

1536

31 KIRCHERI (Athanasii) Ars Magna Sciendi, in XII libros digesta. Folio, no frontispiece, numerous diagrams, old calf Amstelodami, 1669 32 LEONICI (Nicolai) Thomæi Opuscula (in Aristotelem et Proclum) nuper in lucem edita. 8vo., woodcut border to title, dark green morocco, gilt gauffered edges, by Bedford Venetiis in ædibus Gregorii de Gregoriis, 1524 Containing Treatises on the motion and generation of Animals.

33 LUCAR (Cyprian) A Treatise named LUCAR SOLACE, devided into
fower Bookes, which in part are collected out of diverse authors in
diverse languages. Sm. 4to., with folding woodcuts, including a singular
one of a primitive fire-engine at work, diagrams, &c. (some margins
shaved, woodcuts mended), old calf, RARE

R. Field for Jo. Harrison, 1590
A curious treatise, principally on the art of measuring.

34 LULLIUS. Practica cōpendiosa artis Raymüdi Lul. Explanatio com-
pediosaq applicatio artis. . Raymundi Lull. ad oes facultates: per
Bernardu de lauinheto. . Sm. folio, Gothic Letter, title within woodcut
border and many woodcuts in the text, fine copy in stamped hogskin, rare

name.

Impressum in edibus Joannis Moylin al's de Cambray . . 1523
The leaf after the colophon contains the printer's mark with Symon Vincentius'

Among other subjects Lullius treats of mathematics, music, astrology, perspective,
agriculture, architecture, navigation, medicine.

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35 MANFREDI [LIBRO DEL PERCHE]. Fol. la blank, lb : MEA interest magnifice ac generose Miles Iohannes d bentiuoliis | ut in omib3 his quib; meæ sufficiūt uires. . Fol. 2a: LIBER DE HOMINE Fol. 13a: [P]ERCHE EL SOPERCHIO NE LE COSE Che | noi uieumo: & lo idebito mō del uiue nostro: idu ce i noi egritudie. Fol. 109a: FINIS LAVS DEO AMEN; BONONIAE IMPRESSVM PER ME VGONEM RVGERI | VM. ET DONINVM BERTOCHVM REGIENSES ANNO. | DOMINI. M.CCCC.LXXIIII. DIE. PRIMA IVLII. Small folio, 109 leaves, 40 long lines to the page, without signatures and foliation; russia gilt

Bologna, 1474 12 0 0

The first book printed upon the subject of Anthropology; containing a good deal of very curious matter which is said to have been modified or exercised in later editions. The author was Hieronimo Manfredi.

36 MAURO (M. Fiorentino) Annotationi sopra la Lettione della Spera del Sacro Con... una Nuova traduttione di detta Spera, Sm. 4to., woodcuts, half green morocco

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37 MEDIEVAL MEDICINE. De Cura Morborum .
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twelfth century; some leaves wanting; 66 leaves, 37 lines to the page;
bound in old English rough calf

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This is a work in seven (?) books, of which the seventh book (on Fevers, etc.) begins on the last page with the words Nunc diligentius et valde consideremus et in quantum possumus v. pensemus quale vel quantum ipsa febris juxta suum virtutem vel juxta suum genus sintoma afferat egrotanti. On the first page, which is probably the second or third or fourth leaf of the book, the first paragraph begins Sanguinis eruptio sine vulnere si fuerit et sine dolore.

There are some scribblings of the early part of Henry VIII's reign by an Englishman named Haminant.

38 NORMAN. The NEWE ATTRACTIUE, containyng a short discourse of the Magnes or Lodestone, and amongest other his vertues, of a newe discouered secret and subtill propertie, concernyng the Declinyng of the Needle, touched therewith under the plaine of the Horizon. Now first founde out by ROBERT NORMAN Hydrographer. Hereunto are annexed certaine necessarie rules for the art of Nauigation, by the same R. N... 1581.-[BOROUGH]. A DISCOVRS of the VARIATION of the CUMPAS, or Magneticall Needle. Wherein is Mathematically shewed, the maner of the obseruation, effectes, and application thereof, made by W. B. And is to be annexed to the Newe Attractiue of R. N. 1581.

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39

In 1 vol., sm. 4to., Black Letter, diagrams; Fii, Fiii, and Gii
of the "Discourse
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In all, 27 (of 30) U.
The Newe Attractive, shewing the nature, propertie, and manifold
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thereof, for finding the true Variation of the Compas: .. by maister
W: BURROWES . . . 1614. Sm. 4to., calf extra, gilt edges, by Rivière
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40 PTOLEMY, Xylographic Title: Epytoma Ioanis De mōte regio In almagestū
ptolomei. Colophon: Explicit Magne Compositionis Astronomicon
Epitoma Iohannis de Regio monte. . . Sm. folio, gothic letter,
numerous diagrams, with beautiful woodcut initials, and one page with
an exquisite arabesque border; the first and last leaves mounted; green
morocco extra, gilt edges

Opera quoqz arte Iohannis häman de Landoia: dictus hertzog
In hemispherio Veneto: Anno salutis. . 1496...

The artistic decoration of this volume is very fine, the arabesque border, the wood-
cut initials, and the printer's mark being engraved in white on black ground, evidently
by the same hand which designed the illustrations in the Sarum Missal printed by Herzog
in 1494.

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41 SOLINI (Cai Julii) Reru memorabilium collectanem, Solini' Auētino Salute. Sm. 4to., yellow morocco, gilt edges

Impressum parma per Andream Portiliam, 1480 42 STOEFFLERI (Ioannis) Calendarivm Romanvm magnum. Sm. folio, Roman letter, with the exception of Gothic headings; printed in red and black, with numerous diagrams representing eclipses of the moon, and a couple of woodcuts, typical of each month, to every page of the calendar, calf Oppenheym per Jacobum Köbel, 1518

the same.

Sm. folio, with the title and woodcuts coloured, in the original oak boards

1518

The number of diagrams, and elaborate tables printed in red and black, the woodcuts and the general apparatus, make this a book of imposing character. 43 STOFLER. Elvcidatio Fabricae Vsvsque Astrolabii, Ioanne Stoflerino Iustingensi authore . . . Lvtetiae . . . 1553. 12mo., with folding tables and woodcut diagrams; in the original stamped vellum In the same vol.: Theoricae novae Planetarvm Georgii Pvrbachii M.D.XLIII; with woodcuts.

...

1553

Parisiis . . .

qvorum sex doctrinam

Folio, title mended,

44 TAISNIER. Opus mathematicum octo libros complectens
priores . . . Cheiromantiae Theoricam, Praxim,
continent. . . Authore D. Joanne Taisnierio . .
with physiognomical portraits and hundreds of woodcuts; old calf
rebacked
Colon. Agrip., 1583
The seventh book treats of Physiognomy, the eighth of Astrology.
45 PUTEANI (Eryci) Circulus Urbanianus sive Linea Apxnuesin compendio
descripta:de quatuor Principiis Diei ab A. V. Io. Boyvinio.
theoresis. 2 vols. in 1, sm. 4to., vellum, arms on sides

Lovanii, 1632

Two treatises on the computation of time, according to the method established by
Pope Urban VIII.

46 RIDLEY. A Short Treatise of Magneticall Bodies and Motions. By
MARKE RIDLEY . . . 1613. Sm. 4to., engraved title, portrait, and
diagrams; a few contemporary annotations on one or two of the margins;
bright morocco, edges rough gilt

47

1613

the same. Sm. 4to., title and 1 leaf (Sig. O1) missing; vellum 1613 The author, in his preface, deals tolerantly with the many and varied theories concerning magnetic bodies, instancing many of the most notable from those of Pliny and Nicander to that of Robert Norman. He is however particularly emphatic concerning the production of perpetual motion by means of the load-stone, he finding it "by the experience of many ingenious practices. unpossible to be done." 48 TARTALEA. Nova Scientia inventa da Nicolo Tartalea . . . Sm. 4to., with many mathematical diagrams, bds. In Venetia, 1537

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The woodcuts include representations of cannon, illustrating the principles of markmanship. 49 THEATRUM CHEMICUM præcipuos selectorum Auctorum Tractatus de Chemiæ et Lapidis Philosophici antiquitate, veritate, jure, præstantia, & operationibus, continens, 6 vols., stout sm. 8vo., calf rebacked, scarce

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Argent., 1659-61
50 WRIGHT. Popular Treatises on Science written during the Middle Ages, in
Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English. Edited from the original
MSS. by Thomas Wright. Svo., cloth Historical Soc. of Science, 1841 0 10

Transactions of Learned Societies and some
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Royal Society of London:

51 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS of the Royal Society of London, A COMPLETE SET unabridged from the beginning in 1665 to 1896, inclusive, being vols. I-CLXXXVII, with GENERAL INDEXES to 1665-1830, and the EXTRA VOLUMES published in 1878 and 1896;-4to. with an immense number of plates; the first eighty-three vols. bound