Venice: Tipografia di Commercio, 1833.Scarce first edition, in its original editorial binding, of this well-known bibliography and important sourc...

[TOGETHER WITH:] Superstitions anciennes et modernes: prejugés vulgaires qui ont induit les peuples é des usages & é des pratiques contraires à la...

Giovanni Giacomo Hertz, 1690.First and only edition of this iconographically curious work with illustrations engraved by Sister Isabella Piccini, ...

Incomplete copy of this scarce first edition of this collection of symbolic figures for the use of painters and sculptors, by Filippo Pistrucci, R...

Florence: Viviani, 1754-1762.Scarce first edition. Complete work in ten volumes, adorned with 47 engraved plates depicting views of the city, chur...

dall'abate Cesare Orlandi. Perugia: Costantini, 1764-67.18th-century edition of Cesare Ripa's celebrated iconography expanded by Abbot Orlandi and...

Garibaldi da Caprera ed Aspromonte. Milan: Terzaghi, [1862].Fine copy of these two works (the second having never appeared at auction) important d...

1510-1515 (but later impression).Probably late 16th century print of one of Robetta's most famous engravings, based on Filippino Lippi's altarpiec...

and ten horns, 1810.An engraving from the series depicting the Apocalypse of St. John, made between 1809 and 1810 at the behest of Tommaso Puccini...

Nuremberg: Sandrart, [ca. 1690].Clean copy of the German edition of this famous series of plates depicting soldiers and mercenaries engraved by Ru...

Endter, 1768-1775.Second, expanded edition, after the first of 1675-79, of the most important work of Baroque art history. The monumental nature o...

architettura, e di alcune pitture della città di Vicenza. Vicenza: Vendramini Mosca, 1761.A good copy of the first edition of Bertotti Scamozzi's ...

Antwerp: Gaspar Gevaerts, 1635-1641.Collection of the principal plates reproducing the architecture and ephemeral paintings designed by Rubens for...

Scarce second edition, enlarged with 87 plates compared to the first of 1590, of this iconic treatise on ancient and modern costumes, in which the...

Pinciana. Milan: Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 1834.Unopened copies and in the original gatherings of these works enriched with 100 p...

continens quinque ornamenta Architecturae [BOUND WITH:] MAROLOIS, Samuel (1572-1627). Artis muniendi, sive fortificationis. Amsterdam: Janssonius,...

nell'Imperial monistero di S. Ambrogio maggiore, 1779.Italian translation edition of the famous essay defining the canons of pure beauty of ancien...

Venice: Giuseppe Antonelli, 1834.An absolutely genuine copy with the editorial gatherings within a portfolio of the first part of Zanotto's Pinaco...

eseguito nell'Anfiteatro di Milano il giorno 18 ottobre 1807. Milan: Sonzogno, 1807.Lot consisting of two scarce pamphlets and newspapers of the t...

intorno ai globi volanti ove principalmente si parla della direzione assegnabile nella maniera più facile, più semplice, e naturale. Alexandria: V...

[Naples, 1857]. [Naples,1857].Ex dono auctoris copy of this proposed invention for air purification; there is no abundant information on the autho...

Third edition of the plates of the primum mobile, or outer celestial sphere in the Ptolemaic model, for the determination of astrological directio...

Lot comprising the first edition of Mapertius's scientific dissertation on the phenomenon of the earth's crushing at the poles, Burnet's cosmogony...

Valgrisi, 1571.Original edition of this classic of thermal balneology dealing with the geological origins of water and springs, as well as their c...

18th century.Collection of 99 plates from Buffon's Collection des animaux quadrupèdes, published at the Hotel de Thou at the end of the 18th centu...

Scarce first edition collecting the observations of Cesalpino, the first to have used the term 'circulatio sanguinis' on blood circulation and sou...

Rome: Mascardi, 1616.Very rare first edition of De Purpura and Pars Altera. This work by Fabio Colonna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, is of ...

coltiuar la terra...la proprietà de tutti i frutti et herbe, la natura de tutti gli animali et uccelli. Venice: Viani, 1538.Famous and scarce trea...

Original edition of one of the most important treatises on optics that not only synthesises all knowledge on the subject, from Euclid to Kepler, b...

Revised second edition, published two years after the first, also printed in Leiden. Descartes started the work in 1630, but decided not to publis...

Troiséme edition. Livorno: De l'Imprimerie des editeurs, 1770-1779.Partial collection of the second Italian edition (third overall), in an armoria...

A skilfully restored copy, complete with over 900 woodcuts of medicinal plants from Europe and the East and West Indies. Each species includes, in...

le crédit, pour servir de Recherches & Considérations nouvelles sur les Finances. Paris: Moutard, Desenne, 1789 [BOUND WITH:]. Recherches et consi...

Trade catalogue never sold at auction (RBH) of the famous firm of greenhouse and garden seeds and trees founded by Martin Burdin (1740-1820), a pu...

Curious description of an insect probably belonging to the Hemerobiidae family with numerous detailed illustrations of its composition. An interes...

Scarce second complete edition, printed directly from the original 1552 plates made by Giulio de Musi (1520-1574) from drawings by the Author and ...

The first copy of this edition of Fioravanti's work on medical practice to appear at auction (RBH), having belonged to a woman, Margherita Grilla ...

Scarce late 16th-century edition of this collection of pharmaceutical and alchemical remedies and secrets written by one of the most peculiar figu...

8vo, (140 x 90 mm). Woodcut initials and decorations (tear to lower right corner touching text, browning, light wear). Contemporary vellum bindi...

Scarce second edition, after the first of 1521, of this important work on mathematics, here revised and considerably enlarged. It is a well-explai...

colophon), 1607.Original edition of this treatise in which the author applies astrology to medicine, supporting its legitimate use but condemning ...

Valgrisi, 1597.Scarce late 16th-century edition of one of the best-known herbaria, illustrated with over 1000 woodcuts depicting the medicinal pla...

indigenarum descriptiones et icones. St. Petersburg: Typographia imperiali J.J. Weitbrecht, 1784-1788.Copy with the extremely scarce plates publis...

First edition of one of the most artistically accurate anatomical atlases ever produced. The drawings were made around 1618 by the great Baroque p...

Copy of this scarce edition of the corpus of works by Paul of Aegina. It is a compendium in seven books, held in high esteem by Arabic physicians ...

trentaquattro sorti di esso male. Venice: Lodovico Avanzi, 1556.First edition of this treatise in the Italian vernacular on syphilis and its remed...

1704.'Saturn in the house of Mars rules this leap year of 1704. This planet is cold and damp, sometimes giving good fortune, and sometimes taking ...

Nuremberg: Fleischmann, 1749-1764.4 volumes, of 9 in total, of the first German edition published between 1749 and 1776. The text combines Georg L...

Paris: J.B. Crepy, 1760.Important work on anatomy for the use of artists, first published in 1667 and preceded only by van der Gracht's Anatomy of...

communication lateral du mouvement dans les fluides, applique a l'explication de differens phenomenes hydrauliques. Paris: Houel et Ducros, 1797.G...

premier-troiseme de Hollande. Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, [1729].A very rare collection on Holland from the monumental collection 'Galerie Agr?able...

premier-troiseme de Hollande. Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, [1729].Complete collection devoted to Zeeland, complete with all the plates and in good c...

Savoie. Paris: Renouard andGuers, 1812.Fine copy of this scarce first edition of Leschevin's account of his voyage, in the introduction to which t...

Piémont, la Savoye, le comté de Nice, le Vallais, le duché de Génes, le Milanais, et partie des états limitrophes. Paris,1820.One of the most impo...

Copy of the first and only Italian translation of this encyclopaedic work dedicated to the American continent. The English original, published in ...

Montreal: Dawson Brother, 1872.First edition of this important history of Canada designed to familiarize English-speaking citizens with the histor...

1827.Atlas with contemporary colouring, the plates of which were designed by Arrowsmith, appointed Hydrographer of the King in 1820.4to, (286 x 23...

[Bologna: Giuseppe Longhi, c.a. 1673].Italian print of the map of America from the famous series of the four continents first published by Blaeu i...

[Bologna: Giuseppe Longhi, c.a. 1673].Italian print of the map of Asia from the famous series of the four continents first published by Blaeu in 1...

Scarce first edition, printed on thick paper, of the first scientific and systematic study of the history of Malta. [Schembri] aggiunge che questa...