Sales catalogue 61: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/3
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 61: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ScrENcE, Microscopy—continued. interested in microscopes through the work of Ledermiiller, but he was not satisfied with Ledermiiller’s Miscroscope and invented one of his own, which is described and illustrated here. MINERALOGY. 327 Mazzotta (R. P. D. Benedictus a Novoli) De triplici philosophia naturali astrologia et minerali. Bologna, J. B. Ferronius, 1653 £1 10s 4to. Half calf. One engraved plate of meteors and table of winds, several woodcuts in text. A rare book on natural science. The second book deals with minerals and the third book with astrology. 328 Montalbano (Marchese Marco della Fratta) Catascopia Minerale ouero modo di far saggio d’ogni miniera metalica. Bolog- na, Manolessi, 1676 £1 5s 4to. Calf. Full-page copperplate in four divisions, showing methods of working a furnace. A very rare work on assaying metals. NATURAL HISTORY. 329 Alpinus (Prosper) MHistoriae Aegypti Naturalis, Pars Prima et Pars Secunda (De Plants Egypti). Leyden, Gerard Potuliet, 1735 17s 6d Thick 4to. Vellum. Each volume has a separate title, and the second has notes by Vesling. 25 remarkably fine folding engraved plates of plants and animals to the first and 47 to the second, besides 6 un-numbered plates to Vesling’s treatise. The author was professor of Botany at Padua. He is said to have been the first European writer to mention the Coffee Plant, which he saw growing at Cairo. Contains descriptions of the India-rubber tree, tamarind, and of balsam plants and their effects. Finely illustrated book. 330 Aristotle. Habentur hoc volumine haec Theodoro Gaza interprete: Aristotelis de natura animalium, de partinus animalium, de generatione animalium. N.p.d. [Lyons, c. 1505] 10s 6d 8vo. Mottled calf. This book, which was printed in the style of the smaller Aldines, was apparently copied from the folio Aldine edition of 1504. According to the title there should be two more volumes, but these are scarcely ever found. Brunet I. 474. 331 Castelli (Petrus) De Hyaena Odorifera. Frankfort, W. Hoffman, 1641 5s 12mo. Contemp. boards, uncut. 3 engraved folding plates and woodcut border to title. A rare little monograph on the musk-bearing Civet cat. Pages dampstained. OPTICS. 332 Taylor (Brook) Linear Perspective: or a New Method of Representing justly all manner of Objects as they appear to the Eye in all Situations. A work necessary for Painters, Architects...London, R. Knaplock, 1715 17s 6d 8vo. Orig. boards, leather back. Pretty vignette and 18 plates of diagrams. Bound with :— New Principles of Linear Perspective... London, R. Knaplock, 1719 17s 6d 13 folding engraved plates at the end.. ‘* Contains the earliest general enunciation of the principle of vanishing points.’”’— Ball. First editions of the first English works treating. the subject of perspective scientifically. 27 PAL AZOGRAPHY. 333 Baringius (D. E.) Clairs diplomatica specimina veterum scripturarum tradens... praemissa est Bibliotheca Scriporum rei Diplomatice. Hanover, N. Foerster and Sons, 1754 15s 4to. Vellum. 24 plates, reproducing old alphabets and documents. An important work on palaeo- graphy, with a bibliography of writers on the subject. PHOTOGRAPHY. 334 Delamotte (P. H.) The Practice of Photo- graphy. Second Edition, illustrated with a photographic picture printed from a collodion negative. London, Photographic Institution, 1855 5s 8vo. Cloth. PHYSICS. 335 (Magalotti (Lorenzo)] Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell’ Accademia del Cimento, sotto la protezione del serenis- simo principe Leopoldo di Toscana, e descritte dal segretario di essa accademia. Florence, Giuseppe Cocchini, 1666 £2 2s Folio. Old vellum. Title in red and black. Engraved head and tail pieces and large woodcut initial letters, and many full-page engraved plates of scientific experiments, each one being repeated right through every chapter. The ‘“‘ segretario- del 1’Accademia’”’ was Magalotti, a distinguished physicist and poet. The book describes experi- ments on air-pressure, including an early account of Torricelli’s invention of the barometer, ex- periments with magnets, on capillarity, etc., etc. AS eet handsome piece of printing and interesting ook, SEXUAL SCIENCE. 336 Sanchez (Thomas S. J., of Cordova,) Dis- putationum de Sto. Matrimonii sacramento, Libri III. Venice, Giunta, 1625 £3 3s 3 vols in 1, folio. Old limp vellum, back torn. Title in red and black. T. Sanchez, a Jesuit and Casuist (1551-1610), wrote this celebrated work for the special use of confessors and preachers. But as it deals with every possible type of sexual immorality and aberration Sanchez was formally reprimanded and his work (specially the 3rd volume) placed on the index. SPAIN. 337 Cervantes. Novelle...nuovamente tras- portate dalla lingua Italiana nella nostra Castigliana, da Donato Fontana. Milan, Bart. Vallo and Alberto Besozzo, 1627 £1 1s 8vo. Old fancy boards. The second edition of Cervantes’ Exemplary Novels in Italian. 338 Cervantes. L’Ingegnoso Cittadino Don Chisciotte dello Mancia...traduzione nuo- vissima. Venia, Alvisopoli,J1818 15s 8 pts. in 4 vols, 8vo. Original half binding. Charming series of plates by Novelli. This excellent translation is due to Gamba, the Italian biblio- grapher. 339 De la Marche (Olivier) El Cavallero deter- minado tradizido de lengua Francesa en
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