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Credit: Sales catalogue 93: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![other physicians. Sinibaldi (1594-1658) was professor at the Archiginnasio Romano in Rome, and his chief subjects were physiology and obstetrics. The book 1s divided in 10 sections, and each section has a separate leaf with title, and dedication at the beginning. These leaves are misbound in our copy altogether at the beginning of the book. GEOGRAPHICAL INCUNABLE PRINTED IN JENSON’S ROMAN TYPE. 192 SOLINUS. De Situ Orbis et memorabilibus mundi. Venice, Nicolas Jenson, 1473 £60 Small folio. Old red morocco gilt, ornamental borders, gilt back, g.e. 67 leaves (one of the three blank leaves 1s missing). Roman characters. 33 lines. No headlines, signatures or pagination. Blank spaces with guide letters left open for capital letters. First dated edition of this famous work on geography. It1s printedin Jenson’s beautiful Roman type. A very fine copy of this rare book from the Pembroke library. Hain 14877. B.M. Cat. V.,173. Proctor 4089. 193 [SPINOZA (Benedictus de)] Tractatus Theologico-Politicus continens | Dissertationes aliquot, quibus ostenditur Libertatem Philosophandi non tantum salva Pietate & Reipublicae Pace posse concedi; sed eandem nisi cum Pace Reipublicae, ipsaque Pietate tolli non posse. Hamburg, Henricus Kinraht, 1670 £15/15/- 4to. Oldvellum, rebacked. 61l., 233 pp. First issue of the first edition. This ts Spinoza’s principal work and the only one published by him in his lifetime. “The first document in the modern science of Biblical criticism. An eloquently reasoned defence of liberty of thought and speech in speculative matters. Spinoza undertakes to prove his case by the instance of the Hebrew Scriptures” (Enc. Bnit.). There are four different issues of the first edition of this book. While the other three ave rare, but sometimes met with in commerce, the first tssue 1s a book of outstanding rarity, its existence having been established only comparatively recently, when a copy was discovered by J. P. N. Land. It is probable that this 1s also the only issue which was corrected and published by Spinoza himself, as the other three issues, although bearing the date 1670 were probably not published till 1673. Unknown to van der Linde. 194 STATUTA DELPHINATUS.—Libertates per illustrissimos principes del- _ phinos vienneses delphinalibus subditis concesse statutaque et decreta ab eisdem principibus necnon magnificis delphinatus praesidibus quos guber- natores dicunt et excelsum delphinalem senatum edita. Grenoble, For Fran- ciscus Pichat and Bartholomeus Bertolet, N.D. [circa 1508] £20 4to. Gothic char. 45 1l., 4 unnumbered +lxxxvi11. numbered +2 unnumbered 4+- 37 numbered ff. Title in red and black with woodcut arms. Modern morocco. Excessively rare book, one of the earliest products of the press of Grenoble. Des- champs, p. 584, col. 2, gives a long account of this book, quoting from M. Gariel, in whose opinion the three parts were printed in 1489, 1501 and 1505 respectively, and who bases his opinions on arguments quoted in the work cited above. The actual printer of the book is uncertain. Were Pichat and Olivet merely booksellers or were they also printers? The present copy is particularly interesting as containing on the title-page the autograph signature of Etienne Forest, the first Grenoble printer. It 1s possible that he may have been the printer of the present book. The last two parts of the book are in the French language. There are many ordonnances relating to commerce, notably the silk trade. Fine copy of a book froma rare provincial press. The Dunn copy. \](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33156633_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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