Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: R Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BOTANY continued. 108. Sweertius, Mmanuelis. Florilegium. Two parts. 21 leaves (text). With frontispice, large portrait, and 110 excellent engraved plates. Folio. Vellum. Frankfurt, 1612. Italian Lire 400.— Pritzel 9073. First edition of this very esteemed work. 109. Sweertius, Emanuelis. Florilegium. 19 leaves. With /rontispice and 110 engraved plates. Folio. Boards. Frankfurt, 1615. Lit. 375.— This edition seems to be unknown to Pritzel which quotes only the first and other editions after 1620, - Somewhat waterstained. 110. Tournefort, Joseph Pitton. Institutiones rei herbariae. Three vols. With two frontisp., several vigneltes and 476 finely engra- ved full gage plates. 4to. Old calf (bindings slightly damaged). Paris, 1700. i Lit. 220.— Pritzel 9427. Tournefort, eminent among even the greatest promotors of botany, was also its historian. The first pages of his Institutiones are occupied with an abridged history of the science during two thou- sand years preceding his own date. Tournefort undertook now a new systematization of the world of plants. - A few stains. 111. (Calligraphy). ‘Tiranti, Honorato di Saorgio. La teorica e prattica dello scrivere cancellaresco et altri caratteri, libro sesto. 3 leaves, 38 engravea leaves. With the author's portrait. Obl. folio. Half calf. Torino, 1656. Lit. 85.— The 38 entirely engraved plates contains models of calligraphy. - Only the sixt book. Writings on the first two leaves. Chiromancy and Physiognomy. 112. Cureau de la Chambre, Martin. Discours sur les principes de la chiromance. 4 leaves, 150 pp. and 1 leaf. 8vo. Half calf. Paris, 1653. Lit. 80.— Caillet 2731. First edition. «]l est un des premiers qui aient traité en francais de questions scientifiques et philosophiques ». 113. De la Belliere. La physionomie raisonnée, ou secret curieux pour connaitre les inclinations de chacun par les régles naturel- les. 12 leaves, 235 pp. 25 leaves. 12mo. Half calf. Paris, 1664. Lit. 60.— Caillet, II, 5874. «Curieux et rare. Indiquant toutes les maniéres de reconnaitrc le tempérament, l’esprit, la mémoire, etc.». 114. Indagine, Johannes. Chiromantia. Physiognomia, ex aspectu membrorum hominis 2. periaxiomata de faciebus signorum, 3. canones astrologici de judiciis aegritudinum, 4. astrologia natura- lis. 5. complexionum notitia iuxta dominium planetarum. 111 and 1 leaf. With the author's portrait, many very pretty lar- ge woodcuts representing the constellations and many others culs (hands). 8vo. (Paris?), Pierre de Regnault, 1543. Bound up with: Goclenius, Rodclphus. Uranoscopia, chiroscopia, metaposcopia hoc est coeli, seu spherae syderumque contemplatio nova. 8 leaves, 178 pp. With several woodcuts (hands and -diagrams). 8vo. Lichae (ich, Germany), 1603. The two books in one vol. Calf. Lit. 350.—
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