Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 92: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.
19/24 page 19
![y “ , ~ _ * is Peru.—Cieza de Leon (P.) La prima parte dell’ istorie del Peru dove si tratta l’ordine delle _ Provincie, delle Citta nouve in quel Paesi, editicaté i ritti et costumi de gli Indiani con molte cose notabile et degne. 1556 16s ~ §8vo. Old English stamped calf. Second edition, published two years after the first, of this translation of the author’s work remained in MS. O1 Petrarch.—I] Petrarca con l’espositione d’Alessandro Vellutello. Venice, N. da Sabio, Be 1541 4s 6d 8vo. Old boards. 302 Petrarch (I*.) Opera omnia. Basle, Henricus Petrus, 1554 £3 5s aS a 2 vols. Folio. Old calf. Best collected edition of all the Latin works of Petrarch and his Italian poems. ine copy. 303 Petrarch.—Les Oeuvres amoureuses traduites en Francois avec l’Italien a costé par le Sieur Placide Catanussi. Paris, Estienne Loyson, 1669 15s BY q 12mo. Old calf. Engraved front. % 04 Le Rime. Rome, 1821 4s 8vo. 2 vols. Half morocco, With annotations and commentaries.by A. Tassoni, G. Muzioand L. A. Muratori. pos Philo Judaeus.—Opera. Paris, Adrian Turnebus, 1552 £2 10s Folio. Old green morocco, a little rubbed. First EDITION of Philo Judaeus printed in the Royal Greek. : types, some beautiful woodcut headpieces. Fine copy of this masterpiece of French 16th century printing. 306 Photography.—Barnes (Robert F.) The Dry Collodion Process. London, Knight, 1856 6s 8vo. Orig. wrappers. 31 pp. Rareearly pamphlet on photography. 307 Rodrigues (J. J.) Procédés Photographiques et methodes diverses d’Impressions q aux encres grasses employés .. . en Portugal. Paris, Gauthier Villais, 1879 7s 6d - 8vo. Original wrappers. Dedicated to the king a Portugal. 308 Saint-Victor (M. Niepce de) Traité Pratique de gravure Heliographique sur acier et sur verre. Paris, Masson, 1856 7s 6d Large 8vo. Orig. wrappers. Portrait of the author (on steel, by his own process) as frontispiece. The author’s uncle was associated with Daguerre, and began his researches in 1813. 309 Physiognomy.—Helivetius (Johannes Fridericus) Microscopium Physiognomiae Medicum, _ idest Tractatus de Physiognomia. Amsterdam, Janssonio Waesbergiu, 1676 7s 6d Ba 8vo. Old calf. Engraved portrait of the author and seven other engraved portraits. B53 A very curious book on physiognomy from an alchemical point of view. The physiognomy of physicians is chiefly used as an example, and there are portraits of Vesalius, Galenus, Montanus, Joh. Crato, Ficinus and others. A little stained, and a folding plate missing. 3 pro Pico della Mirandula.—Liber de veris calamitatum causis nostrorum temporum ad Leonem X. Pont. Maximum. Mirandula, Johannes Mazochius, 1519 £4 4s 4to. Half calf. 34leaves. Roman characters. Fine printer’s device at end. This work, by a nephew of the who printed books at Ferrara and Rome. He only printed two books at Mirandula, and no other books have been issued from this place. f eee 3 311 Pigna (Jo. Baptista) Carminum libri quatuor, ad Alphonsum Ferrariae principem. _ Venice, 1553 8s. 8vo. Old calf, broken. eS 312 Piranesi (G. B.) Le Antichita Komane. Rome, Bouchard & Grairer, 1756 £5 5s EB. Folio. 4 vols. Old mottled calf, with arms of Duke of Newcastle on sides. Portrait of Piranesi and 218 ___- plates of Roman views and antiquities. The rare early issue of this work with the dedication to Lord Charlemont, with whom Piranesi afterwards _-__ quarrelled, in VolI. This dedication was suppressed in later issues. Very fine copy. 3 313 Diverse Maniere di adornare 1 Cassini edogni altre parre degli Edifizi. Rome, G. ~Salomoni, 1769 £4 10s ay Folio. 2 vols. Old mottled calf. With arms of Duke of Newcastle. Engraved dedication and 66 superb yy plates of fireplaces, furniture, clocks, etc. 314 Pole (Reginald) Pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione libri quatuor. Strassburg, Wen- _ delinus Riheluis, 1555 12s 6d _ Sm. folio. Limp vellum, alittle worn. The second edition of Pole’s work, against Henry VIII. and his schism. The first edition, which had been _ publishedca. 1536in Rome, is of very great rarity, asit was suppressed by Pole himself. 5 Portraits.—De Bry.— Bibliotheca Chalcographica illustrium virtute atque eruditione in tota Europa clarissimorum virorum. Frankfort, J. Ammon, 1650 £4 43 4to. Old vellum, with arms of Duke of Newcastle. 3 parts, with 434 portraits of famous men, including, naturally, many scientists. Themost complete early collection of portraits. Very fine copy. 6 Orlandi (G.) Effiggie naturali de i maggior prencipi e pit valorosi capitani di - questa eta con l’arme loro. Roma, J. Orlandi, 1599 £2 2s Jae Small folio. Originallimp vellum. Engraved title and 50 portraits, including several Turkish and Oriental celebrities and two bearded women. Very fine impressions. 317 Poultry.—Moubray (Bonington) A practical Treatise on breeding, rearing and fattening all kinds of domestic poultry, pheasants, pigeons and rabbits; with an ‘account of the Be eyption method of hatching eggs, by artificial heat. Second edition, with additions on the breeding . . . of swine. London, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1816 3s 6d i, is a a 5 To ae 0) 8vo. Half calf,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33156657_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
No text description is available for this image
No text description is available for this image
No text description is available for this image